Enfilade

From H-ArtHist:

Textile Spaces: Silk in 18th-Century Courtly Interiors /
Textile Räume: Seide im höfischen Interieur des 18. Jahrhunderts
Potsdam, 17–20 September 2014

Registration due by 1 September 2014

During the reign of Frederick II Berlin became a European centre of silk-production. Up to the present day the Prussian palaces give an impression of the high quality of decorative silks from the Berlin and Potsdam manufactures. On the occasion of the publication of the scholary catalogue about Prussian silks and textile decoration, the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG) holds an international conference in Potsdam from September 17th to 20th. International speakers, including scholars, curators and conservators examine the importance of textile decoration and put the Prussian silks into a European context.

The conference is a co-operation with the Association of Conservators (Verband der Restauratoren). Guided tours through the New Palace at Sanssouci, the Orangery Palace and Cecilienhof Palace are on offer. If you wish to attend, please note that registration and advance payment are required. The fee includes guided tours, lunches and refreshments. Registration ends at September 1st.

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9:30  Introduction by Samuel Wittwer, Director of Palaces and Collections, Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG)

9:45  Susanne Evers (Potsdam), Berliner Seiden in den Schlössern Friedrichs II

10:10  Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset (Paris), Silk for Versailles, 1680s–1780s

10:35  Marzia Cataldi Gallo (Genua), Genoese Textiles for Interior Decoration

11:00  Discussion

11:25  Tea and coffee

11:50  Tatjana Lekhovich (St. Petersburg), Textile Decoration of the 18th Century in Russian Palaces: From National Traditions to Grand European Styles

12:15  Bo Vahlne (Stockholm), Velvet, Damask and Taffeta in the Swedish Royal Palaces during 18th Century

12:40  Discussion

13:00  Lunch

14:00  Sabine Schneider (Dresden), Das Paradeappartement Augusts des Starken von 1719 im Dresdner Residenzschloss – Textile Ausstattung und Zeremoniell

14:25  Margitta Hensel (Dresden), Überlegungen zur textilen Ausstattung der Appartements im Sächsischen Palais zu Warschau unter König August III

14:50  Lieselotte Hanzl-Wachter (Wien), “von roth und gelb geflamten Dafend” – Textilien aus Schloss Hof

15:15  Discussion

15:40  Tea and coffee

16:10  Anika Reineke (Zürich), Von der Tapisserie zum Damast. Bild- und Raumrezeption seidener Wandbespannungen im 18. Jahrhundert

16:35  Anna Jolly (Riggisberg), „en suite“ – Ausdrucksformen eines textilen Gestaltungskonzeptes

17:00  Discussion

19:00  Dinner

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8:30  Karin Thönnissen (Krefeld), A la mode – eine gewebte Chinoiserie als Wandbespannung

8:55  Sjoukje Colenbrander, (Amsterdam), Chinese Silks Imported to Europe

9:20  Friederike Wappenschmidt (Neuwied), Chinesische Tapeten aus Seide und Papier – Ästhetische Differenz, Materialbewertung und Rezeption

9:45  Discussion

10:10  Tea and coffee

10:40  Silke Kreibich (Berlin), Posamenten in den preußischen Schlössern – Entwicklung und Datierung der Muster des 18. Jahrhunderts

11:05 Viktoria Pisareva (Dresden), Posamenten in den spätbarocken Innenausstattungen Augusts des Starken (reg. 1694–1733)

11:30  Annabel Westman (Richmond), A Luxury Necessity: The Use of Trimmings on 18th-Century State Beds in Britain

11:55  Discussion

12:20  Lunch

13:30 Isa Fleischmann-Heck (Krefeld), Angebot und Nachfrage – Produktpalette und Angebotspolitik aufstrebender Seidenfirmen in den preußischen Provinzen am Niederrhein im 18. Jahrhundert

13:55 Jens Bartoll (Potsdam), Berliner Seiden – Naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung der Farbstoffe und Pigmente

14:20 Christa Zitzmann (Potsdam), Entwicklungsstand der preußischen Seidenweberei nach Auswertung gewebetechnischer Analysen

14:45 Nadja Kuschel (Potsdam), Die goldenen Posamente aus dem Tressenzimmer von 1768. Restaurierung und Kopie

15:10  Discussion

15:35  Tea and coffee

17:30  Guided tour through the New Palace at Sanssouci

For the programme for Friday and Saturday (19–20 September), please consult the conference website.

