Symposium 2013: Color / La Couleur

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Symposium 2013: Color / La Couleur

Veranstalter
International Medieval Society
Veranstaltungsort
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre Malher, 9 rue Malher, F-75003 Paris
Ort
Paris
Land
France
Vom - Bis
27.06.2013 - 29.06.2013
Website
http://www.ims-paris.org
Von
Julian Führer

Color - 10th annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society, Paris.

Keynote Speakers:
Professor D'A. Jonathan Boulton
The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame

Professor Michel Pastoureau
École pratique des hautes études
École des hautes études en sciences sociales

From the beginning of the Middle Ages, color was as connected to the visual and performing arts as it was to letters, theology, science, the livelihoods of medieval people, and their way of relating to the world.

Long before Vasari’s famous distinction between colore and disegno, medieval artists and musicians had recognized the great aesthetic, semiotic, and rhetorical potential of color. From a musical and rhetorical standpoint, the concept of color and the quality of ornatus both signified embellishment. In many ways such embellishments resulted in devices in musical notation that were intended as visualizations of the aural experience derived from the definition of categories distinguished by aural cues, such as the symbolism and classification of modes, the qualities of which were meant to be readily recognized by listeners.

As cultural references, colors – and the terms that described them – were subject to variations in meaning. In their material form of colorings and pigments, they were a commodity and a social signifier. The exoticism of these valuable substances could denote luxury and prestige down through the Middle Ages, from the purple pages of precious manuscripts to the dyes of clothing regulated by sumptuary laws. Yet color could also stigmatize or exclude, for medieval people classified, categorized, and imparted meaning by associating certain colors with specific minority groups and social hierarchies. This 'semiotizing' activity was crystallized in heraldry. Nevertheless, categories were not consistently mapped to colors. The variability of 'color coding' in medieval romance, the visual arts, or from one region to the next tests the limits of schematic, rigid views of color symbolism.

Meditations on color in literature, as in philosophy and theology, point to the agency of color, so that color is not solely a thing seen, but a potential to make things happen. The theology of light, through its attendant emphasis on color, intersected with the later reintroduction of the study of optics into the West via Latin translations of Arabic works that built upon ancient authors, giving rise to the development of theories of perspective, light, and color.

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The International Medieval Society-Paris is a non-profit association that welcomes international scholars of the Middle Ages in France and promotes international exchange with French colleagues. To this end, the IMS organizes monthly apéritifs in which scholars present their research projects for discussion as well as an annual three-day international symposium on a designated theme every June. Founded in 2003, the IMS has quickly grown both in size and in scope as it now counts art and architectural historians, historians, musicologists, and literary scholars from ten different countries among its members. In 2009, the IMS became officially affiliated with the Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris (LAMOP) of Paris I-Sorbonne. The International Medieval Society-Paris is a cooperative association that relies on the participation of its members to realize its goals.

Programm

Thursday 27 June – jeudi 27 juin

8h30 Inscription / Registration (35 Euros for non-members of the IMS)

9h30 – 11h Conférencier principal / Keynote speaker : Michel Pastoureau
"L'historien médiéviste face à la couleur"

11h - 11h30 Pause café / coffee break

11h30 - 13h15 "Perception and nature of color" / "Perception et nature de la couleur"
Pascal Riccarère et al., "Perception de la couleur. La question des 'faux bleus' à l’époque médiévale"
Jean-Marc Elsholz, "Anagogies colorées: emplois et fonctions de la couleur dans le cadre des doctrines médiévales dites de la métaphysique de la lumière"
Alice Lamy, "Réfléchir à la couleur aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles. L'insaisissable matière à la lumière des théories physiques et optiques scolastiques, de Guillaume de Conches à Roger Bacon"

13h15 – 15h Free time for lunch / Déjeuner libre

15h - 17h15 "Techniques and terminology of color" / "Techniques et terminologie de la couleur"
Charlotte Denoel et Patricia Roger Puyo, "La pourpre dans les manuscrits de l’école de la cour de Charlemagne"
Sylvie Neven, "Color terms in medieval artists' recipe books : diversity and variability. The puzzling case of 'Paris Red'"
Aline Wilmet, "Les méthodes de laboratoire au service de l’archéologie des revêtements peints: l’abbatiale Notre-Dame de Floreffe (Région de Namur, Belgique)"

18h Wine reception / Vin d'honneur
IMS-Paris Prize Awards / Remise de prix

20h Dîner / dinner

Friday 28 June / vendredi 28 juin

9h30 – 11 Conférencier principal / Keynote speaker : Jonathan Boulton
“The 'Tinctures' of Heraldry: The Selection, Nomenclature, and Semeiotic Rôles of Colours in the Armorial and Para-armorial Codes of France and England, c. 1140 – c. 1500”

11h – 11h30 Pause café / coffee break

11h30 – 13h "Colors of rank and identity" / "Couleurs de rang et d'identité"
Andrea Rando Martin, "Le doré et la tripartition chromatique dans le Roman de Perceforest: Enjeux symboliques et enjeux politiques"
Elysse T. Meredith, "L’Identité sans Nom: Colours as Identifiers in Froissart’s Meliador"
Pierre Couhault, "Les couleurs du deuil: répartition chromatique dans l’apparat funèbre au tournant du moyen-âge et de l’époque moderne"

13h – 15h Free time for lunch / Déjeuner libre

15h – 16h "Colors of human diversity and destiny" / "Les couleurs de la diversité et destinée humaines"
Claire Weeda, "Melancholy and darkness in categories of human diversity"
Olga Vassilieva-Codognet, "'Si qu’en pluseurs couleurs se change' : les variations chromatiques de la déesse Fortune (XIIe-XVe siècles)"

16h - 16h30 Pause café / coffee break

16h30 - 17h30 IMS-Paris General Assembly

18h30 Musée de Cluny : visite privée + réception

Saturday 29 June / samedi 29 juin

9h30 – 11h "Rhetoric of color" / "Rhétorique de la couleur"
Raphaël Demès, "Le paon et la rhétorique des couleurs au sein du manuscrit : l'exemple des Evangiles de Gundohinus"
Ana Cristina Celestino Montenegro, "Avec ou sans couleurs ? La rhétorique dans Las leys d'amors"
Agnès Rees, "La couleur dans les descriptions de Jean Lemaire de Belges"

11h – 11h30 Pause café / coffee break

11h30 – 13h "La Couleur structurante"
Patrick Callet, "Sur les traces des couleurs et des lumières perdues"
Jean-François Goudesenne, "L’utilisation des couleurs dans l’écriture de la musique aux XIe et XIIe siècles"
Aurélie Mounier, "Le mat et le brillant. L’utilisation des feuilles métalliques dans les peintures murales médiévales"

13h – 14h30 Free time for lunch / Déjeuner libre

14h30 – 15h30 "Transformations & disappearance of color I" / "Transformations & disparition de la couleur I"
Sophia Rochmes, "Beyond Color: Levels of Reality in Burgundian Grisaille Miniatures"
Bertrand Cosnet, "La disparition de la couleur et l’emploi de la grisaille dans le 'Roman de la Rose'"

15h30 – 16h Pause café / coffee break

16h – 17h "Transformations & disappearance of color II" / "Transformations & disparition de la couleur II"
Graeme M. Boone, "White as a color value in late medieval musical notation"
Dominique Allios, "Les chapiteaux peints de Saint Nectaire, une histoire haute en couleurs"

18h30 – 20h Cocktail / Apéritif

Kontakt

communications.ims.paris@gmail.com

http://www.ims-paris.org