Academic Sessions: Glasgow 2010
AAH Annual Conference 2010
15 - 17 April, University of Glasgow
Objects, Art History and Display
Session Convenors:
Heather Birchall, Chair, M&E Group, heather.birchall@manchester.ac.uk
Marika Leino, M&E Group committee member, marika.leino@hoa.ox.ac.uk
This session will consider how past and present museum display has been subject to the changing narratives, art historical and other, that have shaped the meanings, as well as the fortunes of objects, during their history. The shifting status of individual works of art, or types of object, has presented museum curators and academics with complex scenarios requiring levels of interpretation both in public display and academic discourse. From their potential commission/purchase and initial use and display, objects have often been transplanted from their original contexts, they may have been in and out of fashion, displayed in public or private collections and sometimes discarded or disposed of, creating a multifaceted picture which often requires extensive unravelling. This session will particularly welcome papers considering the art historical and museological challenges of presenting such fluctuating object narratives to a wider public.
Speakers:
Helen Wyld (The National Trust)
Hardwick Hall and the Reinvention of History
Alan Crookham (The National Gallery, London)
Layard’s Legacy
Halona Norton-Westbrook (University of Manchester)
The Curatorial Interpretation of the Works of Jean Baptiste-Greuze in the Wallace Collection
Per Widen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Oden and the Charles’s. A royalistic monument and the problem of display when it is no longer needed.
Debbie Challis (Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College, London)
Lifelike Portraits or Funeraray Goods? The Case of the Hawara Mummy Panels
Alex Woodall (Manchester Art Gallery)
Lost and Found: Mary Greg and the Bygones
Helen Scott (University of St Andrews)
Playing with Fire: Iconoclastic Narratives in Museum Displays
Catherine Phillips (University of Glasgow)
Museum Display in a Changing Ideological Framework: The Hermitage Museum in the 20th Century