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Call for Papers and Articles
Conferences
Call for Papers
Questions of Ornaments (15th-18th Century): Painting and Graphic Arts
Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, February 4-5, 2011.
Often considered as a matter of embellishment, as redundant and useless additions, even as fallacious and deceptive, ornaments have for a long time been repressed. Banished outside the field of fine arts, its history has often been dissociated from the history of art.
Enjoying in past years a renewed interest, ornament seems today as a surprisingly complex phenomenon which maintains an intimate and particular relationship with each of the fine arts. Next to its esthetical role, recent studies emphasized the symbolic, anthropologic, political and socio-economical functions assumed by ornaments. Moreover, far to be only a style or a simple embellishment, ornaments seems to offer nowadays a new exploring field, allowing revisiting our current perception of art’s hierarchy. To escape from a conception conveyed in ornament grammars – a conception which consists of thinking ornaments in terms of “motifs” or isolated patterns linked or added to a support – recent studies use neologisms, such as Ornamentality or Ornance. These terms highlight the structural function of ornament, prone to cross all artistic genres and implicating a match between the ornament and its support, in an action of reciprocity.
Taking into account this renewed interest for the study of ornament, the objective of this series of conferences, inaugurated in December 2009, is to take stock of the actual state of the arts, as well as to open new perspectives for research. More particularly, the objective is to engage in a theoretical and methodological reflection, fed by particular case studies, on the questions of epistemological and historiographical nature.
In continuity of the first conference, which focused on ornament and its link to architecture (http://gemca.fltr.ucl.ac.be/docs/program/20091204_ornement.pdf), the second conference will be dedicated to its links to paintings and graphic arts.
In a matter of keeping a methodological coherence, the same time frame will be maintained.
Meaning that this second conference will focus on the period 15th-18th century, during which a discussion on ornaments slowly started, as well as practices, taking a different orientation at the begin of the 18th century.
Through the numerous topics that this field can offer, we suggest a couple of non exhaustive directions :
□ Conception of the ornament considering the art theory
□ Ornament between abstraction and representation, stylization and realism
□ Ornament between utility and gratuity
□ Illusionist ornament: from front to “trompe l’oeil”
□ Ornament as esthetical treatment of image
□ Origin of the motives and relations between art and nature
□ Ornament and imitation
□ Ornament, support and context
□ Ornament and concept of décor, decorative and design
□ Ornament and social role
Each paper, of about thirty minutes, will provide a methodological and theoretical support. It should allow to take stock on questions linked to the definition and status of ornament in the early modern age.
Title and paper proposals have to be sent by September 1, 2010 latest, via email (Word document in attachment) to Caroline Heering: caroline.heering@uclouvain.be
Ralph Dekoninck
Michel Lefftz
Caroline Heering
Call for Articles
Journals
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA)
The Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (www.jhna.org) announces the submission deadline for its sixth issue, summer 2011.
Please consult the journal’s Submission Guidelines at www.jhna.org/index.php/submissions
JHNA is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published twice per year. Articles focus on art produced in the Netherlands (north and south) during the early modern period (c. 1400-c.1750), and in other countries and later periods as they relate to this earlier art. This includes studies of painting, sculpture, graphic arts, tapestry, architecture, and decoration, from the perspectives of art history, art conservation, museum studies, historiography, technical studies, and collecting history. Book and exhibition reviews, however, will continue to be published in the HNA Newsletter.
The deadline for submission of articles for Issue 3: 1 is March 1 , 2011.
Alison M. Kettering, Editor-in-Chief
Molly Faries, Associate Editor
Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Associate Editor
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Netherlandish Yearbook for History of Art (NKJ) 62
Meaning in Materials
Materials carry meaning and influence how form, style and representation take shape in works of art. Meaning is created through the choice of a certain material and the characteristics of materials that shape creative processes and direct certain formal and iconographical decisions. This is true not only for precious, rare, or unusual materials addressed in the study of Materialikonographie, but also for the common materials of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the applied arts.
Despite the importance of materials to the history of art, there exists only a small body of research considering their meaning. The reason might lie in the marginalizing stance art theory has adopted towards materials. Theories of artistic creation foreground how ideas and designs originate in the mind of the artist while materials are considered mere passive stuff. Although artists and craftsmen were probably always aware that the hierarchy of mind before matter and design before execution does not do justice to real practice, this model has proven persistent when it comes to theoretical explorations of art making.
