Academic Sessions 2013
39th Annual AAH Conference & Bookfair
University of Reading, Reading
11 - 13 April 2013
Sessions and Papers
- Celestial Bodies and their Orbit in Art
Maria Athanasekou (Art Historian), Anne Lawrence-Mathers (University of Reading), Evgenia Zouzoula (Archaeologist)
- (In)formal networks and the professionalisation of art and design history: Conversations with art and design historians
Liz Bruchet (Voices in Art History), Joanne Gooding (Design History Society)
- Form and Content: Considering the conflict between patronage and imagination in sculpture 1850–1945
Nicola Capon (University of Reading)
- Painted Gladiatrices: Women, art and the 18th-Century social arena
Heather Carroll, Lauren Puzier (Sotheby’s)
- Landscape and Economy
Kevin Chua (Texas Tech University), Ross Barrett (University of North Carolina)
- Henry Moore: Sculptural process and public identity reconsidered
Alice Correia (Tate), Robert Sutton (University of York/Tate)
- Medieval Remediations: Aesthetic, ideology, and praxis
Sonja Drimmer (British Library)
- Design Objects and the Museum
Liz Farrelly (University of Brighton and Design Museum), Joanna Weddell (University of Brighton and V&A)
- Poster Session
Susan Grange (Independent), Lawrence Buttigieg (Independent)
- The Art History of the Animal
Alastair Harden (University of Reading)
- Ceremonial and the City
Caroline Arscott (Courtauld Institute of Art), Pat Hardy (Museum of London)
- Horace Vernet (1789–1863) and the Thresholds of 19th-Century Visual Culture
Daniel Harkett (Rhode Island School of Design), Katie Hornstein (Dartmouth College)
- Rhythm in Art and Life
Michelle Ying-Ling Huang (Hong Kong Baptist University), Charlotte de Mille (Courtauld Institute of Art)
- ‘Action Painting’: The theatrical and the dramatic in narrative art
Mark Ledbury (University of Sydney), Andrei Pop (University of Basel)
- Shut your Eyes! Iconophobia in the modern era
Sarah Lippert (University of Michigan-Flint)
- The Permanence of the Transient: Precariousness in art
Camila Maroja (Duke University), Caroline Menezes (University of the Arts – UAL)
- The Knowing Gaze: The shifting role of the connoisseur and connoisseurship in art and its histories
Jordan Mearns (University of Edinburgh Jordan), Tom Denman (University of Reading)
- Into the Light: The changing significance of light in art, design and architecture
Melissa Miles (Monash University)
- The Imaginary Drinker: Bodies and beverages in art and society
Frédérique Desbuissons (Institut national d'histoire de l'art), Edward Payne (The Morgan Library & Museum)
- London’s Commercial Art Market: Art on sale and display from 1920 to now
Jennifer Powell, Tate Britain
- Thinking and Rethinking Exhibition Histories
Lucy Steeds (University of the Arts), Antony Hudek (Liverpool John Moores University)
- From Utopian Teleologies to Sporadic Historiographies: ‘Interfaces’ of art and cybernetics
Maia Toteva (Montana State University), Jennifer Way (University of North Texas)
- Twitchers: Birds and art
Tracey Warr (Oxford Brookes University), Paul Kilsby (Oxford Brookes University), Clair Chinnery (Oxford Brookes University)
- The Great War and Modern Architecture – 100 years on
Volker M. Welter (University of California at Santa Barbara), Iain Boyd Whyte (University of Edinburgh)
- Transnational Flows in European Fine Art Education 1900–2000
Marta Edling (Uppsala University), Maria Görts (Dalarna University), Hester Westley (Tate Research), Beth Williamson (Tate Research)
- Photography and the Histories of Sculpture: What role has photography played in forming sculpture’s place in art history?
Lisa Le Feuvre (Henry Moore Institute), Jon Wood (Henry Moore Institute)
- Image, Identity and Institutions: The male artist in 19th-century Britain
Colin Cruise (Aberystwyth University), Amelia Yeates (Liverpool Hope University)
- Student Session: Collaboration
Sibyl Fisher (University of Leeds), Nicola McCartney (Birkbeck)
- Visualising Architecture: Fictive buildings c.1300 – c.1750
Amanda Lillie (University of York)
Pagan Gods and Mythology in Medieval Sculpture
(Session Cancelled)
- Sculpture and the Sea: Figureheads and ship sculpture
Alison Yarrington (University of Hull), Douglas Hamilton (University of Hull and Maritime Historical Studies Centre), Julia Kelly (University of Hull)
- Museums & Exhibitions Session: Curating the Book: Exhibiting books, archives and manuscripts
Layla Bloom (Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds),
Ben Thomas (University of Kent)
- Art Works!
Jo Anna Isaak (Fordham University)