CFP Technologies of Print and Dynamics of Power in the Age of Revolution

post by prof. Elizabeth Amann (UGent):

CALL FOR PAPERS Technologies of Print and Dynamics of Power in the Age of Revolution 

The U4 network ‘Reverberations of Revolution: Political Upheaval Seen from Afar (1750-1850)’ invites proposals for the symposium Technologies of Print and Dynamics of Power in the Age of Revolution, which will be held at Groningen University on 17 and 18 September 2015. The goal of the U4 network, which held its first meeting at Uppsala University in September 2014, is to explore how writers, artists and intellectuals responded to and represented revolutions taking place in other parts of the world in a variety of genres—novels, essays, poetry, spectacles, art works, journalism, caricatures, everyday objects, historiography and lifewriting—and how discussions of these uprisings influenced domestic political discourse and debate. 

The second meeting of the U4 network will focus on the role that print, publishing and dissemination played in the Age of Revolution. The bourgeois public sphere that emerged in this era hinged on new media (newspapers, magazines, novels), new readers (the middle class), and new discursive arenas (printers’ shops, as well as coffee-houses, salons, Tischgesellschaften). Scholars have predominantly represented these transformations as a democratizing force. It is important to recognize, however, that they involved sociopolitical exclusions as well. We invite contributions that challenge a narrowly technological definition of distribution media and explore them instead as complex cultural products. Individual submissions may seek to investigate the following research areas, among others: 

• The cross-fertilization of revolutionary ideas across borders through the medium of print technology
• The convergence of printers, writers and readers in specific revolutionary communities 

• The role of print capitalism in containing and spreading revolutionary ideas 

• Corresponding societies and the creation of a political subject 

• The role of plagiarism and piracy in promoting or preventing revolution 

• Print technology and the limits of political reform 

• Printing and the dynamics of the public sphere 

Proposals for individual paper submissions should consist of an abstract (max. 250 words) and a short CV. Please submit all proposals to Wil Verhoeven (U. of Groningen, wil.verhoeven[at]rug.nl). Deadline: April 15, 2015 (notifications of acceptance will follow a month later). 

The inaugural meeting of the U4 took place at Uppsala University on 22 September 2014 and focused on questions of democracy and popular sovereignty. The third conference of the U4 network will take place at the University of Göttingen in the Spring of 2016. The subject will be: ‘Translation and Transformation in the Age of Revolution’. The fourth and final conference of the U4 network will take place in the Fall of 2016 at Ghent University. The subject will be: ‘The Power of Things: Revolutionary Objects, Icons and Images Across Borders’.

Vernissage Portaels KMSKB 27/02

New Publication: Dealer, Collector, Critic, Publlisher: The Animateur d'Art and his Multiple Roles (Ingrid Goddeeris & Noémie Goldman, eds)

Dealer, collector, critic, publisher... : The animateur d'art and his multiples roles. Pluridisciplinary research of these disregarded cultural mediators of the 19th and 20th centuries
Proceedings of the 2012 international symposium Animateur d’art

Edited by Ingrid Goddeeris & Noémie Goldman

This book gathers new studies, which enlighten the role of the animateur d’art in the development of the arts. The animateur d’art actively participates in the defense of the arts and in the stimulation of the artistic creation in a certain period. He is a key figure positioning himself as a mediator between the different art worlds as well as between the different agents of the cultural environment. His work also consists in building bridges between the artists and his own cultural environment in order to ease the reception of the works and to promote art movements. The authors who contributed to this publication offer a first portrait of this cultural actor who influenced the art scenes from the 19th century to the present.

Published with the support of: FNRS, FWO, Bruxelles – Region Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, KBR, ULB, KUL-Kulak, Belspo, Centre international pour l’Étude du XIXe siècle (avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles)

Editing: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, 2015

16 x 24 cm, 247 Pages, 37 B&W illustrations, softcover

ISBN: 9789077013076 (in English, French & Dutch)

20€ [available in the shop of the RMFAB : museumshop@fine-arts-museum.be ]

