Journée d’étude : « Discours sur les altérités & violences religieuses » (Louvain-la-Neuve, 28 octobre 2015)

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Ce que le passée dit du present: discours sur les alterités et violences religieuses Journée d’étude organisée par le Groupe d’analyse culturelle de la première modernité (GEMCA) à l’Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve. Salle Jean Ladrière (Collège Mercier) Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres, Place Cardinal Mercier, 14 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

L’actualité nous interpelle depuis maintenant plusieurs années sur ce que d’aucuns appellent de nouvelles «guerres de religions» en référence aux événements du XVIe siècle européen qui ont vu s’affronter catholiques et protestants. En effet, les discours et les images transmis par les médias et les hommes politiques de tout bord présentent des similitudes . . . → En lire plus

Journée d’étude : « Thought Positions in Sculpture »

2785_10Thought Positions in Sculpture (Huddersfield, 12 Nov 15) University of Huddersfield, November 12, 2015 Heritage Quay, University of Huddersfield Queensgate Huddersfield HD1 3DH In conjunction with Thought Positions in Sculpture (Huddersfield Art Gallery) this one-day symposium brings together artists from the show with speakers from the Henry Moore Institute, Tate Britain and ROTOR, to explore different readings of the exhibition, with a specific focus on the intersections between archives, access and practitioner responses. PROGRAMME

10.30 Coffee/ Tea

10.45-11.00 Dr Rowan Bailey, University of Huddersfield Introduction: What Might Constitute a Thought Position in Creative Practice?

11.00-11.30 Sheila Gaffney, Leeds College of Art Reflections on the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

11.30-12.00 Hester Reeve, Sheffield Hallam University Sculptural Substance

12.00-12.30 Dr . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « After Post-Photography » (Saint-Pétersbourg, 14 avril 2016)

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Deadline: Nov 30, 2015

The term ‘post-photography’ seems to imply rejection of what photography is or used to mean. Digital technology, by offering potentially limitless scope for manipulating images, questions the very possibility for the world to be truthfully represented by mechanical means. The post-photographic turn profoundly affected the study of photography, its history and theory. It has proven that the equation between the camera and the eye is mainly a metaphorical one and that the discussion of photography needs not be limited to the image itself, thereby opening the field of research beyond the study of photography as art. Despite this, much of the photographic practice . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « L’Ouest américain : une appropriation française » (Paris, INHA, 22-23 mars 2016)

buffalobill2L’Ouest américain: une appropriation française Journées d’études internationales à l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris 22-23 mars 2016

«Western : Rien de plus exotique pour un Européen que ce terme qui évoque les paysages de l’Ouest américain, parcourus de ‘cow-boys’ et d’Indiens. » Jacques Portes, Une fascination réticente: Les États-Unis dans l’opinion française, 1870-1914 (Nancy : Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1990), 85. Annonçant la venue du spectacle de Buffalo Bill à Paris en 1889, The New York Times précisait qu’il serait « adapté pour s’accorder aux idées françaises ». Qu’étaient donc ces « idées françaises » et quelles représentations et projections de l’Ouest américain contenaient-elles ? Ces deux journées s’attacheront à répondre à cette question en étudiant la réception des . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Couleur x Afrique » (Paris, INHA, 19 février 2016)

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Couleur x Afrique. Fabrique et utilisation, perception et dénomination

Journée d’étude Salle Vasari, INHA Appel à contribution

Les recherches sur la couleur ont été marquées par le débat des années 1960-1970 qui a opposé, sur le terrain africain, les tenants de la classification de l’évolution des langues en fonction des noms de couleurs, et ceux qui montraient la diversité de la perception et de la catégorisation des couleurs dans les populations classées comme primitives par les premiers. Cela montrait et montre encore aujourd’hui combien ce thème est un révélateur de questions sociales sur la perception de soi-même et des autres. Récemment ont émergé de nouvelles recherches . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Les Beaux-arts et les critiques : Légitimer le statu quo et l’ordre social » (29 avril 2016, Dijon)

sio3_degas_001iAppel à Communication Les Beaux-arts et les critiques : Légitimer le statu quo et l’ordre social, 29 avril 2016, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté

