Call for papers: 
. Turning Crisis and Turmoil into Text and Image between the Reformation and the French Revolution
The life and work world of early modern artists were characterised by profound crises and upheavals which have been treated only in an elementary fashion by social historians. The planned conference does not wish to pinpoint an individually experienced crisis (for example, death of the wife, artist’s illness) but extreme events leading to turning points in history with an effect on the artist as an individual. We have in mind especially the Reformation, the Thirty Years’ War, the division of the Netherlands, the French Revolution, persecution of the Huguenots, epidemics or famines.
The life and work world of early modern artists were characterised by profound crises and upheavals which have been treated only in an elementary fashion by social historians. The planned conference does not wish to pinpoint an individually experienced crisis (for example, death of the wife, artist’s illness) but extreme events leading to turning points in history with an effect on the artist as an individual. We have in mind especially the Reformation, the Thirty Years’ War, the division of the Netherlands, the French Revolution, persecution of the Huguenots, epidemics or famines.
Because of the proximity to the 2017 anniversary of the Reformation, the conference would like to focus on the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, with the time frame being limited to around 1800 with the European revolutions. Sample questions which might be posed in the lectures: – How did the artist deal with times of crisis? – Which strategies did he use; how flexible was he in adapting to the new situation? – What role did the phenomenon of artist emigration play? – How did a change in religion or location come about, and what effect did such changes have on former and new patrons of the artist?
Of special interest here is the question of how the artist’s lament is articulated and formulated and in what framework it circulated. Along with written sources for the artist’s lament, for example, complaints to the town council, there are also numerous visualisations of the artist’s lament not yet examined by research such as broadsheets, invitation cards for auctions or caricatures appearing in widespread early modern newspapers. The Irsee Art History Forum plans a publication of the articles shortly afterwards and is interested exclusively in texts which have not yet been printed or are to be printed in this form. The organisers are endeavoured to provide full financing for travel and accommodations costs, including all meals. The participants are obligated to have their articles finished for printing in late summer 2014.
Time: 11-13 April 2014
Place: Irsee Schwaben Academy, Germany
Organisers: Irsee Schwaben Academy (Dr. Markwart Herzog, Director of the Irsee Schwaben Academy) and Dr. Sylvia Heudecker (Director of Studies at the Irsee Schwaben Academy) and artifex (Dr. Birgit Ulrike Münch, Senior Lecturer for the Chair for Art History at the University of Trier and Dr. Andreas Tacke, Professor, Chairman of Art History at the University of Trier).
Submission deadline for suggestions (keyword Künstlerklage/artist’s lament) with a one-page synopsis of the planned lecture as well as a one-page CV and a publication list: 01.09.2013
Contact:
Dr. Birgit Ulrike Münch M.A.
Akademische Rätin
Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte
Universität Trier, FB III
D-54286 Trier
Tel. +49 / (0)651 / 201-4481
e-mail: muench@uni-trier.de
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