Art Within Reach. Photomechanical Reproductions of Works of Art from Print to Digital

Academic Conference Center (AKC), Husova 4a, Prague 

5–6 December 2023

PROGRAM

Tuesday 5 December 2023

9:00
Registration

9:30
Introductions by Tomáš Winter, the director of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences and by the organizing committee

10:00–11:00
KEYNOTE LECTURE 1

Sculpture’s Artificial Intelligence
Megan R. Luke (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

11:00–11:15
Coffee break

11:15–12:30
PANEL 1: Behind the Production of Images
Chair: Katarína Mašterová (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Rubens’ Oeuvre “d’après les estampes”: Hybrid Images in the Transformation of the Late-Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Art Book
Griet Bonne (Ghent University)

The Production of Photomechanical Reproductions of Art: Consensual Exchange, Stolen Glances and Embellished Reality
Hana Buddeus (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Behind the Photographs: Copyright and Photomechanical Reproductions of Art, a Burning Issue in Europe at the Turn of the 20th Century
Marta Binazzi (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

12:30–13:30
Lunch break

13:30–14:45
PANEL 2: Art Markets
Chair: Camilla Balbi (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Pictorial Commodities
Anna Näslund (Stockholm University)

The Afterlife of Photo Campaigns: On the Sustainable Use of Reproductions
Franziska Lampe (Bildarchiv Bruckmann, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich)

Selling Art through Images: Photomechanical Reproductions in German Gallery Publications (1912–1949)
Julia Bärnighausen (Berlinische Galerie - Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture)

14:45–15:00
Coffee break

15:00–16:15
PANEL 3: Art Historical Narratives
Chair: Hana Buddeus (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

High Culture and “Low Art”: Reproductive Prints and the New Art History in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris
Elisabeth Narkin and Ellen Prokop (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

Rachel Wischnitzer and the Photomechanical Foundations of Jewish Art History
Camilla Balbi (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

The Role of the Reproductions of Wit Stwosz's St. Mary's Altarpiece in Building the Cultural and Social Status of the Work of Art after 1945
Dorota Łuczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)

16:15–17:00
Walking or public transport to CEFRES (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)

17:00–18:30
ROUNDTABLE ON DIGITAL ART HISTORY in CEFRES (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)

Introductions:
Mateusz Chmurski (the director of CEFRES)
Viktorie Vítů (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Moderator:
Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Université de Genève)

Panelists:
Sanja Sekelj (Institute of Art History, Zagreb)
Thomas Smits (University of Antwerp)
Lukáš Pilka (Institute of Art History, CAS)

18:30–19:00
Glass of wine at CEFRES

19:30
Dinner for the speakers and guests of the conference

Wednesday 6 December 2023

9:30–10:30
KEYNOTE LECTURE 2

Exploring Visual Culture in the Mechanical Age: Bridging Dreams, Methods, and Realities
Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Université de Genève)

10:30–10:45
Coffee break

10:45–12:00
PANEL 4: Artistic Circulations
Chair: Fedora Parkmann (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Goethe's Faust I from Outline Etchings to Photomechanical and Digital Reproductions in European and World Circulation
Evanghelia Stead (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin)

The Soviet Plato’s Cave: Przegląd Artystyczny and Sztuka as the Windows onto the World
Wiktor Komorowski (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)

Fashion Discourses at the Turn of the 20th Century: Unraveling Paris’s and New York’s Perceptions through the Distant Reading of Texts and Images in Magazines
Marie Barras (Université de Genève)

12:00–13:00
Lunch break

13:00–14:00
KEYNOTE LECTURE 3

Plates and Illustrations. Historical Observations on Image-Word Relations in Photographic Art Reproductions
Jens Ruchatz (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

14:00–14:15
Coffee break

14:15–15:30
PANEL 5: Dissemination, Popularization
Chair: Lenka Bydžovská (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Presenting the Popular – Popularization of Art Reproductions in (Para)Texts around 1900
Mirja Beck (Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin)

Reproducing Artworks in the Context of Belgian Photojournalism and Mass-Market Print Culture during the Interbellum: The Case of Germaine Van Parys (1893-1983) through the Artpresse Corpus
Morgane Ott (Université de Liège)

Artists as Influencers? Emil Filla and Josef Wagner, Prominent Figures of Czech Modernism, as Editors of the Art Magazine Volné Směry
Katarína Mašterová and Viktorie Vítů (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

15:30–15:45
Coffee break

15:45–17:00
PANEL 6: Politics and Identity Building
Chair: Geraldine A. Johnson (University of Oxford, UK)

A Nation in Its Own Images: Art Reproduction in Early 20th-century Norway
Nina Lager Vestberg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

“Nothing Will Remain But Photographs”: Photomechanical Reproductions of the Italian South’s Heritage in Napoli Nobilissima Magazine (1892–1907)
Viviana Costagliola (Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome)

“Heaven’s Gates”: Politics of Photomechanically Illustrated Publications Documenting Jewish Monuments in Poland (1903–1957)
Marta Ziętkiewicz (Institute of Fine Art, Polish Academy of Sciences)

17:00–17:15
Coffee break

17:15–18:00
Closing Remarks by Petra Trnková (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences) & Closing Discussion

Thursday 7 December 2023

Optional excursion

10:00–12:00 National Technical Museum, Department of Polygraphy, with the curator Pavel Pohlreich

Address: Kostelní 1320/42, 170 00 Praha 7

Free of charge, advance registration required: masterova@udu.cas.cz

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For further information, please visit: https://photomatrix.cz/conference

The conference is open to the public and is free of charge. The online stream will be provided via Zoom Webinar.

Conference venue: Academic Conference Center (AKC), Husova 4a, Prague 1

Roundtable venue: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1

The conference is organized within the Matrix of Photomechal Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art research project based at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and supported by the Lumina Quaeruntur Fellowship.