Person

Senior Lecturer
- Division of Art History and Visual Studies
- Division of Fashion Studies
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail joacim.sprungkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 31 41
Room LUX:C431
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
(Division of Art History and Visual Studies)
Campus Helsingborg, Box 882, 25108 Helsingborg
(Division of Fashion Studies)
Internal post code 30
I'm a senior lecturer of Art History and Visual Studies and coordinator of the International Master-programme in Visual Culture.
My main teaching and research interests are in art historiography, methodology, memory studies, aesthetics and theory of visualities from 1500 to the present.
My present research deals with art historiography and aesthetics, especially how art historians have dealt with the birth of art and its conditions of possibility.
Furthermore, I research:
1) how evolution biology influenced the thinking in art history during 1800/1900,
2) how Art History was popularized as an academic disciplin via BBC TV-documentaries during the 1960s,
3) how representations of climate change contribute to an ontodramatization of our existence.
4) the Visual Culture of Education.
I wrote my dissertation "Picture atlas, Visual education and Reproduction. Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne-atlas and the visualization of Art History around 1800/1900" at Copenhagen University.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Books (1)
Articles (11)
- Sprung, J. (submitted). Bildatlas, åskådning och reproduktion. Hæfter for Gæstfrihed. D.K.D. Kunstkademi.
- Sprung, J. (submitted). Mellan ljus och mörker. Symbolteori och Einfühlungsestetik omkring 1800/1900. Hæfter for Gæstfrihed. D.K.D. Kunstkademi.
- Sprung, J. (submitted). Teckning som visuell arkivering och mnemoteknik. Visuel Arkivering. D.K.D. Kunstkademi.
- Sprung, J. (2007). Aby Warburg. AFART, 22-25. University of Copenhagen, Div. of Art History and Visual Culture.
- Sprung, J. (2005). Historien om Snövit. Hæfter for Gæstfrihed, 178-187. D.K.D. Kunstkademi.
- Sprung, J. (2005). Snövit och sanningens vansinne. Reflektioner kring konst, politik och estetik. Hæfter for Gæstfrihed, 188-195. D.K.D. Kunstkademi.
- Sprung, J. (2003). Piet Mondrian: Värld och artificialitet. PUN, 15, 3-6. PUN.
- Sprung, J. (2002). Two speculative sketches concerning the Orchid Research Project. Provisorium, 2, 5-7. Rooseum, Center for Contemporary Art.
- Sprung, J. (2001). Museets filosofiska status. Två samtida perspektiv: J-L. Déotte och J-F. Lyotard. Hæfter for Gæstfrihed, 31-61. D.K.D. Kunstkademi.
- Sprung, J. (2001). Peter Greenaways montrar. Figur-, 14-15. Figur-.
- Sprung, J. (2000). Michel Serres: Mångfaldighet och tillblivelse. Figur-, 3-13. Figur-.
Book chapters (2)
Teaching
- KOVN11, Visual Culture: Representations of Violence in the Visual Arts and Media
- KOVN15, Visual Culture: Environment and Nature
- KOVR11, Art History and Visual Studies: The Practice of Theory and Method
- MODA25, Fashion Studies: Basic Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
- MODA26, Theories and Research Methods in Fashion Studies 1 - Introduction
- MODA62, Fashion Studies: Theories and Research Methods in Fashion Studies 3 - Advanced
Other tasks and qualifications
Chairman of Ester Almqvist Foundation, 2015-2017.
External examiner, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), 2016.
External examiner in Art History and Visual Culture at Copenhagen and Aarhus University, Denmark, 2014-2018.
External examiner in Art Theory at the Royal Academy of Fine Art, Denmark, 2012-2014.

Senior Lecturer
- Division of Art History and Visual Studies
- Division of Fashion Studies
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail joacim.sprungkultur.luse
Phone +46 46 222 31 41
Room LUX:C431
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
(Division of Art History and Visual Studies)
Campus Helsingborg, Box 882, 25108 Helsingborg
(Division of Fashion Studies)
Internal post code 30