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The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art NEWSLETTER Yale University September 2013 Issue 37 One Object, Three Voices Rood screen canopy, St Helen’s Church, Ranworth. Photograph courtesy of Lucy Wrapson, Hamilton Kerr Institute In the autumn, the Paul Mellon Centre is launching a designed to bring different forms of analysis into new series of occasional research seminars with the title productive and stimulating dialogue. One Object, Three Voices. In these seminars three speakers The first such seminar, which will take place on 20th with different perspectives on the visual arts will discuss November 2013, will focus on the great medieval painted a single object of mutual interest. The seminars, which Rood Screen at St Helen’s Church, Ranworth. This has will take place three times a year and feature recently been the subject of a major conservation project. contributions from academic art-historians, curators, For more details on this seminar, and on featured conservators, historians and art-trade professionals, are speakers, see overleaf. The Paul Mellon Centre Staff Director of Studies: Mark Hallett Deputy Director of Studies: Martin Postle Assistant Director for Finance and Administration: Sarah Ruddick Librarian: Emma Floyd Archivist and Records Manager: Charlotte Brunskill Archives and Library Assistant: Jenny Hill Picture Researcher/ Richard Wilson Online Project Assistant: Maisoon Rehani Events Coordinator and Director’s Assistant: Ella Fleming Yale-in-London Coordinator: Nermin Abdulla IT Officer: Zulqarnain Swaleh Grants Administrator: Mary Peskett Smith Editor Special Projects: Guilland Sutherland Senior Research Fellows, Special Projects: Hugh Belsey, Elizabeth Einberg, Alex Kidson, Eric Shanes, Paul Spencer-Longhurst Advisory Council: Iwona Blazwick, Alixe Bovey, David Peters Corbett, Penelope Curtis, Michael Hatt, Nigel Llewellyn, Richard Marks, Andrew Moore, Gavin Stamp, Christine Stevenson, Shearer West, Alison Yarrington Company Registered in England 983028 Registered Charity 313838 16 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Research Programmes Autumn 2013 RESEARCH SEMINARS RESEARCH LUNCHES Wednesdays, 5.45–7.45 PM Fridays, 12.30–2.00 PM Our autumn series of research seminars will feature The autumn programme of research lunches is geared to papers given by distinguished historians of British art doctoral students and junior scholars working on the and architecture. Seminars typically take the form of history of British art and architecture. They are intended hour-long talks, followed by questions and drinks, and are to be informal events in which individual doctoral geared to scholars, curators, conservators, art-trade students and scholars talk for half-an-hour about their professionals and research students working on the projects, and engage in animated discussion with their history of British art. This autumn the series also peers. A sandwich lunch will be provided by the Centre. includes a new category of seminar entitled One Object, We hope that this series will help foster a sense of Three Voices, see 20th November below. community amongst PhD students and junior colleagues from a wide range of institutions, and bring researchers 2nd October together in a collegial and friendly atmosphere. Michael Rosenthal (University of Warwick) Edward Close in Australia: Soldier, Settler, Sketcher 11th October Beatrice Bertram (University of York): 16th October Redressing William Etty (1787-1849) Glenn Adamson (Victoria & Albert Museum) Staging Memory: Ruskin, Morris and the Invention of Craft 1st November Francesca Whitlum-Cooper (Courtauld Institute of Art) 6th November Quacks, Peddlars and Pastellists: Jean-Etienne Liotard Sarah Turner (The Paul Mellon Centre) (1702-1789) and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783) in From Ajanta to Sydenham: Indian art, imperial pageants and London international exhibitions in early twentieth-century London 8th November 20th November Clare Backhouse (NYU) ONE OBJECT, THREE VOICES Straws and Superficials: Clothing the Body in The Rood Sceen at St Helen’s Church, Ranworth. Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads. Lucy Wrapson (Hamilton-Kerr Institute) Paul Binski (University of Cambridge) 22nd November Nicholas Gerrard (St Helen’s Church, Ranworth) Shaun Wilcock (University of York) Val Prinsep (1838-1904) and the Politics of the Indian Royal 27th November Portrait at the Imperial Assemblage of 1877 Catherine Bernard (Université Paris Diderot) Sensation (in)to intelligence: the politics of visuality in 6th December contemporary English art Tom Edwards (Abbott and Holder) Amongst the Grand Tourists: Richard Cooper Jnr’s (1740-1822) album of Italian drawings’ Details about the Research Seminars and Research Lunches can also be found on the Centre’s website. It is essential that all of those who intend coming to To receive regularly updated news on future research individual research seminars and research lunches events to be held at the Centre, please contact Ella email the Centre’s Events Co-ordinator, Ella Fleming, Fleming on [email protected] [email protected] at least two days in advance. and ask to be placed on our email mailing list. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE Staff News DR SARAH TURNER has been appointed to the new research. She is looking post of Assistant Director for Research at the Paul forward to working with Mellon Centre and will take up the position in November colleagues at the Paul this year, after five years in the History of Art Mellon Centre in formu- Department at the University of York. lating new digital projects. Sarah’s research focuses on art and visual culture in At the Centre, she will Britain and the British Empire in the 19th and 20th also be taking a major centuries, particularly relationships between Britain and role in conceiving and India. Her forthcoming book is provisionally entitled organising the Centre’s Indian Impressions: Encounters with South Asia in British Art, programme of seminars, c. 1900-1940. workshops, lunchtime talks, Developing from her MA in Sculpture Studies at the and conferences. She will University of Leeds, Sarah also continues to work on also be continuing her own sculpture in this period; she is a member of the Advisory scholarly research. Board for Tate’s new project on the sculptural practices Sarah commented: ‘It is a huge honour to be invited to of Henry Moore and is contributing to the forthcoming join the staff at the Paul Mellon Centre in London. I am show on Victorian sculpture at the Yale Center for British particularly excited about expanding the PMC’s web Art and Tate. Sarah has worked on a number of other presence and working on innovative digital research exhibitions including Gilbert & George (Tate Modern, projects.’ Mark Hallett, Director of Studies at the Centre, 2009) and William Etty: Art & Controversy (York Art said: ‘I am extremely pleased that Sarah is going to be Gallery, 2011). She developed an online version of this joining us; she is a brilliant, broad-ranging and dynamic latter display. scholar who will undoubtedly make a hugely positive Sarah is a passionate advocate for the role of digital contribution to our activities. We very much look forward media in promoting and contributing to art historical to welcoming her in November.’ Spotlight on Yale in London YALE IN LONDON is a study abroad programme offered to undergraduate students at Yale University. Students have the opportunity to spend an entire term in the spring, or one of two more intensive six-week summer sessions, based at the Paul Mellon Centre, living and learning in the heart of London. The programme offers students courses on a variety of subjects that are all thematically linked through their focus on Britain and British culture. The 2013 summer sessions, for example, featured courses on the British monarchy, church architecture, Hogarth, and British theatre, and included visits to current London theatre. Courses are taught by a combination of Yale and British faculty members and qualify for credits toward Yale University degrees. There are regular visits to see plays, palaces, country houses and gardens, churches, and much more, and students are encouraged both to explore and to think about the country in which they are living. We hope to see Yale in London continue to develop and maintain its role as a thriving study abroad programme, vital to the Yale experience. For more information on the programme and our 2014 courses, please see: www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/15/ www.britishart.yale.edu/education/yale-college-students /yale-in-london. Also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/YaleinLondon; and on Twitter: @YaleinLondon Yale in London Spring 2013 students Field trip to Stourhead, Summer 2005 Session 2 THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE PUBLICATIONS The King’s Pictures: The Formation The City and the King: Magnificent Entertainments: and Dispersal of the Collections of Architecture and Politics in Temporary Architecture for Georgian Charles I and His Courtiers Restoration London Festivals Francis Haskell Christine Stevenson Melanie Doderer-Winkler With a foreword by Nicholas Penny The City of London is a jurisdiction A thoroughly original study of Edited and with an introduction by whose relationship with the English ephemeral architecture and design Karen Serres monarchy has sometimes been which examines the spectacular turbulent. This fascinating book displays created for large-scale