Journée doctorale : « Fonctions du rire en société(s) »

Nous proposons, au cours d’une journée d’étude consacrée au rire, d’interroger plus particulièrement sa fonction au sein de la société. Car si le rire est le propre de l’homme, il caractérise l’homme qui vit en société et nous en apprend autant sur l’un que sur l’autre. Si l’homme rit en – et de la – société, l’inverse est valable et mérite d’être interrogé : la société rit à son tour de l’individu. Elle caricature l’individu, paradoxalement dans ses aspects les plus impersonnels : la société moque en l’homme un certain nombre de caractéristiques constitutifs, communs à tous les êtres humains (ce peuvent être des défauts, aussi . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Représentations des guerres modernes : champs d’action, champs de vision »

Ce colloque achèvera et complètera un cycle d’étude de quatre ans consacré aux perceptions des guerres modernes et à leurs représentations visuelles – photographie, peinture, films, séries tv, jeux vidéo – et littéraires. Quatre journées d’étude ont eu lieu, consacrées respectivement au reportage de guerre, au photo-journalisme et au récit graphique, aux représentations littéraires de la guerre (de Shakespeare au 11 septembre), et à ses représentations filmiques, télévisuelles et électroniques. Elles ont permis de réunir des universitaires français et étrangers de différents domaines – littérature, arts visuels, cultural studies – ainsi que des écrivains, artistes et photographes autour des questions esthétiques et éthiques soulevées par les . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Surrealism and Counterculture, 1960-1980 »

Surrealism and Counterculture, 1960—1980 This panel broadly investigates Surrealism’s influences upon and relationship to international countercultural currents of the 1960s and 1970s. We invite papers that address Surrealism’s ongoing activity during this period as well as the movement’s interaction with and influence on popular or sub-culture, radical politics, post-Freudian psychologies, the sexual revolution, and the psychedelic movement, along with other relevant esoteric, marginal or avant-garde currents.

Significant research has been devoted to Surrealism’s rapport with prominent post-war art movements such as Abstract Expressionism and to a lesser degree Pop Art, but there is still much to be considered in terms of the movement’s influence on other artistic, political, literary, and musical developments during this period, particularly those that have exceeded . . . → En lire plus

Revue Histoire de l’art : appel à contribution pour le numéro 73 (automne 2013) : Objets sacrés

Appel à contribution pour le numéro 73 (automne 2013) de la revue Histoire de l’art: Objets sacrés

« Les objets matériels sont les métaphores corporelles des choses spirituelles ». Cette phrase de saint Augustin, bien connue des théologiens et des historiens de l’art occidental prouve que l’objet, liturgique surtout mais décoratif aussi, peut revêtir une dimension si ce n’est sacrée, du moins spirituelle. Dans ce domaine, nombreux sont encore les champs inexplorés et inexploités par les chercheurs. Quelques travaux récents, notamment pour les périodes anciennes, livrent déjà un état de la question, au moins partiel, comme les réflexions récentes consacrées à la relique. La table ronde des 14 et . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : Queer Gothic: Difference and Sexuality (CAA, Chicago, 12-15 février 2014)

Queer Gothic: Difference and Sexuality (CAA, 12-15 Feb 2014) Chicago, CAA Annual Conference, February 12 – 15, 2014 Deadline: May 6, 2013

Historians of British Art Session CAA Annual Conference 2014 Chairs: Ayla Lepine, Yale University; and Matthew Reeve, Queen’s University. ayla.lepine@yale.edu and reevem@queensu.ca

Over the past four centuries, the Gothic style and its range of significations (including pre-modernity, romanticism, the foreign, and Catholicism) have been frequently employed as a locus or a cipher for sexuality. Within broadly Anglican, neo-classical visual cultures, the style could express non-normative, minoritized experience, manifesting the values and ideals of alternative subjectivities. Recent work in art history, literature and gender studies has shown that from the Early Modern period to the present, Gothic aesthetics and ideas were appropriated and critiqued as an alternative historicist landscape . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contribution : « Movement – The Body & Object in Motion » (4 octobre 2013, Ithaca, NY)

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 4, 2013 Deadline-CFP: 30 avr. 2013

The graduate students in the History of Art program at Cornell University invite abstracts for papers to be presented at the Graduate Student Symposium to be held on October 4th, 2013. This year’s symposium, « Movement: The Body and Object in Motion », will feature a keynote lecture presented by Dr. Coco Fusco and will explore the theme of movement in visual culture via three panels consisting of 3 speakers each.

