February 1987 Number 27

Editor: Jo Miller • Editorial Office: The next Bulletin w/7/ be circulated in mid July Honorary Secretary. We are delighted that she has as from 1 April 1987 1987. The deadline for copy is 31 May 1987. accepted this nomination and we look forward to Radigan Farm working with her and to a developing relationship Ashill between the Association and our colleagues and Nr. Ilminster Administrative changes in the Association members in the museums. Somerset TA19 9NL Marcia Pointon Tel: (0823) 480249 From the Chair: This year's annual conference will see the departure from office, though not we hope from the affairs of the Association, of two people who have had a major impact on the ART HISTORY — 1987 shaping of the Association and the running of its business over the past few years. Flavia Swann, whose active involvement with Our journal Art History has a new publisher, the Association through the Executive Committee Basil Blackwell, who have produced a commenced in 1977. She organised the 1979 comprehensive promotional leaflet which promotes London Conference and has edited The Bulletin our journal in the following way. since 1980. Under her editorship this vital means 'Founded in 1978 as the official journal of the of communication for members has expanded and Association of Art Historians, Art History has developed. The hard labour involved in chasing up. rapidly established itself as a leading journal copy and meeting printers' deadlines should not be internationally, covering all aspects of the visual underestimated; Flavia has shouldered this burden arts, from prehistory to the present day, including for an extremely long period and we owe her a architecture, design and the history of great debt of gratitude. Jo Miller takes over as photography and film. It also encompasses other Editor with this issue which has been prepared by subjects such as religion, archaeology and her in co-operation with the outgoing Editor. literature where art has significance and Our thanks also go to Joe Darracott our current implications. Secretary, who also organised the 1985 London Art History is essential reading for all art conference. Among his many major contributions historians in galleries, museums, polytechnics, to the Association's smooth running and varied schools, universities, the commercial world — in activities, have been Joe's responsibility for an fact anyone directly concerned with the important and fruitful correspondence with a advancement of the history of art and design'. group of award-giving bodies and for the Further information from: conceiving of and organising a series of working Sue Mushin parties that have helped the Executive to deal with Basil Blackwell a backlog of work. The outcome of the 108 Cowley Road correspondence mentioned above is a grant from Oxford OX4 1JF the J. Paul Getty Museum to set up The Artists' Tel: 0865 722146 Papers Register, administered from Glasgow University Library under the auspices of the Association of Art Historians. There will be a full account of this project in the next Bulletin. Joe BRIGHTON CONFERENCE 1986 retires at the next Annual General meeting and I would like to take this opportunity of formally As the 1987 AHH Conference approaches and offering him thanks for all the work he has done. members consider the financial implications for At Easter we shall transfer to a somewhat their bank accounts of attending the attractive modified system of management involving the programme on offer, the organisers of the 1987 following officers: Chair, Hon. Secretary, Hon. conference thought it might be helpful for people Treasurer, and a Director of Administration and to see how costly it is to organise a big and varied Publicity. I am extremely pleased to announce that conference even with the help of subsidies. the Executive Committee has appointed Pamela Courtney, who will be familiar to most members in her role as Director of Publicity and organiser of our highly successful Book Fair, as Director of Administration and Publicity. The Executive Committee has invited Evelyn Silber, Assistant Director, Museum Services, Birmingham Museums and Art Galleries to join it now as its prospective 1 Categories of attendance at the 1986 Summary of income and expenditure AHH Conference in Brighton Total income from conference fee 9000.30 British Academy grant 450.00 MEMBERS full Fri Sat Sun Mon University of Sussex grant 250.00 conf. Private donations 100.00

