Book Roundup: Recent Publications on Medieval Art in English, French and Italian

lire les objets.jpgLire les objets médiévaux

Quand les choses font signe et sens

Ce livre prend le « parti-pris des choses », à la confluence de l’histoire, l’histoire de l’art, |’archéologie, l’anthropologie et la philosophie en interrogeant les spécificités de l’objet au Moyen Âge en littérature. Pas encore doté d’une autonomie matérielle propre, l’objet médiéval, carrefour herméneutique, fonctionne comme signe d’une grande plasticité, apte à référer à autre chose qu’à lui-même, à assurer un rôle médiateur et une fonction identitaire ou transactionnelle. Il nécessite donc de prendre en considération son rapport avec le sujet.

Informations pratiques :
Fabienne Pomel (dir.), Lire les objets médiévaux. Quand les choses font signe et sens, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2017 (Interférences). Format : 15,5 x 21 cm. Nombre de pages : 320 p. Illustrations : N & B. ISBN : 978-2-7535-5309-5. Prix : 22,00 €.

 

flemish primitives.jpgThe Century of the Flemish Primitives : Late Medieval Art in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp
Author: Vandenbroeck, Paul
Price: $42.50
ISBN: 9789085867272
Record created on 03/04/2016
Description: Schoten: BAI, 2016. 23cm., hardcover, 144pp. illus. English translation of 2014 edition.

Summary: At 152 paintings, the collection of ‘Flemish Primitives’ held by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is the largest in Flanders. This publication gives an overview from ‘pre-Eyckian’ painting to some of the highpoints of late medieval art from beyond the Low Countries. Works discussed include altarpieces, secular art, pieces by women religious, Flemish artists elsewhere in Europe, as well as sculpture. Besides the religious views that framed thought, the art of painting is contextualized in a wider perspective on art itself.

restauro-petronio-254x330.jpgMARIA CRISTINA IMPROTA. Il restauro dei portali di San Petronio a Bologna. Studi e approfondimenti, Edifir, 2016, 232 p.
ISBN: 978-8879707442

El presente volumen está dedicado a la presentación del complejo proyecto de conservación y restauración -a nivel de diagnóstico en una fase preliminar- para la caracterización de los materiales constituyentes y para el estudio del estado de conservación de estos materiales en la fachada de la basílica de San Petronio en Bolonia, llevado a cabo por el Opificio delle Pietre Dure.

El O.P.D. ha efectuado la intervención de la restauración de los tres portales de la fachada de San Petronio (la portada central o Porta Magna de Jacopo della Quercia, y las dos portadas laterales, diseñadas por Ercole Seccadenari entre 1524 y 1530) en sólo tres años, afrontando las espinosas problemáticas típicas de las esculturas al aire libre en condiciones severas de conservación.

Se ha aplicado un protocolo de intervención absolutamente innovador que ha permitido obtener resultados ampliamente satisfactorios.

fondi-medioevo-242x330MARIO D’ONOFRIO, MANUELA GIANANDREA (dir.), Fondi nel Medioevo, Gangemi, 2016, 351 p.
ISBN: 978-8849233384

Este volumen contiene las actas de la conferencia internacional celebrada en Fondi en octubre de 2013, un congreso que tenía como objetivo principal dar a conocer los extraordinarios tesoros histórico-artísticos de la época medieval aparecidos durante los últimos quince años en la ciudad de Fondi y su territorio, gracias a una campaña sostenida de restauraciones y de mejoras.

Entre los monumentos y obras redescubiertas y restauradas figuran el monasterio de San Magno, el complejo de San Domenico, la iglesia de San Tommaso d’Aquino, las pinturas del Palazzo Caetani, el complejo arqueológico medieval de Casale Mosillo y los fragmentos pictóricos de Suio.

Además de la importancia evidente y obvia del propio descubrimiento, la mayor parte de las obras dadas a conocer permiten ilustrar un prolongado período de la historia artística de Fondi -desde la Alta Edad Media hasta inicios del siglo XIV- que hasta ahora se mantenía parcialmente en la sombra en favor de la etapa del Renacimiento tardío.

