Precious: Objects and Changing Values
Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to send you further details of the conference 'Precious: Objects
and Changing Values' .
The conference, to be held on Wednesday, May 23rd. 2001 at the Showroom,
Sheffield, will mark and celebrate the opening of the Millennium Galleries,
developed in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum. The inaugural
exhibition, 'Precious' which will form part of the agenda of the conference,
displays some of the principal objects from the V&A collection. The exhibits
will provide the evidence which drives the conference debates.
The conference will be structured in three parallel strands dealing with issues
that arise from perceptions of:
material value; skills and aesthetic expression; cultural resonance.
Dr. Deborah Swallow, Senior Chief Curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum
will open the conference with representatives from the Sheffield Galleries and
Museums Trust and Sheffield Hallam University, School of Cultural Studies.
The two keynote speakers are Dr. Nina Poovaya-Smith, Director of Arts,
Yorkshire Arts whose paper is entitled 'The Dark Side of Gold'
and Dr. Julie Codell, Director, School of Art, Arizona State University and
Professor, Art History and Humanities. Her paper is entitled:
'Precious Objects: Vile Artists and Chaste Objects'.
The full programme is:
Material Value
'Portable property: the circulation and meaning of Southwestern Jewellery'
Dr. Henrietta Lidchi, Department of Ethnography, The British Museum
'Preciousness and weight in hand made ceramics'
Mathew Partington, Research Fellow, V&A
'Balls'
Dr. Alison Sheridon, Assistant Keeper of Archaeology, National Museums of
Scotland
'Meeting the New Century:Winslow Homer's 1900 drawing after 'Northwest' of 1895'
Lucretia Giese, Division of Liberal Arts, Rhode Island School of Design
'Preciousness in terms of assigning values to 'explemplary' twentieth century
designs - case study: Keith Murray's designs in ceramic and glass'
Diane Taylor, De Miontfort University, Leicester.
'Deadly Precious': Irony and Transformation in Great War Materialities'
Nicholas Saunders, Lecturer in Material Culture, University College, London
Skills and Aesthetics
'The Aphrodite of Knidos: Copying and the Construction of a Precious Original'
Kristen Seaman, Department of Art History, University of California at Berkeley.
'Preciousness in Post War British Consumer Culture: A Case Study of Hornsea
Pottery'
Brian Sullivan, Department of Visual Culture, Staffordshire University
'Valuable or Rare: Painted Fabrics Ltd.: the enterprise and its products'
Jan Carder, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
'Tents as Precious Objects and Princely Gifts'
Peter Andrews, Institut fur Volkerkunde, Universitat zu Koln, Germany
'The Collecting Practices of Edward Perry Warren (1860 - 1929)
Iain Stewart, University of Montreal, Canada
'The Vernacular: cultural value and positioning in Britain 1918 to 1950'
Rose Cooper,School of Cultural Studies,Sheffield Hallam University
Cultural Resonance
'Moral Capital: Towards a New Ethic of Display'
Sean Hall, Lecturer in Design, Goldsmiths College, London
'Value and Obsession: the economics of popular collecting since the 19th
century'
Dr. Richard Coopey, Department of History, University of Wales
'Precious of style: style, gender and social status. The reception of the Arts
and Crafts in the Netherlands'
Margrith Wilke, Instituut van Geschiedenis, Universiteit Groningen, The
Netherlands.
Precious objects "to die for", the museum, the mission and the multiple'
Michael Bowles, Independent Scholar
'Travelling the boundaries of meaning and taste: Tourist souvenirs and their
value'
Professor Mike Robinson, Chair of Tourism Management, Sheffield Hallam
University
Valued or Valuable; a public art perspective'
Dr. Linda Moss and Elizabeth Norman, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield
Hallam University
We hope you will want to join us at what promises to be a significant event and
would be grateful if you would cascade this down to interested collaegues.
Invitation / Registration forms are available from the Showroom (276 3534) or
directly from us.
Delegate fee: #50.00p / #20.00p concessions and student rate
The conference fee includes lunch and refreshments, entrance to the exhibition
on the day of the conference, and a reception and preview of the exhibition
'Precious' at the Millennium Galleries on the evening of Tuesday, May 22nd.
Elizabeth Norman: Ext. 2678 email: [log in to unmask]
Rose Cooper : Ext 2619 email: [log in to unmask]
Conference Organisers.
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