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SUMMARY:[Distinguished Speaker Series] Dr. Kelli Wood: "The Athletic Arts in Early Modern Italy"
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kelli Wood: “The Athletic Arts in Early Modern Italy” \nWednesday\, April 24th\, 2024 // 4:00 PM EST \nVorhees Hall\, Room 001 // 71 Hamilton St\, New Brunswick\, NJ 08901 \nZoom Registration: https://tinyurl.com/dsswood \n  \nThis talk will explore the development and expression of the athletic arts in Renaissance Italy as they responded to intellectual\, courtly\, and civic revivals of antiquity as well as an unprecedented expansion of artisanal and professional work related to leisure. Girolamo Cardano classified sport as requiring two separate abilities\, “agility of body\, as with a ball; or of strength\, as with a discus and in wrestling\,” and in the sixteenth century exercises which emphasized agility over brute strength increasingly gained prominence as venues for the salubrious maintenance of physique and the performance of aristocratic masculine virtue during social and political conduct. A rhetorical slippage between sport and war frequently manifested itself in both artistic representations of and the performance of sport in order to ascribe the virtues of virility to aristocratic athletes. Yet the real or potential corporeal dominance of a brawny artisanal class\, a “rivalry not of birth\, but of strength and ability\, wherein villagers are quite a match for nobles\,” in the words of Castiglione\, also fundamentally influenced the regulation and representation of bodies through sport. The rising need for a professional class of athletes paid to perform on the street and as salaried members of courts\, experts who also wrote about and taught their athletic arts\, alongside the rising need for craftsmen to produce and manage equipment and spaces\, proved a complication to the maintenance and perception of social hierarchies. The codification of systems of rules and equipment\, far from simply reflecting a growing interest in athletics\, was a response in part to bodies on display\, and thusly created structures of supervision that consolidated control for powerful operators in homosocial networks. Sports were a central tool in literally and imaginatively shaping the bodies of early modern men and women within intersecting systems of bodily signification\, political performance\, and social decorum. \n  \nDr. Kelli Wood is an interdisciplinary researcher\, writer\, and curator whose work combines methods from art history\, game studies\, sports science\, and museology. In 2019 she joined the University of Tennessee as the Dale G. Cleaver Asst. Professor of Art History – Museum & Curatorial Studies following three years as a postdoctoral scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows. Wood’s research on the visual and material culture of games and sports spanning from Renaissance board games to contemporary video games has been published in journals such as Art History\, Renaissance Studies\, ArLis\, and in edited volumes and art magazines. Her first book based on her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago\, The Art of Play in Early Modern Italy\, is under contract with Amsterdam University Press. In 2021-2022 Wood undertook an NEH-Mellon Fellowship in Digital Publication for her project on digitizing board games from the Renaissance as playable video games. Her new scholarly projects turn toward sixteenth and seventeenth-century Goa\, India\, and her research as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to India in 2022-2023 is forthcoming in Renaissance Quarterly. Wood’s research has also been generously supported by the Fulbright Italy\, a CASVA Kress fellowship at the NGA\, and the Renaissance Society of America. Wood curated a permanent wing of the Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum\, A Global History of Sport\, which opened in 2022 for the FIFA World Cup. She serves as Field Editor of Early Modern Art for the College Art Association and an editor of The New Art Examiner.