From H-ArtHist:

Houses as Museums / Museums as Houses
The Wallace Collection, London, 12–13 September 2014

Registration due by 31 August 2014

The relationship between museums and domestic spaces is a long and complex one. Museums were born in the houses of collectors, while the reconstruction of the house or domestic room—of ‘home’, effectively—continues to be an influential if controversial model for museum display. On the other hand, museums have at times invested heavily in the idea of their spaces as public, scientific and definitively non-domestic. The line between house and museum is therefore also one between public and private, scientific and domestic; and house-museums/museum-houses have acted both to confirm, to alter, and to undermine this line completely.

The 2014 Museums and Galleries History Group (MGHG) conference seeks to understand the historical development of this relationship by investigating the ways in which museums have acted as houses, and houses have acted as museums. It will also explore the ways in which house-museums and museum-houses have been positioned in boundary zones of space and time, and what effect they have had on those boundaries. The programme
can be viewed and tickets can be purchased here.

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10.00  Registration and refreshments

10.30  Introduction

10.45  1: The Early Modern Legacy (Chair: Stephanie Bowry)
• Theda Jurjens, ‘Artists’ houses: spaces of knowledge, artistic production and social reputation’
• Cristiano Guarneri (IUAV University, Venice), ‘A private display for a public space: The Statuario Pubblico (1587–96), a Venetian approach to the display of ancient sculpture’
• Thomas Schauerte (City of Nuremberg Art Collections), ‘From memorial to museum: The Dürer house in Nuremberg’

12.15  Curator’s introduction to the Great Gallery rehang

12.30  Private view of Great Gallery

13.15  Lunch break

14.30  2: Architecture and Museums / Houses (Chair: Sarah Longair)
• Jeremy Aynsley (University of Brighton), ‘Curating Bauhaus houses, 1923–2019’
• Maria D’Annibale Williams (Ohio University), ‘Museum space in Fascist Verona and the display of social identity: A case study’
• Jane Whittaker (Bowes Museum), ‘Mrs Bowes’s mansion and galleries at Barnard Castle, Durham’

16.00  Tea and coffee

16.30  Roundtable: ‘Curating Houses as Museums’ with Abraham Thomas, Nicholas Tromans, and Giles Waterfield (Chair: Mark Westgarth)

17.30  Wine reception

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10.00  Tea and coffee

10.30  Keynote lecture by Helen Rees Leahy, ‘The pleasures and paradoxes of house museums’

11.30  3: Concepts and Approaches (Chair: Elena Greer)
• Sophie Forgan (Captain Cook Memorial Museum), ‘Interpretation and anthropological approaches to the historic house museum’
• Lydia Brandt (University of South Carolina), ‘George Washington’s Mount Vernon: America’s First House (museum)’
• Helen Williams (Northumbria University), ‘The literary house museum: An eighteenth-century invention?’

13.00  Lunch break

14.15  4: Modern Spaces, Art and Houses / Museums (Chair: Barbara Lasic)
• Flaminia Gennari Santori (Syracuse University Florence), ‘Tropical baroque – Vizcaya: A Venetian-inspired house museum in Miami’
• Angela Bartholomew (VU University Amsterdam), ‘Chambres d’amis and the mediation of site (1986)’
• Louise Shannon (V&A), ‘Creating “Tomorrow”: Norman Swann moves into the V&A’

15.45  Tea and coffee

16.15  5: Science at Home and on Display (Chair: Ilja Nieuwland)
• Elisabeth Hoffman (University of Kassel), ‘Art and science: the interior of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s home as a museological and epistemological concept’
• Helen McCormack (Glasgow School of Art), ‘The anatomist at home: The Great Windmill Street Anatomy School and Museum’
• Caroline Morris (University of the West of England), ‘”…Fit like a snail to its shell”‘

All conference sessions except the Great Gallery view take place in the lecture theatre. Tea and coffee are provided in the Meeting Room. Wine reception takes place in the Café. Lunch is not provided, but there are many places for lunch very close to the Wallace Collection. The Wallace collection opens at 10.00 so please do not arrive earlier.

