The LexArt conference proceedings have just been published under the title Artistic lexicography: forms, uses and issues in Early Modern Europe. They are published by the Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée (PULM), and in accordance with the European Research Council (ERC), this publication is available in Open Access via the Oapen website, at the following URL: http://oapen.org/search?identifier=644313 These conference proceedings bring together the papers from Montpellier (symposium from 15 to 17 June 2016, Université Paul-Valéry) and Paris (Study Day of 25 January 2017, INHA). They include 24 papers in French or English, written by members of the LexArt team (research team and scientific committee) as well as by art theory specialists and senior researchers. This book is also available in paper version on the Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée website (24 €). As a reminder, the plan of the work is articulated as follows: …
As part of the LexArt project, which will end on March 31,2018, the team of researchers and the project instigator, Michèle-Caroline Heck, will present the results and achievements of the project at a conference to be held on March 21, 2018 at the INHA (Paris, Galerie Colbert, auditorium – 6 pm). In addition to the scientific publications of the project that will be presented, a large part of this event will be devoted to the Database developed by the Center for Digital Humanities of the Trier University (Germany). This digital tool is specifically dedicated to the artistic vocabulary of the North of the Alps (French, English, German, Dutch and Latin) and to its elaboration between 1600 and 1750. Indeed, the Lexart project’s objective is to offer to the academic community a new, reflective and documentary resource designed in three parts: – A theoretical volume that addresses methodological, thematic…
As the project is now entering in its last phase, the research team dedicated this year to the study of the remaining and major books of art theory and to their input in the FuD software (Forschungsnetzwerk und Datenbanksystem). Among these books, we can for example mention The Mysteryes of Nature and Art by John Bate or The Excellency of the Pen and Pencil (anonymous) which now complete the English corpus, while Die durch Theorie erfundene Practic by Preissler has been added to the German corpus. The French and Dutch corpus which both required more work and have been noticeably enriched. Apart from Goeree’s writings which have been finished, Junius’ texts, but also Beurs’ and Lairesse’s have all been integrated into the database for the Dutch part. For the French one, L’art de peinture by Dufresnoy, including the Remarques of De Piles was added to the corpus of the second…
Following the symposium held in Montpellier from 15 to 17 June 2016 (Paul-Valéry University) and the study day that took place in Paris on 25 January 2017 (INHA), the LexArt team gathered a series of papers dedicated to the study of European artistic vocabulary, to its constitution and development throughout Early Modern Times. These symposium proceedings, entitled Words for theory, words for practice: Forms, Uses and Issues in Early Modern artistic Lexicography, will include 24 articles in French or in English, written by members of the LexArt team (researchers or members of the scientific committee) and by art theory specialists and senior researchers. This volume will be published by the Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée (PULM) in the fall – winter of 2017. An online Open Access to all the papers will also be provided (the repository and URL will then be indicated on our website). The…
Following the symposium Words for theory, words for practice: Forms, Uses and Issues in Early Modern artistic Lexicography (Montpellier, June 2016), the LexArt project is organizing a study day dedicated this time to presentations by the LexArt team. This event will take place on January 25, in Paris, at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (9.30 am, room Vasari). PROGRAM Chairman: Thomas KIRCHNER (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte) 9.30 Éric De CHASSEY (Directeur Général de l’INHA) Opening and introduction 10.00 Cecilia HURLEY-GRIENER (Université de Neuchâtel – École du Louvre) Books for readers 10.30 Ralph DEKONINCK (Université catholique de Louvain) Transferts lexicaux et sémantiques entre théorie de l’image et théorie de l’art 11.00 Break 11.30 Aude PRIGOT (Université de Montpellier III) De la circulation des livres à la circulation des notions, le cas de Johannes Verhoek, traducteur néerlandais de Roger de Piles 12.00 Anaïs CARVALHO (Université de…
The LexArt team asked the Trier Center for Digital Humanities’ developer, Radoslav Petkov, to conceive an intermediate tool in order to be abble to visualize all the data inputted in the FuD software. This tool enables the export of the data, but also the navigation between them as soon as they have been entered into the FuD. Although this export tool remains static, it offers the possibility for the research team to access to the analysis of all the texts (sources of our corpus), of all the “termes noyaux” (terms belonging to the artistic vocabulary of Early Modern Times) and definitions, in all languages. It facilitates as well the verification and correction of the data; and even if it is not an interactive tool, the data can be comparated. Thereby, the team has a global and instantaneous view of all the documentation collected. Furthermore, the researchers will be abble to…
The delivery of the FuD (Forschungsnetzwerk und Datenbanksystem) software in fall 2015 by the Trier Center for Digital Humanities, enabled the LexArt team to enter in a new phase of the project. Indeed, after spending the first two years of the project (2013-2015) elaborating a common methodology to handle the sources, and then studying these sources and major books in art theory, the team has now at its disposal an input tool. Following this delivery, a training phase dedicated to the FuD occured during winter 2015-2016. Thanks to regular exchanges, the Trier IT developers adapted the tool and the data modeling to our research. An important part of the books already studied has thus been inputted in the FuD, and even if the analysis of texts, the choice of extracts and the selection of “termes noyaux” within the texts, had already been done, their input represented a major task…
Stéphanie Trouvé, researcher of the LexArt Team, recently presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA Boston, 31 March-2 April 2016). This article, entitled Lomazzo and France: Hilaire Pader’s Translation; Theoretical and Artistic Issues, is now available on-line via the collection LexArt on the platform HAL.
