Research Forum
Calendar: Spring Term 2012
January to April
All events are held at The Courtauld
Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
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stated otherwise. Events are free and open to members of the public unless otherwise stated.
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Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Photography and Temporality at the First Biennale of Spatial Forms in the Polish People’s Republic (Elblag, 1965)
Monday, 9 January 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Sylwia Serafinowicz (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
research seminar: contemporaneity in south asian art
Patterns of Dissent in Contemporary South Asian Art
Gandhi, Camera, Action: Popular Visual Culture and the Graphic of Iterability
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Professor Christopher Pinney (Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Emilia Terracciano and Zehra Jumabhoy with Professor Deborah Swallow (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Christopher Pinney is an anthropologist and art historian. His research interests cover the art and visual culture of South Asia, with a particular focus on the history of photography and chromolithography in India. He has also worked on industrial labor and Dalit goddess possession. His talk at The Courtauld will start with observations concerning the neo-Gandhian Anna Hazare's presence in contemporary India, exploring.....read more
Research seminar: renaissance
Not Leonardism in Milan
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Charles Robertson (Oxford Brookes University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Susie Nash
on the passage of a few patterns through a rather brief moment in time: david mabb's appropriations of william morris 1999-2011
Thursday, 12 January 2012
18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
David Mabb, Canvas 10 from Two Squares detail (2008). Paint on wallpaper mounted on canvas. Fourteen 30 x 24 inch canvases. © Courtesy of the artist
Speaker(s): David Mabb (artist)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: The Courtauld Institute of Art in collaboration with Two Temple Place
William Morris thought that interior design had a fundamental role to play in the transformation of everyday life. This essentially political motivation - a commitment to the radical potential of design - is behind much of his work as a designer and craftsman.....Mabb's paintings, photographs, textiles and videos, work with and against Morris' designs by contrasting them with the work of Malevich, the Russian Constructivists.....read more
drawn to spain: showcasing new research on spanish drawings
Saturday, 14 January 2012
10.00 - 17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 9.30 am)
Francisco de Goya, Cantar y Bailar [Singing and Dancing], 1819-1820. © The Courtauld Gallery
Speaker(s): Lisa Banner (Independent Scholar, New York); José Manuel Barbeito (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid); Lauren Barnes (The Courtauld); Marta Cacho Casal.....
Ticket/entry details: £16 (£11 Courtauld staff/students and concessions) BOOK ONLINE.....
Organised by: Zahira Véliz and Edward Payne
The study of Spanish drawings is a rapidly advancing area of research. Exhibitions devoted to early modern Spanish drawings are increasing in number, unknown works are being brought to light and new questions are being raised. What were the shifting attitudes towards .....read more
london roman art seminar 2012
The Iliad in a Nutshell: Image and Text on the Iliac Tablets
Monday, 16 January 2012
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford Square / 2 Gower Street with entrance on Montague Place), London WC1E 6DP, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Michael Squire (King’s College London)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
from doris to chemical culture
Monday, 16 January 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Derek Boshier, It's reigning Apps and Blogs from the series Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton' (detail), 2011. © Courtesy the artist
Speaker(s): Derek Boshier (artist)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Lisa Tickner
Derek Boshier is an artist who has worked in many media: painting and drawing, printmaking, installation art, books, film, and theatre design. The lecture offers a tour through his long career: from his involvement with British Pop Art in the early 1960s, through conceptual and political art in the 1970s (including work with David Bowie and the Clash), to his return to figurative painting in Texas in.....read more
spring 2012 friends lecture series
Art and Psychoanalysis: War in the Time of Peace
Psycho-analysis: War and the Law of the Mother
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document: Documentation IV, Transitional Objects, Diary and Diagram, 1976. Detail from 1 of the 8 units. 8 units, 28 x 35.5 cm each. Perspex units, white card, plaster, cotton fabric. Collection, Zurich Museum. Courtesy the artist.
