Date/Time
Date(s) - 3 Apr 2015
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
Schermerhorn Hall
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From Sgraffio to Graffiti:
Archaeology of a Gesture in the Early Modern Period
Workshop organized by Diane Bodart
Friday, April 3d, 2015, 9:30 am-1:00 pm
Columbia University
Department of Art History and Archaeology
934 Schermerhorn Hall
1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York City
Please RSVP by email to [email protected]
SPEAKERS
Francesca Alberti, Académie de France à Rome, Juliet Fleming, New York University, Charlotte Guichard, CNRS/ IHMC, Paris, Jérémie Koering, CNRS/ Centre André Chastel, Paris, Véronique Plesch, Colby College, Alessandra Russo, Columbia University
MODERATORS
Diane Bodart, Columbia University, and Noémie Étienne, Institute of Fine Arts
PROGRAM
9:30-11:10 1. Working with graffiti: approaches, methodologies, geographies
11:10-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-1:00 2. The temporality of graffiti: sources, materials, contexts, modes, practices, conservation
In recent decades, scholars have devoted particular attention to different forms of early modern graffiti and shown how the perception of writing and drawing on wall surfaces is relative to time and context. In the early modern era, graffiti were not necessarily singled out as intrusive or destructive acts distinct from other forms of writing or drawing, but were part of cultural as well as religious practices performed in a collective or an individual way.
This workshop intends to create a discussion between scholars who have investigated early modern practices of graffiti from several perspectives, in order to analyze the complexity of this phenomenon at a time when it had not yet found its current definition. The workshop wishes to bring attention to the different forms of parietal writing and drawing and to the variety of their processes, intentions and uses. A particular focus will be given to the temporality of graffiti and the methodologies of their interpretation, documentation, and conservation.
Please RSVP by email to [email protected]
With the generous funding of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, and of the Alliance Joint Program– Columbia University/ Université Paris 1