Beneath Wyndham Lewis’s Praxitella – A Point in Case for an Interdisciplinary
Wann
Donnerstag, 11. November 2021
14:15 bis 15:45 Uhr
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Online, Zoom-Link zur Teilnahme befindet sich auf dem Programmflyer
Veranstaltet von
Universität Konstanz, TH Köln, TU Berlin, ausgerichtet vom Graduiertenkolleg „Rahmenwechsel“ sowie der DFG-Forschungsgruppe „Dim
Vortragende Person/Vortragende Personen:
Helen Kohn (art historian, curatorial fellow at Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister and Skulpturensammlung up to 1800, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany) / Rebecca Chipkin (conservator, Fulbright/American Friends of the Mauritshuis Fellow, Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands)
Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe „„A Matter of teamwork“ Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu Kunst- und Bildwerken / Interdisciplinary Approaches to Works of Art“.
Beneath Wyndham Lewis’s Praxitella – A Point in Case for an Interdisciplinary
Collaboration
The presentation will focus on the rediscovery of Atlantic City by Helen Saunders beneath Wyndham Lewis’s Praxitella during the painting pairs project at the Courtauld Institute of Art. X-ray analysis made it possible to identify a Vorticist composition beneath Praxitella. Art historical research connected a reprinted version of the work Atlantic City by Lewis’s female Vorticist colleague Helen Saunders in the magazine Blast to the painting underneath Praxitella, suggesting that it is not by Lewis. An overlay with the reprinted version and the xray shows that the painting underneath is Atlantic City, a painting that was thought to be lost. In addition to this discovery, the talk will concentrate on the collaborative work that led to this discovery between Rebecca Chipkin (conservator) and Helen Kohn (art historian).