Vernacular Cultures and Contemporary Art from Australia, India and the Philippines 3 May - 17 June LUMA | La Trobe University Museum of Art Curated as part of La Trobe University’s 2011 Festival of Ideas, this exhibition features contemporary artists whose work incorporates expressions of indigenous and/or locally specific popular cultures. Examining diverse practices...
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Tags: Asian Art, Australian Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions, Indian Art, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Phillipino Art
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Art Talks: Free Lunchtime Lecture Penny Byrne Penny Byrne has been described as a political cartoonist who uses ceramics. Highly regarded as a leading authority on ceramic restoration, Byrne started making her own work in 2001; it covers a range of contemporary issues from the environment to Australian and American politics and lampoons the...
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Tags: Art and Politics, Artist's Talks, Ceramics, Contemporary Art, Holmesglen, Sculpture
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David R. Marshall Eugene Von Guérard and Daylesford: His Paintings for W.E. Stanbridge This paper, which arises from research for the catalogue for Ruth Pullin’s Eugene Von Guérard exhibition, currently on display at the NGV, examines Von Guérard’s views of the Daylesford district and their preparatory studies. It explores the interaction between Von Guérard’s...
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Tags: 19th century art, Art History Seminar, Australian Art History, Eugene Von Guerard, EVCS, Landscape Painting, Patronage
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Joseph Burke Lecture, 2011 Images of Friendship from Renaissance Florence from Dante to Michelangelo Professor Dale Kent The question of whether true friendship could exist in an era when patronage shaped most social relations occupied Renaissance Florentines as it had the ancient Greeks and Romans whose culture they admired and emulated. Rather than attempting...
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Tags: Dale Kent, Florentine Art, Florentine History, Italian Art History, Joseph Burke Lecture, Melbourne University Lectures, Parkville, Renaissance Art
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The tale of the 1880 Atlas des Plans de Paris Michael Shirrefs Atlas des Plans de Paris is a remarkable book containing reproductions of ancient maps showing the development of Paris, from its beginnings in Roman times as a village in the middle of the Seine. Former Creative Fellow Michael Shirrefs will discuss his...
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Tags: Book History, Illustrated Books, Lecture, Maps, Paris, State Library Victoria
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Call for Papers Experimental Arts Conference 19-20 August 2011 Main Conference and Discussion Forum and 17-18 August 2011 National Postgraduate Conference, both at Scientia Building, UNSW Deadline for Abstracts: 27 April 2021 “We have entered the experimental age…Experiments are no longer conducted just in the laboratory. They have become collective experiments that concern each and every...
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Tags: Contemporary Art, Experimental Art, Sydney, UNSW
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ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Change Program Scholarships Scholarships are available in the new ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, working with Professor David Lemmings in the OChange¹program. Value Opportunities include: · Full scholarship to the value of $26,000 per annum; or · Supplementary scholarship to the value of...
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Tags: Adelaide, European Research, European Studies, Funding, Grants, Scholarships
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Caroline Villers Research Fellowship Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London The Courtauld together with the Trustees of the Caroline Villers Research Fellowship, has established a Research Fellowship in memory of Caroline Villers. The purpose of the Fellowship is to promote research in the interdisciplinary field of Technical Art History: the application of technical,...
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Tags: Courtauld Institute, London, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Technical Art History
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Call for Papers Early Modern Merchants as Collectors Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, June 15-16, 2012 Deadline: May 31, 2020 Context In 1615, Vincenzo Scamozzi highlighted the importance in Venice of the merchant-collectors Bartolomeo dalla Nave and Daniel Nijs by including descriptions of their collections in his L’Idea della architettura universale. Scholarship has also moved beyond the consideration of the artist and the patron as the...
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Tags: Art Collecting, Collections History, Patronage
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Transformations in Cultural Communication RMIT 14th - 15th April, 2011, Melbourne The first few years of social media brought new approaches to audience engagement, emphasising knowledge sharing through open platforms. As organisations explored the potential of social media, they focused on the impact this would have on their internal practices. Today there is growing emphasis...
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