Cambridge Department of History of Art Research Seminar Series

👂👂 👂 Hear us reflect on the Art and the Senses seminar series with ! 👂👂👂

Art and the Senses – Pembroke College Art, we are increasingly aware, is not something that engages only the sense of sight. [caption id=attachment_32612 align=alignleft width=150] Art by Lizzie Marx[/caption] It is tactile, evoking our senses of touch, smell, even taste. The National Gallery has held sensory exhibitions exploring the m...

POSTPONED

In light of the UCU strike action, the final two events of the Art and the Senses seminar will be postponed.

Dr Caroline Campbell (‘Sensory Experiences in the National Gallery’, formerly scheduled for Wednesday 28 February) and Dr Sarah Bull (‘Illustration and the Erotics of Re-Use in Victorian Print Culture’, formerly scheduled for Wednesday 7 March) will now be presenting in the Easter Term.

Revised programme to follow shortly.

TOMRROW, 21 Feb. @ 5pm is the 6th session of our sense-sational 'Art and the Senses' Seminar at the History of Art department, Lecture Room 2, Scroope Terrace, with Prof. Evelyn Welch, principal investigator of the Wellcome "Renaissance Skin" project. She will be speaking on ‘Touching the Renaissance: The Material Culture of Skin in Europe, 1450-1700’!

The 6th session of our sense-sational 'Art and the Senses' Seminar is next Wednesday@ 5pm History of Art department, Scroope Terrace, LECTURE ROOM 2 with Prof. Evelyn Welch, principal investigator of the 'Renaissance Skin' project at King's College London. She will be speaking on ‘Touching the Renaissance: The Material Culture of Skin in Europe, 1450-1700’! - Frans Snyder, The Butcher’s Shop, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, c1640

If you missed Caro Verbeek's wonderful talk about the sense of in last week, or if you want to refresh you memory, do read her great blogpost about her presentation on her 'Futurist Scents' blog! 👃👃 https://futuristscents.com/2018/02/12/the-nose-as-an-academic-tool-art-the-senses-at-cambridge/

The Nose as an Academic Tool – Art & the Senses at Cambridge (the audience at Cambridge University during a Historical Sniffing Session) It probably still smells like ancient resins, modernist perfumes and a hint of Surrealist exhibition design at Cambridge …

TOMORROW @ 5pm, History of Art Graduate Centre, 4A Trumpington street, come along to hear all about Emergency Noises, Sound Art & Gender with Dr Irene Noy!

The 5th session of our Sense-ational 'Art and the Senses' Seminar is next Wednesday @ 5pm in 4A Trumpington Street with Irene Noy on 'Emergency Noises: Sound Art and Gender'! - Christina Kubisch, Break, 1974, performance

TODAY: The 4th session of our Sense-ational 'Art and the Senses' Seminar is taking place @ 5pm in 4A Trumpington street (HoArt Graduate Centre) with Caro Verbeek on 'In Search of Lost Scents'!

Should you want a 'flavour' of this week's seminar session, do look at this wonderful TEDx talk with Caro Verbeek ! 👃 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g37Qe8Kriuo

Inhaling history and smelling the future | Caro Verbeek | TEDxGroningen Maybe you don't know how important scent has been over the course of history. Did you ever wonder why that is? Have we been neglecting one of our important s...

The 4th session of our Sense-ational 'Art and the Senses' Seminar is next Wednesday @ 5pm in the History of Art department Graduate Centre, 4A Trumpington street, with Caro Verbeek from Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit on 'In Search of Lost Scents'! Caro collaborated in olfactory reconstructions with IFF and the Rijksmuseum!

TODAY: don't forget our 3rd session of our Sense-ational 'Art and the Senses' Seminar @ 5pm @ History of Art department, 4A Trumpington Street, with Dr Allison Deutsch from UCL on 'TASTING IMPRESSIONISM'!

