Description
Overthe
last
decade,
the
study
of
nineteenth-‐century
art,
modernity
and
Empire
has
been
a
particularly
lively
arena
of
debate
as
scholars
have
sought
ways
to
characterize
the
diverse
roles
visual
culture
plays
in
imperial
and
colonial
networks.
Forms
of
cosmopolitanism,
international
networks
and
cultural
exchanges
have
been
prioritized
in
order
to
disrupt
the
entrenched
national
frameworks
by
which
visual
culture
of
particular
regions
has
often
been
circumscribed.
The
aim
of
this
workshop
is
to
explore
how
questions
of
global
modernity
and
Empire
“look”
from
distinct
and/or
multiple
geographic
vantage
points.
Despite
renewed
interest
in
global
visual
cultures,
the
conversations
still
tend
to
remain
siloed
within
discrete
geographic
domains
–
for
example
the
debates
about
British
art
and
Empire
rarely
intersect
with
the
Orientalism
debate.
So
too,
parallel
and
divergent
regional
developments
in
nineteenth-‐century
Australian
and
American
art
are
rarely
considered.
To
encourage
conversation
across
these
boundaries
we
are
bringing
together
scholars
working
on
Empire
and
visual
culture
from
geographically
diverse
contexts:
Australasia,
Britain,
the
Americas,
the
Maghreb
and
the
Ottoman
Empire.
What
are
the
key
terms
that
characterize
the
role
visual
culture
played
in
international
networks
of
exchange
from
the
geographic
context
in
which
you
work?
To
coincide
with
the
visit
of
Timothy
Barringer
to
Sydney,
we
have
initiated
this
closed
workshop
where
engagement
with
this
methodological
question
is
intended
to
spark
dialogue
across
geographic
divides.
The
workshop
will
be
held
over
two
days:
27―28
February
2014
(Thursday
and
Friday).
On
Day
1
(27
Feb.),
each
participant
will
present
a
short
(10-‐15
minutes)
informal
case-‐study
of
an
individual
art
work
of
their
own
choosing
in
order
to
prompt
roundtable
discussion.
The
roundtable
format
has
been
chosen
to
promote
collegial
conversation
and
encourage
fresh
perspectives.
On
Day
2
(28
Feb.),
the
group
will
engage
with
items
from
the
special
collections
at
the
Mitchell
Library,
where
issues
raised
in
and
insights
gained
from
the
previous
day’s
conversations
will
be
highlighted—and
perhaps
even
resolved—when
applied
to
archival
objects.
We
hope
that
these
congenial
but
intensive
proceedings
will
generate
new
understandings
of
the
intersections
of
art
and
empire.
| Period | 27 Feb 2014 → 28 Feb 2014 |
|---|---|
| Event title | Invited Paper 'Provincialising Japonisme: Photograph Albums and Interregional Exchange', Global Empires and Visual Culture, Department of Art History and Film Studies, University of Sydney, and the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| Event type | Other |
| Sponsor |