Welcome to the 38th annual conference and bookfair On behalf of the Association of Art Historians and the department of History of Art at the Open University, we are delighted to welcome you all to the 38th Conference and Bookfair. The Open University was founded just over forty years ago, in 1969 and remains true to its motto: ‘Open to people, places, methods and ideas’. Walton Hall in Milton Keynes, where you are today, has always been the hub of the Open University’s unique structure of twelve regions, now thirteen regions and nations; through which teaching is still co-ordinated. Academics at Walton Hall prepare the course material that is then taught throughout the various regions and nations by approximately 100 Associate Lecturers. History of Art itself has been an integral part of the Faculty of Arts, encompassing the Humanities subjects from the beginning. It currently has eight full time members of staff, and three part time, who are based here at Walton Hall, as well as three Staff Tutors, who are based in the regions. The Department’s particular strengths lie in the European Renaissance, in Twentieth-Century Art, and in Architectural History. Student numbers, over a number of courses, have remained steady at around 1800. The Department also has strong and long standing links with local cultural institutions, such as the Milton Keynes Gallery, where Friday evening’s Reception will be held AAH 2012, bringing together convenors and speakers from around the world will serve to highlight, in difficult times, the variety and depth of Art History in the United Kingdom and beyond. The individual sessions cover a geographically and chronologically inclusive range while the international nature of our participants is a reflection of the diversity of both the Open University and of the AAH, as is the broad range of methodologies that will be on offer over the next couple of days. It only remains to say that the successful culmination of eighteen months work rests with the members of the Association (without whom there would be no Conference), its Executive Committee and above all the dedicated team based in the London office, Pontus Rosen, Claire Davies and Matt Lodder. Especial thanks are also due to Jannet King, editor of the Bulletin and to Peter Heatherington, who has designed not only the logos but also the programme you are now reading. At The Open University we would like thank our academic colleagues especially three successive 1 heads of Department, Linda Walsh, Kim Woods and Emma Barker and both Emma and Gill Perry for their assistance in the selection of session proposals. We also extend thanks to Karen Bradbury, the Events Manager at the Open University, who has been an invaluable guide throughout. In addition, we would like to thank Anthony Spira and Simon Wright of Milton Keynes Gallery for hosting Friday’s reception, also Philip Warner and Deborah Heaphy of the National Trust, and Vivien Hoare of the Open University for their help in organising and leading Thursday’s site visits. We are also extremely grateful to all our sponsors, especially Wiley Blackwell and Laurence King, advertisers and bookfair exhibitors. Above all, however, thanks are due to Cheryl Platt, who stepped in willingly as Conference Administrator at the eleventh hour and has done so much to carry the 38th Conference to a successful conclusion. Carol Richardson, Piers Baker-Bates & Veronica Davies 2 CONTENTS Page 4 General information 141 Sponsors 142 Bookfair Conference sessions 7 1 Fear 11 2 Aesthetics and Politics (Again?) 14 3 Material Culture and Identity in Spanish Europe 1200-1600 17 4 Travelling Artists in Medieval and Renaissance Italy and Europe 21 5 Art’s Insiders: New Histories of Europe’s Academies 24 6 Conflicting Art Histories: Dialogues of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century British Culture 28 7 Art History beyond National Boundaries 32 8 Photography, History, Difference 36 9 Confronting the ‘Balkans’: Post-Socialism, Post-Modernism and Contemporary Art Practice in South Eastern Europe since 1968 40 10 The Paradigm of Conceptual Art 45 11 Modernism’s Other: Lost Histories of Architecture 49 12 Art and Destruction 55 13 ‘Bad’ Painting 58 14 Walls with Stories: Mural Painting in Britain from the 1890s to the 1960s 62 15 Modernism’s Intermedialities: From Futurism to Fluxus 66 16 Scenes of the Obscene 70 17 Picturing Evolution and Extinction: Regeneration and Degeneration in Modern Visual Culture 75 18 Modernism and the West 79 19 Sculptural Film: Before and Beyond Richard Serra 83 20 ‘Your Photographs on our Walls’: Public-Generated Photography in Art Exhibitions 86 21 Feminisms of Multitudes 90 22 Sculpture and its Exhibition Histories 94 23 From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum: Theory and Practice 98 24 Tattoo Art History: Examining the Vernacular Body Arts 101 25 Copies and Translations: Re-placing the Original 107 26 Out of Time 113 27 Permeable Boundaries: Music and the Visual Arts 118 28 