February 1994 BULLETIN ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS Registered Charity No. 282579 Editor: Jannet King, 48 Stafford Road, Brighton BNI 5PF For information on advertising & membership: Kate Woodhead, Dog and Partridge House, Bxley, Cheshire CWW 9NJ Tel: 0606 835517 Fax: 0606 834799

CHAIR'S REPORT

During the autumn the Officers and the put more pressure on Vice-Chancellors for potential sponsors to the Director of Executive Committee of the Association and on the Funding Council itself to have Publicity and Administration. have taken up a number of issues of interest the system amended. Benefactors - Change your terms of to the membership. membership to become a Benefactor. Art History Departments' E-Mail We have also received the excellent Art History Teaching in Scottish Network news that the Association will no longer be Universities The Association wishes to establish an E- charged VAT on subscriptions and other The Scottish Higher Education Funding Mail network to keep colleagues working business. This will save us substantial Council is about to embark upon a Quality in Art History departments across the amounts every year. Many congratulations Assessment Programme for Humanities country more closely in touch with one and thanks to Peter Crocker for his patient subjects in the academic year 1995-96. another. E-mail addresses to the Chair negotiations with HM Customs & Excise. The Association has written to the Director please. 1994 Bookfair: It is vital to the of Teaching and Learning making a case Association's finances that this event is a for Art History to be assessed separately Review of the Academic Year success. Please do all you can to encourage from History and he has agreed to take The Association has been asked to comment publishers to take stands. careful note of our arguments when the on the Flowers Report, recently published, detailed programme content for each funded which lays out the arguments for and against National Art Slide Library subject group is worked out. a general move from terms to semesters. The NASL has now relocated from the The Executive Committee has discussed V&A to De Montfort University, Leicester. 1992 Research Selectivity Exercise: this once but would welcome the view of De Montfort will soon publish its plan for The Aftermath the membership. The current EC view is the future operation of the library. First Members of the Association will remember that maximum priority should be given to results suggest that a postal service will be the dismay which greeted the funding the preservation of research time but that perfectly reliable and that there is allocation in the aftermath of the 1992 other aspects of the report are beyond our considerable interest in purchasing as well Research Selectivity Exercise operated by remit. as borrowing slides. They have identified the Higher Education Funding Council for almost 200,000 usable slides and over and Wales. Having complained The Association's Finances 36,000 of these have now been recorded on vigorously to the Chairman of the HEFCE, Once again, we have been discussing the a database. the Association has now written to all Art need to raise the Association's income. Local access points are to be established History departments pointing out that the Here are some helpful, easy steps that up and down the country to act as referral HEFCE simply overlooked the substantial every member could take: points to the NASL, the first to be at numbers of new departments coming into Subscriptions - Pay promptly and Finsbury Library, Islington. All these the reckoning with the end of the binary encourage colleagues to join the AAH. developments require funding. The re• divide. The Association wants every Art Advertising Revenue - Persuade your launch is scheduled for mid-January 1994. History department to explain how it was publishers to advertise in Art History. Through the good offices of Will affected by the application of the unfair Sponsorship - Many of the Association's Vaughan and his working party, the HEFCE formula and we are preparing to activities"could be sponsored. Send ideas Association is still doing what it can to NEWS REPORTS

support the establishment in London of a done to encourage a new attitude and how extent to which non-European or non- permanent satellite collection of the N ASL. things might be changed. Some see the Western material is presently included. challenge to the old canon as the next great Meanwhile any information or opinions to The Art History of the World frontier for the discipline in this country. the Chair please. The EC has started serious discussions on In due course we shall be seeking more the Eurocentric character of British Art precise information about the kinds of Art Nigel Llewellyn History and on what, if anything, should be History taught across the country and the December 1993

SLIDE LIBRARIES: THE COPYRIGHT LAW An Important Development

Since the passing of the Copyright Act in have a slide library licensed. The licence of world rights and the plight of freelancers the late 1980s, many members of the will be granted in exchange for an annual with small private collections. DACS is Association will be aware of the dilemma fee and DACS will disperse monies to preparing to issue licence application forms afflicting those who use slide libraries which those copyright holders who apply to it. in spring 1994 and members keen to know hold stocks of slides made from books. The holding of a licence will insure the more should write to: Such images are illegal but no-one has licence holder against prosecution under Janet Ibbotson come up with a scheme whereby the the terms of the Act. Design and Artists' Copyright Society making, storing and using of such slides Initially, 'start-up' licences (in fact, St Mary's Clergy House could be legalised and the holders and indemnification against claims) will be 2 Whitchurch Lane users insured against prosecution. granted retrospectively to allow existing London El 7QR The Executive Committee has decided collections of slides to be maintained. Tel: 071 247 1650 to use the pages of the Bulletin to draw the Applicants will count their present holdings Fax: 071 377 5855. attention of the membership to a licensing of 'illegal' slides and will pay a fee banded Meanwhile, without grudging proper scheme which claims to solve these according to the size of the collection. remuneration to the copyright holders on problems. The Executive does not endorse Some AAH members may take this the slides we use for teaching many of us the scheme but seeks only to publicise it as opportunity to discard those old, pink will be wondering where our institutions a service to individual members who may stalwarts. Latest estimates suggest such are going to find these extra funds. Please own or be responsible for slides which may 'start-up' fees could range from £500 for do not write to me for more information infringe copyright. smaller collections to £2,500 maximum about the DACS scheme. On behalf of the AAH, in late October I for the largest collection. attended a meeting of an advisory group Thereafter, and in addition to the 'start• Nigel Llewellyn representing the Library Association, the up' licence, DACS will issue 'annual' Chair Institute of Information Scientists, ARLIS licences based on a combination of a flat December 1993 and the ASLIB AV Group. The meeting fee (latest estimates put this element at was called by the Design and Artists' £500 p.a.) and a "per slide copy charge' of Copyright Society (DACS), who are about about 25 pence. The combination of these to become licensees under the terms of the two elements respect DACS' view that Copyright Act. All the professional there is no standard or typical slide library. librarians present on the Working Group Members may recall that the AAH were agreed that a voluntary licensing sought legal opinion on the Copyright Act scheme was essential. It was noted that with regard to slide libraries. It may be many institutions had prohibited copying worth noting that the lawyer we used then, altogether, that some collections were lying Robin Fry, now acts for DACS and supports dormant and unused while educationalists the licensing scheme they are trying to were desperate for teaching material. establish. On behalf of the Association I DACS will establish a scheme whereby have written to DACS raising certain an institution or an individual may apply to important questions, including the issues

2 CONFERENCE REPORT COMPUTING THE PAST Managing Information in Museums, Galleries and Archives 9th Annual Conference of CHArt Victoria and Albert Museum 17-18 December 1993 For nearly a decade now, CHArt (the due for publication next spring. Finally, funding by a consortium of Dutch, British Computers and History of Art group) has Mike Budd - of the Science Museum and Irish partners - is to find ways of been holding an annual conference in which Library -considered the findings of LASSI linking different databases which deal with some aspect of the application of computers (no dog jokes please, he pleaded at the art cataloguing and to provide standards to the study and conservation of works of beginning of his talk - without much effect). for the exchange of information. The art is explored. This year the focus was on The Larger Scale Systems Initiative (to achievements of the project so far were the ways in which information technology give it its full title) is being operated by a described by members from the Witt has been transforming the activities of consortium of museums which covers both Library - John Sunderland and Colum museums, galleries and archives. Talks arts and science subjects. Amongst the Hourihane - together with Stewart Granger were given on a variety of aspects of what interesting issues he raised was that of the of Vasari Inc. Finally in this session there was quite a wide-ranging theme. The topics status of the object itself. In science was a move to a research project, when themselves ranged from broad management museums, he observed, the tendency is to Tony Higgins of the practice and principles to specific projects see the object as a sample, rather than as a described the use of imaging techniques and research tools. unique item. In arts museums, on the other for the identification and classification of hand, the reverse is true. This difference watermarks on papers used for printmaking Setting Standards profoundly affects the attitude to class• ification and the possibility of achieving Research Tools In line with these different approaches, the standardised practices. lectures were divided into three sessions. The second day of the conference began The first, entitled Setting Standards, Although not in this session, Alan Seal's with the session Research Tools - considered the various attempts underway talk on 'Standards and Local Practice - the Investigating the Image, which saw a further to establish compatible standards for the experience of the Victoria and Albert move towards discussion techniques and classification and description of objects in Museum' provided a wry coda to the methods. The offerings were quite diverse. museums. On the surface this might seems standards debate. Alan Seal - who is in Frank and Jean Colson from the University a fairly limited subject, until one begins to charge of implementing the V&A's of Southampton demonstrated their' H ides' consider its implications. With the growth computerised classification system - took project, in which there is an emphasis on of networking, it is possible to access the view that standards can only be set by providing a multimedia environment in information from an almost limitless practice. And while this might seem to be which all the various tools the historian number of institutions. If there is sufficient a sensible enough point to make, he added could require are brought together. Frank compatibility between the ways in which the rather more disconcerting one that Colson made the point that a historian of these institutions describe the objects in standards tend only to be agreed when a the twentieth century needed to co-ordinate their possession, then it is possible to treat system is already over its development a multifarious variety of sources which these as the contents of one 'universal' period and is on the way out. Whether this could include visual and moving sources museum. Expertise about objects would is true or not, it is certainly clear that no (i.e. film) as much as text. The next speaker no longer be confined within pockets of standardisation system can succeed that was Seamus Ross from the British local practice, but would be encouraged to has not got the flexibility to develop with Academy, who described progress on 'The develop in new directions, allowing practice and to move from system to system. Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in different comparisons and conclusions to On the other hand, without some measure Britain'. This is a project sponsored by the be drawn, and making the objects of agreed standardisation, much of the British Academy, with the ambition of themselves more accessible to a wider advantage of the present process of cataloguing all extant examples of public. computerisation will be lost. Romanesque sculpture. Seamus Ross This was one of the issues addressed by emphasised the importance not only of the three speakers in this session. Andrew Projects and Applications entering the data electronically, but also of Roberts - Documentations Officer at the The next session of the conference, Projects using digital imagery as opposed to Museum of London - laid particular stress and Applications, moved on to look at conventional photography. on the value of achieving international specific examples. As well as Alan Seal's A novelty for the conference was the compatibility. Alice Grant - Standards account of the experience of the V&A, appearance of the police - in the form of the Development Manager at the Museums there was the description of a major Art Fraud Squad. They were there to Documentation Association - described international visual archive venture - Van demonstrate ACIS (Article Classification the UK Museums Documentation Standard. Eyck. The aim of this project - run with EC and Identification Systems) - the system 3 CONFERENCE REPORT