Full fees 113 0 14 12 2 Expenditure major items student 45 0 1 4 1 Administrator's fee 2000.00 UB40 5 0 1 1 0 Office expenses incl postage 1350.11 OAP 6 0 2 0 0 Poster design 250.00 unspecified 7 0 1 2 0 Overseas speakers' fares 406.08 TOTAL 176 0 19 19 3 Printing 1434.55 Student helpers (23 at 10,00 per day) 990.00 (unspecified = people who booked concessionary rates at Student coordinator 140.00 the conference itself and for whom a breakdown was not Helpers' accommodation 60.00 available). Technician's overtime 132. 00 Hardship Travel Fund 111.90 Projector hire 68.65 NON full Fri Sat Sun Mon Gardner centre Mon. lunch 344.50 MEMBERS conf. Room hire (no charge for poly) 327.87 Folders, badges etc. 212.53 Full fees 39 2 31 49 4 Creche 246.59 student 39 0 7 12 1 Coach hire & transport 253.77 UB40 6 0 1 6 0 Xeroxing (subsidised figure) 41.50 OAP 4 1 2 0 0 Catering (teas and coffees) 583.32 floating 11 0 2 10 0 TOTAL 99 3 43 77 5 15% VAT on fees 1350.00 less VAT paid 320.95 1029.95 SPEAKERS 50 0 4 5 0 Income 9800.30 Complimentary tickets, press etc. 1029.95 less VAT TOTAL — 36 8770.35 less expenditure 8953.37 OVERALL TOTALS full conf. 361 183.02 OD Fri. 3 Sat. 66 The above summary accounts do not indicate the Sun. 101 huge debt that was owed to the Brighton Faculty Mon. 8 of Art and Design who made available to us their premises almost entirely free of charge, nor are Total attendance 539 tickets the accounts for the Book Fair included which, we Total heads 500 are pleased to note, made a profit. Conference fee structure

MEMBER NON-MEMBER Full 30.00 40.00 Day 12.50 15.00 Full 10.00 15.00 concession Day 6.00 8.00 concession THIRTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 16.30-17.45 Meetings of two of the Special Interest LONDON 28-30 MARCH 1987 Groups of the Association: IMPERIAL COLLEGE AND VICTORIA & (i) Museums ALBERT MUSEUM (ii) Polytechnics and Art Colleges Evening: The Trefoil Party: Victoria and Albert Museum. The theme of the conference will be Art and Tradition. The conference will open at the Victoria Sunday 29 March and Albert Museum on the morning of Saturday Imperial College 28 March and the academic sessions on Sunday 8.00-9.00 Registration at the Sherfield Building and Monday morning will be at Imperial College 9.00-12.30 Academic Sessions in the Sherfield and Huxley Buildings. The 12.30-13.30 Lunch, Imperial College Senior Conference organiser is David Bindman. The Common Room Conference administrator to whom all enquiries 13.30-17.00 Academic Sessions should be addressed is: 17.00-18.30 Meetings of three of the Special Diana Dethloff, Department of History of Art, Interest Groups of the Association: Westfield College, Kidderpore Avenue, London (i) Schools NW3 7ST. Tel: 01-435 7141, Extension 312. (ii) Universities (iii) Students Creche We are offering a free creche within the V & A Monday 30 March which will operate thorughout the entire Imperial College and Victoria and Albert Museum conference. 8.30- 9.30 Registration. Sherfield Building, For further details, please contact Diana Imperial College Dethloff as soon as possible. 9.30-13.00 Academic Sessions, Imperial College 13.00-14.00 Lunch, V & A Workshops 14.00-16.00 Workshops, Imperial College (7 rooms Rooms have been reserved to allow up to seven hired) workshops to take place concurrently on Monday 16.00 AGM Lecture Theatre, V & A afternoon. So far the following have been offered: Evening Party: The Arts Council, 105 Piccadilly Feminist workshop CIHA Conference fees CHart The Teaching of Art History AAH members Visual Resources Full ticket £35.00 Art Historians and Employment Concessionary (student/unwaged) 17.50 Any other proposals should be directed as soon Day ticket 14.00 as possible to Will Vaughan, Department of Concessionary day ticket 7.00 History of Art, Birkbeck College, 43 Gorden Square, London WC1. Non-members Full ticket £45.00 Conference Programme Concessionary (student/unwaged) 22.50 Day ticket 18.00 Saturday 28 March Concessionary day ticket 9.00 Victoria and Albert Museum 10.00-11.00 Registration Academic Sessions 11.00-13.00 Lecture Theatre. Introduction by Sir Below you wll find details of the Academic Roy Strong, followed by a panel of three speakers Sessions on offer on Sunday and Monday on The Construction of the Past', chaired by morning. They are as complete as possible at the Marcia Pointon. The speakers will be: Dr Ekpo time of going to press. Eyo, former Secretary General of the Nigerian Museum and Monuments Board; Donald Home, Academic Sessions Director of the Australia Council, and Patrick Wright, author of On Living in an Old Country. 1. The Construction of the Past 13.00-14.30 Lunch (i) Artefacts as History 14.30-15.30 Lecture Theatre. Panel discussion with Sunday morning questions from the floor. Organiser: Tom Gretton, History of Art 15.30-16.30 Book fair. Department, University College, Gower Street, London WC1. 3 1) Stephen Jones 2. Violence and Visual Representation The Reconstruction of an Historical Interior: Monday morning Leighton House Organisers: Lewis Johnson, Flat 1, 21 2) Phyllis Rogers Beaconsfield Villas, Brighton, East Sussex. Paintings and English Heritage Jonathan Harris, 77a Denmark Villas, Hove, East 3) Donald Home Sussex. To be announced A passing familiarity with the form of television 4) David De Haan news, in which the paradox of the apparent The Art Collections of the Ironbridge Gorge consensus summoned by utterances such as 'we are Museum against violence' alongside elaborate and lengthy (ii) Displaying the Past film of conflict and strife is reiterated, raises Sunday afternoon significant ambivalences. In order to illustrate the Organiser: Malcolm Baker, Department of