Contents

Academic Sessions 2007

 

  1. History and Class Consciousness and Art History
  2. Globalisation and Art since 1945: Disciplinary Renewal or Transformation?
  3. Irish Studies and History of Art: Impossible Dialogues? 
  4. Museums and the Construction of Art Histories 
  5. ‘1968’: Activitist Art and its Legacies 
  6. Photography between Poetry and Politics: The Critical Position of the Photographic Medium in Contemporary Art 
  7. Common Identities? From Post-Identity Discourse to Concepts of Community and Participation in Contemporary Art 
  8. Toward a New Age of Asian Art 
  9. Painting Workshops of the (17th century) World: Grounds for Contestation 
  10. Contesting Forms, Testing Functions: Dynamic Encounters between Sculpture, Decoration and Design 
  11. The Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis in a Post-Traumatic World
  12. Questioning Authority: Commercialism and the Academic Ideal in 18th-Century European Art 
  13. ‘We Capture the Walls’: The Politics of 20th-Century Muralism 
  14. Makers and Making Between Trauma and Cultural Memory 
  15. Contested Histories in German Visual Culture 1871-1990 
  16. Immaterial Culture? Things, Artefacts and Meanings 
  17. Contesting Childhood 
  18. Taking to the Streets: Art and the Architecture of Security Control 
  19. Representing the Monster City: Art History and Pathologies of Urban Development 1800-2007 
  20. Contested Evidence – Student Session 
  21. Contesting the Body: Art, Sexualities and Biogenetics 
  22. Beyond Recognition: The Outer Limits of Artistic Creation and Critical Reception after September 11th, 2001