Los nuevos hallazgos permiten ahora poner de manifiesto también un “otro Fondi”, revelando un panorama rico y articulado, vinculado por su naturaleza a la producción artística de la histórica Terra di Lavoro, así como también abierto a la región Marittima medieval, o incluso a Roma.

Fondi, por lo tanto, se revela en estos siglos como un centro cultural entre la Urbe y el Regnum, pasando a formar parte de la relación problemática entre “centro” y “periferia”, que hasta bien entrado el siglo XIII estrechó Roma y Montecassino a su entorno.

CFP: Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference (Ghent, 24-26 May 2018)

Peter Bruegel the Elder, detail of Children's Games, 1560
Peter Bruegel the Elder, detail of Children’s Games, 1560

Ghent, HNA Conference
Deadline: May 15, 2017

Calls for papers:

[1] Bruegel’s Politics
[2] Utensils in Art: The Object as an Artist’s Model and the Domestic Utensil as Decorative Arts

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CFP: Singular Acts (London, 16 Nov 17)

The Warburg Institute LibraryLondon, The Warburg Institute, November 16, 2017
Deadline: May 31, 2017

Singular Acts: The Role of the Individual in the Transformation of Collective Culture

The Warburg Institute will host its second Postgraduate Symposium on 16 November 2017. This year’s Symposium focuses on particular personalities who acted for or against historical and cultural change.

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CFP: Defense(less) city – Revista de Historia da Arte next issue

Revista de Historia da ArteDeadline: Apr 30, 2017

DEFENSE(LESS) CITY will be the special subject of next issue of the Revista de História da Arte from IHA-FCSH-NOVA.

The city is, by definition, alterity, difference. It is the human accomplishment par excellence, standing out from nature, isolating itself from it. The presumption of defense is inherent to the very idea of the urban. The rite of the city’s birth implies first tracing its symbolic defense precincts, followed by the effective building of its walls. In the Middle Ages, the very definition of a city requires a wall. But it is in Early Modernity that speculation about the city’s defenses reaches its zenith. Defenses are theorized in treatises and tested in fortifications. Throughout the Early Modern period, war becomes an exercise of extreme defense, of siege resistance. Until the time comes for the absolute inoperability of any kind of city walls. The Contemporary city stands literally fuori mura. And yet, cosmopolitan urbanity, supposedly open, is also potentially closed.

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CFP: Art and its Directions (Perth, 6-8 Dec 17)

logo-AAANZ-Con-20175b35dPerth, University of Western Australia, December 6 – 08, 2017
Deadline: May 22, 2017

The Conference Committee would like to invite proposals for panel sessions for the AAANZ 2017 Conference in Perth.

The deadline for session proposals is COB Monday 22 May 2017. Please see the submission instructions below. All enquiries to conf@aaanz.info.

CONFERENCE THEME | ART AND ITS DIRECTIONS

This year’s conference theme Art and its Directions is broadly conceived against the backdrop of debates relating to national sovereignty and globalisation. Rather than purely a focus on politically based art in this context, we turn to the question of
directions in art, where directions refer both to geography and chronology. The aim is to investigate artistic production and exchange in relation to the geographical, conceptual and imaginative relationships between north, south, east and west, so as to encompass
discussion of transnational and global art histories; and the binaries of centre and periphery, modern and traditional. The theme takes account of the conference location in Western Australia – ranging from perceptions of the west to its distinct collections, and history.

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Lecture Series: Ringvorlesung: Kunst und Technik (Berlin, May-Jul 17)

Palazzo Massimo Istoriato, a fading palace facade in Rome by Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino da Firenze, 1523.
Palazzo Massimo Istoriato: a fading palace facade in Rome by Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino da Firenze, 1523.

