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AAH2016
42nd Annual Conference & Bookfair
University of Edinburgh
7- 9 April 2016
http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/2016-conference
The following lectures and papers may be of interest to list members:
Friday 8 April
Keynote Lecture
18.00 - 19.00, George Square Lecture Theatre, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: Evelyn Welch, ‘The Materials of Art History'
Evelyn Welch is Professor of Renaissance Studies and Vice-Principal
(Arts & Sciences) at King’s College London.
http://aah.org.uk/annual-conference/2016-conference/keynotes-receptions
From Antique Craft to Modern Ideology: Mosaics as public art
Convenor:
Antonio David Fiore, The Open University, [log in to unmask]
Mosaic, because of its close relationship with architecture, has always
been an ideal vehicle for the symbolically and ideologically charged art
to be found on the walls of public and religious buildings.
Nevertheless, after the celebrated achievements of Antique masters,
neglect seems to follow. Yet, the calling of Giovanni Belloni
(1772–1863) to set up a national Mosaic School in post-revolutionary
France in 1798, the decoration of Westminster Palace in London (1922;
1926) and Foro Mussolini in Rome (1931–38), Ben Shahn’s Passion of Sacco
and Vanzetti (1967, Syracuse, USA) are but a few, deliberately
disparate, examples of a modern renaissance.
More than other techniques of architectural decoration, such as fresco
and sculpture, mosaic reflected ambiguities and uncertainties of a
practice constantly suspended between experimentation and revival.
Challenges included: the separation between designer and craftsman, the
impact of new materials and semi-industrial practices such as the
indirect method, and the relationship with the Antique traditions. For
example, late Roman and Byzantine mosaics, with their anti-perspective
and anti-naturalistic approach, were often referenced by modern artists
when asked to justify their position theoretically. However, the
varieties of motives and forms used in practice were often unorthodox.
Giulia Zaccariotto (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy) Ancient
Marbles for a Modern Mosaic: Ca’ d’Oro, a Venetian case
http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2016/session12
Saturday 9 April
Artist Networks and Networking in and with Europe, 700–1700
Convenors:
Jill Harrison, The Open University, [log in to unmask]
Joanne Anderson, School of Advanced Study, University of London,
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In medieval and Renaissance times, artists gained work through networks:
social, religious, political and economic. Their success or failure was
predicated on the rise of Europe as a trading force from 700,
facilitating mobility, collaboration and entrepreneurship (McCormack,
2001; Abu-Lughod, 1989). In recent years, identifying and interpreting
networks of art has become the focus of interdisciplinary studies.
McClean, in the Art of the Network (2007) explores the ‘strategic
interaction’ evident in letters between artists and merchant patrons in
Florence, while Dewilde’s 2012 study On noble artists and poor
craftsmen: Networking painters in Renaissance Bruges critiques the
dynamic commercial and intellectual relationships between 15th-century
artist families, guilds and humanist scholars. They speak to a larger
human ecology that thrived in village, town and city, in and beyond Europe.
This panel explores new directions, including artists who travelled to
set up new networks, how networks formed around specific professions or
political parties and informal family and workshop ties. It will ask to
what extent artists actively constructed and manipulated such networks.
Were they motivated by money, market forces, personal or professional
fame or familial concerns? What problems did they encounter and how did
they overcome them? Their agency in these contexts also poses
methodological and theoretical challenges. Our speakers will take an
interdisciplinary approach to interrogate the nature of artist networks
and networking in and with Europe between 700 and 1700. Together they
seek to open up debate and offer fresh perspectives on a topic of
relevance to all periods of art history.
Emma Capron (The Courtauld Institute of Art) New Evidence on Simone
Martini’s Work and Network in Avignon
Martina Bollini (Università degli Studi di San Marino, Scuola Superiore
di Studi Storici) Antonio da San Marino, Artist and Diplomat, in
Renaissance Rome
Marianne Cailloux (University of Reims, Champagne-Ardenne (URCA -
CEREP)) Mapping the Occidental Alps: Artistic circulation and
professional communication of the Biazacci and Serra workshops
Mei-Hsin Chen (University of Navarra (Spain) / School of Management
Assistants & Museum University of Navarra) ‘Professional Endogamy’ as a
Strategy to Create Artistic Networks and Networking among Painters in
16th-century Pamplona
Marta Cacho-Casal (Independent scholar) Reading Networks: Masters and
pupils in seicento Bologna
Carolina Alarcon (Florida State University and Fulbright Fellow at
University of Valencia López Piñero / Institute for the History of
Medicine and Science (2015–16)) Imitation is the Sincerest Form of
Innovation: Valverde’s anatomical images reconsidered
John Gash (University of Aberdeen) Caravaggesque Coteries
Christophe Guillouet (Université Paris-Sorbonne) ‘Fantasy Figures’ and
‘Caprice Pieces’: Artist networks around genre paintings and prints in
Paris at the time of Watteau
http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2016/session6
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