An online seminar co-organized by Caroline van Eck (Cambridge University), Isabelle Kalinowski and Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris).
This seminar will consider theories of art and art history developed in the German-speaking world from 1750 to the late 20th century. During this period aesthetics as a philosophical discipline was born and branched out into several varieties. Art history became an academic discipline, incessantly in search of methodologies. Morphological approaches to art entered into a dialogue with more historical approaches to ancient and non-Western art. This vast corpus of thought remains to the present day an inexhaustible source of methodological tools to think about the arts. It is particularly relevant today because it took on the challenge of developing global theories of art and its histories, and sought to integrate perspectives on art and material culture from adjacent disciplines such as anthropology.
In the course of this seminar the main figures, texts and concepts will be analysed from an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together art and architectural historians, philosophers, and specialists of German language and culture. It is hosted by the research laboratory Pays Germaniques (Isabelle Kalinowski) and the Department of Philosophy (Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak) at the Ecole Normale in Paris (Translitterae Graduate Program), as well as by the Department of Art History in Cambridge (Caroline van Eck).
Please write to isabelle.kalinowski@ens.psl.eu and cav35@cam.ac.uk for all enquiries or to register. The seminar is open to all graduate students in History of Art, History, Philosophy and German or French Studies.
The seminar sessions will take place on Wednesdays, from 3.30 to 5.30 pm (British time) = from 4.30 to 6.30 pm (French time) and will be online. They will be held in English. Once enrolled you will receive the link.