Speaker(s): Professor Juliet Mitchell (Research Forum / Andrew W Mellon Foundation MA Visiting Professor at The Courtauld; Director of PhD program in Psychoanalytic Studies, UCL; Mellon Visiting Research Scholar, Witswatersrand.S.A.)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Mignon Nixon
The lecture argues that we need to add a horizontal axis of lateral relations to the dominant vertical model deployed by Psychoanalysis and most social sciences. The vertical 'Law of the Mother' prohibits killing between lateral siblings along the horizontal axis. An effect of this is the institution of war as legitimated killing as foundational of the gender differentiated social world. Legitimate killing.....read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Modern Science and the Avant-Garde: Rethinking Alexander Calder
Monday, 23 January 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Vanja Malloy (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Research Forum Visiting professor lecture
Inscription and the Horizon in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Melchior Lorck’s Prospect of Constantinople (1559)
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Melchior Lorck, Prospect of Constantinople (1559).
Courtesy of Leiden University Library, PK-T-BPL 1758 / 11.
Speaker(s): Bronwen Wilson (Dept of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professors Caroline Arscott and Joanna Woodall
In 1554 the Danish artist Melchior Lorck was ordered by the Holy Roman Emperor to accompany his ambassador, Augier Ghiselin de Busbecq, to Suleyman’s court. There in Istanbul Lorck began his immense prospect of the ancient city that he drew from Galata, the international.....read more
the challenges of authentication: francis bacon - a case study
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
CANCELLED
Although the process of authentication is a subject that The Courtauld Institute of Art is interested in from an academic perspective, whilst there is the possibility of legal action being taken in relation to the “Bacon/Ravarino” drawings, it has been decided that this particular case study is not appropriate for a Courtauld Research Forum event. Therefore, the debate that was proposed for 25 January 2012 at The Courtauld will not now take place.
Research seminar: renaissance
Drawing in Venice: Practice and Identity
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Susie Nash
Research Forum Visiting professor seminar
Portraiture, Sincerity and the Ethics of Early Modern Conversation
Thursday, 26 January 2012
16.00 - 18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Bronwen Wilson (Dept of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Ticket/entry details: Free and open to postgraduate students and history of art teaching staff
Organised by: Professors Caroline Arscott and Joanna Woodall
“Moral portrait” is a rubric that has been assigned to paintings produced in Northern Italy in the later decades of the sixteenth century on the basis of their adherence to Counter Reformation demands for truthful representation. Naturalism is one characteristic of these portraits, painted by Giovanni Battista Moroni, among others, while another—emphasized by the paring down of extraneous content—is the emphasis on the face-to-face.....read more
london roman art seminar 2012
Mythological Scenes on Mosaics of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 5th and 6th Centuries AD: Traditional Culture in a Christian World?
Monday, 30 January 2012
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford Square / 2 Gower Street with entrance on Montague Place), London WC1E 6DP, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Katherine Dunbabin (McMaster University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
london seminar for early modern visual culture
‘Honest Craft’: Abel Schrøder’s Incarnations (1602-1676)
Monday, 30 January 2012
18.00, Seminar Room 6, Department of Art History, University College London, 20-21 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG
Speaker(s): Margit Thofner (University of East Anglia)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Richard Taws (r.taws@ucl.ac.uk) and Katie Scott (katie.scott@courtauld.ac.uk
This seminar series has been organised jointly by The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and University College London.
Ethnographic Conceptualism: Performing Methodological Experiments
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
10.00 - 13.00, Seminar room 1
Telephone in the form of the globe, with a receiver as a hammer and sickle. Birthday gift to J. Stalin from aircraft repair workers, Lodz, Poland, 1949Speaker(s): Khadija Carroll La (University of Cambridge); Marta S Magalhaes (University of Cambridge).....
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (University of Cambridge)
The term ‘ethnographic conceptualism’ refers to ethnography, conducted as conceptual art, and to artistic and aesthetic experimentations in ethnography. It takes its cue from conceptual art or ‘conceptualism’ that creates art objects out of concepts – and, most importantly, out of audiences and their reaction to these objects. Much of contemporary digital art, for instance, is performed by the audiences of digital art exhibitions. And while there is a recognition of the performative character.....read more
spring 2012 friends lecture series
Art and Psychoanalysis: War in the Time of Peace
Crystal of Resistance
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Thomas Hirschhorn, Schema "Crystal of Resistance" (detail), 2011. © Courtesy the artist
Speaker(s): Thomas Hirschhorn (artist)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission. N.B. Limited seats; first-come-first-served.
