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Icons in the making
Icône. La fabrique matérielle du visuel
Published on Monday, March 23, 2020
Abstract
This conference-workshop invites art historians, conservators and conservation scientists to collectively analyse how visual effects in icons are created by the accumulation of layers, which, visible or invisible, participate fully in their final appearance. How to bring into dialogue different methods of analysis, historical, stylistic, iconographic and material, in order to understand the emergence of forms and the processes of creation?
Announcement
We are happy to release the call for paper for the conference-workshop Icons in the making, that will be held in Paris on January 25-26, 2021
Argument
This conference-workshop will be held at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art with the support of the Musée du Louvre, the Petit-Palais - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris and the Directorate of Conservation of Ancient and Modern Monuments-Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
This conference-workshop invites art historians, conservators and conservation scientists to collectively analyse how visual effects in icons are created by the accumulation of layers, which, visible or invisible, participate fully in their final appearance. How to bring into dialogue different methods of analysis, historical, stylistic, iconographic and material, in order to understand the emergence of forms and the processes of creation? It is a question of concretely apprehending gestures of creation and re-creation of icons through time, workshop practices, interventions linked to maintenance, repair and, more generally, to the transformation of icons, in order to write their history on the long term, and to make technical art history participate in a history of social and religious practices.
The conference-workshop follows the workshop organized in December 2019 in Athens by Greek institutions (University of the Aegean, ArticonLab-University of West Attica, Directorate of Conservation of Ancient and Modern Monuments-Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Benaki Museum) and INHA, focusing on the Greek and Ethiopian cases. It is designed to broaden the subject to the Mediterranean area and the Slavic world. The themes addressed should make it possible to review current research, applied or fundamental, on the questions of creation and transformation of icons, for updating or maintenance and, more recently, for conservation-restoration; the dissemination of icons as well as possible transfers of materials, techniques and models between the various traditions. Eventually, the question of attribution to an author, a workshop or a centre can also be addressed. This two-day conference will also be an opportunity to review recent updates of icon collections in France - purchase, conservation-restoration, exhibition.
Visits of icon collections will be organized during these two days in the partner institutions, with specific discussions on some case study.
Submission guidelines
Proposals for papers should be sent to Sigrid Mirabaud (sigrid.mirabaud@inha.fr) and Claire Bosc-Tiessé (claire.bosc-tiesse@inha.fr) in the form of an abstract of no more than 2000 characters, and should be accompanied by a short one-page CV. Multidisciplinary two-voice communications are strongly encouraged.
Do not hesitate to send your propositions even without certainties to be able to participate, we are setting up a videoconferencing system to allow people to participate remotely.
The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2020.
Organising committee
- Sigrid Mirabaud (INHA)
- Claire Bosc-Tiessé (INHA)
- Nicolas Varaine (INHA)
- Raphaëlle Ziadé (Petit Palais, Musée desBeaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris)
- Nicolas Milovanovic (Musée du Louvre)
- Irène Léontakianakou (University of theAgean)
Scientific committee
- Sigrid Mirabaud (INHA)
- Claire Bosc-Tiessé (INHA)
- Irène Leontakianakou (University of the Aegean)
- Athina-Georgia Alexopoulou (Articon Lab,University of West Attica)
- Raphaëlle Ziadé (Petit Palais, Musée desBeaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris)
- Nicolas Milovanovic (Musée du Louvre)
Subjects
- Representation (Main category)
- Zones and regions > Europe > Central and Eastern Europe > Russian and former Soviet worlds
- Mind and language > Religion > History of religions
- Periods > Middle Ages > High and Late Middle Ages
- Mind and language > Representation > History of art
- Periods > Early modern
- Zones and regions > Europe > Mediterranean regions
- Mind and language > Epistemology and methodology > Corpus approaches, surveys, archives
Places
- INHA - Galerie Colbert - 2 rue vivienne
Paris, France (75002)
Date(s)
- Monday, June 15, 2020
Attached files
Keywords
- icône, matériau, technique, création, transformation, diffusion, transfert, attribution
Contact(s)
- Sigrid Mirabaud
courriel : sigrid [dot] mirabaud [at] gmail [dot] com
Information source
- Sigrid Mirabaud
courriel : sigrid [dot] mirabaud [at] gmail [dot] com
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Icons in the making », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Monday, March 23, 2020, https://doi.org/10.58079/14pq
