From Print to Paint: Histories and Methods of Artistic Production
Utrecht, 13-17July 2020
How do artists master their art? Does painting in oil result in different working procedures and visual effects compared to other media? Which material and technical properties determine the creative possibilities of prints, sculptures, and the applied arts? What can art historians learn from re-making art, re-working historical recipes, or reproducing material objects? This course will immerse you in discussions related to art production and (re-)making, materials and materiality, and techniques and technology.
This course is highly interactive and has a firm hands-on component. It integrates methods typical for the humanities and historical disciplines with practical work in the studio or lab. At one moment you may find yourself decoding a recipe for writing ink in a historical manuscript; at another moment you might be introduced to the practicalities of the printing press. During one lab session you might be mixing pigment with different binding media to make oil and tempera paint, and on the next day you might be working with fire to cast a small metal object. You will benefit from Utrecht University’s Kunstlab and the research and expertise of the ERC-funded research project ARTECHNE (https://artechne.wp.hum.uu.nl/). Upon completion, you will have deepened your knowledge in the artistic production of art with insights from recent developments in technical art history and heritage studies.
This is the one-week version of the course. You can also choose to participate in the extended version (two weeks) that includes visits to museums throughout the Netherlands.
Lecturers:
Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen (main lecturer), Sven Dupré (guest speaker), Mireille Cornelis (guest speaker)
Target audience:
Students who wish to take this course should have some academic training, as there will be substantial readings and intensive discussions. This course is also suitable for MA and PhD students who wish to apply historical remaking as a methodology and learn practical skills, as no previous experience in artistic production and making is required.
Course fee for the one-week version:
€650.00 (Included: Course + course materials)
Housing fee:
€200.00
Course fee for the extended version:
€1150.00 (Included: Course + course materials + travel costs and entry fees to site visits)
Housing fee:
€350.00
Housing through: Utrecht Summer School.
Summer school housing is optional. Students can also choose to arrange their own accommodation.
How to apply?
Please include a brief motivation to introduce who you are and why you want to take this course. This is to help the instructors learn the level of experience to better plan the lab sessions. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. As there is limited space in the lab, interested participants are advised to apply as soon as possible. Application deadline: 1 April 2020.
More information:
Please contact the Course Director and ARTECHNE Project Associate Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen [log in to unmask]
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Art Markets : An Integrated Perspective
International Summer School
Antwerp/Brussels, Belgium, 6-10 July 2020
Co-organised by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and the Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA)
Inspired by the success of the first Art Markets Summer School held in Lyon in June 2019, a second edition of this unique research, training and networking experience will take place in July 2020 in Belgium.
A team of international experts from relevant fields such art history, economics, sociology, finance and digital humanities will engage with participants with an academic or professional interest in the global art market.
An exciting program combining lectures, workshops and fieldtrips will familiarize the participants with the nature and structure of the art market system. Attention will be given to the theoretical and conceptual frameworks, the various actors in the art market and the available methodological tools to study this fascinating yet complex phenomenon. This immersive experience will inspire and shape new interdisciplinary thinking about the emergence, history and dynamics of art markets around the world.
The course is held at the Dennenhof Hotel. To give ample opportunity for students and lecturers to mingle and interact in a relaxed atmosphere, we deliberately opt for a rustic setting in the outskirts of Antwerp. Fieldtrips include a study session at the Rubenianum in Antwerp, a visit to a major art collector and Sotheby’s auction house in Brussels.
Deadline for registration:
April 1st 2020
Information and registration:https://artmarkets.sciencesconf.org/
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Spaces & Places: Courtly Encounters
The Museum of the Order of Saint John, London
23-24 March 2020
In 2020 the Open University’s interdisciplinary Spaces and Places conference will address the theme of ‘Courtly Encounters’ by exploring instances of cultural exchange that shaped the day-to-day and extraordinary experiences of court life.
Since Subrahhmanyam’s seminal book Courtly Encounters, scholars have incorporated the transcultural in courtly studies, but not to the extent it deserves. At a time when scholars across the humanities are embracing a ‘global turn,’ it is an important moment to reassess court studies and consider new approaches that allow us to move beyond Eurocentricism and simple explanations of ‘shared’ tastes.
The early modern court was not a closed entity but was reliant on the movement of people and things, its power being dependent on its relationships with other courts and states. In the early modern period, increased exploration led to fierce competition over the control of trade routes and territories, and inevitably led to diplomatic entanglements that reached from Brazil to Portugal to India. These entanglements brought about hostile relationships, confusion and admiration, giving rise to cross-cultural transfer, exchange and friction as objects, practices and people moved through trade and diplomacy.
This conference will examine courtly encounters during the early modern period to consider the following questions:
- How were courtly spaces adapted and transformed through the movement of material and immaterial things?
- Which particular aspects of political, social, and economic infrastructures enabled the exchange of objects, ideas, and people?
- To what extent do new methodologies and approaches need to be developed to consider courts within a global geopolitical network?
This annual conference is fundamentally interdisciplinary: literary, musical, architectural, artistic and religious spaces will be the subjects of enquiry, not as discrete or separate entities, but ones which overlapped, came into contact with one another, and at times were in conflict.
Registration has now opened athttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/courtly-encounters-medieval-and-early-modern-spaces-and-places-tickets-95234375581, and closes on 13 March 2020.
Programme:
23 March 2020
9:30-10:15 Registration and coffee
10:15-10:30 Welcome (Leah Clark and Helen Coffey)
10:30-11:30 ‘New’/’Old’ World Encounters
Juan Chiva Beltrán (Universitat de València)
‘A Palace Between Asia and Europe: Luxury Objects in the Court of the Viceroys of New Spain’
C Cody Barteet (the University of Western Ontario)
‘The Maya Court at Mayapán: Gaspar Antonio Chi’s Colonial Reflections and Self-Representation’
11:30-12:00 Coffee
12:00-13:00 Representing Courtly Encounters
Jacopo Gnisci (University of Oxford)
‘The Veiled Emperor: On Courtly Customs in Ethiopia’
Alessandra Bertuzzi (“Sapienza” University of Rome),
‘Urbino “Città in forma di Palazzo” Spaces and Identity between Arts and Science ‘
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 European Encounters
M.A. Katritzky (Open University)
‘Italian stage costumes at German court weddings’
Helen Coffey (Open University)
'Musico-Political Encounters of the Imperial Court of Maximilian I’
Jaroslaw Pietrzak (Pedagogical University in Krakow)
‘The Polish Royal Court as a Common Space of Polish-German-Italian and French encountering between 16th and 17th century’
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00 Keynote: Katherine Butler-Schofield (Kings College London)
‘Something borrowed, something new: appropriation and integration in Mughal courtly arts, 1580–1680’
17:00 Drinks reception
19:00 Optional conference dinner
24 March 2020
10:30-12:00 Object Encounters
Isabella Cecchini and Veronica Prestini (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
‘Accepting Ottomans in Florence: Spaces and Objects at the Medici’s Court (15th-17th centuries)’
Leah R. Clark (Open University)
‘Sensing the World: Objects of Exchange in Aragonese Naples’
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Encounters at the Tudor Court
Jonathan Gibson (Open University)
'French Poetry and the Elizabethan Court’
Michael Ohajuru (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
'The John Blanke Project’
14:00-14:30 Closing discussion
14:30-15:00 Coffee
15:30 Optional Tour of the Museum of the Order of Saint John (80 minutes)
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