Plakat zum Symposium Die Entgrenzung der Kunstgeschichte

In 1962, the American art historian George Kubler published his theoretical essay The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things. In his book Kubler developed a structuralist model for a historiography of art in which he challenged the cultural, chronological, and object-related restrictions and hierarchizations having prevailed in art history so far. From an epistemological perspective, the essay is an innovative methodological-theoretical document of art history attempting to overcome the Eurocentric view and following an explicitly transcultural approach. Not only have Kubler´s methodological questions remained valid today - they have even become topical, with art history expanding to embrace issues of cultural sciences, media sciences, and postcolonial studies. Given these circumstances, it seems worthwile to review Kubler´s theoretical model in order to lend methodological debates new imeptus. it is the aim of the conference to critically challenge Kubler´s theoretical model on an interdisciplinary basis, to further refine it methodologically, and apply it by example. 

Conception: Sarah Maupeu, Kerstin Schankweiler, Stefanie Stallschus

Admission free

Programm

Friday 7.05.10

13.30 Opening and Introduction

Section 1: Forms in Time

14:15 

Annamaria Ducci, Florenz, To spatialize time is a faculty shared by snails and by historians: George Kubler and Henri Focillon

Respondenz: Reinhard Förtsch (Cologne)

15:30 coffee break

16:00 Thierry Greub (Cologne), Form und Morphom: Eine Entgrenzung der Kunstgeschichte?

Respondenz: Reinhard Förtsch (Cologne)

Section 2: Temporality and History

17:15 Ellen K. Levy (New York), Classifying Kubler: Between the Complexity of Science and Art

Respondenz: Ursula Frohne (Cologne)

18: 30  break

Evening lecture

19:00 Thomas Reese (New Orleans), George Kubler: The Craft of Art History

Moderation: Ursula Frohne (Cologne)

Saturday 8.05.10

10:00 Avinoam Shalem (München), Histories of Belonging and George Kubler´s Prime Object

Respondenz: Philippe Cordez (Florence)

Section 3: The History of Things and Postcolonial Perspectives

11:15 Timo Kaabi-Linke (Berlin), Von Spielern zu Sammlern, oder was die Zeit übrig lässt. Kunstgeschichte unter der Voraussetzung der Gegenwärtigkeit der Signale

Respondenz: Karin Harrasser (Cologne)

12: 30 lunch break

13:30 Hans Jörg-Rheinberger (Berlin), Wissenschaftsgeschichte mit Kubler

Respondenz: Karin Harrasser (Cologne)

14:45 Kerstin Schankweiler (Cologne), Kubler postkolonial. Form als universale Kategorie einer transkulturuellen Kunstgeschichtsschreibung

Respondenz: Arnd Schneider (Oslo)

16:00 coffee break

Section 4: Kubler applied

16:30 Stefanie Stallschus (Cologne), Relationale Dinge. Das Experiment mit den Medien in der Kunst

Respondenz: Katja Hoffmann (Cologne)

17: 45 Jennifer von Schwerin (Albuquerque), Space-Time and Design in Maya Temple Architecture: An Application and Refinement of Kubler´s Art Historical Approach

Respondenz: Arnd Schreiber (Oslo)

Evening program

19:15: Zhenia Couso Martell, El Pidio Valdés (Performance)

Sunday, 9.05.2010

10:00 Itay Sapir (Florence/Paris), Claude Lorrain´s Port Scenes: AKublerian Case-Study?

Respondenz: Philippe Cordez (Florence)

11:15 Sarah Maupeu (Cologne), Die Sequenz als Instrument der Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Respondenz: Jakob Vogel (Cologne)

12:30 lunch break

13:00 Katharina Niemeyer (Cologne), Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff (Trier)

Final discussion

Flyer

Please register:

www.uni-koeln.de/kubler