VIEW A festival Art History : appel à contribution pour les étudiants

The Institut français du Royaume-Uni in London is proud to announce the launch of its annual art history festival.

VIEW will explore the multiple facets of art history through debates, talks, film screenings, an ‘art lab’ (see below) and an art book fair. Exclusive tours echoing the topics broached during the festival at the Institut will also be organised in and by London’s great museums during the weekend.
From academics, curators, collectors, museum directors and art dealers to writers, film directors, artists and journalists, the greatest European personalities in the field of art history will be present to share their knowledge, debate and shed light on key issues.

ABOUT THE ART LAB
The Art Lab is a dedicated space at the festival in which the work of some of the best young researchers in art history will be showcased. Twenty short talks ( c . 15 minutes each) will be selected by a jury through a special call for papers and presented by their respective authors at the Institut over the weekend of 8–9 February 2014.

CALL FOR PAPERS
For this inaugural edition students are invited to submit a short essay inspired by one of the three following themes:
Rooms , Deceiving , or Change .

Entries can focus on any period of art history and any medium (painting, sculpture, performance, etc.), analyse a single work of art, or artist, a whole movement, or explore an aspect of the chosen theme by bringing together particular works and concepts across the entire spectrum of art history (e.g., ‘Card cheats: Caravaggio vs Georges de la Tour’, ‘A dark room: Degas’ Le Viol ‘, ‘YBAs: what did they change most?’).

Supported by visual material, entries should be stimulating, original, and accessible to an interested non-academic audience.
Entries are invited from undergraduate and postgraduate students of Art History and Visual Culture, enrolled on either practice-based or theoretical courses in the UK or in France whose work is on some aspect of art history in its broadest sense.

Members of the jury include: Caterina Cardona (Director, Italian Cultural Institute-London), Arturo Galansino (Curator, Royal Academy), Neville Rowley (Ecole du Louvre & Bode-Museum), Adélia Sabatini (co-curator, VIEW) & Joséphine Seblon (co-curator, VIEW)

Prizes

1st
– £200 worth of Thames & Hudson books, free membership to the Institut francais, free membership to the Italian Cultural Institute & free access to all VIEW events
2 nd
– £150 worth of Thames & Hudson books, free membership to the Institut francais, free membership to the Italian Cultural Institute & free access to all VIEW events
3rd
– £100 worth of Thames & Hudson books, free membership to the Institut francais, free membership to the Italian Cultural Institute & free access to all VIEW events

Entries should be no longer than 2,500 words and be submitted before

Monday 6 January 2014, in English or in French, by emailing arthistoryfestival@gmail.com

TO ENTER

Please email your essay, all accompanying visual material and a brief up-to-date CV (all in pdf format) to arthistoryfestival@gmail.com.

Please specify ‘VIEW – Call for papers’ in the subject line of your email, and copy, paste and fill in the following fields in the body of your email:

VIEW – APPLICATION FORM

FIRST NAME

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LAST NAME

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DATE OF BIRTH

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NATIONALITY

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UNIVERSITY

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COURSE

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LANGUAGE ENGLISH FRENCH

THEME CHOSEN

– ROOMS (PIÈCES )

– DECEIVING (TROMPER)

– CHANGE (CHANGEMENT)

 

ESSAY TITLE

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The twenty selected papers (and the three winners) will be announced on the

festival’s website (www.viewfestival.co.uk) on 20

January 2014

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