HESCAH Symposium | Image, Ornament, Matter: A Symposium on their Limits and Intersections in the History of Art

Join the School of Art + Art History and the Harn Museum of Art for Image, Ornament, Matter: A Symposium on their Limits and Intersections in the History of Art symposium, at the Harn Museum of Art. Free and open to the university community and beyond, the Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History (HESCAH) events are presented in collaboration with the Harn Museum of Art, and often with other departments and centers on campus.

Image, Ornament, Matter: A Symposium on their Limits and Intersections in the History of Art

Keynote: Warburg and World Ornament: An Ethnography of Spaces

Dr. Spyros Papapetros, Princeton University
Friday, April 12th 2019
6PM, Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum of Art
Reception to Follow

Following Gottfried Semper’s formulation of “directional adornment (Richtungsschmuck),” this presentation examines ornament as an orientation device for navigating physical and epistemological spaces by drawing from a series of original archival documents recording Aby Warburg’s encounter with the ritual practice and ethnographic literature on Ornamentik from a global perspective.

Speakers:

Spyros Papapetros, Princeton University
Benjamin C. Tilghman, Washington College / The Material Collective
Megan McNamee, Warburg Institute
Meekyung MacMurdie, University of Chicago
Susanna McFadden, Bryn Mawr College
Irene Backus, Oklahoma State University
Ashley Jones, University of Florida

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