CONF 29.10.2016

Artists' Writings on Materials and Techniques (Dallas, 24-25 Feb 17)

The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History, 24.–25.02.2017

Sarah Kozlowski

ARTISTS WRITINGS ON MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES
The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History
February 24-25, 2017

In writings ranging from journals and letters to workshop manuals, autobiographies, and poems, visual artists turn to text to describe the materials and techniques of their practice. Cennino Cennini instructed young painters in grinding pigments and preparing wooden panels in a vernacular manual that is also a nascent history and theory of Renaissance art. Jacopo Pontormo logged the day’s work along with his meals and his various physical complaints, and Benvenuto Cellini dramatized the casting of his bronze Perseus. Michelangelo’s Sonnet 5 is a wry lament about the torments of painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel: “...the brush that is always above my face, by dribbling down, makes it an ornate pavement.” Eugène Delacroix kept dozens of journals over the course of forty years, many of them bringing together text and sketches. And in three published journals Anne Truitt wrote to understand her work as a sculptor and as a mother.

This symposium brings together art historians, curators, and conservators to explore artists’ writings about materials and techniques. The aim of the symposium is twofold: first, to define and explore the range of artists’ texts that treat working practices, and by extension to understand the relationships between artists’ textual and visual practices; and second, to ask how these writings inform our work as scholars, curators, and conservators. Convened by the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History with the participation of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center, the symposium will take place over the course of two days in February 2017.

FRIDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2017 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

McDermott Suite (McDermott Library, fourth floor)
9:00 a.m. — 9:30 a.m.
Coffee/tea for participants and attendees
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9:30 a.m. — 10:00 a.m.
Welcome from Rick Brettell, Founding Director, The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History
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10:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m.
Anna Lovatt (Southern Methodist University)
“I will myself be ultramarine”: Identity and Materiality in Anne Truitt’s Writings
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10:30 a.m. — 11:00 a.m.
Leigh Arnold (Nasher Sculpture Center)
Conveying a Sense of Place: Nancy Holt’s Writings on Site-Specific Works
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11:00 a.m. — 11:30 a.m.
Elpida Vouitsis (O’Donnell Institute)
The Resourceful Paul Gauguin
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11:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.
Paul Galvez (O’Donnell Institute)
Conversations with Courbet
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The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History (ATEC 2.800)
12:00 p.m. — 1:45 p.m.
Lunch for participants and attendees at the O’Donnell Institute
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McDermott Suite (McDermott Library, fourth floor)
2:00 p.m. — 2:30 p.m.
Amy Freund (Southern Methodist University)
Lifelike: Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s Writings on Painting and Color
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2:30 p.m. — 3:00 p.m.
Mark Rosen (O’Donnell Institute)
Airopaidia: The Balloonist as Viewer, Surveyor, and Artist
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3:00 p.m. — 3:30 p.m.
Sarah Kozlowski (O’Donnell Institute)
Piero: painter, writer
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4:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m.
Keynote Lecture
Michael Cole (Columbia University)
Techniques of Writing
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5:00 p.m. — 6:00 p.m.
Reception for participants and attendees
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The Wilcox Space, 824 Exposition Boulevard #9
By Invitation
7:30 p.m.
Dinner for participants at The Wilcox Space
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SATURDAY, 25 FEBRUARY 2017 IN THE ARTS DISTRICT

The Dallas Museum of Art, Conservation Studio and Founders Room
By invitation
10:00 a.m.
Arrival at Ross Avenue entrance
Coffee/tea and pastries
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10:30 a.m.
Roundtable conversation on artists’ writings and conservation practice, with contributions from Carol Mancusi-Ungaro (The Whitney) and Mareika Opena (Contemporary Conservation Ltd.), and with the participation of Mark Leonard (DMA), Fran Baas (DMA), and Laura Hartman (DMA)
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The Nasher Sculpture Center
Lunch and roundtable by invitation; keynote lecture and reception open to the public

12:30 p.m.
Lunch for participants
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1:30 p.m.
Presentation and roundtable conversation with Catherine Craft (Nasher)
The Process of Translation / The Translation of Process: Questions raised by the works of Jean Arp
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3:00 p.m.
Keynote Lecture
James Meyer (Dia Art Foundation)
The Sign Painter
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4:00 p.m.
Reception for participants and attendees
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Learn more and RSVP at http://www.utdallas.edu/arthistory/programs/materials-and-techniques/index.html

The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History
The University of Texas at Dallas
800 West Campbell Road, ATC 11
Richardson, Texas 75080
www.utdallas.edu/arthistory
Telephone: 972 883 2475
Fax: 972 883 2466

Quellennachweis:
CONF: Artists' Writings on Materials and Techniques (Dallas, 24-25 Feb 17). In: ArtHist.net, 29.10.2016. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/14080>.

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