'Art Criticism in Eastern and Western Europe, 1700-1900: Emergence, Development and Interchange')
An interdisciplinary conference
11-13 September 2003
School of Modern Languages
University of Exeter, UK
Panels and papers are invited on all aspects of 18th and 19th century art criticism in Eastern and Western Europe under the broad themes of emergence, development and cross-cultural transfer of art criticism. Specific themes may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- aesthetic theory and discourse
- art in literature
- artists as art critics
- audiences, economies, patronage
- censorship
- connoisseurship and collecting
- cross-cultural dissemination of art criticism
- forms of early modernism
- graphic satire as art criticism
- individual critics
- institutional developments (e.g. academies, galleries, museums, studios)
- key debates and artistic heresies
- the periodical press
- visual knowledge
The conference will also mark the completion of the inter-institutional AHRB-funded project 'The Russian Visual Arts, 1800-1913: Documents from the British Library Collection' (Universities of Exeter and Sheffield). A special panel will be dedicated to this project.
The deadline for proposals for panels and papers is 31 July 2002. Accepted papers will be 30-40 minutes long. Publication of proceedings is expected.
Please send all proposals for papers and other enquiries to:
Dr Carol Adlam
Department of Russian
School of Modern Languages
University of Exeter
Queen's Building
The Queen's Drive
Exeter EX4 4QH, UK
Tel: 44 (0)1392 264310
Fax: +44 (0)1392 264300
Email: c.adlam@ex.ac.uk
http://www.ex.ac.uk/schools/sml/