As noted at H-ArtHist (click for the German version). . .

Aufgeklärter Kunstdiskurs und Höfische Sammelpraxis:
Das ‘Mahlerey-Cabinet’ Karoline Luise von Baden (1723–1783) im Europäischen Kontext
Enlightened Discourse in Art and Courtly Collecting Practices:
Caroline Louise of Baden’s (1723–1783) ‘Cabinet of Paintings’ in a European Context
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 10–12 September 2014

J.W. Hauwiller, Portrait of Margravine Caroline Louise of Baden (1723–1783)

This research project is an interdisciplinary cooperation between the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe and the University of Mendrisio (Switzerland). The project focuses on the comprehensive study into the history of art and ideas of Caroline Louise’s ‘cabinet of paintings’, an extensive collection that once included more than 200 paintings.

Participating at the conference are eighteen academics from Germany, Switzerland, France, England, Sweden and the Netherlands who will be investigating in four separate sections the central questions of this research project. To some extent, the conference’s scholarly impulses will also benefit the exhibition concept of the upcoming Baden Wurttemberg State Exhibition Caroline Louise of Baden (1723–1783): A Collector of European Standing. This exhibition will be on display at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe for the 300th anniversary of the city’s founding from 30 May to 6 September 2015. The conference is open to public and participation is free of charge. Please confirm by sending us an email with the subject heading ‘Conference Enlightened Discourse’ to Sarah Salomon at salomon@kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de.

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19.00  Christoph Frank (University of Mendrisio, Switzerland),’Where Europe Ends: Caroline Louise, Her Agents and Correspondents’ (Lecture in German)

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9.00 Introduction by Wolfgang Zimmermann, Generallandesarchiv, Karlsruhe

1. Regionalism and European Perspective during the Ancien Régime

9.30  Wilhelm Kreutz (University of Mannheim), ‘Enlightenment along the Upper Rhine: People, Societies, and Institutions’ (Lecture in German)

10.00  Wolfgang Zimmermann (Generallandesarchiv, Karlsruhe), ‘Political Alliances—Grand Rivalry—Cultural Ambitions: The Upper Rhine Valley in the Mid-18th Century’  (Lecture in German)

10.30  Thorsten Huthwelker (Generallandesarchiv, Karlsruhe), ‘The Correspondence Network of Caroline Louise of Baden’ (Lecture in German)

11.00  Coffee

Jean-Étienne Liotard, Portrait of Princess Caroline Louise of Hessen-Darmstadt, 1745 (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe)

2. Connoisseurship and Artistic Practice

11.30  Charlotte Guichard (CNRS – École Normale Supérieure, Paris) ‘“Amatrice “: Women in the Arts during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe’ (Lecture in French)

12.00  Katharina Weiler (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe), ‘The Art of Copying: Caroline Louise of Baden and the Loans from the Electoral Painting Cabinet of Mannheim’ (Lecture in German)

12.30  Lunch

14.30  Sarah Salomon (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe), ‘Seeing and Knowing: The Cabinet of Paintings—a Laboratory of Pictures?’ (Lecture in German)

15.00 Astrid Reuter (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe),’The Significance of Jean-Etienne Liotard and Pastel Painting for Caroline Louise’ (Lecture in German)

15.30  Coffee

19.00  Bénédicte Savoy (Technical University Berlin) ‘Temples of Art: Collections and their Audiences in the 18th Century’ (Lecture in German)

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3. The Art Market and the Development of Taste in the 18th Century