Organised by: Professor Mignon Nixon
Thomas Hirschhorn was born in 1957 in Bern (Switzerland). He studied at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zürich from 1978 to 1983 and moved to Paris in 1984, where he has been living ever since. His work has been shown in numerous museums, galleries and group exhibitions among them the Venice Biennale (1999), Documenta11 (2002), 27th Sao Paolo Biennale (2006), the 55th Carnegie.....read more
fifty years of war in the time of peace, 1960-2010
Crystal of Resistance – A Discussion
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
11.00 - 13.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Thomas Hirschhorn (artist)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission. N.B. Limited seats; first-come-first-served.
Organised by: Professor Mignon Nixon and Visiting Professor Juliet Mitchell
This year, the Andrew W Mellon Foundation / Research Forum MA Special Option is Art and Psychoanalysis: Fifty Years of War in the Time of Peace, 1960-2010, co-taught by Mignon Nixon (The Courtauld) and Juliet Mitchell (UCL Psychoanalytic Unit). Please join us for this open seminar with the internationally acclaimed artist Thomas Hirschhorn. The event will be co-chaired by Mignon Nixon and Julian Stallabrass.....read more
shows of london
Nineteenth-Century Reading Group Meeting:
Birdsong and Silence
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Ticket/entry details: Open to academic staff and postgraduate students of The Courtauld, King’s College London and other institutions
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott (The Courtauld Institute of Art) with Professor Clare Pettitt and Josephine McDonagh (Kings College London)
Shows of London is an interdepartmental/intercollegiate group studying Victorian Culture that meets regularly to discuss texts on street culture, representation, the Metropolis and associated issues.....read more
street life and street culture: between early modern europe and the present
Study Day 2: What does ‘Street’ Mean? How Can Urban Experience be Recognised, Recorded, and Mapped?
Friday, 3 February 2012
10.30 - 17.00, note room has changed. Now: Portico Room, Somerset House (with registration from 10.00)
Speaker(s): Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago), Harry Charrington (University of Bath), Louise Duggan (formerly CABE), Stuart Dunn (Kings College London).....
Ticket/entry details: Numbers are limited. To register please email georgia.clarke@courtauld.ac.uk by 27th.....
This study day is part of the Street life and street culture: Between Early Modern Europe and the Present network, funded by the AHRC as part of the Beyond Text project (see www.bath.ac.uk/ace/Streetlife). Our study day.....read more
17th annual medieval postgraduate student colloquium
Surviving the Middle-Ages:
Art, Belief, and Preservation
Monday, 6 February 2012
10.00 - 17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Cutting from an illuminated manuscript, French mid fifteenth century (private collection, LondonSpeaker(s): Niamh Bhalla (The Courtauld); Richard Braude (University of Cambridge); Iva Brusic (University of Ljubljana/The Courtauld); Marisa Costa (University of .....
Ticket/entry details: Admission free, all welcome. No booking is necessary
Organised by: Michael Carter and other Medieval postgraduate students
Life in the Middle Ages has traditionally been viewed in Hobbesian terms as nasty, brutish and short. However, more recent scholarship has challenged the notion that medieval men and women were helpless.....read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Moments of Crisis: Photographs of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-16
Monday, 6 February 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): David Low (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
spring 2012 friends lecture series
Art and Psychoanalysis: War in the Time of Peace
The Perpetrator Occult: Francis Bacon Paints Adolf Eichmann
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
‘Adolf Eichmann cleans his cell' (detail). Life Magazine, Life Picture Collection. © Courtesy The LIFE Picture Collection
Speaker(s): Lyndsey Stonebridge (Professor of Literature and Critical Theory, University of East Anglia)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Mignon Nixon
Even though his postwar images of bespectacled men in glass boxes led many to assume he did, Francis Bacon never actually completed a painting of Adolf Eichmann. Yet if Bacon seems an irresistible artist to draw into contemporary discussions about perpetrators and their crimes, this is not simply because of the.....read more
Research seminar: Medieval work-in-progress
Sicut crystallus quando est objecta soli: Rock Crystal Crosses, Transparency and the Franciscan Order in the Later Middle Ages
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Stefania Gerevini (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca and the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florenz - Max Planck Institut)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor John Lowden
formare, deformare, inaugurare / to form, De-form, and inaugurate
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Antonio Negri. Photo courtesy of Antonio Negri.
Speaker(s): Antonio Negri
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission. Now fully booked but please contact researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you wish to be put on the waiting list. Note that it is still possible that there may be places on the day in the event of "no shows"
Organised by: Jacopo Galimberti
N.B. This lecture will be delivered in Italian with accompanying text displayed in English.
