Please join us on Wednesday 18 October at 4:30pm in CWAC 156, for the second meeting of the Research in Art and Visual Evidence (RAVE) workshop for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Joana Konova, PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago, will present one of her dissertation chapters, tentatively titled "Strategies and Meaning of Restoration of Ancient Sculpture in Late Renaissance Rome." Patch Crowley, Assistant Professor of Art History and the College, will respond.
There will be no pre-circulated paper for this event and delicious refreshments will again be served.
A native of Bulgaria, Joana Konova studied modern European languages and literature and earned a Master’s degree in German literature from the University of Cologne. In the course of her graduate studies at Cologne, she became interested in exploring text-image relations and the genre of ekphrasis, an interest that eventually lead her to pursue her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Chicago. Here, she became fascinated with the materiality of objects, the possibilities and boundaries of artistic expression determined by material and technique, and the changing lives of art objects as determined by changing fashions of reuse, preservation, and display. Joana specializes in Renaissance and Roman art and is completing a dissertation on the reuse of ancient sculpture in 16th-century Rome.
Patrick Crowley specializes in the art and archaeology of the Roman world. In addition to traditional categories of Roman art such as sarcophagi and portraiture, his research interests include ancient aesthetics, theories of vision and representation, and phenomenological approaches to the matter of visual evidence, including the historical intersections among documentary photography, digital media, and the production of knowledge in classical archaeology. His research has been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. His current book project, provisionally titled “The Phantom Image: Visuality and the Supernatural in Ancient Rome,” is the first major historical study of ghosts in the art and visual culture of classical antiquity.