AAH Summer Symposium 2015

Fashion and art often follow a shared trajectory of social, political, and historical circumstances. In collaboration with the University of York, the AAH’s Annual Student Summer Symposium will explore the relationship between fashion and art through papers that engage with this subject across a wide range of chronological and theoretical perspectives. The influence of fashionable dress on artists and patrons of art has recently become a popular and productive avenue for research in art history, while fashion designers have likewise been shown to engage continuously with historical and fine art as sources of inspiration.

Fashion and Art History will build upon these conversations while also addressing questions that continue to be debated in art and fashion history circles: What evidence does art provide for how dress operates within society? Is fashion ‘art’? Should fashion history be taught alongside art history in academic curricula? When should these objects be displayed in galleries alongside each other, and how does this change the way we understand artworks and fashionable dress? Finally, how might the tools and methodologies of these related disciplines aid the study of their respective subjects?

Keynote Speakers: Susan Vincent (University of York) Ogling and Quizzing: or, The Historian, the Eyeglass, and the Visual Sources; ‌Rhian Addison (Watts Gallery) Liberating Fashion: Artists as Designers in the Aesthetic Movement

The symposium is open to all.

AAH Members: £18.00
York Staff/Students: £18.00
Non-AAH Members: £25.00

Ticket price includes refreshments and lunch.  View further information or book online.

Organised by Sophie Littlewood, Serena Dyer and Sophie Frost

Image: P. Clement Brown, 'Art in Dress', 1922, p. 111, Internet Archive Book Images