In alcuni testi degli anni '50, il filosofo francese Maurice Merleau-Ponty assegna alla creazione artistica una valenza ontologica, e ne qualifica la potenza: si tratta di una .....
In his texts of the 1950s, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty assigns artistic creation an ontological value, while at the same time qualifying its power: the.....read more
three approaches to three dimensions
Three Workshops and a Conference on Sculpture and Change
Rewritten Narratives
10 February 2012
Cancelled due to circumstances beyond the organisers’ control
C. Almsted, Dronning Alexandrine, 1939, wood, brass, other media, approx. 270 x 37 cm, South aisle, Grundtvig’s Church, Copenhagen. Photo: Jim Harris
The histories that have been written concerning three dimensional objects are as various as the objects themselves. But what different kinds of story can be told about sculptures and their contexts in the aftermath of traumatic change, removal, relocation or redisplay? How do the histories of three-dimensional objects, remade on the basis of technical analysis, documentary research and curatorial practice, relate to the creation of new conceptual and social narratives? What new histories are made possible by the opening of new views and and juxtapositions, by the emptying and refilling of space and by tracing the transit of objects across periods and places? .....read more
london roman art seminar 2012
The Polychromy of the ‘Treu’ Head in the British Museum
Monday, 13 February 2012
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford Square / 2 Gower Street with entrance on Montague Place), London WC1E 6DP, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Thorsten Opper (The British Museum)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
London and ‘Contemporary Islamic Art’
Monday, 13 February 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Monia Abdallah (Research Forum / Andrew W Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow 2011-2012, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
can capitalism be pictured?
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Frans Masereel, from the novel 'Die Stadt', 1925 (detail) © Courtesy Dover Publications.
Speaker(s): G. M. Tamás (Senior Research Fellow,The Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Klara Kemp-Welch
In contradistinction to tribal and aristocratic societies, capitalism is not chiefly the rule of persons over persons. Even its self-understanding as 'the rule of law’ points towards its abstract character. Labour is capital. Depicting history and power that is purely conceptual is a problem for both theory and art. So much so, that some came to doubt that either history or power is part of .....read more
faculty seminar
Wise Virgins and Princely Artisans: the Politics of Architecture at the Royal Exchange (1667-72)
Thursday, 16 February 2012
16.00 - 18.00, Research Forum South Room
Detail of 'London in Flames, London in Glory', from Nathaniel Crouch's Historical Remarques and observations of the ... state of London and Westminster (1681)Speaker(s): Dr Christine Stevenson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open only to members of The Courtauld's teaching staff. RSVP by 13 February for catering purposes to researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
donald Judd: Drawing and Fabrication
Friday 17 February
19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Donald Judd, Untitled (detail), 1983, Pencil on yellow paper, 36.8 x 57 cm
Speaker(s): Peter Ballantine (Judd collaborator, fabricator, conservator and curator)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but limited space so advance booking is required - BOOK ONLINE...
Organised by: Dr Jim Harris (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Sprüth Magers
Although known primarily for his minimalist objects, in particular the monumental series installed at the Chinati Foundation, a former military base in Marfa, West Texas, drawing formed an important part of the practice of the seminal American sculptor, Donald Judd.....read more
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Museum Attitudes Towards the Materiality of Ephemeral Art
Monday, 20 February 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Yasmin Amaratunga (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
london seminar for early modern visual culture
Raising the Dead: William Hunter and the Criminal Écorché, 1768-1783
Monday, 20 February 2012
18.00, Seminar Room 6 , Department of Art History, University College London, 20-21 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG
Speaker(s): Meredith Gamer (Yale University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Richard Taws (r.taws@ucl.ac.uk) and Katie Scott (katie.scott@courtauld.ac.uk
This seminar series has been organised jointly by The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and University College London.
spring 2012 friends lecture series
Art and Psychoanalysis: War in the Time of Peace
Dead Subjects Speak: Silvia Kolbowski Presents Her 2010 Video, A few howls again?
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Silvia Kolbowski, video still from A Few Howls Again? 2009-2010. © Courtesy the artist
Speaker(s): Silvia Kolbowski (artist)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Mignon Nixon
A few howls again? re-animates the brilliant and notorious German journalist and political militant, Ulrike Meinhof (1934-1976) in a stop-motion video loop with titles. Using Meinhof's own writings from the late 1960s and contemporaneous and later comments made about and by her, this project raises questions about contemporary state violence and political resistance.....read more
fifty years of war in the time of peace, 1960-2010
Dead Subjects Speak--A Discussion with Silvia Kolbowski About Her 2010 Video, A few howls again?