Movement in visual culture is a fundamental theme across all media and periods. Movement defines both the pre-modern and modern periods in all their complexities, as peoples . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : Enfance et représentations : un état de la recherche sur l’enfance et la famille dans les arts visuels

Appel à communication pour la journée d’études doctorales Enfance et représentations : un état de la recherche sur l’enfance et la famille dans les arts visuels

Cinquante ans après sa parution, L’Enfant et la vie familiale sous I’Ancien Régime de Philippe Ariès constitue toujours un point de repère lorsqu’est entreprise une étude de l’enfance, que ce soit en histoire ou en histoire de l’art. Dans ses chapitres introductifs et conclusifs, Ariès a souligné tout l’intérêt des peintures et des sculptures pour l’historien de l’enfance. Cette utilisation documentaire des œuvres d’art n’est pas sans poser problème : comme le souligne Marie-France Morel, il ne suffit . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « The Noises of Art: Audiovisual Practice in History, Theory and Culture »

The Noises of Art: Audiovisual Practice in History, Theory and Culture

Aberystwyth, September 4 – 06, 2013

Deadline: Mar 30, 2013

The conference addresses what is arguably the most prolific, varied, and groundbreaking period in the coming together, exchange, and mutual influence of visual art and sound-based practices (such as music and the spoken word). It aims to explore (principally) the visual artist’s engagement with sound, noise, music, and text while at the same time recognizing that there is a traffic of musicians, sound artists, and text artists moving in the opposite direction, who aspire to cultivate visual analogues for their work. Thus, the conference is situated at the intersection . . . → En lire plus

Colloque : « Global Pop »

Global Pop Symposium

Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium Thursday 14 March, 10.15 – 17.40 and Friday 15 March 2013, 10.30 – 17.45

£20/ £14 This price is for a one-day ticket. A two-day discount is available (£24 / £16 concessions). To book a two-day ticket please call 020 7887 8888.

This two-day symposium explores Pop beyond the mainstream. Organised in collaboration with the Royal College of Art, London, this event engages with new research in different fields and geographies to rethink orthodoxies as well as develop new interpretations of ‘Pop’.

Of particular importance is the often critical nature of these global engagements with Pop. Reacting to the increasing dominance of the . . . → En lire plus

Appel à contribution : « Identities and the Cities » (18-20 avril 2013, Zagreb)

Zagreb, Croatia, April 18 – 20, 2013 Deadline-CFP: 1 mars 2013

Call for Papers for the Panel: Identities and the Cities: Urban Transformations, Transition and Change in Urban Image Construction

(As part of the Euroacademia International Conference ‘Identities and Identifications’, Zagreb, 18 – 20 April 2013)

Panel Organizers: Tihana Puc and Ivana Nakikj, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy

Elasticity of the label identity accommodates everything that does and does not surround us, thus finding its place in every discourse on making and re-making, invention and re-invention, destruction and construction. Every transition is synonymous with said processes, be it a tectonic change or a peaceful shift. As political systems and . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Made in the USA: The History and Legacy of Cold War Art and Design » (2 mai 2013, Dartmouth)

Made in the USA: The History and Legacy of Cold War Art & Design (2nd Annual Undergraduate Art History Conference at UMass Dartmouth)

UMass Dartmouth, May 02, 2013 Deadline-CFP: 11 mars 2013

Showcased at the 1959 American national exhibition in Moscow, the work of American designers Buckminster Fuller, Charles&Ray Eames, and George Nelson, among others, epitomized the power and prestige of the USA at the height of the Cold War. Meanwhile, the art of Jackson Pollock and other Abstract Expressionists were being utilized as ideological weapons through the traveling exhibitions of the Marshall plan.

It is also in this context that Brutalism was born. Utilizing raw concrete and linear and . . . → En lire plus

Appels à projets ANR : « Emergences et évolutions des cultures et des phénomènes culturels »

Appel à projet ANR : Métamorphoses des sociétés

« Emergences et évolutions des cultures et des phénomènes culturels », (CULT).

Date de clôture : 20 mars 2013.

Le PROGRAMME METAMORPHOSES DES SOCIETES

Dans un environnement marqué à la fois par de nouvelles formes d’échange, d’interdépendance et de différenciation entre les cultures et par certaines formes de globalisation des modes de vie et de pensée, l’étude des sociétés et des cultures dans leurs transformations et dans leur invariance prend une actualité particulière. La compréhension des phénomènes en jeu, qu’ils se situent sur les plans politique, social, économique ou culturel, nécessite une mise en perspective historique, l’étude des processus aux différentes échelles, l’analyse de la pluralité des contextes et celle des perceptions que les individus, les . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Networks » (26 avril 2013, New Brunswick)

Call for Abstracts: Networks

Art History Graduate Student Symposium Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey April 26, 2013 Deadline-CFP: 28 janv. 2013

“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole.” – Jacques Barzun

What constitutes a network and how do networks operate across time and space? How have social, cultural, and artistic networks been defined and functioned historically? How has the global turn reconfigured such networks? How have networks been embedded in art history and art practice across time?