that has been devised for them to help Demonstrations detect art theft. Detective Inspector Butler During the afternoon there was a wide - who gave the talk - emphasised how variety of demonstrations of tools and Theatre, Spectacle much art crime has grown in recent years. systems that had been described in the This is something that hurts the poor as lecture sessions. These included Hides, and Performance much as the rich. Not only do people lose ACIS, the AAT (Art and Architecture 7 May 1994 their valued possessions, but the poorer Thesaurus), and Morelli - the picture countries lose their national heritage. referencing system currently being The University of Once again imagery played a key role in implemented at the Witt Library. These what was going on, and some impressive showed the great variety of work that was Manchester software was demonstrated which showed going on at the moment, and also Department of History how images are used for object detection. emphasised how valuable further linking One problem is that the system has to be between the systems would be. of Art 'police proof (their term), that is, it has to As is usual, the conference also provided First Annual Graduate be capable of manipulation by someone the venue for the Annual General Meeting Symposium who has no expert knowledge of art, but of CHArt. The growing strength of the Northern Universities Group who is trying to track down a crime. Butler group's journal, Computers and the History- envisaged that in the future it would be of Art, was welcomed and it was announced Call for Papers possible to have a portable system that that CHArt was seeking to stimulate further On 7 May 1994, the History of Art could be used by police officers and customs interest in the issues of computerisation by Department at the University of officers and similar people 'on the ground', offering a pair of prizes, one for an essay by Manchester is holding its first graduate thus enabling detection to take place in the a student, and one for a research project. symposium, on the theme Theatre, market place, where it is most needed. Details of these are given under Spectacle and Performance, at the The final talk in this session was a Announcements in this Bulletin. New Whitworth Art Gallery. This day-long lecture by Dr Manfred Thaller on his' Kleio' committee members were elected at the conference is primarily intended to offer system, a database designed specifically AGM - including representatives for a forum for post-graduate students for use by historians. Dr Thaller's particular Holland and Ireland - and the idea of closer working within the discipline in concern here was the use of images. He ties with other relevant societies was universities which are not within easy made very valuable observations about how mooted. It is hoped that CHArt can have a reach of London. historians use images and the ways in which presence at the next AAH conference, and The theme of the conference has been these uses coincide with those of the art that there will be a joint workshop on devised to embrace papers of diverse historian - though not always. It was a images with the Association of Historical content and approach. We shall welcome positive talk that showed the extent to Computing. It was also decided to have the the fruits of research pertaining not only which each group could learn from each next conference earlier in the year. A to theatre in the narrower sense but also other. He made the point that historians, possible topic would be 'Making to 'performance' of identities and ideas when using images as evidence (for Connections'. Such a topic would certainly within the visual arts. example of an aspect of the material culture fit in with the ambition that CHArt has to Please send abstracts, to arrive no of a particular society), have to take note of bridge gaps between art and technology later than 14 March 1994 to: the ways that pictorial conventions control and make clear the possibilities that open Graduate Symposium evidence. Dr Thaller also made the very up through this process. important point that digitised images have Department of History of Art to be as accurate as possible and that Will Vaughan Manchester M13 9PL compression techniques are likely to December 1993 remove valuable evidence that might not be visible in the original but which could be I For further information and booking CHArt is a society open to all who have an discovered later by image transformation I forms contact: interest in the application of computers to techniques. He provided some striking the study of art and design. Membership Dominic Britton: Tel. 061 275 7210 examples of how image enhancement had currently stands at £25.00 per annum. or enabled scholars to detect previously Mark Whittaker: Tel. 061 448 1247. For further information please write to unknown information about the physical Robert Senecal, Secretary of CHArt, The Fax (Department): 061 275 3331. nature of medieval manuscripts, and how Library, Goldsmiths College, Lewisham this had led to dramatic re-readings. Way, London SE14 6NW.

4 CONFERENCE BIRMINGHAM CONFERENCE 1994 FORWARD: ART AND INDUSTRY (Past and Future) University of Central England in Birmingham 8-11 April 1994

In its twentieth year, the conference returns to Birmingham, its inaugural venue, taking place at the site of the Institute of Art and Design. The theme 'Forward: Art and Industry' is derived from the city's crest. It encapsulates the historic local association with the traditions of the British Arts and Crafts Movement, and summarises the conference programme, which gives equal emphasis to art and design history, including architecture, crafts, museology, and a wide range of current issues. The full programme of academic sessions is complemented by a range of related events reflecting this theme.

Organisers: Professor George T Noszlopy and Dr Kenneth Quickenden (University of Central England) Administrators: Vicky Ley (academic sessions and bookings) and Lynn Woolley (finance and visits) University of Central England, Institute of Art and Design, School of Theoretical and Historical Studies in Art and Design, Gosta Green, Birmingham B4 7DX Direct Line: 021 331 5885 Fax: 021 333 5569

Book Fair: Savita Ayling, 776 Leabridge Road, Leyton, London El7 9DN Tel and fax: 081 539 7005

Registration public art practice. Paul de Monchaux will General It will be possible to register from 0900 speak on Poetry' and Sculpture: The making Information onwards in the foyer of the BI AD building. of the Wilfred Owen memorial. A third Please note that a surcharge of £10 will be artist to be confirmed. Session convened payable by delegates booking on the day of and chaired by Vivien Lovell, Director of Bookings the conference. the Public Art Commissions Agency. A booking form, including the address and Sunday 10 April: 16.00 phone number of the conference office, is AAH Business Professor Michael Podro (University of included in this Bulletin. Early booking is The Student Special Interest Group will Essex): History or Artistry. A Comment on advised for members wishing to attend meet on Friday 8 April at 10.00, in addition the Present. visits or other special events. to the usual Special Interest Group meetings on Sunday from 10.00 to 11.00. The AAH Receptions Accommodation AGM will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Friday 8 April: Gas Hall, Birmingham Bed and breakfast may be booked through Emma Jessie Phipps Building, GostaGreen, Museum and Art Gallery, to be opened by the conference office at a variety of venues on Sunday from 10.30 until 13.00. the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. and prices. Halls of residence are available Saturday 9 April: Delegates may choose on the Campus, while accom• Plenary Sessions either the or the Barber modation in the nearby (walking distance) These will be held at the Great Hall, Aston Institute of Fine Arts. Royal Angus Thistle Hotel (Four Star) has University Main Building. Sunday 10 April: A choice of either a been negotiated at an extremely favourable Friday 8 April: 12.00 reception and exhibition at the Public Art rate. Members are urged to book early to Sotheby's Lecture: Sir Denys Lasdun: Commissions Agency or a recital by Alfred secure the room and price of their choice. Tradition and the Individual Architect Brendel of Beethoven Piano Sonatas at Saturday 9 April: 16.00 Symphony Hall. A block booking of 200 Sustenance Artists Addressing the Public: Three artists tickets has been made, providing an The conference fees include morning who have been involved in public art extremely attractive discount; these may coffee, a buffet lunch, and afternoon tea; commissions give their views. Deanna be purchased when booking, on a first- these will be served in the Institute of Art Petherbridge will discuss some of the come, first-served basis. and Design refectory. inherent dichotomies of contemporary

