Colloque international jeunes chercheurs
Theories and Uses of Light in British Arts of the 19 th and 20 th centuries.
Présentant la lumière comme un objet d’étude emblématique des sciences modernes et de la méthode expérimentale, ce colloque propose d’envisager le rôle privilégié qu’elle joue en Grande-Bretagne, en tant que matériau artistique, pour formuler aux XIXe et XXe siècles un rapport complexe et parfois conflictuel à la figure d’autorité de Newton et à l’héritage empiriste des Lumières. Il s’agit de voir comment les arts peuvent parfois disputer la lumière à l’approche profane et analytique du discours scientifique, alors même que certaines pratiques artistiques doivent leur naissance aux plus récentes innovations techniques et scientifiques dans le domaine de l’optique.
Programme
Friday, June 20th
Room 165, Olympe de Gouges building.
9.15 Welcome address.
9.30 – 10.00 Introduction - Sarah Gould and Diane Leblond (University Paris Diderot).
10.00 – 11.10 Painting in literature: writing the experience of colour.
Chair: Dr. Naomi Toth (University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
10.00-10.25 Heidi Liedke (University of Freiburg), ‘Of Golden Lights and Living Lights: The Role of Color and Light in Anna Mary Howitt’s and Isabella Bird’s Travel Writing’
10.25-10-50 A’icha Kathrada (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle), ‘Virginia Woolf, l’impressionnisme littéraire et les jeux de lumière’
11.10 – 11.30 Tea break
11.30 – 12.40 Light, science, visibility and representation: complex patterns of interaction.
Chair: Dr. Lily Hibberd.
11.30-11.55 Dr. Greta Perletti (University of Trento), ‘“That fine edge of light”: The Medical Gaze and the Construction of the Transparent Body in Late Nineteenth-Century culture’
11.55-12.20 Dr. David Leblond (Centre de physique théorique, Ecole Polytechnique), ‘The Colours of physics : uses of light and colour in the construction of a representation’
12. 40 – 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 – 16.10 Sciences of light, technologies of light, and the literary imagination
Chairs: Dr. Estelle Murail, Diane Leblond (University Paris Diderot)
14.30-14.55 Richard Leahy (University of Chester), ‘Nineteenth Century Light: Candles and their Associations in the Works of Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens’
14.55-15.20 Clare Stainthorp (University of Birmingham), ‘From “rays of glory” to “a more practical light” in Constance Naden’s poetry’
15.20-15.45 Dr. Greg Lynall (University of Liverpool), ‘“Sun’s self made palpable to Man!”: solar technologies across the long twentieth century’
16.10 – 16.30 Tea break
16.30 – 17.30 Keynote: Pr. Cristiano Ciuti (laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, University Paris Diderot), ‘Quantum fluids of light’
Saturday, June 21st
Room 165, Olympe de Gouges building.
9.30 – 10.40 Uses of light in painting: scientific knowledge and political practices.
Chair: Sarah Gould (University Paris Diderot)
1.30-9.55 Pr. Robert Robbins (The Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio), ‘Turner’s Attack with Fire and Smog’
9.55-10.20 Talia Kwartler (Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York), ‘Illuminated Portraits: Walter Sickert's Transformation of Elsie Swinton as Model and Subject (1903-1906)’
10.40 – 11.00 Tea break
11.00 – 12.40 Capturing, projecting and sculpting light, from the 19th century to the 21st.
Chair: Pr. Catherine Bernard (University Paris Diderot)
11.00-11.25 Dr. Marion Duquerroy (post-doctoral researcher, Labex CAP, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art), ‘Les sculptures d’ombre de Tim Noble & Sue Webster’
11.25-12.25 Keynote: Lily Hibberd, writer and artist, Doctor of Philosophy (Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Australia), ‘Flashback: eye, mind and light’.
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