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
11.00 - 13.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Silvia Kolbowski (artist)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Mignon Nixon and Visiting Professor Juliet Mitchell
This year, the Andrew W Mellon Foundation / Research Forum MA Special Option is Art and Psychoanalysis: Fifty Years of War in the Time of Peace, 1960-2010, co-taught by Mignon Nixon (The Courtauld) and Juliet Mitchell (UCL Psychoanalytic Unit). Please join us for this open seminar with the renowned artist Silvia Kolbowski. The event will be co-chaired by Mignon Nixon and Juliet Mitchell.....read more
Research seminar: history of photography
Bureaucratics and Other Unorderly Subjects
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Jan Banning (photographer)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Julian Stallabrass (julian.stallabrass@courtauld.ac.uk) and Pei-Kuei Tsai (Pei-Kuei.Tsai@courtauld.ac.uk)
Rooted in both art and journalism, Jan Banning’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries and published widely in books, magazines and newspapers. The central theme in his work is state power (and its abuse). Banning has produced series on the long-term consequences of war and the world of government bureaucracy. Recently, he.....read more
london roman art seminar 2012
Marcus Aurelius in Brackley, near Oxford
Monday, 27 February 2012
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford Square / 2 Gower Street with entrance on Montague Place), London WC1E 6DP, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Susan Walker (The Ashmolean Museum)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
'A Document Is Not a Painting': The Curious Case of the Fictitious Artist Hank Herron, Sturtevant, and Narratives of Appropriation
Monday, 27 February 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Elisa Schaar (Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
RIHA Lecture 2012
Liotard (title tbc)
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Dr Hannah Williams (St John's College Oxford)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
Further details to follow...
This is the third annual lecture associated with the RIHA Journal, the Journal of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art, launched in 2010. It represents an ambitious effort to coordinate and support the multiple.....read more
shows of london
Nineteenth-Century Reading Group Meeting:
Reading and Pain
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Ticket/entry details: Open to academic staff and postgraduate students of The Courtauld, King’s College London and other institutions
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott (The Courtauld Institute of Art) with Professor Clare Pettitt and Josephine McDonagh (Kings College London)
Shows of London is an interdepartmental/intercollegiate group studying Victorian Culture that meets regularly to discuss texts on street culture, representation, the Metropolis and associated issues.....read more
Modern and Contemporary
History Means Interpretations, Factually.
Selected Experimental Practices from Eastern Europe, 1960s – 1970s.
Thurday, 1 March 2012
14.00 - 16.00, Research Forum South Room
Stano Filko, Transcendention, 1970- 1976-1978, 1979, Osaka, black and white photo, white paint, 18.3x24.1cm.Speaker(s): Vít Havránek (Director, tranzit.cz, Prague)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Klara Kemp-Welch
One of the major anxieties of artists from Eastern Europe in the seventies and eighties (some of them were already active in the 1960s) was that their practices were developing in a space ‘beyond History’. From today’s point of view, factual History is not absent
– we can reconstruct particular events,
artistic and intellectual relations..... read more
performing art history
Art Despite TV
Thursday, 1 March 2012
18.00 - 20.00, Research Forum South Room
Martin Boyce after winning the Turner Prize, BBC/Channel 4, 2011
Speaker(s): include Alixe Bovey (School of History, University of Kent), Matthew Collings (Independent Broadcaster and Writer), Jack Hartnell (The Courtauld).....
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but limited space so advance booking is required.
BOOK ONLINE....
Building on last year's workshops exploring and critiquing methods of delivering art historical research beyond traditional publishing routes, the group return to the topic of art history and television. In Art Despite TV .....read more
Mondrian, Nicholson and 20th Century Abstraction
Conference
Saturday, 3 March 2012
09.30 - 18.00 , Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 09.00)
Piet Mondrian in his studio, 26 rue du départ, Paris. 1933. Charles Karsten © collection RKD, The HagueSpeaker(s): Ryan Andrews; Lee Beard (The Courtauld Institute of Art); Sophie Bowness; Chris Green (The Courtauld Institute of Art);
Hans Janssen.....
