Tag: Art History Symposium

Symposium | Minimal, Conceptual, Pop: A symposium on American Art 1960–80

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The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney is joining with the Art Gallery of New South Wales to mount an international symposium on the Gallery’s American art collections of the 60s and 70s. This period of radical experiment gave rise to many practices and aesthetics underpinning contemporary art. Enriched by the John Kaldor gift of 2009, the Gallery boasts the world’s finest museum collection of Sol Lewitt. Major pieces by Lewitt, Carl Andre, Christo, Donald Judd, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Frank Stella and Laurence Weiner are on display during the symposium. Three leading American experts, Alexander Alberro (Columbia), Charles W. Haxthausen (Williams) and Robert Slifkin (NYU) will travel to Sydney for the event. They will be joined by Australian scholars including Sue Best, Keith Broadfoot, Rachel Kent, Chris McAuliffe, Meredith Morse, and Ann Stephen. Convened for the US…

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Symposium | Bacon’s Bodies

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Francis Bacon symposium: Bacon’s bodies Perspectives on the continuing significance of the art of Francis Bacon to coincide with the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ current exhibition Francis Bacon: five decades. This symposium considers the body as subject, the physicality of painting and the continuing significance of Francis Bacon’s body of work. Speakers will address this theme in relation to Bacon’s material practice, his studio (now preserved at Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane), as well as history, politics, food, and sexuality. Speakers Anthony Bond (director, curatorial Art Gallery of NSW & curator, Francis Bacon: five decades) | Nicholas Chare (Department of Gender Studies, University of Melbourne) | Barbara Dawson (director, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane) | Andrew Durham (conservator, ArtLab Australia, formerly of the Tate Gallery, London) | Macushla Robinson (assistant curator, Francis Bacon: five decades) Date: Saturday 9…

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Symposium | The Legacies of Bernard Smith

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The Legacies of Bernard Smith A Collaborative International Symposium Thursday, 20 - Friday 21,September 2012, The Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne Bernard Smith could be said to have established Australian Art History. His work was seminal for histories of Pacific encounter and he also was author to some of the country’s most eloquent memoirs. This Symposium brings together an international field of scholars from art history, anthropology, history and literature, as well as curators and writers, to discuss all aspects of Bernard Smith’s wide-ranging work and explore its impact and legacy. Date: Thursday, 20 September 2012, 9.30am -6.00pm and Friday, 21 September 2020 I 9.30am - 5.00pm Venue: Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville To download the full Melbourne program, please click here (pdf). There will be a second symposium in Sydney on Friday 9th and Saturday…

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Symposium on Italian Renaissance Art at The University of Melbourne

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Symposium on Italian Renaissance Art at The University of Melbourne A symposium is to be held on 9th and 10th of March 2012 on recent research on Italian Paintings in the exhibition Renaissance currently at the National Gallery of Australia, from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo on to be held in the Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building at the University of Melbourne. Morning Session Chaired by Dr Christopher Marshall, The University of Melbourne 10.00 - 10.20am  Professor Jaynie Anderson, The University of Melbourne ‘Why and what did Giovanni Morelli collect in Renaissance Art?‘ One of the major collectors, whose works are in Canberra for the Renaissance exhibition, is the politician, writer and connoisseur Giovanni Morelli (1816-1891).  Morelli is celebrated for the fact that he invented connoisseurship for the modern world and for the fact that Sigmund Freud claimed to have invented psychological…

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Symposium: Vienna 1900 – Dress rehearsal for modernity

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Symposium: Vienna 1900 – Dress rehearsal for modernity Vienna: Art & Design Speakers William M. Johnston, academic; Prof Jennifer Shaw, Pro Vice-Cancellor & Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of New England; Assoc Prof Alison Inglis, Art History, The University of Melbourne; Dr John Carmody, School of Medical Sciences, Physiology, Convenor: ‘ Medicine and Music’, University of Sydney; Dr Edwin Harari, Assoc Prof Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne; Dr Vivien Gaston, Guest Curator, NGV & Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne; Amanda Dunsmore, Curator Arts & Antiquities, NGV; Sophie Matthiesson, Curator, International Art, NGV; Dr Matthew Martin, Assistant Curator, Decorative Arts, NGV; Elizabeth Cross, Senior Researcher, International Art, NGV This Symposium will explore the themes, developments and influences of an extraordinary period that saw the birth of the modern world, including, art, culture, design, architecture, literature, science, social…

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Symposium: Scientific perspectives and the landscapes of Eugene von Guérard

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Symposium, NGV International Scientific perspectives and the landscapes of Eugene von Guérard To coincide with the major exhibition Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed. Reflecting von Guérard’s own engagement with the sciences, this symposium will bring together a range of specialists from different disciplines to discuss von Guérard and the Australian landscape. Specialists in the earth sciences, science historians as well as art historians will present a fascinating array of papers. New material about the artist will also be presented. Registation from 9.15am 10am Reflections of von Guérard, his patrons and the art market, Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV 10.20am Eugene von Guérard and the future of landscape painting, Ruth Pullin, Guest Curator, NGV 10.50am Science, art and Humboldtian ambitions in mid-19th-century Australia, Rod Home, Professor Emeritus, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne 11.20am Morning tea 11.50am Truth…

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Symposium: Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine

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Symposium: Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine Keynote Speakers: Mme Marie-Cécile Forest, Director, Musée Gustave-Moreau; Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV; Frances Lindsay, Deputy Director, NGV; and Dr Ted Gott, Senior Curator, International Art, NGV To mark the opening of this major exhibition, a range of international and local speakers present a fascinating array of papers on Gustave Moreau, the history of the Musée Gustave-Moreau and its collection. Includes optional exhibition viewing 8.45–10am. Date: 11 December 2010, 10am - 1:30pm Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium NGV International 180 St Kilda Road (enter north entrance, via Arts centre forecourt) Bookings: Ph +61 3 8662 1555 (10am-5pm daily) Event Code: P10130 Editor’s note: Follow this link for our review of the exhibition.

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Research in Progress in Early Modern Art History at Melbourne University

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Research in progress in Early Modern Art History Date: 18th November 2010 Venue: Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre Research papers in honour of Professor John Paoletti, following the Margaret Manion lecture on 17th November ‘Clothing Michelangelo’s David: History, Iconography, Context’ (6:30pm) - Full lecture details here. Program 11-11.30 Dale Kent, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne ‘La cara e buona imagine paterna di voi’: ideal images of patriarchs and patrons as models for the right ordering of Renaissance Florence’ Paternal, filial and civic duties were closely related in Renaissance Florence, and their imperatives derived ultimately from the example of the Divine Father and his decrees. This paper explores a key theme of the first chapter of my forthcoming book, “Fathers and Friends: Patronage and Patriarchy in Renaissance Florence.” It will focus on the major fifteenth century Florentine representations of the chief…

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Symposium – European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th – 20th Century

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Symposium European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th-20th Century Saturday 19th June - NGV International European Masters: Städel Museum, 19th–20th Century comes to the NGV as part of the highly successful Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. The exhibition brings together a remarkable collection from the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, one of the finest art collections in Europe. Alongside the great German masters Friedrich, Stuck, Corinth, Heckel and Beckmann, European Masters includes beautiful Impressionist works by Monet, Renoir, Degas and Cézanne, as well as important paintings by Klinger, Munch and Bonnard. This is an unprecedented opportunity to see a spectacular array of the finest European art spanning the dynamic and transformative years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Join us for the rare and exciting opportunity to hear about this spectacular exhibition from the Director and Curator of the Städel Museum and others. Program…

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