This international conference brings together historians of Renaissance art, sculptural practice, and critical thought.
The conference examines Adrian Stokes’ career-long fascination with the sculptural practices of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy and its afterlives, from Agostino di Duccio’s carvings for the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini to the late work of Michelangelo and beyond, to Mickey Mouse and the Russian ballet.
The conference concludes a research season at the Henry Moore Institute, ‘Adrian Stokes, Inside Out’, that centres on the critic’s compelling and idiosyncratic sculptural imagination. A key voice in mid twentieth-century sculptural and architectural criticism, Stokes uniquely combined a disparate set of compelling concerns: modernist values of direct carving, speculative psychoanalytic thought, a sensitivity to the vitality of natural materials, and a deep understanding of pre-modern artmaking in its continual reanimation.
This event takes place at the University of York in The Bowland Auditorium (Berick Saul Building, BS/005, Campus West).
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- 1 day 7 hours
- In person
Location
University of York
The Bowland Auditorium
Berick Saul Building Heslington YO10 5DD
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Agenda
Welcome
Dr Ruth Ezra, University of St Andrews, Jeremy Melius, University of York
Session One
‘‘Packing’ the Block, Expressing the Form: Adrian Stokes on Michelangelo’s Carving’ - Baptiste Tochon-Danguy, I Tatti | ‘With and Against the Elemental’ - Alistair Rider, University of St Andrews | ‘Carving with Care: Emily Young and the Values of Stone’ - Laura Chase, Victoria & Albert Museum;
Break
Coffee and refreshments served