Narrative Painting in France
A three-day conference organised by The Centre for Research in the Visual Cultures of the French-Speaking World
When: 5-7 January 2010
Where: Humanities Bridgeford Street,The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
Registration: £60 (concessions: £30)
Contact: Eva Broomer
Key-note address
5 January, 6.00pm
Étienne Jollet (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
'Figurative Poetics and Narration in Painting: some Propositions'
Tuesday 5 January
Registration: 2pm-2:30pm
Alyce Jordan (Northern Arizona University)
'Rhetorics of Sanctity and Subversion: The St. Thomas Becket Windows of Medieval France'
Valérie Auclair (Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France)
'Les transformations narratives de la matière troyenne dans le cycle des peintures murales de la galerie du château d'Oiron. Leurs enjeux esthétiques et politiques'
Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc (Université de Paris X)
'Le Passage du Rhin de Charles Le Brun dans le régime discursif de la Grande Galerie de Versailles'
Claudine Mitchell (University of Leeds)
'Units of Vision and Narrative Structures: upon Reading Poussin's Manna'
Wednesday 6 January
Registration: 9am-9.30am
Pierre Wachenheim (Université de Nancy 2, France)
'Récit pictural ou "gazette d'une catastrophe": la peinture d'histoire témoignage de l'événement et de l'accident au XVIIIe siècle'
Susanna Caviglia (Université de Limoges, France)
'La crise de la narration dans la peinture d'histoire en France au XVIIIe siècle'
Mark Ledbury (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.)
'Obscurity and Eccentricity in Neo-classical Narrative Painting'
Richard Wrigley (University of Nottingham)
'Léopold Robert's L'arrivée des moissonneurs dans les marais Pontins and Narratives of Displacement and Dislocation'
Susan Siegfried (University of Michigan)
'Narrative Invention and Picturing Femininity in Early Nineteenth-Century French Art'
Beth Wright (University of Texas at Arlington)
'Delacroix and "The Work of the Reader"'
Peter Cooke (University of Manchester)
'Temporality, Reading, and Specificity: French History Painting before and after Lessing's Laokoön'
Scott Allan (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
'Tyrannical Inopportunity: Anti-narrative Strategies in the Art of Gustave Moreau'
Thursday 7 January
Registration: 9am-9.30am
Nina Lübbren (Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University)
'Eloquent Objects: Gérôme and the Art of Inanimate Narration'
John House (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
'Reading Fashionable Genre Paintings'
Pierre Sérié (École du Louvre, Paris)
'Vers une "mise en scène" du tableau d'histoire, le grand genre hypnotisé par le drame (1860-1900)'
Belinda Thomson (independent art historian)
'Narrative and Non-narrative in the Art of Paul Gauguin'
Jean-Baptiste Chantoiseau (Musée Rodin, Paris)
'Vers un art épuisé ? De l'énervement figuratif (fin XIXe) au vide symbolique dans la peinture contemporaine (XXe)'
Silvia Loreti (University of Manchester)
'The Space of Time in Inter-War French Painting'
Organised by Peter Cooke
Supported by the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester and the Society of French Studies.