This is a past event
Hosted by the Warburg Institute, London via Zoom, co-organised by Joanne Anderson (University of Aberdeen) and Carla Benzan (Open University).
Registration is open for 'Image and Ascent: Mountain Terrains in the History of Art,' 14-18 September 2020, co-organised by Joanne Anderson (History of Art, University of Aberdeen) and Carla Benzan (Art History, Open University).
The conference will be hosted by the Warburg Institute, London, via the Zoom platform, with the four afternoon sessions running 3-5pm BST.
For the full programme and how to register, see: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22440
That artworks are closely tied to the landscape in which they are produced is often taken for granted, and yet the recent ecological turn in the humanities has only begun to critically intervene in the methodology of writing art’s histories.Image and Ascent brings recent interest in mountains across the humanities into dialogue with the history of images, offering a forum for new research concerning images of, and images produced in, mountainous terrains. Seeking an alternative to the hierarchical opposition between the base and the summit, we emphasise the notion of the terrain to raise the way in which human agents – artists, patrons, beholders, and scholars – must accommodate and respond to their natural environment.