9.00 Everhard Korthals Altes (Delft University of Technology), ‘Caroline Louise’s Collecting Activities and the Dutch Art Market: The Role of Catalogues, Letter Correspondences and Agents’ (Lecture in English)

9.30 Holger Jacob-Friesen (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe), ‘Caroline Louise and her Agent in The Hague, Gottlieb Heinrich Treuer’ (Lecture in German)

10.00 Max Tillmann (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe), ‘Caroline Louise of Baden and the French Enthusiasm for Netherlandish Painting in the 18th Century’ (Lecture in German)

10.30  Coffee

11.00 Thomas Kirchner (German Forum for Art History, Paris), ‘Caroline Louise of Baden and Contemporary French Painting’ (Lecture in German)

4. Representation and Aesthetics: Form and Function of European Art Collections

11.30  Ulrike Grimm (formerly Schlösserverwaltung, Baden-Württemberg) ‘”… Enfin cet appartemênt fera mes délices …” – Caroline Louise’s Apartments in the Palace of Karlsruhe’ (Lecture in German)

12.00 Dietmar Lüdke (formerly Staatliche, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe) ‘Form and Function of the Picture Frames in the Apartment of Margravine Caroline Louise of Baden’ (Lecture in German)

12.30  Lunch

14.00 Christoph Vogtherr (The Wallace Collection, London), ‘Caroline Louise of Baden and Frederick II of Prussia: Two Royal Art Collectors of the Ancien Régime in Comparison’ (Lecture in English)

14.30 Merit Laine (The Swedish Royal Collections, Stockholm),'”Y avoir tout ce qu’on peut s’imaginer” The Painting Collection of Queen Lovisa Ulrika Collection of Sweden and its Context at Drottningholm Palace’ (Lecture in English)

15.00  Coffee

15.30 Frédéric Bußmann (Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig), ‘Parisian Collections in the Second Half of the 18th Century: Between Connoisseurship and Representation’ (Lecture in German)

16.00  Concluding remarks

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Note (added 9 July 2014) — The lovely portrait by Liotard was not included as part of the original posting.

From the Textile Society of America:

Textile Society of America’s 2014 Symposium
New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future
Los Angeles, 10–14 September 2014

The theme of the symposium, New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future, explores change and innovation in textiles in the past while looking at the state of the field of textiles, textile study, production and creativity, today and for the future. Where have we been and where are we going? What are the moments that encapsulate change? What are the shifts in direction for cultures, technology, creativity and knowledge? And how do these shifts effect our understanding of textiles?

The program includes two full days of multiple concurrent sessions on the UCLA campus and a full day of plenary sessions at LACMA on Saturday. In addition to the sessions, there will be receptions, special exhibitions, an awards ceremony, and a series of dynamic pre- and post-conference workshops and study tours to local and regional art institutions, collections, and artist studios.

Full symposium registration includes Wednesday night opening reception, Friday Awards Banquet Dinner, and lunches and coffee on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Program details, including lots of eighteenth-century offerings, can be found at the Textile of America’s website:

From H-ArtHist:

Joséphine et l’Empire de la Mode
Archives Nationales Hôtel Soubise, Paris, 24 June 2014

Marie-Joseph-Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie, impératrice des Français sous le nom de Joséphine, est née aux Trois-Ilets en Martinique le 23 juin 1763, et décédée au château de Malmaison le 29 mai 1814. L’année 2014 célèbre Joséphine au titre des commémorations nationales. Deux grandes expositions lui sont consacrées, Joséphine au musée du Luxembourg à Paris, et Joséphine, la passion des fleurs et des oiseaux au musée national du château de Malmaison. L’inventaire fait après le décès de Joséphine comprend celui d’une importante garde-robe, dont le château de Malmaison conserve quelques témoignages. C’est à propos des choix textiles, du goût et du style de Joséphine que s’articule la journée d’étude Joséphine et l’Empire de la mode, initiée par l’association ART & LUXE.