Ticket/entry details: £16 (£11 students, Courtauld staff/students and concessions) ONLINE BOOKING now open!
Organised by: Christopher Green, Barnaby Wright and Lee Beard
to coincide with The Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition, Mondrian || Nicholson: In Parallel (16 February – 20 May).....read more
research forum visiting conservator lecture
Challenges from Afar: A 20-year Overview of Some Getty Conservation Institute projects in China, Africa, and Egypt
Monday, 5 March 2012
18.00 - 19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Conservators using a portable, handheld microscope to examine and photograph the paintings on the burial chamber's west wall of the Tomb of Tutankhamen (detail). Photo: Robert Jensen. Courtesy the Getty Conservation Institute.
Speaker(s): Dr Neville Agnew (Principal Project Specialist, The Getty Conservation Institute)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor David Park
Over more than two decades, The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) has undertaken long-term collaborative projects with partner organizations in many parts of the world. Though often beset by problems of cultural and language difficulties, these have succeeded in the objectives, even while not achieving their full potential. Four projects will be presented in brief; the China.....read more
london seminar for early modern visual culture
Rococo Variations
Monday, 5 March 2012 (date tbc)
18.00, Seminar Room 6 (tbc), Department of Art History, University College London, 20-21 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG
Speaker(s): Satish Padiyar (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Richard Taws (r.taws@ucl.ac.uk) and Katie Scott (katie.scott@courtauld.ac.uk
This seminar series has been organised jointly by The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and University College London.
research forum visiting conservator seminar
A Future for the Valley of the Queens, Luxor?
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
14.00 - 16.00, Research Forum South Room
Tomb of Nefertari, Queens Valley, Egypt. A detailed view of Pillar II in Chamber K (the burial chamber) before final treatment. Here the goddess Isis offers the ankh, the symbol of life, to Nefertari. Photo: Guillermo Aldana. Courtesy the Getty Conservation Institute.
Speaker(s): Drs Neville Agnew and Martha Demas ( The Getty Conservation Institute)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor David Park
Of the hundred tombs in the Queens Valley, only a few—fewer than 10 perhaps—retain sufficiently preserved wall paintings to serve as tourist attractions. Robbery, reuse, flood, rock collapse since antiquity have all wreaked their havoc. Only the most beautiful tomb—that of Queen Nefertari—survived, and has been a magnet for visitors. Yet there is much that remains of significance and offers the possibility for interpretation. For some years The Getty Conservation Institute has been collaborating....read more
spring 2012 friends lecture series
Art and Psychoanalysis: War in the Time of Peace
Charlotte Salomon – Painting Against The Dark
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
17.00 - 18.30 (Note timing), Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Charlotte Salomon, Life? or Theatre? (detail), 1940-42. Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam. © Charlotte Salomon Foundation
Speaker(s): Professor Jacqueline Rose FBA (Professor of English, Queen Mary, University of London)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Mignon Nixon
The German Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon is renowned for her extraordinary work Life? or Theatre? which she created under the shadow of Nazism, in exile in the South of France between 1940 and 1942. The period it covers runs from the First to the Second World War cutting across the years which separate them, presenting a challenge to the seeming lull in the violence.....read more
the 2012 courtauld institute of art postgraduate symposium
title tbc
Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March 2012
timings tbc, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Jocelyn Anderson, Thomas Balfe, Julia Bischoff, Natalia Budanova, Elizaveta Butakova, Mary Camp, Rodrigo Canete, Glynn Davies, Amanda Delorey.....
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Research Forum Postgraduate Advisory Group and PhD students
The 2012 Postgraduate Symposium will bring together third year research students working on art across a range of periods, themes and media. From Moscow to Mexico and cathedrals to artists’ collectives, the symposium will provide a platform for the diverse work carried out by The Courtauld’s doctoral researchers. Papers will be organised.....read more
research forum visiting conservator seminar
Sustainable Visitation at the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China
Thursday, 8 March 2012
16.00 - 18.00, Courtauld Conservation Department
The nine-story pagoda that houses a monumental Tang dynasty Buddha figure. Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China. Courtesy Getty Conservation Institute.Speaker(s): Dr Martha Demas (
Senior Project Specialist,
Getty Conservation Institute) and Dr Neville Agnew (Principal Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but due to space limitations could you please contact Professor.....
