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The pressing climate crisis has created a sense of urgency, leading to an increased interest in the connection between landscape and ecology. Moreover, the current relevance of political-territorial claims prompts us to critically reassess historical depictions of landscapes with heightened awareness. Five workshops of the Network Topographic Visual Media in spring/summer 2025 will explore current questions from art historical research on the representation of landscape. How do depictions of landscape interact with different instrumentalizations and politicizations of the concept of nature? What continuities and persistences can be observed in the representation of landscape over the past 300 years?

Fr, 11 Apr 2025, 14:00 Uhr (CET)

Dorlis Blume (Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin) and Julia Voss, (Leuphana-Universität, Lüneburg / Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin)

Nature and German History: Religion, Biology, Power

Fr, 16 May 2025, 14:00 Uhr (CET)

Daniela Stöppel (Ludwig Maximilians-Universität, München)

"Territorial Obsession" and Virtual Journeys. On the Topographic Aspect in Gustave Courbet’s Landscape Painting

Fr, 23 May 2025, 14:00 Uhr (CET)

Book presentation: Kelly Presutti (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.) presents her new book Land into Landscape. Art Environment, and the Making of Modern France

Fr, 20 Jun 2025, 14:00 Uhr (CET)

Sarah Mead Leonard (New Haven, Connecticut)

Patterns, Interiors, Landscapes: New Approaches to William Morris

Fr, 18 Jul 2025, 14:00 Uhr (CET)

Claudia Mattos Avolese (Tufts University, Medford/Mass.)

Undoing Landscapes: Experiences of Territory in Contemporary Indigenous Art of Brazil

Six speakers presented work exploring how borders and border crossings come into view – or are enacted and performed – through a variety of media and practices. The talks ranged historically from the early modern period to today and examined a broad array of media including contemporary border infrastructures of migration in Greece, printed textiles ("indiennes"), maps of Louisiana, bells, board games, and digital mapping projects that track connections between French colonial sugar plantations and the 18^th-century Parisian art market. Investigating the myriad ways in which borders and boundaries make themselves manifest necessarily involved examining how they are mediated through objects and practices. The series of talks invited participants to do just that, and to consider border topographies as part of an expansive media-scape

Fri, 25 Oct 2024, 16.00–17.30 CET

Emily Lake Kang, University of California, Berkeley

All Aboard? Play, Landscape, and Access in George Thistleton's Game 'Across the Continent' (1872)

Fri, 29 Nov 2024, 14.00–15.30 CET

Alex Rodriguez Suarez, Barcelona

Travelling Bells: Sounds and Material Culture across Borders

Fri, 13 Dec 2024, 14.00–15.30 CET

Alaa Dia, Universität Basel

Counter-Mapping as Methodological Tools for Uncovering Hidden Spatial Narratives of Marginalized Populations on Borders

Fri, 31 Jan 2025, 14.00–15.30 CET

Adrian Anagnost, Tulane University, New Orleans

Mapping Wetlands in la Basse-Louisiane: Indigenous and European Cartographic Knowledges

Fri, 28 Feb 2025, 14.00–15.30 CET

Meredith Martin, New York University

Remapping the "Paris" Art World in Haiti/Saint-Domingue

Fri, 28 Mar 2025, 14.00–15.30 CET

Chonja Lee, Université de Neuchâtel

Topography as Ornament – Textile Stripes, Borders, and Maps

Fri, 3 May 2024, 14:00–15:30 CET

Sasha Rossman, Universität Bern

Border Games. Materializing Borders and Learning to Think in Limits, in 17th-century and 18th-century France

Fri, 24 May 2024, 14:00–15:30 CET

Vincent Rudolf, Aachen

Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. Panoramic Wallpapers of the Early 19th Century as a Topographical Image Medium

Fri, 28 Jun 2024, 14:00–15:30 CET

Elke Katharina Wittich, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Cities in the Danube Region. On the astonishing Spread of City Views in Prints during the Turkish Wars

Wed, 13 March 2024, 12.45 am –2.30 pm (CET)

With contributions by Magdalena Becker, Tabea Braun and Simon Lindner; Introduction and discussion: Ulrike Boskamp, Tabea Braun, Amrei Buchholz, Annette Kranen 

Fri, 13 Oct 2023, 14:00-15:30 (CET)

Sarah Wissing and Pauline Reinhardt, Museum Kunst der Westküste (MKdW), Alkersum

MKdW on Tour: Connecting Art to Reality through a Topographic Mobile App

Fri, 17 Nov 2023, 14:00-15:30 (CET)

Georges Farhat, University of Toronto

Perspective in J. Androuet du Cerceau's (1511-1585) Topographical Views of French Chateaux and their Estates