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Exhibitions Special exhibitions to coincide with the conference may be viewed at the Gallery Talks Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery during the reception: The Friday reception at the newly restored Gas Hall will be preceded by eight Bikeart: The Art, Craft, and Lifestyle of gallery talks. The delegates will be able to select from the following: the Custom Bike Movement, Gas Hall, 12 The Bikeart Exhibition - tour and talk Michael Diamond February - 8 May. Showroom to Gallery - the Making of the Gas Hall Vessels from Another World: Slide show, commentary, discussion. Evelyn Silber Metaphysical Pots in Painted Stoneware Pre-Raphaelite Drawings Stephen Wildman by Elizabeth Fritsch - a touring exhibition from the Northern Centre for Contemporary Italian 17th-century Painting Collection Jane Farrington Art, 26 February - 23 April. 20th-century Collection Sheila McGregor The Ikon Gallery plans an exhibition The Stained Glass Collection Glenys Wild (title to be confirmed), which will be open Vessels From Another World: to delegates during the Saturday reception. The Elizabeth Fritsch Collection Helen Spencer In addition, the early history of the , and the work Contemporary Craft Martin Ellis of the prominent art educator Marion The Barber Institute has agreed a similar provision of four gallery talks: Richardson form the subject of two special Gainsborough \s Harvest Wagon Paul Spencer-Longhurst exhibitions presented during the conference Veronese's Visitation David Hemsoll at the Gosta Green site by the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. Murillo's Marriage at Cana Richard Verdi Birmingham Central Reference Library, Whistler's Symphony in White, No. Ill Alison Smith Chamberlain Square, will present two special exhibitions on Birmingham: Art and Industry to complement the conference: 4 A Day in the Life' Morris, University of Warwick, Department Illustrated books of the Birmingham School Sunday 11 April, 16.00-16.30 of History of Art. Leaving Birmingham and Documents from Birmingham Design A day in the life of practitioners in art and around 0915, and returning by 1630. Access Archives: Silversmithing and jewellery, industry will be described by the following difficult for wheelchairs. £10. stained glass, and technical and scientific speakers: Speaker to be confirmed: A Day 2. Canals and Industrial Design in drawings. in the Life of a Late Medieval Workshop. Central Birmingham with Lewis Dr Martin Postle( University of Delaware): Braithwaite: a morning walk along the Computer Systems Demonstration A Day in the Life of the Royal Academy of tow-paths of the central canal system, Sunday 10 April, 09.00-10.30 Arts, London: 19 August 1773. Professor leaving from the Baskerville Monument in Speakers from the session Application of John Swift (University of Central England): Centenary Square at 1030, then after lunch Interactive Computer Systems to Art and A Day in the Life of the Birmingham going by coach to visit other canals in the Design History, chaired by Andy Saxon, Municipal School of Art. central area, in Smethwick and (time will demonstrate their computer systems. permitting) the Netherton Canal Tunnel. Provisionally, participants include: Visits Return to Birmingham 1700. Please note Professor William Vaughan (Birkbeck Prices are for transport only. Delegates are that tow-paths are notoriously muddy and College): The Morelli Project; Mr Jeremy reminded that admission charges may be the walks and canal exploration are not Rees( International Visual Arts Information applicable in some cases. Lunch will be really suitable for people who have walking Network): the Brancusi Project; Christiane taken at a suitable venue en route, and the difficulties. £8.50. Bron and Francine Viret-Bernal (University cost is not covered by the fee. 3. Architecture in Outer Birmingham. of Lausanne): the TIRESIAS Project; Dr 1. Warwickshire including Kenilworth A coach visit round the outer circle of Suzette Worden and Dr Colin Beardon Castle (12th- 16th centuries, conservation); Birmingham to see , Blakesley (Rediffusion Simulation Centre, University the Beauchamp Chapel in the collegiate Manor, King's Norton Green and Church, of Brighton): the Virtual Curator project; church of St Mary, Warwick (Medieval, and Village - an exhibition of Kodak UK: the Photo-CD System. sculpture, Gothic 'survival'): and drawings of which will be on display at the Stoneleigh Abbey (12th-18th centuries, conference. Stairs may prove a problem 18th-century interiors). Led by Dr Richard for some people in the old properties. Visit

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FRIDAY 8 APRII Women as Patrons of Renaissance Art From 09.00 Registration Evocation and Description 10.00-11.00 Special Interest Groups: Students Drawing 1400-1600 11.00-11.30 Coffee and Book Fair Opening 12.45-14.00 Lunch 12.00-13.00 Opening of the Conference 14.00- 15.30 Academic Sessions Plenary Session: Sotheby Lecture: Orpheus and Daedalus Sir Denys Lasdun Semper and Riegl 13.00-14.00 Lunch Pre-Industrial Mass Production 14.00-15.30 Academic Sessions Architecture: Bevond Style Orpheus and Daedalus Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature Art, Design and Ecology Museology & Curatorship Now Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature Silversmithing and Jewellery Representation in Science and Technology Computers in Art & Design History Architecture and National Identity Architecture & National Identity Workers and Art Modern Photojournalism De diversis artibus Iconography of the Machine Women as Patrons of Renaissance Art Utopia: Idea and Image Evocation and Description Public Art & Industrial Process Drawing 1400- 1600 Women as Patrons of Renaissance Art 15.30-16.00 Tea Evocation and Description 16.00-17.30 Academic Sessions: as above plus Drawing 1400- 1600 Utopia: Idea and Image 15.30- 16.00 Tea 17.30-18.00 Travel to Birmingham Museum and Art 16.00-17.30 Plenary Session: Chair: Vivien Lovell; Gallery, Chamberlain Square Speakers: Deanna Petherbridge. Paul de 18.00 - 18.45 Gallery talks: Museum and Art Gallery Monchaux. third speaker to be confirmed 18.45 - 20.30 Reception: Museum and Art Gallery 17.30-18.30 Travel to Barber Institute or Ikon Gallery 18.30-19.00 Gallery talks: Barber Institute SATURDAY 9 APRIL 19.00-20.30 Reception: Barber Institute and Ikon Gallery 09.00 - 10.30 Academic Sessions Orpheus and Daedalus SUNDAY 10 APRIL Semper and Riegl 09.00- 10.00 Special Interest Groups: Freelance, Pre-Industrial Mass Production Universities and Colleges, Students, Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature Museums and Galleries, Schools Representation in Science and Technology 09.00- 10.30 Special Session: Demonstration of Silversmithing and Jewellery Application of Interactive Computer Computers in Art & Design History Systems to History of Art and Design Architecture & National Identity 10.00-10.30 Coffee Modern Photojournalism 10.30- 13.00 AGM Workers and Art 13.00- 14.00 Lunch De diversis artibus 14.00-15.30 Academic Sessions: Iconography of the Machine Semper and Riegl Utopia: Idea and Image Architecture: Bevond Stvle Puhlic Art & Industrial Process Pre-Raphaelite Arml t and mlLiteratur e Women as Patrons of Renaissance Art Museology & Curatorship Now Evocation and Description Silversmithing and Jewellery Drawing 1400- 1600 Computers in Art & Design History 10.30-11.15 Coffee and Publishers' Session Iconography of the Machine 11.15-12.45 Academic Sessions Utopia: Idea and Image Orpheus and Daedalus Evocation and Description Semper and Riegl Drawing 1400- 1600 Pre-Industrial Mass Production 15.30- 16.00 Tea Architecture: Bevond Style 16.00- 16.30 Special Session: 'A Day in the Life...*: Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature Martin Postle. John Swift Museology & Curatorship Now 16.00- 17.30 Plenary Session: Michael Podro Representation in Science and Technology Close of Official Proceedings Silversmithing and Jewellery 17.30-19.00 Travel to Reception or Symphony Hall Computers in Art & Design History 19.00-20.30 Reception: Public Art Commissions Agency Architecture & National Identitv 19.30 Concert (Brendel Recital) Modern Photojournalism ml Iconography of the Machine MONDAY 11 APRIL Utopia: Idea and Image Visits Public Art & Industrial Process BIRMINGHAM CONFERENCE

