Location
Courtauld Institute of Art
Throughout history religion and belief have been the catalyst for the creation of great buildings and works of art. However, religious art has frequently been disputed, despised and destroyed. Members are sought for a research group that will examine the role of reform, ideology and conflict in the destruction and preservation of religious art and architecture. The group will also investigate how theological disputes and religious conflicts have been the impetus for new intellectual and creative approaches to the visual and material arts. The papers presented at the conference will cover 600 years of art history, from fifteenth-century Florence to depictions of Islam after 9/11, and a breadth of topics from medieval monasticism to William Blake’s theology of art, from Bhutanese seventeenth century art to the Vatican’s relationship with contemporary art, and much more.
Speaker(s): Keynote speakers: James Carley (York University, Toronto / University of Kent) and Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art). Other speakers: Naomi Billingsley (University of Manchester), Michael Carter (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Lloyd De Beer (British Museum / University of East Anglia), Anna Marazuela Kim (University of Virginia), Ágnes Kriza (University of Cambridge), David Low (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Ariana Maki (University of Colorado Boulder), Anna Messner (University of Munich), María Aurora Molina Fajardo (University of Granada), Scott Nethersole (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Eva Papoulia (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Emily Pegues (The Courtauld Institute of Art / National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.), Jayne Wackett (University of Kent), Lieke Wijnia (Tilburg University)
For full information and to book a place:
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2014/summer/ReligionArtandConflict_Cfp.shtml