Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. "Lebensraum on the Pacific: Anton Wagner and the Urban Geography of Los Angeles" (November 15, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45710 45710-10265444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Tappan Hall
Organized By: History of Art

In 1971 British architectural historian P. Reyner Banham reacquainted the scholarly world with German geographer Anton Wagner's 1935 book Los Angeles: The Development, Life, and Form of the City of Two Million in Southern California. Based on extraordinary archival research, field work, and walks across the cityscape, Wagner's encyclopedic study seeks to explain how a small town in a desert region located far from major transport routes and markets become a major metropolis. No less fascinating than Wagner's geography of Los Angeles is his own biography, a tale of travel and international scholarly collaborations set against the background of German-American relations in the twentieth century.

Edward Dimendberg is Professor of Humanities and European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (Harvard University Press, 2004) and Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and a co-editor(with Anton Kaes and Martin Jay) of The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (University of California Press, 1994). He is currently completing a monograph entitled The Los Angeles Project: Architectural and Urban Theories of the City of Exception and editing critical edition of Los Angeles: The Development, Life, and Form of the City of Two Million in Southern California by Anton Wagner for publication by the Getty Research Institute. Dimendberg serves on the editorial boards of the Weimar and Now German Cultural Criticism and FlashPoints book series, on the Faculty Editorial Committee of the University of California Press, and on the Book Publication Committee of the Modern Language Association. He works with individual scholars and offers publishing workshops as the principal of Dimendberg Consulting LLC.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:50:34 -0400 2017-11-15T17:30:00-05:00 2017-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 Tappan Hall History of Art Lecture / Discussion Wall Street between 8th and 9th streets in Downtown Los Angeles, 1933, photograph by Anton Wagner
Copyright, Image Use, and Permission to Publish (November 17, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46159 46159-10407015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Tappan Hall
Organized By: History of Art

An illustrative workshop in which you will learn how to interpret rights statements, Creative Commons licenses, what Fair Use covers, and what museums have open access images.

Students and faculty are encouraged to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:33:36 -0400 2017-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 Tappan Hall History of Art Workshop / Seminar copyright workshop poster
History of Art Honors Symposium (November 30, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44802 44802-9980571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Tappan Hall
Organized By: History of Art

History of Art honors students give twenty-minute presentations followed by Q & A.

Thursday, November 30, 6:00-8:00 PM, 180 Tappan Hall

+Olivia Raykovich, “On the Street: Reality According to the Sartorialist”
+Ben Weil: “Envisioning Empire: City Personifications in the Calendar of 354”
+Emma Patterson: “Boucher’s Chinoiserie”
+Julia Pompilius, “Socialism, Feminism, and the Satiric Press in 19th Century France”

Friday, December 1, 3:00-5:00 PM, 180 Tappan Hall

+Allie Scholten: “Femme Fatale”
+Molly Leonard, “Kitty Fisher, Superstar”
+Katie: “Jeff Koons and Real Estate: A Love Story”

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:17:21 -0500 2017-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T20:00:00-05:00 Tappan Hall History of Art Conference / Symposium Honors Symposium 2017
History of Art Honors Symposium (December 1, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44802 44802-9980572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 6:00pm
Location: Tappan Hall
Organized By: History of Art

History of Art honors students give twenty-minute presentations followed by Q & A.

Thursday, November 30, 6:00-8:00 PM, 180 Tappan Hall

+Olivia Raykovich, “On the Street: Reality According to the Sartorialist”
+Ben Weil: “Envisioning Empire: City Personifications in the Calendar of 354”
+Emma Patterson: “Boucher’s Chinoiserie”
+Julia Pompilius, “Socialism, Feminism, and the Satiric Press in 19th Century France”

Friday, December 1, 3:00-5:00 PM, 180 Tappan Hall

+Allie Scholten: “Femme Fatale”
+Molly Leonard, “Kitty Fisher, Superstar”
+Katie: “Jeff Koons and Real Estate: A Love Story”

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:17:21 -0500 2017-12-01T18:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T20:00:00-05:00 Tappan Hall History of Art Conference / Symposium Honors Symposium 2017
Strengthening the Foundations of Art History. The Discipline’s Changing Assumptions and the Relevance of Neuroscience: A Reassessment (January 24, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48144 48144-11180771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tappan Hall
Organized By: History of Art

Each of the new assumptions adopted by successive generations of art historians, whether Positivist, Marxist, Structuralist, Post-Structuralist, Freudian, Feminist or Post-Colonialist, has illuminated some previously under-appreciated aspect of the production and consumption of art. Often those assumptions have included an explicit acknowledgement of the relevance of the principles governing the operation of the brain, as in the case of Winckelmann, Taine, Wölfflin, Warburg, Gombrich and Baxandall. Sometimes acknowledgement of such principles has only been implicit, as in earlier Positivist analyses of ‘influence’ or the more recent identification of recurrent patterns of mental behaviour by Freudians, Structuralists and Post-Structuralists. However, now that the structure of the brain and the principles governing its operation have been revealed with a new clarity by the latest technologies, all those earlier assumptions are in need of reassessment.
This lecture explores the relevance of the new neuroscientific knowledge to an understanding of the whole history of art, moving from the Chauvet Cave to the origins of Gothic architecture, and ending with reflections on the work of major twentieth century artists, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:52:09 -0500 2018-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Tappan Hall History of Art Lecture / Discussion St Denis Vault
Modern Postural Yoga in an Expanded Field (March 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50180 50180-11656163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tappan Hall
Organized By: History of Art

"Modern Postural Yoga in an Expanded Field" a talk by History of Art faculty, Nachiket Chanchani

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:40:34 -0500 2018-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 Tappan Hall History of Art Lecture / Discussion Nachiket
The Embodied Object: Recensions of the Dead on Roman Sarcophagi (April 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51747 51747-12217126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tappan Hall
Organized By: History of Art

The Roman sarcophagus uses the visual forms of consolatory celebration to frame the actual body of the deceased. Its rhetorics of eulogy are not merely performative but are directly existential, since its form and function are entirely dependent on the act of containing a corpse. In sarcophagi, the frequency of portraiture as a major element of decoration adds a further frisson to the question of embodiment. This paper touches on all forms of portraiture on Roman sarcophagi but focuses on three-dimensional reclining statues carved on lids – both fine finished portrait heads and so-called ‘unfinished’ or ‘blank’ and sometimes ‘pseudo-animate’ faces – in relation to their play with the thematic of embodiment, presence and absence.

Professor of Late Antique Art at Oxford,
Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College
Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago
Leverhulme Senior Research Keeper at the British Museum

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Apr 2018 16:26:01 -0400 2018-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Tappan Hall History of Art Lecture / Discussion Sarcophagi