led by Dr Michael Harrison, School of chairs, we shall need to make arrangements Orpheus and Daedalus, together with Theoretical and Historical Studies in Art at the lunch venue, so please advise us of Prometheus and Hephaistos, are amongst and Design, UCE. £8.00. your specific needs. The coach will leave the earliest mythical personifications of 4. Leicester Museums: Dr Alison Birmingham around 09.30 and return for civilising processes and institutions. The Yarrington of Leicester University has 17.00. Admission to museums is free. name Daedalus, which itself implies skill, arranged a half-day visit to Leicester £6.00. became synonymous with the early Museum and Art Gallery for delegates to 6. Ironbridge Gorge Museum: with developments of sculpted religious have a private viewing of the German the staff of Staffordshire University. imagery, architecture, and mechanical Expressionist Collection. Leaving Birmingham at 09.00, returning ingenuity. The coach will leave Birmingham at around 18.00. The site is very extensive, so In post-Christian Europe, the mythic 09.00 and coffee will be provided on arrival suggested areas to visit include the Museum figure of Orpheus has been a dominant at Leicester. The delegates will then have of Iron (for those interested in graphics, symbol, an analogue of Christ and the time to view some unique oils by Marc, ironwork, product design, industrial embodiment of the transfigurative power Miinter and Feininger, and items usually archaeology etc) and the Blists Hill site, of art. Daedalian imagery survived less kept in storage, in addition to archival including Jackfields Tile Works and the prominently, although the theme of Icarus, material. This includes a comprehensive Coalport China Works (for industrial elaborated and embellished, developed into collection of works of Die Briicke, Der archaeologists and historical design and a principal emblem of tragic Promethean Blaue Reiter and Neue Sachlichkeit; a production of ceramics). £10.00. aspiration in 19th-century romanticism. visitors' book of the Hess family, with 7. Walking Tour of Central Coevally, and more optimistically, Icarie appended drawings and watercolours; a Birmingham: David Hemsoll of was the name given by Cabet to the vision copy of the catalogue for the 1937 Official will lead a of communal life he hoped to establish in Art Exhibition in Munich, and a photocopy walking tour of Inner City Birmingham, America with his followers, critical-utopian for perusal; postcards collected by Rosa examining such buildings as the Law socialists favourably mentioned by Marx Shapire; copious supporting material. Courts, Pugin's St Chad's Cathedral, and and Engels in the Communist Manifesto. If any delegate is engaged in research in the Soho area of the city. After lunch Throughout the next fifty years, European this area, Amanda Wadsley of the Museum delegates can visit the , avant-gardes, whether communistic, staff is prepared to arrange extra viewing where most of the jewellery made in Britain anarchistic, or nationalistic, posited Utopian time, provided notice is given in advance. is produced, and the working museum there, social unity, a new golden age: the harmonic Lunch can be reserved locally before a showing the history of the silversmithing integration of arts and technologies. return departure from Leicester at around and jewellery industry in the city over 200 It is hoped that this session will provide 1400. Cost £10 years, as well as the Smith & Pepper time a forum for a number of papers addressing 5. The Black Country: Deborah capsule. The Jewellery Quarter itself has a iconographical, socio-economic, and Robinson, Senior Exhibitions Officer of fascinating range of buildings, including sociological problems associated with the Museum and Art Gallery, will St Paul's Square, Birmingham's last 18th- arts, technology, architecture and social guide delegates round the award-winning century square, and many gems of Victorian planning. Garman Ryan collection (accumulated by architecture. Speakers: Indra McEwan (Universite , 's widow, While the museums cater for wheelchair du Quebec a Montreal): Daedalus and and her friend, the sculptor Sally Ryan). In users, the tour of the city will involve a fair Ana.ximander: Architecture and the addition to work by Epstein himself, there amount of walking and being on one's feet. fundamental question of metaphysics; is a collection of early 20th-century art - Transport costs nil. Michael White (University of Essex): Dada described in the Radio Times for their 'Off Town Planning: Theo van Doeshurg 's 'City the Wall' series (13.7.93) as 'one of the of Circulation'; Simon Unwin (Welsh British art world's best-kept secrets'. Academic Sessions School of Architecture): The Loss of Place There is also an exhibition exploring the Orpheus and Daedalus: the power of art in the Spatial Labyrinths of 'Modern' realities, histories and mythologies of the and the ideological transformations of Architecture; Susannah Hagan(University Black Country, mixing local historical myth in the imaging of religious and of Westminster): The Tree in the Machine: research and the exploitation of this theme social harmony Some millenial thoughts on Green by contemporary artists. architecture; John Turpin (National Lunch will be taken at a local 'Black Convener: Dr Adrian Hicken, Bath College College of Art and Design, Dublin): The Country' pub, and there will be an afternoon of Higher Education, Faculty of Art and M\th of Cuchulainn and its Political and visit to the Walsall Leather Museum. While Music, 16 Somerset Place, Lansdown, Bath, Commercial Transformations in the the museums can accommodate wheel• BA1 5SF Sculpture of Oliver Sheppard; Richard 8 BIRMINGHAM CONFERENCE

Hobbs (University of Bristol): Odilon Historiography: Richard Woodfield (The Architecture: Beyond Style Redon and the Survival of Orpheus; John Nottingham Trent University): Riegl and Barnes (University of Central England): Semper Workshop based on the following Convener: Allan Haines, University of Pythagoras, Schoenherg and Cubism recent publications: Riegl's Late Roman Central England, Birmingham School of Orphique; Julia Fagan-King: Love, Light Art Industry, trans. R Winkes, Rome, 1985; Architecture, Faculty of the Built Envi• and the Threshold of Mystical Perfection: Riegl's Problems of Style, trans. Kain, ronment, , Birmingham B42 2SU Transcendental idealism in the early Princeton, 1993; Margaret Olin, Forms of paintings of Marie Laurencin and Marc- Representation in Alois RiegTs Theory of The question of style has shifted from Chagall: Adrian Hicken (Bath College of Art, Penn. State Press, 1992; Margaret 18th-century traditionalism to later Higher Education): Apollinaire il Ritorant; Iverson, Alois Riegl: Art History and eclecticism, overtaken by a 20th-century Giorgio de Chirico '.s painterly evocations Theory, MIT. 1993. (In the latter context, style, and finally to a pluralistic, personal of an orphic poet; Eleanor Moreton delegates might like to know that response. These modifications have been (University of Central England): From Cambridge University Press still has a few accompanied by a changing emphasis on Orpheus to Abraham - the works of Harnett copies left of Gottfried Semper, The Four the unity between form and content. Newman explored. Elements of Architecture and other According to Wolfflin, the world-view writings.) of an era is embodied in a style; more Semper and Riegl recently, style operates as a critique of Mass Production of Art in Pre-Industrial prevailing conditions. Convener: Richard Woodfield, The Europe Interpretations and the role of style, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham coupled with the influence of the media, Convener: Dr T Frangenberg. University NG1 4BU. Fax: 0602 486403 serve to question the relationship of form of Leicester. Department of Art History, to meaning in architecture. The range of University Road, Leicester, LEI 7RH Central Europe has made a significant topics extends to notions of authenticity and style, the continued displacement of contribution to the study of art history in This session will study the multiplication style by function, ideas of deep and surface the 20th century. One particularly or mass-production of images such as style, and the role of personal style. interesting conjuncture has been between devotional paintings, cast sculpture, pilgrim Speakers: Lauren S Weingarden (Florida the conflicting ideas of Semper and Riegl. badges, tourist souvenirs etc, from the State University): Relationships of Art and This session is devoted to an analysis of the Middle Ages to the 17th century. Technology in the work of Louis H Sullivan; work of both men, and the influence they Contributions on the uses of such works, Professor Barry Bergdoll (Columbia have had upon the development of art on the organisation of the workshops University): Attitudes of I9th-century historiography and the understanding of producing them, and on the locations where French Architects towards Collaborating the material practices of art. such production occurred, are as welcome with Industry; Cliff Getty McMahon as studies on individual works or groups of (University of St Andrews): The Speakers: Dr Wojiech Balus works. (Jagiellonian University): Remarks on Programme of I M Pei\ Dr David Semper's Architectural Theory; Dr Damien Speakers: Sarah Brown (National Thistlewood (University of Liverpool): A Prelovsek (Ljubljana): The Influence of Buildings Record, Royal Commission on Klotzian Interpretation of British Modernist Scmper's Theories on the Architecture of the Historical Monuments of England): architecture 1925-1951; DrPhilippaHurd Vienna in the Early 20th Century; Dr Jan Stained Glass: Artifice and artistry in the (University of Cambridge): The » * Architectural Response of Karl Fried rich Bakos (Slovak Academy of Sciences): making of a medieval window; Dr Geoff Schinkel to 19th-century Debates on Style Truth versus Rhetoric: Riegl's polemics Egan (Museum of London) in collaboration and Function. against Semper's conception of style; Dr with Brian Spencer: The Mass Production Rotislav Svacha (Czech Academy of of Pilgrim Souvenirs and Other Sciences): Riegl on the Conservation of Accessories — Evidence from medieval Art, Design and Ecology Old Monuments; Dr Stefan Muthesius London; Francis Cheetham (Arts and (University of East Anglia): Aspects of the Museums Consultant): Medieval English Convener: Dr Pauline Madge, University Wolkskunst Movement before 1900: Riegl's Alabasters—the process of standardization; of Central England, Birmingham Institute Kunsthaustleiss und hausindustrie (1894); Pippa Shirley (Metalwork Collection. of Art and Design, Gosta Green, Dr Paul Crowther (University of St Victoria and Albert Museum): Images in Birmingham B4 7DX Andrews): Riegl's Theory of Art; Giles Iron; Dr Anabel Thomas (Department of Peake (University of Derby): The Object Italian. Cambridge University); Neri di In recent years environmentalism and the of Rigour: Benjamin, Riegl and Bicci and the Mass Market. concept of ecology has led to some

