The Avant-Garde again
23-24 March 2002
Burwalls
University of Bristol
A weekend conference organised by the
Centre for the Study of Visual and Literary Cultures in France
This interdisciplinary conference will revisit and reassess the French avant-garde from the Romantic era to Surrealism. Visual and literary versions of avant-gardism will be brought together historically and through theory. The period 1880-1920 will be highlighted, but the time-scale will run from David to de Kooning. Papers will address forms of the avant-garde, including its gendering, and figures such as Champfleury, Baudelaire, George Moore, Zola, Cézanne, Apollinaire. In addition to papers, there will be ample opportunity for open discussion.
Programme
Saturday 23 March
9.30 REGISTRATION
10.30
John House (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Historicising the avant-garde
11.30 COFFEE
11.45-1.00
Ed Lilley (University of Bristol)
Jacques-Louis David and the mirror of modernity
Jon Leaver (University of Bristol)
Sorcellerie évocatoire: why Baudelaire might have been
interested in Eliphas Lévi despite himself
1.00 LUNCH
2.15-3.30
Richard Hobbs (University of Bristol)
Excentricity according to Champfleury
Anna Gruetzner Robins (University of Reading)
George Moore and Modern Painting
3.30 TEA
4.00-5.15
David Cottington (Falmouth College of Arts)
The formation of the Paris avant-garde 1880-1914
Gill Perry (Open University)
Gendered avant-gardes? Women's practice
and the spaces of modernism c1905-c1920
5.30 WINE
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Sunday 24 March
9.30
Richard Shiff (University of Texas at Austin)
From Cézanne to de Kooning: a reluctant avant-garde
10.30 COFFEE
11.00-12.15
Jon Kear (University of Kent)
'Tales from the woods: narrative and description in the
landscape imagery of Zola and Cézanne
Paul Smith (University of Bristol)
Poldex: or what makes Cézannes Art Modern
12.30 LUNCH
2.00-3.15
Amna Malik (Slade School of Art)
Spontaneity and the Surrealist image
Adrian Hicken (Bath Spa University College)
Apollinaire prémonitoire: surreality and medical discourse
within the Parisian avant-garde
3.15 TEA
3.45-5.00
Fred Orton (University of Leeds)
Rimbaud's 'Je est un autre' and Johns' catenary curve
Final discussion and end of conference.
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Directors of the Centre for the Study of Visual and Literary Cultures in France:
Richard Hobbs (R.Hobbs@Bristol.ac.uk) Department of French
Paul Smith (P.Smith@Bristol.ac.uk) Department of History of Art
Tariffs
Full Fee £85
Inclusive of accommodation on the Saturday night and all meals and refreshments from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon.
Non-residential Fee £60
Excluding overnight accommodation on Saturday, but inclusive of all meals and refreshments including dinner on Saturday evening.
Day Fee £35 For Saturday or Sunday
Accommodation for Friday night can be arranged with a supplement.
Concessions - please apply to the organisers.