INTERNATIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS CONFERENCE
Friday & Saturday , 22-23 April 2005
10.30 –17.00
Lecture Theatre, V&A Museum
This international conference complements the exhibition International Arts
and Crafts being held at the Museum from 23 March to 24 July 2005.
A distinguished panel of speakers will examine the ideas and underlying
philosophies of the Arts and Crafts Movement from their British origins in
the works of John Ruskin and William Morris to their later development and
adaptation in continental Europe, the United States and Japan. They will
explore ideas central to the movement such as prevailing attitudes towards
social and industrial reform, the revival of traditional techniques, the
establishment of workshops, artists’ communities and ‘back to the land’
utopianism. Prominent on both days will be two inter-related themes: the
international dissemination of Arts and Crafts ideas and objects, and the
significance of changing perceptions of home and lifestyle to the
development of the movement.
The conference will be of special interest to art historians, design
historians, museum curators, dealers and collectors, as well as scholars
and others studying the history of design and the decorative arts in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The conference is supported by The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art.
PROGRAMME
Day 1 : Ideas and Philosophy
10:00 Museum opens
10:10 Coffee and registration
10:30 Welcome
Francis Pugh, V&A
10:40 William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Linda Parry, V&A
11:20 ‘Meet Me at St. Louis': William Morris at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, 1904
Peter Stansky, Stanford University
12:00 'Moot Points’: Art, Industry and the Arts and Crafts Exhibition
Society
Karen Livingstone, V&A
12:40 Panel discussion and questions
13:00 Lunch and opportunity to visit the exhibition
14:20 The Back to the Land Impulse
Dr. Jan Marsh, writer and curator
15:00 1884 and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Dr. Alan Powers, University of Greenwich
15:40 Tea
16:00 Lifestyle and Design in the Arts and Crafts Home
Dr. Wendy Hitchmough, Curator, Charleston, East Sussex
16:40 Panel discussion and questions
17:10 Close
Day 2: International Developments
10:00 Museum opens
10:10 Coffee and registration
10:30 Welcome
Francis Pugh, V&A
10:40 Home and Away: British Arts and Crafts Across the World
Dr. Elizabeth Cumming, University of Glasgow
11:20 From East to West: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America
Edward R. Bosley, James N. Gamble Director of the Gamble House, Pasadena,
California
12:00 An Artists’ Community, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
Dr. Renate Ulmer, Museum Künstlerkolonie, Darmstadt
12:40 Panel discussion and questions
13:00 Lunch and opportunity to visit the exhibition
14:20 Stanisùaw Wyspiañski and the Polish Arts and Crafts Movement
Dr. Edyta Supiñska-Polit, University of Warsaw
15:00 Cultured Living: Japan and the Model Room
Edmund de Waal, potter and writer
15:40 Tea
16:00 Paradise Postponed - What Happened to the Arts and Crafts Movement
in Britain
Tanya Harrod, Royal College of Art
16:40 Panel discussion and questions
17:10 Close
HOW TO BOOK
Ring V&A Bookings Office, 020 7942 2211
BOOKING INFORMATION
Tickets
Ticket price includes morning coffee, sandwich lunch, afternoon tea and
free admission to the exhibition International Arts and Crafts. The
exhibition book can be obtained at a 10% discount by those attending the
conference.
*There is a discount price of £92 for those booking both days of the
conference at full rate.
Full rate: £50 per day
Concessions:
V&A Patron, V&A Member, Senior Citizen: £42 per day
Student: £1o per day
Disabled: £12.50 per day
ES40-holder: £12.50 per day
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