Dear GEM,
The *World Art* journal and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts are
delighted to announce a conference to mark the final weekend of the
spectacular *Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia* exhibition. Entitled
‘Questioning the Masterpiece’, this event will bring together an
international and cutting-edge set of speakers from the UK, USA, France,
Turkey, Germany, Norway and Spain to tackle the concept of the masterpiece
and critically consider its possible meanings in the 21st century. UEA
academics are also well represented, including a paper from Professor
Emeritus John Onians on Neuroarthistory and the masterpiece.
While the exhibition has focused on visual arts connected with East Anglia,
our conference broadens the net to such contexts as Pre-Columbian art, the
archaeology of Japan, Ottoman art and architecture, and Italian Renaissance
painting. We will consider issues of skill and craftsmanship, reception and
changing attitudes, structure and intention. After two days of papers and
discussions, there will be a more informal study day with contributions
from artists, thinking about what the idea of the masterpiece might mean
for their own creative practice.
This conference represents an unmissable opportunity to hear a fantastic
set of speakers discuss and debate ‘the masterpiece’ in various contexts.
It will be of interest to academics (art historians, archaeologists,
anthropologists), artists, and the general public.
*‘Questioning the Masterpiece' will be held from 20-22 February 2014 at the
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Bookings can be made by contacting the
SCVA on 01603 591053 (+441603 591053).*
*For general enquiries, please contact Jenny Reddish, conference assistant,
at [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>.*
Take a look at the draft programme for Thursday and Friday below:
*Thursday 20th February*
10:15-10:30 Welcome and notices
10:30-11:15 Paul Greenhalgh (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts)
Introduction: modernity, history and the function
of the masterpiece
11:15-12:00 Widar Halén (National Museum of Art, Architecture and
Design, Norway)
(Norwegian art nouveau enamelwork - title TBC)
12:00-12:45 William Kynan-Wilson (University of Cambridge)
‘Simply painters of pots’: issues of style and
skill in Ottoman costume albums
12:45-13:15 End of morning discussion
13:15-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:00 Astrid Honold (Freie Universität Berlin)
Marcel Duchamp: nothing but a masterpiece
15:00-15:45 Eva March (Pompeu Fabra University)
The assessment of a masterpiece: the case of the Virgin of the
Councillors of the National Museum of Art, Catalonia
15:45-16:15 Margit Thøfner (UEA)
A masterpiece for a king?: the organ of Our
Saviour’s Church in Copenhagen
16:15-16:30 Tea
16:30-17:15 John Onians (UEA)
The masterpiece: is it best understood as a
social or a neural phenomenon?
*Friday 21st February*
10:00-10:45 Michael Kausch (University of Koblenz-Landau)
The masterpiece as a question of structure and
values
10:45-11:30 Elisenda Vila Llonch (British Museum) and Miriam
Doutriaux (Dumbarton Oaks)
Pre-Columbian artistic production; from curiosity
to masterpieces
11:30-12:15 Pascale Dubus (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
The ‘ideal gallery’ of Gian Paolo Lomazzo in
the *Trattato
dell’arte della pittura*
(Paper to be delivered in French with interpreter)
12:15-12:45 Discussion
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:30 Simon Kaner (Centre for Japanese Studies, UEA)
The nature of ‘the masterpiece’ in Japan: from
prehistoric figurines to Living National
Treasures
14:30-15:15 Ahmet Sezgin (Bahçeşehir University)
Selimiye as a masterpiece and marker of Turks’
journey to the West
15:15-15.45 Sarah Monks (UEA)
Joseph Stannard’s *Yarmouth Sands *(1829): the
civic role of a ‘masterpiece’
15:45-16:00 Tea
16:00-16:30 Panel discussion: artists Liz Rideal, Michael
Brennand-Wood and Lee Grandjean
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