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Art History & Art Conservation Newsletter March 2013 Art History & Art Conservation Newsletter March 2013 FACULTY RESEARCH • Professor Gauvin Bailey will be presenting Matt Rogalsky, was published last month by an invited paper at a symposium on Brazil- Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary ian architecture and historiography at the Art, Toronto. ISBN 978-1-926627-24-3 Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Uni- • Bader Postdoctoral Fellow in Baroque versidade de São Paulo in Brazil between 17 Art, Karen Lloyd’s review of the exhibition and 24 March and will also use the opportu- Bernini: Sculpting in Clay (The Metropolitan nity to complete final photographic surveys Museum, New York; Kimbell Art Museum, of Rococo churches in Sao Paulo state. Fort Worth, TX) appeared in the Italian Art • On April 4, Professor Joan Schwartz will Society’s February newsletter. The review be delivering the Opening Keynote, enti- is available at: http://italianartsociety.org/ tled “Images and Archives: visual, visceral, wp-content/uploads/2010/01/2013_1_ virtual,” at a two-day symposium on “Visual IAS-Winter-Newsletter.pdf Culture and Archives” at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,MI. GRADUATE /ALUMNI NEWS • In February Professor Matthew Reeve pre- sented ‘Gothic Architecture, Ornament and • Former MA and PhD student, Andrea Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole’, in Bubenik, recently published a book with the Parallel Lines Converging: Art, Design Ashgate based on her thesis: Reframing Albert and Fashion Histories session at the College Dürer. Art Association Meeting in New York. In Andrea Bubenik 2014 he is co-organizing (with Ayla Lepine) Reframing Albrecht Dürer the ‘Queer Gothic: Sexuality and Difference The Appropriation of Art, in British Art’ session sponsored by the 1528–1700 Historians of British Art at the College Art The University of Association meeting in Chicago. Queensland, Australia Visual Culture in Early PUBLISHED Modernity • Professor Barbara Klempan’s article, “Early February 2013 • 282 pages Manufacture of Artists’ Materials in Canada: Hardback • 978-1-4094- 3847-2 • A History of Canadian Art Laboratory,” has been published in The Journal of the Canadian Association for Conservation, 37, • Dr. Eric Weichel defended his PhD thesis in 2012, pp. 41-51. January and has been awarded a SSHRC post- • Professor Clive Robertson’s catalog doctoral fellowship. He will work under the essay, “Rock Idolotry, Singing In Unison, supervision of Dr. John Potvin, Concordia Uni- and Bypasing the Bands,” on the sound versity (another of our PhD grads) on “Canada installation, Discipline (2011), authored by in the Country House: Francophilia and Elite Queen’s electro-acoustic music professor, Residences in the British Atlantic World, 1720 – 1832.” Header Photo: © Queen’s University MARCH 2013 NEWSLETTER. Original newsletter templates: Kate Yuksel. Editor and production: Clive Robertson. Items for future issues should be sent to [email protected] Ontario Hall 67 University Avenue, Queen’s University Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Art History & Art Conservation Newsletter March 2013 ARTH 812: Madness, Modernity, and Modernism On Mar. 1, students from Professor Allison Morehead’s graduate seminar, ARTH 812, spent the day in Toron- to facilitated by staff of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Workman Arts. Students viewed and discussed the exhibition “Breaking Down the Barriers: The CAMH Story” with John Court, Archivist at CAMH and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, walked around ON THE BUSES the perimeter wall of the site which has been set up as a memorial to former occupants of the Toronto Pro- With the co-operation vincial Asylum, and viewed and discussed two recent of the City of Kingston public art projects in new CAMH buildings with Chris and Kingston Transit, Mitchell, Visual Arts Manager at Workman Arts. The and support from highlight of the day, however, were two artist’s talks Queen’s SGPS, MA Art History student, by artists working in photography and conceptual art Sarah Murray has organized an practices both of whom have lived experience with exhibition encouraging D.I.Y. urban mental illness. Catherine Jones and Michael Mills food production via three posters that generously shared their insights on the connections can be viewed throughout March on and disconnections between their art practices and 12 Kingston buses. Sarah’s community mental health, fostering lively conversation on food resources research is a compo- contemporary art, mental health, and the institutions nent of her