13400
Graduate Course
WiSe 14/15: Technical Art History
Sven Dupré
Additional information / Pre-requisites
on Mondays: Seminarraum Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
on Tuesdays: Koserstr.20, A 320
Comments
In the past years technical art history has emerged as a new field of investigation. Although technical art historians agree that their object of study is the material history of an artefact, as a relatively new field of investigation, the central questions of the field as well as approaches are still not consolidated and heavily debated. It brings together art historians and conservators, restorers and conservation scientists. This seminar offers an introduction to technical art history. Representatives of the important research centers in this emerging field (internationally recruited from New York, London, Glasgow, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Berlin) will discuss their views of the development of technical art history, examples of important objects of study and questions, methodologies, and the relation of the field to other disciplines, such as history of science and technology, material culture studies, book history, and anthropology. The seminar consists of two parts. On Mondays, internationally recruited technical art historians offer their views on the field in a guest lecturer. On Tuesdays the guest lecture is followed by a reading class, a visit to a museum, or a conservation and restoration laboratory to discuss in more detail and in direct confrontation with material objects and readings the methodological issues addressed in the guest lecture. It is essential that students are able to take part in the sessions on Mondays and Tuesdays in order to follow the seminar. The first introductory session takes on place on Tuesday, 21 October 2014. close
Suggested reading
Background Literature:
Maryan W. Ainsworth, "From Connoisseurship to Technical Art History: The Evolution of the Interdisciplinary Study of Art", Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter, vol. 20.1 (2005), pp. 4-10; Erma Hermens, "Technical Art History: The Synergy of Art, Conservation and Science", in Mattthew Rampley, Thierry Lenain, Hubert Locher, Andrea Pinotti, Charlotte Schoell-Glass & Kitty Zijlmans, Art History and Visual Studies in Europe: Transnational Discourses and National Frameworks, Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2012, pp. 151-165. Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Frits Scholten & H. Perry Chapman (eds.), Meaning in Materials, 1400-1800, Netherlands Yearbook for Art History, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2012. close
11 Class schedule
Additional appointments
Tue, 2014-10-21 12:00 - 14:00 Mon, 2015-01-05 18:00 - 20:00 Tue, 2015-01-06 12:00 - 14:00 Tue, 2015-01-20 12:00 - 14:00Regular appointments
Mon, 2014-10-27 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2014-10-28 18:00 - 20:00
Mon, 2014-12-08 18:00 - 20:00
Mon, 2014-12-15 18:00 - 20:00
Mon, 2015-01-12 18:00 - 20:00
Mon, 2015-01-19 18:00 - 20:00
Tue, 2014-11-18 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2014-12-09 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2014-12-16 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2015-01-13 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2015-01-27 12:00 - 14:00