CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF JENNIFER FLETCHER
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
11.30 - 18.30 (registration not required)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/conferences/current.shtml
Speaker(s): include Amanda Beddington (independent), Zahira Veliz
Bomford (The Courtauld), Caroline Campbell (The Courtauld Gallery),
Lorne Campbell (The National Gallery), David Chambers (The Warburg
Institute), Peter Cherry (Trinity College, Dublin), Susan Connell
(Independent), Jill Dunkerton (The National Gallery), Gabriele Finaldi
(Museo del Prado), John Gash (Aberdeen University), Maurice Howard
(University of Sussex), Susan Jenkins (English Heritage), Laura and
Giulio Lepschy (University College, London), Neil Macgregor (The British
Museum), Allegra Pesenti (The Hammer Museum), Catherine Reynolds
(Christies), Xavier Salomon (Dulwich Picture Gallery) and Desmond
Shawe-Taylor (The Royal Collection)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Caroline Campbell (The Courtauld Gallery), Dr Xavier
Salomon (Dulwich Picture Gallery) and Dr Susan Ghosh (independent)
Further information: This one-day conference will celebrate Jennifer
Fletcher’s outstanding contribution to art history as an imaginative and
original scholar and inspirational teacher.
Jennifer came to The Courtauld as a student in 1957 and was supervised
by Ernst Gombrich at the Warburg Institute. She is recognised today as
one of the leading experts in Venetian Renaissance painting. However,
after teaching at the University of Reading from 1960-66, she was first
appointed as the Baroque specialist at The Courtauld. She was Slade
Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford in 1990-91 and The
Getty Museum Scholar in Los Angeles in 2000. She retired from The
Courtauld in 2002, and is now an Honorary Fellow.
Very many of her students have gone on to become highly distinguished
art historians in an extremely broad field. The speakers at the
conference reflect Jennifer’s wide range of interests, including Rubens,
the Baroque and Spain, as well as Renaissance Venice. Jennifer’s flair
as a teacher lay in spotting talent and allowing her students to do what
they were good at, having the faith and generosity to let them run with
what they found inspirational. Jennifer’s sharp intellect, indomitable
spirit, forthright manner and keen sense of justice have won her many
admirers and friends over her long and varied career. The conference
will pay tribute to the many highlights of her distinguished life as a
scholar.
Full programme details will be available in due course.
EVERYDAY OBJECTS: ART AND EXPERIENCE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Inaugural Early Modern Symposium
Saturday, 21 November 2009
10.00 - 17.15 (with registration from 09.30)
Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/conferences/current.shtml
Programme:
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/conferences/documents/EverydayObjectsposter_prog_compress_.pdf
Speaker(s): Samuel Bibby (University College London), Ariane Fennetaux
(Université Paris-Diderot), Olivia Fryman ( Kingston University and
Historic Royal Palaces ), Melinda Rabb (Brown University), Paula
Radisich (Whittier College), Katie Scott (The Courtauld Institute of
Art), Beth Fowkes Tobin (Arizona State University), Joanna Woodall (The
Courtauld Institute of Art).
Ticket/entry details: £15 (£10 Students) Please send a cheque made
payable to ‘Courtauld Institute of Art’ to: Research Forum Events
Co-ordinator, Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art , Somerset
House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, clearly stating that you wish to book
for the ‘Everyday Objects Conference’. For credit card bookings call 020
7848 2785/2909. For further information, send an email to
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Organised by: Edward Payne and Hannah Williams
Further information: Through a focus on the everyday object, this
one-day symposium explores both the experience of visual culture in
everyday life and the phenomenon of the everyday in visual culture.
Drawing on theories of the everyday from such fields as anthropology,
phenomenology and sociology, papers will examine the seemingly banal
things that formed the culture of daily life, asking: what constitutes
an everyday object? How were everyday objects experienced, represented
or collected? And how does their study enhance our understanding of the
cultural history of early modernity?
Papers by established and emerging scholars will explore the theme of
the everyday object in a variety of media, including sculpture,
painting, dress, furniture and the graphic arts. Presentations will
investigate ephemeral objects, quotidian spaces and habitual activities
– from the social rituals of marriage, food consumption and waste
disposal, to overlooked ‘things’ like taxidermy, miniature furniture and
clothing accessories.
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