Art Criticism, 1700-1900: Conference Programme

Panel 2: Philosophical bases

Chair: Dr Jason Gaiger (Open University)

Dr Jason Gaiger (Open University): 'Free formative activity: Konrad Fiedler's philosophy of art'
Dr Andy Hamilton (University of Durham): 'The understanding of criticism, 1700-1900'
Dr Katerina Deligiorgi (Anglia Polytechnic University): 'Juno's affect: Schiller's reconciliation of art and morality'

Panel 3: Gender in art criticism

Chair: Dr Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)

Dr Meaghan Clarke (University of Sussex): 'Critical voices in British art: The Academy, pre-Raphaelitism and modernity'

Panel 4: Uses of antiquity

Chair: Dr Rebecca Langlands (University of Exeter)

Debbie Challis: 'Attic and diplomatic: Charles Newton and the development of critical analysis of ancient art in the nineteenth century'
Dr Rebecca Langlands/ Dr Kate Fisher (University of Exeter): 'Erotic art from Pompeii: Interpretations through the ages'

Panel 5: Responses in English criticism

Dr Martine Creac'h (University of Paris VIII): 'An English Poussin?: The originality and posterity of the English reception of Nicolas Poussin's paintings in the nineteenth century'
Dr Yves Landerouin (University of Pau): 'Ruskin-Whistler-Wilde-Proust: The dispute about creative criticism'
Emma Minns (School of Slavonic and East European Studies): 'The Reception of Russian art in British art journals and newspapers at the turn of the nineteenth century'

Panel 6: Art criticism and national identities

Chair: Dr Jenny Reynaerts (Rijksmsueum, Amsterdam)
Dr Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge) 'The role of criticism in 1862 in championing a national identity in Russian art'
Dr Vicky Karaiskou (University of Thessalonica): 'Art criticism in nineteenth-century Greece'

Panel 7: French criticism

Chair: Dr James Kearns (University of Exeter)
Dr Marijke Jonker (Huizinga Institute, Amsterdam): 'La Font de Saint-Yenne or the beginnings of independent art criticism in France'
Dr Melissa Percival (University of Exeter): 'Fashion and satire at the Salon of 1783'

Panel 8: Institutions of art criticism

Chair: Dr Carol Adlam (University of Exeter)

Dr Claudia Mattos (Campinas State University, São Paulo): 'The Torchlight Visit: Guiding the eye through late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century antique sculpture galleries'
Dr Jenny Reynaerts (Curator of Paintings, Rijksmsueum, Amsterdam): 'Guiding young artists: Classes in art history and aesthetics at the Amsterdam Art Academy'

Panel 9: German aesthetic theory and art criticism

Chair: Dr Katharine Hodgson (University of Exeter)
Dr James Kearns (University of Exeter): 'Gautier and German Painting at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1855'
Dr Jeff Morrison (NUI Maynooth): 'Winckelmann as middleman'
Dr Susan Nurmi-Schomers (University of Tuebingen): 'Lessing and a Romantic "meeting of the arts"'

Panel 10: Economies and patronage

Chair: Dr Carol Adlam (University of Exeter)
Raquel Fernandez-Sanchez (University of Exeter): 'Art criticism in Spain, 1856-1900: Patronage and exhibitions'
Dr Juliet Simpson (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College): 'Ideas of "real" and symbolic "worth" in late 19th-century art-critical discourse'

Panel 11: Russian criticism

Chair: Dr Alastair Renfrew (University of Exeter)
Antonia Napp (Universität Freiburg im Breisgau): 'The Zhurnal izyashchnykh iskusstv or, How to educate a country'
Mária Lieberman (University of Budapest): 'Sergei Makovskii and the art criticism of the Mir Iskusstva group'
Dr Alexey Makhrov (University of Exeter): 'Naive and outrageous, or perceptive and skilful? A reassessment of Vladimir Stasov's art criticism'

Panel 12: Russian's transition to modernity

Chair: Dr Alexey Makhrov (University of Exeter)
Dr Aaron J. Cohen (California State University): 'Profession or politics? Interpretations of Modernism in Russian art criticism 1898-1917'
Dr Il'ía Doronchenkov (Brown University): 'Russia-western relations in the formation of Russian modernism'
Anna Winestein (Boston University): 'Russian Olympia: Portrait of Ida Rubinstein by Serov'

Panel 13: Alternative modes of art criticism

Chair: Dr Jeff Morrison (NUI Maynooth)

Dr Gert Vonhoff (University of Exeter): 'The visual revolution in nineteenth-century Germany: Modes of illustration and meaning'

Panel 14: Art criticism, poetry and text

Chair: Professor Robert Russell, University of Sheffield
Dr Elena Basner (Curator, Russian Museum): 'Alexandre Benois: Between the two epochs of Russian culture'
Dr Helen Bridge (University of Exeter): 'Rilke on art'
Linda Goddard (Courtauld Institute of Art): 'A Creative conspiracy: Gauguin's Noa Noa and Symbolist art criticism'

Panel 15: Resources in Russian and East European art

Chair: Dr Rosalind Polly Blakesley (University of Cambridge)
Dr Anna Sokolina (Independent scholar/ Consultant to the RF Ministry of Culture, Cultural Heritage Database Project): 'Russian art 1860-1940 in Western collections: Information database on the internet'
Dr Chris Michaelides (Italian and Greek curator, British Library): 'Art resources in the British Library'
Dr Peter Webster (University of Sheffield): 'The AHRB Russian visual arts project'