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rethinking in all professions and academic on art and industry will, of course, be Currently, many museum curators are disciplines, including the history and welcome, but the range of subjects in this caught between the development of art and practice of art, architecture and design. session will be broader than that of the design history away from their traditional Eco-design puts intoquestion the paradigms main Conference. Contributions are invited strong point of object-based research and of design and industrial production and on: painting and literature; book illustration the increasing emphasis within museums consumption which have long been taken and other applied arts; the critical reception on managerial skills at the expense of for granted and eco-art has also raised of the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers; scholarly knowledge. New lines of enquiry, issues of commodity aesthetics and ecology feminist issues, the relationship between frequently reapplied from other disciplines, aesthetics. the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the influence principles of display and Much of the ecological literature is Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts Movements; interpretation, while steady progress in the inherently polemical and cannot be the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and physical analysis of works of art has separated from the politics of environ- their followers on writers and artists abroad. transformed the role of the scholarly curator mentalism. A historical perspective which Speakers: Dr Judith Bronkhurst vis a vis that of the conservator or scientific places developments in art, architecture (Courtauld Institute): Holman Hunt's advisor. This session seeks to address the and design within the context of Sculpture and Applied Art; Colin Hughes above issues, highlighting both the links environmentalism as a cultural and political (Oxford Brookes University): Thomas and divergences between theoretical movement can perform a very useful role Combe: Printer and patron of the arts; Dr museology and empirical curatorship in at the moment: by helping to clarify the Paul Barlow (Northumbria University): the fine and applied arts. confusing range of current ideas and issues Local Disturbances: Mado.x Brown's Papers include: Dennis Farr: Old Wine and explaining their origins it can offer a Manchester Murals and the vitality of in New Bottles - a traditionalist view of critique of current practice and orthodoxy. naivety; Professor Dianne Macleod curatorship with modern variations; The study of art and design or ecology over (University of California, Davis): Pre- Trevor Coombs (University of Bradford): the last twenty-five or so years can therefore Raphaelite Patrons: Art and industry; Dr Victorian Patronage: The problem of help to contextualise current practice, and Alastair Grieve (University of East Anglia): giving; Timothy Stevens (Victoria and ecologically based research into the history Highland Rocks, Water, Girls. Clough, Albert Museum): Building and Housing a of art and design in this and earlier periods Ruskin and Millais in 1853; Dr Kate Flint National Collection: The National Museum can provide a new perspective on the nature (Linacre College, Faculty of English. of Wales 1882-1993; David Clarke of art and design in pre-industrial and Oxford University): Blindness and Insight: (National Museums of Scotland): The industrial societies and lead to the Millais' The Blind Girl and the limits of Museum of Scotland: Past and future reassessment of familiar material. representation; Dr Alison Smith (Barber (provisional title); John Murdoch This session will explore some of these Institute of Fine Arts, University of (Courtauld Institute Galleries): Towards a issues via history and current practice and Birmingham): Close Encounters: Millais' Museum without Walls: The nation's is intended to be inter- or multi-disciplinary Knight Errant and the Victorian nude; Jan collection (provisional title); PaulSpencer- in nature. Marsh: Issues of Ethnicity and the Impact Longhurst (Barber Institute) The Barber of the American War on Pre-Raphaelite Speakers: Dr Janice Helland (Concordia Institute of Fine Arts: Si.xty years of Painting and Poetry; Ericka Stock University): Artistic Advocate: Mary Rose development and adaption. (University of East Anglia): Dante Gabriel Hill Burton and the Falls of Foyers; Henry Rosetti and the Weird; Stephen Wildman Okraglik and Andrew Sweatman (Royal Representation in Science and (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery): Melbourne Institute of Technology): Technology Pre-Raphaelite Surreal: Three unpublished Visions in the Desert: Dr Nigel Whiteley 'Cadavres Exquis'; Dr Nicola Gordon (LancasterUniversity): 'Gooddesign'and Convener: Professor Martin Kemp, Bowe (National College of Art and Design, the Ethical Consumer; Dr Pauline Madge University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Dublin): Graphic Imagery in Irish Book (UCE): Shades of Green Design. Fife KY16 9AL Illustration and Stained Glass c 1906- 1925; Dr Colin Cruise (Staffordshire Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature University): Masculinity, Class and The visual image has played a vital role in science and technology, not just in Convener: Ellen Harding, University of Aestheticism. illustration but also in processes of Central England, Birmingham Institute of visualisation and mental modelling. Even Art and Design, Gosta Green, Birmingham Museology and Curatorship Now considered strictly as illustration, the visual B4 7DX Convener: Dr Mark Evans, Department of image in science is far more complex than The focus of the session will be on the Art, National Museum of Wales, Cathays is often acknowledged, and involves relationship between image and text. Papers Park, Cardiff CF1 3NP interlocked questions of technique.

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medium, production, patronage, viewing Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, users access to information on a hitherto and reception. We need to take into account Gosta Green, Birmingham B4 7DX unparalleled scale. Point of information; both the semantics of the visual image in Using Western examples from the 18th public access; collections management; itself and in relation to written texts. In century to the modern period, this session multimedia databasing and scientific terms of visualisation, we need to analyse will explore the interdependent themes of analysis are some of the areas that have how the resources of representation relate production and marketing of jewellery, benefited from involvement with new to the types of conceptual modelling that silversmithing, and their allied trades. technology. have been involved in the generation and These items in particular have been the This session seeks to address philo• communication of ideas, observations, sophical and practical issues facing structures and processes in the various kinds subjects of much recent research, some of which has yet to be published. The session contemporary development and imple• of sciences and technologies. The range of mentation of Art and Design History potential topics extends from ancient will provide an opportunity for the discussion and dissemination of that interactive systems. Contributors are science (eg why Greek anatomists decried invited to explore the 'interface' between illustration) to recent techniques of research. Confirmed papers so far include: Dr the specialist areas of Art and Design computer modelling, from the linear History and Interactive Systems Develop• diagrams of geometry to the naturalistic Helen Clifford (Ashmolean Museum): The Myth of the Maker: Manufacturing ment, including, but not limited to: The depictions of natural history, and from the impact of new technology; Issues pertaining technical drawing to the photograph. All networks in the London goldsmiths' trade 1750-1790; Michael Snodin (Victoria and to systems development; Demonstration the papers will be expected to examine how of prototypic and current systems; the images work in their contexts rather Albert Museum): Putting Adam into Context; Dr Kenneth Quickenden Institutional perspectives; User needs; than simply documenting an incident in the Overview of current progress; Emerging history of scientific illustration. (University of Central England: Boulton and Fothergill Silver: The interface trends. Speakers: Professor Vivian Nutton between production and marketing; Gay Speakers: Dr Anthony Hamber (Group (Historian of Medicine): Illustration and Booth (University of Central England): Imaging Systems Manager, Christies Non-illustration in Renaissance Anatomy: The Use of Dies by Sheffield's Silversmiths; International pic): Senefelder to the Digital Dr Donald Hill (Historian of Islamic Richard Manwaring Baines (London Image: Revolutions in imaging Science): Illustrations inAl-Jazari \s Work: College of Fashion): Elkingtons of technologies and their impact on art history; Their value as engineering documents; Dr Birmingham; Shelagh Wilson (University Dr Colum Hourihane (Deputy Director, J V Field (Historian of Mathematics etc, of Northumbrian Art into Industry: The the Witt Computer Index, Courtauld Perspective and Art): Illustrating Geometry promotion of production to the public by Institute): The Van Eyck Project: Artists' (with special reference to Piero della the Birmingham Jewellery trade 1860- biographical material; Professor William Francesco); Dr Graham Hollister-Short 1900; Cynthia Weaver (University of Vaughan (Birkbeck College): Addressing (Historian of Technology etc): The Central England): The Development of the Image: The use of 'MorellV for Interpretation of Machine Drawings; Dr Costume Jewellery in England between automated picture referencing and Gerard Turner (Historian of Science, 0,1910 and cl930 under the impacts of analysis; Mr Jeremy Rees (Director, especially scientific instruments): Suffrage and World War I; Shena Mason: International Visual Arts Information Representing Images in Microscopy; Dr Real Jewellery for the World and his Wife. Network, Ipswich): Widening the Access David Knight (Historian of Science, Developments in the Birmingham jewellery to Information about Art: Explorations of including Natural Sciences and Chemistry): trade, 1930-1992. the potential of interactive multimedia; Representation in Chemistry; Dr Jeff Rosen Christiane Bron and Francine Viret Bernal (Historian of 19th-20th Century Art and (University of Lausanne): An Educational Historian of Graphic Art): Caught between Application of Interactive Computer Game based upon the program TIRESIAS; the Academy and the Museum: Scientific Systems to Art and Design History Dr Suzette Worden and Dr Colin Beardon progress and photographie zoologique. (Rediffusion Simulation Centre, University The convener will provide a framework Convener: Andy Saxon, University of of Brighton): The Virtual Curator: concerning the representation of the 'Real* Central England, Birmingham Institute of Multimedia software and design history; and a new history of the visual. Art and Design, Gosta Green Birmingham A Spokesperson from Kodak UK: Digital B4 7DX; Tel. 021 331 5870 (24-hour Imaging and its Impact on the Art History Silversmithing and Jewellery answering machine); Fax: 021 333 6020 Area. (24-hour access) Convener: Dr Kenneth Quickenden. The arrival of interactive computer systems University of Central England. in the Art and Design History area offers 11 BIRMINGHAM CONFERENCE

Architecture and National Identity London Institute): Style and Identity: The Robert Hamilton (Manchester Metropolitan debate surrounding Sir Gilbert Scott's University): The Production and Convener: Professor Toshio Watanabe, design for Hamburg Town Hall', Hellmut Reproduction of the Execution of a Viet Chelsea College of Art and Design, Wohl (Boston University): TheManueline Cong Suspect by Eddie Adams; John Manresa Road, London SW3 6LS; Tel: Style: Architecture as a symbol of national Welchman (University of California, San 071 352 3655 renown in Portugal; Dalia Manor Diego): Glasnost as an Allegory of the (freelance art historian and critic, London): Soviet 60s: Photojournalism into art; Already in 1882 Ernest Renan warned us From Orientalism to Modernism: Problems Michael Hallett (University of Central not to confuse a nation with dynasty, race, of local and international styles in the England): The Interrelationship between religion, language, community of interest architecture of pre-state Israel (the 1920s the Pesti Naplo Magazine and Weekly or geography. He called a nation a kind of and 1930s); David Crowley (University of Illustrated; Colin Osman (formerly editor moral conscience but also pointed out that Brighton): Polish Nationalism and the of Creative Camera): Hungarian Influences forgetfulness is a crucial factor in the 'Discovery' of the Zakopane Style; Tamas on Early Photojournalism; Penelope Rook creation of a nation. Some of his optimism Aknai (Janus Pannonius University, Pecs): (Courtauld Institute): Vu as a Forum for seems misplaced now, but the issue of New Hungarian Experiments towards an Photography from the Late 1920s. national identity itself is as vivid and ArchitecturaI Identity (1960-1990); Miles relevant as ever. Glendinning (University of Edinburgh) and Workers in Art This session will explore how the issue Ranald Maclnnes (Principal Inspector of of national identity related in particular to Historic Buildings, Historic Scotland): Convener: Nicholas Tromans, Barber architecture. Since the 18th century, 'Monuments to the Future?': Architecture Institute of Fine Arts, University of architecture was used as one of the most and national identity in Scotland; Dr Nigel Birmingham. , Birmingham B15 powerful means for expressing national Whiteley (Lancaster University): 2TT identity. Some public buildings, such as Englishness and Modern Architecture; the Houses of Parliament or the Sydney Randall Rhodes (Buffalo State College): This session will examine some of the Opera House, became for many the symbol Twin Towers: America and Capitalism: ways in which manual workers have been of a particular nationhood itself. How did Discussion Session. presented in the visual arts from prehistory the patrons or the architects try to express to the present day. The intention is to take national identity in a building? How was a Modern Photojournalism a traditional iconographic approach to the particular building then received by the subject, and papers will be expected to people whose national identity it purported Convener: Michael Hallett, University of make a fairly rigorous survey of the relevant to represent? Or by those whose identity it Central England, Birmingham Institute of material from within geographically and ignored? How do we gauge success in Art and Design, Gosta Green, Birmingham chronologically well-defined areas. "these matters and what, in architectural B4 7DX Especially welcome would be papers terms, contributes towards the formation dealing with less conspicuous repres• of such identity? How does architectural The history and place of 'modern photo• entations of workers, such as those to be style then relate to these issues? Can, for journalism' within photographic history is found in religious and mythological images, example, a seemingly universal style such being continually re-evaluated, particularly and papers treating pre-industrial as Neo-Classicism represent a particular within a social and cultural context. The revolutions topics generally. Other national identity? In order to try to answer scope of this call for papers ranges from the interesting approaches might include the these questions, we need to look into the developments of pictorial journalism in the analysis of workers' own images of cross-currents of conflicting allegiances mid- to late 1920s in Germany through to themselves (eg the art of guilds, trade and ideologies. the current expansion and use of new unions, and friendly societies) or of ancient It is intended that this session will deal technologies. Of particular interest would Greek, Roman or Egyptian art. with examples both from what is commonly be the inter-relationships of the German Speakers include: David Bellingham perceived as the centre and from the margin, pictorial magazines of the late 1920s; (Institute of Classical Studies): Fact and eg Eastern as well as Western Europe, non- relationships between image, text and Fantasy: The representation of manual European as well as European nations. layout; the concerns of 'truth* within the work in Pompeian wall-painting; Dr Speakers: Henry C Matthews electronic imaging context. Papers Michael A Kissane (University College, (Washington State University): The Greek encompassing the precursors of modern Dublin): Propaganda or Narrative: Revival and National Identity in the United photojournalism would also be welcome. Unconventional depictions of workers in States; Professor Toshio Watanabe Speakers: Michael Gray (Fox Talbot Italian Renaissance art: Nicholas Tromans (Chelsea College of Art and Design, Museum): The Me tamorphosis of Meaning; (Barber Institute): Velasquezandthe Court

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Buffoons of Philip IV; Dr Valerie Mainz The Iconography of the Machine intended that this session should explore (University of Leeds): The Industry of the ideas of Utopia and dystopia from their Artist in 18th-Century France: A Convener: John Glaves-Smith, inception to the present day. contradiction in terms!; Dr Sighle Staffordshire University, School of Arts, Speakers: Steve Edwards (University Breathnach-Lynch (University College, College Road, Stoke on Trent, ST4 2DE of Derby): This Place: Utopian fantasies Dublin): Imaging the Peasant at Work in of Capital; Michael Harrison (University Post-Famine Ireland: Issues of The image of the machine in art has a dual of Central England): 'A Practical Utopia representation and reality; Susan Noyes aspect. It has stood as the exemplar of a Bournville; Colin Rhodes (Loughborough Piatt (University of North Texas): perfect functionalism, outside the vagaries College of Art and Design): One's-Self I Proletarian Culture in the United States, of taste and uncontaminated by the need to Sing: Briicke attempts to reconcilefreedom 1929-1934. pander to visual desire. Yet it has also been and the city; Martin I Gaughan (Cardiff relentlessly anthropomorphised and Institute of Higher Education): Utopia and De Diversis Artibus: Metal work and invested with hope and fear. Reality: Ernst Bloch and Weimar Culture; other arts of design before 1450 How unique is the experience of the past Monika Puloy (University of two hundred years? Are the much vaunted Hertfordshire): Ideology Salted Away: Conveners: Virginia Glen, Royal Scottish 'invisible technologies' finally consigning Adolf Hitler's secret art collection salvaged Museum, and Robert Gibbs, University of the machine as visual metaphor to in an Austrian salt mine 1943-45; David A Glasgow, Department of Art History, irredeemable quaintness? Wragg (Nene College/University of Glasgow G12 8QQ Speakers: Louise Purbrick (Manchester Nottingham/Open University): Wyndham Metropolitan University): Who Produced Lewis and the City: Between dystopia and Before the 15th-century humanist the Perfect Machine? Technical art and Utopia; Duncan Flatman (University of 'Renaissance* the so-called Fine Arts were the automatic mechanism in nineteenth- Central England): 'Staybrite City': The not privileged; indeed metalwork and century Britain; Phillip Ward-Jackson allure of the stainless steel 'Home jewellery constituted the ars sacra on which (Courtauld Institute of Art): Mechanisation Untarnishable' at the 1934 Daily Mail the most costly commissions were lavished and Sculpture in the Third Republic; Ideal Home Exhibition; Elisa Oliver and to which the greatest of medieval Marsha Meskimmon (Staffordshire (University of Sunderland): Gardening and artists like Nicholas of Verdun dedicated University): Prostitutes, Mannequins and the Fall of Eden; Simon Sadler (University themselves. This session will explore the Machines: Gender and industrialisation in of Central England): The Situationist City. current state of research in this and related Weimar Germany; Gail Day (University fields. of Derby): The Dialectics of Functionalism. Public Art and Industrial Process Speakers: Marian Campbell (Metalwork Adorno and Benjamin; Brian Sullivan Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum): (Staffordshire University): Rhetoric and Convener: Michael Diamond, Birmingham Goldsmiths' Tools and Workshops: Reality: de Stijl and the absent machine; Museums and Art Gallery, Chamberlain Archaeological and documentary evidence John Glaves-Smith (Staffordshire Square, Birmingham B3 3DH c AD 1100-1450; Virginia Glenn (Royal University): Paul Delvaux and the Scottish Museum): Court patronage in Railways; Robert Burstow (University of This session will focus on contemporary 13th- and 14th-Century Scotland: Derby): The Metalization of a Dream. issues associated with public art. These are Professor Geoffrey Barrow (University of Paolozzi s automata between Allow ay and likely to include the relationship between Edinburgh); The Family Background to Read; Susan Malvern (University of the artists and some of the industrial Patronage in 13th- and 14th-Century Reading): Dinosaurs and War Machines: processes now being used, the role of Scotland: Lucy-Anne Hunt (University of the since 1920. sponsors, and the relationship between Birmingham): Art as Cultural Production: public art and the public. Mosaics of the Medieval Eastern Utopia: Idea and Image Speakers: Valerie Holman (Institute of Mediterranean; Robert Gibbs (University Education, London University): Public Art of Glasgow): The Illuminator as Artist and Convener: Simon Sadler, University of for Whom?; Malcolm Miles (City as Artisan: The second and first styles of Central England, Birmingham Institute of University, London): InheritedTraditions; Bolognese illumination; Michael Michael Art and Design, Gosta Green, Birmingham Vivien Lovell (Director, Public Art (Education Department, Christies): De B4 7DX Commissions Agency): Commissioning Diversis Artibus - the limits of obsenable Birmingham boasts one of the country's Now; Michael Diamond (Director, phenomena in the study of the applied arts. most famous model settlements, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery): Bournville, but envisagements of perfect Local Authority Patronage; Sara Selwood places have always been contested. 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The polemics of public art; William Pye Evocation, Description, and Evaluation: Centuries; Paul Usherwood( University of (Sculptor): Case History-the construction the Languages of Art Criticism from Northumbria at Newcastle): William Bell of art. Reynolds to Bell Scott and the Idea of Northern Philistinism; Tim Barringer (Research Fellow, Victoria Women as Patrons of Renaissance Art: Conveners: Dr Paul Barlow (Northumbria and Albert Museum): Art and Industry: 1300-1600 University), 121 Pitville Avenue, Mossley Questions of value and the labours of James Hill, L18 7JF; Dr Colin Trodd (Sunderland Sharpies, 'Blacksmith and Artist'; Fintan Convener: Dr Jaynie Anderson, 40 Regency University) Cullen (Birmingham): How to Depict a Square, Brighton BN1 2FJ Nation: History or genre ? Wilkie in Ireland Recently the question of value has come to in the 1830s; Dr Colin Trodd (University These papers will address aspects of feature with increasing prominence in of Sunderland): Vision, Violence, Value: women's patronage in Renaissance Europe, contemporary debate about cultural GF Watts, GK Chesterton and the limits of both secular and ecclesiastical. They will experience. This concern makes it both landscape; Paul Greenhalgh (Camberwell include princesses, consorts of rulers, timely and important to reconsider the College, London Institute): Other widows and nuns. Particular attention will language through which value has been Significant Forms: Some Edwardian be paid to women's education and the expressed in art criticism From the end of thinkers outside of Bloomsbury; Dr Paul historical responses to imagery the 18th century through the 20th century Barlow (University of Northumbria at commissioned by women, the legal the languages of art criticism have Newcastle): The Descriptive Elegy: Hazlitt constraints on female patronage, and undergone considerable change and and languages of art criticism; David women as patrons, not only of art and development. These developments may Peters Corbett (Manchester Metropolitan architecture, but also in areas that have be related to the emergence of modern University): Ekphrasis and Anxiety: Value been marginalised by traditional histories industrial society. This session seeks to and conjuration of presence in late romantic of patronage. explore that relationship by looking at the art criticism, Charles Ricketts andLaurenc -e Speakers include: Rupert Shepherd ways in which the literature which has Binxon; Michaela Giebelhausen developed in order to speak of the • (Courtauld Institute of Art): Francesco (Worcester College. Oxford): Language experience of art and to express the worth Venusta and the Depiction of The Battle of and the Construction of Value in the of creative endeavour has been affected by San Ruffillo in San Francesco, Bologna; Reviews of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, 1849- the way in which ideas concerning value Cordelia Warr (University of Warwick): 1854; Bob Priest (The Open University): have been articulated within society as a Painting in Late 14th-century Padua: The Fixing the Value of Work: Ford Madox whole. Has the terminology of art criticism patronage ofFina Buzzacarina; Dr Anne- Brown *.s exhibition of1865 and the critical repeated, added to, or contradicted other Marie Legare (Universite Paris IV): The response of William Michael Rossetti; Peter accounts of value? What was the Library of Jeanne de Laval; Dr Dagmar Quinn (University of Sunderland): Local relationship between the art criticism which Eichberger (University of Melbourne): Art: the local and the modern in the North- developed in newspapers and periodicals Margaret of Austria's Portrait Collection East of England in the 19th Century. in Mechelen: Female patronage in the during the 19th century and the practices of artists themselves? Did the evocative style light of dynastic ambitions and artistic Drawing 1400-1600: Invention and of writing developed by writers such as quality; Dr Tom Tolley (University of Innovation Edinburgh): States of Independence: The Hazlitt emerge in response to the perceived need to develop a form of writing about art public patronage of women in France Convener: Stuart Currie (Birkbeck College) which evades the demands of a commercial cl500; Dr Catherine King (The Open 4 Hazledene Road. Chiswick, London W4 society increasingly inclined to construe University): Women and Antiquity - 3JB value in terms of exchange of commodities? redefining the feminine; Margaret Ellis This session aims to provide a forum for How does this relate to the forms of criticism (University of Central England): The Queen the discussion and reassessment of the many and evocation to be found in the work of and her Custodian: An unusual inventive ways in which drawing was more recent writers concerned to proffer collaboration in English 16th-century utilised between the late Medieval and the possibility of aesthetic experience? Embroidery; Caroline P Murphy early Baroque periods. (University College, London): Lavinia Speakers: John Storey (University of It will investigate the wide variety of Fontana and Female Patronage in late Sunderland): The Inescapable Terrain: drawing procedures and technical 16th-century Bologna; Dr Jaynie Questions of value in cultural studies; innovations employed by artists as they Anderson: Re-writing the History of Maura Barnett (Warwick University): sought appropriate visual responses to the Patronage. Exhibition Reviews and Journalist Art new artistic challenges associated with the Critics in the late 18th and Earlx 19th political, religious and cultural changes

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that occurred from the end of the 14th Speakers: Julia Watson (University of the Elder's sketch for the Story of Lucretia century to the beginning of the 17th century. Leicester): Drawing and Design in Late and the uses of classicism in early 16th- Consideration will also be given to the 14th-century France: The case for the century Germany; Sharon Gregory expansions in drawing practice which sculptor, Susie Nash (Courtauld Institute): (Courtauld Institute): Vasari, Prints, and accompanied the proliferation of Invention, Imitation, or Good Business Imitation; Stuart Currie (Birkbeck specialised fields of artistic activity during Sense? The uses of drawing in the College): Invenzione, disegnoefatica: two the period, with specific emphasis being production of some French hooks of hours; drawings by Naldini for an altarpiece in placed on areas such as the study of the Francis Ames-Lewis (Birkbeck College): post-Tridentine Florence; Clare Robertson figure, niello work and approaches to Training and Practice in the Early (Reading University): Annibale Carracci printmaking, the last of which will be Renaissance Workshop: Observations on and Invenzione: The early drawings; touched on by at least five of the session's Benozzo Gozzoli \s Rotterdam Sketchbook: Michael Bury (University of Edinburgh): speakers. Lucy Whitaker (Christ Church Picture Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630): Invention, Further points of departure will be the Gallery): Maso Finiguerra and Early drawing and technique; Tarnya Cooper relationship of drawings to questions of Florentine Printmaking; Alison Wright (Strang Print Room, University College invenzione, disegno and decorum; and to (University College London): Mantegna London): Northern Drawing Albums: A notions of classicism, imitation and and Pollaiuolo: Artistic Personality and 17th-century album and some earlier copying. Other speakers will consider the marketing of invention; Claire van examples. drawing in relation to legal and business Cleave (Christ Church College, Oxford): concepts, and the final paper in the session Luca Signorelli and the Human Figure; will examine attitudes to collecting and the Andrew Morrall (Christie's Education): classification of drawings. The 'Weisell' and the 'Deutsch', JorgBreu

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History/Theory/Practice London 12 November 1994 Nene College Northampton Conference 1995 Call for Papers Keynote Speaker: Michael Baldwin (Art & Language) The 1995 Conference will be hosted by the Victoria and Albert Museum. The working title of the conference is The school of Art and Design is organising Potential contributors should send short The Critical Interpretation of Objects. a conference around the theme History/ summaries of their proposed papers to: The term 'objects' is used to embrace Theory/Practice. The aim is to focus on the Sue Wragg both the fine and the applied arts and is problematics raised by the interaction of School of Art and Design intended to cover all continents. these terms in the context of the Histories Nene College Proposals for sessions are warmly of Art and Design. St George's Avenue invited and should be sent to the Papers on any aspect of this issue are Northampton NN2 6JD Convener: invited from those involved with the from whom further information can also Elizabeth McKellar practice of and/or scholarship in Art and be obtained. Head of Higher Education Design, and Cultural History. Victoria and Albert Museum It is intended that a selection of the South Kensington papers will be published. London SW7 2RL

15 CONFERENCE NEWS SON ET LUMIERE A two-day conference on the audiences for art - observant, literate, audient 12-13 November 1994 The Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex at Brighton

The concept of the interaction of image and These meanings are, in turn, further periods and through different media word has influenced art history throughout modified through texts. How can art history • ekph rases. the 1980s and early 1990s; art historians replace the tired metaphor of picture as have always drawn analogies between the text? A modest fee will be charged to cover verbal and the visual. This conference Sections are envisaged on such topics as: refreshments and registration. For further aims to develop and extend that theme • the meeting of art and music details and offers of papers, please contact through an exploration of the ways in which • synaesthesia Dr Liz James, School of European Studies, audiences respond by constructing their • the re-presentation and re-representation University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton own sets of meanings for the creative arts. of images at different times, for different BN1 9QN.

LIBRARY RESOURCES AND The Art Museum and ART HISTORY TEACHING the Modern City

15 October 1994 A one-day symposium will be held at the Organised by the Association of Art Historians and the British Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Library Standing Committee on Art Documentation Manchester, on Friday 25 March 1994 in connection with the visit to England of a group of 12 senior fine- and decorative-art A one-day conference is to be held at the problems and work towards solutions in a museum curators and administrators from Gallery in London on Saturday 15 continuing climate of change and the former Eastern Bloc countries. The October 1994, to discuss the deepening decreasing resources. symposium will be concerned with the role crisis in library provision for the teaching SCOAD (The Standing Committee on of the museum in the modern city, of art history in the tertiary sector, and to Art Documentation) was established to education, outreach, tourism and urban explore practical solutions to the problems. advise the British Library on the provision regeneration. There will be a range of General cuts in funding, increasing of material in the field of art. However, it speakers from British institutions and student numbers, the end of the binary is representative of the whole range of art delegates will also have the opportunity to divide and consequent loss of the CN AA as libraries in the UK and, as such, provides a meet curators from Poland, Hungary and a validating force all contribute to the forum for discussion of problems across all the Czech and Slovak republics. The difficulties currently facing libraries in library sectors and for the initiation of co• symposium is being organised by the providing the materials required by students operative projects to improve national History of Art Department, University of and teaching staff. The problems are provision. Manchester, with Sotheby's Educational compounded in many cases by poor liaison It is planned to publish one or two articles Studies. The academic programme will be between library and teaching departments. in the Bulletin during the coming months to free, but there will be a charge for lunch The consequence is that students may be present a more detailed explanation of the and refreshments. left to find what resources they can, often current level of provision and the perceived The curators* visit and the symposium in libraries other than their 'home' library, problems, as background for the are sponsored by the Getty Grant Program. and these libraries are having to take conference. For further information please contact: unprecedented steps to deal with the Further details, and booking forms will History of Art Department increasing pressure, such as limiting, or be included in future issues of the Bulletin. University of Manchester charging for, admission. In the meantime, offers of help and potential Manchester M13 9PL The conference aims to bring together participants are welcome Tel: 061 275 3311. librarians and art history teaching staff to For further information please contact provide a forum in which teachers and Nigel Llewellyn (for address see back page). librarians can better understand each other's

