Research Events
Past Speakers (since 2020)
'Sculpture Victorious' exhibition opens in the US.
A major exhibition co-curated by Michael Hatt of the Department of History of Art opened in the United States last week.
Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837-1901 has been organised by the Yale Center for British Art, in partnership with Tate Britain, where the show will travel in the spring. Find out more.
Warwick Alumni Return to Work on Research Project
Three Warwick graduates have been back to work on the Pontigny project with Dr Jenny Alexander of the History of Art department and Prof. Terryl Kinder of Pontigny. Rosie Harris Adamson and Lucy Henderson were awarded scholarships for the URSS Pontigny Project in 2011 and they were joined by Agatha Gomolka, a MA student from the department, who is now working on her PhD. Another Pontigny Project team member, Roo Alexander-Jones, the team's film maker, who graduated from Oxford Brookes university last summer, completed the team.
The team was trying out some new equipment derived from the optics used by bird-watchers and for the first time it was possible to find and record the marks made by the stonemasons who built the vaults high up in the building. The results are now being processed, but it is already clear that the team's work has provided vital new evidence about the relationship between the high vaults and the main stucture of the building, and this will resolve a long-standing question about Cistercian builders and their place in early-Gothic architecture.
New Florence Biennale 2013
In his introduction to the Biennale, the artistic director Rolando Bellini quotes from Dr Karen Lang's book Chaos and the Cosmos: on the Image in Aesthetics and Art History: "Of note, in her afterword, Toward an Aesthetic Way of Knowing, Lang affirms that 'the aesthetic object remains a stubbornly ethical presence in the age of capitalism'."
Karen Lang delivers her conference paper: Ethics and the Void in the Art of Anish Kapoor.
Conference: Neo-Humanism: Art, Ethics, and Aesthetics at the Dawn of the new Millennium - In Memory of Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. Date: 3 December 2013. Location: Salone dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.