Calls for Papers/Mar 21, 2017

​The Art of Ornament

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​The Art of Ornament: Meaning, Archetypes, Forms and Uses, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, November 23–25, 2017

The topics suggested for proposals for participating in this Conference are generically the following, although others may be considered if they are deemed pertinent and relevant:

  • Contemplating the ornament in our day: meaning, tendencies and paths
  • Ornament and Portuguese decorative arts
  • Revivalism, exoticism and ornament
  • Ornamentalists and engravers: creation, reception and dissemination
  • Ornament and architecture: historiography, theory and present times
  • Mobility and transcontinentality: the migration of forms
  • Between the sacred and the profane: appropriations, reinventions and coexistence
  • Intersection, union and dissonance: literature, music and visual arts

The languages of the conference are English, Portuguese, Spanish and French.