Seminar
Cartographic Narratives: Trajectories of Cultural Agents and Artifacts in the Atlantic Space
8 July 2022
Université Grenoble Alpes
In art history the use of maps has been marginal, especially with respect to other disciplines. However, their contributions are enormous as they make visible relationships that texts or numerical tables do not illustrate and provide evidence of cultural exchanges that defy the canonical accounts of art history. Indeed, the geospatial approach makes it possible to visualize the trajectories of cultural agents and artifacts in Atlantic space as well as to intersect them with parallel political, social and economic events.
With the understanding of maps as tools for work and study, this seminar seeks to discuss the contributions that the geospatial approach brings to the history of art. Therefore, based on current research and the work with MoDe(s) Database, we will reflect on how to interrogate and analyze the points of contact, transaction or disjunction of the (spatial) history of art.
Program
16.00 – 16.15 Introduction by Paula Barreiro López (Université Grenoble Alpes)
16.15 – 17.00 Anita Orzes (Universidad de Barcelona / Université Grenoble Alpes), Avant et après Matarazzo : la Biennale de Sao Paolo à l’épreuve
17.00 – 17.15 Break
17.15 – 18.45 Artistes et magazines dans l’Espace Atlantique
Noa Buffavand (Université París 1), Trajectoires des artistes étrangers du Taller de Gráfica Popular (Mexico, 1937-1960)
Lisa Ferraud (Université Grenoble Alpes), Journal du Black Panther Party : art révolutionnaire et dimension internationaliste
18.45 – 19.00 Conclusions
Direction and coordination: Paula Barreiro López (Université Grenoble Alpes), Anita Orzes (Universidad de Barcelona / Université Grenoble Alpes)
Seminar organized in the framework of the international research platform MoDe(s) – Modernidad(es) Descentralizada(s) and the FPI contract (PRE2018-085848).
Image: Image: Emory Douglas, What is a Pig?, 1969