Initially, the instalment of the superiority of idea or disegno was a manoeuvre to emancipate the visual arts from the realm of craftsmanship. This however came at the cost of hiding material procedures and technical skills from view and consequently, from theoretical reflection. In the effort to turn art history from an applied science into an academic discipline, art historians would repeat this manoeuvre, apparent for example in Alois Riegl's dismissal of Gottfried Semper's analysis of materials and techniques in favour of an abstract Kunstwollen, in which materials and making had no predominant influence on form or style.
Today, although art historians know a lot about materials and employ this knowledge in theoretical analysis, art history still has no consistent theory of material practice. Only recently have scholars started to uncover the steady undercurrent of material agency and to turn implicit knowledge of materials and practice into explicit theoretical approaches. Technical art history, for instance, has furthered understanding of studio practice and the procedures of art making; provided insights into both the design process and matters of style; and prompted a rethinking of relations between practice and theory. Likewise, the study of material culture and the history of science and technology, drawing on methods of history, anthropology, and sociology, has generated results and knowledge that are transforming the way art history looks at the role materials play in the interpretation of art works.
For this volume, we seek proposals that join these approaches to examine the meaning in materials in Netherlandish art and craft from the medieval and early modern period up to the nineteenth century.
Possible topics:
1. impact of materials on production, use, and decay of art objects
2. relation between materials and certain motifs, iconographies, and styles
3. worth, spread, status, and imitation of materials
4. availability and transport of materials (certain pigments, stones, types of wood) and resulting geographical, cultural, and political uses of materials (e.g. monochrome sculpture, architectural ornaments, facades)
5. dissemination of material knowledge and spread of material-related technologies in text and image (e.g. Nova Reperta, manuals, recipes)
6. 'travel' and change of motifs through different materials (e.g. tapestries, pottery, glass, metalwork)
7. representation of one material in another (e.g. precious materials in oil paint) and the imitation of the effect of one material by another (e.g. bronze and clay, oil paint and engraving, pastel, water color)
8. the relation between artists and materials (e.g. why artists prefer or reject certain materials, how do they become identified with certain materials and working methods)
9. difficult, conflicting materials and failure due to material (e.g. glass, gold, life casting), multimedia, unconventional and counterintuitive use of materials
11. metaphorical connotations of materials (e.g. worthy/humble, pure/ mixed, truthful/deceiving, female/male, forgiving/hard, intuitive/intellectual)
12. sensual perception of materials Please send a proposal of max. 500 words and a short CV to all three volume editors:
H. Perry Chapman: pchapman@UDel.edu
Ann-Sophie Lehmann: A.S.Lehmann@uu.nl
Frits Scholten: F.Scholten@rijksmuseum.nl
Deadline: October 1, 2010
Notification: December 2010
Deadline First Draft: June 2011
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Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies
We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit original articles via the journal’s submissions tracking system. All submissions are blindly peer-reviewed and modifications may be required. Contributions should be in English, be accompanied by a 300 word abstract and provide translations of quotations in Dutch. The journal’s styleguide, full editorial policy and a cumulative index of all articles from 1977–2009 are available on the journal’s website.
We are also planning to launch special theme issues of Dutch Crossing from 2010 onwards, when the journal’s publication frequency will be raised to three issues per year. Apart from history, art history, literature and language we are interested in such topics as philosophy, visual arts, socio-linguistics, and popular culture. Proposals for themed issues may be sent to the editors: editors@dutchcrossing.org. Past thematic issues have been produced on such topics as Anglo-Dutch relations in the 17th Century; Williamite Scotland and the Dutch Republic; contemporary Dutch women writers; Frisian culture; Landscape Painting; and Literary Translation and Medieval Drama.
Information on Subscription
Since 2009, Dutch Crossing is published by Maney Publishing (London, Leeds, Cambridge, Mass.) and is available both online (via IngentaConnect) and in print (ISSN 0309-6564). It is indexed and abstracted by a growing number of international indexing and abstracting services, including the Periodicals Index Online and the British Humanities Index (ProQuest), Current Abstracts and TOC Premier (both Ebsco) and the Modern Language Association (MLA). Some free content is available on IngentaConnect.
Individuals can subscribe to the journal at preferential rates by becoming a member of the Association for Low Countries Studies (ALCS) whose journal Dutch Crossing has become in 1997. Current membership fees, including subscription to Dutch Crossing are £31 (UK), $55 (US) or €40 (EU). Membership requests can be sent to A.C.Evans@sheffield.ac.uk. A recommendation letter to libraries is available on Maney’s website.