En 1899, Thorstein Veblen développe aux Etats-Unis le concept de la « consommation ostentatoire » dans son ouvrage Théorie de la classe de loisir. Il y explique comment l’art peut être étudié comme un produit social dont la consommation révèle des marqueurs sociaux, des interactions sociales au sein de la classe dirigeante, ainsi que des processus de stratification sociale. En sociologie, il s’agit d’une des premières fois où la relation entre les beaux-arts et la classe dirigeante fut mise en avant. Au vingtième siècle, de nombreux sociologues ont continué à montrer ces liens, comme par exemple Digby . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Russian Art: Bridges Between East & West » (Bremen, 26-27 Nov 2015)

imagesRussian Art: Bridges Between East & West (Bremen, 26-27 Nov 15) Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Research IV, Campus Ring 1, Jacobs University Bremen, November 26 – 27, 2015 Deadline: Oct 1, 2015

“Russian Art: Building Bridges Between East and West In Memoriam Dmitry Sarabyanov” Russian Art and Culture Group – Third Graduate Workshop Guest Speaker: Dr Rosalind Polly Blakesley MA DPhil, University of Cambridge

Language: English

Dmitry Sarabyanov (1923–2013), long-time head of the Department of Russian Art History at Moscow State University, was among the first scholars in the USSR to reconsider the so-called “formalist” artists, who had been denounced for ideological reasons, thus marking a turn in postwar Soviet thinking about Russian art. The third graduate workshop . . . → En lire plus

Colloque : « Nature & the Arts in Early Modern Naples » (Naples, 17-18 Sept 2015) Antisala dei Baroni, Castel Nuovo

imgresNature & the Arts in Early Modern Naples (Naples, 17-18 Sep 15) Antisala dei Baroni, Castel Nuovo, Napoli, September 17 – 18, 2015 Nature and the Arts in Early Modern Naples Ars e natura nella Napoli moderna International Conference

From Iacopo Sannazaro’s lyric evocation of the Campania landscape in his Arcadia to Giambattista Vico’s attempts to anchor human civilisation in man’s existential confrontation with the forces of nature, the literary, visual and scientific culture of early modern Naples is deeply grounded in the city’s natural environment. Ever since Jacob Burckhardt wrote dismissively of «das prunkliebende Neapel», the city’s culture has been characterised as both derivative and excessive. Foregoing such evaluations, this interdisciplinary conference sets out to develop an alternative account. . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : Images as Agents. Iconic Political Practices in Historical and Global Cultures (Kiel, 28-30 janvier 2016)

Images as Agents. Iconic Political Practices in Historical and Global Cultures Place: Kesselhaus, Muthesius Art and Design School, Kiel, Germany Date: January 28-30, 2016

Concept and Organization: Prof. Dr. Christiane Kruse, Muthesius Art and Design School, Kiel, Germany Prof. Dr. Birgit Mersmann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany/University of Basel, Eikones, Switzerland

Capture d'écran 2015-09-04 09.05.14In global visual cultures, images become increasingly charged with political and religious messages. This happens not only for provoking personal emotions, public debates, and new ideologies, but also for triggering a call to action. Images function as political and cultural agents on a global level of interaction with far-reaching consequences for society. The “Cartoon Dispute” caused by . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : Littératures et arts du vide (Cerisy-la-Salle, été 2017)

Colloque international : Littératures et arts du vide. Cerisy-la-Salle, été 2017. Co-organisateurs : Pierre Taminiaux (Georgetown University), Jérôme Duwa (IMEC). BEUYS-INSTALLATION-02_450_04Ce colloque se propose d’explorer les diverses représentations du vide dans la création littéraire (fiction, poésie, théâtre, essai) et artistique (peinture, sculpture, dessin, photographie, installation) du XXe et du XXIe siècle. Le vide reflète avant tout un parti-pris esthétique de dépouillement et d’épure des formes. Mais Il débouche aussi dans de nombreux cas sur l’expression d’une crise, sinon d’une fin de l’art dans la culture occidentale, comme l’a prouvé le mouvement Fluxus dans les années soixante et soixante-dix. Au-delà de ces principes formels et de ces tensions philosophiques, . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : Life and/as Art in the Eighteenth Century (Pittsburgh, 31 mars-3 avril 2016)

