The Committee for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in partnership with the Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Center for Social Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences invites you to the conference.

HOW TO WRITE ART HISTORY – NATIONAL, REGIONAL OR GLOBAL?

International Conference of the History of Art

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, 21 – 25 NOVEMBER, 2007

ORGANIZERS: László BEKE (Hungarian member of the CIHA, director of the Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences); Judit FALUDY (head of the organizing team); Péter FARBAKY (Secretary General of the Committee for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences); Géza GALAVICS (Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Committee for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences); Pál LŐVEI (Deputy member of the CIHA, Deputy chair of the Committee for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences); Ernő MAROSI (Vice-President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, senior research fellow, previous Hungarian member of the bureau of the CIHA); Krisztina PASSUTH (Professor of the Institute for Art History of the University of Sciences Eötvös Loránd, Budapest); Imre TAKÁCS (Director of the Museum of Applied Arts).

PROGRAM

21ST NOVEMBER, 2007

PRE-CONFERENCE TOUREXCURSION TO VISIT THE IMPORTANT MONUMENTS AND THE INTERESTING ART HISTORICAL SITES AROUND BUDAPEST (ACQUINCUM MUSEUM, STATUE PARK, HEROES SQUARE, VAJDAHUNYAD CASTLE)
Guided by József SISA (Head of Department of the Research Institute for Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

MEETING TIME: 8:00

ACQUINCUM MUSEUM (GUIDED TOUR AT 9:00) AND ROMAN RUINS
The ancient city of Aquincum was situated on the Northeastern borders of the Pannonia province within the Roman Empire.

LENGTH: 1H30

STATUE PARK (GUIDED TOUR AT 11:00)
After the change of political system the statues were removed from Budapest´s streets to the museum. This is the world´s only such collection from the period of communist cultural politics. It´s one of the most exciting outdoor museum in Central Europe.

The statues of Lenin, Marx and Engels, Dimitrov and Ostapenko can be seen at the park, and memorials to The Soviet Soldier, the Communist Martyrs, and the Republic of Councils.

LENGTH: 1H

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH (PROBABLY AT NAGYTÉTÉNY, NEARBY THE CASTLE, FREETIME TO VISIT IT)

MEETING: 14:45

BACK TO THE CITY, VÁROSLIGET, HEROES SQUARE, VAJDAHUNYAD CASTLE, SZÉCHENYI THERMAL BATH (GUIDED TOUR BY JÓZSEF SISA, HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF THE MTA)

FREE TIME - CIHA BOARD MEETING 1

Venue: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ceremony Hall, Budapest, 5th District, Roosevelt tér 9.)

Time: 19:00
OPENING PLENARY SESSION

Ernő MAROSI (Vice-President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, senior research fellow, previous Hungarian member of the bureau of the CIHA, H) Introduction

20:00 Reception for participants

22ND NOVEMBER, 2007

Venue: HAS Room of Lectures, Budapest, 5th District, Roosevelt tér 9.

Time: 8:30
Registration (Technical arrangements)

Time: 9:00–13:00

SECTION I
THE HISTORICAL NOTION OF REGION: UNITS OF POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY THEN AND NOW
Paul CROSSLEY(Courtauld Institute, London, GB)
Péter FARBAKY (Kiscell Museum of the Budapest History Museum, H)

Empires follow empires in art history. Geographical discoveries, trade, colonialism.
Historical administrative units (country, county, province and the modern state).
Topography of world religions and the coexistence of religions.

Béla Zsolt SZAKÁCS (H) County to Country: Regional Aspects in the Research of Romanesque Art in Hungary

Imre TAKÁCS (H) Transregional artistic connections in the 13th century

Ivan GERÁT (SK) Between anthropology and regional politics – some questions of pictorial legends in Central Europe

Roland PRÜGEL (DE) Die Region Siebenbürgen als Paradigma unterschiedlicher kunsthistorischer Narrative im 20. Jahrhundert

Kristina HUNEAULT (CA) Beyond national or international: Art and identity in formerly colonial countries

Discussion

Éva FORGÁCS (USA) The Necessity of Writing Local Art History in the Global Context

Ramute RACHLEVICIUTE (LT) After the rupture again

Mónika BINCSIK (H) The concept of ´Japan´ and ´art´ in the Japanese art history writing: the Kōsoshū (1623), the Tansei Jakubokushū (c. 1655) and the Histoire de l´Art du Japon (1900)

Anand BURDHAN (IN) Phenomenology of Indian art: a fresh appraisal

13:00–13:45
VISIT OF THE ART COLLECTION OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BUDAPEST, 5TH DISTRICT, ROOSEVELT TÉR 9.

