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CFP: Arnolfini Things –  Deadline: 15 September 2017

 

Call for Papers: Postgraduate Panel: Arnolfini Things

Conference: Arnolfini Histories: Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait and its Receptions (National Gallery, London, 12-13 January 2018)

 Deadline: 15 September 2017

This postgraduate panel discussion constitutes part of the conference Arnolfini Histories: Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait and its Receptions, organised in conjunction with the exhibition Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites, organised by the National Gallery, London, in collaboration with Tate (Sunley Room, National Gallery, 2 October 2017 – 2 April 2018).

Convenors: Professor Liz Prettejohn and Dr Claire Yearwood

We invite proposals from postgraduate students for papers (5-10 minutes) in the panel Arnolfini Things, which will explore the materiality of things in Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait.

While much scholarship has been devoted to iconographic interpretation of the work, the identity of the figures, and the implications of the subject-matter, the things depicted in the room, rendered with such precision, have received less attention in their own right – apart from the famous mirror. This panel is designed to articulate the roles of the other things in the paintings. We welcome proposals for ten-minute papers on any object depicted in the painting except the mirror (although presenters may wish to explore the relationship between their chosen object and the mirror). We hope to include a wide range of approaches, including papers that consider the reinterpretation, or re-presentation, of these things by Pre-Raphaelite and other artists from 1842 (the date of the painting’s entry into the National Gallery collection) onwards.

Please submit 300-word abstracts and a short c.v. to Dr Claire Yearwood (Claire.yearwood@gmail.com)

Further information:

Conference website: forthcoming

Exhibition website: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/reflections-van-eyck-and-the-pre-raphaelites

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Writing Art: Women Writers as Art Critics in the Long Eighteenth Century – 25 February 2017

Writing Art: Women Writers as Art Critics in the Long Eighteenth Century
Saturday 25 February 2017
10am-4pm

This one-day conference focuses on women writers as art critics in the late Georgian and early Victorian period.

Tickets: £35; Students/Friends £30 (includes lunch and refreshments)

Writing Art: Women Writers as Art Critics in the Long Eighteenth Century

Chawton House Library, 25th February 2017

Long thought to be the domain of wealthy men, art criticism and connoisseurship underwent a transformation in the late Georgian period. This one-day conference focuses on women writers as art critics in the late Georgian and early Victorian period. Bringing together leading art historians and literary scholars on women’s writing and art criticism, speakers will draw on travel writing and private letters, on diaries and on novels by major English and French authors. We will explore the role of women writers in the emerging field of art history, their contribution to an evolving language of taste, and the problems of trespassing on once-male territory. Can we find in women’s writing a distinctly female voice that engages with the making and the experience of art?

This conference is held in conjunction with the National Gallery, London—which hosts, on the 10th November 2017, a conference on women as critics of Old Master paintings in the Victorian period—and the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

10.00 – 10:30: Registration and tea/coffee

10:30: Stephen Lloyd (Knowsley Hall)

Walking tour of portraits in the Chawton House Library collection.

11:30: Susanna Avery-Quash (National Gallery, London)

‘”I shall be truly proud if we succeed both in rescuing some examples, and in introducing them into England, where already there are a chosen few who adore them”: the contribution of Lady Eastlake and her women friends to a new taste for early Italian art in Britain’.

12:15 Lunch

1:15:  Emma Barker (Open University)
‘Statues and Pictures: Germaine de Staël on art’

2:00:  Isabelle Baudino (Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon)
‘Women travellers as art critics in Continental Europe’

2:45 Tea

3:15:  Carl Thompson (St Mary’s, Twickenham)
‘Maria Graham as art critic and connoisseur’

4:00:  Departure

To buy tickets, please visit our website or call us on
01420 541010
www.chawtonhouselibrary.org

Funding for this conference is provided by Chawton House Library, the Women’s History Network, and the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

www.womenshistorynetwork.org

Registered UK Charity: 1118201

 

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Art in the Archives: Insights into the 18th century Art Collections at Longford Castle, Wiltshire with Amelia Smith

Current Birkbeck History of Art PhD student Amelia Smith will be presenting Art in the Archives: Some Insights into the 18th century Art Collections at Longford Castle, Wiltshire

Amelia Smith is currently writing a PhD on ‘Patronage, Acquisition and Display: Contextualising the Art Collections of Longford Castle during the Long Eighteenth Century’, a collaborative project between the National Gallery and Birkbeck, University of London. She is co-supervised by Dr Kate Retford and Dr Susanna Avery-Quash (the National Gallery). Kate is the History of Art Head of Department and you can read her blog here.

There will be an illustrated talk on the art of Longford Castle on Thursday 12 May 2016, at 7pm, at Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. While the talk is FREE it is essential to book a ticket in advance, from localstudies@wiltshire.gov.uk (or tel 01249 705500), to avoid disappointment. Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served, basis.

http://www.wshc.eu/home/events.html

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