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Programme: Rethinking Art Historical Narratives and Canons, 9–10 November 2023, Helsinki
Ateneum Art Museum (Kaivokatu 2) & University of Helsinki Main Building (Fabianinkatu 33)
Thursday 9 November, Ateneum Art Museum
10.00 Museum opens
10.15 Welcome: Marja Sakari, Museum Director, Ateneum Art Museum
10.30 Session 1: Transnationalism and Colonial Histories
Convenor: Marja Lahelma
- Charlotte Ashby: “Rethinking Coloniality in the British Art World around 1900”
- Kaija Kaitavuori: “Colonial Currents and Counter Currents in Art”
- Krista Kodres: “Borders and Explosions: Transnational art history discourse(s) and the national context in dialogue in Estonia in the 1920s and 1930s”
11.45–13.00 Lunch break
13.00 Keynote Speech: Patricia Berman, Wellesley College, US
“Canons Within, Canons Without”
Firing the Norwegian Canon: Micro-Histories and Roundtable
Convenor: Patricia Berman
- Mai Britt Guleng: “Anachronous Art Historical Communities”
- Bente Solbakken: “Goathi and place: Kjell Borgen’s work in Sápmi”
- Eilif Salemonsen: “Beyond National Romanticism: Adolph Tidemand and French History Painting”
- Tonje Haugland Sørensen: “Contesting Canon One Tree at the Time (or engaging national romanticisms through the perspective of materiality and material circulation)”
- MaryClaire Pappas: “The Contemporary Norwegian Art Exhibition (1917) and the formation of the genealogy of Norwegian modernism”
- Ingrid Halland: “Is White Paint Racist? Archival gaps and public participation as methods in art historical research”
15.30–16.00 Coffee break
16.00 Timo Huusko & Anu Utriainen (discussion): “Curating Ateneum’s New Collections Display
Friday 10 November, University of Helsinki Main Building
9.00–9.30 Coffee
9.30 Parallel sessions 2a & 2b
Studium 1 (F3020)
2 a: National Canons
Convenor: Essi Lamberg
- Lotta Nylund: “How Alexander Lauréus (1783–1823) Became a Finnish Artist – An Example of National Canon Formation”
- Mira Kozhanova: “Translating transcultural heritage into a national art canon: Practices of appropriation and exclusion in the case of Paris-based artists from the Russian Empire”
- Hanna-Leena Paloposki: “The Finnish Art Society and Artists’ Letters: Reflections on Heritagisation, Archival Collections and the Art Canon“
Consistorium (F2002)
2 b: Art Criticism and Narratives
Convenor: Nina Kokkinen
- João G. Rizek: “Expanding the Universal: Mário Pedrosa and Indigenous Art”
- Jane Boddy: “The battle for modern art: Avenarius vs. Meier-Graefe on artistic definition and canon formation”
- Chloë Julius: “Barbara Rose, the end of painting, and the Beginnings of a New Art Historical Narrative”
10.45–11.00 Short Break
11.00 Parallel sessions 3a & 3b
Studium 1 (F3020)
3 a: Politics and Canon Formation
Convenor: Hanna-Leena Paloposki
- Maija Koskinen: “Reassessing International Art Exhibitions in Finland – A New Perspective into Exhibition History of the Second Half of the 20th Century”
- Tanja Zimmermann: “Naïve Art and the Emergence of New Art Canons in the 20th and 21st Centuries”
- Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus: “How to challenge Polish art history writing from a critical perspective?”
Consistorium (F2002)
3 b: Blind Spots and Alternative Narratives
Convenor: Charlotte Ashby
- Eve Grinstead: “Redefine the Art Historical Canon? Sometimes it is never applied: the Rise of the Art Scene in the United Arab Emirates”
- Claire Dupin de Beyssat: “Oblivion and Posterity. Why do (or don’t) painters go down in art history?”
- Charles W. Haxthausen: “Reimagining Art History: Carl Einstein’s Handbuch der Kunst”
12.15–13.15 Lunch break
13.15 Parallel sessions 4a & 4b
Studium 1 (F3020)
4 a: Border-Crossing and Transnationality 1
Convenor: Maija Koskinen
- Christian Nae: “We Don’t Need Another Hero: Horizontal, Entangled and Constellational Approaches to Writing Transnational Art Histories in Central and Eastern Europe”
- Lucila Mallart: “Conceptualising Supranational Artistic Geographies in Europe’s Borderlands: Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1867-1956) and Johnny Roosval (1879-1965)”
- Edward Payne: “Why ‘El Greco to Goya’?”
Consistorium (F2002)
4b: Methods, Concepts and Canon Formation
Convenor: Elina Räsänen
- Margot Renard: “Mutual Estrangement: Comics and Art History, Comics without Art History”
- Tutta Palin: “The Arrière-garde, the Middlebrow, and Modernism: The Popularisation of Fine Art Publicity in Finland”
- Lauri Ockenström: “What about beauty and order? Vitruvius’s De Architecura, canons and narratives”
14.30–15.00 Coffee break
15.00 Parallel sessions 5a & 5b
Studium 1 (F3020)
5a) Border-Crossing and Transnationality 2
Convenor: MaryClaire Pappas
- Minna Valjakka: “Artistic Diaspora: Creating for (trans)national rights of existence”
- Essi Lamberg: “Conceptual prestige in art historical canon formation: analyzing the exclusivity of ‘architecture’”
- Ja Won Lee: “What Matters: Nineteenth-Century Korean Art Reconsidered”
Consistorium (F2002)
5b) Mediums and Valuations
Convenor: Petra Lehtoruusu
- Daniel Spaulding: “Posteriority, or: Another Canon for Collage”
- Ronnie Close: “Aesthetics of Censorship: Egyptian State Control of Western Photography”
- Brian T. Leahy: “Ray Johnson’s Ignoble Archive: On the Role of Ephemera in Canon Formation”