Lectures

Looking at art, writing its history

First lecture: January 7, 2011
Last lecture: February 25, 2011

Seminars

Methods in Art history. Current status.

Tuesday, May 10

9.30 a.m. Roland Recht
Introduction

9.45 a.m. Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot, Chief Heritage Curator, Boarder, Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA, or French National Institute for Art History), Paris
The collection of sculptures at the Musée des Monuments Français (museum of French monuments): a new ongoing study

11 a.m. Laurent Le Bon, Director of the Centre Pompidou, Metz
The dwarf and the void

Break

14:30 p.m. Jérémie Koering, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, or French National Center for Scientific Research), André Chastel Center (UMR 8150), Paris
Greco the Wild : Thoughts on the Modena Triptych

15:45 p.m. Claire Mazel, Centre de recherches en histoire internationale et atlantique (C.R.H.I.A., or Center for Research on International and Atlantic History), University of Nantes
The Expected and Unexpected in Reception History

Wednesday, May 18

9.30 a.m. Roland Recht
Introduction

9.45 a.m. Jan Blanc, Associate Professor, University of Geneva, Modern-age Art History
Art History Meets Complexity: Case Study and Deconstruction Issues

11 a.m. Michel Hilaire, Director of the musée Fabre , Montpellier
The Montpellier Trilogy : Fabre, Raoux, Cabanel, or How to Display Academic Art today in a Major Regional French Museum

Break

14:30 p.m. Mathilde Arnoux, German Center for Art History, Paris
The Concept of Reality in Visual Arts in France, in the Federal Republic of Germany, in the Democratic Republic of Germany and in Poland, 1960 to 1989: An Ongoing Project's Challenges and Issues.

15:45 p.m. Laurence Bertrand Dorleac, Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Institute of Political Studies), Paris
Figures of Decline, from 1914