16 ANNOUNCEMENTS Report from Contributions to the Bulletin invited! Kate Woodhead The Bulletin exists for the benefit of the specialised association or a society and Thank you to all members who have filled membership of the Association. To would like to share with us information in and returned the renewal form with strengthen the role of the Bulletin, the about their activities. There are many payment of the 1994 subscription. I am Executive Committee has decided to more topics the membership could benefit hoping the rise in fees will not have a appoint an Associate Editor from the from. If you have such information, again detrimental effect on membership numbers, elected members of the Committee and I just let me know. which have increased each year since April have taken on this task. If you want a specific topic covered by 1991 when I took over this post from Pamela I am very keen to persuade all sectors the Bulletin, I may be able to find Courtney. of the Association to communicate their somebody who could write on it. I see my A special thank you to those members interests through the Bulletin. What are role mainly as an arm twister! who included a donation to the Student the burning issues of your sector? Would Please send short articles and reports Support Fund, the proceeds of which will you like to contribute to Open Forum to to me. be used to enable more students to attend initiate a debate? Let me know. Details of forthcoming conferences, the conference. All contributions, however Another important task of the Bulletin announcements etc should be sent to the small, are very much appreciated. is to provide useful information for the Editor, Jannet King, as before. Following on from points raised in the membership. Again I need your help. membership survey of last year, I would be Have you attended an interesting Toshio Watanabe pleased to hear from any member who conference recently? Why not let us Chelsea College of Art and Design would be interested in forming or joining a know what the key results/debates of the Manresa Road regional group to arrange meetings, local conference were? Do you have any London SW3 6LS visits, lectures and study days etc. contacts with similar associations in other Tel: 071 352 3655 I now hold the central record of AAH countries? Perhaps you know of a more Fax: 071 352 8721 documents and printed papers, and I am gradually building up a small library of reference books so that if members have any general queries I may be able to assist with information. Many members may find the Guidelines for Professional Executive Committee Nominations Practice of Art History and the Specimen Contract for Authors particularly useful, Nominations are invited for election to the so do contact me if you need more details. three places on the AAH Executive which Nigel Llewellyn's term of office as Chair will fall vacant at the 1994 AGM. In of the Association is complete at the 1995 addition, nominations are invited for the AGM. In accordance with the constitution Proposed Extension of office of Hon Treasurer which will become of the AAH, nominations for the new Chair Membership Categories vacant on the retirement from that office of should be with the Hon Secretary before In preparation for the Annual General Theo Cowdell at the 1994 AGM. the 1994 AGM at the Birmingham Meeting at the Birmingham Conference Nominations should provide the name Conference on Sunday 10 April. in April, would members consider the of the proposer and the seconder, both of Nominations are therefore invited which question of extending categories of whom must be current members of the should provide the name of the proposer membership? It is proposed to offer Association. The written consent of the and the seconder, both of whom must be Corporate Membership, with Art nominee, with a brief c.v. should be current members of the Association. The History and Bulletin and three included. Nomination forms are available written consent of the nominee, with a brief membership cards for a fee of £90. if required. c.v. should be included. Furthermore, to enable successful and Please send nominations to the Hon generous art historians to support the Secretary, Claire Donovan, Built association, we are considering offering Environment Division, Southampton Any enquiries in relation to the membership Benefactor Membership; for an annual Institute of Higher Education, East Park of the EC, the posts of Hon Treasurer or of fee of £150, the support to be Terrace, Southampton S09 4WW. Chair, are welcomed by the Hon Secretary, acknowledged by printing the names of Nominations should be received by either by post to the address given above, Benefactor Members in the Bulletin. Monday 7 March 1994. or by telephone on: 0703 319288. The Executive Committee would be interested to hear your views.

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Computer and History Fellowships, UCLA Center for 17th- & of Art Awards, 1994 18th-Century Studies and the The CHArt Committee is offering two William Andrews Clark Memorial Library awards in 1994, one for a student, and one for an individual engaged in a research Ahmanson/Getty Fellowships in Awards: Two to three academic quarters project. In both cases the award will be for 1994-95: For participation in the Center/ in residence. work that involves the application of Clark's year long interdisciplinary, Stipend: $9,200 per quarter. computers to some aspect of Art and/or cross-cultural study on the theme 'Life Design History. Studies: Autobiography, Biography, and Application deadline: 15 March 1994. The awards are open to everyone except Portrait in the Seventeenth and Contact: Centre for 17th- & 18th- members of the Committee of CHArt. Work Eighteenth Centuries'. Fields Century Studies, 395 Dodd Hall, submitted must be in the English language, represented include literature, history, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Avenue,Los and must not have been previously art history, philosophy, psychohistory. Angeles, CA 90024. published. Applicants must have received the PhD 1 Student Award within the last six years. Tel: 310/2068552; Fax: 310/206 8577 This award will be for a written piece of work. The work can be either an essay on a critical, historical or theoretical issue, or a description of a project, or an idea for a Student Seminar at Birmingham project. The written piece should not be more Conference than 5,000 words in length. Publishing: Queries and Answers The award will be £200 and the winning entry will be published in the journal Dear Students Computers and the History of Art. Please remember that the Student Group has organised a seminar at the B irmingham 2 Research Award Conference on Friday 8 April at 10.00am. Guest Speakers are Paul Binski (Associate This award will be for work on a project editor of Art History), Dr Brigitte Corley (Chair of the Freelance Group) and Robin that is in the process of implementation. Simon (Editor of Apollo magazine). The seminar is open to all students. The award will be made to an individual, 1 hope most students can attend. and is intended to help a worthwhile project reach completion. Pauline de Souza The award can be applied for by the Secretary of the AAH Student Group individual concerned, or through nomination by an individual or institution. The application must include a description Modernism, Gender of the project and its progress of not more National Portrait than 5,000 words. and Culture The research project must be taking Papers are wanted for an already contracted Gallery place in Britain, and must be accessible to interdisciplinary collection, to be published the judges for inspection if required. Heinz Archive and by the Garland Press of New York. Topics The award will be for at least £500 should focus on the intersections between Library (sponsorship to increase this amount is gender issues and modernist (1900 - 1950) currently being sought). culture and can centre on the arts, sciences, The library of the NPG has moved Application and closing date social sciences, or mass culture. Send one- from Lewisham to newly refurbished Those interested in applying should write page abstracts by 1 July 1994 to premises next to the NPG itself to Professor Will Vaughan, Department of Lisa Rado (entrance in Orange Street). History of Art, Birkbeck College, Department of English Open by appointment: University of London, 43 Gordon Square, University of Michigan Tuesday - Saturday, 10.00-17.00 London WC1H OPD for further details. 7617 Haven Hall Closed: Sundays, Mondays and The closing date for submission of Ann Arbor public holidays. entries for both awards is 1 September MI 48109- 1045. 1994.

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Art, Architecture and Design Open University Broadcasts on the BBC 1994 TELEVISION ISSUES IN WOMEN'S STUDIES - U207 BBC2 11.00 Saturdays, repeated 07.35 Fridays 13 days later AN ARTS FOUNDATION COURSE - A102 12/3 Counting the Threads KBC2 07 .40 Saturdays, repeated 16/4 Public Space. 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Executive Committee 1994

Chair: Elected 1992 Universities and Colleges Nigel Llewellyn Robert Gibbs subcommittee School of European Studies (University of Glasgow) William Vaughan University of Sussex Department of History of Art Falmer Toshio Watanabe Birkbeck College Brighton BN1 9QN Associate Editor of Bulletin 43 Gordon Square Tel: 0273 606755 x2014 Chelsea College of Art and Design London Manresa Road, London SW3 6LS WC1H 0PD Hon Secretary: Tel: 071 352 3655 Tel: 071 631 6127 Claire Donovan Fax: 071 352 8721 Built Environment Division Student subcommittee: Southampton Institute of Higher Angela Weight Ruth Brompton Education (Imperial War Museum) History of Art and Design East Park Terrace Staffordshire University Southampton S09 4WW Elected 1993 Flaxman Building Tel: 0703 319288 Mark Evans College Road (National Museum of Wales, Stoke-on-Trent Hon Treasurer: Cardiff) Staffordshire Theo Cowdell ST4 2DE 47 Kenwood Park Road Co-opted 1993 Sheffield Duncan Forbes Artists' Papers Register S7 1NE (University of St Andrews) Rowan Watson Tel: 0742 554099 Special Collections Lubaina Himid National Art Library Director of Publicity and (University of Central Lancashire) Victoria and Albert Museum Administration: London SW7 2RL Kate Woodhead Robin Simon Dog and Partridge House (Apollo) Art Galleries and Museums Byley subcommittee Cheshire Ex-officio member Sylvia Lahav CW10 9NJ John House Education Dept Tel: 0606 835517 (Chair of the British National Tate Gallery Fax: 0606 834799 Committee of CIHA) Millbank (Courtauld Institute of Art) London SW1P4RG Assistant Treasurer: Peter Crocker Tel: 071 821 1313

Editor of Art History. Marcia Pointon CHAIRS OF SUBCOMMITTEES (University of Manchester)

Editor of Bulletin: Jannet King Schools subcommittee: 1994 Birmingham Conference See front page for address. Elizabeth Allen Conveners Tel: 0273 509653 10 Dukes Avenue George Noszlopy London N10 2PT Kenneth Quickenden Elected 1991 Fran Hannah Freelance subcommittee: 1994 Conference Administrators () Brigitte Corley Vicky Ley (academic sessions and Deirdre Robson (Freelance) 51 Middleway bookings) Charles Saumarez Smith London NW11 6SH Lynn Woolley (finance and visits) (National Portrait Gallery) Tel: 081 455 4783

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