CALL FOR PAPERS: Between Absence and Presence: Lost and Fragmentary Works of Art, Rome Art History Network (RAHN) Graduate Conference, Rome, Accademia d’Ungheria and Universtità degli Studi di Roma Tre, Rome, 19 – 20 March 2015. Organizers: Alexandra Blanc and Lorenzo Riccardi, in collaboration with Ariane Varela Braga.
The Rome Art History Network (RAHN) – in collaboration with the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and the Istituto Balassi, Accademia d’Ungheria in Roma – is pleased to announce its third Graduate Conference and call for papers.
The conference is open to all current doctoral students both at Italian universities and foreign academies in Italy. Following up on our previous RAHN Graduate Conferences, this third edition also seeks to explore methodological issues.
The purpose of the conference is to bring graduate students in art history together in a collaborative setting in order to hear and discuss research and exchange ideas. The 2015 conference is dedicated to research on works of art that are either lost or in fragments, as well as the theoretical and practical problems that they raise.
Works of art that time and history have irreparably altered challenge the methodological tools available to scholars in art history. How does one study a work of art or a monument that has been lost or reduced to fragments? What value should one give to their context? How does one use indirect, visual, and written evidence?
Such questions are of concern not only to art historical studies, but also to practical application in the fields of conservation, museum studies, and artistic experiments. We welcome proposals from all areas of relevance to this topic, including but not limited to:
- The study of lost or fragmentary works of art (past and present)
- Assessment of evidence and documentation from photographs, prints, drawings, literary texts, archival documents, etc.
- The fragment through the centuries: modes of perception and reception (aesthetics, theory, etc.)
- The fragment as an artistic practice and object of reflection
- Lost and/or fragmentary objects in conservation
- Museum studies: the fragment contextualised and exhibited.
A short abstract (200-300 words) together with a brief Curriculum Vitae should be sent to: info@romearthistnet.com.
We look forward to twenty-minute papers from current doctoral candidates in art and architectural history presenting case studies with methodological implications. The conference will be held in Italian, but papers in English are also welcome. Unfortunately, RAHN will not be able to cover the speakers’ travel costs.
Deadline: 10 January 2015.
Source: H-ArtHist