Bulletin 69 October 1998
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In my last report I wrote about how we should go we have established that the Officers will meet at forward as a professional association, and now I least once between ECs. should like to report on the improved infrastructure which should enable this to happen and also on a Pitchfactor Ltd number of issues that affect our profession. As a charity we are not allowed to engage in profit- making activities and Pitchfactor Ltd was created to Executive Committee Membership deal with this problem. It looks after any money- It was agreed that all elected members should each making ventures and any profits are then trans• have a specific task and the following have been ferred to the AAH. As reported in the last Bulletin, agreed. I am very grateful for the willingness and its Chair of Directors, Joe Darracott, sadly died this enthusiasm of the EC members. year and new members for the directorate are needed. The EC is nominating Pauline Ridley and Elected 1996: Peter Baitup. Fintan Cullen, who is currently on its • Colin Cruise: To oversee and monitor the Initiative directorate, wishes to resign at the next meeting of Fund 1998-99 the directorate. • Griselda Pollock & Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton: To join the Advisory Board of The Art Book The Initiative Fund Five proposals were submitted for our new and Elected 1997: exciting venture: two from the University and • Christopher Bailey: To take charge of the Colleges Subcommittee, two from the Schools Association's documentation and archive as well as Subcommittee and one from the Student to oversee the AAH website Subcommittee. Four projects were approved: • Pauline Ridley: To join Pitchfactor Ltd as a • a leaflet for schools about history of art in HE director • an art history 'A' level reform project • John Morrison: To take charge of our membership • an art critics and historians in schools project recruitment drive in Scotland • a student members starter pack. • Peter Funnell: Vice-Chair of EC and Chair of the The EC recommended that a proposal to advertise Editorial Committee of The Art Book (pending the thesis prize be resubmitted with a different approval of The Art Book's new editorial structure) promotional strategy. Reports on the outcome of these projects will appear in future Bulletins. .../ Elected 1998: • Oriana Baddeley: To shadow Colin during 1998- 99. To take charge of the Initiative Fund from 1999 ! ! !! Special Offer - Save £5 !!!! onwards See page 3 for further details. • Gabriele Neher: To take charge of our membership recruitment drive (except Scotland) Art History expands In addition to the changes above the following It has been agreed to expand the editorial activities changes have been agreed: of Art History. From 1999 subscribing members • Peter Baitup: To join Pitchfactor Ltd as a director will receive five issues annually. • Fintan Cullen: To resign his Pitchfactor directorship • Howard Hollands: To continue as Honorary Editor CONTENTS of The Art Book until the next AGM CHAIR'S REPORT 1 • Dana Arnold (Associate Editor of Art History): Co- ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1999 4 opted until the next AGM. CONFERENCE NEWS 8 INDEPENDENT NEWS 11 STUDENT NEWS 12 The composition and voting rights of the EC SCHOOLS NEWS 14 membership have been clarified and these are stated ACCESSIONS TO REPOSITORIES 15 at the back of this Bulletin. EC procedures and EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ADDRESSES 16 expenses have also been clarified and minuted, and CHAIR'S REPORT
Copyright Open Meeting conducted an extensive mailing to inform people A very useful Open Meeting was held at Cow Cross about it. Court on the vexed question of the copyright of art images. Mr Peter Wienand of Farrer and Co, a I should also add that the second consultation member of the Museums and Galleries Copyright document on the Research Assessment Exercise Working Group, addressed the meeting on the issued by HEFCE inadvertently omitted the name of proposed European Copyright Directive and the AAH from the list of previously consulted answered questions. The issues are extremely professional associations. We certainly sent them our complex, but the key points were summarised on p26 views for the 1996 RAE and I wrote to them to of our last Bulletin. At this meeting we were also correct this error. In this context I have attended the alerted to a new agreement between the Design and CHEAD (Conference for Higher Education in Art and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) and the Copyright Design) Subject Links Group Meeting and the Licensing Agency (CLA). Since then I have obtained CoSAAD (The Council of Subject Association for Art a press release from DACS and according to this the and Design) Meeting to represent our interests. CLA licence will include photocopying artistic works from published material and will