CALL FOR PAPERS: ”Life and/as Art in the Eighteenth Century”, Noémie Etienne (Getty Research Institute) and Meredith Martin (New York University), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, March 31-April 3.

automateDuring the eighteenth century, a whole series of artistic productions aimed to simulate motion and life, at the same time that individuals became ever more preoccupied with performing or embodying static works of art. This session aims to explore such hybrid creations and the boundaries they challenged between animate and inanimate form, art and technology, the living and the dead. Papers may focus on specific objects, such as the automata created by the clockmaker Pierre-Jacques Droz that imitated . . . → En lire plus

Appel à candidature : postes d’assistants à l’université de l’état de l’Ohio (Columbus, 2016-2017)

Ohio-State-University-LogoLe département de Français et Italien à l’Université de l’état de l’Ohio à Columbus offre des postes d’assistants aux meilleurs candidats pour son programme de doctorat en Langue, Littérature, Civilisation, et Film français et francophones (immatriculation : automne 2016).

Les candidats admis en programme de doctorat enseignent un cours de français au niveau débutant par semestre en échange de la prise en charge intégrale des frais de scolarité et d’un salaire mensuel d’environ $1 700 brut pour une durée de neuf mois. Le poste d’assistant est renouvelable jusque 4 ou 5 années en fonction des résultats obtenus dans le programme de doctorat.

Veuillez trouver une description complète de notre . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Congress on Medieval Studies » (Kalamazoo, USA, 12-15 mai 2016)

imgresSession at 51. Int. Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 12-15 May 16) University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI (USA), May 12 – 15, 2016

Deadline: Sep 15, 2015

New Perspectives on Medieval Rome (2 Sessions) Organizers: Marius B. Hauknes, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Alison Locke Perchuk, Assistant Professor of Art History, California State University Channel Islands Digital, environmental, material, Mediterranean, sensory, spatial: these are among the recent “turns” taken by the medieval humanities, including art history.

The new perspectives on the past opened by these approaches, many of which are informed by interdisciplinary research and contemporary cultural interests in the natural and built world, are fundamentally reshaping how we conceive of and study medieval art and . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Framing the Critical Decade : After the Black Arts Movements » (Bristol, 16 mars 2016)

300px-BlackpowerFraming the Critical Decade: After the Black Arts Movement (Bristol, 31 Mar 16) University of Bristol, UK, March 21, 2016 Deadline: Nov 1, 2015 University of Bristol in association with the Department of History of Art, the Transnational Modernisms Research Cluster and the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts

‘It is simply too early to try to define the 1980s as a closed or finished period… It is still unresolved and very much ongoing.’ Kobena Mercer, ‘Iconography After Identity’ (2005) The Black Arts Movement was generated by the tumult of the 1980s – a decade defined as much by Thatcherism, civil unrest and race riots as by the rise of cultural theory and so-called ‘single issue’ social . . . → En lire plus

Journée d’étude : « Object Lessons: Sculpture and the Production of Knowledge » (Leeds, 3 Octobre 2015)

imagesObject Lessons: Sculpture and the Production of Knowledge (Leeds, 3 Oct 15) Henry Moore Institute, Seminar Room, 74 The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AH, UK, October 03, 2015

Programmed alongside the exhibition ‘Object Lessons’ in Gallery 4, this conference considers the relationship between sculpture and the production of knowledge in the nineteenth century. In the early nineteenth-century publications such as Elizabeth Mayo’s ‘Lessons on Objects’ (1830) (held in our Research Library collection) gained traction in Britain, North America and India as guides to an approach to education developed by Swiss educationalist Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) that advocated exposure to concrete objects to develop abstract thought. The belief in the capacity of sculpture to produce and circulate knowledge was shaped by the . . . → En lire plus

Colloque : « Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries » (Amsterdam, 17-18 Septembre 15)

Johannes-Vermeer-Le-Géographe-1669-Francfort-sur-le-Main-267x300Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries (Amsterdam, 17-18 Sep 15) Rijksmuseum / Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, NL, September 17 – 18, 2015

Registration deadline: Sep 14, 2015 On September 17 and 18, 2015, Amsterdam is to host the conference ‘Art and Science in the Early Modern Low Countries (ca 1560-1730)’, organized by the Rijksmuseum and the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands.

