The Courtauld鈥檚听New Research Symposium 2017听is a platform for third-year PhD candidates to present and exchange their research to their peers, the wider scholarly community and the public. Ranging from medieval England to contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina via Renaissance Florence the conference will bring questions concerning materiality, identity and institutions to bear on art and politics. Whether performing a close analysis of a late-fifteenth-century altarpiece frame or a Marxist reading of photographic technologies after the 2008 financial crisis, what are the pressing methodological questions for the discipline? This conference provides a place to consider how the cohort has been collectively thinking through听critical challenges and new听directions for the History of Art.
Thursday 8th听June
11:00鈥11:55 Session 1: Conflict and Memory (Chair: Sofia Gurevich)
Claudia Zini, 鈥極bjects of Memory: Autobiographical Survival Strategies in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina鈥
Nayun Jang, 鈥楻endering Invisible Memories Visible: Memories of the Pacific War in East Asia鈥
12:00鈥13:25 Session 2: Nation, Body and Belief (Chair: Eowyn Kerr-Di Carlo)
Julia Secklehner, 鈥楬itler vs. Holkov谩?: National and International anti-Fascism in Prague Caricature, 1934鈥
Albert Godycki, 鈥楾he Hard Power of Culture: Embodiment, Politics and National Identity in the Early Dutch Republic鈥
Massoumeh Assemi, 鈥楽torytelling and Ta鈥檢ieh painting鈥
13:30鈥14:25听Break for lunch
14.30鈥15.25 Session 3: Land and Identities (Chair: Thomas Hughes)
Edwin Coomasaru, 鈥(Un)tameable Beasts: Mothers, Monsters and the Northern Irish Peace Process鈥
Natalie Hume, 鈥楻epresentations of the Agriculture of the American West c.1870: Eadweard Muybridge and Arthur Boyd Houghton鈥
15:30鈥16:25 Session 4: Loss and Desire (Chair: Edwin Coomasaru)
Alexander Noelle, 鈥樷淏el Julio鈥: Giuliano de鈥 Medici (1453鈥1478) as an Ideal of Male Beauty in Renaissance Florence鈥
Theo Gordon, 鈥楶hantastic Orality: Mourning and Violence in the art of F茅lix Gonz谩lez Torres鈥
16:25鈥16:55 Tea and coffee
17:00鈥18:00 Keynote:听Professor Lynda Nead (Pevsner Professor of History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London), 鈥楾he Tiger in the Smoke: The Aesthetics of the Fog in Post-War Britain鈥
Followed by WINE RECEPTION
Friday 9 June
10:00鈥10:55 Session 5: Painting, Writing and Realism (Chair: Emily Pegues)
Thomas Hughes, 鈥楾he Rose and the Worm: 鈥淩ealism鈥 in Ruskin, Pater and Nineteenth-Century Painting鈥
Catherine Howe, 鈥楤acon/Picasso: The Brutality of Fact鈥
11:00鈥11:25 Tea and coffee
11:30鈥12:55 Session 6: In the Frame (Chair: Imogen Tedbury)
Alexander R枚stel, 鈥楬armonising the Church Interior: the Case of the Ospedale degli Innocenti鈥
Miguel Ayres de Campos, 鈥楾he world as Image: Framing the Hereford Map鈥
Elizabeth Woolley, 鈥樷淥f only modest artistic quality鈥: reconsidering the significance of firm ecclesiastical wall painting in England, 1845鈥1920鈥
13:00鈥13:55 Break for lunch
14:00鈥14:55 Session 7: Modernisms, Materials, Markets (Chair: Maggie Crosland)
Giovanni Casini, 鈥楢 Dealer鈥檚 鈥淒ictatorship鈥? Giorgio de Chirico, L茅once Rosenberg and the Parisian Art Market in the late 1920s鈥
Rachel Mustalish, 鈥楢rthur Dove: Modernism through Materials鈥
15.00鈥15:55 Session 8: Collections and Canons (Chair: Anna Merlini)
Naomi Speakman, The Virtuoso Appetite: The Medieval Antiquities of Ralph Bernal鈥
Imogen Tedbury, 鈥楢fter the 鈥済ame of grab鈥: collecting, displaying and selling Sienese painting after the 鈥Burlington Magazine听wars鈥 of 1903鈥
16:00鈥16:25 Tea and coffee
16:30鈥17:25 Session 9: Breaking the Mould (Chair: Alexander R枚stel)
Emily Pegues, 鈥楥arving for Casting: Jan Borreman鈥檚 Wooden Models for Bronze鈥
Jonathan Vernon, 鈥楢 Shape of Time: The Politics of the Pedestal in Sidney Geist鈥檚 Brancusi Catalogue of 1967鈥
17:30鈥18:25 Session 10: Reproduction and Neoliberalism (Chair: Theo Gordon)
Rachel Stratton, 鈥楯ohn McHale and the Development of the Twentieth-Century 鈥淚kon鈥, 1955鈥1961鈥
Boris 膶u膷kovi膰 Berger, 鈥楲atency of Source Materials: The Problem of 鈥淯nsupported Transit鈥 in Museum Photography c.2008鈥
Closing remarks