first be offered to New Benefits to Members Higher Education establishments. We will keep a As announced on the front page, Art History will now very close eye on these developments. be publishing an additional issue each year, thus increasing benefits to the membership without Arts and Humanities Research Board additional cost. This issue will also be published in A new research board, which will cover both the book form, bringing increased revenue to the humanities and the creative arts, has been Association. This is good news and we agreed to give established with a wider remit and a larger budget. administrative support to the editors, funded from Research in art history is part of its responsibilities this additional income. and I have been in contact with Professor John Laver, the chair of the outgoing Humanities I am also pleased to be able to report that two Research Board, and with Professor Paul Langford, publishers have agreed to give discounts to our the Chief Executive and chair of the incoming AHRB. members. Oxford University Press now offers a 20% Currently, art history is placed under creative arts discount on the normal individual subscription price rather than history. As this new situation is of of The Oxford Art Journal and The Journal of the critical importance, we organised an Open Meeting History of Collections to individual members of the at the British Academy, to be held on 18 September AAH. Blackwell Publishers is offering a 15% 1998, and Professor Langford kindly agreed to discount on the individual subscription rates for address it. We had to organise the meeting this Journal of Art & Design Education, Cultural Values, early, as otherwise we would not have been able to Museum International, Constellations, Critical convey our views to the AHRB before final decisions Quarterly and The Yale Review. are taken in October. Knowing that the Bulletin would not be distributed until after the meeting, we TOSHIO WATANABE
AAH EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1999 Student Support Fund Three vacancies, April 1999-April 2002 Thanks and requests for more money
The 1999 Annual General Meeting in Southampton The Association would like to thank all the members on 11 April 1999 will see the departure of three listed below for their generous contributions to the elected Executive Committee members. Would you Student Support Fund. This year the Fund was used like to fill one of those vacancies on the AAH to subsidise 30 student members who attended the Committee over the next three years? If so, please annual conference. contact the AAH Hon Secretary, Fintan Cullen, for Contributors to the fund in 1998 details. Address on back page of Bulletin. All J Albany + J C Allan + H Beale + L Bourdua + nominations must be received by 19 March 1999. L Boyd + S G Conrad + R& DMS Coombes + C Cruise + SC Dam + C Donovan + G Elinor + The AAH Executive Committee meets five times a H Forbes + P Funnell + J Gage + J Glaves-Smith & P year, usually on a Friday, in the offices of the AAH in de Souza + C Guberman + P Gurland + Clerkenwell, London. The EC also meets at the M Hellman + J MacFarlane Cohen + A MacTaggart venue of the Annual Conference. Travel expenses + M McQuillan & G Foskett + B Measure + will be paid if not reclaimable from your institution M O'Connell + D Philips + G Pollock + P Ridley + (if applicable). M Rodgers + G Schubert + W Sheridan + H Smailes + T Watanabe + SL Watts + J West + A Williams + K If you wish to propose yourself or a colleague, please Woodhead contact Fintan Cullen for the required form. Candidates must be a current AAH member and The Fund is now very low, however, and we would be must be proposed and seconded by fellow members. most grateful to anyone who felt able to make a A brief c.v. is also required. If more than three contribution when renewing their membership. nominations are received by 19 March 1999 an election will be held at the Southampton AGM. ANDREW FALCONER Administrator
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3 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Images and Values 6\ 25th AAH Annual Conference III 9-11 April 1999 • Southampton Association of Art Historians
The Conference will address the many kinds of 'value' associated with works of art and their images; with the production, legitimation and reproduction of these values; and with those images and values which are associated with art history itself. It will also address corresponding questions in the decorative arts, design and architecture. Sessions will explore the images and values of art, whether present in their objects, concepts or institutions, from within a variety of methodologies.
Papers are now invited relating to any of the following strands, in the first instance by contacting the strand convenor(s). The deadline for proposals to be agreed with strand convenors (abstracts should be no more than 300 words maximum) is Monday 30 November 1998.
