The Production of Ornament
Reassessing the Decorative in History and Practice

A two-day conference at the University of Leeds, 21-22 March 2014,
Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation


PROGRAM

Friday 21 March 2014

10:00 - 10:45 Coffee/tea and registration

10:45 – 11:00
Richard Checketts and Lara Eggleton, University of Leeds
Welcome and Introduction

11:00 – 11:40
Emma Sidgwick, Research Unit of Art History, University of Leuven
'Late Antique Strigillation: The Abstract Iconography and Embodied
Mediation of a Holy Productive Power'

11:40 – 12:20
Catherine E. Karkov, University of Leeds
'Entanglement, Enchantment, Stone: The Materiality of Ornament in
Tenth-Century Leeds'

12:20 – 13:00
Carol Bier, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA/ The Textile Museum,
Washington DC
'Is Ornament Ornamental? Geometry Made Manifest in Islamic Architecture'

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:10
Soersha Dyon, Independent Scholar
'Unravelling the Arabesque'

15:10 – 15:50
Jason Nguyen, Harvard University/ Institut national d'histoire de l'art,
Paris
'Communauté ornament: Law and Labour in Late Seventeenth-Century Paris'

15:50 – 16:30 Coffee/tea break

16:30 – 17:45
Keynote paper 1
Alina Payne, Harvard University


Saturday 22 March 2014

10:00-11:15
Keynote paper 2
Susanne Kuechler, UCL
'The Quest for Affinity: The Ornament in Perspective'

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee/tea

11:30 – 12:10
Todd P. Olson, University of California, Berkeley
'Sticky Figures: Reconciling Pattern and Mimesis in Early Modern Prints'

12:10 – 12:50
Elizabeth Athens, Yale University
'Monstrosity, Ornament, Ecology: William Hogarth's Natural Knowledge'

12:50 – 1:30
Frances S. Connelly, University of Missouri-Kansas City
'Rogue Ornament or Poetic Monster: Giambattista Vico and the Ornamental
Grotesque'

1:30 – 2:30 Lunch

2:30 – 3:10
Sabrina Rahman, Northumbria University
'The Politics of Ornament: Historiographical and Ethnological Practices
of the Austrian Werkbund'

3:10 – 3:50
Mark Crinson, University of Manchester
'The Ornamented Ceiling in New Brutalism'

3:50 – 5:00
Closing remarks and discussion

5:00 – 6:00 Drinks reception


Tickets cost £15/£8, and include lunches and refreshments (for more
details visit productionofornament.wordpress.com). To book a place email
Dr Richard Checketts and Dr Lara Eggleton at
production.of.ornamentgmail.com by Friday the 28th of February.