Please note the very short deadlines for proposals for both these
conferences.
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Drapery in Visual Culture: Contexts, Clothing, Corporealities, National
Gallery, London, 30 August - 1 Spetember 2002
Papers of 30 minutes in length are encouraged from practising artists as
well as from historians and theorists of visual culture. Topics can be
from any historical period and suggestions include:
The Draped Body
Veiling and Unveiling
Shrouds
Drapery as Concealment/Revelation
Drapery and Orientalism
Drapery and Sculpture
Cloth/Drapery
Dress and Drapery
Drapery and Advertising Imagery
A final decision on papers will be made in November 2001. Please
contact:
Professor Gen Doy
History of Art and Material Culture
De Montfort University
Leicester LE1 9BH, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0)116 255 1551 ext. 8421
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or:
Professor Alison Yarrington
Department of Art History
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0)116 252 2864
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Power and Persuasion: Sculpture in its Rhetorical Context, Sixth
Biennial Conference of Polish and English Art Historians, Bretton Hall,
University of Leeds, 7-11 April 2002
Papers are invited from all historical periods in European sculpture and
may include issues related to architectural programmes (religious or
secular), interior design, urban space, public art, as well as
garden-design. The central issue will be the role of patronage in
evolving the various rhetorical languages of sculpture.
Proposals for papers should be submitted by 30 November 2001 to:
Dr Urszula Szulakowska
Fine Art
Bretton Hall (University of Leeds)
West Bretton
Wakefield WF4 4LG, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0)1924 8340261
Fax +44 (0)1924 830521
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Rupert Shepherd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Material Renaissance Project
Essex House
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK
Tel. +44 (0)1273 872544
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/matren/
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