On the occasion of the AAH (Association of Art Historians) Annual
Conference, 15-17 April 2010, University of Glasgow, a session on the
following topic will be held:
ART IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, PUBLIC SPHERES IN ART. MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE
Art has helped to define spaces for communication in the public sphere
since the middle ages, and its own basic concepts have been shaped by
these processes. Correspondingly, genres and themes, methods and tasks
have had constantly to be adapted to changing habits of communication in
the political communities of European cities. Our aim is to address art
in the public sphere from ca. 1200 to ca. 1600 with a focus on visual
discourse and aesthetic experience. We are interested in papers that
address the impact of political discourse on the community's
self-fashioning; stylistic norms and social distinction through art; the
creation and negotiation of spaces for art and for visual communication;
as well as visual communication shaped and restricted by public
regulation. We are also interested in the spacial and intellectual
frameworks in which works of art were beheld, discussed, and made
accessible to different audiences. Last but not least, we are interested
in how these issues are visually reflected or subverted in the works
themselves. We especially invite contributions that go beyond the
established text-based readings of political iconography.
If you would like to submit a paper, please send a 250 word abstract to
the two session convenors (e-mail addresses as below) before 9 November
2009. Your name and your institutional affiliation with full contact
details should also be included in the abstract. Contributions will be
limited to ca 25 minutes in length.
Wolfgang Brückle
Department of Art History and Theory
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
UK Colchester CO4 3SQ
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Jules Lubbock
Department of Art History and Theory
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
UK Colchester CO4 3SQ
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