Sur inscription dans la limite des places disponibles par courriel à l’adresse suivante: Art-luxe@live.fr

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13:30 Accueil

14:00  Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset (historienne de la mode, Paris), L’image de la mode dans la presse : Le ‘costume parisien’, 1800–1815

14:30  Alain Pougetoux (conservateur en chef, domaine national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau), La boutique à paris sous le Premier empire

15:00  Céline Meunier (conservateur en chef, Domaine national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau), Joséphine : en quête d’une garde-robe

15:30  Fiona Ffoulkes (Université de Southampton, professeur associé Université des arts de Bournemouth et université américaine, Paris) Muse, cliente et amie ? L’importance de la relation de l’impératrice Joséphine avec Leroy, marchand de modes

16:00  Marguerite Coppens (Chef de département, Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire, Bruxelles), Les commandes dentellières de la maison impériale

16:30  Carole Damour (archiviste textile, Société Tassinari & Chatel, Paris), Des palais impériaux au château de la Malmaison : Les choix textiles de Joséphine

17:00  Discussion

From the conference website:

George I 300 Years On: Reconstructing the Succession
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 18–20 June 2014

This interdisciplinary conference takes the theme of the accession of the first Hanoverian king, George I. It will examine not just the end of the Stuart era, but the defining characteristics, outcomes and consequences the Hanoverian succession.

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2:00  Registration and afternoon tea
Welcome from Elaine Chalus (Bath Spa University), Nichola Hayton (Mannheim Universität), and Stefano Weinberger (Cultural Attaché for the German Embassy in London)

3:45  Opening Plenary, Dominic Aidan Bellenger (Abbot of Downside Abbey), George I and the Catholics

Drinks reception; delegates may wish to visit the Georgian exhibition at the Fashion Museum or take a walking tour of Bath.

7:30  Conference Dinner

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9:00   Tea and coffee

9:30 Panel I, chaired by Elaine Chalus
• Ruth Paley (History of Parliament), Seditious Libel in the Last Years of Anne
• Robin Eagles (History of Parliament), The Duke of Shrewsbury and the Politics of Succession in the Last Days of Anne
• Matthew Kilburn (History of Parliament), The Missing Queen

11:00  Tea and coffee

11:30 Panel II, charied by Kevin Grieves
• Mark Walker (University of Essex), The Bittersweet Death of Queen Anne, 1714
• Noel Cox (Aberystwyth University), The Law of Succession
• Heike Bormuth (Universität Mannheim), From Georg Ludwig to George I: An Absolutistic Elector in the English Parliamentary Monarchy. The Settling in of the Hanoverian Dynasty
• Richard Johns (University of York), ‘A New Breed of Men’: George I and his Progeny at Greenwich

1:30  Lunch

3:00  Panel III Postgraduate Panel, chaired by Georgina Moore
• James Camp (Bath Spa University), By Royal appointment: Bath and the Reception of Royalty, 1660–1714
• Kate James (Bath Spa University), Newton Park and the Country House in Transition
• Kelly Yates (University of Manchester), Jeffrey the Jacobite Poltergeist

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9:30  Tea and coffee

10.00  Panel IV, chaired by Andrew Thompson
• James Caudle (Yale University), A Revolution in Political Broadcasting: The Political Sermon in the Hanoverian Revolution, 1714–16
• Ralph Stevens (Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge), ‘King George’s Religion’: The Religious Politics of the Hanoverian Succession
• James Lees, Schism, Succession: Chaplains of George Augustus and Caroline as Prince and Princess of Wales, 1714–27

11:30  Tea and coffee

12:00  Panel V, chaired by Arnd Reitemeier
• Kevin Grieves (Bath Spa University), The London Press and the Succession
• Stewart Tolley (University of London), A Popular Rail? Press and Public Interest in George I’s Ministers, 1714–27
• Benjamin Bühring (Göttingen University), An Expatriate Community: The London German Court of George I

1:30  Lunch

2:45  Panel VI, chaired by Jackie Collier
• Philip Loft (University of London), Parliament, Petitioning, and the Public, 1714–20
• Pauline Chakmakjian (Independent Scholar), A Sociable King: George I and the Rise of Speculative Freemasonry
• Nigel Aston (University of Leicester), A Mixed Ministry? The Tories in government, 1714–16