Berlin, Technische Universität, 03.05. – 05.07.2017

Oberflächlichkeiten. Bedeutung, Material, Technologie und Erhaltung
historischer Architekturoberflächen
Vortragsreihe im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung Kunst und Technik

Konzeption und Organisation: Andreas Huth

Die äußere Erscheinung und die Wirkung von Architektur werden nicht nur vom verwendeten Material, sondern auch von dessen Be- und Verarbeitung bestimmt: Die Gestaltung der Oberfläche kann das Material der konstruktiven wie der schmückenden Glieder eines Baus herausstellen und mit Bedeutung aufladen, es vergessen lassen oder verdecken. Die im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung stattfindenden Vorträge führen in zum Teil wenig beachtete historische Techniken, ihre Ausführung, Materialien und Werkzeuge ein und vertiefen anhand konkreter Objekte Fragen der Funktion und Bedeutung der Oberflächengestaltung in der Architektur allgemein. Hierbei finden notwendigerweise auch Aspekte der Konservierung und Restaurierung Berücksichtigung, denn die Architekturoberfläche gehört als Kontaktzone zum Außenraum zu den sensibelsten Bereichen eines Bauwerk.

 

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Revisiting the Transcultural Paradigm in Art History (Berlin, 19-20 May 17)

Freie Universität Berlin HolzlaubeBerlin, Freie Universität, May 19 – 20, 2017

Revisiting the Transcultural Paradigm in Art and Art History

Over the last six years, the Research Unit “Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art“ has analysed the production of art and its discourses in transcultural contexts brought about by trade, travel, migration, or globalization. The research group served as a framework for projects which share aspects of approach and methodology, but differ in their regional and historical focus.
One of our central concerns was that “transcultural” should not be understood and employed as a descriptive term, as this results in an essentialist view of objects and cultural diversity. We addressed this by focusing on processes of negotiation in situations of contact which include works of art or artefacts as well as agents. As mediators or as the object of negotiations, works of art form part of the negotiation process. The paradigms translation, mobility, and decentering proved particularly fruitful with regard to this process-oriented approach. These models will be discussed with recourse to concrete case studies in the three respective panels of our final conference.

Veranstaltungsort: Freie Universität Berlin, “Holzlaube”, Fabeckstraße 23–25, 14195 Berlin, room 2.2058/2.2059

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Conference: Towards an Art History of the Parish Church, 1200-1399, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2-3 June 2017

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art

Organised by:

  • Dr James Alexander Cameron: The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Meg Bernstein: University of California, Los Angeles / The Courtauld Institute Kress Fellow, 2015-2017

Ticket / entry details:

  • £26 (general admission to both days) £16 (students and over-60s)
  • Limited free places available for current Courtauld students (booking required)
  • Book now via Eventbrite: http://taahotpc.eventbrite.co.uk
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CFP: Tardogótico Conference, 15 de maio de 2017

Westminster Abbey's architectural treasures – in picturesSão aceites propostas de comunicação/póster no âmbito das áreas temáticas definidas para o congresso e sobre matérias correlacionadas com as mesmas. Os interessados deverão enviar um resumo, numa das seguintes línguas: português, espanhol, inglês, italiano ou francês (máximo de 300 palavras), incluindo o título, acompanhado de uma breve nota curricular (máximo de 200 palavras) e de cinco palavras-chave.

As propostas devem ser enviadas para o email:
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CFP: Association for Art History Annual Conference 2018 (London, 5-7 Apr 2018), deadline 1 May 2017

London, The Courtauld Institute of Art and King’s College London
Deadline: May 1, 2017

Association for Art History Annual Conference 2018, Call for Sessions

‘LOOK OUT!’ is the theme of the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference , co-hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art and King’s College London, from April 5 – April 7 2018.

•    Incorporating a whole range of outlooks – of educators, curators and heritage partners, of university and other teachers and researchers in art history and other disciplines, and of artists themselves.
•    Challenging you to think about art history’s global reach and connections with other affiliated subjects in the arts, humanities and sciences.
•    Inviting new perspectives on international collaborations within the field in the context of current political events.
•    Encompassing examination of the histories and futures of art historical practices, and the opportunities and challenges of broader political and public engagement.
•    Other creative and innovative ways of interpreting the theme are enthusiastically encouraged!

We aim to include contributions from those engaged in all aspects of research involving art history and visual culture.

DEADLINE for academic and alternative session proposals: May 1st 2017
to aahsessions2018@gmail.com