Organised by: Professor David Park
At the Mogao Grottoes, a World Heritage site near Dunhuang city in Gansu Province, visitor numbers have been increasing inexorably since 1979 when the site was opened. A national policy that identifies tourism as a pillar industry, concomitant with pressure from..... read more
The 2012 Courtauld Institute of Art Postgraduate Symposium
Showcasing New Research 2012
Thursday 8 March, 10.00 – 18.00
Friday 9 March, 13.00 – 18.00
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
The Hall at the Royal Academy, Somerset House, 1810, etching, ink on paper, hand-coloured with watercolour, 12.5 x 17.5 cm © The Victoria and Albert Museum, London.Speakers(s): Jocelyn Anderson, Tom Balfe, Julia Bischoff...
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: the Research Forum Postgraduate Advisory Group and PhD students
The 2012 Postgraduate Symposium will bring together third year research students working on art across a range of periods, themes and media. From Moscow to Mexico and from cathedrals to artists’ collectives, the symposium will provide a platform for the diverse work carried out by the Courtauld’s doctoral researchers. Papers will be organised into thematic, cross-period sessions..... read more
london roman art seminar 2012
The Economy and Production of Roman Wall-paintings
Monday, 12 March 2012
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford Square / 2 Gower Street with entrance on Montague Place), London WC1E 6DP, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Domenico Esposito (Freie Universität Berlin)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Dream of the Red Chamber: Anish Kapoor and the Institutional Sublime
Monday, 12 March 2012
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Zehra Jumabhoy (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Encyclopedic Museums in the Post-Colonial Present
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
17.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Dr James Cuno (J. Paul Getty Trust)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Deborah Swallow
The concept of the encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of the belief that the spread of knowledge, promotion of intellectual inquiry, and trust in individual agency were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. In recent years, encyclopedic museums have come under attackas relics .....read more
ICMA at the Courtauld lecture series 2011-12
Meadows of Delight: Metaphor and Denial in Byzantine and Western Mediaeval Art
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Kiti, Panagia Angeloktistos, apse mosaic, border (detail). Copyright Henry Maguire.
Speaker(s): Professor Henry Maguire (Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Joanna Cannon
After the eighth century, motifs from nature, such as animals and plants, were more prominently displayed in Western churches than in those of the Byzantines, sometimes even appearing in the principal apses, in direct imitation of early Christian models. In Byzantium, there was a rich literary tradition of constantly repeated verbal and.....read more
london seminar for early modern visual culture
Footprints in Stone: Absence, Presence, Print, from Early Christian to Early Modern Rome and Back
Monday, 19 March 2012
18.00, Seminar Room 6, Department of Art History, University College London, 20-21 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG
Speaker(s): Catherine McCormack (UCL)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Richard Taws (r.taws@ucl.ac.uk) and Katie Scott (katie.scott@courtauld.ac.uk
This seminar series has been organised jointly by The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and University College London.
Gothic Ivory Sculpture: Old Questions, New Directions (Day 2)
Saturday, 24 March 2012
10.15 - 17.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 09.45)
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Entombment (detail from a diptych fragment), French (Paris?), c.1325-1350. Photo: The Courtauld Gallery
Speaker(s): Benedetta Chiesi (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence);
Paula Mae Carns (Illinois University, Urbana-Champaign); Glyn Davies (Victoria and Albert.....
Ticket/entry details: £16 (£11 Courtauld staff/students and concessions) ONLINE BOOKING now open!
Organised by: John Lowden, Catherine Yvard (Courtauld Gothic Ivories Project), Glyn Davies and Paul Williamson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Gothic ivory sculpture, surviving in large numbers in collections around the world, has thus far not received all the attention it deserves. The Gothic Ivories Project, launched on the web in December 2010.....read more
london roman art seminar 2012
In Search of Senators Deceased: Context Matters
Monday, 26 March 2012
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex (11 Bedford Square / 2 Gower Street with entrance on Montague Place), London WC1E 6DP, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Barbara Borg (Exeter University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
Buddhist Art Forum
Wednesday 11 to Saturday 14 April 2012
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Lighting butter lamps before the 16th-century wall paintings of Tamshing Monastery, Bhutan . Photo: Research Project on the Wall Paintings of Bhutan (The Courtauld Institute and the Department of Culture of Bhutan) 2009.Ticket/entry details: Booking is for all four days of the Forum. To book a place: £100 (£75 Courtauld staff/students and concessions). BOOK ONLINE.....
