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Martedì 25 giugno, 14:00Passato
Giugno 2024
Martedì 25
14:00 - 15:30

Salle Rhône 3A

Centre de Congrès de Lyon
  • Métropole de Lyon
  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Dressing Bodies, Dressing Spaces: Challenges and New Approaches to Textiles and Adornment (300-1600) 3/3

Patricia BLESSING, Elizabeth DOSPEL WILLIAMS, Maximilien DURAND, Eiren SHEA
Martedì 25 giugno, 14:00Passato

Holistic consideration of the interrelationships of pre- and early modern bodies and spaces across Eurasia (300—1600) has been limited by conceptual frameworks divided into geographic, temporal, and methodological specialization. Thus, work on dress has dealt with personal appearance, highlighting questions about identity through clothing, jewelry, and accessories. Likewise, scholarship on interior decoration has considered the relationship of ephemeral design elements to permanent architectural forms through function and placement. Further, scholarship on the body’s presence in space has tended to work with movement, placement, and perception of abstracted bodies, rather than concrete figures weighed down by clothing and jewels.

These approaches, divided largely by medium, reflect art historiographical biases and technical specializations which silo, on the one hand, experts in textiles (weaving), jewelry (metalwork), and sculpture (architecture), or of art historians, archaeologists, and architectural historians, on the other. Similar divisions of body and interior also occur in the broader perspective of material culture theory, while modernist aesthetics have further obscured the interrelatedness of human form and spatial environment. Museum contexts reinforce this divide: objects tend to be isolated within cases, leading to a view of these pieces as context-free, while the museumification of historical spaces means that attendant furnishings are often displayed in special exhibition spaces, whereas historical rooms lie empty.

The proposed panel considers adorned human bodies in their spatial environments to forge new theoretical frameworks drawn from decorative arts historiography, ornament studies, sensory archaeology, anthropology, and material spatiality. An intermedial approach is essential, such as advocated in Luke Lavan and Ellen Swift’s (2009) work on late antique dress and interior decoration and in Jonathan Hay’s (2010) explorations of the somatic experiences of surfaces in early modern Chinese decorative arts objects. Recent efforts to draw together diverse Eurasian experiences of dress and furnishing textiles include a conference on medieval wearables at the Bard Graduate Center (2022) and a panel on embodied movement and interior decoration at the ICMS-Kalamazoo (2023).

Talks :

Chairs
Elizabeth DOSPEL WILLIAMS, Dumbarton Oaks. (Washington, États-Unis), Maximilien DURAND, Louvre Museum (Paris, France), Eiren SHEA, Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, États-Unis) e Patricia BLESSING, Stanford University (Stanford, United States)
Speakers
Joana BOSAK DE FIGUEIREDO, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul (Porto Alegre - Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil), Jessica GASSON,The Courtauld Institute of Art (London, United Kingdom), Tania KOLARIK, University Of Wisconsin (Middleton, United States), Bermet NISHANOVA, University Of California Irvine (Irvine, United States), Kris RACANIELLO, Graduate Center (Rome, Italy), Simona RINALDI, Università Degli Studi Della Tuscia (Ronciglione, Italy), Ruibo YU, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, France) e Valentina BARADEL,Università Degli Studi Di Padova (Padova, Italy)
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Salle Rhône 3A
Centre de Congrès de Lyon
  • Métropole de Lyon
  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes