Narrative Painting in France
Colloque sur la peinturenarrative en France
The University of Manchester
5-7 January 2010
A three-day conferenceorganised by The Centre for Research inthe Visual
Cultures of theFrench-Speaking World http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/crivcof/
Humanities BridgefordStreet,
The University ofManchester,
OxfordRoad, Manchester M13 9PL
Registration: £60 (concessions: £30)
Contact Eva Broomer:
eva-maria.broomer@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Key-note address (5 January, 6.00pm):
Étienne Jollet (Université de Paris Ouest
Nanterre La Défense), ‘Narrative and the
Poetics of the Visual Arts: Some Propositions'
Tuesday 5January
2pm-2.30pm Registration
Alyce Jordan (Northern ArizonaUniversity), ‘Rhetorics of Sanctity and Subversion: TheSt. Thomas Becket Windows of Medieval France'
Valérie Auclair (Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France), ‘Lestransformations narratives de la matière troyenne dans le cycle des peinturesmurales de la galerie du château d'Oiron. Leurs enjeux esthétiques etpolitiques'
Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc (Université de Paris X), ‘Le Passage du Rhin de Charles Le Brun
dans le régime discursif de laGrande Galerie de Versailles'
ClaudineMitchell (University of Leeds), ‘Units of Vision and Narrative Structures:upon Reading Poussin's Manna'
Wednesday 6 January
9am-9.30am Registration
Pierre Wachenheim (Université de Nancy 2,France), ‘Récit pictural ou “gazette d'unecatastrophe”: la peinture d'histoire témoignage de l'événement et del'accident au XVIIIe siècle'
Susanna Caviglia (Université de Limoges, France), ‘La crise de la narration dans la peinture d'histoire en France auXVIIIe siècle'
Mark Ledbury (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.),‘Obscurity and Eccentricity in Neo-classical Narrative Painting'
Richard Wrigley(University of Nottingham),‘Léopold Robert's L'arrivée des moissonneurs dans
les marais Pontins and Narratives of Displacement and Dislocation'
Susan Siegfried(University of Michigan), ‘NarrativeInvention and Picturing Femininity in Early Nineteenth-Century French Art'
Beth Wright (University of Texas at Arlington), ‘Delacroixand “The Work of the Reader”
Peter Cooke (University of Manchester), ‘Temporality,Reading, and Specificity: French History Painting before and after Lessing's Laokoön'
Scott Allan (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles), ‘TyrannicalInopportunity: Anti-narrative Strategies in the Art of Gustave Moreau'
Thursday 7 January
9am-9.30am Registration
Nina Lübbren (Cambridge School of Art, Anglia RuskinUniversity), ‘Eloquent Objects: Gérôme
and the Art ofInanimate Narration'
John House (Courtauld Institute of Art, London), ‘ReadingFashionable Genre Paintings'
Pierre Sérié (École du Louvre, Paris), ‘Vers une “mise en scène” du tableaud'histoire, le grand genre hypnotisé par le drame (1860-1900)'
Belinda Thomson(independent arthistorian), ‘Narrative and Non-narrative in the Art of Paul Gauguin'
Jean-Baptiste Chantoiseau (Musée Rodin, Paris), ‘Vers un art épuisé ? De l'énervement figuratif (finXIXe) au vide symbolique dans la peinture contemporaine (XXe)'
David Lomas (University of Manchester), ‘NarcissusReflected'
Organised by PeterCooke
Supported by theSchool of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchesterand the Society of French Studies