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ORIENTALISM AND “ISLAMOPHILIA”
This year’s Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, titled Histories in Transition, explores the theme of historicism in visual art of the modern period. For the third lecture in the series, Rémi Labrusse, of Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre, described idealist visions … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum | Tags: Aesthetics, Alhambra, art, colonialism, decorative art, figuration, Frank Dillon, geometric abstraction, Great Exhibition of 1851, Histories, history painting, idealism, idealist visions, imperialism, industrial capitalism, Islamophilia, Jean-Léon Gerôme, Labrusse, Middle East, narratives, nineteenth-century art, Orient, Orientalism, painting, Research Forum, Transition, visual art | Leave a commentCURATORS IN DIALOGUE ON THE PERSISTENCE OF HISTORIES
On the 20th of June 2012 I had the pleasure of attending Curators in Dialogue on the Persistence of Histories, part of the Revival: Utopia, Identity, Memory project led by Dr. Ayla Lepine, the current Andrew Mellon and Research Forum Post-doctoral Fellow. As … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: Aesthetics, Alhambra, craft, evocations, Gothic, Histories, identity, irony, kitsch, memory, Middle Eastern, narratives, photographic image, Politics, Research Forum, revivalism, style, utopia, Victorian | Leave a commentThe Healing Power of Art – Dr. Richard Cork
As I was headed out toward the exit to head back home, walking past the daily announcement board near the reception, I saw that there was a lecture based on a book launch that evening. “Richard Cork: The Healing Power … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: Research Forum, Richard Cork, Rogier van der Weyden, visual arts | Leave a commentJAMES CUNO, ‘ENCYCLOPEDIC MUSEUMS IN THE POST-COLONIAL PRESENT ‘
Currently President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust and previously Director and Professor of the Courtauld Institute, Dr James Cuno was warmly welcomed to a full lecture theatre of academics eagerly awaiting his discussion of the issues surrounding … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Leave a commentMUSEUMS WITHOUT WALLS: SHOWING ART IN A DIGITAL AGE
Museums without Walls is part of the on-going Exhibiting Research series, organised by the Courtauld’s MA Programme Curating the Art Museum in collaboration with the Research Forum. The debate explored the implications of the virtual presence of art images and … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Leave a commentCAN CAPITALISM BE PICTURED?
SPEAKER: G. M. TAMÁS (SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW,THE INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BUDAPEST) From the very beginning of his lecture, Gáspár Miklos Tamás established that what was to follow would be a stream of consciousness of … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: capitalism, conceptual art, Philosophy | Leave a commentCRYSTAL OF RESISTANCE – THOMAS HIRSCHHORN
A response by Jane Scarth “This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.” – Thomas Hirschhorn Having reflected on … Continue reading
Categories: Response | Tags: 2011 Venice Biennale, Aesthetics, art, Hirschhorn, installation, Love, Philosophy, Politics, Research Forum, visual art | Leave a commentModern Science and the Avant-Garde: Rethinking Alexander Calder
Vanja Malloy I’ve always secretly wished I was really good at science and could do physics. My dad tried particularly hard to get me interested having studied it himself at university, but the truth is I never had teacher at … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: Alexander Calder, art, colour, diagrams, line, science, scientific language, shape | Leave a commentDerek Boshier: From Doris to Chemical Coyboys
A Response The reason for the sheer enjoyment I find in artists’ talks is that they take you away from your books and remind you about the reality of artwork in the context of the person who made it. Derek … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: Blake, collaborations, Derek Boshier, happenings, Hockney, location, London, pop art, Prague, Royal College, scale, sculptural forms | Leave a comment
