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Wed 11 Dec, 2019 Medieval and Renaissance, Research Forum
‘God is as he appears in the image. But the image is not God’: ...
Speaker: Professor Antony Eastmond
An unusual mosaic in the church of San Marco Venice questions the nature and status of images in the doge’s church. This lecture will consider the image in the context of the church and the…
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Fri 13 Dec, 2019 Medieval and Renaissance, Research Forum
Henry III and Becket
Speaker: Professor David Carpenter
Professor David Carpenter will examine the political circumstances of the translation of St Thomas Becket to a new shrine in Canterbury Cathedral in July 2020. Carefully staged by Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, the translation…
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Tue 14 Jan, 2020 - Tue 17 Mar, 2020 Art History Short Courses
Showcasing Art History: Art and Society in Renaissance Florence
Speakers Include Dr Scott Nethersole
The art of Renaissance Florence is often held up as one of the high-water marks of western culture. In this course, we will judge the veracity of this statement, by examining the art produced in…
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Mon 20 Jan, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Vision and Value: Cotton and the Materiality of Race
Speaker: Anna Arabindan-Kesson
This talk examines the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of the black body in American culture, using historical case studies and contemporary art. Juxtaposing contemporary interventions with historical moments, it examines…
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Wed 22 Jan, 2020 Friends
Friends event: In collaboration with members of The Orchestra o...
Speakers include: Charlotte De Mille, Ketty Gottardo
The Courtauld Friends are warmly invited to join the Patrons of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to a Recital, a visit to the Objects Room looking at prints and a drinks reception. The…
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Thu 23 Jan, 2020 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum
Poe, Printmaking, and Intellectual Property
Speaker: Prof. Andrei Pop
Andrei Pop brings together two of the peculiarities of French avant-garde art in the late 19th century: its nostalgic embrace of the American romantic Edgar Allan Poe and of the “dark and stormy” aesthetic of…
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Mon 27 Jan, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Conflict Objects, Restitution and the Future of Art History
Speaker: JoAnne Mancini
This presentation will consider two episodes in the history of empire, the history of war, and the history of art: the 1762 British campaign against Manila, which was attended by both widespread looting and the…
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Thu 30 Jan, 2020 Research Forum, Research Seminars, Word and Image
‘Immediate Writing: Pavel Büchler and the untimely use of...
Speaker: Nick Thurston
Pavel Büchler’s formal training, first as a print student at the School of Graphic Arts (1970-72) and later as a typography student at the Institute of Applied Arts (1973-76), and the circumstances in then-communist Prague…
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Mon 3 Feb, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
The Future is a Rectangle: Modernist University Architecture an...
Speaker: Joshua Shannon
International Style modernist architecture, together with many of its major practitioners, arrived in the United States after World War II. It famously took form in corporate office buildings and public housing projects by the mid-1950s.…
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Fri 7 Feb, 2020 Conference, Medieval and Renaissance, Research Forum
Working Materials and Materials at Work in Medieval Art and Arc...
Hosted by Dr Tom Nickson
Materials mattered in the Middle Ages. Only with the right materials could artists produce works of art of the highest quality, from jewel-encrusted crosses, gilded and enamelled chalices and ivory plaques to large-scale tapestries, wooden…
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Mon 24 Feb, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Erotic Art and Feminism in the 1960s
Speaker: Rachel Middleman
In 1960s New York, erotic art was a broad, popular category that included everything from Pop art to abstract sculpture. The elasticity of the term “erotic” created a space in which women, later associated with…
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Tue 25 Feb, 2020 Artist's talk, Courtauld Contemporary, Research Forum
Esther Shalev-Gerz: Between ‘The Shadow’ and ̵...
