Philippe Cordez

Deutsches Forum fiir Kunstgeschichte/Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art

02/04/2019 - 6/2/2019

Philippe Cordez is Deputy Director of the German Center for Art History in Paris. Primarily a medievalist, he previously led a research group on object studies in art history at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (2013-2018). Cordez’s book on medieval church objects––investigating notions of treasure, memory and wonder––was published in German and French in 2015 and 2016, respectively. At the Clark, he will work on nineteenth-century publications of historical and ethnographic objects, seeking to understand how they shaped the modern—and still so influential—concepts of ‘decorative arts’, ‘objets d’art’ and ‘Kunstgewerbe’.