Pour la prochaine séance du Séminaire Collection, nous sommes heureux d’accueillir :
Christine Vivet-Peclet – Cité de l’architecture et du Patrimoine – Paris
Suivre l’activité commerciale d’une famille de marchands d’art en l’absence des archives de l’entreprise – Une gageure ?
Clémence Couriet Bossan de Garagnol – University of Warwick
Comment les archives secondaires apportent un nouvel éclairage sur les activités de Georges Petit (1856-1920).
10 mai 2022, en ligne sur Zoom, 18h30-20h00
La conférence, gratuite, aura lieu sur Zoom. Veillez à vous inscrire au préalable, afin de recevoir les informations nécessaire, à cette adresse : collection.seminaire@gmail.com
Provenance – tracking the origin, ownership, transfer, and movement of objects – has become somewhat more visible in recent years, spurred on by the restitution of Nazi spoliated artworks and lately human remains and cultural heritage translocated during the colonial era. But rich provenance data is relevant within a wider a range of contexts and for a plurality of audiences where there is a desire to connect with objects, histories, cultures and associated people of all kinds. Through the work of the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative Jane Milosch and Nick Pearce have been engaging with provenance from this broad range of perspectives which has resulted in a new book: Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach, the aim of which is to present provenance as an integral part of collecting history, illuminating the social, economic, and historic contexts in which objects were created and collected. They argue that provenance relates to the history of people as well as objects and its study can reveal an often-intricate network of relationships, patterns of activity, and motivations across a range of disciplinary perspectives.