CONF: Fashion and Art History (York, 29-30 Jun 15)

[Addressing Fashion In Art (AFIA)]

University of York, York, June 29 - 30, 2015

Fashion & Art History

Fashion and art often follow a shared trajectory of social, political,
and historical circumstances. In collaboration with the University of
York, the AAH’s Annual Student Summer Symposium will explore the
relationship between fashion and art through papers that engage with
this subject across a wide range of chronological and theoretical
perspectives.

The influence of fashionable dress on artists and patrons of art has
recently become a popular and productive avenue for research in art
history, while fashion designers have likewise been shown to engage
continuously with historical and fine art as sources of inspiration.
Fashion and Art History will build upon these conversations while also
addressing questions that continue to be debated in art and fashion
history circles: What evidence does art provide for how dress operates
within society? Is fashion ‘art’? Should fashion history be taught
alongside art history in academic curricula? When should these objects
be displayed in galleries alongside each other, and how does this
change the way we understand artworks and fashionable dress? Finally,
how might the tools and methodologies of these related disciplines aid
the study of their respective subjects?

Programme & Papers

Monday 29 June

13.00 Registration/Tea and coffee

13.25 Welcom

13.30 Session 1: Contextualising Fashion

Ingrid Mida (York University, Toronto), Fashion and Art in the Context
of the Museum

Sara Tarter (University of Birmingham) Framing and Reflecting Fashion:
Art in Late Nineteenth-Century Parisian Department Stores

Maude Johnson (Concordia University, Montreal) Alexander McQueen:
Savage Beauty

14.45 Break

15.00 Session 2: The Art of Fashion

Hannelore Magnus (University of Leuven), A Painter Among Tailors: The
Depiction of Dress in the Painted Art Galleries by Jacob de Formentrou
(1629-after 1695)

Maria Merseburger (Humboldt-University, Berlin), Depicting Dress in
Early Modern Florence. Ghirlandaio’s Tornabuoni Portraits

Hazel Shepherd (University of Manchester), Blue Corsets: 'Nana' and her
Contemporaries

16:15 Break

16.20 Keynote: Rhian Addison (Watts Gallery) , Liberating Fashion:
Artists as Designers in the Aesthetic Movement

17.20 Wine Reception, History of Art Department

19.00  Speakers Dinner


Tuesday 30 June

09.45 Session 3: Adorning Dress

Amy Robson (University of Plymouth)m, Dandy Dogs: Fashionable Canines
and Canines as Fashion in Victorian Britain

Madeleine Pelling (University of York), The Feathered Fair: Hybrid
Women and Dismembered Birds in Visual Satire c.1775-1800

Alicia Caticha (University of Virginia, The Fashionable Paragone:
Legros de Rumigny, Autié Léonard, and The Coiffeur as Sculpture in
Eighteenth Century France

11.00 Break

11.15 Keynote: Susan Vincent (University of York) Ogling and Quizzing:
or, The Historian, the Eyeglass, and the Visual Sources

12.15 Lunch

13.30 Session 4: Fashion and Modernity: Part 1

Eugenie Maria Theuer (University of Barcelona), The Catwalks Are Alive
with the History of Cinema: Fashion's Art-Historical Approach to Films

Caitlyn Hoglund (Tufts University, Massachusetts), Mondrian Madness:
Fashioning Modernism in 1965

14:20 Break

14:35 Session 5: Fashion and Modernity: Part 2

Alistair Neil Harkess (New Design University, Austria), Body
Coverings-Interior Space. Considering Clothing and its Relation to
Interior Design

Anne Reimers (University for the Creative Arts), On Aesthetic Pleasure:
The Problem of 'Fashion' in 1920s German Art Journals

15:30 Roundtable/Open Floor

16.00 End

The Summer Symposium is a two-day annual conference highlighting
post-graduate research. It takes place at a different university each
year in early Summer.

Booking and more information at
http://www.aah.org.uk/events/summer-symposium