The Transnational History of Art History

Based on the ongoing project examining the global reception of Heinrich Wölfflin's Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe (Principles of Art History) and the publication of his Complete Works, both of great importance for the study of Italian art, the history of art history should be conceived in a transnational perspective as a migration of the ideas, texts and also of the authors themselves.

A further component is a critical reflection on the globalisation of historical and contemporary research methods and technologies, such as photographs and image databases. Exploring the early scholarship about Indian art, for example, leads to new questions about form and formalism, of the role of geometric abstraction as a modern universal language of art, and artistic research and art history, which have their roots in classical Italian art and art theory.

The goal is to inspire a critical history of methods, theory and research that places Italian art, architecture and art theory of the early modern period in the focus of transnational aesthetic discourses and within the framework of a geography of concepts and terms.

Events

Italianisms in Soviet Architecture of the Thaw Era

Christian Toson
Public event without registration
Sep 26, 2023 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Art as Project, Project as Art: Antonio Dias and Painting after Conceptual Art

Sérgio Bruno Martins
Online event via Zoom
Jun 13, 2023 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Zoom Platform

Neobaroque Modern: Oscar Niemeyer and the Construction of a Brazilian Identity

Tristan Weddigen
Feb 8, 2023 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome

Connected Constellations. Networks of Artistic and Political Solidarity with Chile

Workshop
Feb 2, 2023 09:45 AM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)

Research Seminars Series "Methodology and Ideology: Critical Perspectives on the Historical Paradigms of Art History"

W. J. T. Mitchell
Event on-site and online
Nov 15, 2022 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Research Seminars Series "Methodology and Ideology: Critical Perspectives on the Historical Paradigms of Art History"

David Ganz
Event on-site and online
Nov 7, 2022 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Research Seminars Series "Methodology and Ideology: Critical Perspectives on the Historical Paradigms of Art History"

Joris van Gastel
Online event via Zoom and on site (previous registration)
Sep 30, 2022 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Research Seminars Series "Methodology and Ideology: Critical Perspectives on the Historical Paradigms of Art History"

Eric Michaud
Event on site and via Zoom
May 31, 2022 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Radical Statecraft: Transforming Institutions through Imaginative Practice

Aria Spinelli and Chiara De Cesari
Online event via Zoom and on site
Apr 5, 2022 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Rudiments and Revenants: Warburg, Darwin and the Biology of Gesture

Matthew Vollgraff
Online event via Zoom and on site (previous registration)
Dec 13, 2021 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
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