IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 616: Postcolonial Theory and Medieval Art: Heretical Approaches to an Orthodox Discipline
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
Organisers: | Eva Frojmovic, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds Catherine E. Karkov, School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds |
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Moderator/Chair: | Catherine E. Karkov, School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds |
Paper 616-a | Post-Cosmopolitical Theories: Sexual Difference, Vernacularisation, and Art after Angkor (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Political Thought |
Paper 616-b | Crumbling Empires, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Ornament in Islamic Spain (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Paper 616-c | Hybrid Strategies (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Abstract | One of the topics discussed at the 2008 IMC round table on postcolonial theory and medieval art was the continued dominance of orthodox constructions of disciplinarity, periodization, and methodology in the study of medieval art. Medieval art, especially early medieval art, remains a passive other in terms of its chronological boundaries, its subject matter, and its continued reliance on iconographic and stylistic study. This papers in this session use postcolonial theory to intervene in our construction of the medieval past and our understanding of medieval images. |