The Art History Graduate Student . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Identitarian Representations of Europe » (15-16 mars 2013, Prague)

The European Way – Identitarian Representations of Europe in Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Literature

Prague, Czech Republic, March 15 – 16, 2013 Deadline-CFP: 25 janv. 2013

As part of the Third Euroacademia Global Conference ‘Europe Inside-Out. Europe and Europeaness Exposed to Plural Observers’ to be held at Grand Majestic Plaza in Prague, Czech Republic In contemporary Europe some of the main indicators of the lack of a unitary identity come from the deficit of symbols, images, artistic representations or literary writings that would pin-point towards a unity of sensibility and of artistic perception. Europe appears through visual representations as a divided continent coming from an extremely diverse universe of imaginary . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Portugal and Europe in Global Perspective : (Mis-)understanding religious art in colonial encounters » (17-20 juillet 2013)

(Mis-)understanding religious art in colonial encounters (Panel 11)

Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM), Lisbon, Portugal.

July 17 – 20, 2013 Deadline-CFP: 8 févr. 2013

The Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM) opend the call for papers for the international conference « Colonial (Mis)understandings: Portugal and Europe in Global Perspective, 1450-1900, » Art and images based upon Christian concepts were highly relevant to the global expansion of the Catholic Mission starting from the late 15th century onwards. Its objects and symbols served both as emblems of cultural identification and differentiation as well as media for communication and practice of the Christian belief. However, roaming via the global missionary and . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Visualizing Portuguese Power » (26-27 septembre 2013, Munich)

Visualizing Portuguese Power: The Political Use of Images in Portugal and Its Overseas Empire (16th to 18th Century)

München, Center for Advanced Studies, September 26 – 27, 2013 Deadline-CFP: 28 févr. 2013

Images have always played a vital role in political communication and in the visualization of power structures and hierarchies. They gain even more importance in situations where non-verbal communication prevails: In the negotiation processes between two (or more) different cultures, the language of the visual is often thought of as the more effective way to acquaint (and overpower) the others with one’s own principles, beliefs, value systems. Scores of these asymmetrical exchange situations have taken place in . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Fashioning Identities » (18-19 octobre 2013, New York)

Fashioning Identities: Types, Customs, and Dress in a Global Context A Symposium at Hunter College, City University of New York, October 18-19, 2013 Chairs: Lynda Klich and Tara Zanardi, Dept. of Art & Art History

Pictorial imagery of local types, traditions, and dress has a long history, dating back to the sixteenth century. From costume books and street criers to travel albums and Hispanic costumbrismo, such representations captured people and daily life in a purportedly realistic manner, often emphasizing specificity over universal themes. Popular types, customs, and dress served as both sources of national pride and exotic spectacles of regional traditions. These depictions of local color often valued certain practices, regions, or . . . → En lire plus

Colloque, « Black Portraiture(s). Représentation du corps noir en Occident » (Paris, 17-20 janvier 2013)

Paris, scène culturelle internationale incontournable, très influente en Occident tant sur le monde des arts que sur les notions de modernité, s’est avérée être le lieu idéal pour la conférence, « Black Portraiture(s) : La représentation du corps noir en Occident ». Cette conférence est la cinquième d’une série organisée depuis 2004 par Harvard University et New York University. Du XIXe siècle à nos jours, « Black Portraiture(s) » a pour objectif d’explorer les différents concepts de fabrication et outils d’auto-représentation ainsi que la notion d’échange à travers le regard, dans les domaines des arts plastiques et visuels, de la littérature, de la musique, de la mode et des archives. Comment sont exposées . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Liquidity » (14 juin 2013, Londres)

Liquidity – Practice Research Symposium

Middlesex University London, June 14, 2013

This one-day practice research symposium sets out to explore the many articulations, explorations, and manifestations of ‘liquidity’ in contemporary visual and material culture, history and theory. The symposium offers a unique opportunity for practitioners, researchers and scholars working across different fields to engage with any topic related to ‘liquidity’ broadly conceived.

‘Liquid modern life is a daily rehearsal of universal transience. Today’s useful and indispensable objects, with few and possibly no exceptions, are tomorrow’s waste. Everything is disposable, nothing is truly necessary, nothing is irreplaceable. Everything is born engraved with the brand of death. Everything is offered with a use-by . . . → En lire plus

Appel à communication : « Materializing the Spirit » (5-7 septembre 2013, Londres)

MATERIALIZING THE SPIRIT: SPACES, OBJECTS AND ART IN THE CULTURES OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS

Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London, September 5 – 07, 2013 Deadline-CFP: 1 févr. 2013

The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland Annual Conference will be hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, on 5-7 September 2013.

Paper proposals are now invited. Presentations should be 20 minutes in duration, and should address some element of the conference theme, with reference to British and/or Irish contexts. The devotional and vocational activities of women religious sculpted the physical space of religious houses in unique ways. Patterns of use were etched into the fabric of . . . → En lire plus