Benjamin Robert Haydon, Romanticism, and the Visual Arts:
Romantic Painting, Romantic Writing (November 7-8, 2008)
Plenary speakers: Nicholas Roe, University of St. Andrews,
Scotland; Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado at Boulder; and Suzanne
Matheson, University of Windsor, Canada
Cincinnati, Ohio, is the home of one of the greatest-and most
rarely-viewed-of all British Romantic works of art: Benjamin Robert
Haydon's gigantic painting, "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem." Wordsworth
called Haydon "the first painter in his grand style of art that England
or any other country has produced since the days of Titian"
(Correspondence and Table-Talk, 1.110). Incorporating portraits of
Wordsworth, Keats, Hazlitt, Newton and Voltaire, Haydon's painting will
form the backdrop for this two-day conference on Romanticism and the
Visual Arts to be held November 7-8 at the University of Cincinnati and
the Athenaeum of Ohio, the site of Haydon's painting. Our keynote
speakers will be Professor Nicholas Roe, biographer of Leigh Hunt and of
John Keats, and Jeffrey N. Cox, editor of the forthcoming Keats's Poetry
and Prose (Norton, August 2008). Suzanne Matheson will give an
additional plenary address on the evolution of spectatorship in
Romantic-era Britain. Events will include a chance to view the painting
close-up, a wine reception, and a tour of the Cincinnati Art Museum's
collection of Romantic works.
Interested in Romantic writing, painting, and visual culture, and in the
practice of innovative interdisciplinary methodologies, we are inviting
proposals for 20-minute papers on the following, and related, topics:
Haydon and Romanticism
Keats and Art
Hazlitt and Art
Portraits of Romantic Writers
Romantic Writers and Artists
Romantic Visual Culture
Blake and Haydon
Romantic Ekphrasis
Wordsworth's Sonnets to Haydon
Romantic Art Criticism
Charles Bell's Anatomical Lectures
The Visual Recording of Public Events (the Meeting of the Unions on
Newhall Hill, the General Anti-Slavery Convention, Lord Grey's
Parliamentary Reform Banquet)
National and Public Art
The Elgin Marbles
Romantic Collectors
History Painting in the Romantic Era
Suicide and Romanticism
Romantic Heroism
The Visual Sublime
Blake and the Sublime
Blake and History Painting
Please submit proposals of no more than 250 words by June 1 to Julia S.
Carlson at [log in to unmask] Conference organizers include Laura
Mandell (Miami University of Ohio) and Zak Sitter (Xavier University).
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