Dr. W.J.L.M. (Wilfried) van Damme
- Lecturer
- Art history
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 1746 |
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| E-Mail: | w.van.damme@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, KG Moderne beeldende kunst |
| Office Address: |
Johan Huizingagebouw Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden Room number 2.22 |
Fields of interest
- world aesthetics
- world art studies
- the anthropology of aesthetics
- the anthropology of art
- the historiography of the Western study of art and aesthetics outside the West
Research
Wilfried van Damme’s initial interests in African conceptions of beauty and ugliness have eventually led him to develop a systematic anthropological approach to aesthetics (empirical, contextual, and intercultural comparative). In the ongoing attempt to understand the place of the aesthetic in human existence, he now also incorporates bio-evolutionary perspectives and is interested in the reflections on aesthetics offered by various systems of thought in time and space. For the last few years, his focus has been on world art studies: the global and multidisciplinary study of visual artistic phenomena. Van Damme’s present research includes the historiography of the Western scholarly interest in art and aesthetics outside the West.
Curriculum Vitae
Wilfried van Damme (Hulst, 1960) studied Art History and Archaeology at the University of Ghent and holds a postgraduate degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Leuven. He obtained his PhD from the University of Ghent in 1993, with a dissertation outlining an anthropological approach to aesthetics. Van Damme has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities since 2004. He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of East Anglia (2000) and a Visiting Professor at Ghent Univerity (2005-2008), where he still teaches. In 2010 he was appointed extraordinary professor at Tilburg University, on a chair endowed by the Treub Foundation for Tropical Reseach.
Publications
World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2008 (ed., with Kitty Zijlmans)
World Aesthetics: Biology, Culture, and Reflection. Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World’s Art, ed. John Onians, pp. 151-87. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Anthropologies of Art, International Journal of Anthropology 18 (4): 231-44, 2003.
Universality and Cultural Particularity in Visual Aesthetics. Being Humans: Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Neil Roughley, pp. 258-83. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2000.
Beauty in Context: Towards an Anthropological Approach to Aesthetics. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996.
2011
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2011)
Art Paleolithic. In: Christian et al., D. (Ed.), Big HistoryGreat Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2011)
Cultural Encounters: Western Scholarship and Fang Statuary from Equatorial Africa. (inaugural address). Tilburg: Tilburg University.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2011)
Introduction to Frans Olbrechts, ‘The Integration of Art in the Culture of Primitive Peoples’. Art in Translation, pp. 368-369.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2011)
Onderscheid en complementariteit: gender en de visuele kunsten in Afrika. In: Groot, M. (Ed.), Design en gender. Van object tot representatie (Jaarboek voor vrouwengeschiedenis, vol. 31), pp. 143-158. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2011)
Paleolithic Art. In: Croizier et al., R. & Croizier et al., R. (Eds.), Art in World HistoryGreat Barrington, MA: Berskhire Publishing.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van & Zijlmans, C.J.M. (2011)
World Art Studies. In: Pfisterer, U. (Ed.), Metzler Lexikon Kunstwissenschaft. Ideen, Methoden, Begriffe, 2. Auflage, pp. 493-496. Stuttgart, Weimar: J.B. Metzler.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2011)
‘Good the Think’: The Historiography of Intercultural Art Studies. World Art, 1 (1), pp. 43-57.
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2010
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2010)
Art -- Paleolithic. In: McNeill, W. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of World History, pp. 239-247. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2010)
Constantforce: Remembering Denis Dutton (1944-2010). Literature and Aesthetics, 20 (2), pp. 4-7.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2010)
Ernst Grosse and the "Ethnological Method" in Art Theory. Philosophy and Literature, 34 (2), pp. 302-312.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2010)
The Anthropology of Everyday Aesthetics: Human Beings, ‘Ordinary Beauty,’ and its Interdisciplinary Study. In: Przychodzen, J. (Ed.), Esthétique du beau ordinaire dans une perspective transdisciplinaire (Epistémologie et Historie des Sciences), pp. 47-61. Paris: L'Harmattan.
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2008
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2008)
Afrykanskie sztuki werbalne a studia nad afrykanska estetyka wizualna. In: Cymorek, M. (Ed.), Estetyka Afryki. Antologia, pp. 210-227. Krakow: Universitas.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2008)
Art and the Academic Disiplines. In: Zijlmans, K. & Damme, W., van (Eds.), World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches, pp. 157-163. Amsterdam: Valiz.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2008)
Intercultural Comparison and Art. In: Zijlmans, K. & Damme, W., van (Eds.), World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches, pp. 293-302. Amsterdam: Valiz.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2008)
Interculturalization in Art: Conceptualizing Processes and Products. In: Zijlmans, K. & Damme, W., van (Eds.), World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches, pp. 375-383. Amsterdam: Valiz.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2008)
Introducing World Art Studies. In: Zijlmans, K. & Damme, W., van (Eds.), World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches, pp. 23-61. Amsterdam: Valiz.
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Zijlmans, C.J.M. & Damme, W.J.L.M., van (Eds.) (2008)
World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches. Amsterdam: Valiz.
(Book editorial)
2006
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2006)
Anthropologies of Art: Three Approaches. In: Venbrux, E., Rosi, P.S., Welsch, R.L. (Eds.), Exploring World Art, pp. 69-81. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2006)
De kern van de zaak: artistieke kwaliteit in Mali. In: Kühn, E. (Ed.), Landbouwkampioenen: Ciwara-maskers uit Mali (West Afrika), pp. 85-95. Wijk bij Diirstede: Museum Dorestad.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2006)
Epilogue: The Senses of Place. In: Zijlmans, Kitty (Ed.), Site-Seeing: Places in Culture, Time and Space (CNWS Publications), 147. , pp. 147-149. Leiden: CNWS.
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2006)
Symmetry and Human Culture. [Bespreking van: Embedded Symmetries: Cultural and Natural]. In: EH.Net, H-Net Reviews (on-line)
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Damme, W.J.L.M., van (2006)
World Aesthetics: Biology, Culture, and Reflection. In: Onians, J. (Ed.), Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art (clark studies in the visual arts), pp. 151-187. New Haven/London: Yale University Press.
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