Associate Professor Dr Claire Roberts: ‘Pierre Ryckmans: Artist and Art Historian‘ Pierre Ryckmans is best known for the writing on contemporary Chinese politics under the pen name Simon Leys in which he exposed the inhumanity […]
Discipline and Ensayos, along with Gertrude Contemporary, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and The Alderman, are pleased to present three lectures on recent Chilean art and art historiography by Chilean art historian, Carla Macchiavello. […]
Felicity Harley-McGowan ‘Being Blunt’: The art history ‘revolution’ in 1940s London In 1940, London was home to a thriving network of scholarly activity in the discipline of art history. Three books published in that […]
Boris Groys: Communist Art Historian Rex Butler It might seem strange to argue it, but Boris Groys, who made his name with The Total Art of Stalinism (1992), a brilliant analysis of the complicity between […]
The Legacies of Bernard Smith, Sydney, November 2012 Bernard Smith could rightly be called the founder of Australian art history, and his presence and influence in Australian cultural life was immense from the publication of Place, […]
Monographs in Art Historiography The aim of this series is to support and promote the study of the history and practice of art historical writing focussing on its institutional and conceptual foundations, from the past […]
Call for Papers After the New Art History (Birmingham, 26-27 Mar 2012) University of Birmingham, March 26 – 27, 2012 Deadline: Nov 11, 2011 Keynote Speakers: Griselda Pollock and Whitney Davis The term ‘new art history’ has […]
VASARI/500: Envisioning New Directions in Vasari Studies History of Art and Architecture Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 28-29 October 2011 Deadline: 15 May 2011 Courtier, architect and impresario of Duke Coismo de’Medici’s most famous […]
emaj (electronic Melbourne art journal) issue 5 is now available The editors are pleased to present the 2010 issue of emaj. This is the fifth issue of the journal, which was founded in 2005 as a […]
Call for Papers Vasari quincentenary: a re-evaluation of his work Deadline: June 1, 2011 2011 sees the fifth centenary of Vasari’s birth. To mark the event, the Journal of Art Historiography calls for articles, documents and […]
