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The Fine Arts Network and the Art History Discipline, School of Culture and Communication, present:
The 2008 Joseph Burke Lecture
Dr Alex Baker
Senior Curator Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria
It’s All About You: Generosity in the Art of Harrell Fletcher
Thursday 22 May 2008, at 6.30pm
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, University of Melbourne
In a contemporary art world fixated on the artist as object-making superstar and the glamour associated with art fairs, international biennials, and mind-boggling auction figures, the artist Harrell Fletcher (based in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.) turns the present state of affairs on its head. In a practice spanning over a decade now, Fletcher makes few sellable objects, shuns the well-heeled collector circuit, and eschews the cult of personality so often associated with the artist these days. Fletcher directs the spotlight away from himself by shifting attention on to the aspirations and talents of others. From siting a temporary museum focusing on local peoples’ lives in a northern California shopping mall, to working with an eight year old boy as the principle decision-maker for a work of public art created for a park in France to his collaborative web-based project with artist Miranda July, Learning to Love You More, in which they assign people various tasks for which the results are posted on the site regardless of the participant’s standing as artists (anyone who fully completes an assignment is acknowledged), Fletcher’s art is really all about you, rather than all about him.
Wednesday 14 November 2007 9.30-6.00 pm.
Symposium: Art in Baroque Rome. New Directions in Research
Baroque Arcadias — Baroque Display
with Keynote Addresses by
Karin Wolfe
Dr Wolfe is an independent scholar attached to the British School at Rome and has published extensively on the art patronage of the Barberini, Caravaggio, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and Francesco Borromini, and is currently writing a monograph on the eighteenth-century painter Francesco Trevisani (by whom there is a fine work in the National Gallery of Victoria).
and
Tommaso Manfredi
Professor Manfredi teaches in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Reggio Calabria and is a leading scholar on Roman eighteenth-century architecture, with an exhaustive list of publications, essays, articles, and books dealing with the major 17th and 18th century Roman architects such as Borromini and Juvarra and with Baroque urbanism.
Speakers
David R. Marshall — Lisa Beaven — Tim Ould — Glenys Adams — Victoria Hobday — Mark Shepheard — Katrina Grant
Date
Wednesday 14 November 2007 9.30-6.00 pm.
Location
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, Old Pathology Building, The University of Melbourne
Program
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Tuesday 23 October
The Fine Arts Network and The School of the School of Culture & Communication present
The 2007 Margaret Manion Lecture
'Imperial Lines: Harold Wright and Printmaking and Collecting at the End of Empire'
Dr David Maskill
University of Wellington, New Zealand
Tuesday 23 October 6.30-7.30 pm, Elisabeth Murdoch Lecture Theatre
Harold Wright (1885-1961) is well-known to print curators in Australia and New Zealand as the founder of a unique scholarship for recipients to study the great print collection of the British Museum. But what has gone largely unacknowledged is the fact that the scholarship was an extension, after Wright's death, of a process of education and acquisition that he conducted throughout his life as the major advisor to private print collectors and public institutions in our region.
At Colnaghi's, the Bond Street dealers he served for over fifty years, Wright presided over the last flourish of the so-called 'Etching Revival'. He believed that these British printmakers, following the lead of their French counterparts, were the true heirs to the great European tradition of printmaking, not the contemporary artists of the avant-garde. This view of the history of printmaking, while at odds with the prevailing canon, has directly informed the early print collecting of our major institutions.
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The Fine Arts Network and the Art History Discipline, School of Culture and Communication, presents
The 2007 Joseph Burke Lecture
John Wolseley
Environment into Art, the Curlew, the Swamp and the Warming of the Seas
Well-known artist John Wolseley will examine the idea of an art which is deeply connected to the environment in which it is made. In this context, he aligns himself with a wide range of artists from Richard Wilson to Joseph Beuys. He will discuss his own work in the Australian landscape and ask what is the role of the contemporary artist when the natural world is in the process of disintegration.
6.30 pm Tuesday 22 May Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, University of Melbourne
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Thursday 12th October
The Fine Arts Network and The School of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology present
The 2006 Margaret Manion Lecture
Dr David Hansen
Former Senior Curator of Art at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
'Remarkable Characters': John Dempsey and the Representation of the Urban Poor in Regency Britain
Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building, The University of Melbourne.
6.30pm – 7.30pm.
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The Joseph Burke Lecture 2006
Ted Gott
Senior Curator, International Art, National Gallery of Victoria
Imaging the Beast: Emmanuel Fremiet, Gorilla-Sculptor
Delivered Wednesday 24 May. 6.30 pm – 7.30 pm
In collaboration with AHCCA
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Long Lecture Abstract
Thursday 6 April – 6.30 pm
Theatre A Elizabeth Murdoch Building
FAN Lecture
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Director, British School at Rome
Saving Herculaneum
Herculaneum, destroyed in the same eruption as Pompeii, is less well known but in many ways preserves a more vivid image of Roman life. A conservation crisis puts both sites in imminent danger of a second destruction. This lecture describes the attempts of the Herculaneum Conservation Project to rescue the site and some impor¬tant new discoveries it has made. Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, director of the project, is Director of the British School at Rome, author of books and articles on a wide range of themes of Roman social and cultural history, including Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and broadcaster of many programmes on the Roman world.
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