AAH Conference 2009
2nd - 4th April 2009
Intersections
The 35th AAH conference was held at the Manchester Metropolitan University. It focussed on the intersections (connections, linkages, overlaps) of art history with different disciplinary, methodological, political and historical spaces. Three areas of intersection might be identified: between areas of convention and innovation within the discipline; between art history and its adjacent fields of inquiry, display and production; and between the subjects and objects of interpretative and historical practice. In this light, intersections can be understood as the convergence, however temporary or in-process, of art history's divergent values and practices.
Within the discipline, areas of intersection may encompass: the descriptive, interrogative, ethical, pedagogical and critical elements of art historical practice. Between art history and its adjacent fields lie the margins, overlaps and divisions that notions of intersectionality are able to highlight. Interactions with visual processes and practitioners invoke social worlds, individuals, performative and public spaces. The AAH09 conference provided a platform for the interrogation and exploration of these and other intersections that define and challenge art history.
Sessions
- Aesthetics and Art History: Converging Perspectives
Kathryn Brown, Alan Thomas - Art History and Art Criticism: Intersections, Disconnections, Non-Communications
Matthew Bowman, Stephen Moonie - Art History and its Global Provinces
Leon Wainwright, Adele Tan - Art, Nature and Technology
Maria Fabricius Hansen, Jacob Wamberg - Beyond the Visual
Lara Perry, Louise Purbrick - Crossings: Art, Medicine, Visual Culture
Suzannah Biernoff, Claudia Stein - Drawing in the Expanded Field
Anna Lovatt, Ed Krcma - 'Imaging and Imagining the Modern': Cosmopolitan Identities and Cultures of Consumption in Inter-war Europe and North America
Pat Kirkham, Andrew Stephenson - Inconsistency
Steven Gartside, Sam Gathercole - Intersectional Queer Visualities
Michael du Plessis, Robert Summers - Intimacy and Disparity: The Constructive Interference of Image in Relation with Text
Allen Fisher - Irishness and Intertextuality: Re-Reading the Visual in Irish Culture
Fionna Barber, Aidan Arrowsmith - Modernism and Antropofagia: Visual Culture and Authenticity in Latin America
Fabiola Martinez - Networked Cultures: Politics of Connectivity
Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer - Poster Session
Veronica Davies, Dennis Wardleworth - Public Disorder: Post-World War II European Art and Its Publics
Noit Banai, Hannah Feldman - Renaissance Intersections 1400–1600
Piers Baker-Bates, Jill Burke, Carol Richardson - Segues: Corporeal Theory, Site-Writing, e-Materiality
Penny Florence, Marsha Meskimmon, Jane Rendell - Skin
Tamara Trodd, Cordelia Warr - Student Session: And You Call Yourself an Art Historian? Navigating the Terrain of 'Cross/Trans/Inter-research'
Lara Eggleton, Clare O'Dowd - Surrealism & Non-Normative Sexualities
Dawn Ades, Jonathan Katz, David Lomas - 'The Elephant in the Room': The Art Market in Art History 1815–1945
Abigail Harrison Moore, Mark Westgarth - The Grand Tour at a Crossroads?
Sarah Betzer, Douglas Fordham - Tools of Trades: Articulating Sculptural Practice
Jyrki Siukonen, Jon Wood - What's the 'Social' in the Social History of Art?
Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Andrew Hemingway
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