Organised by: David Park and Kuenga Wangmo (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
This Forum will be a major event of an exceptional kind, seeking to address the philosophical issues concerning Buddhism and art in a profound and holistic way. Drawing contributors from widely varied backgrounds from Asia and the rest of the world, the Forum will have four overarching themes dealing with Buddhist art: definition; creation and function; conservation; and its role in..... read more
Future conferences
first annual postgraduate renaissance symposium
Beyond the Frame: Portraits and Personal Experience in Renaissance Europe,
c.1400 – 1650
Call for Papers Deadline:
20 January 2012
Saint Catherine of Bologna with three donors, Master of the Baroncelli (c. 1470-1480) © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Conference to take place:
Saturday 28 April 2012
The Courtauld Institute of Art
In Renaissance art historical scholarship, the category of the portrait has provided a key framework for thinking about and discussing representations of the individual, an emphasis that has been echoed in a range of recent exhibitions celebrating Renaissance ‘faces’.
The inaugural Renaissance postgraduate symposium invites new scholars to explore the limits of this framework. It aims to encourage students of the Renaissance, in its broadest definition, to consider the domestic, devotional and urban environments of portraits.
Contributors are .....read more
three approaches to three dimensions
Three Workshops and a Conference on Sculpture and Change
Call for Papers Deadlines:
20 January 2012 for 10 February 2012 workshop, Rewritten Narratives
1 March 2012 for 11/12 May 2012 conference
C. Almsted, Dronning Alexandrine, 1939, wood, brass, other media, approx. 270 x 37 cm, South aisle, Grundtvig’s Church, Copenhagen. Photo: Jim Harris
Events to take place:
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
The histories that have been written concerning three dimensional objects are as various as the objects themselves. But what different kinds of story can be told about sculptures and their contexts in the aftermath of traumatic change, removal, relocation or redisplay? How do the histories of three-dimensional objects, remade on the basis of technical analysis, documentary research and curatorial practice, relate to the creation of new conceptual and social narratives? What new histories are made possible by the opening of new views and.....read more
Performing Art History II:
Conveying Research, Communicating Collaboration
Call for Papers Deadline:
12 March 2012
Screen-capture of YouTube video, created for Hold Your Horses by L’OgreConference to take place:
Friday, 18 May2012
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Building on a further year of workshops and seminars, the Performing Art History Group present a second conference that seeks to explore the clarity, diversity, and freedom that can come from presenting art historical research directly to an audience, as opposed to through traditional publishing routes in books or journals .....read more
Probing the interior 1800-2012
Call for Papers Deadline:
30 November 2011
Art/Craft © Beccy Ridsdel
Conference to take place:
Friday, 25 May2012
The Courtauld Institute of Art and King's College London
Bodily, psychic and spatial interiors can be mapped, traversed and violated in multiple ways. This one-day conference will interrogate and re-evaluate the contested terrain of the interior in its varied forms. It will examine the interlacing and overlapping of different types of interiors, and seek to re-position the ‘interior’ in critical .....read more
european painted cloths c14th - c21st: Pageantry, ceremony, theatre and domestic interior
Friday 15 June 2012 (time tbc)
Saturday 16 June 2012 (time tbc)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Keynote speakers inlcude: Jo Kirby Atkinson (Scientific Department, National Gallery, London); Roland Krischel (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Germany);
Nicholas Mander (Owlpen Manor, UK); Hilary Vernon Smith (Royal National Theatre, UK)
Ticket/entry details: £65 (£25 Courtauld staff/students and concessions) ONLINE BOOKING now open!
This two day conference will explore the use of painted cloths in religious ceremony, pageantry, domestic interiors and scenic art. It will focus on their change of context and significance from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century exploring their different function, materials, and method of creation
.....read more
contested views: visual culture and the revolutionary and napoleonic wars
Call for Papers Deadline:
16 December 2011
The Third of May 1808, 1814. Goya, Oil on canvas. © Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid - (Spain)Conference to take place:
Thursday 19 and Friday 20 July 2012
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Mary Favret, Gillian Russell, Susan Siegfried, Paul White
In July 2012, in advance of commemoration of the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, Tate Britain is to host a two-day conference exploring the impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on world-wide visual culture, from the outbreak of the pan-European conflict with France in 1792 to the present day
.....read more
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