{"id":2290,"date":"2018-12-20T12:28:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2018-12-20T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:28:02","slug":"call-for-essays-the-art-and-science-of-collecting-in-eighteenth-century-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2290","title":{"rendered":"Call for Essays: The Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century\u00a0<\/strong>Europe<\/strong>
\nEdited by Dr. Arlene Leis and Dr. Kacie Wills<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sarah Stone, Perspective Interior View of Sir Ashton Lever\u2019s Museum in Leicester\u2019s Square, watercolor, London, March 30, 1785.<\/p><\/div>\n

We are inviting chapter abstracts for a collection of essays designed for academics, specialists and enthusiasts interested in the interrelations between art, science and collecting in Europe during the long 18th century. Our volume will discuss the topic of art, science and collecting in its broadest sense and in diverse theoretical contexts, such as art historical, feminist, social, gendered, colonial, archival, literary and cultural ones. To accompany our existing contributions, we welcome essays that take a global and material approach, and are particularly keen on research that makes use of new archival resources. We encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and are especially interested in essays that reveal the way in which women participated in art, science, and collecting in some capacity. The compendium will consist of around 15 essays, 6000 words each (including footnotes), with up to four illustrations. In addition to these more traditional essays, we are looking for shorter (circa 1,000 words)\u00a0 case studies on material objects pertaining to collections\/collectors from that period. The subject of art, science and collecting will also be central to these contributions. These smaller pieces will each include one illustration. The following topics\/case studies are particularly desired:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Women\u2019s collecting interests
\n\u2022 Histories and methodologies of collecting, taxonomies,
\ncataloging, arrangement, and modes of display
\n\u2022 Cabinets of curiosities\/Wunderkammer
\n\u2022 Catalogues
\n\u2022 Collections housed in art and\/or science institutions
\n\u2022 The boundaries between the natural and the artificial
\n\u2022 Scientific and artistic tools and instruments
\n\u2022 Seriality vs. rare objects
\n\u2022 Transitional objects
\n\u2022 Conservation
\n\u2022 Collecting networks
\n\u2022 The artist collector
\n\u2022 The scientist collector
\n\u2022 The overlapping of science, art and collecting in domestic
\nspaces
\n\u2022 Antiquarian collections
\n\u2022 Print culture<\/p>\n

All inquiries should be addressed to Arlene Leis, aleis914@gmail.com<\/a> or Kacie Wills, kacie.wills@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Essay abstracts of 500 words and 300 word abstracts for smaller case studies are due January 30, 2019<\/strong> and should be sent along with a short bio to: artsciencecollecting@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Finished case studies will be due July 30, 2019<\/strong>, and due date for long essays will be September 30, 2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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