Speaker: Esther Shalev-Gerz
How does landscape’s history mutate our vision? How can we place the legacy of the past in the present and create new forms of memorial? How can the contemporaneity of the witnesses’ words be made…
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Mon 2 Mar, 2020 Documenting Fashion, Research Forum
Fashion Illustration Masterclass with Tina Berning
Speaker: Tina Berning
Gray M.C.A in partnership with The Courtauld Institute of Art London is proud to present a series of Fashion Illustration Masterclasses – each hosted by a leading illustrator. In each session you will hear how…
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Tue 10 Mar, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Facture Wars: The expanded field of American art in the 1940s
Speaker: Angela Miller
What’s in a brushstroke made with quick-drying tempera? Or in a can of industrial paint deftly poured out on the canvas? What deeper forms of embodiment, what attitudes to history, to formal transmission, and self-expression…
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Thu 12 Mar, 2020 Research Forum, Sculptural Processes Group
Analía Saban in conversation with Jo Applin and Pia Gottschaller
Speaker: Analía Saban
Annual Artist’s Talk by Sculptural Processes Group Analía Saban is a contemporary conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. She rethinks traditional media such as painting, sculpture and drawing in the context of scientific and technological…
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Wed 18 Mar, 2020 International Center of Medieval Art at The Courtauld, Research Forum
“Scripture Transformed in Late Medieval England: The Rel...
Speaker: Kathryn A. Smith
My talk brings together my early and more recent research on the manuscript that I call the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France MS fr. 1) — the most complete surviving witness and sole…
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Wed 25 Mar, 2020 Lecture, Research Forum
A Greek Lady from Persepolis: A statue of Penelope and her Roma...
Speaker: Prof. Salvatore Settis
Rumble Fund Lecture in Classical Art 2020, presented by the Centre of Hellenic Studies and the Department of Classics (King’s College London) in collaboration with The Courtauld Institute of Art and The Institute of Classical…
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Mon 27 Apr, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
“Not so much a line as a star” Donald Judd in The Low Countries...
Speaker: Wouter Davidts
Donald Judd’s rising reputation and fame in the United States in the second half of the 1960s, epitomized by his ground-breaking show at the Green Gallery in New York in 1963-64 and the widely acclaimed…
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Fri 1 May, 2020 - Sat 2 May, 2020 Call for Papers, Conference, Research Forum
Crossing Borders; Constructing Canons: Post-Impressionism in Br...
CALL FOR PAPERS “Post-Impressionism,” a term invented and used by Roger Fry in the exhibition he organized in London in 1910, became a deeply influential critical and historical construct that was (and sometimes is still)…
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Wed 13 May, 2020 Medieval and Renaissance, Research Forum
Art, Architecture and Reputation Management in Medieval England
Speaker: Dr Laura Slater
One’s good name or fama was of great importance in medieval society. Medievalists have long recognised that spin, smear and other ‘public relations’ strategies were practised as keenly and carefully in pre-modern politics as they…
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Fri 15 May, 2020 - Sat 16 May, 2020 Call for Papers, Conference, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
The 1940s in Focus: American Art during the Decade of Transition
CALL FOR PAPERS The concept for this conference is motivated by a singular assumption—that the 1940s was one of the most significant decades in the history of the United States and that it dramatically transformed…
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Thu 28 May, 2020 - Fri 29 May, 2020 Call for Papers, Conference, Medieval and Renaissance, Research Forum
Travelling Objects, Travelling People: Art and Artists of Late ...
Hosted by Dr Tom Nickson
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline – Friday 10 January 2020 Travelling Objects, Travelling People aims to nuance our understanding of the exchanges and influences that shaped the artistic landscape of Medieval and Renaissance Iberia. Traditional narratives…
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Fri 5 Jun, 2020 Conference, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
Jay DeFeo: A Symposium
From the 1950s the avant-garde artist Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was a member of a vibrant bohemian community of artists, musicians, poets and writers based in San Francisco. Best known today for her magisterial painting titled The…
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Fri 19 Jun, 2020 - Sat 20 Jun, 2020 Call for Papers, Conference, Research Forum
Prints in their Place: New research on printed images in their ...
We solicit papers that address printed images in relation to their early modern and modern contexts in the broadest sense. We hope to include papers that cover the full span of the history of prints,…
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Fri 26 Jun, 2020 - Sat 27 Jun, 2020 Call for Papers, Conference, Research Forum
Art History in Climate Change
CALL FOR PAPERS Art History in Climate Change Historians of art and visual culture, artists, and activists are warmly invited to submit proposals for papers and presentations at this summer conference. What are the stakes…