The revolt of Naples in 1647 is an obvious example that springs to mind, since it began on Piazza Mercato. While my focus is on medieval African art scholarship, the implications clearly are broader. These invoke questions about unfreedom, the possibility of freedom, and the body proper, as well as their visual and spatial entanglements with, and representations in various art media. Why shop at The Courtauld Visit our shops Payment methods Customer Services Information. This is a large picture, measuring approximately 3.7m X 3.0m, and was relined with an equivalent of BEVA 371, Lascaux Heatseal Adhesive 375, using a vacuum envelope technique. Yet the content, chronology, and structure of art historys European canon has barely changed for the period. Swiss-born Henry Fuseli was continually branded foreign, odd and an outsider by contemporaries. Dreaming has a Share in History: Thinking Around Black British Art, Dorothy Price Director, Centre for Black Humanities, University of Bristol. ric de Chasseyis director of the French National Institute of Art History (INHA) and professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the cole normale suprieure in Lyon, France. This Frank Davis Memorial Lecture explores and celebrates the artistic work of Seecum Cheung. That late medieval popular unrest was largely limited to neighbourhoods, parochially dependant on local groups, is a myth of twentieth-century social science. Speaker: Wei-Cheng Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of . Because of their roots in ancient Greek Herms and Dionysian ritual, grotesques are intimately linked to both the origins of art and the frenzy that threatens to overturn civilization. Chris Zhongtian Yuans 2020 video Wuhan Punk explores the thin line between memory and imagination surrounding the disappearance of former member of Wuhan Punk band Si Dou Le and founder of Youth Autonomous Centre, who was active between mid 1990s and late 2000s in Wuhan, China. She is the editor as well as a contributor to the 2019 volume Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition published in the Africana Religion Series at Penn State University Press. And what can they tell us about transcultural dialogue in and beyond Africa prior to the arrival of Europe? Born in Nigeria, raised in part just outside Grays, Essex, he studied architecture and architectural studies at the Bartlett, University College London, before working for a PhD in History of Art and Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (or MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts. The film unfolds with a narrator muttering in Wuhan dialect under the narrators breath, often overlaid with intense, frictional sounds, searching for narratives, anecdotes and fascinations surrounding the musician. In early 2017, Sandro BotticellisTrinity Altarpiecewas removed from the walls of the Courtauld Gallery to be restored. It fills them with a tone; a something that may seize us emotionally as an atmosphere. ICMA-SPONSORED SESSION AT VI FORUM KUNST DES MITTELALTERS, 28 SEPT - 1 OCT 2022, FRANKFURT GERMANY (30 SEPTEMBER 2022, 16.4518.15 UHR). A central concern for all the speakers will be Fuselis graphic treatment of the human figure how his draughtsmanship builds the body as an excessively expressive signifier, one equipped to communicate the bizarre and often highly erotic narratives that their author deployed to construct and promote his self-consciously singular brand. Since 2006, he has been Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge, which was shortlisted for the Art Funds Museum of the Year Prize in 2013. The artist had . Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. Its collection stretches from the early Renaissance into the twentieth century and is particularly renowned for its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces. The Sublime in the Public Arts in Seventeenth-Century Paris and Amsterdam (2013-2018). KEVIN SALATINO. Email: researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk----- Spring 2015 Friends Lecture Series supported by Friends of The Courtauld and the Iran Heritage Foundation Visual Cultures of Iran: New Perspectives This series of lectures explores facets of the visual cultures of Iran. In their composition, use, and afterlives in the Inquisition the bolsas reveal the deep and mutually transformative spiritual and material connections that the slave trade engendered between Europeans and Africans in the early modern Atlantic World. Okoyes work on the conjunctures of both African, American and European histories of art, architecture, photography and film, is published in several journals both traditional and digital, including the Art Bulletin; the Harvard Architectural Review; Interventions a journal of Postcolonial Studies; RES: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, and Critical Interventions, as well as in edited books and online platforms that have included African Mobilities This is Not a Refugee Camp Exhibition (Mpho Matsipa, ed. Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1946.82. The lectures of Professors Nicholas Thomas and Tim Ingold will consider the role that contemporary art can play in the future development of a hermeneutics of art respectively in the museum and the academy. Lecture: Dmitry Prigov Lecture Series: DAP and Russian Art Now (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; May 15, 2015) Friday, 15 May 2015 6.00pm, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN . Alabaster, from the former Church of St. Peter in Erfurt. Cleveland Museum of Art. Post from the First Lockdown (www.lockdownpost.org) is an archive of artists responses to the first outbreak of Covid-19 from the Hubei region, from 7 February to the end of March 2020. Okoyes work currently focuses on the intersections of art, architecture and landscapes in Africa, leap-frogging from the present into the precolonial period era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade all of which he sometimes describes as arts complexity in the vicinity of architecture. Searching for darkness: archaeological perspectives on cave use in prehistoric Ireland. He has just completed a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. His recent books includeThe Perception of the Environment(2000),Lines(2007),Being Alive(2011),Making(2013) andThe Life of Lines(2015). It will ask why, in the era of social media and clicktivism, or activism confined to online participation from the security and comfort of your home, protest actors still resort en masse to this form of action. Almost a year after, with the UK still locked down, Gaia Fugazza, Luigi Galimberti and Sha Li will present this collection of works from over 30 artists. The 2005 Series was organised by Professor Paul Hills (The Courtauld), The 2004 Series was organised by Deborah Cherry (Central St Martins College of Art and Design), Pictures in the Chinese Encyclopaedia:Image, Category and Knowledge in MingChina She is the co-founder and director of the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History. "Crash and Burn: Destruction in American Art" at Courtauld Institute of Art "Wordstruck: American Artists as Readers, Writers & Literati," at Maria . 18 November 2003 Recent publications include a co-edited volume onCross-Cultural Diplomacy and Diplomatic Intermediaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean(2015) and The Peoples Prince. Few naturally occurring bright red materials lend themselves to ornament. The talk will feature exclusive recorded interviews with some of the participating artists and a reading of the poem (One Thousand and One) by curator Boliang Shen. Professor Caroline Van Eck Centre for the Arts in Society, University of Leiden and Dr Stijn Bussels Centre for the Arts in Society, University of Leiden. Yuan is the recipient of 2020 Aesthetica Art Prize and OCAT Institute Research-based Curatorial Project Award. He is the author ofChains. Special ceremonies and events will be held in both Japan and China to honor this great Zen master. University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art) Jun 2009 My MA dissertation about 19th century menswear and men looking at men for a whole range of reasons. Light isa remarkable medium that can subtly alter our view of an artwork. Approaching punk art through art historical methods can be fruitful but only if one takes into account the contradictions that this entails. ); Strangers, Diasporas, Exiles (Kobena Mercer [ed. Special Option in the History of Art on Aestheticising Politics? https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/sections/medieval-byzantine/projects/imca-courtauld. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she was an art teacher there before relocating to Berlin where she completed her MA and curated art events as part of the 91mQ collective. Architectural Practice in Spain, 1370-1450: Drawings, Documents & Historiography The Coll & Corts Medieval Spain Seminar in the Research Forum South Room in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Kevin Salatino is Chair and Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago. His work concerns the intersection of art and protest culture, exploring how social explosions influence cultural production, both inside as well as beyond the traditional artworld. She specialises in the archaeology of Irish caves, and is particularly interested in the use of caves as sacred spaces in prehistory. By doing so virtually, NNF has . Female Trouble: Vamps, Vixens and Viragoes in the Art of Henry Fuseli From homewares, fashion and prints to specialist books, writing materials and stationery, our collection aims to inspire and delight art lovers, enthusiasts and experts. In North America, the Center for Buddhist Studies, College of Humanities at the University of Arizona is organizing a series of commemorative events which will run for . Paul Ackroyds initial training in conservation was at the Gateshead Technical College, Newcastle from 1980-2. Mar 2022 - Present9 months. Richard Fardonis a social anthropologist; his writings over the last thirty years have concerned anthropological theory or the ethnography of West Africa, or often the relationship between the two. Professor Piotr Piotrowski, Adama Mickiewicza University, Poznan, Inside Out: Anatomy, Medicine andthe Boundaries of Nineteenth-Century Masculinity and Asen: Mmoires forgs fer dans lArt Vodun du Dahomey (2019 Geneva: Ides et Calendes). He is a former BBC Young Composer of the Year. Dr Christopher Wilson, www.linkedin.com/school/courtauld-institute-of-art/, Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism, October 2022 8 January 2023), the 2022 Frank Davis lectures offer a platform for new perspectives on one of the most original and idiosyncratic of eighteenth-century European artists. 