Fellowships and Prizes
New EU Fellowship Program
As a residential center for advanced study inn the center of Brussels, VLAC (Vlaams Academisch Centrum) participates in a new EU program, the European Institutes for advanced study Fellowship (EURIAS), which will provide support for a ten month fellowship at the center from September 2011 onwards. Projects for this special program have to be submitted by September 10, 2010. See www.eurias-fp.eu
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HNA Fellowship for Scholarly
Research, Publication or Travel:
2011-12
Scholars of any nationality who
have been HNA members in good
standing for at least two years are
eligible to apply. The topic of the
research project must be within the
field of Northern European art ca.
1400-1800. Up to $1,000 may be
requested for purposes such as
travel to collections or research
facilities, purchase of photographs
or reproduction rights, or
subvention of a publication.
Winners will be notified in
February with funds to be
distributed by April 1. The
application should consist of: (1)
a short description of project (1-2
pp); (2) budget; (3) list of
further funds applied/received for
the same project; and (4) current
c.v. A selection from a recent
publication may be included but is
not required. Pre-dissertation
applicants mustinclude a letter of
recommendation from their advisor.
Applications should be
sent, preferably via e-mail, by
December 1, 2010, to Amy Golahny, Vice-President, Historians of Netherlandish Art. E-mail: golahny@lycoming.edu. Address: 608 West Hillside Ave, State College PA 16803.
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Roger de le Pasture / Rogier van der Weyden Association
AISBL
Hôtel de Ville, Enclos Saint-Martin, Rue Saint-Martin, B-7500 Tournai, Belgium
2010 Roger de le Pasture / Rogier van der Weyden Prize
The international non-profit scientific association, Roger de le Pasture / Rogier van der Weyden hereby calls for nominations for the biennial "Roger de le Pasture / Rogier Van der Weyden Prize" to be awarded at the end of 2010.
This year the prize will reward two Master Theses related to the history of figurative arts in the Southern Netherlands during the Burgundian period (late 14th – early 16th centuries). The first place will be awarded one thousand five hundred euros (1500 €) and the second place will be awarded one thousand euros (1000 €).
The works should be written in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian or Spanish, and must have been defended during the academic years of 2009 or 2010. Candidates will include a summary of their work as well as the jury results with their application.
The thesis should be submitted in two copies and should reach the Association before October 8, 2010, proof of postage, and should be sent by regular mail to Mr. Serge Hustache, President of the International scientific association Roger de le Pasture / Rogier van der Weyden, Cité Georges Point, rue Paul Pastur, 4, B-7500 Tournai, Belgium. Candidates must include their e-mail address with the package for e-mail confirmation of receipt. Copies will not be returned. They will be given to the Association’s collection in the Tournai City Library and, for ten years, they may only be consulted with author’s permission.
The Board of Directors of the Association is competent for any and all problems relating to the prize or for failure to comply with the above regulations. The Board’s decisions are final and no reasons will be given for non-selection.
Recent laureates of the Roger de la Pasture / Rogier van der Weyden Prize:
2008: Chrystèle Blondeau and Didier Martens, for a collection of three important publications.
2006: Federica Veratelli for her study Lacrime dipinte, lacrime reali. Rappresentare il dolore nel Quattrocento: modello fiammingo, ricezione italiana.
2004: Dominique Vanwijnsberghe for his book "De fin or et d’azur". Les commanditaires de livres et le métier de l’enluminure à Tournai à la fin du Moyen Âge (xive - xve siècles).
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The Otto Naumann/American Friends of the Mauritshuis Fellowship
This fellowship offers grants in the field of art history to support an academic project devoted to the study of Dutch and Flemish art from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Topics relevant to the history and collection of the Mauritshuis and travel to The Netherlands are preferred. Preference goes to subjects devoted to paintings and drawings, then sculpture, prints and applied arts. Applicants must hold a B.A. in art history and be working toward a Ph.D at an American or Canadian University. Grants range from $5,000 to $15,000, depending on the financial requirements and merits of the project.
Applicants are invited to submit a letter with a detailed description of the project and two letters of recommendation before April 1, 2011 to americanfriends@mauritshuis.nl
Courses
Rice University
Rice University announces its new doctoral program offering full tuition plus a generous stipend for five years for qualified students. Located in Houston, close to the Museum of Fine Arts and the Menil Foundation, the department at Rice includes two specialists in the field of 15th- and 16th-century northern European art and architecture:
Diane Wolfthal, author of four books and editor of three others, including The Beginnings of Netherlandish Canvas Painting; Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and its Alternatives; In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art (in press, Yale UP); and Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Painting in the Southern Netherlands and the Principality of Liège: Early Netherlandish Paintings in Los Angeles (forthcoming, co-authored with Catherine Metzger, National Gallery of Art).