Walking Otherwise: One Foot After Another 122 29 Fashion, Vision and Visuality 126 30 Towards an Inclusive Sixties 130 31 AAH Student Session: The Everyday and the Extraordinary: Art History and Material Culture 134 32 Museum & Exhibitions Session: Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters 138 33 Poster Session 3 GENERAL INFORMATION Registration Messages Hub suite (see campus map) A message board is available adjacent to Registration and will display information about any Registration Opening Times changes to sessions. Thursday 29 March 12.00-17.00 Friday 30 March 09.00-17.00 On Campus Facilities Saturday 31 March 09.00-13.00 Facilities on the Walton Hall Campus are limited. There is a small newsagent that will be open from Conference Assistants 08.00 to 16.30 on Thursday and Friday only. Would Conference Assistants will be available throughout delegates please note especially that there are NO the conference to provide directions, information cash machine facilities on campus. and technical assistance Travel Bookfair Please ask at Registration for information on your Hub Theatre adjacent to Registration (see campus travel requirements, including bus timetables and map) numbers for local taxi firms. Bookfair Opening Times Luggage Storage Thursday 29 March 12.00-17.00 Space will be available to store delegates’ Friday 30 March 09.00-17.00 luggage on Saturday. Please ask for directions at Saturday 31 March 09.00-15.00 Registration. Details of exhibiting publishers can be found at the back of this handbook Refreshments Refreshments will be available in the Hub Suite. Please ensure you have your delegate badge visible Thursday: Tea and coffee: 15.30 Friday: Tea and coffee: 10.50 Packed lunch: 12.45 Tea and coffee: 15.20 Saturday: Tea and coffee: 10.50 Packed lunch: 12.45 Public catering facilities in the Hub complex will also be open from 08.00 to 16.30 on Thursday and Friday only 4 Plenary Events 38th Annual General Meeting of the Thursday 29 March Association of Art Historians 17.30 Plenary Lecture 12.45 – 14.00 Friday 30th March Berrill Lecture Theatre (see campus map) Christodoulou Meeting Room 15 (see campus map) Lord Puttnam, The AGM is open to all AAH members, whether or Chancellor of The Open University not they are attending the Annual Conference. The Sponsored by Laurence King Publishing Agenda is in the February Bulletin. Please bring your membership card with you and show it at the 18.30 Bookfair Reception door if requested. Hub Theatre Sponsored by Wiley Blackwell Publishing Presentation of John Fleming Travel Award and Special Interest Sessions AAH Prizes These are open to all delegates. See campus map for room locations. 20.00 Conference Dinner Origins Restaurant (in Hub complex) Thursday 29 March For delegates who have booked in advance Session 1, 12.15 - 13.15 Christodoulou Meeting Room 15 Friday 30 March REF 2014, Discussion Forum 17.30 Plenary Lecture Berrill Lecture Theatre (see campus map) Session 2, 16.15 - 17.15 Christodoulou Meeting Room 15 Penelope Curtis, Preparing to Publish Director, Tate Britain Building on History: A New Archaeology - Tate Saturday 31 March Britain and the Millbank Project Session 1, 13.00 - 13.45 Christodoulou Meeting Room 15 19.00 Reception Milton Keynes Gallery International Networks & Collaborations One-way coach transport provided. Delegates please meet outside Berrill Lecture Theatre Session 2, 13.00 - 13.45 at 18.30. Please note this is one-way and Christodoulou Meeting Room 11 delegates will need to arrange transport to Teaching Art History: A level upwards their accommodation afterwards. A number of restaurants are located in the vicinity of the Gallery. 5 Conference Visits Thursday 29 March 13.00 - 17.00 Claydon House Visits are to be pre-booked prior to the Claydon’s 18th-century interiors are amongst the conference. Please ensure you have your Visit finest in England. Chinoiserie, Rococo, Palladian Confirmation. For enquiries regarding visits, please and Neo-classical styles all jostle for position in go to Registration. a house designed to impress. Over 500 years of Verney family history play out within these walls. Bletchley Park Set amidst 52 acres of peaceful parkland, Claydon Historic site of secret British code-breaking is an inspirational place. activities during WWII and birthplace of the Meeting point: registration desk, 13.15, modern computer. Home of the infamous Enigma coach leaves at 13.30. Machines, Bletchley is synonymous with tales of Return: 16.00 arrive back 16.30 spies, strategic deception and mathematician Alan Transport: Coach Turing’s buried silver. Meeting point: registration desk, 13.15, Milton Keynes: Roman to Modern coach leaves at 13.30. Milton Keynes is a fascinating place. Often Return: 16.00 arrive back 16.30 perceived only as a postwar metropolis of concrete Transport: Coach roads and tower blocks Milton Keynes (and, of course, the concrete cows!), there is much more Woburn Abbey and Art Collection to this place than may first meet the eye.