The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France: Representations of the ‘Summer Palace’ in the West

Organised by the Centre for Museology and funded by the Centre for Chinese Studies

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted, and then burnt, the imperial buildings in the Yuanmin- gyuan (or ‘Summer Palace’) in the north of Beijing. Over a million imperial ob- jects are estimated to have been taken from the site: many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums.

A two–day workshop at The University of Manchester

8th-9th July 2013

This two-day workshop will explore the ways in which objects from the Yuan- mingyuan have been represented in the West. It will be the first such event to combine approaches from specialists in the history of collecting with the views of curators of Yuanmingyuan objects.

Confirmed speakers include James Hevia (Chicago), Greg Thomas (Hong Kong), Nick Pearce (Glasgow), Vincent Droguet (Château of Fontainebleau).

For further details contact: louise.tythacott@manchester.ac.uk There is no charge for attendance but numbers are limited. To secure a place contact: hannah.mansell@manchester.ac.uk

Yuanmingyuan Workshop poster (pdf)

Jean-Luc Nancy has had to cancel his visit to Manchester

Art History and Visual Studies is very sorry to report that Jean-Luc Nancy has been ill and has had to cancel his visit to Manchester as our Pilkington Chair.

This is very disappointing for everyone, including Jean-Luc Nancy.

As there has been so much interest in his visit, all of us in AHVS would appreciate your help in spreading the word.

Thank you for your understanding and help.

Jean Luc Nancy: 2013 Pilkington Lectures

Two Lectures and a Masterclass

Monday, 3 June 2013

What Does ‘Politics’ Mean?

5:30 pm John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre, reception to follow

Tuesday, 4 June 2013

What Does ‘Art’ Mean?

5.30pm John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre

Special thanks to CIDRAL and French Studies for help in supporting these events.

Above: Pontormo, Visitation, 1528-29

Masterclass

Monday, 3 June 2013: 11am-1pm

Masterclass on his Noli Me Tangere: On the Raising of the Body

11-1pm John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre

Download the reading for the masterclass (5.7mb)

Special thanks to CIDRAL and French Studies for help in supporting these events.

Above: Titian, Noli Me Tangere, c.1514

Next AHVS talk ….

Wednesday 15 May

Anna Lovatt (The University of Manchester)

‘Wavelength: On Drawing, Sound and Frequency in Art since the 1960s’,

4.30pm Mansfield Cooper G20

Thursday Lates: An Evening of Fashion, Music, Art and Marcel Proust

An Evening of Fashion, Music, Art and Marcel Proust

Thursday 30 May 2013

6pm – 8.45pm

Join us to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way at Manchester Art Gallery in partnership with the University of Manchester.

Enjoy a multi-sensory journey back in time to the late 19th century Parisian salons from which the novel was born, and explore highlighted works from the Gallery’s collection that relate to Proust’s novel.

Musicians from RNCM will be in the Galleries performing chamber music inspired by late 19th century Paris.

A special guided tour will take you round the Galleries: starting with a talk by art historian Sophie Preston highlighting Proust’s relationship with Manchester, and finishing with a discussion by dress historian Wendy Ligon Smith on Proust’s beloved Delphos gown by Venetian designer Mariano Fortuny, newly on display.

Come early and enjoy a drink in our Cafe bar

For further information please visit the Gallery website.

Book here:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/6426033439#

Edward Wouk, AHVS talk, 24 April

Edward Wouk poster

To pop into your diaries for next week ……

“An Unbroken Tradition? Creation, Destruction, and the History of

Netherlandish Art”
Wednesday 24 April

4.30pm Mansfield Cooper G20

All Welcome

Wendy Ligon Smith, AHVS talk, 17 April

Wendy Ligon Smith

University of Manchester

“Mariano Fortuny amongst his theatre models in the atelier of Palazzo Orfei” c1904

“Fortuny’s Phantasmagoric Machines”

Wednesday 17 April
4.30pm Mansfield Cooper G20

All Welcome

Website: manchesterarthistory.wordpress.com
Calendar: bit.ly/ahvscal
Email: ahvsmanchesterresearch@gmail.com

CFP: Yinka Shonibare, Material Positions

Call for Papers

Yinka Shonibare MBE: Material Positions

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, 27 June 2013

Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Professor Angela McRobbie and Carol Tulloch

This one-day conference aims to explore the history and development since the mid 1990s of Yinka Shonibare’s work in the British context, and to examine its position within the global culture of contemporary art today. Led by the University of Huddersfield in association with Yorkshire Sculpture Park the conference accompanies Yinka Shonibare MBE: Fabric-ation, the UK’s most extensive exhibition to date of work in sculpture, film, photography and painting from 2002-2013 by the internationally renowned Anglo-Nigerian artist. We welcome papers from academics, artists and curators addressing aspects of the whole spectrum of Shonibare’s work.

300 word abstract and 100 word speaker biography to be submitted by Monday 15 April 2013

To be emailed to Dr Alison Rowley: a.j.rowley@hud.ac.uk and Dr Catriona McAra: c.f.mcara@hud.ac.uk Please send a copy to both addresses

Pilkington Lectures: Professor Victor Stoichita

Professor Victor Stoichita, Université de Fribourg:
‘The Don Quixote Effect’
Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 March 2013, 5.15pm, Mansfield Cooper Building, lecture theatre G21

Victor Stoichita, celebrated historian of early modern art, has published numerous ground-breaking studies, including: The Self-Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting, The sacred made real, Visionary experience in the golden age of Spanish Art’, and A short history of the shadow. He has also written extensively on Goya. Murillo’s self-portrait in London’s National Gallery forms the point of departure for his talks as Visiting Pilkington Professor.

Also on Thursday, 14 March 2013, 1t 11.30 in Roscoe Room 2.8, Prof. Stoichita will host an informal seminar open to all members of the University community. In advance of that seminar, participants are encouraged to read his contribution to the catalogue The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600-1700, which is on High Demand in the Main Library and available for consultation, along with the rest of Prof. Stoichita’s books in English, in the Art History Library in Mansfield Cooper.

*** Special opportunity for AHVS students: Prof. Stoichita will host office hours on Friday morning, 15 March, from 10.30 until 12.30, in David Lomas’s office. Any student interested in discussing his or her project is warmly invited to stop by. A sign up sheet will go up in advance.

For more information, see http://lettres.unifr.ch/fr/hist/histoire-de-lart-et-archeologie/collaborateurs-histoire-de-lart/hamc-victor-stoichita.html
and

http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/arthistoryvisualstudies/events/

Reading for masterclass: Bray-Ceballos-Sacred-Made-Real

Charlie Miller, 6 March, G20 Mansfield Cooper

“Negative Aura:
The Anti-Art of Magic”

Wednesday 6 March

4.30pm in Mansfield Cooper G20

All Welcome

Website: manchesterarthistory.wordpress.com

Calendar: bit.ly/ahvscal

Email: ahvsmanchesterresearch@gmail.com