"Real Spaces" at 20

12 Mai 2023

09:45 - 18:00

Forum eikones, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel & online
Veranstalter:
eikones - Zentrum für die Theorie und Geschichte des Bildes, Universität Basel

Öffentliche Veranstaltung

"Real Spaces" at 20

Conference organized by Jakub Stejskal, former NOMIS Fellow and eikones, University of Basel

This conference commemorates the 20th anniversary of the publication of David Summers's magisterial Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism. This conference will assess the legacy of what remains one of the most ambitious attempts at developing a global framework for art history.

Speakers: Whitney Davis, Beate Fricke, Monica Juneja, Matthew Rampley, Jakub Stejskal, David Summers, Kamini Vellodi

To participate online, please register here.

Program (as pdf here)

9.45	Welcome
10–10.45	David Summers Real Spaces and the Theory of Empathy
10.45 –11.30	Beate Fricke Objects Opening Horizons
11.30–11.45	Coffee break
11.45–12.30	Whitney Davis The Acheulean Hand-Axe: On Euclidean Artifacts in Visual Space
12.30–13.15	Matthew Rampley Refinement and Excess: The Limits of Interpretation
13.15–14.45	Lunch
14.45–15.30	Kamini Vellodi On Concepts and Art History
15.30–16.15	Jakub Stejskal Monsters and Monuments
16.15–16.30	Coffee break
16.30–17.30	Monica Juneja Ways of Being-in-the-World: Art History after Real Spaces; A Roundtable with David Summers

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