Table of Contents

Voorwoord
Michel Draguet ..................................................................................... 5
Préface
Michel Draguet ..................................................................................... 7
Inleiding
Ingrid Goddeeris ................................................................................... 9
Introduction
Noemie Goldman ................................................................................. 13
STIMULATING THE CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT: NETWORKS AND ACTIVITIES
DYNAMISER LE MILIEU CULTUREL: RESEAUX ET ACTIVITES
STIMULEREN VAN HET CULTUURLEVEN: NETWERKEN EN ACTIVITEITEN
The Mommen Company: a commercial animateur and facilitator of the
19th-century Brussels art scene
Davy Depelchin .................................................................................... 19
Suzanne Tézenas (1898-1991). Une présence au cœur du dialogue entre
les arts
Sarah Barbedette................................................................................... 33
L’animateur d’art au combat. Inactualités de Julius Meier-Graefe
Victor Claass ........................................................................................ 43
INVESTING THE POLITICAL SPHERE: A CULTURE UNDER INFLUENCE
INVESTIR LA SPHERE POLITIQUE: UNE CULTURE SOUS INFLUENCE
BINNENDRINGEN IN DE POLITIEKE SFEER : EEN CULTUUR ONDER INVLOED
Thoré-Bürger: homme de lettres ou homme politique?
Frances Suzman Jowell ........................................................................ 57
Louis Piérard (1886-1851): ses débuts comme promoteur d’art
Jean-Philippe Huys ............................................................................... 69
CONSTRUCTING AND RENEWING THE ART WORLD
CONSTRUIRE ET RENOVER LE MONDE DE L’ART
OPBOUWEN EN HERNIEUWEN VAN DE KUNSTWERELD
Kessler, Osthaus, Waerndorfer – Des animateurs d’art en quête d’identité:
quelques réflexions à partir de trois exemples
Inga Rossi-Schrimpf ............................................................................. 83
L. Fritz Gruber (1908-2005). À la naissance d’un champ photographique
dynamique en République fédérale d’Allemagne
Anais Feyeux ........................................................................................ 99
Paul Fierens (1895-1957), promoteur de l’art belge en France durant
l’entre-deux-guerres
Celine De Potter ................................................................................... 111
PROMOTING THE ART MARKET: KNOWLEDGE AND DISCRETION
FAVORISER LE MARCHE DE L’ART: MAITRISE ET DISCRETION
BEVORDEREN VAN DE KUNSTMARKT: KENNIS EN DISCRETIE
For Public Good and Private Benefit: Henry Mogford (1778-1874) and
the Mid-Victorian Art Scene
Jan Dirk Baetens .................................................................................. 127
Forward! – Selfhelp. – Self-Respect: Léon Gauchez (1825-1907) et la
Société internationale des Beaux-Arts de Londres
Ingrid Goddeeris ................................................................................... 141
Wilhelm Uhde (1874-1947), faux marchand, vrai animateur d’art
Yves Guignard ...................................................................................... 157
SPREADING OUT A VISION: EDITION, CRITICISM AND LITERATURE
DIFFUSER UNE VISION: EDITION, CRITIQUE ET LITTERATURE
VERSPREIDEN VAN EEN VISIE: EDITIE, KRITIEK EN LITERATUUR
Thadée Natason (1868-1951): de l’écrivain au dilettante (1868-1951)
Clement Dessy ...................................................................................... 171
A personal contribution to the promotion of printmaking in 19th-century
Belgium. Adolphe Siret’s (1818-1888) private collection revealed
Milou Goverde & Sarah Van Ooteghem ............................................ 185
FORGOTTEN BUT REDISCOVERED: METHODOLOGY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
OUBLIE MAIS REDECOUVERT: METHODOLOGIE ET HISTORIOGRAPHIE
VERGETEN MAAR HERONDEKT: METHODOLOGIE EN HISTORIOGRAFIE
Pour un répérage systématique des animateurs de la vie littéraire. Le cas
de Gaston Pulings: faits historiques et figuration littéraire
Bjorn-Olav Dozo .................................................................................. 199
What Becomes a Legend Most? Reckoning the Legacy of Alfred Stieglitz
Laurie Dahlberg .................................................................................... 213
Epilogue
Noemie Goldman ................................................................................. 225
Conclusion
Noemie Goldman ................................................................................. 231
Authors / Auteurs / Auteurs ........................................................................ 237
Photographic credits / Crédits photographiques / Reproductierechten .... 243
Table of Contents / Tables des matières / Inhoudstafel ............................ 245