Academic Sessions: Exeter 1998
Disputed Identities in Late Mediaeval & Early Modern Art
Convener:
Dr Malcolm Jones (University of Sheffield)
This strand addresses a variety of problems of identity in the art of the late Mediaeval and Early Modern era. Artistic identities in this period are often perceived to be submerged in undifferentiated anonymity, while iconographic analysis has sometimes been the product of unthinking and repetitious orthodoxy. This session aims to address these problems by opening up a number of avenues. It will tackle problems of authorship and provenance to clarify artistic identities (single, workshop or school) and will explore the tension between documentary and stylistic methodologies in doing so. Disputed iconographical identifications will also be considered in a bid to rethink the purpose and context of late mediaeval and early modern imagery. Papers will also be welcomed which consider questions of original and copy and the re-use of images in new contexts, for example in the history of early printing. Contributions are invited which address these or other appropriate issues.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the convener at the following address:
Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, 5 Shearwood Road, Sheffield S10 2TN.
Tel: (0114) 222 0235; Fax: (0114) 276 8251; Email: M.H.Jones@Sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Malcolm Jones (University of Sheffield)
This strand addresses a variety of problems of identity in the art of the late Mediaeval and Early Modern era. Artistic identities in this period are often perceived to be submerged in undifferentiated anonymity, while iconographic analysis has sometimes been the product of unthinking and repetitious orthodoxy. This session aims to address these problems by opening up a number of avenues. It will tackle problems of authorship and provenance to clarify artistic identities (single, workshop or school) and will explore the tension between documentary and stylistic methodologies in doing so. Disputed iconographical identifications will also be considered in a bid to rethink the purpose and context of late mediaeval and early modern imagery. Papers will also be welcomed which consider questions of original and copy and the re-use of images in new contexts, for example in the history of early printing. Contributions are invited which address these or other appropriate issues.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the convener at the following address:
Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield, 5 Shearwood Road, Sheffield S10 2TN.
Tel: (0114) 222 0235; Fax: (0114) 276 8251; Email: M.H.Jones@Sheffield.ac.uk