For those of you who missed the wonderful talk by Fleur Hopkins on "Investigating the Invisible" you can take a look at the beautiful slides of her presentation that she just uploaded on her Academia profile page :) : https://www.academia.edu/35788704/Investigating_the_invisible_Optics_and_visual_culture_of_the_French_merveilleux-scientifique_genre_1880-1930_

Investigating the invisible: Optics and visual culture of the French merveilleux-scientifique genre (1880-1930) 'Investigating the Invisible: Optiques and Visual Culture in the French Merveilleux-Scientifique Genre (1880-1930)’ In his 1909 manifesto, the French writer Maurice Renard attempted to map a new genre that he called the merveilleux-scientifique.

TOMORROW: don't forget our 3rd session of our Sense-ational 'Art and the Senses' Seminar @ 5pm @ History of Art department, 4A Trumpington Street, with Dr Allison Deutsch from UCL on 'TASTING IMPRESSIONISM'!

The 3rd session of our Sense-ational 'Art and the Senses' Seminar is next Wednesday @ 5pm @ 4A Trumpington Street HoArt Graduate Centre with Dr Allison Deutsch from on 'TASTING IMPRESSIONISM'! - & no better picture for this end of January than Monet's 'The Galettes' (1882)!

REMINDER: Today will be our 2nd session on SIGHT @ 5pm in 4a Trumpington Street with Fleur Hopkins on "Investigating the Invisible" and optical instruments in early French science fiction visual culture! Come along everyone!

Our 2nd session on SIGHT will be tomorrow @ 5pm Graduate centre in 4a Trumpington with Fleur Hopkins on "Investigating the Invisible" and optical instruments in early French science fiction visual culture! Come all!

Thanks everyone for coming last night!!

The "Art and the Senses" Seminar starts Today 5pm at the History of Art Graduate Centre, 4a Trumpington Street, CB2 1QA!

REMINDER: The Art and the Senses Seminar starts this Wednesday 17 January, 5pm at the History of Art Graduate Centre, 4a Trumpington Street, CB2 1QA. The talks will last for around 50 minutes followed by an opportunity for questions, after which refreshments will be provided.

Our first seminar paper comes from Kate McLean, Programme Director, Graphic Design Canterbury Christ Church University & Information Experience Design PhD Candidate RCA:

'Nose-First: Rendering Visible the Humanist Smellscape':

Looking forward to welcoming you all on Wednesday!

Lizzie and Lorraine

Two weeks until the inaugural Seminar! 17 Jan Kate McLean presents 'Nose-First: Rendering Visible the Humanist Smellscape'. We hear that smelly samples will be available to try out too!
'Segmented radial convergence diagram' ©Kate McLean 2016

Presenting the sense-ational programme for the ART AND THE SENSES Seminar, every Wednesday @ 5pm from 17 January - 7 March!

D-1 before we release our programme on ART AND THE SENSES for next term's Art History Seminar! - : Bernini, The R**e of Proserpina, Galleria Borghese, Rome

D-2 before we release our programme on ART AND THE SENSES for next term's Art History Seminar! Jean Duvet, The revelation of St John from the Apocalypse, 16th c, detail

D-3 before we release our programme on ART AND THE SENSES for next term's Art History Seminar! : Wenzel Hollar, Group of fur muffs on table, 17thc etching

D-4 before we release our programme on ART AND THE SENSES for next term's Art History Seminar! Rembrandt van Rijn, Unconscious Patient (Allegory of Smell), Leiden collection

ART AND THE SENSES is a weekly seminar series every Wednesday @ 5pm from 17 January - 7 March at the History of Art Graduate Centre, 4a Trumpington Street, CB2 1QA.

Synopsis of the series:

The work of art is more than a visual object. It has surface, texture that can be touched, and emits or evokes sounds, smells and tastes. Recently, academic studies on the Senses have flourished, especially in the context of the material approach to visual studies; meanwhile, museums and art institutions have been considering new ways to augment visitor experience through the Senses, and better engage with visitors who have sensory impairments; and in contemporary art, performance, video and sound can incorporate more than one Sense at a time, and calls into question the primacy of the visual. This Graduate Seminar Series, Art and the Senses, seeks to appreciate the roles of the Senses in visual culture, explore the Senses’ problematic and pleasurable qualities, and ultimately offer participants the opportunity to engage with their own Senses.

We look forward to welcoming you all next term!

Lizzie & Lorraine

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