The Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo Nacional del Prado has announced the appointment of Miguel Falomir Faus, current head of the Department of Italian Renaissance painting, as the Museum’s new Deputy Director for Collections and Research, succeeding Gabriele Finaldi, who has recently been appointed the new Director of the National Gallery in London.
CAA 2016 session
Washington, DC
3-6 February 2016
CFP:
Polychrome Sculpture in Iberia and the Americas, 1200-1800
Sponsored by ASHAHS.
Chair: Professor Ilenia Colón Mendoza: ilenia.colonmendoza@ucf.edu
CAA, Washington, DC, 3-6 February 2016
The deadline to propose a paper or presentation is Friday, May 8, 2015.
The 2016 Call for Participation for the 104th Annual Conference, taking place February 3–6, 2016, in Washington, DC, describes many of next year’s programs sessions. CAA and the session chairs invite your participation: please follow the instructions in the booklet to submit a proposal for a paper or presentation. This publication also includes a call for Poster Session proposals and describes the Open Format Sessions.
The Cleric’s Craft: Crossroads of Medieval Spanish Literature and Modern Critique
University of Texas, El Paso
22-24 October 2015
This interdisciplinary conference welcomes proposals on topics in a number of disciplines, including art history. Deadline: 1 June 2015.
Programme
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Exhibition, Sagrada Família – Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture
City College of New York (141 Convent Avenue, New York City).
The exhibit in the Spitzer School’s Atrium Gallery includes photographs, architectural models and casts used in construction. It also showcases the 3D computer imaging software used to analyze and draw precise tridimensional geometry. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Viewing hours are 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday – Friday.
Reviewed in the Architectural Record
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ISLAMIC ART
Department of the History of Art & Archaeology
SOAS, University of London
Anna McSweeney on “Arthur von Gwinner and the Alhambra Cupola in Berlin”
Thursday 7 May 2015
5.30pm in Room B111 (Brunei Building)
Abstract: One of the jewels in the collection of the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin is the so-called Alhambra cupola, a fourteenth-century wooden ceiling that once was part of the famous Islamic palace in Granada, Spain. Made from hundreds of pieces of intricately carved and painted wood, it is one of the earliest and finest surviving Nasrid ceilings. This paper will explore how the cupola ended up in Berlin, brought there in 1891 by the highly cultured German financier Arthur von Gwinner (1856-1931), who so fell for the charms of the Alhambra palace that he wanted a piece of it for himself. Why did he want it, how did he get hold of it, and what did he do with it once he had it? These are questions that will be addressed in this research seminar. (Poster is attached).
Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez International Prize “The Art of the Baroque” 2015
The Focus-Abengoa Foundation is pleased to announce the forthcoming Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez International Prize “The Art of the Baroque”. As a university professor and as director of the Prado Museum, Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez (NVPR-OMNM) was an outstanding historian of Spanish and Italian Baroque Art.
The Foundation awards this prize in order to promote exceptional study and research into Spanish Baroque Art and its possible relationship with Europe and the Americas.
The jury will also consider works with a multidisciplinary or integrative focus.
Deadline: 30 September 2015
Further details: Please click here
GOYA: SATURDAY STUDY DAY
Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album – In Context
2 May 2015 10.30 – 16.30
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
The Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition reassembles all the known sheets from one of Goya’s eight celebrated albums of ‘private’ drawings. These albums, each distinct in subject-matter, style and technique, were created relatively late in Goya’s life, after he had survived a near-fatal illness that left him profoundly deaf from his early fifties, but still drawing at the age of eighty-two. They have been described as journals that record, in virtuoso manner, Goya’s innermost reflections on the world around him and on human nature.
The exhibition curators, distinguished Goya-scholar Juliet Wilson-Bareau and Stephanie Buck, The Courtauld’s Curator of Drawings, and colleagues will shed light on this feat of international research and reconstruction, on the place of the album in Goya’s oeuvre, and on the themes of witchcraft and old age in art more widely.
Speakers are exhibition curators Dr Juliet Wilson-Bareau (independent scholar and curator) and Dr Stephanie Buck (Martin Halusa Curator of Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery); Kate Edmondson (Conservator of Works on Paper, The Courtauld Gallery); Peter Bower (forensic paper historian and paper analyst); and Professor Deanna Petherbridge and Gail Turner (independent scholars).
Provisional Programme
10.30 –11.00 Registration and Coffee
11.00 – 11.05 Dr Anne Puetz (The Courtauld Institute of Art):
Introduction to the Study Day
11.05 – 11.50 Gail Turner: Goya – art and life
11.50 – 12.35 Dr Stephanie Buck, Kate Edmondson and Peter Bower: ‘Album D’: A journey of discoveries
12.35 – 13.00 Q&A
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.00 Professor Deanna Petherbridge: Malevolent or ridiculous old age: sources of Goya’s imageryower:
15.00 – 15.45 Dr Juliet Wilson-Bareau: Goya’s album drawings: a private/public world
15.45 – 16.00 Q&A
16.00 – 16.30 Tea Close of the official programme – The exhibition can be visited until 18.00
Advance booking is necessary
£45 (concessions £40)
Includes free admission to the exhibition, with morning and afternoon tea and coffee
E: short.courses@courtauld.ac.uk t: 020 7848 2678
Tradition and Transition in the Spanish Avant-Garde
Conference, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 10-11 April 2015.
Keynote:
Jordana Mendelson: “Up in Smoke: Paper, Publicity, and the Avant-Garde in Barcelona”
Angell Hall 3222, Friday, 10 April 2015, 6:00PM.
The conference is sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, the Department of the History of Art, the Institute for the Humanities, the International Institute, the Museum Studies Program, the Dean’s Strategic Initiative Fund at the Rackham Graduate School, and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), with additional support from the Department of English and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
For the full schedule, click here.
CFP: Revising the Hispanic Canon. Visibility and Cultural Capital at the Margins
Deadline: 13 May 2015
In recent years, meta-critical studies such as Ideologies of Hispanism (2005), Spain Beyond Spain (2005), Reading Iberia (2007), Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI (2011) and Iberian Modalities (2013) have sought to uncover the ideological discourses underlying Hispanic Studies and trace its historical evolution in order to elucidate how the discipline might or ought to evolve, if it is to remain relevant in a context in which national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries have become problematized. The present volume, co-edited by Stuart Davis and Maite Usoz de la Fuente, seeks to contribute to this ongoing debate by considering how the work of PhD students and early career researchers in Hispanic Studies reflects and contributes to the expansion and the blurring of disciplinary limits.
In a broad sense, the duty of every new generation of scholars in any arts and humanities discipline is to encourage a revision of the canon within that discipline and, in the process, to contribute to a redefinition of the discipline itself. This is an exciting enterprise, but it is not without its challenges and pitfalls. Amongst them is the question of how to attain visibility when working on a topic that is little known, or considered a niche area within one’s discipline, or how to position one’s work if undertaking inter- or multidisciplinary research that surpasses disciplinary boundaries. The aim of this book is to offer a useful overview of new research in Hispanic Studies by a selection of emerging scholars, and to reflect upon questions of canonicity, visibility and cultural capital, and the ways in which such notions span and contribute to shape our field of study.
Contributions to this volume are welcome from doctoral students and early career researchers (understood as those who have obtained their doctoral degree within the past seven years) whose work focuses on (but may not be limited to) the following areas:
If you want to contribute to this volume, please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to hispanic.canon@gmail.com by 13 May 2015, accompanied by a short biography including your name, institutional affiliation and areas of research (2-3 lines). Selected contributors will be contacted by 30 May 2015 and the deadline for submission of essays will be 31 December 2015.
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