[ONLINE] Crossing Borders; Constructing Canons: Post-Impressionism in Britain, America and Beyond
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Thursday 10 June 2021
11:00 am - 4:00 pmEvent time is BST. Please check for local time
ONLINE EVENT
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Friday 11 June 2021
11:00 am - 4:00 pmEvent time is BST. Please check for local time
ONLINE EVENT
Organised by
- Elizabeth Childs - Steinberg Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis
- Anna Gruetzner Robins - Professor Emerita, University of Reading
- David Peters Corbett - Professor of American Art and Director of the Centre for American Art, The Courtauld
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“Post-Impressionism,” a term invented and used by Roger Fry in the exhibition he organized in London in 1910, became a deeply influential critical and historical construct that was (and sometimes is still) used widely in Britain and America. Critics and historians often uncritically deployed the highly selective, Franco-centric and exclusively male model that emerged from the writing on Fry’s two post-impressionist exhibitions that privileged Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso, who were regarded as a natural group, and Seurat was soon added to the list. The currency, significance and lasting impact of this canon of foundational artists on subsequent generations of art practice, criticism, art historical education and the marketing, collecting and exhibition of modern art in these two countries has been insufficiently examined. We seek to make fresh comparative and discursive analysis of the substantial impact and pervasive reception of this critical strain of modern art in Britain and America and beyond.
“Crossing Borders, Constructing Canons: ‘Post-Impressionism” in Britain, America and Beyond’”
Thursday 10 June 2021, 11am – 4pm
11:00 Introduction – David Peters Corbett (The Courtauld)
11:05 SESSION 1: Post-Impressionism
Anna Gruetzner Robins (University of Reading) – Transmitting Post-Impressionism: Britain and America
Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh and National Galleries of Scotland) – Post-Impressionism and Philanthropy: The Maitland Collection at the National Galleries of Scotland
Discussant Elizabeth Childs (Washington University in St Louis)
11:45 Break
11:55 SESSION 2: Responses to Fry
Case studies of individual artists and critics
Andrea Rosen (Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont) – Wood Gaylor, Primitivism and American Folk art after the Armory Show
James Church (PhD Candidate, Kingston University) – The Art of 1910: C. Lewis Hind and The Post Impressionists
Discussant Anna Gruetzner Robins
12:30 Lunch Break
13:00 SESSION 3: Post-Impressionism in the United States: collecting and exhibitions
Susan Behrends Frank (The Phillips Collection, Washington DC) – The Influence of Roger Fry’s Vision and Design on Duncan Phillips’s Aesthetic Vision and Exhibition Strategy for The Phillips Collection
Sandra Zalman (University of Houston) – Post-Impressionism at MoMA, then and now
Discussant Anna Gruetzner Robins
13:40 Break
13:50 SESSION 4: Post-Impressionism in Russia
Ilia Doronchenkov (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow/European University, St Petersburg) – The Avant-Garde’s Trojan Horse: The Golden Fleece exhibitions (Moscow 1908, 1909) and the arrival of Post-Impressionism in Russia
Katarina Lopatkina (Helsinki) – Between Moscow and Leningrad: displaying French modern art in the Soviet Union, 1920 – 1950s
Discussant Christina Lodder (University of Kent)
14:20 Break
14:40 KEYNOTE
Gavin Parkinson (The Courtauld) – Introduction
Richard Shiff (Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, University of Texas at Austin) – Expression and Abstraction during the Early Twentieth Century
Open discussion, moderated by Gavin Parkinson (The Courtauld)
16:00 End
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Friday 11 June 2021, 11am – 4pm
11:00 SESSION 5: International responses to Fry
Craig Clunas (University of Oxford) – ‘Alternative Criteria Must be Sought’: Post-Impressionism in China and Beyond
Paul Bevan (Departmental Lecturer in Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford) – In search of a Chinese Matisse
Discussant Sam Rose (University of St Andrews)
11:40 Break
11:50 SESSION 6: The Reach of Post-Impressionism
MaryClaire Pappas (PhD Candidate, Indiana University) – Explaining Expressionism: Lilevalchs Konsthall and Swedish Expressionism
Gavin Parkinson (The Courtauld) – A Surrealist Manifesto for Symbolism: André Breton and Dessins Symbolistes
Discussant Sam Rose (University of St Andrews)
12:25 Lunch Break
13:00 SESSION 7: Fry’s Artists: addressing the legacies I – Cézanne, Van Gogh
Elizabeth Childs – Legacies of the Post-Impressionists: Tracing the Impact
Anne Robbins (National Gallery, London) – ‘Controversy, admiration, misunderstanding, and enthusiasm’: Aspects of Cézanne’s reception in Britain
Discussant Richard Shiff (University of Texas)
Joost van der Hoeven ( Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) – Van Gogh’s Popular Status and the Canon in America 1913-1936
Discussant Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh)
13:55 Break
14:05 SESSION 8 Fry’s Artists: addressing the legacies II – Gauguin, Seurat
Elizabeth Childs (Washington University in St Louis) – Case studies in Gauguin’s reception (Chicago and Paris)
Discussant Belinda Thomson (University of Edinburgh)
Marnin Young (Yeshiva University) – Was Seurat a Post-Impressionist?
Discussant Paul Smith (University of Warwick)
14:55 Break
15:05 SESSION 9: Fry’s Artists: A panel discussion of Matisse and Picasso
John Klein (Washington University in Saint Louis) – Framing Matisse
Elizabeth Cowling (University of Edinburgh) – Framing Picasso
Panel discussion moderated by Nicholas Watkins (University of Leicester)
15:40 Open discussion
Moderated by Anna Gruetzner Robins and Liz Childs
This conference is supported by the Centre for American Art at The Courtauld.
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