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Subject:

CFP: Collecting and peripheries; Collections as laboratories (RSA)

From:

Rupert Shepherd <[log in to unmask]>

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Rupert Shepherd <[log in to unmask]>

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Sun, 15 May 2016 11:19:32 +0100

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Two calls for papers announced by the Collecting and Display Seminar 
(run by Adriana Turpin, Andrea M. Gáldy, and Susan Bracken) may be of 
interest:

Please also be aware of two calls for papers that we recently posted on 
the RSA website for sessions at the RSA annual meeting in Chicago in 
2014. Please visit www.rsa.org for further information on the society 
and on attending at the conferences.


Collecting and the Peripheries

When scholars of the early modern period started to focus on (princely) 
collections in the 1980s, they often concentrated on Italy as the 
epicentre of cultural development and progress. The courts of Florence, 
Rome, Urbino or Ferrara were regarded as hubs of collecting, while the 
rest of Europe either seemed not to care very much (England and Spain) 
or was too poor and uncivilised (large parts of Germany and Eastern 
Europe) to follow the Italian example. Even though recent studies have 
started to investigate collections built and displayed in the 
peripheries, much of the research conducted these days still underwrites 
a supposed Italian supremacy. Nonetheless, we know that even a place 
such as Florence picked up fashions in collecting, in palace building 
and in interior architecture from other courts north and south of the 
Alps as well as from the East and West. A main issue to be investigated 
is, therefore, that of hubs and peripheries and whether any such 
division has ever been as clear-cut as has long been assumed.

Another issue is the question of models and trendsetters. In particular, 
the multi-cultural Holy Roman Empire, bringing together traditions from 
Burgundy, Spain and from the Austrian Habsburg territories among others, 
offers a multitude of collections, examples of multinational 
collectibles, as well as some of the earliest theoretical writings on 
the subject. Nevertheless, when collections from the empire are 
discussed, as happens more often now, they are usually compared to other 
examples from the North of Europe or seen as second-rate followers of 
the fashions at Italian courts.
Rather than continuing a traditional view of Europe separated into 
cultural donors and receivers, we expect to renegotiate long-standing 
certainties. Therefore, we invite proposals of 150 words that focus on 
clusters or networks of exchange, favour a multinational, 
multiconfessional and multidisciplinary approach to the rise and 
development of early modern collections and seek to establish new ways 
of defining models and trendsetters, as well as centres and peripheries. 
If you wish to contribute to the discussion, please send your abstracts 
and CVs (in accordance with the guidelines set out at 
http://www.rsa.org/page/2017Chicago) to [log in to unmask] 
on or before 28 May 2016.


The Collection as Laboratory

During the sixteenth century, collectors became interested in 
increasingly varied types of objects. Whereas in many studioli, the 
display was intended to invite comparisons between antiquities and 
contemporary works of the art, in other collections the aim was to 
present the relationships and even rivalries between artificialia and 
naturalia. A concern with man’s ingenuity was an important element in 
such new collections, as has been studied in relation to such well-known 
sixteenth century collections in Florence, or Munich or somewhat later 
in Prague. Horst Bredekamp observed that ‘the idea of using the 
collection as an active laboratory rather than a passive collection 
corresponded to the Promethean practice, perceiving the actions of 
collecting, researching and constructing the collection as a unit.’  The 
collector could thus be not just an acquisitor but also a creator. He 
could himself develop the skills to create complex works of art, the 
knowledge and skill to practice ivory turning for example; he could 
bring together scientists and mathematicians to explore the universe, 
and put to use instruments within the collection. Techniques and new 
methods of manufacture were also related to objects in the collection.

The aim of this session is to explore the collection as a laboratory of 
scientific investigation and the pursuit of knowledge, whether through 
the creation or the use of the objects collected. Although there has 
been considerable attention given to the development of the kunst and 
wunderkammer collection, the impact of these in terms of manufacture and 
impetus for scientific development has been more limited to a few 
well-known examples. We would encourage the presentation of papers by 
researchers in the history of science, history of manufacture or 
collecting. We would also encourage the presentation of material over a 
broad geographic base, from the lesser-known Italian and German 
collections to other European collections. Although the time frame is 
essentially that of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, papers that 
cover these sites of knowledge at other times are welcome. We hope 
through the exploration of a variety of collections, to bring a richer 
understanding of the collection as the nexus of curiosity and skill.

If you wish to contribute to the discussion, please send your abstract 
of c 300 words and your CV (in accordance with the guidelines set out at 
http://www.rsa.org/page/2017Chicago) to [log in to unmask] 
on or before 28 May 2016.

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