Description:

Join the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts for a panel discussion on:

Material Studies in Visual Arts: The Role of Objects in Writing Histories

This panel, sponsored by the Northwestern University / Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS), will examine how objects, when interrogated through the multiple lenses of a conservator, an art historian, an anthropologist, and a historian, can provide new information and fresh approaches to write theirs (and our civilization’s) histories.

Monday, November 5, 2-4 pm

Segal Design Institute ITW Classroom, 1-350

2133 Sheridan Road

Evanston Campus

2:00–2:10 Francesca Casadio, Introductions
(Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science, The Art Institute of Chicago; Co-Director, Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts)

2:10–2:30 Erma Hermens, Technical Art History: Celebrating the Act of Making
(Professor in Studio Practice and Technical Art History, History of Art Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Amsterdam; Senior Researcher, Technical Art History, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

2:30–2:50 Claudia Swan, "Encounter Objects”: Materiality and the Global Baroque
(Associate Professor, Northwestern University, Department of Art History)

2:50–3:10 Mark Hauser, Plantation Waterways: Materiality, Archaeology and Analysis Used to Uncover Histories of Slavery
(Associate Professor, Northwestern University, Department of Anthropology)

3:10–3:30 Peter Miller, A Critical History of Technical Art History
(Dean, Bard Graduate Center)

3:30–4:00 Jay A. Clarke, Moderator and Respondent
(Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago)

RSVP: scienceforart@northwestern.edu

For more information, click here to visit the Center's website