SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Diachronic Artistic and Spatial Convergences and Divergences in the Mediterranean (original) (raw)
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2023
The Mediterranean is a whole world in miniature. This true cliché, hardly applicable in any other region on earth, is substantiated by a unique combination of geomorphological characteristics, historical trajectories, and artistic accomplishments, as well as philosophical, political, and scientific breakthroughs among others. A rich variety in the physical environment has been matched by the development of distinct yet intensely interacting cultures over time within a relatively small geographical space. Source of endless archetypes, the Mediterranean has launched a new school of historical thought through Fernand Braudel which explored how the physical environment influenced the civilizations that emerged in the shores of this sea through time. More recently, the geographical thought has proposed terms of theoretical analysis like ‘urban spontaneity’ and ‘Mediterranean cultural geography’ to account for facets and theoretical as well as experiential ways of conceiving the spatial in this intricate world. The international conference Diachronic Artistic and Spatial Convergences and Divergences in the Mediterranean, organized by the Module Art - Architecture - Urban Planning and the MA Art - Cultural Heritage - Development Policies, both of the Hellenic Open University, purports to explore some of the aspects of cultural interactions in the Mediterranean world, conceived as both the sea and the lands surrounding it, through time seen as continuum. Emphasis is placed on artistic, architectural, planning, archaeological, and spatial dimensions of these interactions. Conference themes -Art, architecture and planning in the Mediterranean through time. Styles, particular features, formal, vernacular, and impromptu creations. -Geographical features, landscape, memory, and artistic process in the Mediterranean. -Artistic traces of converging or clashing cultures and their eponymous or anonymous representatives in the Mediterranean. -Classical myth and the arts in the Mediterranean. -Aesthetically oriented theoretical dialogues in the Mediterranean. Geographies of travel and/for the arts. -20th and 21st c. and present artistic interactions between the Mediterranean and the global: Orientalism, modernity, postmodernity. -Processes of exchange during the beginning of modernity, starting from the 16th c. -What and where was the Renaissance in regard to appropriations and interpretations of Byzantium and the East. -Edward Said’s Orientalism and cultures of travel: The present narratives. Eastern art and architecture as Western history of art and architecture. -Post-war cultural dynamism of the USA as the new ‘Western’ frontier of art and art history.
Art in the Mediterranean Region
Eds. Ekin Kaynak Iltar – Hasan Hüseyin Aygül, Bütün Yönleriyle Akdeniz, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yay., İstanbul, 2021
English Text of a published in Turkish introductory chapter, on Art in the Mediterranean, Akdeniz Bölgesinde Sanat, to provide an overview and avenues for thought and inquiry, for the use of students.
SOMA 2003: Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology
2005
With the intention of integrating the archaeology of the Mediterranean's different regions, the annual SOMA conference was held in 2003 at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. These thirty-two papers, which form the proceedings, are multi-disciplinary and consider evidence and sites from the Pleistocene through to Late Antiquity. Subjects range from the dispersal of hominids around the Mediterranean and ancient Near Eastern skull cults to Libyan funerary architecture and monkeys in Egyptian and Minoan art and culture. Other subjects include: the antiquities market; the south Italic fighting technique; north Syria in the 6th century AD; Roman fulling; religion in the southern Levant Chalcolithic; Hellenistic numismatics; burial customs in Argos; the Mycenaean Argolid; gender identities in Egypt; Punic altars; Samnium and the Roman world; archaeological museum space; monument conservation; ethnic identity in archaic Pompeii. All of the papers are in English. 