„A Dialogue of the Arts: Reinterpreting Architectural Structure and its Description in Literature of Early Modern Times to the Present“

During the earlier conferences of 2010, 2012 and 2014, which dealt with „Descriptions of Architecture in Literature of Early Modern Times to the Present” respectively „Descriptions of Interior Design in Literature of Early Modern Times to the Present” and the conference of 2014 „The Relationship of Exterior and Interior: Descriptions of Architecture and Interiors in Literature of Early Modern Times to the Present”, the fourth conference is devoted to „Reinterpreting Architectural Structure and its Description in Literature” and this again relying on literature of different languages from Early Modern Times to the present. The past three conferences have shown us that literary descriptions of different times and languages witness the time in which they are written: they are on the one hand an important contribution for understanding the development of methods in Art History, on the other hand they can disclose new interdisciplinary dialogues. The presentations and the following publication of the foregoing conferences have shown clearly that literary texts of different genres like prose, poetry, travelogues, diaries as well as letters and other categories are door-openers not only for new art historical perceptions, but also can give hints to new methods of the discipline. This means not only the breaking up of the periodical conception of Art History, but also the architectural and spatial categories which defines it.

These are also the intentions of the fourth conference and this by the fact that architectural treatises and architects themselves rarely or never consider a reinterpretation of buildings, giving them strict functions. But there are exterior observers, inhabitants and even visitors who can observe changing or new functions of a building never conceived of by its architect. Fixed in literary texts, the new functions can be described as well as analyzed and in this way contribute to new methods and methodology for Art History. It is the goal of this fourth conference to test how far these new proceedings can influence traditional methodology and promote new methods for Art History.

PROGRAMM

20. Oktober 2016

09.00-09.30    Eintreffen der SymposiumsteilnehmerInnen und Gäste

09.30-10.00    Begrüßung / Einführung

  • CAROLA JÄGGI, Prof. Dr. phil., Direktorin des Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich
  • BARBARA VON ORELLI-MESSERLI, PD Dr. phil., Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich
    10.00-11.00 Eröffnungsvortrag: Das Schloss von Poggioreale bei Neapel im Spiegel der neuzeitlichen Quellen / PAOLO SANVITO, Prof. Dr. Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

11.00 – 11.30 Kaffeepause

Panelleitung: SABINE FROMMEL

11.30-12.15
Living stones: Reinterpreting cultic spaces and structures and their description in hagiographic literature ca. 1600 / RUTH S. NOYES PhD, Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History, Oklahoma State University

12.15-13.00
Description in Drawings and Literature of Early Modern Colonial City in India / NUNO GRANCHO, Ph.D. candidate, University of Coimbra (IIIUC, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and CES-UC, Center for Social Studies) and Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal

13.00-14.15 Mittagspause

Panelleitung: IRENE NIERHAUS

14.15-15.00 The Afterlives of Pliny The Younger’s descriptions of his ‘Laurens‘ (1615-2014) / BEATA LABUHN, PhD. candidate, Universität Zürich

15.00-15.45 Reared Coldness, Designed Heat: Notes on the Polysemy of Architecture, SEBASTIEN FANZUN, M.A., Universität Zürich

15.45-16.15 Kaffeepause

16.15-17.00 Spaces-in-between: Architecture in Literature: The example of Rainer Maria Rilke / CRISTINA VASCONCELOS DE ALMEIDA, Ph.D. candidate, researcher at IHA-UNL (Art History Institute of the New University of Lisbon)

Abendveranstaltungen

18.15-19.00 Vorstellungen von antiken Häusern in der Renaissance. Deutungen antiker Beschreibungen im Vergleich mit den Ruinen Roms / HUBERTUS GÜNTHER, Prof. em. Universität Zürich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

19.00-20.00 Buchvernissage des Symposiumbandes 2014: Ein Dialog der Künste: Das Verhältnis von außen und innen. Beschreibungen von Architektur und Raumgestaltung in der Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart, Petersberg 2016 mit anschliessendem Apéro

21. Oktober 2016

Panelleitung: HUBERTUS GÜNTHER

09.00-09.45 L’éléphant de la Place de la Bastille vu par Victor Hugo : Une architecture ? / BARBARA VON ORELLI, PD Dr. phil., Universität Zürich

09.45-10.30 The house, the pyramid and the labyrinth. Spatial archetypes and domestic visions in Melville’s I and My Chimney / FABIO COLONNESE, PhD. Università La Sapienza, Roma

10.30-11.00 Kaffeepause

Panelleitung: SALVATORIE PISANI

11.00-11.45 Ilja Ehrenburgs Geranienstock: Zum alten Subjekt im neuen Wohnen und dem Vergleich als Ordnungsfigur in Wohndiskursen der Moderne / IRENE NIERHAUS, Prof. Dr., Universität Bremen und Mariann-Steegmann-Institut. Kunst&Gender

11.45-12.30 Des palais et des villes. Visconti et la mise en scène architecturale du Gattopardo de Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa. / PAULINA SPIECHOWICZ, PhD. Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)

12.30-14.00 Mittagspause

Panelleitung: BARBARA VON ORELLI-MESSERLI

14.00-14.45 Le Vele di Scampìa: Eine Dystopie zwischen Literatur und Film / SALVATORIE PISANI, PD Dr. phil., Universität des Saarlandes, Fachbereich Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaft

14.45-15.30 Architektur und Raum bei Patrick Modiano / SABINE FROMMEL, Prof. Dr. phil., Sorbonne, Paris

15.30-16.00 Kaffeepause

16.00-16.45 Schlussdiskussion

16.45-17.00 Schlusswort

  • SABINE FROMMEL Prof. Dr. phil., Sorbonne, Paris
  • BARBARA VON ORELLI-MESSERLI, PD Dr. phil., Universität Zürich

17.00 Ende des Symposiums