subtle and contentious relations, then, between the Sculpture, Victoria and Albert Museum delight in horror and the horror at delight that over characterise the reception of visual 1. Malcolm Baker representation of violence, we will be raising Reading Museum Collections: Themes, Objects & historical study. Contexts How does a survey of visual representation 2. Alistair Smith demonstrate the centrality of this ambivalence in Exhibitions and Interpretations our society? Of whom and of what is there 3. Paul Duro representation that demonstrates this ambivalence? Study Museums in Paris in the 19th Centurv For whom is there satisfaction? What forms does 4. Edward Kaufman this satisfaction take? For example, what are the Architectural Museums and their rhetorical correspondences between deformation of objects strategies and figures in visual representation, between 5. Deborah Swallow clarity and vagueness of articulation and the Museums and the display of non-European satisfaction of our society and what would a artefacts: the ethnographic present and the artistic critical reading of them do to our criticisms, our past politics? 6. David Lowenthal Paintings — Art as History 1. Paul Crowther Title to be announced (iii) Museums, galleries and education: bridging 2. Gerard Mermoz the gap Title to be announced Monday morning 3. Elizabeth Bronsen Title to be announced Organiser: Felicity Woolf, Education Officer, 4. Susanne Kappeler National Gallery, London WC2. To be confirmed 1. Anne Whittaker and Felicity Woolf London's galleries and museums: a resource for 3. The Artist's T: autobiography and ideology the primary school classroom Monday morning 2. James Heard Organisers: Alex Potts, Camberwell School of Art Travellers in time: young visitors to the artist's Lisa Tickner, Middlesex Polytechnic studio 3. Jane Sellars 1. John Barrell Old Masters and young pupils 'Statesman, chemist, fiddler and buffoon V theories 4. Jacky Percy of the artist in late eighteenth and early nineteenth Classroom to gallery: gallery to classroom. centurv Britain Preparing for Le Corbusier and Tony Cragg and JoM n Cook sculptures Mutations in artistic personality: Hazlitt and the 5. Evelyn Silber English artist. Showing off: the role of labelling 2. Pamela Garrish Nunn 6. Simon Wilson Not just a Pretty Eace: conflicting images of the Curators, cultural conditioning and the myth of female artist in nineteenth century Britain the self-evident art work and Tamar Garb 'Unpicking the seams of her disguise . . .' Self- representation in the case of Marie Bashkirtseff. 3. Laura Mulvey Monday morning Minimalist Strategies: identity and address in Session 6 continues Hollis Frampton's 'nostalgia' and Adrian Rifkin 4. Cheryl Buckley 'If one were avant-garde without knowing it . . . Women Designers in the North Staffordshire and if one learns the ways of being it . . .Some Pottery Industry 1919-1939. questions on the inexhaustibility of the avant- 5. Elizabeth Roberts garde. Working-class women and homes in the North- West in the inter-war period 4. Public and Private: Desire and Power in the 6. Tim Putnam visual image The Method of Machine Design in the Second Sunday afternoon Industrial Age Organiser: Nicholas Mirzoeff,38 Alberbrook Technology and the Art Historian Road, London SW12 8AE. Sunday morning 1. Nicholas Mirzoeff Organisers: Caroline Elam, Westfield College, Jill The Fete Galante: An Academic Vision Dunkerton and David Bomford, Conservation 2. Ludmilla Jordanova Department, National Gallery Visualising the distinction between Public and Private in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth 1. David Bomford Centuries. Technology and the Art Historian 3. Roy Porter Richard Hearn Housing the Mad History of Art and Technology of Art 4. Kathleen Adler 2. Jill Dunkerton Tura's 'An Allegorical Figure': the Application of Women and the Spaces of Maternity Technology to an Art Historical Problem 5. Anthea Callen 3. John House and Ashok Roy Anatomy, Gender and Class. From Earth to Air; tone and colour in Monet 6. Anthony Easthope Representations of Masculinity 8. The Sculptor's studio: Workshop and Business 5. Design Before 1851 Practice Sunday morning All Day Sunday Organiser; Charles Saumerez-Smith, Education Organiser: Alison Yarrington, History of Art Department V & A Department, University of Leicester, Leicester LEI 7RH. 1. Simon Jervis Problems of Design Analysis: a Case study 1. Philip Lindley A discussion of design for secretaires produced in Late medieval workshops in England Augsberg in c.1760 by Franz-Xaver Habermann, 2. Charles Avery their form, function and significance. Donatello's Studio 2. John Styles 3. Tessa Murdoch Design for Mass-Production in Eighteenth Century The Studio of Louis Francois Roubiliac 1752-1762 Britain 4. Dyveke Helsted 3. Toshio Kusamitsu Thorvaldsen's Studio 'Let Artisans teach their sons craft'. Design 5. Evelyn Silber Education and British Industry before 1857 The Sculptor as Soloist: Jacob Epstein 6. Antony Gormley 6. Design in the 20th Century Will lead a discussion on contemporary sculptural Sunday