"Art versus Industry?" An international conference at Leeds City Museum, 23-24 March 2012
Art versus Industry?
An international conference at Leeds City Museum
23-24 March 2012
Organised by:
Dr Kate Nichols (University of Bristol)
Gabriel Williams (University of York)
Rebecca Wade (University of Leeds)
Full details at http://artvindustry.blogspot.com/
Registration deadline: 9 March 2012. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Friday 23 March 2012
9.00-9.30
Registration and coffee
9.30-9.45
Welcome and introductions
9.45-10.45
Lara Kriegel (Indiana University)
Filaments of History: Ladies, Lace, Labour and Nation at the Fin de Siecle
10.45-12.45 Panel One: De-Centering the Narrative
Chaired by Sarah Turner (University of York)
Lara Eggleton (University of Leeds)
Surface Deceits: Owen Jones and John Ruskin on the Ornament of the Alhambra
Sally Tuckett (University of Edinburgh)
Colouring the Nation: Scottish Turkey-Red Design and Manufacture
Natasha Eaton (University College London)
Subaltern Colour? Art, Industry and Colonialism in Britain and India
Renate Dohmen (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
The Calcutta International Exhibition of 1883-4: A Differenced Vision of the Great Exhibition?
12.45-1.45 Lunch (provided)
1.45-3.45 Panel Two: The Aesthetics of Technology
Chaired by Mark Westgarth (University of Leeds)
Alistair Grant (University of Sussex, Victoria and Albert Museum)
Galvanic Engraving in Relief: The Origins of the Art of Electro-Metallurgy
Angus Patterson (Victoria and Albert Museum)
For the Promotion of Art: The Formation and Influence of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Electrotype Co&ection
Graeme Gooday and Abigail Harrison Moore (University of Leeds)
Decorative Electricity: The Gendered Aesthetics and Ethics of Domestic Electric Lighting
Anne-Marie Millim (University of Luxembourg)
“A substitute for moonlight”: The Cultural Value of Mining in The Graphic (1870s)
3.45-4.00 Coffee
4.00-5.00
Tom Gretton (University College London)
Industrialised Graphic Technologies Feature the World of Art: The Illustrated London News and The Graphic
c. 1870 - 1890
5.00 Please join us at the Victoria (behind the Town Hall) to continue our conversations!
8.00 Conference Dinner (not included, but we hope you will still join us).
Saturday 24 March 2012
9.30-10.00
Registration and coffee
10.00-11.00
Colin Trodd (University of Manchester)
Affinity and Alienation: Civility, Barbarism and Discourses of Design Culture, 1862-1894
11.00-1.00 Panel Three: Making and Mechanical Perception
Chaired by Danielle Child (University of Leeds)
Ann Compton (University of Glasgow)
Building a Better Class of Craftsman? Re-examining Issues of Education, Craftsmanship and Professional Practice
in Sculpture and Related Trades, c. 1880-1925
Gabriel Williams (University of York)
‘Mechanical Dexterity’ and Sculpture Machines at the Great Exhibition
Nicole Bush (Northumbria University)
Mechanical Patterns: The Role of Brewster’s Kaleidoscope in the Age of Morris and the Machine
Patrizia Di Bello (Birkbeck)
‘Camera-Medusa’: Stereoscopic Photographs of Statuettes
1.00-1.45 Lunch (provided)
1.45-3.15 Panel four: Labour, Class and Invention
Chaired by Kate Hi& (University of Lincoln)
Jasmine Allen (University of York)
The Status of Stained Glass at the International Exhibitions
Frances Robertson (Glasgow School of Art)
Crank-Pin Tracks and Corinthian Columns: Engineers and Draughtsmen as Visual Technicians
Ben Russell (Science Museum)
James Watt’s s Workshop: A Nexus Between Art and Industry
3.15-3.30 Coffee
3.30-4.30
Steve Edwards (Open University)
Picture Capitalism
4.30-5.00 Roundtable discussion and closing remarks