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i'm daniel benjamin i'm the president of the american academy and i want to welcome you to the richard von weitzecker lecture tonight entitled the origins of intellectual property in german renaissance art which will be delivered by professor shira brissman of the university of pennsylvania and let me just say how pleased i am that you all came out despite all of the news that might have prevented you i it was just a complete delight to be uh at the table with so many art historians so i'm i'm thrilled we're doing this uh the richard weitzecker distinguished visitorship was founded in honor of the former german federal president who was also a founding member of the american academy and as a member of the bundestag a mayor of berlin and then two-term president rick harper von weitzecker was one of the giants of post-war german life and a major figure in the transatlantic relationship this distinguished visitorship was established in 2007 and it has gone to many outstanding us figures in public life it was inaugurated by james wolfensohn the former president of the world bank who as many of you will recall began life as an australian but did eventually get american citizenship uh he was the first fund whitesecure speaker uh subsequent distinguished visitors included senator tom daschle the former u.s senate major senate majority leader strobe talbot former deputy secretary of state and president of the brookings institute where he was my boss and fed federal reserve chairman paul volcker among many others so sure just to reassure you you don't now need to change careers this visitorship is not reserved solely for famous individuals from the political world and in fact i'm delighted that we have a fun white sector lecturer who is not a former but a current and future others who have delivered this talk include music critic alex ross journalist and historian francis fitzgerald and the distinguished literary critic and theorist gayatri spivak well that brings me to sheryl brissman herself though still earlier early in her career shera brissman has put a large mark on her field of art history and she has emerged as a major figure in northern renaissance northern renaissance art an assistant professor at the university of pennsylvania she holds affiliate appointments in the departments of history and germanic languages and literature she is the author of albrecht durer and the epistolary mode of address which was published by the university of chicago press in 2016. in that book she argues that the experience of writing sending and receiving letters shaped how germany's most famous printmaker conceived of the message bearing properties of the work of art when joseph kerner of harvard who also happens to be an academy trustee reviewed dur and the epistolary mode he wrote brisbane's opening chapters are masterpieces of synthesis weaving histories of letter writing and print culture with key aspects of dura's practice they allow us to see the artist's move from a new perspective and all of dura's prints look different after reading birthman the best monograph on the artist to have appeared in many years it is also exemplary art history for its vivid writing expositional clarity and balance between historical context and close analysis of individual works i'd like someone to write something like that about one of my books since the publication of the dora book shara brisbane's articles have appeared in art history sideshift for kunska the renaissance quarterly and many other leading journals she has held curatorial positions at the jewish museum in new york in 2009 she was the albrecht durer fellow at the germanisches nazionale museum in nuremberg where she worked on the 2012 exhibition de fruya durer her research has been supported by fellowships from the center for advanced study in the visual arts the alberto scholarship at the garmanishes national museum the samuel h cress foundation the american council of learned societies the american philosophical society and the crest fellowship in the in the literature of art at the clark art institute sheriff risman's new project the goldsmith's debt is at least as ambitious as her first book and deals with a crucial area of artistic creativity during the renaissance it focuses on the work of the nuremburg goldsmith christoph yamnitzer and what he learned from his famous father vincel yamnitzer the book closely examines uh this one craft trade for evidence of the different conceptions of property that were in play during the 16th century sure is interested in what the goldsmiths understood themselves to own what they shared with the members of their trade and how the pieces of metal work and jewelry that they presented to their patrons established the ownership claims of those wealthy clients now before i turn the floor over to our speaker i just want to say a few words about the our procedure this evening after her presentation which will last about 40 minutes we will have a q a for those of you who are joining us by zoom you should see a q a icon on your zoom screen and you can click there and begin submitting your questions as soon as you like um we will do our very best to get as to as many questions as we can and so i want to thank you sheriff for coming to be with us berlin in what may despite today's sunshine be described as not the nicest time of the year even without pandemic so the floor is yours thank you dan that was so embarrassing um thank you all for being here and um it's really really uh an honor for me to be here to give the richard von bridesecker lecture and i really want to thank the staff of the american academy for taking care of every detail of my stay here and facilitating my behind-the-scenes entry into museums archives and libraries in dresden prague and berlin and i want to thank barry albert and the infallible johanna gallup and especially the president of the american academy daniel benjamin dan thank you for supporting my research together the staff here has created the perfect environment for visitors fellows and guests to think outside the framework of their own disciplines or professions to encourage one another to develop and finish projects and to engage in the open exchange of ideas and this the open exchange of ideas is the subject of my talk this evening or more specifically this talk is about the relationship of the open exchange of ideas to the allocation of the resources of the natural world are ideas like the air that we breathe or the waters of the ocean endlessly available and undiminishing in supply are they like fire that can catch and spread or are they like land limited partitionable able to be cordoned off bought sold or rented out for use by someone else is this distinction i've just made even logical is it true as the just dutch jurist hugo groceus argued in a 1609 treatise the freedom of the seas that the briny deep boundless and unconsumable belongs to no one should we take for granted that land which is given to measurement and borders and which may require cultivation to extend production naturally offers itself up for management and ownership
Thanks Cleora your participation is very much appreciated
- Cliff Cart
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