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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