Category Archives for Research Forum
Memorabilia from an Age of Troublemaking – Liu Dahong and Katie Hill in Conversation
Chinese contemporary artist Liu Dahong began his presentation on 30 April by stating that he has lived through three dynasties—the first being Chairman Mao’s reign, the second when he left power, and the third the current regime. He explained that … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: Aesthetics, art, book art, childhood, China, Histories, Politics, Research Forum, visual art | Leave a commentBeyond the Western Mediterranean: Materials, Techniques and Artistic Production, 650-1500
On Saturday 20 April 2013, scholars gathered at The Courtauld Institute of Art for Beyond the Western Mediterranean: Materials, Techniques and Artistic Production, 650-1500, organised by Sarah Guérin (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Mariam Rosser Owen (Victoria and Albert … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: Africa, art, Centre and periphery, Histories, location, Medieval Art, Mediterranean, Research Forum, trade | Leave a commentGiotto’s Circle and Medieval Work in Progress: ‘Illuminated Manuscripts: Art and Science’
The new research presented by Dr Stella Panayotova (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) at the Research Forum on 24 April 2013 is a perfect summation of the huge advances being made in the field of manuscript studies thanks to exponentially rapid developments … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: art, colour, digital technology, Getty, Italian art, Medieval Art, Medieval manuscripts, optics, Research Forum, science | Leave a commentUtopia III: Contemporary Russian Art and the Ruins of Utopia
In February, I attended the Utopia III conference held through the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre. The conference was the third in a series addressing the theme of ‘utopia’ within Russian art, with each focusing on a different time period; … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: Aesthetics, art, CCRAC, conceptualism, contemporary art, dystopia, Histories, Philosophy, Politics, Research Forum, Russian art, utopia, visual art | Leave a commentIrene Noy, ‘Why Only Look? Aural and Visual Representation of Female Identity in West Germany’
Of the many Research Forum talks I attended Spring semester, I found Irene Noy’s ‘Why Only Look? Aural and Visual Representation of Female Identity in West Germany’ to be one of the most engaging and eye opening. As the title … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: Aesthetics, art, collaborations, Fluxus, Gender, Mary Bauermeister, music, Second Wave Feminism, sound art, West Germany | Leave a commentNatalia Murray on the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the Quest for the New Art
At the end of January, Natalia Murray spoke about ‘The Proletarian Art Enigma’ as part of the Modern and Contemporary Research Seminar. She began with the social and historical background of the Russian Revolution of 1917—aimed at establishing a homogenous … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum | Tags: art, decoration, festivals, film, Histories, photography, Politics, propaganda, Research Forum, Revolution, Russia | Leave a commentMark Cheetham, ‘Landscape & Language: from Conceptualism to Ecoaesthetics’ and Mark with Mariele Neudecker, ‘Re-Inventing Landscape Traditions for the Present’
In the late 1960s, the N. E. Thing Co., a Canadian art collective, produced a series of interventions exploring the connection between landscape and language. They set up road signs next to nondescript stretches of countryside with messages like ‘You … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response, Uncategorized | Tags: Aesthetics, conceptual art, ecoaesthetics, environmentalism, Histories, landscape, Mariele Neudecker, N.E. Thing Co, Politics, Research Forum, sculptural forms, visual art | Leave a commentTim Barringer, ‘Aspiring to the Condition of Music’
In 1879, infuriated at having been denied full payment for The Peacock Room, the daring interior design scheme he had created for the London townhouse of shipping magnate Frederick Leyland, James McNeill Whistler satirised his miserly patron in a remarkable … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: Aesthetic Movement, Aesthetics, art, colour, music, Victorian culture, Whistler, William Holman Hunt | Leave a commentMartin Myrone, ‘“Like a great circus tent”: folk art, art history and the museum’
It can be easy to forget how restricted a view of art production most of us really have. The works sitting pretty in our major museums and galleries are the towering emergent trees in our cultural ecosystem; while often wholly … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Uncategorized | Tags: Aesthetics, art, Folk Art, George Smart, Histories, museums, narratives, Politics, Research Forum, visual art | Leave a commentToshio Watanabe: Ryoanji Garden as the Epitome of Zen Culture
The final lecture in the 2012 Frank Davis Lecture Series was given by Prof Toshio Watanabe, from the University of the Arts, London. At its centre was an extraordinary object, the Ryoanji Garden in Kyoto, regarded as one of the finest … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum | Tags: Aesthetics, art history, canon, Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, gardens, Japan, Lorraine Kuck, narratives, Orient, Research Forum, ritual, sculptural forms, spatial forms, Toshio Watanabe, Zen Buddhism | 1 comment