afternoon practice Organiser: John Murdoch, Prints and Drawings 7. Konstanty Kalinowski Department V & A Title to be announced 1. John Langrish The Environment for Creativity: 50 year Cycles of Optimism 2. Jonathan Zeitlin Between Fordism and Flexibility 3. Elizabeth Wilson Fashion, Modernism and Postmodernism 5 9. Conditions artists impose on their public 12. Community Action and the Construction of Sunday all day Architectural History Organiser: Michael Podro, Department of Art All Day Sunday History & Theory, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Organisers: Louise Durning and Jules Lubbock, Park, Colchester. Department of Art History and Theory, University 1. John Nash of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex Value and Imagination 1. Jules Lubbock Respondent: Anthony Hughes Public Protest and the Origin of the London 2. David Landau Square Print-making Techniques create their Markets 2. Brian Hanson 3. Ronald Bernier The Architect as Building Team-Leader. Theories The Subject and Painting; Monet's * Language of from Chambers to Rusk in the Sketch' 3. Lynne Walker and Georgie Baker Respondent: John House Women Working Together; Community Action & 4. Briony Fer Architecture Metaphor and Modernity: Russian Constructivism 4. Patrick Hanney 5. What concepts do we have of an art? A general Space, Time and Journalism: Who Pays for the open discussion of issues which have arisen during Record? the day. 5. Brian Hatton 10. The Management of Culture in the 19th and The Lloyd's Buildings; Function as Representation 20th Centuries and Rhetoric Sunday afternoon 6. Robert Thorne Organiser: Fred Orton, Department of Fine Art, The Lloyd's Building and the Making of History University of Leeds, Leeds L52 9JT 13. There will be an open session on Monday 1. Neil McWilliam morning. Professional Opinions: Art Criticism and Cultural Overnight Accommodation Commerce under the July Monarchy We have arranged overnight accommodation at 2. Annie Coombes Imperial College. The cost for 3 nights ie 27-28 Museums and the Formation of National and March inclusive will be £38.70. This includes bed Cultural Identities and continental breakfast. Unfortunately we can 3. Nick Green and Frank Mort only accept bookings for the 3 nights. Bookings Is there anybody here from art history? Putting should be made through Diana Dethloff at art history on the educational agenda Westfield College. Details and booking form are 11. Patrons and Advisers, Renaissance and to be found in this Bulletin. Baroque Sunday morning Organiser: Clare Robertson, Department of Art EIGHTH ART HISTORY BOOK FAIR — 1987 History, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LEI 7RH 1. Evelyn Welch Victoria & Albert Museum, London SW7 The Mechanics of Patronage at the Court of Saturday 28 March 1987 Galeazzo Maria Sforza, 1466-1476 10.00-18.00 2. Francis Ames-Lewis Sunday 29 March 1987 The taste and patronal influence of Piero 'The 14.30-17.30 Gouty' de'Medici Monday 30 March 1987 3. Peter Homfrey 10.00-16.00 Competitive devotions: the Venetian scuole piccole as donors of altarpieces in the years around 1500 Every square inch of space available for exhibitors 4. David Oldfield has been snapped up at record speed. With the Painting and Patronage in Bergamo, 1510-1525 Fair open for three days at such a popular and 5. Sylvia Ferino Pagden prestigious venue we can also expect a record Title to be announced number of visitors. 6. Rick Scorza Staff at the V & A are being exceptionally Fiorenze in Gloria; Borghini, Vasari and the generous and helpful and it is the Museum we Representations of Cosimo 1 de'Medici must thank for providing the invitation card enclosed with this issue of the Bulletin. Please pass constitution of the Sub-Committee and will discuss it on to your librarian or some other colleague or its terms of reference, and a draft document, friend who you think would like to come along to outlining a possible AAH policy about the place the Fair. If you would like some more cards of Art History in University education, will be put please get in touch with me. before the meeting. It is hoped that as many Once again the two exhibiting booksellers, people as possible will attend. Collets and Zwemmers, have agreed to give member's of the Association a 10% discount on Sub-Committee for Students purchases made durine the Fair. I would like to focus the attention of art Pamela Courtney, Director of Publicity, Albert historians on the NATFHE register, formerly House, Monnington-on-Wye, Hereford HR4 7NL operating in the London area. Tel: 09817 344 This is/was a computer scheme which provides a source for employers looking to fill specific posts. Due to the abolition of the GLC, the register is at present unfunded and is not FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE functioning. However, I feel that if people demonstrated a need for sugh a register, this is likley to influence negotiations currently under Sheffield 9-12 April 1988 way with the ILEA for backing. The 1988 Sheffield Conference will have the theme The work of the