Fri, 26 Jan 2024, 14:00-15:30 (CET)

Jana Moser, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (IfL), Leipzig

Von Ost und West: Prägung von Raumvorstellungen durch (Schul)Atlanten

Fri, 16 Feb 2024, 14:00-15:30 (CET)

Stefanie Leibetseder, Berlin

Städtebilder im Wandel. Die Civitates Orbis Terrarum von Braun und Hogenberg und ihre Vorläufer

Fri, 24 Mar 2023, 14.00-15.30 CET

Christian Welzbacher, Technische Universität Berlin

Building administration (Office of public works) in Prussia and the use of plans, maps and topographical drawings

Fri, 21 Apr 2023, 14:00-15.30 CET

Anette Baumann, Justus Liebig Universität Gießen

Visualized Evidence: 'Augenscheinkarten' as Proof at the Imperial Chamber Court (1495-1806)

Fri, 26 May 2023, 14:00-15.30 CET

Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State University

Mutation, Mediation, Meditation: Early Modern World Maps and their Frames

Fri, 30 Jun 2023, 14:00-15.30 CET

Petra Svatek, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien

Cartography and Politics at the Department of Geography of Vienna University 1900-1945

Fri, 10 Feb 2023, 14.00-15.30 (CET)

Oliver Sukrow (Technische Universität Wien)

Panorama, map of the surroundings, guest list – 19th-Century spa towns and their topographical media

Fri, 27 Jan 2023, 14.00-15.30 (CET)

Johannes Fischer (Deutscher Alpenverein, Bundesverband, München)

Alpenvereinskarten aus Sicht der Hersteller

Fri, 13 Jan 2023, 14.00-15.30 (CET)

Christoph Mauntel (Universität Tübingen)

Diagram – Map – Miniature. Visualising the Continents in Medieval Europe

Fri, 2 Dec 2022, 14.00-15.30 (CET)

Finnian Ó Cionnaith (Dublin)

Book Presentation Land Surveying in Ireland, 1690–1830, Dublin: Four Court’s Press, 2022

Fri, 7 Oct 2022, 14.00-15.30 (CET)

Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CNRS, Paris), Ekaterina Simonova-Gudzenko (Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University)

The Maps of Japan drawn for the Other: The Case of Daikokuya Kōdayū大黒屋 光太夫 (1751–1828)

Fri, 1 Jul, 14.00-15.30 (CET)
Ulrike Boskamp (Berlin)
Book Presentation «Dangerous Images. Artists suspected of spying»

Fri, 17 Jun, 14.00-15.30 (CET)
Katja Bernhardt (Nordost-Institut, Lüneburg)
Zaryadye at the Red Square. The park as an immersive medium and as a mise-en-scène of a new Russian Empire

Fri, 20 May, 14.00-15.30 (CET)
Ting Chang (University of Nottingham)
Maps, Games and Synaesthesia: A Case Study

Fri, 6 May, 14.00-15.30 (CET)
Stephan Günzel (University of Applied Sciences Europe, Berlin)
Maps in Video Games

Wednesday, 23. March 2022, 15:30–17:15, Campus Stadtmitte

Hosted by Ulrike Boskamp, Berlin / Tabea Braun, Bochum / Amrei Buchholz, Potsdam / Annette Kranen, Bern

Contributions by

Jannik Eikmeier, Trier

Diana Lange, Hamburg

Noemi Quagliati, München

While topographical images have received some attention in individual events and exhibitions, and a number of publications, no platform has yet existed to discuss these approaches and relate them to each other. The forum at the Kunsthistorikertag aims to close this gap and at the same time increase the visibility of the research field in the academic context.

An introduction by the organisers will be followed by short presentations on current projects by three associates of the network and an open discussion. The aim is to make the plurality of research objects and approaches visible and to initiate a discussion on overarching questions and problems.

Fri, 18 February 2022, 14.00–15.30 (CET)

Tanja Michalsky (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rom)

(Ge)Schichten und Räume einer Stadt. Neapel im Buch und auf der Karte

Fri, 28 January 2022, 14.00–15.30 (CET)

Philipp Meyer (Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig)

Mit Bildern Karten lesen. Einführungen in Schulatlanten 1880–1930

Fri, 14 January 2022, 14.00–15.30 (CET)

Matthew Edney (University of Southern Maine)

The Heterology of Property, Landscape, and Regional Mappings in Eighteenth-Century New England

Fri, 17 December 2021, 14.00–15.30 (CET)

Mario Cams (University of Macau)

Mapping the World from East Asia: Towards a Global History of the “Ricci Map”

Fri, 19 November 2021, 14.00–15.30 (CET)

Isabella Augart (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Materialisierungen. Steinerne Landschaften im Trecento und Quattrocento

