Monthly Archives: October 2017
ARTES Coll&Cortes travel scholarship report: Ana Dias, PhD Candidate at Durham University
The ARTES Coll&Cortes travel scholarship granted me the opportunity to travel to Spain to examine three illustrated copies of Beatus of Liébana’s Commentarium in Apocalypsin (generally known as Beatus) on which my doctoral thesis is grounded. My research concerns the production, illumination and impact of the Beatus manuscripts, with particular focus on the analysis ofContinue reading “ARTES Coll&Cortes travel scholarship report: Ana Dias, PhD Candidate at Durham University”
CFP: Wider Worlds: Art and Audience Under the Spanish Crown, The Frick Collection, New York, April 5, 2018
Call for Papers: Wider Worlds: Art and Audience Under the Spanish Crown, The Frick Collection, New York, April 5, 2018 Deadline: Dec 12, 2017 Symposium The Frick Collection, New York The Frick Collection is pleased to invite submissions for “Wider Worlds: Art and Audience under the Spanish Crown,” a public symposium inspired by the special exhibition Zurbarán:Continue reading “CFP: Wider Worlds: Art and Audience Under the Spanish Crown, The Frick Collection, New York, April 5, 2018”
Call for contributions: The idiosyncrasy of indigenism in Latin America. Plurality of sources and extra-Latin American appropriations
Call for contributions: Artelogie Journal, ‘The idiosyncrasy of indigenism in Latin America. Plurality of sources and extra-Latin American appropriations’ Deadline: March 30, 2018 Coordinated by Michele Greet (George Mason University), Anahi Luna (UNAM, Mexico), Fernanda Sarmento (Sao Paulo University), Elodie Vaudry (Paris Nanterre University) In the mid-1920s, Peruvian intellectual José Carlos Mariátegui introduced the termContinue reading “Call for contributions: The idiosyncrasy of indigenism in Latin America. Plurality of sources and extra-Latin American appropriations”
Thinking Ibero-America: Modernity and Indigenism
‘Thinking Ibero-America: Modernity and Indigenism,’ Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX, 23/11/2017, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Ticio Escobar in conversation with John Kraniauskas Under the dominance of European and then Creole elites, the people of Latin America have historically looked to Europe and North America as referents for cultural modernity. Until recently, everything relatedContinue reading “Thinking Ibero-America: Modernity and Indigenism”
The Maius Workshop’s first meeting: report
The first meeting of the Maius Workshop took place last Monday, 16 October, at the Warburg Institute. It was a well-attended event where we presented the aims of the research group, discussed our shared interests and needs and shared ideas about the most useful format for future sessions. The Maius Workshop aims to bring togetherContinue reading “The Maius Workshop’s first meeting: report”
Symposium: El Greco to Goya: Spanish Masterpieces from The Bowes Museum
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ARTES Event: Curator’s tour of ‘El Greco to Goya’ at the Wallace Collection, 21 November 2017, 10 am
Isabelle Kent, Enriqueta Harris Frankfort curatorial assistant at the Wallace Collection, will give ARTES members a tour of the exhibition on 21st November at 10:00. Please RSVP to artesiberia@gmail.com by 15 November. This event is open to ARTES members only.
Featured Exhibition: Sacred art in the age of contact: Chumash and Latin American traditions in Santa Barbara
Sacred art in the age of contact: Chumash and Latin American traditions in Santa Barbara, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, until 8 December, 2017. Sacred Art in the Age of Contact focuses on the relationship between art and religion in both historic Chumash and Spanish traditions in the early Mission period inContinue reading “Featured Exhibition: Sacred art in the age of contact: Chumash and Latin American traditions in Santa Barbara”
Featured exhibition: Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954–1969, Palm Springs Art Museum, until 15 January 2018
Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954–1969, Palm Springs Art Museum, 26 August 2017 – 15 January, 2018. This exhibition is the first in-depth examination of the pioneering role played by South American artists in the international Kinetic Art movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Grounded by scholarly research into experimental art movements of the lateContinue reading “Featured exhibition: Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954–1969, Palm Springs Art Museum, until 15 January 2018”
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