A Clark Symposium

BRITISH ART 1750–1919: REFLECTIONS AND FUTURES

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2023

CONFORTI PAVILION
CLARK ART INSTITUTE
 

5:00 PM                PUBLIC RECEPTION
CONFORTI PAVILION 

5:30 PM                A CONVERSATION
Curating British Art: A Conversation with Olivier Meslay (Hardymon Director of the Clark) and Caroline Fowler (Starr Director, Research and Academic Program)

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2023

CONFORTI PAVILION
CLARK ART INSTITUTE

9:00 AM                INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Caroline Fowler, Clark Art Institute

9:05 AM             SESSION 1: LOSS AND THE MATERIAL BODY
“‘Cast into the Fiery Oven’: The Metaphysics of Lost Wax in Alfred Gilbert’s Sam Wilson Chimneypiece (Leeds Art Gallery, c. 1914)” 
Gülru Çakmak, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts

“Black and Blue: The Wedgwood Antislavery Medallion”
Iris Moon, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

10:05 AM            DISCUSSION
Moderated by Caroline Fowler, Clark Art Institute

10:30 AM            COFFEE BREAK

11:00 AM               SESSION 2: ACTIVISM AND THE BODY POLITIC
“Paton in Fairyland”
Ariel Kline, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

“A Room of One’s Own: British Women Artists at the Clark”
Alexis Goodin, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

12:00 PM            DISCUSSION
Moderated by Anne Leonard, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

12:30 PM            LUNCH
CARSWELL ROOM
LOWER LEVEL OF THE CLARK CENTER 

2:00 PM                SESSION 3: TROUBLING HISTORIES OF GENEAOLOGY AND INFLUENCE
“Raeburn’s Buttons and Constable’s Clouds:  Looking at British Academic Painting with Ernst Gombrich and David Hockney”
Sam Rose, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland

“À vendre in Darwin's London: Jean-Léon Gérôme and the Cleaving of the Divine Thumb”
Natasha Coleman, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 

“Ruskin’s Double Plots”
Jeremy Melius, eikones – Zentrum für die Theorie und Geschichtes des Bildes, Universität Basel, Switzerland

3:45 PM                COFFEE BREAK

4:15 PM              CLOSING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Moderated by Marc Gotlieb, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

5:00 PM             PUBLIC RECEPTION

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