Color in Motion: Program
December 8 – Day 1
GamMAH, Promenade du Pin 5 (See on a map)
| 09:00 | Welcome Coffee | |
| 09:30 | Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel | Introduction |
| 09:45 | Keynote 1 | Monika Wagner, University of Hamburg | Circulation and Reception. Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece in Colour and in Black-and-White Reproductions |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | Exploring and Tracing Images Differently: A Hands-On Workshop with Explore, I. |
Session 1: Cultural and Political Systems | Frédéric Elsig, University of Geneva
| 11:00 | Maite Alvarez, J.Paul Getty Museum |
Spanish Imperial Chromatic Charts: Watercolor, Weather, and Governance at a Distance 1789–1816 |
| 11:30 | Hiromi Matsui, University of Tokyo |
Japanese Color Theory at the Age of Modernism: Formation, Transformation, and Cultural Synthesis |
| 12:00 | Stephanie S.E. Lee, Northwestern University ; Morgan Library | Making Yellow in the Twentieth-century: Color Charts, Shiseido, and Asiatic Femininity in East Asian Works-on-Paper |
| 12:30 | Witold Kanicki, Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts | Cold War and the Politics of Color Photography |
| 13:00 | Lunch Break (1h30) |
Session 2: Color Semantics | Dominik Remondino, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève
| 14:30 | Maryam Akramifard, Université Laval, & Mahsa Akramifard, Tarbiat Modares University |
Semiotic Squares of Color: Greimasian Analysis of French Translations of Hafez’s Chromatic Imagery |
| 15:00 | Tatiana Smolyarova, University of Geneva |
The “Travelling Eye”: Osip Mandelstam’s Theory of Color and Vision in “Journey to Armenia” (1931) and “Impressionism” (1932) |
| 15:30 |
Adriana Zdrzalek, University |
Color Circulation from Esthetics to Ontology. Or from Decorative Arts to Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks |
| 16:00 | Coffee Break |
Session 3: Shifting Perceptions | Milan Garcin, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève
| 16:30 |
Carla Mazzarelli, Università |
Which “Authenticity” of Color? Michelangelo Reproduced between Media Transformation and Migrations of Perception |
| 17:00 | Stefanie De Winter, KU Leuven | Silent Color Transformations: Ageing, Reproduction, and the Epistemic Gap in Color Field Painting |
| 17:30 | Emilia Cottiglioni, Stanford University | Nordic Time: Color, Metamorphosis, and Landscape Imaginaries |
| 18:00 | Marta Spanevello, Università della Svizzera Italiana |
Perceiving the Imperceptible Color: American Monochromatic Art, 1980–2000 |
| 18:30 | Cocktail for speakers |
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December 9 – Day 2
Espace Colladon, Rue Jean-Daniel Colladon 2 (See on a map)
| 09:00 | Welcome Coffee |
Session 4: Black and White Filters | Adélaïde Quenson, University of Geneva
| 09:30 | Léo Bohn, Artist, European Academi of Art in Brittany |
Ghost Image (workshop) |
| 10:00 | Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, University of Geneva |
The Colors of Distance: Peripheral Dalinism, Reproduction, and Reinvention in the 1930s |
| 10:30 | Milan Garcin, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève | Cooking Colour with Black and White: Francis Bacon’s use of Reproductions of the Amarna Masks from the Antikensammlung Berlin |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | Hands-On Workshop with Explore, II. |
Session 5: Color Techniques of Reproduction | Catherine Dossin, Purdue University
| 11:30 | Maria Dolores Garcia-Aznar, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève | Color Intaglio Printmaking Techniques in the Eighteenth Century and their Cultural Impact |
| 12:00 | Fedora Parkmann, Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences |
Nude Photography in Ink: Cultural Meanings of Color in the Magazine Reproductions of František Drtikol |
| 12:30 | Maaheen Ahmed, Ghent University | The Colors of Crisis: French Children’s Magazines during the Second World War |
| 13:00 | Lunch Break (1h10) |
14:15 Visit of the Conservation-Restoration Studios, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève (registration required)
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December 10 – Day 3
GamMAH, Promenade du Pin 5 (See on a map)
09:00 Visit of the Caran d’Ache Colour Manufacture (registration required)
| 12:00 | Lunch and Coffee Break at GamMAH | |
| 13:00 | Keynote 2 | Peter Geimer, German Center for Art History, Paris |
Recoloring the past? A plea for historical distance |
| 13:45 | Comfort Break (10mn) |
Session 6: Color and Transmission | Marie Barras, University of Geneva
| 13:55 | Teresa Knapowska, Adam Mickiewicz University |
Moving Colors, Moving Meanings: How Does Color Circulate Across Copies of the Tournament Book? |
| 14:25 | Luca Piccoli, Università della Svizzera italiana |
The colors of the Pio-Clementino Museum: genesis, transmission and legacy of a museographic model |
| 14:55 | Catherine Dossin, Purdue University | From Monochrome to Multicolor: The Circulation of Color in American Art History Classrooms |
| 15:25 | Frédéric Elsig, University of Geneva | Conclusive Roundtable |
| 15:55 | Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, University of Geneva |
Closing remarks |
| 16:00 |
Closing Tea |
Organization Committee
Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Marie Barras, Angela Allemand, Adélaïde Quenson, Alexandra Fabry-Tochilina (University of Geneva).
Scientific Committee
Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (University of Geneva), Dominik Remondino (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève), Victor Lopes (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Genève), Catherine Dossin (Purdue University, USA), Frédéric Elsig (University of Geneva).
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Dr. Monika Wagner (Universität Hamburg)
Prof. Peter Geimer (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris).
Conclusive Roundtable
Prof. Frédéric Elsig (University of Geneva)
Welcoming Team
Xavier Declerck, Margaux Pittet, Laíza de Oliveira Rodrigues, Radu Suciu, Simon Gabay.
With the generous support of the Swiss National Science Fund (SNSF); the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève (MAH); the Fonds général de l'Université de Genève; Caran d'Ache; the Commission administrative (COMAD) de l'Université de Genève; and the Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève.