Enfilade

Next week at The Clark, in connection with the exhibition:

Guillaume Lethière Symposium
The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 27 September 2024

Join us for a symposium in celebration of Guillaume Lethière. The exhibition, organized in partnership with the Musée du Louvre, is the first to investigate Lethière’s extraordinary career. This one-day conference invites renowned scholars and the public to examine Lethière’s considerable body of work, as well as the presence and reception of Caribbean artists in France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

More information is available here»

s c h e d u l e

10.00  Director’s Welcome — Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director, Clark Art Institute

10.05  Opening Remarks — Esther Bell, Deputy Director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator, Clark Art Institute

10.25  Session One
• Guillaume Lethière: The Exceptional Trajectory of a Free Person of Color — Frédéric Régent, Maître de Conférences and Directeur de Recherche, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Lethière’s Allegorical Confines: Indemnity, Colonialism, and African Diasporic Fantasies — C. C. McKee, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Director of the Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College

12.05  Break and Exhibition Viewing

1.05  Session Two
• Colonial Networks: Remapping the ‘Paris’ Art World in the French Antilles — Meredith Martin, Professor of Art History, New York University and the Institute of Fine Arts
• Picturesque Plantations: Jenny Prinssay’s Construction of a French Caribbean Idyll — Remi Poindexter, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and University Fellow in Art History at the University of North Carolina Asheville

2.45  Break

3.50  Session Three
• Guillaume Lethière’s Roman Years — Francesca Alberti, Director of the Department of Art History at the Académie de France in Rome–Villa Medici and Professor of Art History at the Université de Tours and the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance
• From Neoclassicism to Preromanticism: Lethière, the Missing Link? — Richard-Viktor Sainsily-Cayol, Multimedia Visual Artist and Urban Scenographer

4:50  Closing Remarks — Esther Bell

5.00  Reception