Academic Sessions: London 2003
Articulations: art history and archaeology in Asia and Africa
Convenors:
Shane McCausland, sm80@soas.ac.uk and Tania Tribe, tt10@soas.ac.uk .
Department of Art & Archaeology, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh St, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG.
Abstract:
This session addresses the theoretical basis for the study of art and archaeology in Asia and Africa, asking how the discipline of art history prepares us to understand non–Western forms of art and whether we mustdevelop and theorise new categories emerging out of our engagement with the visual material and cultural realities in question. What dangers are posed by the dominance of a paradigm in which Western approaches are seen as inadequate? Does the urge to theorise non-Western culture actually express nothing so strongly as a continuing preoccupation with just those Western approaches?
Stacey Pierson (Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, University of London) Teaching Chinese Art: towards a History of a Discipline.
Thomas Dowson (School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester) An Archaeology of African Art.
Giles Tillotson (SOAS, London) The Jaipur Exhibition of 1883.
Candace M. Keller (Indiana University) Identity, Authorship and Style in Bamako, Mali: Applying Local Social Theory to the Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe.
John T. Carpenter (SOAS, London) East Asian Calligraphy as Texts of Performance: Traces of the Brush in Various Media.
Tania Tribe (SOAS, London) Body, Space and Narrative in Late Antique Egypt.
Shane Mc Causland - Discussant.
Shane McCausland, sm80@soas.ac.uk and Tania Tribe, tt10@soas.ac.uk .
Department of Art & Archaeology, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh St, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG.
Abstract:
This session addresses the theoretical basis for the study of art and archaeology in Asia and Africa, asking how the discipline of art history prepares us to understand non–Western forms of art and whether we mustdevelop and theorise new categories emerging out of our engagement with the visual material and cultural realities in question. What dangers are posed by the dominance of a paradigm in which Western approaches are seen as inadequate? Does the urge to theorise non-Western culture actually express nothing so strongly as a continuing preoccupation with just those Western approaches?
Stacey Pierson (Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, University of London) Teaching Chinese Art: towards a History of a Discipline.
Thomas Dowson (School of Art History and Archaeology, University of Manchester) An Archaeology of African Art.
Giles Tillotson (SOAS, London) The Jaipur Exhibition of 1883.
Candace M. Keller (Indiana University) Identity, Authorship and Style in Bamako, Mali: Applying Local Social Theory to the Photographs of Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibe.
John T. Carpenter (SOAS, London) East Asian Calligraphy as Texts of Performance: Traces of the Brush in Various Media.
Tania Tribe (SOAS, London) Body, Space and Narrative in Late Antique Egypt.
Shane Mc Causland - Discussant.