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ahgso/event/distinguished-speaker-series-dr-kelli-wood-the-athletic-arts-in-early-modern-italy/
LOCATION:Vorhees Hall\, 71 Hamilton\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series
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SUMMARY:[Distinguished Speaker Series] Ömür Harmanşah: Fieldwork and Creativity in the Landscapes of the Anthropocene: Archaeology\, Politics\, and Cultural Heritage in The Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Ömür Harmanşah: Fieldwork and Creativity in the Landscapes of the Anthropocene: Archaeology\, Politics\, and Cultural Heritage in The Middle East \nWednesday\, November 29\, 2023 // 4:00 PM EST \nZimmerli Art Museum (MPR) // 71 Hamilton St\, New Brunswick\, NJ 08901 \nZoom Registration: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArcO2hrDgpGt2bXRlXxBfSUBC0rPImMVWx \n  \nEcological crises and global climate change have become matters of everyday concern for communities around the world. We live in an era of precarity and ecological anxiety that threatens landscapes and monuments of cultural heritage. What does it mean to practice fieldwork in such a tense present and what kinds of unexpected collaborations and new sensitivities are required to study landscapes\, monuments\, and their communities in the Anthropocene? In what ways can humanities contribute to debates on climate change? In this paper\, Professor Ömür Harmanşah presents the concepts of landscape and fieldwork as sites of creativity in thinking toward a resilient and politically engaged practice that engages with architectural heritage. \nÖmür Harmanşah is Director of the School of Art & Art History and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is an architectural historian and landscape archaeologist and his research and teaching focuses on the art\, architecture\, and material culture of ancient Western Asia. His more recent research is in environmental humanities\, addressing political ecology and cultural heritage in the Anthropocene. He is the author of Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East (Cambridge\, 2013)\, and Place\, Memory\, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments (Routledge\, 2015). He is also a co-author in Thames & Hudson’s new global art history textbook The History of Art: A Global View (2021). For fieldwork\, he has been directing Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project\, an archaeological survey in Turkey’s Konya province since 2010. He was also the Lead-PI for “Political Ecology as Practice: A Regional Approach to the Anthropocene” (2017-2019)\, funded by the Humanities Without Walls Consortium with a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. His current book project is titled Landscapes of the Anthropocene: Archaeology\, Fieldwork\, and the Politics of Heritage in the Middle East (under contract with Routledge).
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ahgso/event/distinguished-speaker-series-omur-harmansah-fieldwork-and-creativity-in-the-landscapes-of-the-anthropocene-archaeology-politics-and-cultural-heritage-in-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Art Museum\, 71 Hamilton St\, New Brunswick\, New Jersey\, 08901\, United States
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SUMMARY:[Distinguished Speaker Series] Dr. Christiane Gruber: From ISIS to the AfD: Ultraist Rhetoric and Visuality in Orientalist Concurrence
DESCRIPTION:From ISIS to the AfD: Ultraist Rhetoric and Visuality in Orientalist Concurrence \nDr. Christiane GruberSeptember 22 from 3:00pm – 4pm ESTVoorhees Hall\, room 001\, followed by a receptionZoom registration: bit.ly/CGruber \nWhen ISIS militants burst onto the scene more than six years ago\, journalists and pundits were quick to label the Islamist group a medieval martial movement. Since then\, however\, scholars have shown how this particular extremist group – one among many ultraist socio-political formations active worldwide – should in fact be considered hyper-modern in its use of futuristic-nostalgic rhetoric\, astutely crafted visual messaging\, and vast portfolio of media and communication technologies. \nAs of late\, however\, ISIS has been outstripped in sheer production and online presence by right-wing political groups in Europe and the United States\, such as Identity Evropa\, Alternativ für Deutschland\, Act for America\, and Stop Islamization of America. A close analysis of the rhetorical and visual production of these Euro-American extremist and hate groups reveals not a diametric clash with ISIS’s own output but rather a concurrence in symbolic lexica\, in which\, above all\, a new form of Orientalism – of anathemizing the perceived other – is asserted to craft and entrench a nativist stance. This “border security” stance involves a range of identity-based taxonomic simplifications as well as a calculated visual instrumentalization of fears linked to migration\, miscegenation\, and misogyny. \nDr. Christiane Gruber is Professor of Islamic Art and Former Chair in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan as well as Founding Director of Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online. Her scholarly work (available here) explores medieval to contemporary Islamic art\, especially figural representation\, depictions of the Prophet Muhammad\, manuscripts and book arts\, architecture\, and modern visual and material cultures. Her two most recent publications include The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images and The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World\, and her public-facing essays have appeared in Newsweek\, The Conversation\, New Lines\, Jadaliyya\, and Prospect Magazine\, among others.
