Postgraduate Symposium
University of East Anglia
20 - 21 April 2012
There have been two decades of vigorous interest in British
art history, but up to now this has tended to assume a more or less
unproblematic category of national identity and has not enquired closely into
the elusive idea of ‘Britishness’. More recently, the concept of the
transnational has proved to be a productive way for art historians in the 21st
century to reflect not only on contemporary art, but also that of previous
centuries. This graduate conference will address the extent to which these two
approaches overlap in British art between 1851 and 1960, not only in terms of
British artists working abroad and non-British artists adopting Britain as a
base, but also in less tangible or previously unconsidered ways.
Keynote speakers
- Emma Chambers, Tate Britain, “Migrations: Émigré Artists in British Art”
- Michael Hatt, University of Warwick, “From New England to Nowhere: Edward Carpenter, Fred Holland Day and the Dream of Placelessness”
The symposium is free, but spaces are limited, so please
register before 2 April.
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