De-/centering World’s Fairs: Representing Latin American ‘Peripheries’ in Arts and Fashion

Conference, September 20-21, 2023 Venue: Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris The world’s fairs of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries gave rise to significant impulses in the histories of art and fashion. From the very beginning – and this is particularly true for the five expositions universelles held in Paris between 1855 and 1900 – both were fixed components of nations’ self-presentations at the world’s fairs. Diverse artistic genres and artistic conceptions, as well as fashion, clothing, and textiles played a leading role in the construction of national, cultural, or ethnic identities. However, both art and fashion experienced a form of globalization at the world’s fairs. Knowledge about the world arose there synthetically by means of an encyclopedic-didactic accumulation of artworks, things and objects, precisely because it was seen . . . → En lire plus

The World Pictures : Universal Exhibitions and Photography. Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Alejandra Uslenghi (Northwestern University) response by Dr. Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle (Ibero-American Institute Berlin)

12 September 2023, 6 pm c.t. Medienhaus, Grunewaldstr. 2-5, 10823 Berlin hybrid via webex: https://udk-berlin.webex.com/udk-berlin/j.php?MTID=m5aa15216224cc83ed0b1f701336f65a2 World Fairs were highly constructed events that sought to represent the entire world in a single fairground, resourcing to all kinds of visual technologies and media in creating an exhibitionary complex and massive spectacle informed by industrial-era theories of progress and the rhetoric of imperialism. The theatrical display of art objects, images, and material culture reinforced the representations of cultural otherness as well as hierarchical classifications that sought to make the modern capitalist world intelligible to a modern mass audience. Photography, since the first London 1851 Exhibition, accompanied the expansion of this visual culture phenomenon as it itself developed in multiple forms and practices; photography was at the core of . . . → En lire plus

Call for Applications: 5th Transregional Academy on Latin American Art – Contesting Objects: Sites, Narratives, Contexts – German Center for Art History Paris (DFK Paris) – Deadline : 15/06/2023

Call for Applications

The German Center for Art History (DFK Paris, Max Weber Foundation), the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (BHMPI), and the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) invite doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers in the field of art history and allied disciplines to apply for the 5th Transregional Academy on Art and Culture in Latin America, which will convene at the Museo de Arte de Lima from May 4 to May 12, 2024. The Academy is made possible with support from Getty through its Connecting Art Histories Initiative and will be conducted in cooperation with the Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin).

Please find the call for applications on our website

Rationale

Viewed from a transregional perspective, the relationship between an object and . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contributions – colloque: « PERFORMATIVITÉS NOIRES. Archives des corps noirs dans l’art de la performance en Amérique latine : une esthétique diasporique ? »

(A continuación, la versión en español)

De mai à décembre 2022, l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art (au sein du domaine « Histoire de l’art mondialisée ») accueille un séminaire exploratoire sur les dialogues entre les présentations des corps catégorisés comme noirs et afro-descendants dans la performance et dans les cultures visuelles contemporaines en France [en ligne].

Faisant suite à ce séminaire, et aux différentes questions qui l’ont accompagné, l’INHA organise, les 12 et 13 janvier 2023, un colloque international consacré aux pratiques performatives diverses menées et développées par des sujets et communautés noirs à l’échelle d’un territoire plus vaste, celui de l’Amérique latine. Cet . . . → En lire plus

École thématique: Traces et représentations du passé dans les monuments et le patrimoine, XIXe-XXIe siècle (Europe-Amérique latine)

30MAI – 3JUIN 2022 Casa de Velázquez, Madrid

Coord. : Claire BARBILLON (Université de Poitiers / École du Louvre), Jérôme GRÉVY (Université de Poitiers), Thomas KIRCHNER (Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art), François-René MARTIN (École du Louvre, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris), Stéphane MICHONNEAU (Université de Lille)

Org. : ANR RUINES (Maison européenne des sciences de l’homme et de la société, Lille), CRIHAM EA 4270 (Université de Poitiers et de Limoges), École du Louvre (Paris), École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid), Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art (Paris)

Coll. : Ambassade de France en Espagne, Ambassade d’Allemagne . . . → En lire plus

Prix de traduction : Terra Foundation for American Art-Yale University Press American Art in Translation Book Prize (août 2015)

Logo.TER_Primary_Lockup_Small JPEG REMINDER: Terra Foundation-Yale University Press American Art in Translation Book Prize Letter of inquiry deadline: August 3, 2015

 

The Terra Foundation for American Art, in partnership with Yale University Press, is offering a new prize for an unpublished manuscript or previously published manuscript in a language other than English written by a non-U.S. author. The manuscript should make a significant contribution to scholarship on the historical visual arts of what is now the geographic United States.

In helping to overcome the language barrier that often divides scholars and deters international research and collaboration, the prize aims to advance and internationalize scholarship on American art and seeks to recognize original and thorough research, sound methodology, and significance in . . . → En lire plus

Doctorants – Arts des Amériques

Annuaire des doctorants

Arts des Amériques

 

NB : la liste doit encore être complétée …

► Agathe Cabau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Titre de la thèse : « L’iconographie amérindienne aux salons parisiens et aux expositions universelles françaises (1800 à 1914) »

Directeur : Darragon, Eric Unité de recherche : HiCSA (Histoire culturelle et sociale de l’art), Ecole Doctorale 441 Histoire de l’art (ED441), Adresse email : agathecabau (at) gmail.com

Présentation de la thèse : L’analyse de l’iconographie amérindienne aux salons parisiens et aux expositions universelles interroge la culture visuelle d’une époque, les vagues d’influences, l’impact de la littérature. Les représentations du . . . → En lire plus