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ahgso/event/distinguished-speaker-series-dr-christiane-gruber/
LOCATION:Vorhees Hall (VH001)\, 71 Hamilton Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Speaker Series: Cuauhtémoc Medina\, "Designing an Era: Vicente Rojo’s Role in Mexican Culture"
DESCRIPTION:Cuauhtémoc Medina\nDesigning an Era: Vicente Rojo’s Role in Mexican Culture \nRegistration Link: https://bit.ly/3I4mppE \nMexicans from the second half of the 20th century were likely to have found a common element in the identity of the posters\, book covers and cultural supplements and magazines they consumed: most of them were likely to have been designed by the same hand: painter\, designer and editor Vicente Rojo (1932-2021). Few times in history\, a single person has been so influential in creating the visual culture of an era\, as Rojo was for Mexican culture. Vicente Rojo\, a Catalan emigré that moved to Mexico in 1949 escaping from Franco’s dictatorship in Spain\, conceived graphic design as a form of cultural service\, radically opposed to his devotion to abstract painting that he understood as a radically non-committed and personal practice. This talk will examine Vicente Rojo´s leading role as the provider of an aesthetic semblance for dominant Mexican modern culture\, the distant dialogue between his painting and design\, with particular emphasis in his artist books collaborations with writers such as Octavio Paz\, José Emilio Pacheco or José Miguel Ullan. \n  \nCuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico City\, December 5\, 1965) \nArt critic\, curator\, and historian holds a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art from the University of Essex in Britain. Since 1993 he has been a full-time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and between 2002 and 2008 was the first Associate Curator of Art Latin American Collections at the Tate Modern. He is currently Chief Curator at the MUAC Museum in Mexico City. \nIn 2012\, Medina was Head Curator of the Manifesta 9 Biennial in Genk\, Belgium\, titled The Deep of the Modern\, in association with Katerina Gregos and Dawn Ades. In 2018 he was chief curator of the 12th Shanghai Biennial titled “Progress. Art in the age of historical ambivalence” at the Power Station of Art. \nIn 2012 he became the sixth recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement of the Menil Foundation. Among many publications\, he has recently published a collection of his essays on Mexican art titled: Abuso Mutuo (Mutual Abuse)\, RM and Cubo Blanco\, 2017 and the book Olinka: El sueño del Dr. Atl in 2019. \n 
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ahgso/event/distinguished-speaker-series-cuauhtemoc-medina-designing-an-era-vicente-rojos-role-in-mexican-culture/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211105T170000
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr.  Deborah Ascher Barnstone\, "The Color of Modernism: Paints\, Pigments and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany"
DESCRIPTION:Date: Friday\, November 05 from 5:00pm – 7:00pm EST. \nRegistration: http://bit.ly/3DtZWQe \n  \nOne of the most enduring and pervasive myths about early modernism is that it was white. This was never true anywhere in Europe\, least of all in Germany where Bruno Taut published his famous “Call to Coloured Architecture” in 1919 before leading a motley effort to invent new ways of using colour in architecture and urban design. This talk\, based on a new book with the eponymous title\, will dismantle the myth of whiteness by examining five different theoretical interpretations of scientific and artistic colour theory advanced by members of the German avant-garde. Often working closely with contemporary artists\, 1920s architects in Germany developed an astonishing breadth of approaches that ranged from using colour as surface ornament to colour as space-making agent to colour as the agent of emotional charge to colour as the quality that could dissolve the surface of a wall to make physical enclosure and architecture abstract entities. Thus\, colour was integral to the spatial quality of design\, not applied as an afterthought\, and a key aspect of the work of many avant-garde architects developing new aesthetic systems. \nDeborah Ascher Barnstone is Professor of Architecture and Head of School at University of Technology Sydney. A graduate of Barnard College\, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation and Delft University of Technology\, she is both a practicing licensed architect and an architectural historian. Barnstone’s primary research interests are in interrogating the origins of modernism and exploring the relationships between art\, architecture\, and culture more broadly. Her monographs include The Break with the Past: German Avant-garde Architecture\, 1910-1925 (Routledge: 2018)\, Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Weimar Breslau\, 1918-1933 (University of Michigan Press: 2016)\, and The Color of Modernism: Paints\, Pigments and the Transformation of Modern Architecture in 1920s Germany (Bloomsbury 2021). Recent publications include articles in Journal of Architecture\, Journal of Design History\, and New German Critique.