1100.2003/2004Elizabeth Sears (Professor, University of Michigan),False Work: Craft Ethics and the Critical Eye in Medieval Paris.2001/2002Paula Gerson (Professor, Florida State University),Reconsidering Abbot Sugers Great Cross.2000/2001Dale Kinney (Professor, Bryn Mawr),The Horse and the Cuckoo: Narrating Marcus Aurelius.1999/2000Dr. Based on a constant refusal to inscribe itself inside the artistic world, punk nevertheless soon became something to collect. Professor Richard Fardon FBA Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS. Kirby Foundation, in honour of Frank Davis, who was a critic forCountry Lifemagazine. It looks at the multi-colour printing methods that were developed in the Morris & Co workshops. Tuesday 20 November The exhibition was the high- but not endpoint of a documentation and research campaign, which started in 2012 and focused on preservation issues and on the extensive technical examination and documentation. The Courtauld is an internationally renowned centre for the teaching and research of art history and a major public gallery. Mellon fellow in the Paintings Conservation Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 28 October 2003 Four prominent historians, critics and theorists of art reflect upon aggression, transgression, protest, derision and writing itself as modes of undoing traditions, disciplines, categories, media and methods. The 2016 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series explores the significance of light and darkness in making, viewing and thinking about visual and material cultures. Special ceremonies and events will be held in both Japan and China to honor this great Zen master. Ccile Fromont is an associate professor in the history of art department at Yale University. ]; and The Anthropologies of Art (Mariet Westermann, ed.). In 1997 she was appointed chief conservator of the paintings collection at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Why, particularly after 2008, has collective action re-emerged in ways that are concurrently new and, also, so old? In doing so, it hopes to draw parallels between Fuselis attitude towards institutions in both Zurich and London. Lecture: 1/13/2022. He curated the exhibition Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), and is currently writing a book about Fuselis erotic drawings. 28 October 2008 Material Journeys: Mamluk Metalwork in West Africa. Patriarchy, history, the academy and the art world will all come undone. Moreover, if his male and female figures can seem exaggerated in their sexual characteristics, they are also often cast into irregular gendered roles and relationships. Dr Satish Padiyar The Courtauld Institute of Art. In Conversation: Blueprints for the Otherwise. Looking back one notes the remarkable change in the modern and contemporary curriculum over the past decades as regards methods and theories as well as geographical expansions of The Courtaulds remit and mission. 9 November 2010 It was timed to coincide with the major international exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from October 2003 to January 2004, Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547. 2013 - 2014 . 19 November 2013 She has just finished writing a book about medieval mosaics (provisionally entitled A short history of medieval mosaics). Miguel Tamen(Professor, Director of Programme in Literary Theory, University of Lisbon; and Regular Visiting Professor, University of Chicago), Traditions of Resistance: The Case of History The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris exploring Samuel Courtauld's role as one of the great collectors of the twentieth century. ), a formal fashion (what colours are used?) The Courtauld is an internationally renowned centre for the teaching and research of art history and a major public gallery, Be part of an international community of influential art enthusiasts, thought leaders and change makers, Information and resources for students currently studying at The Courtauld. Africa south of the Sahara has received little attention from scholars studying global exchange networks before what Abu-Lughod has referred to as the era of European hegemony. 14 October 2003 140, framed art print. Interrogating the nature of revival, historicism and transnationalism, the series engages with nature and artifice, ritual and memory, and the flexible meanings of materials, images and structures that simultaneously inhabit traditional and innovative territory. Herein, the potent eroticism of the ancients becomes both antidote and antonymy to modern life and the perceived emasculating effects of commercial society. June 5 & 6, 2015 Courtauld Institute of Art, London Destruction has long occupied a central position in the construction of an American national image. Tuesday 4 December Art of the Buddhist World Series hosted by The Courtauld. The experience of light and darkness is central to all acts of vision, and informs the ways in which we represent, inhabit, and imagine the world. The urban fabric is made of spaces defined by successive authorities as well as manifestations of resistance, both in the margins and in the centre of the city. Strategies exploiting the colonial states logical gaps were deployed by African women far earlier than imagined, judging by the experience of Adelina Wari, adult by the late 19th century, but completely unknown in the scholarship. We are proud to be inviting speakers to talk about issues ranging from decolonising French museums to the curating of Smiart in the context of the Scandinavian pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022, performance and protest inside and outside of Iran to what it is like to be an Israeli artist based in Londons East End for many decades. The lecture reflects on the constitution of collections, and in particular on the artefact, proposing that the museum, in dialogue with contemporary art, again has the capacity to constitute a method, to empower