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

  • Date & Time
    • Friday, April 12, 2019 — through
      Saturday, April 13, 2019

      Symposium

    • Friday, April 12, 2019 6:00pm to 7:00pm

      Keynote

  • Description

    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

  • Venue
    Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
    Address
    3259 Hull Road
    Phone
    352-392-9826
    Website
    Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art Website