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ahgso/event/distinguished-speaker-series-dr-deborah-ascher-barnstone-the-color-of-modernism-paints-pigments-and-the-transformation-of-modern-architecture-in-1920s-germany/
LOCATION:NJ
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Ana María Reyes\, Boston University
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: When Colombian artist Beatriz González brought furniture assemblages associated with the most private spaces of the domestic sphere into the museum\, they disrupted spectators’ expectations. In dialogue with a rapidly globalizing art world\, they engaged concurrent artistic practices such as assemblages\, ready-mades\, and installations. They also made visible the porous and mutually reinforcing domains of public and private life. They complicate the status of commodities as either functional or fetish\, and toy with the boundary between the sacred and the profane. Transgressing the boundaries of artistic autonomy\, these works converge into the social and political. In so doing\, they invite their audiences to recognize and critique the politicized character of private life and identity-formation during the Cold War.\n\nBio: Dr. Ana María Reyes is an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture\, Center for Latin American Studies and American and New England Studies at Boston University. She is also Affiliated Researcher at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and founding member of the Symbolic Reparations Research Project. Her book The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics (Duke University Press\, 2019) was awarded the Association of Latin American Art History’s Arvey Award for best book in 2020. The book studies symbolic violence in the context of Cold War aesthetic and modernization discourses. She co-edited with Maureen Shanahan Simón Bolívar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon (University Press of Florida\, 2016) on cultural bolivarianisms as a case for the arts and humanities in democratic thinking. She is currently working on a new book\, To Weave and Repair: Symbolic Reparations in Colombia’s Peace Process. \n\n\nRegister in advance at this link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclfu2rqj4jE9ReOi_8vKeThYZ4xMuIOLGr
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ahgso/event/dr-ana-maria-reyes-boston-university/
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Mrinalini Rajagopalan\, "Dancing and Diplomacy: The Arts of Hospitality at the Court of Begum Samru (1805-1836)"
DESCRIPTION:In the 1830s\, Lt. Thomas Bacon recalled the grand celebrations on Christmas Eve given by the Begum Samru\, dowager ruler of a small principality in northern India. High mass was followed by nautch (Indian dance)\, fireworks\, and sumptuous feasts for a large number of guests. Bacon was an officer with the East India Company (EIC)\, and he found it hard to reconcile that the “enlightened British community” were “doing homage and seeking favor at her footstool\, or even condescending to partake of her hospitality.” Begum Samru was the widow of a European mercenary soldier who had decades before massacred several EIC officers. Despite the fact that she bore the name of this “diabolical character” the begum had become a close ally of the EIC and frequently hosted them on occasions such as that described by Bacon. Dances\, feasts\, and fêtes were key instruments of hospitality in nineteenth-century India and the begum understood well the power of conviviality as diplomacy. This presentation focuses on the materiality and aesthetics of the begum’s hospitality—the tents where nautch was organized\, the salons where banquets were hosted\, and the Catholic church where Christmas Mass was held. While there are many textual descriptions of dancing\, feasting\, and celebration hosted by the begum\, there are no visual records of the same. This presentation thus also addresses the methodological challenge of writing a history of the “unpictured”. Creating a composite history for Begum Samru requires a collation of archival fragments and the translation of contemporary visual records centered largely on men. By contending with the “unpictured” history of the begum’s hospitality I hope to spark a discussion on how powerful women are remembered\, and forgotten\, in the visual record.\n\n\n\n\n\nRajagopalan DSS
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ahgso/event/dr-mrinalini-rajagopalan-dancing-and-diplomacy-the-arts-of-hospitality-at-the-court-of-begum-samru-1805-1836/
LOCATION:NJ
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Speaker Series,Public Events
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Susanna Berger\, "Anamorphic Revelations and Justifiable Obscurity
DESCRIPTION:In late sixteenth-century Italy\, the rhetorical foundations of sacred visual art were laid out directly by Gabriele Paleotti (1522–1597)\, the Bishop of Bologna\, who wrote in his famous post-Tridentine treatise that images “are supposed to move the hearts of observers to devotion and the true cult of God”. Given the long-standing elevation of clarity in the West from Aristotle onwards as a rhetorical virtue and the concomitant criticism of obscurity as an obstacle to persuasive discourse\, the popularity in Counter-Reformation circles of anamorphic images\, which plunge observers into states of perceptual confusion\, is somewhat counter-intuitive. This talk argues that the contrast between confusion and clarity evoked by anamorphoses made the experience of distinctness or clear perception without obscurity particularly palpable. I also contend that visual discernment gained through anamorphoses was understood to assist in a movement toward an experience of an inner\, spiritual discernment.
URL:https://sites.rutgers.edu/ahgso/event/dr-susanna-berger-anamorphic-revelations-and-justifiable-obscurity/
LOCATION:NJ
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