Prior to the eighteenth century, ‘art’ and ‘science’ were often considered complementary, rather than opposite, expressions of human culture. They enlightened one another: through comparable curiosity, knowledge and observation of the world, but also in their resulting products: paintings, prints, books, maps, anatomical preservations, life casts, and many others. Scholars, craftsmen and artists often engaged . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication CAA Washington (6 mars 2016) : New Perspectives on Art nouveau

College Art Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, February (3 – 06, 2016) Deadline: Aug 15, 2015

New Perspectives on Art Nouveau and Fin-de-Siècle Design

From: Jessica M. Dandona <jdandona@mcad.edu> Date: Jun 25, 2015 Subject: CFP: New Perspectives on Art Nouveau and Fin-de-Siecle Design

New Perspectives on Art Nouveau and Fin-de-Siècle Design (Design Studies Forum Short Session)

Peter Clericuzio, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, clericuz@gmail.com Jessica M. Dandona, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, jdandona@mcad.edu

travel03Much of our understanding of Art Nouveau rests on several well-known aspects of its history: its simultaneous appearance around 1890 in several renowned centers of Western art, its ties to nationalism, its complicated relationship with . . . → En lire plus

2 Promotionsstipendien, Universitaet Hamburg

2 Promotionsstipendien, Universitaet Hamburg Application deadline: Jul 19, 2015

Capture d’écran 2015-06-25 à 23.58.21The research group « Naturbilder/Images of Nature »—sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and hosted by the University of Hamburg under the leadership of Professor Frank Fehrenbach—is offering two predoctoral fellowships to students from disciplines related to the research group’s theme, especially art history, the history of science, cultural studies, and philosophy. The fellowships start from 1 October 2015. Applicants should have a dissertation topic relevant to the research group’s thematic spectrum, as well as a readiness for intellectual engagement in discussions and events. For more specific information about the research group, please see . . . → En lire plus

Colloque : « Artistic Correspondances » (Rome, 15-16 juin 2015)

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Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome / Svenska Institutet i Rom, Italy, June 15 – 16, 2015 Corrispondenze d’artista. Roma e l’Europa (XVIII-XIX secolo) – Artistic Correspondences. Rome and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.

International Conference KNIR, Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome (Roma, Via Omero 10/12); Svenska Institutet i Rom (Roma, via Omero 14)

15 June 2015 – Svenska Institutet i Rom, Biblioteca

9.30 Saluti Martin Olin, Assistant Director, Svenska Institutet i Rom Mario De Nonno, Direttore del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi Roma TRE Plenary Session: Session Chair Harald Hendrix, KNIR 10.00 Serenella Rolfi, Università degli Studi Roma TRE Linee di una ricerca 10.30 Elisabeth Oy-Marra, Gutenberg Universität Mainz Lettere d’artista e . . . → En lire plus

Journée d’étude : « Likeness and Kinship. Artistic Families » (Anvers, 22 juin 2015)

familleLikeness and Kinship. Artistic Families (Antwerp, 22 Jun 15) Rubenianum, Kolveniersstraat 20, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium, June 22, 2015

« Likeness and Kinship. Artistic Families from the Seventeenth Century Portrayed » Organized in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Rubens in private’ held at the Rubens House, this symposium aims to contextualize Rubens’s family portraits. The first two speakers will discuss and present research carried out for the exhibition. Two subsequent talks will address the differing character of family portraiture in the Northern and Southern Netherlands. The afternoon session will start with two presentations on the remarkable family portraits painted by Jacob Jordaens. Two final talks will look at the influence of Flemish painting on family portraiture further afield. The day will conclude . . . → En lire plus