CFP 02.07.2015

2 Sessions an AAH (Edinburgh, 7-9 Apr 16)

Association of Art Historians, 42nd Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK, April 7-9 2016
Eingabeschluss : 09.11.2015

Claire Jones, University of Birmingham

[1] Sculpture and the Decorative
[2] Roland Penrose - Curating the 20th Century

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[1] Sculpture and the Decorative

Convenors: Claire Jones (Independent), jones.clairegmail.com and Imogen Hart (University of California, Berkeley), imogenhartberkeley.edu

The history of sculpture has largely been written with an emphasis on free-standing, monumental, figurative, single-authored works created by named sculptors, primarily in bronze, marble and plaster. The decorative arts scholarship has been predominantly concerned with works created by named manufacturers, and with the impact of industrialization on craft and related issues around mass production, taste, labour and commerce. Yet cross-fertilisations between sculpture and the decorative have played a vital role in the formal practices and aesthetics of art production, bringing sculptors into contact with diverse makers, materials, techniques, forms, colours, ornament, scales, styles, patrons, audiences and subject matter, to produce composite, multi-material, quasi-functional and multi-authored objects.

This session will explore the decorative as a historically fertile, parallel and contested field of sculptural production. We invite proposals that address the conceptual, visual and material affinities between sculpture and the decorative in any culture or period from the Middle Ages to the present day, and which explore the cross-disciplinary connections between the institutional, biographical, conceptual, material and professional histories of the two fields. Topics might include artistic autonomy and creativity; the fragment and the composite work; figuration and relief; the hierarchy of the arts; copyright and authorship; originality and reproduction; and the languages and histories of making and materials. We also welcome papers that examine sculpture and the decorative in relation to the racialization, nationalization and gendering of the practices of art, craft and manufacturing.

Email paper proposals to the session convenors by 9 November 2015.
Paper Proposal Guidelines are available to download here:
http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2016/session24

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[2] Roland Penrose - Curating the 20th Century

From: Patricia Allmer <patricia.allmered.ac.uk>
Date: Jun 30, 2015

Convenors: Patricia Allmer, The University of Edinburgh, patricia.allmered.ac.uk
Colin Rhodes, The University of Sydney, colin.rhodessydney.edu.au

The curatorial work of Roland Penrose (1900–84) significantly shaped 20th-century British and international art scenes, influencing practices of display and collecting, and profoundly affecting popular Western conceptions of modern art. It also defines connective and collaborative networks that help map configurations of the British avant-garde. Edinburgh is home to the archive and library of this surrealist artist, curator, writer, and collector.

Penrose’s curatorial career began in 1936, when he co-organised, with ELT Mesens, David Gascoyne and Herbert Read, the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, marking Surrealism’s arrival in Britain and the emergence of a radically new British avant-garde. Subsequent curatorships include landmark displays of Picasso’s work in London in 1938, 1951, 1960 and 1967. As major instigator and co-founder of the London Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) he curated post-war exhibitions like 40 Years of Modern Art (1948) and 40,000 Years of Modern Art (1949), and was instrumental in other exhibitions at the ICA and major British and American museums.

Papers are invited which offer theoretical and historical explorations of different dimensions of this varied, complex, and influential work. Some topics for consideration include (but are not limited to) Penrose’s curatorial activity and:

• Surrealism
• curatorial traditions; his use and transformations of them
• Anglo-American exchanges
• subsequent reception of artists he represented
• public and intellectual perceptions of British and international artists and avant-garde groups
• artistic and collecting practices
• intersections with his role as dealer
• the development of the ICA as international benchmark

Email paper propsals to the session convenors by 9 November 2015. Paper Proposal Guidelines are available to download here: http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2016/session23

Quellennachweis:
CFP: 2 Sessions an AAH (Edinburgh, 7-9 Apr 16). In: ArtHist.net, 02.07.2015. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/10662>.

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