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CROSSING CULTURES CONFLICT, MIGRATION and CONVERGENCE CROSSING CULTURES CONFLICT, MIGRATION and CONVERGENCE The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress of the History of Art Edited by PROFESSOR JAYNIE ANDERSON Contents Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 32ND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE HISTORY OF ART Professor Jaynie Anderson (ed.) Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence is a compilation of the conference papers from the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art organised by the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA), edited by conference convenor Professor Jaynie Anderson. Crossing Preface 3 Art Histories in an Interconnected World: Cultures is an in-depth examination of the effect of globalism on art and art history. Covering all Jaynie Anderson, Convenor of the 32nd Synergies and New Directions aspects of art—including traditional media, painting, sculpture, architecture and the crafts, as well International Congress in the History of Art xvii 10 Beyond the National, inside the Global: as design, film, visual performance and new media—it explores the themes of conflict, migration New Identity Strategies in Asian Art in 1 A Melbourne Conversation at the Town the Twenty-First Century and convergence in the visual, symbolic and artistic exchanges between cultures throughout history. Hall on Art, Migration and Indigeneity: John Clark, University of Sydney 58 What Happens when Cultures Meet? 11 Not Just Images but Art: Pragmatic 1 An Introduction to the Conversation Issues in the Movement towards a More Published June 2009 by The Miegunyah Press Gerard Vaughan, Director of the National Inclusive Art History 1,128 pages, fully illustrated throughout Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2 Howard Morphy, Australian National 2 Playing between the Lines: The Melbourne University, Canberra 60 Experience of Crossing Cultures 12 The World at Stake: CIHA after Melbourne Jaynie Anderson, University of Jaynie Anderson, University of Melbourne 4 Melbourne 63 3 Art in Transit: Give and Take in Dutch Art 13 Global Collections for Global Cities Ronald de Leeuw, Director of the Neil McGregor, Director of the British An imprint of Melbourne University Publishing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 10 Museum, London 65 4 Found in Translation Howard Morphy, Australian National 4 The Idea of World Art History Purchase online at the Melbourne University Publishing E-store University, Canberra 18 14 Introduction 1 5 Home and Away: Works of Art as Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Citizens and Migrants Princeton University 72 Michael Brand, Director of the John Paul 15 Introduction 2 Getty Museum, Los Angeles 21 Peter J Schneemann, Institut für 6 The Travels of a Mi’kmaq Coat: Kunstgeschichte, Bern 75 A Nineteenth-Century World Art History and Twenty-First-Century Cultural Politics Methodological and Ideological Perspectives Ruth B Phillips, Carleton University, 16 Neuroarthistory as World Art History: Ottawa 26 Why Do Humans Make Art and Why Do They Make It Differently in 2 Creating Perspectives on Different Times and Places? Global Art History John Onians, University of East Anglia, Available for purchase as: 7 Joe Burke’s Legacy: The History of Art Norwich 78 History in Melbourne 17 Towards Horizontal Art History Andrew Grimwade, Chairman of the Piotr Piotrowski, Adam Mickiewicz Paperback – AUD $200 Felton Bequest and Life Member of the University, Pozna´n 82 http://web.mup.unimelb.edu.au/e-store/product_info.php?cPath=49&products_id=198 Miegunyah Fund 32 18 Global Aspects on Johnny Roosval’s 8 The Art of Being Aboriginal Concept of the Artedominium E-book – AUD $150 Marcia Langton, University of Jan von Bonsdorff, Uppsala University 86 Melbourne 35 19 Putting the World in a Book: How http://web.mup.unimelb.edu.au/e-store/product_info.php?cPath=49&products_id=209 9 On Global Memory: Refl ections on Global Can Art History Be Today? Barbaric Transmission Parul D Mukherji, Jawaharlal Nehru Individual e-book chapters – AUD $4.99 each Homi K Bhabha, Harvard University 46 University, New Delhi 91 http://web.mup.unimelb.edu.au/e-store/product_info.php?cPath=49&products_id=209 http://web.mup.unimelb.edu.au/e-store/ vii 0531 CIHA_00_PRLIMS_4.indd vii 23/6/09 11:41:30 AM Contents Preface 3 Art Histories in an Interconnected World: Jaynie Anderson, Convenor of the 32nd Synergies and New Directions International Congress in the History of Art xvii 10 Beyond the National, inside the Global: New Identity Strategies in Asian Art in 1 A Melbourne Conversation at the Town the Twenty-First Century Hall on Art, Migration and Indigeneity: John Clark, University of Sydney 58 What Happens when Cultures Meet? 11 Not Just Images but Art: Pragmatic 1 An Introduction to the Conversation Issues in the Movement towards a More Gerard Vaughan, Director of the