The conference organisers are: Barbara Burman, Dr Stephen Johnstone, Professor Brandon Taylor Division of History of Art and Design, University of Southampton, Park Avenue, Winchester S023 8DL (UK) Tel: 01962 842500: Fax 01962 842496; Email bb OR swj OR [email protected]
Problems of Periodisation in Art History Rethinking the Baroque Dr Jonathan Harris, Dr Paul Barlow, Dr Colin Trodd, c/o Peter Higginson, University of Southampton, Division of Department of Visual Arts, Keele University, History of Art and Design, Park Avenue, Winchester Staffordshire ST5 5BG. Tel: 01260 277899. S023 8DL. Tel 01962.842500;
We invite papers on any aspect of periodisation in This strand, sponsored by the Henry Moore Institute, art history, including: the way in which discursive will be devoted to a discussion of the presentation of models are generated through accounts of domestic animals in art and material culture. It will representation and style; the role of 'national school' aim to generate a debate on our relation to domestic discourses; problems of method in the formation and animals, a subject which touches many central socio- definition of'group' identities; the problem of historical concerns. Its principal concern will be the reconstructed or reworked objects; the historical representation of animals in three-dimensions - location of objects in specific traditions, cultures or embracing everything from marble Academy chronologies; the organisation of the concept of the sculpture to taxidermy - but papers which include historical 'moment'; the conceptual role of historico- discussions of two-dimensional form are also evaluative categories such as 'Modern', 'Victorian', welcome. 'Renaissance', 'Hellenic' and so on.
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Architecture, Antiquity and Aesthetics Writing the Pre-Raphaelites c 1700-1840 Dr Michaela Giebelhausen, Department of Art History Dr Dana Arnold, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT. and Theory, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Tel: 0113.2335281,
The Transatlantic Imaginary: Nations, Values, Practices Values in Renaissance Art
Dr John Beck, Darwin College, Cambridge CB3 9EU, Gabriele Neher, Department of Art History, University of [email protected] and Dr Sue Wragg, Nene Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD. Tel College of Higher Education, St George's Avenue, 0115.951.3184; Fax 0115 951 3194; Northampton NN2 6JD. Tel.01604 735500.
Dr Rupert Shepherd, 80a, Fentiman Road, London The long history of transatlantic crossings, literal, SW8 LA. Tel/fax 0171 820 0200; metaphorical and ideological, has generated a
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Rethinking Cultural Values in German Art Papers examining the history of photography as an 1900-1999 academic discipline are also invited, in particular its relation to art history. Alongside such historical Dr Colin Rhodes and Dr Eric Ranff, Loughborough investigations, this strand will also involve curators, College of Art and Design, Epinal Way, Loughborough, artists and critics reflecting upon photography's Leicestershire LE11 3GE. Tel: 01509 261515 recently elevated value within the contemporaryart scene. This strand will explore and question the construction and modulation of values in German visual culture from around 1900 to the present, from Evaluating Sculpture: Patronage, the perspectives of manifestations within Germany Production, Consumption itself and their impact internationally. Topics may include: configurations of (post)modernity and neo- Amanda Crosswell [independent], Johanna Darke conservatism; the extent of influence of [Public Monuments and Sculpture Association], Gillian 'expressionist' values across Europe before 1940; the Whiteley [University of Leeds], c/o Department of Fine impact of foreign cultural identities in Germany Art, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, Tel throughout the century, and issues of cultural 0113.2335260. imperialism imposed in Germany after 1945; the emergence of German artists on the international 'Do plastic Venuses tell lies?': The sculptor Edward stage since the 1970s; the impact of iconic figures Allington's explorations contest traditional notions of such as Kathe Kollwitz, Joseph Beuys and Anselm the 'authentic' original and the 'nobility' of particular Kiefer, as a reproduction of cultural values; changes materials. Sculptors recently have worked with the in critical and historical approaches to the study of notion of the simulacrum, eschewing marble and German art; the effects of exhibitions of German art; bronze in favour of objets trouv—s, plastic, cardboard issues of revivals and reconstructions; and the and thin air. The strand will explore changing mapping of possible futures. sculptural values from the classical to the millenial post-modern: specifically the patronage of recent sculpture, the reproduction of sculpture, and the Artists' Lives: Biography and cultural and commercial value of sculptural works. Intentionality Re-examined Also addressed will be questions of the market and its effects on sculpture, question of production and Annie Richardson and Dr Andrew Kennedy, University after-care, and the contemporary values attached to of Southampton, Division of Art and Design History, sculpture in world culture. Park Avenue, Winchester S023 8DL. Tel: 01962 842500 Making Exhibitions - Making Art History This strand invites papers on historical formations of the artist and categories of artistic identity, and on Convened by the Art Galleries and Museums theoretical approaches to the figure of the artist in Subcommittee of the AAH the discipline of art history. A combination of (Fiona Bradley [Hayward Gallery], Penelope Curtis historical, critical and speculative analyses might [Henry Moore Institute], Sarah Hyde [Courtauld Institute produce a useful debate about the ways in which art Galleries]; Helen Smailes [National Gallery of Scotland] history currently handles and constructs the artist. New approaches to biography and intentionality c/o Dr Liz Prettejohn, University of Plymouth, Faculty of would be particularly welcome. Arts and Education, Earl Richards Road North, Exeter EX2 6AS, Devon. Tel 01392.475022; Fax 01392 475012
Photography and Value This strand explores issues around exhibitions as Dr Mark Durden, School of Art and Design, University major centres of art-historical discourse. We welcome of Derby, Mackworth Road, Derby DE22 3BL. speakers who are policy-makers in museums and Tel: 01332 622222;
6 ANNUAL CONFERENCE distinction between art historians and curators is theoretical positions and which might include the another issue which we hope will be considered. history of taste, consumption, representation or gender theory, material culture or social or institutional history, question of periodisation and Ingenious Transformations and Visionary style, etc. It is hoped to achieve a balance in the Technologies selection of papers between theoretical explorations of art/fashhion and specific case studies, and it is Dr Sanda Miller, Southampton Institute, East Park hoped that topics will be drawn from a full range of Terrace, Southampton S014 OYN. Tel 01703 319000; typology and chronology.
Ingenious transformations and visionary Policies and Politics in the Visual Arts technologies have transformed the physical and psychological world from at least the renaissance to Stephen Foster and Oliver Sumner, John Hansard the present day. From Leonardo's experiments with Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton hydraulic engineering, comparative anatomy and S017 1BJ. Tel 01703 592158; Fax 01703 594192; musical instruments, through Isaac Newton's work
7 CONFERENCE NEWS AAH 2000 n > Cities of Culture: ANNUAL CONFERENCE Aesthetics and Urban Identity in the
Association of European Enlightenment Art Historians 13 MARCH 1999 Body & Soul University of Warwick exploring objects - making myths Sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre, 6-9 APRIL 2000 University of Warwick. Department of Fine Art, The University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with Edinburgh College of Art Call for Papers The conference will consider the relationship Convenor: Professor Richard Thomson between location and the formation of a cultural aesthetic. Aimed at the cultural and urban historian The conference aims to incorporate the broad church of the 18th century, its remit is to provide a forum to of AAH membership - from museums to academic discuss the presence, in non-metropolitan cities, of a institutions - and the breadth of their scholarship: cultural aesthetic which is both distinctive and from art of all continents and its display, to distinguishing, and which thus contributes to a architecture and film. It will celebrate the range of unique urban identity. approaches to objects and theory that are encompassed by the study of art history and visual Concentrating upon large provincial cities, this culture. The conference will welcome contributions conference will consider the importance of a city's from established and new scholars alike, particular local and urban identity for the aesthetics encouraging partnership and promoting links. of its cultural products. Peter Borsay will speak on one of 18th-century Britain's most important The conference theme is intended as an imaginative provincial cultural centres - Bath. prompt to debate about the physical and the ideal: its subtitle respects the object as site of craft, power Papers focusing on the following areas will be and fantasy. Proposals for session organisers and particularly welcome, although other areas of themes are invited on as wide a range of periods, interest will be considered: commercial cities; issues, methodologies, and cultures as possible. European inter-relationships and comparative cultures; markets and consumption; provincialism The conference will include plenary sessions which and aesthetic theory. Papers will be of 20 minutes explore the conference themes across a spectrum of and are particularly encouraged from younger approaches and ages, visits to major sites in and academics and postgraduate students. around Edinburgh, as well as receptions held at major artistic centres. At its nucleus will be the Art Send abstracts of 250 words by 1 November 1998 Book Fair. The conference is being organised in full to: Deborah Graham, Department of History of Art, consultation with Edinburgh's major museums and University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL. art galleries, whose exhibitions will complement the Fax: 01203 523006; conference. email: [email protected].