interpretations of art objects and cross-cultural art histories. ICMA Mutual Mentoring for Medievalists - Applications Due By 27 September 2022! In the process, Fuselis bodies expose the classical tradition to the prospect of its own disintegration, under the unbearable pressures exerted by the advent of modernity. shelved 3,688 times. In person at The Courtauld, Lecture Theatre 1, Vernon Square, London and online via LivestreamSee below for more information and scheduleFree, booking essential, Memento mori, hand-colored engraving with manuscript inscription, Netherlands, c. 1500-1530 (Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2012.3). It is everyday parlance to talk about seeing things in the best light, but in the museum environment, what is the best light? And as an afficionado and disciple of the School of Paris , Sarah Wilson considers its hospitality and discourse for artists from all over the world, before as well as after 1989 as vitally contemporary, when artists such as Andr Fougeron, Claude Parent and Carlo Cruz Diez star in this years Liverpool Biennale together with younger generations. The speakers will look at such manifestations and ask how they shaped the urban space, inscribing it with dense webs of meaning. ICMA AT THE COURTAULD LECTURESeries made possible through the generosity ofWilliam M. VoelkleThursday 26 May 20225:30pm BST,drinks reception6:00pm BST,lecture, In person at The Courtauld, Lecture Theatre 1, Vernon Square, London and online via Livestream. This visual archive, ambiguous because of the European canonical and academic style used by artists in the making of it, enables us to access forms of African subjectivity, both enslaved and free ones. He currently manages one of the UKs nine Creative Clusters at the University of the Arts London, having joined from Tate, where he previously held the position of Research Manager. He is member ofThe Young Academyunder the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. 2 December 2003 He is currently Director at the arts and culture publicationArtReview, based in London. His writing has also been published in theNew Statesman,Prospectand theDaily Telegraph, and his essays have been included in several book collections and catalogues, includingThe Two-Sided Lake(Liverpool University Press, 2016). Professor Robert Nelson(University of Chicago). She has worked at various institutions, exhibitions, and a series of curatorial projects in Vancouver, Beijing, Shanghai, London, Paris, and Copenhagen. Delivered by a North American-based scholar, this lecture series aims to strengthen transatlantic contacts among medievalists from the university and museum worlds. Since 1999, the International Center of Medieval Art, New York and The Courtauld Institute of Art, London have teamed up to present an annual lecture at The Courtauld. Her first book, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo was published in 2014 by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute for Early American History. Click to watch full lecture. His research interests are in the technical art history of paintings, primarily those in the National Gallerys collection, and the structural conservation of canvas pictures. Tim Barringer(Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University), Orientalism and Islamophilia Tim Ingoldis Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. The 2018 Frank Davis Memorial Series invited four distinguished speakers to share research that addressed visual and material witnesses to colonialism, migration, and indigeneity. Tuesday 9 October In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, studies of primitive and tribal arts were closely identified with museums and collecting; when the field re-emerged in the early 1970s it was inspired by ethnography and new theorisations of symbolic systems but relatively unconnected with the vast collections of Oceania, African and native American art in the galleries and stores of ethnography museums in Europe and elsewhere. Working with IDEO and the University of Phoenix, our team created a series of 6 x 2 hour lecture series. Malcolm Bull(Research Forum/Andrew W Mellon Foundation MA Visiting Professor from Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford), Performing Bare Life, Exploring Carceral Cultures Wari is present as a hitherto unnoticed trace in the colonial archive, against a contemporary dispossession and attempt at her erasure. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has in its collection seventeen paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Swiss-born Henry Fuseli was continually branded foreign, odd and an outsider by contemporaries. If modernism was attached to the technologies of production (cars, planes, ocean liners) and postmodernism to the technologies of reproduction (TV and video), the new populist stage may see a synthesis of the two in networked computer technology. In this Frank Davis Memorial Lecture JJ Chan and Sunshine Wong will work through some ideas surrounding critical care as an ethos for arts organisational infrastructure. Showing 30 distinct works. The logistics of moving such a large painting during the course of the treatment, the construction of the envelope and the problems associated with this lining method will be discussed. 