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The Stained-Glass of Margaret Agnes Rope - Shrewsbury Cathedral

Dr Claire FitzGerald will give a talk today on the early twentieth-century stained-glass artist Margaret Rope. It will take place at Shrewsbury RC Cathedral at 2pm in front of some of Margaret's greatest works. The lecture is one of the activities complementing the Margaret Rope ‘Untold Story’ exhibtion at the Shrewsbury Art Gallery.

Sat 24 Sep 2016, 09:12 | Tags: Public Engagement, Student Research, Research, General, Alumni

Artists' Critical Interventions into Architecture and Urbanism.

What happens when fine artists engage with architecture and urban space? What forms can such engagements take? What political issues arise at the junctures between these disciplines?

During the modern period, when artists and critics have often complained that fine art is overly remote from everyday life, one common way of overcoming this gap has been to draw on the greater social efficacy that architecture can seem to provide. However, in other instances artists have used their relatively autonomous position to criticise or interrupt the relationship between architecture, urbanisation and power.

This conference will explore these issues as they arise in practices spanning the period from the 1960s to the present, exploring intersections between art, architecture and urbanism both within and outside Europe and North America.

Organised by Bill Roberts, Teaching Fellow, History of Art.

Artists' Critical Interventions into Architecture and Urbanism,

15th – 16th July 2016, Institute of Advanced Study
Millburn House
University of Warwick

Concealment and Deception - Leamington Spa Art Gallery exhibition.

ECamouflage Exhibition postermeritus Professor Louise Campbell has worked with Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum to research the subject of the forthcoming exhibition, Concealment and Deception: The Art of the Camoufleurs of Leamington Spa 1939-45. The exhibition tells the story of the camouflage establishment based in Royal Leamington Spa during World War 2. The Civil Defence Camouflage Establishment was founded at the start of the war with Nazi Germany to develop camouflage for strategically important installations like factories, power stations and airfields. Later, in 1941, the CDCE was expanded to include a Naval Camouflage Section and renamed the Camouflage Directorate. The exhibition presents the work of the camouflage staff - often known as 'camoufleurs' - against the backdrop of life on the 'Home Front', and will display an important group of paintings, watercolours and drawings by artists such as Mary Adshead, Dorothy Annan, Stephen Bone, Louis Duffy, Evelyn Dunbar, Eric Hall, Cedric Kennedy, Edwin La Dell, Colin Moss and James Yunge-Bateman.

Concealment and Deception: The Art of the Camoufleurs of Leamington Spa 1939 - 1945

Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, 22 July – 16 October 2016

Mon 11 Jul 2016, 16:48 | Tags: Exhibitions, Public Engagement, Impact, Research, General

Bill Roberts - History of Art interview at the Mead Gallery.

History of Art research fellow Bill Roberts will interview Lucy Bradnock this week at the Mead Gallery on the subject of East vs West: Another Minimalism. This public event is associated with the exhibition Another Minimalism - Art After California Light and Space. Dr Bradnock is Assistant Professor in History of Art at the University of Nottingham, and has a specialist interest in the role of California in post-war American art. Dr Roberts has a research interest in the legacy of Minimalism in contemporary art. Tickets are free but booking is required.
26 May 2016 at 6.00 p.m. MEAD GALLERY

Air & the Visual - Amanda Sciampacone chairs session at AAH 2016.

History of Art Research Fellow Amanda Sciampacone will be convening an academic session in Edinburgh this Saturday. Air and the Visual seeks to investigate the relationship between air and representation, and to address issues of the visible in the invisible and the material in the immaterial. Find out MORE.

 
AAH2016 Annual Conference and Bookfair
University of Edinburgh
7 - 9 April 2016
 

Exhibition: Boydell's Vision - The Shakespeare Gallery in the 18th Century.

Dr Rosie Dias has worked with staff at Compton Verney to create an exhibition displaying the history of the Shakespeare Gallery which opened in 1789 on Pall Mall. Using Shakespeare as a vehicle for the development of a national form of history painting, the print publisher John Boydell commissioned prominent painters, sculptors and printmakers of the day, including George Romney, Henry Fuseli and James Northcote, to produce works depicting scenes from all of Shakespeare's plays. The exhibition includes examples of this work, as well as a digital reconstruction of The Shakespeare Gallery as it looked in 1796.