Contact: Dr Carol Richardson, Conference Administrator, Department of Fine Art, The \ University of Edinburgh, 19 George Square, Burne Jones Centenary Day Edinburgh EH8 9LD. SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 1998 Tel: 0131 650 4117; Fax: 0131 650 6638; The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art email:
This one-day symposium will mark the centenary of Urban Visions the death of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, one of the more important artists of the Victorian era. The Experiencing and envisaging the city symposium will include lectures by leading SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 1998 authorities on Burne-Jones and be followed by a Tate Gallery Liverpool Critical Forum series Drinks Reception, generously sponsored by The Paul Mellon Centre. This one-day conference, run in conjunction with Liverpool University and Tate Gallery Liverpool, will Speakers will include: Jane Marsh, Christopher explore a diversity of themes emerging from notions Newall, John Christian, Stephen Wildman, Alan of the Urban, delivered by key academic theorists Crawford, Christopher Ridgway, Caroline from a number of disciplines. Chair: Malcolm Miles; Dakers, Anne Anderson. speakers include: Richard Sennett, Marsha Meskimmon, Jane Rendall, Sigrid Weigel. Tickets £35, Students £25. Please send cheque made out to the Victorian Society, and s.a.e, to: Rebecca For further information and a booking form contact: Daniels, Activities Co-ordinator, The Victorian Liz Nolan, Tate Gallery Liverpool. Tel: 0151 709 3223 Society, 1 Priory Gardens, Bedford Park, London W4 ITT. Tel: 0181 994 1019.
8 CONFERENCE NEWS The Labouring Classes English Accents: and the Poor The Uses of British Art in the USA, Russia and Australia 1776-1855 in 18th-Century Britain 10.00-18.00 FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER 1998 SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 1998 Gore Gallery Auditorium Manchester Metropolitan University A collaboration between Oxford Brookes University, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in This conference is organised by Professor Diana British Art and the Tate Gallery. Donald of the Department of History of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University and Professor Frank O'Gorman of the Department of Much has been written on the foreign influences on History at the University of Manchester, and is the British art, and on the travels of British artists in fourth in a series organised under the aegis of the search of exotic subject matter. However, less is North West Branch of the British Society for known about the reception of British art abroad and Eighteenth Century Studies. The conference revives its impact on the art and art theory of other a significant theme that has somewhat dropped out countries. This conference will investigate aspects of of prominence in recent years but continues to the interaction between British art and that of the engage many students of 18th-century history. It United States, Russia and Australia. adopts an inter-disciplinary approach which will, we hope, yield fruitful hypotheses and exciting new Contributors: Galina Andreeva (Tretyakov Gallery, insights. It is open to all students of the 18th Moscow); Polly Gray (University of Oxford); century. Elizabeth Johns (University of Pennsylvania); Christiana Payne (Oxford Brookes University); Michael Rosenthal (University of Warwick); The programme includes papers on aspects of Andrew Sayers (National Gallery of Australia, poverty by Dr Pamela Sharpe and Dr Steve Canberra); William Vaughan (Birkbeck College, Hindle; on the labouring classes' experience of the London). law by Professor Peter King and Dr Joanna Innes. Dr Tim Hitchcock will reappraise the political culture of the London poor. Professor Fee £40 (£20 concessions) to include coffee, lunch Diana Donald's paper is on attitudes to cruelty to and wine reception. For tickets please send a cheque, animals among 'the lower orders'. Dr John Styles made payable to Tate Gallery, to: Public Events, will present new research on the labouring classes as Tate Gallery, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG consumers, while Dr Sarah Hyde and Professor To book by credit card or for more information please Shearer West will deal with visual imagery of the ring 0171 887 8922;
Enquiries to: Jane Bedford, Conference Socialist artefacts, places Administrator, Department of History of Art and and identities Design, The Manchester Metropolitan University, A seminar on art, material culture and Righton Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester everyday life behind the 'Iron Curtain' M15 6BG. Tel: 0161 247 1931; Fax: 0161 247 6393; 11 NOVEMBER 1998 email:
The seminar will address the construction of distinct socialist identities through the production and The Georgian Country House consumption of art, space and commonplace artefacts and Visual Culture during the late-Stalinist and post-Stalinist periods. It aims to promote comparison between national 10.00-18.00 4 DECEMBER 1998 contexts and disciplinary knowledges. Tate Gallery, London