LUNCH

Venue: HAS Congress Hall, Budapest, 1st District, Országház utca 28.

Time: 14:45 Welcome (Géza GALAVICS, Head of Department, Research Institute for Art History, Hungarian Academy of sciences, HU)

Time: 15:00 –19:00

SECTION II
THE METHOD OF KUNSTGEOGRAPHIE
Astrit SCHMIDT-BURKHARDT (Free University Berlin, DE)
András RÉNYI (Institute for Art Theory and Media Research, Roland Eötvös University, Budapest, H)

15:00 - 15:20
Introductory remarks
Astrit SCHMIDT-BURKHARDT

15:20 - 16:20
a) The German Kunstgeographie of the 20th century as ideology and as essential method

Etienne JOLLET (FR) Un aspect de la « géographie artielle » au XVIIIe siècle en France : le monument public et le sol national

Barthélémy JOBERT (FR) L´histoire de la peinture française au XIXe siècle, entre Paris et la province

Stephen BANN (GB) Anglo-French Artistic Exchanges in the Romantic Period: some issues of method

16:20 - 16:35
COFFEE BREAK

16:35 - 17:35
b) Cartography and diagrams

Franz REITINGER (AT) The Mapping of an Early Ism-Movement

Sabine MAINBERGER (DE) Hamburg – Oraibi, via Florence: Aby Warburg´s Cultural Geography

Teresa CASTRO (PT/FR) La « raison cartographique » de l´histoire de l´art

17:35 - 17:50
COFFEE BREAK

17:50 - 18:30
c) The concepts of culture in ethnology, cultural history and archaeology

Heike M. NEUMEISTER (GB) Notes on the ethnographic turn of the European avant-garde: reading Carl Einstein´s Negerplastik (1915) and Vladimir Markov´s Iskusstvo Negrov (1913/1919)

Beatrix MECSI (HU) Writing Art Histories of Korea: Colonial Inventions of Japanese Scholars and Their Impact on Recent Scholarship

Hidemichi TANAKA (JP) Problem of development of the styles in the Japanese Art History

18:30 - 19:00
DISCUSSION

Venue: HAS Congress Hall, Budapest, 1st District, Országház utca 28.

Time: 19:15
PLENARY SESSION

Thierry DUFRENE (Institut National d´Histoire de´l Art, FR) De Giacometti à Jeff Koons: l´artiste international, l´artiste cosmopolite
Peter SCHNEEMANN (Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Bern, CH) Erfahrung versus Wirkung. Typologien des reisenden Künstlers

20:15
Reception for participants

23RD NOVEMBER, 2007

Venue: The Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, 8th District, Múzeum krt. 14-16.

Time: 9:00–13:00

SECTION III
STYLE AND DIALECT
Annika WAENERBERG (Department of Art History, University of Jyväskylä, FI)
András ZWICKL (Hungarian National Gallery, H)

The linguistic aspects of art.
National versus international.
Global uniformity or pluralism?

Introductory remarks
Annika WAENERBERG (FI)

Joes SEGAL (NL) New perspectives in art historical and historical reference books

Ana Maria TAVARES CAVALCANTI (BR) Between Europe and Brazil —´´the coquette´´, a sculpture by Rodolpho Bernardelli (1852–1931)

Daniel GRÚŇ (SK) Paradoxical Duality of National and Universal. Interpretations of the Works by Slovak Sculptors in the 1960s

Christel FRAPIER (FR) « Réseau » et « circulation » : deux notions pour appréhender différemment l´histoire de l´art (« Network» and « movement» : two notions for a different comprehension of art history)

Nina KUDIŠ BURIĆ (HR) Late Renaissance Painting in Venice, Istria and Dalmatia – a Case in Favour of Regional Approach and Against the Traditional Idea of the Category of Style

Damir TULIĆ (HR) Venetian Sculpture of the 17th and the 18th Centuries in Dalmatia – the Story of Cultural and Artistic Relations between the Capital and the Periphery of Serenissima

Jody PATTERSON (GB) Rethinking Stuart Davis Colonial Cubism: American Modernism as Radical Realism during the Red Decade

Attila HORÁNYI (H) Modernism: unity or agreement?

János VÉGH (H) Grenzübergreifende künstlerische Tätigkeiten im 14-16. Jahrhundert

LUNCH

Venue: Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 9th District, Üllői út 33-37.

Time: 14:30–18:30

SECTION IV
GLOBAL TASKS OF REGIONAL INSTITUTIONS, MUSEOLOGY AND PROTECTION OF MONUMENTS
Gabi DOLFF-BONEKAEMPER (Technische Universität Berlin, DE)
Pál LŐVEI (National Office for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Budapest, H)

Introductory remarks
Gabi DOLFF-BONEKAEMPER (DE)

Vladimir P. GOSS (HR) Art Heritage in a Europe without Borders: Role of Art Historian

Miklós PETERNÁK (H) Art in the Internet, net.art, Artists Networks and the Medium of Preservation

Katarzyna JAGODZIŃSKA (PL) The Internet visibility of the Central European institutions of modern art – regional or global?

