Un Oeil, Une Histoire: What do we do when we do art history?
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
No booking required
'Un Oeil, Une Histoire' is a series of French-made documentaries, each of which focuses on a well-known art historian in the setting of their own home, speaking to camera about a personal selection of artworks (present as postcards laid out on a table) and tracing their trajectory of into the discipline and particular mode of thinking about art and its histories. The films, made between 2015 and 2018, were conceived and directed by Marianne Alphant and Pascale Bouhénic for Zadig Productions. They have been broadcast on the 'Histoire' channel in France and reviewed in Télérama, where they were described as 'ludique et savante'. You can see a trailer for the series here.
We will be screening two of the films, one on Svetlana Alpers, the American scholar who writes on Northern Renaissance art, and the other on Georges Didi-Huberman, a French art historian and philosopher whose writings explore art historiography, psychoanalysis, contemporary art and the legacy of Aby Warburg.
This event is a collaboration between Birkbeck, the Warburg Institute and the Courtauld Institute. The screenings will be followed by a round table of three early career art historians from each of the participating institutions, reflecting on the films and on their own positions and practices.
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This event is a collaboration between Birkbeck, the Warburg Institute and the Courtauld Institute. The screenings will be followed by a round table of three early career art historians from each of the participating institutions, reflecting on the films and on their own positions and practices.
Mara Polgovsky-Ezcurra (Birkbeck) and Steffen Haug (Warburg) have confirmed their participation.
This event will be of interest to both students and academics in visual arts, art history and film.
With the kind assistance of SensoProjekt
Contact name:
Matthew Barrington
Contact phone:
07508859179