A Dialogue of the Arts: The Relationship of Exterior and Interior:
Descriptions of Architecture and Interiors in Literature of Early Modern
Times to the Present

During the earlier conferences in 2010 and 2012, which dealt with
"Descriptions of Architecture in Literature of Early Modern Times to the
Present" respectively "Descriptions of Interior Design in Literature of
Early Modern Times to the Present", the conference of 2014 is devoted to
the relationship of architectural interior and exterior aspects and this
again relying on literature of different languages from Early Modern
Times to the present. The first two conferences have shown us that
literary descriptions of different times and languages witness the time
in which they are written: They are on the one hand an important
contribution for understanding the development of methods, on the other
hand they can disclose new interdisciplinary dialogues. The
presentations and the following publication of the foregoing conference
have shown clearly that literary texts of different genres like prose,
poetry, travelogues, diaries as well as letters and other categories are
door openers not only for new art historian perceptions, but also can
give hints to new methods of our discipline. This means not only the
breaking up of the periodical conception of history of art, but also the
architectural and spatial categories defined by history of art. These
are also the intentions of the third conference, dedicated to the
relation of inside and outside of architecture in literary descriptions.
The contributions have to show how far and how deep literary
descriptions can scrutinize the methods of art history and in which
extent this will be possible. Furthermore, the conference has to show
new perspectives for the discipline, being able to engage and continue
new dialogues for the different shifts of time and genres.


PROGRAM

Thursday, October 23rd
University of Zurich, Raemistrasse 71, KOL-G-217

9:30
Welcome and Introduction
Barbara von Orelli-Messerli and
Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz
Institute of Art History, University of Zurich

Opening Lecture

10:00-10:45
Hubertus Günther, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München and
Fabio Colonnese, Università Sapienza, Roma
Phantastische Treppen, Brücken, Loggen von der Renaissance bis heute

10.45 – 11.00 Coffee and Tea


Panel Chair: Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz

11:00
Orietta Lanzarini, Università degli Studi, Udine
Dialoghi a distanza: I sepolcri romani antichi nelle descrizioni di
Pirro Ligorio e di Sir Richard Colt Hoare

11:45
Julie Piront, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Outside and inside in post-Tridentine female convents: architectural
descriptions in the chronicles of SS. Annunziata

12:30 Lunch


Panel Chair: Sabine Frommel

13:45
Lauren R. Cannady, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz
Inside: The Libertine's Garden. The novellas of Jean-François de Bastide
and Dominique
Vivant Denon

14:30
Alessandro Brodini, Humboldt Stiftung / Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Dentro e fuori i palazzi: le architetture del Rinascimento di Gabriele
d’Annunzio e Maria Bellonci

15:15 Coffee and Tea


Panel Chair: Hubertus Günther

15:30
Sabine Frommel, Sorbonne, Paris
Zwischen aussen und innen: visuelle Beziehungen und Übergänge als
dramatische Mittel im französischen Roman des 19. Jh.

16:15
Açalya Allmer, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
Paranoia and Architecture: Re-reading Franz Kafka’s Der Bau (1923)

Keynote Lecture
October 23rd, 2014
University of Zurich, Raemistrasse 71, KOL-G-217

18:00
Cornelia Jöchner, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Kräftefeld Fassade: Die "öffentliche Wand" in der frühen Neuzeit


Institute of History of Art, Raemistrasse 73, First Floor

19:00 Book Presentation

20:00 Official Dinner


Friday, October 24th
University of Zurich, Raemistrasse 71, KOL-G-217

Panel Chair: Irene Nierhaus

09:00
Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas, Universitat Jaume I., Madrid
Inside out, Outside in: Count Orazio Ferretti’s Canterano of 1699

09:45
Elke Katharina Wittich, Hochschule Fresenius, Hamburg und
Julian Reidy, Thomas-Mann-Archiv ETH Zürich
Raum und Repräsentation in den frühen Romanen Thomas Manns

10:30
Gerhard Fischer, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Architektur als Ort traumatischer Erinnerung und sozial-geschichtlicher
Reflexion: Zu W.G. Sebalds Holocaust-Erzählung Austerlitz

11:15 Coffee and Tea


Panel Chair: Barbara von Orelli-Messerli

11:30
Irene Nierhaus, Universität Bremen und Mariann-Steegmann-Institut.
Kunst&Gender
Zur Porosität der Schwelle. Innen und Aussen in Architektur und
Krimitalliteratur

12:15
Franz Lesák, Technische Universität Wien
Häuser unter Beobachtung: Alain Robbe-Grillets Observationsberichte

13:00 Lunch


Panel Chair: Cornelia Jöchner

14:00
Tobias Zervosen, Technische Universität München
Der Architekt als Literat : Dimensionen der Architektenautobiographie am
Beispiel Richard Neutras

14:45
Vega Tescari, Post-doc fellow SNF (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florenz)
Luigi Ghirri: sulla soglia

15:30
Marijke Denger, Universität Bern
The Room which is another Garden. Architecture and Interiors in Michael
Ondaatje’s The English Patient

16:15 Coffee and Tea

16:30
Anett Werner, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
Visual Space – Interieur-Fantasien an der Schnittstelle von Literatur,
Kunstgeschichte und Film

17:15
Final discussion


Organisation and registration:

Barbara von Orelli-Messerli
PhD., Private Docent
Raemistrasse 73
8006 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel. +41 44 634 28 27
Fax +41 44 634 49 14
E-Mail: barbara.vonorellikhist.uzh.ch