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Fragments presents one hundred and ten entries – from Acheiropoieton to Zwischenraum – that explo... more Fragments presents one hundred and ten entries – from Acheiropoieton to Zwischenraum – that explore new insights and observations for research and criticism in art history, iconology and cultural anthropology. It offers a unique anthology of Barbara Baert's oeuvre. Each lemma bears the stamp of the author’s personality and work, sometimes in the form of an encompassing explanation, sometimes a brief experimental musing, illustrated by iconic artefacts.
This extraordinary glossary leverages the power of interdisciplinary research in art and human sciences, and invites the reader to consider the beauty of these disciplines by embracing multiple genres.
Fragments is Barbara Baert’s response to her being awarded the Belgian Francqui Prize Human Sciences 2016. This celebration book within the series Studies in Iconology is a token of gratitude and a sign of encouragement towards the desire of a deeper understanding of our artistic environments.
Papers by Stephanie Heremans
The symposium The Right Moment. A Symposium on Kairotic Energies, in collaboration with the Franc... more The symposium The Right Moment. A Symposium on Kairotic Energies, in collaboration with the Francqui Foundation, is to be held on 18-19 October 2018 at the Universitaire Stichting, Egmonstraat 11, Brussels.
“The Greek term kairós expresses an idea of ‘grasping the right moment’, which travelled through art, literature, and philosophy. And even today, it is central to debates over, for example, time management. Combining perspectives from classical reception studies and iconology, this ongoing project at KU Leuven (2017-2021) is about the reception of kairós in the visual medium from antiquity to the Renaissance. How was the notion of kairós visualized in images throughout time, from antiquity to the early modern era? And more specifically, how did text and image work together to transform the notion of kairós in various contexts?”
The attending speakers from Belgium, Germany, France, Israel, Croatia, The Netherlands, Romania, The United Kingdom, The United States, and Switzerland have not only been selected on the basis of their interdisciplinary skills in the field; but equally because of their distinctive contribution to the method of iconology and visual anthropology.
Many among them are key influencers on, among other things, the importance of the Humanities in terms of peace process work, ecology, and the relationship between Eastern and Western civilizations.
registration and info stephanie.heremans@kuleuven.be
Books by Stephanie Heremans
Barbara Baert, About Sieves and Sieving. Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm, 2019
https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/506109?format=B The sieve exhibits a wide range of symb... more https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/506109?format=B
The sieve exhibits a wide range of symbolism that extends across art history, philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and gender stud-ies. About Sieves and Sieving provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the sieve from four methodological angles: motif, symbol, tech-nique, and paradigm. The sieve as motif goes back to Roman stories of the Vestal virgins. Later, their (impermeable) sieve was icono-graphically transferred to Elizabeth I (1533-1603) as a sign of her integrity. Furthermore, this essay explores the longue durée of the sieve as a symbolic-technical object of use by looking at examples from Jewish folklore, Berber culture, and ancient Egypt. This essay also involves two paradigmatic challenges. The first concerns its tectonics, and the second explores the sieve as moi-peau.
See excerpt Chapter 6 The sieve as Organism
Book Reviews by Stephanie Heremans
on Kairotic Energies” (18-19 Oct 2018, Brussels) organized by Barbara Baert in collaboration with... more on Kairotic Energies” (18-19 Oct 2018, Brussels) organized by Barbara Baert in collaboration with the Francqui Foundation, and published within the “Studies in Iconology” series. Fragments and the symposium are Baert’s response to her being awarded the Francqui Prize Human Sciences, the highest and most prestigious scholarly and scientific award in Belgium, in 2016.
Since 1933, the Francqui Prize has been granted almost every year, successively in the fields of exact sciences, humanities, and biological and medical sciences. Being awarded also comes with the great honor of organizing one’s own celebratory symposium. Therefore, Baert envisioned Fragments and “The Right Moment: A Symposium on Kairotic Energies” as tokens of her gratitude and sings of encouragement towards the desire of a deeper understanding of our artistic environments.
Fragments is loosely conceptualized as a ‘glossary’. The volume consists of hundred-and-ten lemmata, from Acheiropoietos to Zwischenraum. Each lemma presents an encompassing explanation, a shorter experimental or even a poetic musing in order to circumscribe concepts and terms that frequently occur in the field of iconology, and Baert’s research specifically. Moreover, Fragments offers a unique anthology of her work as it is compiled entirely out of her writings.
It is agreed upon that Aby Warburg’s (1866-1929) main achievement consists of opening up the disc... more It is agreed upon that Aby Warburg’s (1866-1929) main achievement consists of opening up the discipline of art history to the study of all types of artefacts, and the contexts and cross-cultural processes that they, too, reflected. Likewise, Warburg’s combination of the study of word and image – that furthered our understanding of various forms of visual expression and dynamics of cultural transmission – is generally regarded as one of the principal innovations brought to the discipline by his Ikonologie. While the ‘Warburgian method’ attracted little attention during the 20th century in Belgium, a renewed interest in the historiography of art and iconological studies, during the last decades, has sparked the awareness and enthusiasm of Belgian researchers for Warburg’s legacy (for studies on Belgian art history in general, see: Philippot 2005, Pirenne 2012). By presenting an overview of relevant research initiatives, this paper aims to shed light on the state of the art of Warburgian studies in Belgium (2016-2019) and expand the bibliography on Warburg.