4:45  Closing Plenary, Clarissa Campbell Orr (Anglia Ruskin University), Life and Culture at Court in England and Hanover: An Anglo-German Comparison

Originals, Translations, and Imitations:
The Images and Texts of Alexander Pope
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, 12 July 2014

A one-day conference organized by Waddesdon Manor (the Rothschild Foundation) in collaboration with The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

This conference will explore some central themes running through the exhibition, Fame and Friendship: Pope, Roubiliac, and the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth-Century Britain, organised jointly by the Rothschild Foundation and Waddesdon Manor with the Yale Center for British Art. At the heart of the exhibition are eight portrait busts of the poet Alexander Pope by Roubiliac along with various replications of this model. These images imitate classical portrait busts, translating the conventions of the originals into an eighteenth-century mode. At the same time, the replications translate Roubiliac’s original into other media, such as plaster or ceramic. At Waddesdon these various images will not only shown not only alongside both some of the most celebrated painted portraits of the poet and examples of his printed texts, but also juxtaposed with French works celebrating Pope and other writers. These various processes of imitation and translation could hardly be more appropriate for a subject whose contemporary fame rested partly on his own translations of Homer and whose poetry constantly imitated classical models. In its turn, Pope’s work was itself translated into French. All the papers in this conference will address different aspects of imitation and translation, in the form of both images and texts. The fee for the day is £40. To book a place, please ring the booking line on 01296 653226. Please let us know of any dietary requirements.

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9:45  Coffee and registration in the Manor Restaurant with the exhibition open for viewing

10.30  Welcome by Sarah Weir (Chief Executive, Waddesdon Manor)

 10:45  Text, Image, and Translation (Chair: Alastair Laing)
• Nigel Wood (Loughborough University), Pope as the Translator of Homer and Horace
• James McLaverty (Keele University), Pope in his Pastorals: Manuscript and Print
• Valerie Rumbold (Birmingham University), The Use of Art in Alexander Pope’s “To Mr. Addison, Occasioned by Dialogues on Medals”

12:45  Lunch

1:50 Pope and the Image (Chair: Martin Postle)
• Caroline Pegum (Independent Scholar), Charles Jervas and Pope’s Portraits
• Malcolm Baker (University of California, Riverside), For Friends and Admirers: The Sculptural Replication of Pope’s Image
• Juliet Carey (Waddesdon Manor), Pope and the Ceramic Canon

3.50  Tea

4:20  Pope, Writers, and France (Chair: Malcolm Baker)
• Russell Goulbourne (Kings College, London), Voltaire’s Pope
• Guilhem Scherf (Musée du Louvre), French Sculptors and the Image of the Writer

5:45  Drinks reception (Parterre or Manor Restaurant, depending on weather) during which the exhibition will again be open for viewing.

The National Trust and Waddesdon Manor (Rothschild Collections) Annual Conference
Bound for Greatness: Books, Libraries, and Book Collecting in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, 1 July 2014

Organised by Mark Purcell, Christopher Rowell, and Pippa Shirley

The Morning Room at Waddesdon Manor, with a view of the collection of illustrated books and bindings and a portrait of the collector Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. Photo: John Bigelow Taylor © The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor

The annual National Trust/Waddesdon Manor Conference this year is on the subject of books, libraries, and book collectors and collecting, prompted by the publication in 2013 of the Waddesdon catalogue of Printed Books and Bookbindings. Our distinguished speakers are drawn from across the book world—from libraries, universities, historic house collections, and the book trade. There will also be an opportunity to view the special exhibitions in the manor, including Royal Spectacle: Ceremonial and Festivities at the French Court. This exhibition features the lavishly illustrated books that document the many extravagant festivities and ceremonies staged for the French court during the 17th and 18th centuries.