register is to enable colleges 'Patronage, Wealth and Economy'. and institutions of adult, further and higher education to contact directly suitably skilled The 1988 Committee would welcome suggestions applicants. The register only lists unemployed and and contributions related to this theme, which partially employed people and usually fills part- should be sent to: time and/or temporary posts. If people are interested in this scheme, the Theo. Cowdell address is: Dept. of Historical and Critical Studies NATFHE Employment Register Faculty of Cultural Studies 21 Huntspill Street Sheffield City Polytechnic London SW17 OAA Brincliffe Tel: 01-879 3881 Psalter Lane Sheffield Sll 8UZ Also the ILEA have registers for teachers A variety of tours have already been proposed, wishing to share full-time posts. All posts in the but further suggestions for venues are most authority from Lecturer 1 to Principal Lecturer welcome (objectives within a 40 mile radius are open to job-sharing. please). The provisional location for the Conference is the Polytechnic's Collegiate Crescent Registration forms are available. For jobs in Site, a Victorian College collection of buildings, further/higher Education write to: with adjacent student accommodation. Education Officer/FHE/Eq.Opp. Room 255F The County Hall London SE1 7PB SUB-COMMITTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION For jobs in Adult Education, please contact; CECS, Sub-Committee for Universities Room 236A The Universities Sub-Committee was established at The County Hall the Universities group meeting at last year's London SE1 7PB. conference. John House was asked to chair the Sub-Committee for an initial year, and to co-opt members. It is now intended to elect members and a chair at the Universities group meeting at this year's London conference. Nominations will be accepted at the meeting, but may be sent in advance, duly seconded, to John House (Courtauld Institute of Art, 20 Portman Square, London W1H OBE) on behalf of anyone unable to attend the meeting. The meeting will settle the ANNOUNCEMENTS We feel that we could achieve more with more members and, equally, that there are a great many writers who would benefit from belonging to the Society — perhaps particularly academics, who are The Society of Authors inclined to be offered (and to accept) lousy terms The Society of Authors is an organisation from publishers. Even if you have an agent concerned primarily with the business aspects of (I imagine that most of you do not), there is no authorship. Our 3,500 members range from knowing when you might need an organisation chemical engineers to romantic novelists, from like the Society of Authors to take up arms on travel writers to theologians, from wine specialists your behalf. to art historians. We have, in particular, specialist If you would like further information, please groups for technical writers, translators, simply send a short note to me at: educational writers and broadcasters, as well as 84 Drayton Gardens, regional sections in Scotland, the north of England London SW10 9SB. and the Isle of Man. Mark Le Fanu The Society was founded by Walter Besant in General Secretary 1884 and Lord Tennyson was the first president. Described in a Times leader as a Society for the Sir Bannister Fletcher Award of the Authors' Club Prevention of Cruelty to Authors, the objectives 1986 were to correct some of the iniquities of Grub Street, alleviate authors' financial insecurity and Nominations are invited for the annual award for reform copyright law. We are now an independent the best book published in the field of trade union, not affiliated to the TUC, with an Architectu re or the Fine Arts. annual subscription of £50 (£45 by direct debit), To be eligible the book must: (a) have been and only £30 for writers under 35. To an published in 1986; (b) have been written by an impecunious author this may sound a lot, but we author who is British or resident in Britain; (c) reckon that it is a pretty good bargain for the have been published by a British publisher or a services that we offer namely: publisher with a British branch. 1. Personal advice and assistance on all the Nominations should be sent by 8 May 1987 to business aspects of authorship. We give detailed the Secretary: Sir Bannister Fletcher Award advice on, for example, publishing, TV, radio and Selection Committee, c/o British Architectural film contracts, income tax, VAT, libel, agents, Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 copyright, fees. Portland Place, London Wl 4AD. 2. A form of insurance policy. We chase up book publishers, magazines and other organisations Leonardo da Vinci Society which owe members money — and will pursue legal actions of general importance to authors The first meeting of the newly formed Leonardo (e.g. when there has been a breach of contract or da Vinci Society was held at the Warburg copyright infringement). Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB 3. Keeping in touch. There are regular meetings on Friday 7 November. The Society's aim is to and conferences. The Society also publishes a promote study, in particular of the life, work and quarterly magazine, The Author, which is free to influence of Leonardo in all their aspects, as well members and full of useful information. We as of the times in which he lived. Membership (£5 publish guides to tax, copyrights, contracts etc. all per year; £2.50 for students, due annually on 1 of which are available free of charge to members. January) is open to any person who is in 4. Bargains. Members can order books on trade sympathy with these aims. terms through the Society, as well as cheap The Leonardo da Vinci Society hopes to be able stationery. There are group medical insurance to co-operate both with other bodies and with schemes, and various contingency funds to help individuals whose interests coincide or overlap authors in sudden financial difficulties. with its own. The Society's library will be on 5. Better deals for everybody. We work hard to permanent loan to the Warburg Institute. improve the lot of authors, often in tandem with At the meeting on 7 November it was resolved the Writers' Guild. Negotiations with publishers to arrange an annual lecture to take place each aimed at improving 'standard' contracts continue year on the Friday nearest to 2 May (the day of and we negotiate various categories of fees with Leonardo's death). It is hoped that a lecture can be arranged for 15 May 1987, to take place at the the BBC. The Society was instrumental in setting Warburg Institute. Meantime a lecture to up public lending rights and we are doing our best inaugurate the Society was delivered by Dr to increase the fund. Kenneth D. Keele at the conclusion of the first meeting. His subject was Leonardo's Reflexions writing on historical or critical aspects of art, and on Food and Drink'. will be modestly priced, to appeal to students as The Society also hopes to encourage informal well as to artists and historians. study groups to meet for discussion of topics of The titles for 1987 will be Art for a Purpose: common interest. the Artists International Association 1933-1953 by The following officers have been elected: Robert Radford and Modernism, Post-Modernism, President:,Dr Kenneth D. Keele, 19 The Green, Realism by Brandon Taylor. Newick, Sussex BN8 4LA. Authors wishing to submit manuscripts for Vice-President: Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich consideration should address them to the editors: Hon Secretary: Professor J.B. Trapp Winchester Studies in Art and Criticism Hon Treasurer: Mr Charles Hunt Winchester School of Art Committee: Dr F.A. Ames-Lewis, Park Avenue Professor Robert A. Weale. Winchester Further information from: Hampshire SQ23 8DL Professor J.B. Trapp Warburg Institute Woburn Square FORTHCOMING EVENTS London WC1H OAB

The Birmingham Public Sculpture Project England France Funded by the MSC under their Community The interaction between English and French Art in Programme, three research assistants and the late Nineteenth Century: photographer have been working under the Conference 5 March 1987 direction of George Noszlopy and Evelyn Silber Manchester Polytechnic (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery), on a This one day conference will take place at the comprehensive illustrated catalogue, a popular Edgar Wood Centre, Daisy Bank Road, guide The BRUM Sculpture Trails' an annotated Manchester. slide sets for educational use, mainly for schools and colleges. The first of the two volumes of the Programme catalogue is now ready in the form of an 9.15 Registration illustrated typescript, containing the works of well 9.30 Introduction to Conference and — known artists with biographical and The French critical reaction to the English bibliographical references. paintings shown at the Exposition Universelle of This is now available for researchers. 1855*. The Birmingham Public Sculpture Index Michael Howard, Manchester Polytechnic. includes additional biographical information on 10.15 'Some Aspects of English patronage of sculptors represented in Brimingham, as well as French Art during the second half of the photocopies, transcripts and notes of various kinds nineteenth century'. of archival material. Chris Ackroyd, Manchester Polytechnic Further information from: 11.00 Coffee George Noszlopy 11.30 'Some English reactions to the exhibitions of School of History of Art and Complementary modern French paintings at Durant-Ruyel's Studies London Gallery in the early 1870V. Department of Art Hilary Diaper, University of Leeds Art Gallery Faculty of Art and Design 12.15 Lunch Birmingham Polytechnic 13.15 'Leighton "the Sleeper" ' Gosta Green Benedict Read, Deputy Witt Librarian, Courtauld Birmingham B4 7DX Institute of Art 14.00 The Pre-Raphaelites and French Winchester School of Art Symbolism'. Belinda Thomson, Manchester Polytechnic Winchester School of Art Press will be launching 14.45 Coffee a series of illustrated paperback books on aspects 15.15 'Cross currents in Portraiture, 1880-1910'. of art, in the spring of 1987. The series title is Ken McConkey, School