2019-11-26
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https://www.artmarketstudies.org/events/tiamsa-conference-2020/
Call for Papers

TIAMSA International Art Market Studies Association Conference 2020

The TIAMSA International Art Market Studies Association Conference 2020 under the topic "The Art Market and the Museum: Ethics and Aesthetics of Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage from c.1800 to the Present" will take place in Edinburgh, 17-18 July 2020. Submission deadline is 15 December 2019.
The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA) is an academic network that brings together scholars from all disciplines as well as art market professionals, collectors and interested individuals.
 
The theme of the TIAMSA 2020 conference is the historic and contemporary intersections of the art market and museums. The conference will consider both how museums affect the art market and how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and patrons have, both historically and in more recent years, shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices.
 
The ongoing digitisation of archival material in museums and art galleries has spawned a plethora of new research on dealers, private collectors and agents as mediators of practices in the museum field. Such innovations, in conjunction with the deposit of dealer stockbooks and other documentary material relating to the art market at institutions have given rise to a new generation of researchers in this field.
 
The conference will offer a unique opportunity for scholars, students, institutional professionals and commercial contributors from around the world to meet and tackle some of the most pressing questions facing the museum and wider cultural sectors today. It seeks to bridge the gap between academic study, the global art market, and professional Museum practice, while providing inspiration for student attendees to explore new career pathways. The interdisciplinary approach aims to encourage creative, cross-network conversations and the development of new approaches and actionable practices relating to the museum and the art market.
 
Proposals for twenty-minute papers are invited on this topic, with an emphasis on the following themes:
 
  • The Art Market and Museum Collecting: Papers are welcome on dealers, collectors and agents (past and present) as museum benefactors or as instrumental in the process of museum acquisitions. A special focus will be given to women collectors - from Abby Rockefeller, Bertha Palmer and Katherine Dreier in the USA, to the Davies sisters in Britain - who have historically played such an important role as agents in museum patronage.
  • The Art Market and Museum Exhibitions: Inspired by recent exhibitions on art market figures like Ambroise Vollard, Paul Durand-Ruel, Virginia Dwan, Hildebrand Gurlitt, and the 2019 Centre Pompidou collection installation illuminating the role of ‘Galleries of the 20th century’, these papers will examine how art dealers have acted as curators, or indeed become the subject of scholarly museum exhibitions and research projects themselves.
  • The Art Market, Acquisitions and Museum Practices: Papers that consider the challenges encountered by museums today, and the enduring importance of the art market, are also welcome. Topics might include the role of art market professionals in institutional (Museum and University) collecting (given the current challenges around funding for acquisitions); the increasing importance of provenance research and due-diligence; de-accessioning in US Museums; and even questions concerning the preservation in museums of archival materials related to the art market.
  • The Impact of Museums on the Art Market:  These papers will consider the extent to which museum professionals have an impact on the art market.How does exposure through display in a museum or exhibition affect the significance and market value of works from private collections? What is the impact of the private museum? To what extent do major monographic exhibitions featuring relatively unknown artists raise their market value? What is the impact of scholarly museum research and other kinds of curatorial interventions on the value of certain artists?
The organizers encourage interdisciplinary approaches that weave together strands of art history, economics, sociology, and law, as well as museum and cultural studies. Contributions from scholars and professionals considering global issues, regional institutions and non-Western histories are also welcome.
 
If you would like to give a paper on one of the above topics please send a brief proposal of around 400 words to Frances.Fowle@ed.ac.uk by 15 December 2019.
 
Further information on the Association and the conference can be found here.
 
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