CALL FOR PAPERS - PLEASE CIRCULATE
Articulating meanings in late medieval and early modern interiors
A session at Articulations, the 29th Annual Conference of the Association
of Art Historians, Birkbeck and University College London, Thursday
10-Sunday 13 April 2003
The acts of building, decorating, furnishing, using and representing
interiors are laden with meanings, implied or explicit. These meanings can
inform us about the interiors' creators, owners and users; about political,
social and familial aspirations and attitudes; and about the reciprocal
relationships between people and interiors.
This session will explore the methods which people used to articulate some
of these meanings through their relationships with the interiors they
owned, used or represented. Concentrating on the visual and material
cultures of Europe c.1300-c.1600, we invite papers on interiors of all
social levels, from the grandest palace to the meanest hovel. We
particularly welcome contributions on interiors from Northern and Eastern
Europe, and papers which address use as much as creation, decoration,
furnishing or representation.
To propose a paper, please send a 150 to 200-word abstract and a brief
(e.g. 1-page) CV, to arrive by 1 November 2002, to either of the convenors:
Dr. Flora Dennis
Research Fellow
AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior
Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London SW7 2EU
U.K.
T: +44 (0)20 7590 4188
F: +44 (0)20 7590 4580
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Dr Rupert Shepherd
before 14 October:
Research Fellow
Material Renaissance Project
Room 205, Essex House
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9QQ
U.K.
T: +44 (0)1273 872544
F: +44 (0)1273 678644
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after 14 October:
Department of Western Art
Ashmolean Museum
Oxford OX1 2PH
U.K.
T (mobile): +44 (0)7941 187904
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Further information on the AAH conference should be available at
http://www.aah.org.uk. You may have noticed that the conference takes place
on the weekend after the Material Renaissance project's two-day conference,
which is on Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 April 2003. I hope this will be an
encouragement to make a week of it and (if not offering to speak at the AAH
conference) attend both conferences. I gather there will also be sessions
on determining the viewer in medieval and renaissance art, and on
hierarchies in renaissance art, at the AAH conference.
With best wishes
Rupert Shepherd
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Rupert Shepherd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Material Renaissance Project
Essex House
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QQ, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0)1273 872544 Fax +44 (0)1273 678644
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/matren/
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