170p, b/w illus (Archaeopress BAR S1391, 2005) 32 papers from the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology held at the Institute of Archaeology, London in 2003. Contents: North Syria in the sixth century AD: coast and hinterland (N. Beaudry); Intra-regional variation in long distance trading relationships on the northern Levantine coast – the key to site survival? (C. Bell); The south Italic fighting technique (M. Burns); The Necropolis of Capestrano: New Excavations and Finds (M. Capodicassa); Corn-mummies come to light (M. Centrone); The Tomb S1 of Cyrene: from the Hellenistic phase to Christian re-use (L. Cherstich); Lilith across the ages (V. Danrey); Cycles of island colonisation in the prehistoric Mediterranean (H. Dawson); Adventures in Fields of Flowers: Research on contemporary saffron cultivation and its application to the Bronze Age Aegean (J. Day); Votive niches in funerary architecture in Cyrenaica (Lybia)(E. Di Valerio et al.); Ars Fullonia. Interpreting and contextualising Roman fulling (M. Flohr); GIS Study of the Rural Sanctuaries in Abruzzo: Preliminary Report (D. Fossataro et al.); How monkeys evolved in Egyptian and Minoan art and culture (C. Greenlaw); The central place of religion in Chalcolithic society of the southern Levant (E. Kaptijn); Archaeology's well kept secret: The managed antiquities market (M. Kersel); New images of the Erechtheion by European travellers (A. Lesk); Mani: A unique historic landscape in the periphery of Europe (K. Liwieratos); Numismatics, Hellenism, and the Enemies of Alexander Jannaeus (K. McAleese); The Hominid Dispersal into Mediterranean Europe during the Early to Middle Pleistocene: the Sabre-toothed cat connection (L. Marlow); Gendering figurines, engendering people in early Aegean prehistory (M. Mina); Naue II swords and the collapse of the Aegean Bronze Age (B. Malloy); Urban development and local identities: The case of Gerasa from the late Republican period to the mid-3rd century AD (R. Raja); Burial customs and social change in Argos from the Protogeometric to the Late Roman Period (1100 BC - 500 AD)(F. Ramondetti); Open endings at Osteria dell’Osa (Lazio). Exploring domestic aspects of funerary contexts in the Early Iron Age of Central Italy (E. van Rossenberg; A scale of identity in the Mycenaean Argolid (D. Sahlén); Expressions of ethnic and gender identities in Egypt during the Early 1st Millennium B.C.E. (H. Saleh); Altars and cult installations of Punic tradition in Western Sicily (F. Spagnoli); Sacred landscape and the construction of identity: Samnium and the Roman world (T. Stek); Investigating colonialism and post-colonialism in the archaeological museum space: The case of the Lebanon and France (L. Tahan); Ethnic identity in archaic Pompeii (E. Thiermann); Monument conservation in the Mediterranean: Issues and aspects of anastylosis (K. Vacharopoulou); The skull cult of the Ancient Near East. Problems and new approaches (A. Wossink).
2018
The symbolic images of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (c. 1300-525 BC) that were widespread in the central and western Mediterranean offer a broad base for the understanding of the inter-cultural communications and the alleged spread of ideas and knowledge throughout the area. This book comprises the first comprehensive, comparative analysis of iconographical records from Sardinia, Southwest Iberia, Corsica and Sicily within their archaeological context of the intense contacts that had emerged in the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age. Settlement archaeology, monument building, funeral rites and religious ritual as well as local economic approaches in these four regions, which were connected by a network of anchorages, are also examined and compared. The communitarian organization as well as the allocation of power within prehistoric societies are analyzed through alternative theoretical methods considering heterarchy and complex anarchic societies. In this context, sometimes dramatic socio-political changes in the Early Iron Age, which further resulted in changes in local art and symbolism, can be explained through manipulative strategies, intensified communications or – to the contrary – dissociation. This volume contains comprehensive, fully illustrated data on 245 Sardinian anthropomorphic bronze figurines as well as references to 216 zoomorphic bronzetti and 146 boat models. Furthermore, 118 western Iberian stelae have been analyzed in detail and are contrasted with the completely diverging motives of the Iberian Early Iron Age. Finally, the statue-menhirs of Corsica and the figurative art of Sicily complete the material basis of this study. This pioneering work provides chronological data, iconographical and archaeological analyses as well as distribution maps and therefore offers an invaluable database for Mediterranean archaeology. available at Verlag Marie Leidorf, http://vml.de and http://vml.de/e/detail.php?ISBN=978-3-89646-797-3