Visual Studies Workshop: Informational Images and the Legacy of Humanism
113 Jaffe Building
Informational Images and the Legacy of Humanism
Interdisciplinary Workshop
Visual Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania,
Jaffe History of Art Building, Room 113
February 23, 2019
After a long period of neglect, scholarship on what have been variously called informational, epistemic, or non-art images has flourished recently. New approaches for understanding this material have been developed, but to what degree are we still influenced by older traditions, practices, and attitudes? This day-long workshop aims to assess and address the current situation by bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines who have analyzed “non-art” images from a cross-disciplinary perspective, both practical and theoretical.
Program
10:00 – 11:00: “The Diagrams in Leonardo da Vinci’s Treatise on Painting”
Janis Bell, Independent Scholar
11:00 – 12:00: “Depictions of the Eye and the Historiography of Epistemic Images in Early Modern Sciences”
Tawrin Baker, Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch (Provided for Registered Participants)
1:00 – 2:00: “The Slip of Sin: Chronological Ordering as Scientific Method in the Case of Hugo van der Goes”
Shira Brisman, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and the University of Pennsylvania.
2:00 – 3:00: “Are We Humanists?”
Donna Bilak, Visiting Research Scholar, The Center for Science & Society Columbia University
3:00 – 3:20: Coffee Break
3:20 – 4:20: “How to Draw a Risk: Diagramming Fire in Nineteenth-Century Insurance”
Matthew Hunter, Associate Professor in Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University
4:20 – 5:20: Discussion