Linda Neagley, a specialist in fifteenth-century art and architecture and author of Disciplined Exuberance. The Parish Church of Saint-Maclou and Late Gothic Architecture in Rouen; and numerous articles on medieval design theory, visuality and spatial representation in medieval narrative, and late gothic sculpture.
For more information contact either one of these professors, wolfthal@rice.edu or lneagley@rice.edu and see the website http://arthistory.rice.edu/
Amsterdam
MA Dutch Art in European Context
From medieval Netherlandish art to nineteenth-century Romanticism, from seventeenth-century genre painting to the De Stijl movement of the 1920s, the Dutch artistic tradition is as much a product of the interaction, exchange and reception of ideas occurring throughout Europe as it is a reflection of the Dutch themselves. The focus of this one-year MA course is on the historiography of Dutch art and the way this influenced international tendencies in collecting and presenting Dutch art in museums. This Master's program is taught in English and offered jointly by the departments of Art History and Cultural History of Europe of the University of Amsterdam.
For more information, please visit http://www.studeren.uva.nl/ma_dutch_art_in_european_context/
Daia-Thalheim, Romania
The Transylvania Heritage University offers post-graduate study in Arts, Science, Art Market and Connoisseurship. Founded by the Documentation Center for Flemish Heritage, Brussels, it organizes conferences, seminars and research activities in the form of a summer course (August 2-16, 2009) and a separate full course spread over 2 years (2010-2011). Applications to the summer course may be sent to docvlkunst@skynet.be (tuition euros 2,500). A website will be launched shortly. The faculty includes several HNA members: Joost Vander Auwera, Till Borchert, Peter van den Brink, Jan de Maere, Marc De Mey, Max Martens.
London
A new MA program in Dutch Golden
Age studies is being offered at
University College London,
King's College London and the
Courtauld Institute of Art. It is
an interdisciplinary program
combining art history, history, and
the study of Dutch language and
literature. Its focus is the
history and culture of the Dutch
Republic in the seventeenth
century, but parts of the program
treat the sixteenth century as
well, and the Southern as well as
Northern Netherlands. For further
details:
www.ucl.ac.uk/history/admissions/maadmiss/dutchfull.htm
Montréal
The Making Publics (MaPs) Project and Concordia University
invite applications:
COMMUNICATING CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
A Research Seminar for Dissertation-Stage and Recent PhDs and Junior Faculty
Leaders: Robert Tittler (Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Concordia)
and Brian Cowan (Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History, McGill)
24 May – 23 June, 2010
Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec
Co-sponsored by MaPs and our host, Concordia University, the 2010 seminar will explore the issues of cultural networks and the translation of styles, conventions, and tastes across geographic and temporal boundaries. We seek to observe both intra-regional and transregional experiences of cultural communication: how such patterns developed over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and their influence thereafter, and the tensions between traditional (folkloric and/or 'vernacular'), local, and regional forms of cultural expression on the one hand and the more formal, or ‘polite', and widespread forms on the other.
Canadian and non-Canadian dissertation-stage students, recent PhDs, and junior faculty from any field relevant to the subject are invited to apply. As many as 12 successful applicants will take part in the seminar, which will bring together scholars interested in early modern cultural networks, the formation of publics, and the development of public and private life. The travel and accommodation expenses of the participants in the seminar will be covered by the MaPs project.
The end of the seminar will dovetail with the annual meeting of the MaPs research team and seminar participants will present a summary of their work in a special session, as well as participate in the research discussions of the meeting.
Making Publics: Media, Markets, and Association in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700, is headquartered at McGill University and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (SSHRC-MCRI) program. Concordia University is a Co-Investigator institution of the MaPs Project.
Note New Application Deadline: 15 February 2010
Application Materials and additional information may be found on the MaPs website:
http://makingpublics.mcgill.ca
Societies
Werkgroep Zeventiende
Eeuw
Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw concerns
itself with the study of
seventeenth-century Dutch history
and culture from an
interdisciplinary perspective. It
organizes a two-day conference
annually at the end of August,
publishes a journal twice/year
(Uitgeverij Verloren) and offers a
prize annually for an outstanding
original manuscript text (essay or
article).
www.let.uu.nl/nederlands/nlren/werkgroep17
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