Call for Papers

Viennese Art Historiography 1854-1938
University of Glasgow, 1-4 October 2009

There will be a colloquium on the theme of Viennese Art Historiography
1854-1938, to take place at the University of Glasgow between Thursday
1st October and Sunday 4th October 2009. It will initiate the
formation of a research network and a further series of colloquia, a
conference and publications on that topic. It will focus on art
historical scholarship in Vienna from its foundations to the closure
of the two Institutes of Art History and new leadership by Hans
Sedlmayr in 1936. It will also analyse the reception of the art
historians work and the broad context of the relations between the
historians, the museums and contemporary artistic practices and issues.

The key speakers, sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum, will be
Hans Aurenhammer (recently University of Vienna and now University of
Frankfurt), on his forthcoming book on Max Dvorak, Dorothea McEwen
(Warburg Institute, London), on The Vienna School and the Warburg
Institute, and Karl Johns (Los Angeles, Ariadne Press), on Julius von
Schlosser.

Proposals for papers will be very welcome as will be expressions of
interest in joining the research network. Prof. Richard Woodfield,
would be happy to take enquiries and receive proposals at
r.woodfieldarthist.arts.gla.ac.uk
.

Prof. Woodfield is currently constructing a bid to the Arts and
Humanities Research Council for funding to support a research network.
A major conference will be planned for Glasgow in 2011. There will be
further interim colloquia in the event of the bids success. Scholars
who would be unable to attend the event in Glasgow in October 2009 are
still very welcome to express an interest in joining the network to
engage in its future activities.