Appel à communication pour le AAH 2020 : Pre-Modern Women as Artists, Patrons and Collectors (Birmingham, 14-16 avril 2021)

Association for Art History’s 47th Annual Conference (AAH)
University of Birmingham, 14 – 16 avril 2021

Pre-Modern Women as Artists, Patrons and Collectors

Session Convenor:
Jamie Edwards, j.l.edwards@exeter.ac.uk

The study of women in pre-modern times is a well-established field that has generated important scholarship. But, as ongoing research shows, there is no shortage of new material yet to be analysed, or existing evidence that can be nuanced in the light of new methodological approaches. And whilst recent monographic exhibitions attest to the enduring appeal of ‘female artists’ in the ‘genius’ tradition (e.g. Anguissola, Gentileschi), new and ongoing work in the field points to different ways that women’s interaction with visual and material culture can be approached. The application of new digital and mapping technologies, meanwhile, is enabling scholars to propose alternative, non-linear narratives of pre-modern women’s lives.

We therefore invite proposals for papers exploring the role of women as artists, patrons and collectors in the medieval and early modern periods, broadly defined (c.400–1700). We encourage submissions that disrupt chronological and geographical conceptions of this period, or commonplace ideas surrounding ‘medieval’ or ‘early modern’ women. Papers considering non-Western subjects and materials, or which draw on new methodologies including digital ones, are also particularly welcome.

Papers may consider ruling and elite women, religious or secular ones, as well as laywomen. Possible topics include:

– women as ‘makers’
– women as patrons/collectors of paintings, sculptures, works on paper, or visual and material culture more broadly conceived
– women and patronage of architecture or other large-scale ensembles
– women and books (libraries, translators, writers)
– women’s networks
– gender and identity
– inventories and women inheritors/benefactors
– women in commerce (dealers, proprietors)
– applying digital/mapping technologies to pre-modern sources
– methodological and theoretical papers interrogating issues surrounding the study of pre-modern women.

Please email your paper proposal to the session convenor using the Paper Proposal Form (https://bit.ly/3eVYWZu). Deadline: October 19, 2020.



Citer ce billet
Alice Ottazzi (2020, 8 juillet). Appel à communication pour le AAH 2020 : Pre-Modern Women as Artists, Patrons and Collectors (Birmingham, 14-16 avril 2021). Collection. Consulté le 28 mars 2024, à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/n071

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