Elemental Forces, Session 4: Shape

Elemental Forces Symposium, Session 4: Shape
Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies
Saturday, May 8, 2021
MODERATOR: Olivia Dill, Northwestern University
FEATURING:
Alicia Caticha, Northwestern University: "Diderot and the (Atomic?) Matter of Sculpture"
Ingrid Greenfield, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University: "Anthills as Idolatrous Architecture in West African Contact Zones"
Sophie Morris, Victoria & Albert Museum: "The Shape of Water"
ABOUT ELEMENTAL FORCES
This international symposium explores questions of early modern matter by focusing on the four elements (earth, air, water, and fire) and their properties, combinations, and transformations. For early modern people, how were the elements at work-not only in the subject matter of artworks, manuscripts, and books, but also in their material existence, their fabrication and their ongoing existence, and, indeed, their makers and viewers?
This program is co-organized by Thalia Allington-Wood (Oxford Brookes University), Sophie Morris (Victoria and Albert Museum), Claudia Swan (Washington University), and Rebecca Zorach (Northwestern University). The symposium is co-sponsored by Northwestern University, the Mary Jane Crowe Fund for Art History, and the Myers Foundations.
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