Joana CUNHA LEAL (PT) Changing perspectives: historiography and critical discourses concerning the Pombaline reconstruction of Lisbon

Selysette SOMORJAY (H) Tendencies in historic building preservation in Hungary today – Practice, consequences, responsibility

Hellmut LORENZ (AT) Zur Bedeutung der "regionalen" Kunstgeschichte für die "globalen" Aufgaben des Faches

Xavier BARRAL I ALTET (FR Contre l´art roman? Essai sur un passé reinventé

18:30–19:30
GUIDED TOUR IN THE MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS – EXHIBITION ESTERHÁZY (by András SZILÁGYI, Head of Department, Museum of applied Arts, H)

Venue: Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 9th District, Üllői út 33-37.

Time: 20:00
PLENARY SESSION

Jaynie ANDERSON (President of the Melbourne CIHA Congress 2008,AU)
Global Art History – from an antipodean perspective

21:00
Reception for participants

24TH NOVEMBER, 2007

Venue: Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, 9th District, Üllői út 33-37.

Time: 9:00 –13:00

SECTION V
NATIONAL AND POST-NATIONAL PROBLEMS
Stephen BANN (GB)- Erzsébet TATAI(Research Institute for Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, HU)

9:00 – 10:15

Introductory remarks
Erzsébet TATAI

Tatiane DE OLIVEIRA ELIAS (BR)Hélio Oiticica from Neoconcretism to Cosmococa)

Małgorzata OMILANOWSKA (PL) The Question of National and Regional Identity on the Example of Polish and German Interpretations of Gdansk Architecture in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Éva BICSKEI (H) From Commemoration to Historic Memory Portrait Galleries of County and City Halls and Clubs in Hungary in the 19th Century

Discussion

10:15 – 10:30
COFFEE BREAK

10:30- 11:30

Mirjana REPANIĆ-BRAUN (HR) Baroque Painting and Sculpture in North Croatia in the Context of Central European Art. Surpassing boundaries.

Marta HERUCOVÁ (SL) Case Studies in the 19th Century History of Art

Barbara MUROVEC (SI) "Why (not) national? The case of Slovenia" – Between Valvasor, around 1689 and the New Slovenian State, 1991

Discussion

11:30 – 11:45
COFFEE BREAK

11:45 - 13:00

Maria Amelia BULHOES (BR) Le web et le régime des réseaux de connexions de l’art contemporain

Sara MAMENI (CA) Lenin of Fremont: geographical politics of monumental statues

Discussion

Sylvia OLLIVIER (FR) – All participants are invited to join her site

IN THE AFTERNOON: GUIDED TOURS OR FREE TIME IN THE DIFFERENT MUSEUMS OF BUDAPEST

25TH NOVEMBER, 2007

POST-CONFERENCE TOUR (TATA, GYŐR, PANNONHALMA)
Guided by Péter FARBAKY (Kiscell Museum of the Budapest History Museum, HU)

MEETING TIME: 7:30

TATA – VÉRTESSZENTKERESZT
(9:00 ruins, little castle; 10:00 Tata – Castle, Museum)

LENGTH: 2H

GYŐR (Cathedral, Benedictine Church, Castle Episcopal)

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH

14:00 Pannonhalma (Guided tour – local speaker and Péter Farbaky)

LENGTH: 1H30

16:00 Back to Budapest

Technical details, registration etc.

Unfortunately our expectation to find enough sponsors failed so we are obliged to ask for registration fees.

We kindly ask you to find sponsors for your own.

We encourage you to take advantage of the early bird registration rate (€250) for the conference, which increases to €300 as of 1st October, 2007. Registration fees for spouses or accompanying persons are €150.

The pre-conference tour´s fee is €50 extra (around Budapest); the post-conference tour´s fee is: €100 extra (Tata, Győr, Pannonhalma) to be paid together with the registration fee.

The bank account data of MTA MKI (Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Account number: 1003 2000-01716478 Name of the Bank: Magyar Allamkincstar IBAN HU07 1003 2000 0171 6478 0000 0000 SWIFT Code: MANEHUHB

The location fees are not included in the registration fees; please arrange your accommodation on your own.

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Budapest 1133, Victor Hugo u. 25-27. Tel. (+36-1) 331 6021, (+36-30) 520 0400, fax (+36-1) 359 6015.

Map

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We look forward to your visit to Budapest.