Fri, 17 September 2021, 14.00–15.30 (CET)

Diana Lange (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin / Museum am Rothenbaum Hamburg), Benjamin van der Linde (Stiftung Hanseatisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, Hamburg)

Colour meets Map. Presentation of the exhibition at the Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK) in Hamburg

Fri, 02 Jul 2021, 14.00-15.30 CET

Hannes Wietschel (Folkwang Universität Essen) 

Landschaften sammeln als fotografische Herausforderung um 1900

Fri, 21 May 2021, 14.00-15.30 CET

Jannik Eikmeier (Universität Trier) 

Visualised potential – J.F.W. Des Barres Atlantic Neptune

Fri, 16 Apr 2021, 14.00-15.30 CET

Lisa Cronjäger (Universität Basel)

Cutting and Pasting Forests. Heinrich Cotta’s Textbook on Taxation Maps (1804)

Fri, 26 Mar 2021, 14.00-15.30 CET

Gareth Fuller (Artist, Beijing)

Walking in Rings, Drawing Beijing

Fri, 12 Mar 2021, 14.00-16.30 CET

Kai Wenzel (Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz)

Der Blick durchs Fernrohr. Eine Technik der Landschaftszeichnung um 1800

Apl. Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Erna Fiorentini (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT)

Horizonte und Tafelglas. Christoph Nathe blickt in die Landschaft / Horizons and Sheet Glass. Christoph Nathe Looks at Landscape

Fri, 26 Feb 2021, 14.00-15.30 CET

Dr. Irina Saladin (Universität Tübingen)

Kompilieren und Übersetzen als kartographische Praktiken: Die Arbeitsskizzen der Pariser Geographen Claude und Guillaume Delisle (um 1700)

 

20 November 2020

The workshop Pasted Topographies is dedicated to pasting operations applied in the production and use of topographic visual media – from glueing to digital copy and paste. Medially generated notions of space are often facilitated solely through techniques of pasting. On the one hand, we will investigate practices of assembling as a means of producing topographic art and knowledge (a), and on the other hand, we will examine techniques of collage and assemblage, through which topographic representations are placed in new relations (b).

(a) By translating topographic spaces into visual media, be it maps, plans, diagrams or illusionistic views, they are modelled, simplified and fixed. Often this visualization of topographies requires the use of glue and adhesives, using practices as diverse as attaching and interlocking individual images, assembling paper into larger sheets, fixing sheets on drawing tables, or preparing for later montage processes. Such processes of pasting can be understood as a response to the challenges of exploring and representing topographical spaces, which often require special formats, auxiliary constructions, extensive planning to avoid transmission errors, and specific measures to ensure precision.
b) A broader spectrum of pasting processes opens up with regard to the preparation, reception and use of topographic images. They are often combined to form composite media, in order to capture spaces in their complexity or sheer expanse. The different forms of media in which forms of montage are applied, such as albums, travel records, atlases, extra illustrations, series of images or the coupling of image sequences with maps, allow the combination, sequential representation, layering and contextualization of spaces.
With a decidedly material based approach, the workshop pursues questions raised by these practices: What do they reveal about the circulation and exchange of materials and information, for example between scholars of different disciplines, travellers or collectors of topographic visual media? What social dimensions are hidden behind pasting and mounting? What are the relationships between pasted individual images? (How) Do these practices of assembling persist in digital processes of copy and paste?
The workshop aims to describe such processes on the basis of case studies while focussing on the concrete handling of the material. The praxeological approach aims at opening up interdisciplinary perspectives and incorporating the diversity of topographic media and practices.

Programme

9.00-9.30 Welcome and Introduction

9.30-10.20 Annette Kranen Paving the way with snippets. Pasting as a method of imaging in the route scrolls by Augustus, Elector of Saxony (ca 1550–1575)

10.20-11.10 Dominik Erdmann Pasting America. From Martin Waldseemüller to Alexander von Humboldt

11.10-11.20 Coffee Break

11.20 -12.10 Tabea Braun Space turns into pages. Johann Gottfried Schultz' Picturesque Travels  to Teplice, Karlovy Vary and Staniszów, the Krkonoše, Tharandt, 1769 to 1808

12.10-13.30 Lunch Break

13.30-14.20 Amrei Buchholz Atlas, 3D. Philippe Vandermaelen’s Atlas Universel (1825–1827)

14.20-15.10 Ulrike Boskamp Picture-Editing the Spywork. Lachaud de Loqueyssie’s Drawings from his Travels to Britain (1857–1860)

15.10-15.30 Coffee Break

15.30-16.20 Noemi Quagliati The Photomosaic Map, also known as the WWI Flying Cinema