of Art History, Newcastle Winchester Studies in Art and Criticism and the upon Tyne Polytechnic college's intention is to produce approximately two 16.00 Questions titles per year. The series will comprise new 16.30 End of Conference 9 The Admission cost is £5. There will be no For further information, please contact: charge for the unwaged or students. Dr Peter Humfrey, For further information contact: Dept. of Art History, Michael Howard University of St. Andrews, Department of History of Art and Design Fife KY16 9AL. Manchester Polytechnic Grosvenor Building Turner Symposium Cavendish Street 10-12 July Tate Gallery Manchester M15 6BR Tel: 061-228 6171, Ext. 2264 To mark the forthcoming opening of the Clore Gallery for the Turner Bequest, a Symposium on The Altarpiece in the Renaissance various aspects of the artist's life and work will be Conference 20-21 March, Warburg Institute held at the Gallery (which is attached to the Tate Gallery) from Friday, 10 July to Sunday 12 July This Conference organised by the Society for 1987, inclusive. The organisers are the Tate Renaissance Studies, will be held 20-21 March at Gallery, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London British Art, and the Turner Society. Papers will be WC1 and at Harkness Hall, Birkbeck College, given by invited speakers only, and among those Malet Street. The following papers will be given: who have accepted are Robert Rosenblum, Andrew Wilton, John Gage, Jerrold Ziff and 1. 'The Renaissance altarpiece: some themes for Norman Bryson; other participants will, however, discussion'. have the opportunity to contribute to the Professor H.W. van Os (University of Groningen) discussions. Besides the academic programme, 2. The Netherlandish carved altarpiece c.1500: there will be social events and a visit by coach, type and function'. probably to Petworth, on Sunday. Kim Woods (The Dictionary of Art) The Symposium fee is £25 (£15 to students, old- 3. 'Reform within the cult image: German winged age pensioners and holders of UB40 cards). altarpieces before the Reformation'. Dr Bernhard Decker (Bremen, Kunstalle) Further particulars and a booking form may be 4. Title to be decided obtained from the Education Department, Tate Dr Christa Gardner von Teuffel (Sotheby's, Gallery, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG; envelopes London) should be marked 'Turner Symposium' and 5. 'Fr Bartolommeo's Madonna in glory in booking forms should be returned so as to arrive Besancon and the Renaissance pala'. not later than 23 April. If the number of Professor Andre Chastel (College de France) applications exceeds the available acoommodation 6. The Renaissance Altarpiece: a valid category?' in the Clore Gallery, tickets will be allocated by Dr Paul Hills (University of Warwick) ballot. 7. 'Raphael's Altarpieces: from Kultbild to Bildkult'. International conference of mosaics at Bath Dr Sylvia Ferino (Rome, Biblioteca Hertziana) 5-13 September 1987 8. 'Sacred Semiotics: pictorial structure of the legibility of the altarpiece'. Archaeologists, art historians and other specialists Professor David Rosand (Columbia University) on classical and Byzantine mosaics from all over 9. 'Side chapels and their altarpieces in the early the world will assemble in the Guildhall of the sixteenth century'. Roman city of Bath from 5 to 12 September 1987 David Ekserdjian (Courtauld Institute) for the Vth International Colloquium of the Paris- 10. 'The altarpiece in Catholic Europe: post- based Association Internationale pour l'Etude de Tridentine transformations'. la Mosaique Antique (AIMEA), which is being Dr. A.D. Wright (University of Leeds) organised by its British branch, the Association 11. 'The Renaissance Altarpiece . . . problems of for the Study and Preservation of Roman mosaics, Interpretation'. in conjunction with the University of Bath. Professor Staale Sinding-Larsen (Rave, Norwegian The programme of this major international Institute) conference, the first of its kind to be held in 21. 'The relationship of El Greco's altarpiece to Britain, will include a free exhibition on the the mass of the Roman rite'. recording of Ronman mosaics in England, Dr David Davies (University College, London) excursions to important sites of Roman mosaics, such as Fishbourne and Littlecote Park, as well as Registration will take place at 10 am on Friday 20 a 'Roman Evening' (white toga), during which a March. The following charges will be made at the centurio will command a great detachment of the door: Members £1, Non-members £5. XX Legio (Valeria Victrix) in full armour. Further information from: COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS Peter Fischer 37 Greystrone Court London W5 1EN Nominations for elections to the Executive Tel: 01-998 3347 Committee and its Sub-committees should be sent in writing to The Secretary, Joe Darracott no later CHART — Computers and Art History Group than three weeks before the Annual General 1987 Conference — Call for Papers Meeting, ie by Monday 9 March 1987. Nominations should include the name and This year CHART