Words for theory, words for practice: Forms , Uses and Issues in Early Modern artistic Lexicography The international symposium organized in the framework of the LexArt project will be held from June 15 to June 17, at the University Paul-Valéry in Montpellier (France). Entitled Words for theory, words for practice: Forms , Uses and Issues in Early Modern artistic Lexicography, this event will bring together interventions of experts in art theory, while keeping a multidisciplinary prospect to also handle issues in lexicography and linguistics fields, to approach questions concerning the studies of translations, the editing of writings on art and the relationship between artistic theory and practice. In connection with the digital tool that the LexArt project is developing, a final part will be dedicated to issues and perspectives related to Digital Humanities. Program and details are available here.
Three articles written in the framework of the LexArt project are now available via the collection LexArt created on the HAL portal. Two articles written by Michèle-Caroline Heck, PI of the LexArt project, are indeed on-line and accessible to all the academic community. The first one regards the place of the notion of convenience in Roland Fréart de Chambray’s book, Idée de la perfection de la peinture published in 1662, and especially how the author make this notion essential to consider Raffaello’s painting, The School of Athens. The second one tend to reapraise the place of Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy (1611-1668) in the 17th century French art theory, focusing on the edition of his latin poem De Arte graphica published in 1673 by Roger De Piles (1635-1709). It shows how De Piles actually leaned on a manuscript written by Dufresnoy in 1649, the Observations sur la peinture, to elaborate his Remarques. A…
Words for theory, words for practice: Forms , Uses and Issues in Early Modern artistic Lexicography The international symposium organized in the framework of the LexArt project will be held from June 15 to June 17, at the University Paul-Valéry in Montpellier (France). Entitled Words for theory, words for practice: Forms , Uses and Issues in Early Modern artistic Lexicography, this event will bring together interventions of experts in art theory, while keeping a multidisciplinary prospect to also handle issues in lexicography and linguistics fields, to approach questions concerning the studies of translations, the editing of writings on art and the relationship between artistic theory and practice. In connection with the digital tool that the LexArt project is developing, a final part will be dedicated to issues and perspectives related to Digital Humanities. Program and details are available here.
The international symposium organized in the framework of the LexArt project will be held from 15 to 17 June 2016 in Montpellier (France). Entitled WORDS FOR THEORY, WORDS FOR PRACTICE : Forms , Uses and Issues in Early Modern artistic Lexicography, this event is subject to a call for papers. It will bring together interventions of experts in art theory, while keeping a multidisciplinary prospect to also handle issues in lexicography and linguistics fields, to approach questions concerning the studies of translations, the editing of writings on art and the relationship between artistic theory and practice. In connection with the digital tool that the LexArt project is developing, a final part will be dedicated to issues and perspectives related to Digital Humanities. Words are indeed agents in the circulation of concepts, and turn out to be a significant site of experimentation, dissemination, transfers and networks across artistic communities in early…
For the academic year 2015-2016, the LexArt project is recruiting a full-time post-doctoral researcher. The candidate must hold a PhD and be specialized in art theory; a practice of databases and experience in digital humanities is also required. Contract’s starting date : October 1, 2015 – Location : Montpellier or Paris – Contract period of one year renewable – Application deadline: June 22, 2015. To download the call for applications (in French) : Annonce_postdoc_LexArt_2015
