Art versus Industry?
Leeds City Museum, 23 and 24 March 2012
Friday 23 March 2012
9.45-10.15
Registration
10.15-10.30
Welcome and introductions
10.30-11.30
Lara Kriegel (Indiana University)
Filaments of History: Ladies, Lace, Labour and Nation at the Fin de Siecle
11.30-1.30 Panel one: De-centering the narrative
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?
1.30-2.30: Lunch
2.30-4.30 Panel two: Labour, class and invention
Jasmine Allen (University of York)
The Status of Stained Glass at the International Exhibitions
Anne-Marie Millim (University of Luxembourg)
“A substitute for moonlight”: The Cultural Value of Mining in The Graphic (1870s)
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 Workshop: A Nexus Between Art and Industry
4.30-4.45: Coffee
4.45-5.45
Tom Gretton (University College London)
Art as Hot News
Saturday 24 March 2012
9.30-10.30
Colin Trodd (University of Manchester)
Affinity and Alienation: Civility, Barbarism and Discourses of Design Culture, 1862-1894
10.30-12.30 Panel three: Making and mechanical perception
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)
tbc
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
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.30 Panel four: The manufacture, circulation and exhibition of electrotypes
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 Collection
2.30-3.30
Steve Edwards (Open University)
Picture Capitalism
3.30-4.00 Coffee
4.00-5.00 Roundtable discussion and closing remarks
£15 [£10 concessions] for both days. Information on registration will be posted on http://artvindustry.blogspot.com/ shortly, we hope to see you there!
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