The day will begin with coffee at 9:45 and end with a drinks reception finishing around 6:00. The £25 conference fee includes tea and coffee on arrival and a two-course lunch. To book a place, please ring the booking line on 01296 653226, Monday to Friday (except Bank Holidays), 10am–4pm, or email: bookings.waddesdon@nationaltrust.org.uk.

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9:45  Registration and Coffee in the Manor Restaurant

10:15  Christopher Rowell (Furniture Curator, National Trust) and Pippa Shirley (Head of Collection, National Trust / Waddesdon Manor), Welcome and Introduction

10:15  Paul Quarrie (Maggs and former Senior Director of Sotheby’s Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts), ‘The Changing Fortunes of the “Rare Book” in France around 1800: A Chapter in the History of Taste’

10:45  Raphaële Mouren (Librarian and Deputy Directory, The Warburg Institute), Title TBC

11:15  Robert Betteridge (Rare Books Curator, National Library of Scotland), ‘The Library of the Dalrymples of Newhailes’

11:45  David Adshead (Head Curator, National Trust), Architecture of Libraries

12:15  Questions and Discussion

12:30  Lunch in the Manor Restaurant

1:30  Mirjam Foot (Emeritus Professor of Library & Archive Studies, University College London), ‘Two 19th-Century Collectors: A Shared Love of Bookbindings?’

2:00  John O’Brien (Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University), Anglo-French

2:30  Mark Purcell (Libraries Curator, National Trust), ‘The Lost Library at Clumber Park’

3:00  Rachel Jacobs (Assistant Curator, Waddesdon), ‘The Royal Spectacle at Waddesdon Manor: An Exhibition of 17th- and 18th-Century French Festival Books’

3:20  David Pearson (Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries, City of London Corporation), ‘Emerging Themes in the Study of the Private Library’

3:45  Tea in the Manor Restaurant with an opportunity to visit the shop (3:45–4:30 only), the Manor, and special exhibitions

5:00  Reception on the Terrace

From H-ArtHist:

The Mobile Spectator: Viewing on the Move International Conference
University of Nottingham, 4–5 July 2014

This interdisciplinary conference brings together speakers from the UK, Europe and North America to examine the ways in which our experiences of art, vision and movement are inseparable. Travel is often a prerequisite to putting oneself in a position to be able to see something, or to see it properly; physical effort is required to address the object or image appropriately. Conference papers ranging from classical antiquity to today on artefacts and environments in Europe, East Asia and the United States will examine the mobilisation of spectators as well as objects in various media.

Conference fee: £20 (includes tea, coffee) for both days or £10 for one day.
Conference dinner: £18 (includes wine); must be booked in advance.
Contact: ting.chang@nottingham.ac.uk and richard.wrigley@nottingham.ac.uk

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10:00
• William Leveritt (Classics, University of Nottingham, “Controlling the Viewer’s Gaze: the Case of Roman Sarcophagi”
• Katharina Lorenz (Classics, University of Nottingham), “The Pergamon Altar: An Itinerary of the Divine”

11.30  Coffee

11.50
• Tina Bawden (Art History, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin), “Moving from Seeing to Feeling and Back: Encounters at the Door, Medieval and Beyond”
• Jeannet Hommers (Art History, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität zu Köln), “Moving and Viewing, Discovering and Believing: Physical Movement in Romanesque Churches on the Way to St James”

1.15  Lunch

2.00
• Jeffrey Moser (Art History and Communication Studies, McGill), “Compositional and Experiential Motion in the Qingming Handscroll”
• Rachel Saunders (East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard), “Temporal Kinetics: Movement and Stasis in the Viewing of Japanese Narrative Scrolls”

3.30  Coffee

4.00
• Katharina Eck (Mariann Steegmann Institute for Art and Gender, University of Bremen), “Viewing and Living on the Move: Scenic Wallpapers”

5.00  Keynote
• Bronwen Wilson (School of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia), “Moving Pictures: Inscription, the Horizon and Melchior Lorck’s Prospect of Constantinople”