National Inclusive Art History Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2 Howard Morphy, Australian National 2 Playing between the Lines: The Melbourne University, Canberra 60 Experience of Crossing Cultures 12 The World at Stake: CIHA after Melbourne Jaynie Anderson, University of Jaynie Anderson, University of Melbourne 4 Melbourne 63 3 Art in Transit: Give and Take in Dutch Art 13 Global Collections for Global Cities Ronald de Leeuw, Director of the Neil McGregor, Director of the British Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 10 Museum, London 65 4 Found in Translation Howard Morphy, Australian National 4 The Idea of World Art History University, Canberra 18 14 Introduction 1 5 Home and Away: Works of Art as Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Citizens and Migrants Princeton University 72 Michael Brand, Director of the John Paul 15 Introduction 2 Getty Museum, Los Angeles 21 Peter J Schneemann, Institut für 6 The Travels of a Mi’kmaq Coat: Kunstgeschichte, Bern 75 A Nineteenth-Century World Art History and Twenty-First-Century Cultural Politics Methodological and Ideological Perspectives Ruth B Phillips, Carleton University, 16 Neuroarthistory as World Art History: Ottawa 26 Why Do Humans Make Art and Why Do They Make It Differently in 2 Creating Perspectives on Different Times and Places? Global Art History John Onians, University of East Anglia, 7 Joe Burke’s Legacy: The History of Art Norwich 78 History in Melbourne 17 Towards Horizontal Art History Andrew Grimwade, Chairman of the Piotr Piotrowski, Adam Mickiewicz Felton Bequest and Life Member of the University, Pozna´n 82 Miegunyah Fund 32 18 Global Aspects on Johnny Roosval’s 8 The Art of Being Aboriginal Concept of the Artedominium Marcia Langton, University of Jan von Bonsdorff, Uppsala University 86 Melbourne 35 19 Putting the World in a Book: How 9 On Global Memory: Refl ections on Global Can Art History Be Today? Barbaric Transmission Parul D Mukherji, Jawaharlal Nehru Homi K Bhabha, Harvard University 46 University, New Delhi 91 vii 0531 CIHA_00_PRLIMS_4.indd vii 23/6/09 11:41:30 AM viii Contents Empirical Perspectives Avinoam Shalem, University of Munich 20 From Ideology to Universal Principles: and Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence 154 Art History and the Visual Culture of the 32 Fluid Picture-Making across Borders, Balkans in the Ottoman Empire Genres, Media: Botanical Illustration Nenad Makuljevi´c, University of from Byzantium to Baghdad, Ninth to Belgrade 98 Thirteenth Centuries 21 From Nation via Immigration to World Alain Touwaide, National Museum of Art: Concepts and Methods of Brazilian Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Art Theory Washington, DC 159 Jens Baumgarten, Universidade 33 Greek Painters Working for Latin and Federal de São Paulo 104 Non-Orthodox Patrons in the Late 22 Universalism and Utopia: Joseph Beuys Medieval Mediterranean: Some and Alighiero Boetti as Case Studies for Preliminary Remarks a World Art History Michele Bacci, University of Siena 164 Nicola Müllerschön, Institut für 34 Sailing through Time and Space: How Kunstgeschichte, Bern 111 Cyriacus of Ancona Rediscovered the 23 Genius Loci: The Revenge of the Good Classical Past Savage? Marina Belozerskaya, independent Carmen Popescu, André Chastel Research scholar, Los Angeles 169 Centre, Paris, and New Europe College, 35 Multi-Ethnic Rome and the Global Bucharest 116 Renaissance: Ethiopia, Armenia and 24 A Survey of the Current State of Art Cultural Exchange with Rome during History in China the Fifteenth Century Shao Dazhen, Central Academy of Christiane Esche-Ramshorn, Fine Arts, Beijing 121 University of Cambridge 173 25 Recent Study in Ancient Chinese Art History in China 6 Hybrid Renaissances in Europe and Beyond Yan Zheng, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing 124 36 Introduction 26 Objects without Borders: Cultural Eco - Luke Morgan, Monash University, nomy and the World of Artefacts Melbourne, and Philippe Sénéchal, Jennifer Purtle, University of Toronto 127 University of Picardy, Amiens 180 37 Hybrid Renaissance in Burgundy 5 Fluid Borders: Mediterranean Art Histories Frédéric Elsig, University of Geneva 182 38 Heterotopia in the Renaissance: Modern 27 Fluid Borders, Hybrid Objects: Mediter- Hybrids as Antiques in Bramante and ranean Art Histories 500–1500, Questions of Method and Terminology Cima da Conegliano Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Lorenzo Pericolo, Université Institut, Florence 134 de Montréal 186 28 Building Identities: Fluid Borders and 39 ‘Gran Cosa è Roma’: The Noble an ‘International Style’ of Monumental Patronage of Architecture in Early Architecture in the Bronze Age Sixteenth-Century Portugal Louise A Hitchcock, University of Luísa França Luzio, Institute of Art Melbourne 138 History, UNL-FCSH, Lisbon 192 29 Byzantine Art in Italy: Sixth-Century 40 A Bastard Renaissance?
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