Tag Archives for Aesthetics
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 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 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 commentORIENTALISM 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 comment