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9.30
• Susanna Caviglia and Niall Atkinson (Art History, University of Chicago), “Wandering in Rome in the Eighteenth Century: The Aesthetics of the Mobile Gaze”
• Sarah Betzer (Art History, University of Virginia), “Vernon Lee’s Rome: Sculpture, Archaeology, and Empathy”

11.00  Coffee

11.30
• Michaela Giebelhausen (School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex), “Game or Prey: Movement and Meaning in the Museum of Natural History”?
• Ellery Foutch (Courtauld Institute of Art, London), “Moving Pictures: Magic Lanterns and Urban Advertising in the Nineteenth Century”

1.00  Lunch

2.00
• Jessen Kelly (Art and Art History, University of Utah), “Mutable Perspectives: Fortune and the Viewer in Renaissance Games of Chance”
• Michael Gott (Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati), “Travelling Beyond the Frame: Cinematic Speed and Perception in French-Language Comics”

3.30  Coffee

4.00
• Tatiana Senkevitch (Sarah Blaffer Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), “Et in Pictura Ego: Alexander Sokurov’s Visual Elegies”
• Richard Taws (Art History, University College London), “Moving Histories: Revolutionary Scenography in Eric Rohmer’s L’Anglaise et le duc”

If only more conferences included World Cup parties. . . . As noted H-ArtHist:

„Die Geister, die ich rief…“ 250 Jahre Kunstakademie Dresden
Dresden, 12–13 June 2014

Die Kunstakademie Dresden feiert in diesem Jahr ihr 250-jähriges Bestehen. Dieses ist Anlass, einen Blick in die Vergangenheit zu werfen und damit Überlegungen zu Gegenwart und Zukunft der Hochschule anzustoßen. Die zentrale Ausstellung geradezu momentan, ein essayistisch konzipierter Parcours durch die Geschichte der Hochschule, wird abgerundet durch eine Tagung, die einflussreiche Künstler- und Lehrerpersönlichkeiten wie Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn, Giovanni Casanova oder Gotthardt Kuehl ins Zentrum rückt. Zur Sprache kommen die Entwicklung der Akademieausstellungen und die Geschmacksbildung im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert ebenso wie kulturpolitische Richtungsdebatten im 20. Jahrhundert etwa am Beispiel des Malers und Rektors Richard Müller.

Organisiert von Bettina Uppenkamp und Dietmar Rübel

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17.00  (Oktogon), Führung durch die Ausstellung geradezu momentan mit Susanne Greinke und Dietmar Rübel (HfBK Dresden)

19.00  (Aktsaal) Begrüßung durch Bettina Uppenkamp (Dresden)

19.15  Roland Kanz (Bonn), Die frühe Kunstakademie als Soziotop

21.00  Grillen und WM-Party

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9.30  Matthias Flügge (Dresden), Geist und Geister. Zur aktuellen Situation der Kunstakademien

10.00  Bärbel Kovalevski (Berlin), „Es ist eine Ehre sich auf dem Niveau der großen Künstler zu sehen.“ (Rosina de Gasc 1768) – Künstlerinnen an der Kunstakademie Dresden

10.45  Dirk Syndram (Dresden), Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn oder von der Nützlichkeit der Kunst

11.30  Kaffeepause

11.45  Anke Fröhlich (Dresden), Altargemälde, Aktstudien, Kurfürstenporträts, Porzellanentwürfe und Genreszenen. Johann Eleazar Zeissigs, genannt Schenau an der Akademie in Dresden

12.30  Mittagspause

14.00  Harald Marx (Dresden), Reflexe der frühen akademischen Kunstausstellungen in der zeitgenössischen Presse

14.45  Jürgen Müller (Dresden), Von den Strategien der Moderne – Gotthardt Kuehl und der deutsche Impressionismus

15.30  Stephan Weber (Dresden), Überzeugungstäter und Mitläufer. Die Professoren der Dresdener Kunstakademie im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus

16.15  Kaffeepause

17.00  (Oktogon), Richard Müller zwischen Kunst und Politik. Diskussion mit Ralf Lehmann; Bettina Uppenkamp und Dietmar Rübel in der Ausstellung geradezu momentan.