CFP: Contested Ground: Defining Historical Landscape (grad) (10/15/04; 1/28/05)

CFP: Contested Ground: Defining Historical Landscape (10/15/04; 1/28/05)

A one-day graduate student symposium
Friday 28 January 2005
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

This one-day graduate student symposium will examine historical
landscape painting, its manifestations, and its meanings from the
eighteenth century to the present.

In January 2005, the exhibition William Hodges: The Art of Exploration
opens at the Yale Center for British Art. This exhibition, organized by
the National Maritime Museum in London, is a major reappraisal of
Hodge’s remarkable career and his reputation as a landscape painter. To
complement this show, the Center is mounting an exhibition drawn from
its permanent collection, entitled Nobleness and Grandeur: Forging
Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760-1850. This exhibition places the
work of Hodges in context with that of Richard Wilson, Thomas
Gainsborough, and J. M. W. Turner, among others, to offer new insight
into the role played by landscape painting in the development of
political and artistic identity in eighteenth-century Britain.

In conjunction with these projects, the Center is holding a one-day
graduate student symposium that takes as its starting point the art
historical and theoretical issues surrounding the hybrid genre of
historical landscape painting. This investigation will not focus solely
on British art, but rather examine historical landscape painting as an
international phenomenon. We invite interpretations of this theme as
30-minute papers from graduate students working on all aspects of the
Arts and Humanities. Cross-disciplinary approaches are particularly
welcome. Topics may include but are not restricted to
-manifestations of historical landscape
-historical landscape and national identity
-colonialism and empire
-questions of genre
-historical landscape and literature
-topography
-antiquarianism
-modern reinterpretations of and responses to historical landscape
-historical landscape in print culture and photography

The program will include discussion sessions and tours of the two
exhibitions by their curators. The day will draw to its close with a
keynote lecture.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to Morna O’Neill,
Research Department, Yale Center for British Art, PO Box 208280, New
Haven, CT 06520-8280 or to morna.oneill_at_yale.edu by 15 October 2004.

Limited travels funds for speakers are available upon request.

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