MRP topic: “Artists and of both. Artistic Projects at the intersection of Food Production and Environmental Art. “ Header Photo: © Queen’s University MARCH 2013 NEWSLETTER Page 2/4 Ontario Hall 67 University Avenue, Queen’s University Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Art History & Art Conservation Newsletter March 2013 On March 8, Nenagh Hathaway (PhD Candidate, Art History), Professor Alison Murray (Art Conservation) and Professor Ron Spronk (Art History) took part in the second workshop at the McMaster Museum of Art, which brought together experts from across North America to discuss the as-yet untitled paintings analyses project. This project, which will result in an exhibition, is now scheduled to open in the fall of 2015. The show will focus on several technical methods of examining paintings. Stereomicroscopy was performed on three of the nine paintings selected for the project, resulting in micrographs (detailed images of each paintings’ surface) which were analyzed at the workshop. This exciting initiative continues to produce exciting insights into each of the chosen paintings as well as the scientific instruments utilized. Another workshop is scheduled for August 2013. Images from left to right: Barbara Meneley, Brendan Fernandes (photo: Jochem Van Grunsven), and Ashok Mathur Thursday 14 March: 7–8:15pm Artists, Critics and Scholars meet in Kingston to consider The Canada Council Art Bank and Canadian Culture Diversified: The Art Bank and Canadian Culture: Ashok Mathur, Andrea Fatona and Brendan Fernandes. Moderated by artist, scholar and Art History Teaching Fellow, Barbara Meneley, the panel discussion “Diversified: The Art Bank and Canadian Culture” will explore the impact of government policies and the efficacy of state practices in accommodating, reflecting and shaping cultural diversity and artistic interdisciplinarity. This panel is presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Art Bank in the 21st Century, on view at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre until 9 June 2013. MARCH 2013 NEWSLETTER Header: Evelyn Ayre (MAC, 2013) holding 19th-century ivory object from the Page 2/4 Constantine Collection, Agnes Etherington Art Centre / Photo: Kate Yüksel MARCH 2013 NEWSLETTER Page 3/4 Ontario Hall 67 University Avenue, Queen’s University Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Art History & Art Conservation Newsletter André Biéler, Wartime Market, 1943, mixed media on pressed board. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston. Bequest of Dr. W. E. McNeill, 1959 (00-268) New Exhibition: A Vital Force: The Canadian Group of Painters Agnes Etherington Art Centre 16 March–14 July 2013 This exhibition sheds new light on the artistic and social impact of the Canadian Group of Painters in the first and most dynamic decades of its existence, from 1933 to 1953. Canadian Group of Painters exhibi- tions travelled across Canada and into the United States, stirring excitement, reflection and debate on the state of Canadian art and society. The Canadian Group of Painters emerged from the Group of Seven, but it became much more. Its engagement with modern life during the turbulent times of the Depression, World War II and postwar reconstruction made it a vital force. As one critic raved in 1949, “Go up to the gallery … and have your eyes blasted.” A Vital Force: The Canadian Group of Painters is the first major exhibition to focus exclusively on this important artistic group. Bringing together works from public and private collections across Canada, this exhibition conveys the richness of the group’s practice: new visions of landscape, bold depictions of people and fresh experiments in abstraction. Represented are artists as diverse as André Biéler, Jack Bush, Emily Carr, Paraskeva Clark, Lawren S. Harris, E. J. Hughes, Jack Humphrey, Prudence Heward, A. Y. Jackson, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Jock Macdonald, David Milne, Lilias Torrance Newton, Goodridge Roberts, Carl Schaefer and Marian Dale Scott, among others. This exhibition is organized and circulated by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, in partnership with The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, and Queen’s University Archives, Kingston, and with the generous support of the Museums Assistance Program at Canadian Heritage, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Kingston Arts Fund, and the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund and Janet Braide Memorial Fund, Queen’s University. MARCH 2013 NEWSLETTER Page 4/4 Ontario Hall 67 University Avenue, Queen’s University Kingston, ON K7L 3N6.
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