will be holding its annual signatures of the proposer and seconder and the conference in London at the Victoria and Albert written consent of the nominee. There will be Museum on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 three places available on the Executive Committee. November. As on previous occasions, the programme will contain a series of 20 minute papers on research projects and overviews of areas where the new ADVERTISEMENTS technology is affecting the subject. There will also be demonstrations and seminars on a number of topics including word processing, data modelling, and imaging techniques. City of Birmingham Polytechnic Could another interested in presenting a paper, Postgraduate Study in History of Art and Design — or wishing to obtain further information, — Applications are invited for full or part-time please contact: postgraduate study in the History of Art, Anthony Hamber Architecture and Design at Birmingham Secretary of CHART, Polytechnic, either by a combination of Department of History of Art, coursework and research for the linked MA/Pg 46 Gordon Square Dip (for which a number of State Bursaries are London WC1E 7HX available), or by supervised research for the MPhil or PhD degrees of the CNAA. Further particulars from: George Noszlopy DIVERSIONS School of History of Art and Complementary Studies Faculty of Art and Design, Lord Finchley was correctly identified by several competitors; Gillian Naylor was the quickest to Birmingham Polytechnic , Corporation Street send in her entry, and thus wins the prizes. Birmingham B4 7DX It all goes to show that Hilaire Belloc's wish was fulfilled. When I am dead, I hope it may be Birkbeck College said: 'his sins were scarlet, but his books were University of London read'. The Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture, founded The subject for the Easter competition is closely by Thames and Hudson, will be delivered by connected to the conference. Francis Haskell on The Painful Birth of an Art The Image of the poster by Tom Phillips is Book, on Tuesday 3 March 1987 at 18.00 in the made up of a number of fragments from well University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, known paintings. The first correct entry to be London WC1. pulled out of a hat (at the Trefoil Party on 28 Admission free and without ticket. March) will receive a prize of a signed copy of Dante's Inferno, translated and illustrated by Tom Phillips, donated and published by Thames and Art Information Hudson. Please send entries to Quizmaster, c/o The Art Information commissions graduate art Editor of The Bulletin. historians to undertake research. If you are available for freelance research, please send your CV together with information you might wish us to have on your special subject knowledge and research expertise. Art Information 92 Gt Russell Street London WC1B 3PU 11 Romanesque Spain EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Why not spend a holiday in the sun in historic Spain? Millas is a secluded hamlet in the heart of Catalonia's romanesque heritage, 15 miles from Officers Gerona and a similar distance form the beachs of Chair Dr Marcia Pointon the Costa Brava. A car is essential. (University of Sussex, School of English and Cal Carreter is a genuine local farmhouse which American Studies, Arts Building, Falmer, Brighton has been sensitively modernised, and sleeps eight BN19QN) adults. Secretary: Joe Darracott For further details please write to: (18 Fitzwarren Gardens, London N19 3TP) The Rectory Hon. Treasurer: Prof Eric Fernie Elmley Lovett (University of Edinburgh, 19 George Street, Nr. Droitwich, Worcs. WR9 OPU. Edinburgh EH8 9LD) Elected Members Christopher Brighton (W. Surrey College of Art) Part-time lecturers needed for 1987/8 session at Dr Theo Cowdell (Sheffield Polytechnic) North Staffordshire Polytechic. Katherine Crouan (Winchester College of Art) Expertise sought in 19 and 20 century Design Diana Donald (Manchester Polytechnic) History, and in Fashion History, to teach Dr Dennis Farr (Courtauld Institute Galleries) primarily on the BA (hons) History of Design and Tamar Garb (Teacher and Lecturer, London) the Visual Arts degree. Send CV and covering Dr Joany Hichberger (Manchester University) letter to: Dr John House (Courtauld Institute) The Head of Department Dr Lynda Nead (Birkbeck College, London) History of Art and Design Prof William Vaughan (Birkbeck College, North Staffordshire Polytechnic London) College Road Co-opted Members Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2DE Dr Martin Gaughan (Art Schools and Polytechnics Sub-Committee) Howard Hollands (Schools Sub-Committee) Josephine Miller (Editor designate of The Bulletin) MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTIONS 1987 Dr John Onians (Editor of Art History) Louise Durning (Student Sub-Committee) Flavia Swann (Editor of The Bulletin) For the fifth year running the membership subscription rates are being held at their present Director of Publicity: Pamela Courtney level. 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