11 Nov 2021. The Courtauld is currently located at Vernon Square, right next to the dynamic and vibrant King's Cross area. Associate Professor at the Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, with a PhD in anthropology, material culture studies, from University College London (2009). This lecture will ask why this reputation for stability continues to be so resilient. Okoye has served on the Editorial Board of the Art Bulletin and other journals, and on the advisory boards of many others. Professor Richard Marks, The Impact of Burgundian Court Ceremonial and Habitus on Netherlandish Painting ca. Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Grants. Support for her research and writing include grants and fellowships from the Centre for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Michigan Society of Fellows, the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and the Renaissance Society of America. Indigenous people have been travelling to London willingly or otherwise since 1502. To a degree, this image was also cultivated by the artist himself. Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Grants. Presented by prominent Berlin-based artist, curator, critic and writer Mark Gisbourne. Date(s) - 03/03/20206:30 pm - 7:30 pm, Location It will situate the speakers respective and collective positions in relation to the social and cultural events of the past year to pave the way for critical care as an organisational ethos: critical in the sense of urgency; critical in the meaningful ways we nurture those around us. It explores the type of place Zurich was its cultural traditions, religious beliefs and social attitudes in order to explain why patriotic, religious and sexual themes feature prominently in the artists formative works. 11 November 2008 His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Wrote and delivered a series of 4 public lectures on German 20th century art 1. More than fifty years after Gombrichs pioneeringArt and Illusion,the science of perception remains, for the most part, marginal to art historical practice, despite extraordinary recent advances in our understanding of the visual brain. En Liang Khongis an editor and writer. CENTER: Saint Jerome and the Lion, by Tilman Riemenschneider, Wrzburg, ca. But who set the agenda for these strange images? Using interactive motion graphic representation and interactive experience with prominent . The elite now frame rather than manufacture what is popular, and elite culture is eroded as a result. Stijn Busselsis Lecturer of art and theatre history at the University of Leiden. ICMA at The Courtauld Lecture 2018 Series made possible through the generosity of William M. Voelkle Tuesday 13 March 2018 5:30pm - 6:30 pm The Courtauld Institute of Art, London Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre Somerset House, Strand WC2R 0RN CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Prof. Nancy Pat Professor Mark Hallett(Department of History of Art, University of York), Broadcasting Medieval Culture Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing. 2012/2013Helen C. Evans (Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art, The Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Sailing to Byzantium: Understanding a Lost Empire. Bird feathers are not so used as far as he is aware (a possibility demonstrated by Hawaiian feather garments), nor any bright coloured gem stones. We see the same uncomfortable role reversals between authors, painters and printers, then taking place in the publishing industry, mirrored and reimagined in these drawings. The 2013 Series was organised by Tim Satterthwaite and Dr Meredith A Brown, Part-Whole Relationships in Art and Vision Contemporary art has been radically transformed by globalisation. There were stories of his pictures being hung upside-down, and to this day some of his drawings have been mounted (and displayed and published) in orientations which are questionable or clearly wrong. The lecture considers the poetics of the indigo discharge process by making reference to allegorical allusions to dyeing, bleaching and printing in William Morriss own late romance The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897). This talk will consider our research into the pictures, displayed at Petworth House in West Sussex since the 1690s, the complexities of their restoration, and the new information it has brought to light. Traditionally supported by Friends of The Courtauld, this year's lecture series is also supported by Created and used in parallel to similar objects made elsewhere on the continent, once deemed fetishes and now considered central to the canon of African art, they waged a spirited battle against the witchcraft of the slave trade. Dr John Goodall(Architectural Editor, Country Life), Makers of Royal Manuscripts: Court Artists in France and the Netherlands Focusing on the importance of collaborations and lightness, Grandine is a testing ground for urgent projects. Janet Wolff(Professor of Performance, Screen and Visual Cultures, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research for the Arts (CIDRA), University of Manchester). Venturi and his collaborators celebrated the architecture and urban fabric of Las Vegas, for example. Graeme Barraclough trained as an Easel Painting conservator at the Courtauld Institute of Art. This lecture considers a number of Mamluk (Syrio-Egyptian) brass bowls and basins that have been documented at various sites in what is now central Ghana and northern Nigeria. The cut legs were folded up behind the portraits. To a degree, this image was also cultivated by the artist himself. Tuesday 27 November From 2006 to 2011 she directed the NWO/VICI program Art, Agency and Living Presence, in which anthropological and rhetorical approaches to the attribution of life to art works were combined.
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