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The Geographical Information of Art History: How and Why to Retrace the Circulation of Knowledge and Facts
L’information géographique de l’histoire de l’art : pourquoi et comment retracer la circulation des faits et des savoirs
Artl@s Bulletin 4, 2 (Fall 2015)
Artl@s Bulletin 4, 2 (Automne 2015)
Publicado el jeudi 25 de septembre de 2014
Resumen
The spatial turn in humanities has enticed various disciplines to deconstruct the making of artistic facts: studying the circulation of artworks and artists now appears to be a fertile way to uncover the rationales, the constraints and the transgressions that shape the historical geography of art. This ‘return to facts’ calls for a closer examination of the methods used to identify, collect, re-assemble and interpret the geographical information produced by artistic activity. To examine the traceability of artistic knowledge and facts is the primary aim of this issue of the Artl@s Bulletin.
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Argument
“Traces by the thousands… it’s the dream of any researcher”, but the way to go from the archives or the field is seldom straightforward: “the physical pleasure of salvaging a lost trace is followed by feelings of perplexity and impotence of not knowing what to do with it”[1]. The spatial turn in humanities has enticed various disciplines to deconstruct the making of artistic facts: studying the circulation of artworks and artists now appears to be a fertile way to uncover the rationales, the constraints and the transgressions that shape the historical geography of art[2]. This ‘return to facts’[3] calls for a closer examination of the methods used to identify, collect, re-assemble and interpret the geographical information produced by artistic activity. To examine the traceability of artistic knowledge and facts is the primary aim of this issue of the Artl@s Bulletin.
Depending on the spatial and chronological framing of their studies, researchers are led to work on a variety of documentary material that can inform on the circulation of art: such traces can be written, pictorial, photographic, cinematographic, institutional, individual, collective, etc. In each case, the traces available can be partial and only give access to specific types of information: origin, extension, destination, network, economic model, value, hierarchy, etc. It can consequently hinder or bias our understanding and analysis of artistic facts. The diversity of sources matches the surprising abundance of our conceptual and methodological approaches.
For this issue, we want to confront a wide range of sources (catalogues, institutional archives, photographs, interviews, etc.), methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, comparative, multi-situated, cartographic, etc.) and areas of investigation (careers, movements, markets, etc.) in order to highlight the pivotal and problematic role of traceability in the spatial study of art. Contributors from all the disciplines involved in the spatial turn are invited to submit essays that address one or several of the following questions:
- Who produces the traces of art history? Who inscribes art in space? How does that ‘situate’ our scholarship?
- Does the study of specific traces induce specific observation protocols and analysis?
- How can different methods make traces speak? Can a single trace therefore lead to multiple and contradictory conclusions?
- Putting scattered or disparate traces together exposes us to a “biographical illusion”[4] and the risk of artificially creating meaning. In what conditions can we establish the coherence between traces and trajectories or networks?
- What sense can be made out of the distribution of recorded traces through cartographic representations? Can they give substance to diffusionist notions that have riddled art history such as ‘style’, ‘influence’ or ‘school’? Are they able to contradict or nuance dominant models of thinking such as centre/periphery? Or do they only mirror the situatedness of their recording process?
- Can we index traces in a comparative and global perspective or should the methods relating to traceability take into account the specificities of local inscriptions?
- How far can/should the quest for traceability go? How do linguistic, cultural or material boundaries affect the legibility of traces? How to balance empirical data and theory?
[1] Arlette Farge, Le goût de l’archive (Paris: Points, 1989), 19-22.
[2] As in recent projects like Artl@s (ENS, Paris), London Galleries (Anne Helmreich and Pamela Fletcher, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 12, 1 (2012)) or in the most recent developments in the field of art geography (Tatiana Debroux (2012), Camille Boichot (2012), Olivier Marcel (2014), Christine Ithurbide (Forthcoming)) that echo Peter Jackson’s seminal call to “re-materialize social and cultural geography”: Peter Jackson, Social and Cultural Geography 1 (2000), 9-14.
[3] Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Catherine Dossin, and Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, eds., Global Artistic Circulations and the History of Art (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, Forthcoming).
[4] Nathalie Heinich, « Pour en finir avec l' “illusion biographique” », L'Homme 195-196 (2010), 421-430.
Submission guidelines
Manuscripts may be in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish.
As a general guideline, manuscripts submitted to the Artl@s Bulletin average between 5,000 and 7,000 words, including footnotes.
All citations should be in the form of footnotes and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style.
Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 650 characters (including spaces), and a list of illustrations. Initial manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word, double spaced, in 12-point font.
For all queries, feel free to contact Olivier Marcel, the Guest Editor of this special issue, at: oliv.marcel@gmail.com
Please submit your article by December 8 at
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas
For guidelines and publishing policies, see: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/policies.html
Evaluators
- Olivier Marcel, Geographer, Post-doctoral researcher, Artl@s, ENS Ulm
- Catherine Dossin, Associate Professor of Art History, Purdue University
- Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art History, ENS Ulm
Presentation of the review
The Artl@s Bulletin is a multi-lingual, peer-review journal co-published by the ENS and the CNRS, devoted to spatial and transnational questions in the history of the arts. The journal promises to never separate methodology and history, and to support innovative research and new methodologies. Its ambition is twofold: 1. a focus on the “transnational” as constituted by exchange between the local and the global or between the national and the international, and 2. an openness to innovation in research methods, particularly the quantitative possibilities offered by digital mapping and data visualization. By encouraging scholars to continuously shift the scope of their analysis from the local and the national to the transnational, Artl@s Bulletin intends to contribute to the collective project of a global history of the arts. The Artl@s Bulletin is a free online journal supported by Purdue Press. Currently in its fourth year, it has already a great visibility (more than 5,000 single downloads of articles from December, 2013, to July, 2014).
Categorías
- Epistemología y métodos (Categoría principal)
- Sociedad > Sociología
- Sociedad > Etnología, antropología
- Pensamiento y Lenguaje > Representaciones > Historia del Arte
- Pensamiento y Lenguaje > Epistemología y métodos > Enfoques biográficos
- Sociedad > Geografía
- Pensamiento y Lenguaje > Epistemología y métodos > Métodos de tratamiento y de representación
- Pensamiento y Lenguaje > Epistemología y métodos > Enfoques de corpus, encuestas, archivos
Fecha(s)
- lundi 08 de décembre de 2014
Palabras claves
- art, circulation, traceability, source, methodology
Contactos
- Olivier Marcel
courriel : olivier [dot] marcel [at] ens [dot] fr
URLs de referencia
Fuente de la información
- Olivier Marcel
courriel : olivier [dot] marcel [at] ens [dot] fr
Para citar este anuncio
« L’information géographique de l’histoire de l’art : pourquoi et comment retracer la circulation des faits et des savoirs », Convocatoria de ponencias, Calenda, Publicado el jeudi 25 de septembre de 2014, https://calenda-formation.labocleo.org/299914
