JULES FLANDRIN SYMPOSIUM
TRADITION AND IDENTITY IN FIN-DE-SIÈCLE AND EARLY 20TH-CENTURY ART
MAISON FRANÇAISE D'OXFORD, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Saturday 21-Sunday
22 April 2001
This two-day symposium is organized in conjunction with the new
exhibition, Jules Flandrin (1871-1947): the Other Fin de Siècle,
which opens at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford on 17 April-24 June 2001.
It explores the wider context for Flandrin's art, focusing in
particular on the theme of tradition in fin-de-siècle and early
20th-century French art.
The symposium is supported by the Centre National des Recherches
Scientifiques, Paris, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College,
The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford; and is generously
sponsored by the French Embassy.
Fee: £5.00 for the symposium (includes tea, coffee and vin
d'honneur), or £9.00 with lunch on Saturday 21 April (booking is
essential as places are limited). For further details and to book,
please contact: Maison Française d'Oxford, Norham Road, Oxford, OX2
6SE, tel:01865 274220; e-mail:maison@sable.ox.ac.uk
PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 21 APRIL 2001
(Chair for day's session: Dr Juliet Simpson, Buckinghamshire
Chilterns University College and Exhibition Curator)
9.30am - Registration and Welcome, Dr Jean-Claude Sergeant,
Directeur, Maison Française
10.00-10.30am - Introduction: Jules Flandrin et son contexte, Dr
Juliet Simpson and Dr Georges Flandrin, Paris
10.30-11.15am - Gustave Moreau et ses élèves, Mme Geneviève Lacambre,
conservateur en chef, Musée d'Orsay and conservateur, Musée Gustave
Moreau, Paris
11.15-11.30am - Coffee
11.30-12.15 am - Gustave Moreau and his Legacy: Tradition, Innovation
and Eccentricity, Dr Peter Cooke, University of Manchester
12.15-1.00pm - Odilon Redon: After Symbolism, Dr Richard Hobbs,
University of Bristol
1.00-2.30pm - LUNCH
2.30-3.15pm - `Entre des souvenirs et des désirs': Jules Flandrin
and the `Hommage', Dr Juliet Simpson
3.15-4.00 - Towards a Counter-revolutionary culture: Action
française and the Dilemmas of Tradition in the Belle Époque,
Professor Neil McWilliam, University of Warwick
4.00-4.30pm - Tea
4.30-5.15pm - Cézanne and the Illusion of Classicism or Making Mardi
`Gras', Dr Paul Smith, University of Bristol
5.15 -6.00pm - Public Patronage and French Art in the Early 20th
Century, Dr Jon Whiteley, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
6.15pm - Vin d'honneur
DINNER (Speakers and guests only)
SUNDAY 22 APRIL
(Chair for morning session: Dr MaryAnne Stevens, Royal Academy of
Arts, London)
10.00-10.15am - Coffee
10.15-11.00am - Cubism and Tradition, Dr Neil Cox, University of
Essex
11.00-11.45am - Tradition and the Traditio: Scholastic Realism and
the Avant-Garde, Dr Jane Lee, Kent Institute of Art and Design
11.50-1.00pm - Table ronde: Tradition and Identity, Chair, Dr
MaryAnne Stevens and Speakers
1.00pm - LUNCH (Speakers only)
2.30pm - Symposium closes