Fragments presents one hundred and ten entries – from Acheiropoieton to Zwischenraum – that explo... more Fragments presents one hundred and ten entries – from Acheiropoieton to Zwischenraum – that explore new insights and observations for research and criticism in art history, iconology and cultural anthropology. It offers a unique anthology of Barbara Baert's oeuvre. Each lemma bears the stamp of the author’s personality and work, sometimes in the form of an encompassing explanation, sometimes a brief experimental musing, illustrated by iconic artefacts.
This extraordinary glossary leverages the power of interdisciplinary research in art and human sciences, and invites the reader to consider the beauty of these disciplines by embracing multiple genres.
Fragments is Barbara Baert’s response to her being awarded the Belgian Francqui Prize Human Sciences 2016. This celebration book within the series Studies in Iconology is a token of gratitude and a sign of encouragement towards the desire of a deeper understanding of our artistic environments.
The symposium The Right Moment. A Symposium on Kairotic Energies, in collaboration with the Franc... more The symposium The Right Moment. A Symposium on Kairotic Energies, in collaboration with the Francqui Foundation, is to be held on 18-19 October 2018 at the Universitaire Stichting, Egmonstraat 11, Brussels.
“The Greek term kairós expresses an idea of ‘grasping the right moment’, which travelled through art, literature, and philosophy. And even today, it is central to debates over, for example, time management. Combining perspectives from classical reception studies and iconology, this ongoing project at KU Leuven (2017-2021) is about the reception of kairós in the visual medium from antiquity to the Renaissance. How was the notion of kairós visualized in images throughout time, from antiquity to the early modern era? And more specifically, how did text and image work together to transform the notion of kairós in various contexts?”
The attending speakers from Belgium, Germany, France, Israel, Croatia, The Netherlands, Romania, The United Kingdom, The United States, and Switzerland have not only been selected on the basis of their interdisciplinary skills in the field; but equally because of their distinctive contribution to the method of iconology and visual anthropology.
Many among them are key influencers on, among other things, the importance of the Humanities in terms of peace process work, ecology, and the relationship between Eastern and Western civilizations.
registration and info stephanie.heremans@kuleuven.be
Barbara Baert, About Sieves and Sieving. Motif, Symbol, Technique, Paradigm, 2019
https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/506109?format=B The sieve exhibits a wide range of symb... more https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/506109?format=B
The sieve exhibits a wide range of symbolism that extends across art history, philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and gender stud-ies. About Sieves and Sieving provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the sieve from four methodological angles: motif, symbol, tech-nique, and paradigm. The sieve as motif goes back to Roman stories of the Vestal virgins. Later, their (impermeable) sieve was icono-graphically transferred to Elizabeth I (1533-1603) as a sign of her integrity. Furthermore, this essay explores the longue durée of the sieve as a symbolic-technical object of use by looking at examples from Jewish folklore, Berber culture, and ancient Egypt. This essay also involves two paradigmatic challenges. The first concerns its tectonics, and the second explores the sieve as moi-peau.
See excerpt Chapter 6 The sieve as Organism
on Kairotic Energies” (18-19 Oct 2018, Brussels) organized by Barbara Baert in collaboration with... more on Kairotic Energies” (18-19 Oct 2018, Brussels) organized by Barbara Baert in collaboration with the Francqui Foundation, and published within the “Studies in Iconology” series. Fragments and the symposium are Baert’s response to her being awarded the Francqui Prize Human Sciences, the highest and most prestigious scholarly and scientific award in Belgium, in 2016.
Since 1933, the Francqui Prize has been granted almost every year, successively in the fields of exact sciences, humanities, and biological and medical sciences. Being awarded also comes with the great honor of organizing one’s own celebratory symposium. Therefore, Baert envisioned Fragments and “The Right Moment: A Symposium on Kairotic Energies” as tokens of her gratitude and sings of encouragement towards the desire of a deeper understanding of our artistic environments.
Fragments is loosely conceptualized as a ‘glossary’. The volume consists of hundred-and-ten lemmata, from Acheiropoietos to Zwischenraum. Each lemma presents an encompassing explanation, a shorter experimental or even a poetic musing in order to circumscribe concepts and terms that frequently occur in the field of iconology, and Baert’s research specifically. Moreover, Fragments offers a unique anthology of her work as it is compiled entirely out of her writings.
It is agreed upon that Aby Warburg’s (1866-1929) main achievement consists of opening up the disc... more It is agreed upon that Aby Warburg’s (1866-1929) main achievement consists of opening up the discipline of art history to the study of all types of artefacts, and the contexts and cross-cultural processes that they, too, reflected. Likewise, Warburg’s combination of the study of word and image – that furthered our understanding of various forms of visual expression and dynamics of cultural transmission – is generally regarded as one of the principal innovations brought to the discipline by his Ikonologie. While the ‘Warburgian method’ attracted little attention during the 20th century in Belgium, a renewed interest in the historiography of art and iconological studies, during the last decades, has sparked the awareness and enthusiasm of Belgian researchers for Warburg’s legacy (for studies on Belgian art history in general, see: Philippot 2005, Pirenne 2012). By presenting an overview of relevant research initiatives, this paper aims to shed light on the state of the art of Warburgian studies in Belgium (2016-2019) and expand the bibliography on Warburg.