19 March 2016 to 19 June 2016
Compton Verney
Warwickshire
CV35 9HZ
Mon 07 Mar 2016, 13:49 | Tags: Exhibitions, Digital Humanities, Public Engagement, Research, General

Conference to honour the late Richard Morris.

Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology: a day seminar in celebration of the work of Dr Richard K. Morris

Richard MorrisRichard Morris (1943- 2015) lectured at the University of Warwick in the Department of History of Art for 27 years during which time he taught countless students and demonstrated his breadth of knowledge in architectural analysis. He is best known for his work on the Middle Ages and his creation of the unique 10,000 item strong mouldings archive. This conference will celebrate the work and contribution of Richard Morris through an exploration of topics, themes and places that were of particular relevance to his core interests by his contemporaries, those whom he taught and influenced and new scholars reassessing the architecture of the late Middle Ages. It will present new research with an aim of sparking fresh debate and, in line with Richard’s own greatest passion, to enable a wide range of scholars and students to participate in active and positive exchange.

This conference has been organised by

  • The British Archaeological Association
  • The Ancient Monuments Society
  • The Courtauld Institute of Art

Saturday 20 February 2016 - 9:45 am - 6:00 pm

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN. 


Seminar in Rome - Bertel Thorvaldsen & Great Britain.

Professor Michael Hatt has co-organised an event about the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and Britain, which will take place at the Danish Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome next week. The seminar, convened with Lene Østermark-Johansen from the University of Copenhagen and Margrethe Floryan from Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, brings together scholars from Denmark, Britain, Italy and the United States.

19-20 January 2016.
Accademia di Danimarca & British School at Rome.
 

Emeritus Professor Michael Rosenthal presents paper at Tate Britain.

Professor Michael Rosenthal will speak on 'Augustus Earle: Seeing Straight' at the Tate Britain conference Artist and Empire: New Dynamics which begins this week.

Tate Britain’s major conference marks the opening of the exhibition Artist and Empire. Scholars, curators and artists from around Britain and the world consider art created under the conditions of the British Empire, its aftermath, and its future in museum and gallery displays.


Art History PhD graduate has an article in the latest edition of Exchanges.

Recent PhD graduate and WATE award winner Ann Haughton has an article in the latest edition of Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal. The article, 'Myths of Male Same-Sex Love in the Art of the Italian Renaissance', can be read online in the Exchanges journal.

Reference: Exchanges: the Warwick Research Journal, [S.l.], v. 3, n. 1, p. 65-95, sep. 2015. ISSN 2053-9665.


Colloquium - Rethinking Allegory, 30th October 2015.

RETHINKING ALLEGORY
The Warburg Institute
30 October 2015

Over the past several decades allegory has emerged as a prominent subject across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Allegory is all that traditional scholarship has said it is: a rhetorical figure, a mode of literary and artistic representation, a religious as well as secular hermeneutic practice. It is, however, much more than that: a protean cultural force which has left a deep imprint on the Western tradition, and whose full impact is only beginning to come to light. Hosted by the Warburg Institute, one of the key sites for the study of the allegorical tradition, this colloquium aims to showcase some of the most exciting research in contemporary allegory studies and further the vibrant current debate on the subject.

Keynote: Brenda Machosky (University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu). Speakers: Andreas Beyer (University of Basel), Matthias Bruhn (Humboldt University, Berlin), Jason Crawford (Union University), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary, University of London), Kristen Poole (University of Delaware), Michael Silk (King's College, University of London).

Organisers: Karen Lang (Warwick) and Vladimir Brljak (Cambridge).

Visit the conference web page for more information.


New PhD by Research Scholarship for Venetian Renaissance Painting.

 
Navigating the Canals: Making and Moving Venetian Renaissance Paintings.
 
A project aiming to recover lost processes though a combined study of historical records and technical evidence from the paintings themselves.
 
Warwick University with the National Gallery, London AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship.


Closing date: 1st May 2015.

 
Mon 20 Apr 2015, 08:09 | Tags: Student Research, Funding, Research, Postgraduate, General

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