The country house was a focal point of Georgian Speakers: Iuri Gerchuk (Moscow); Mark Pittaway architecture, landscape and society and played a (Edge Hill University College); Victor Buchli (Jesus seminal role in the promotion and development of College, Cambridge); Catherine Cooke (Open the visual arts. This conference takes this distinctive University); Paulina Bren (New York University); architectural form and uses it as a fulcrum for the Mark Svede (Ohio State University); Alia Efimova exploration of the cultural map of this period. (University of California Santa Cruz); Kasia Murawska-Muthesius, (independent researcher, The conference coincides with the display of pictures Warsaw/Norwich). from country houses belonging to the members of the Historic Houses Association at the Tate Gallery No charge will be made for entry, but because places autumn/winter 1998. are limited only ticket-holders will be given entrance. Booking form from: School of Historical and Critical Full details from Education and Public Events, Tate Studies, University of Brighton, 10-11 Pavilion Gallery, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Parade, Brighton, BN2 IRA.Tel: 01273 643088, Fax: 01273 681935, < [email protected]>
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Loaded Canons The conference is convened by Tim Barringer, Nicola Bown, and Elizabeth Prettejohn. 10.00-4.00 I LI Tickets will cost £90 (residential) or £60 (non• FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER 1998 residential). Concessions at £60 (residential) or £40 Clore Gallery Auditorium, Association of Art 1 listorians (non-residential) apply to students, Friends of the Tate Gallery Barber Institute, and Friends of Birmingham Organised by AAH Schools Group and Tate Museum and Art Gallery. Early booking is advised. Education For booking forms and further information please contact: Sophie Wilson, Administrator, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, The University of This year's conference will examine the art historical Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TS. canons used in formal education. What are their Tel: 0121 414 7333; Fax: 0121 414 3370; ideological bases? In what form do they exist? Should
The morning sessions will debate the need for continuity and progression and how this may be developed between the sectors - Schools, Art The Sixties: Take Ten Colleges, Universities. Afternoon sessions will 26 MARCH 1999 explore new modes of teaching and learning and the Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes. ways in which galleries, artists' residencies and The Sixties Research Group, The Open Information Communication Technology may be used to construct a more inclusive curriculum. The University, Bi-annual Research Seminar plenary session will respond to the issues raised throughout the day. This one-day research seminar will be the tenth in the ongoing series by the Sixties Research Group, and will include papers on a variety of issues on the Speakers include: 1960s. Lesley Burgess (Institute of Education London) Dr Tom Gretton (University College London) For further details, contact Nick Thomas at: Dr Nigel Llewellyn (University of Sussex)
The conference fee is £25, including coffee and lunch. Cheques to be made payable to 'AAH Schools Libraries as Gateways to an Subcommittee'. For a booking form please ring Tate Enlightened World Education on 0171 887 8000. For further information please contact: Nicholas Addison, Art & Design 20-28 AUGUST 1999 Education, Institute of Education, University of Bangkok London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL. Tel: Section of Art Libraries, IFLA 0171 612 6192; Fax: 0171 612 6202;
Speakers include: Caroline Arscott, J B Bullen, Proposals for papers are due on 1 December 1998 ; Deborah Cherry, John Christian, David Peters include a title, and a 100-200 word abstract. Corbett, Colin Cruise, Whitney Davis, Please send your proposal to: Jeannette Dixon, Genevieve Liveley, Lene Ostermark-Johansen, Chair, IFLA Section of Art Libraries, do Hirsch Anna Gruetzner Robins, Sam Smiles, Andrew Library, Museum of Fine Arts, PO Box 6826 Stephenson, Rebecca Virag, and Stephen Houston, TX 77265, USA. Tel: 12 713 639 7326 Wildman. Fax: 12 713 639 7399, email: hirsch:mfah.org
10 INDEPENDENTS Conferences - An Independent's Eye-View
It was very encouraging to see so many Independent they are newcomers or Independents. This is a plea Design and Art Historians at the last AAH Annual that established members of the Association should Conference in Exeter, all obviously enjoying the make a point of giving at least some of their time to occasion. It was, however, noticeable that most of making contact with those they do not already know. them lived in the West Country and very few of them You never know - that unknown individual, not had travelled from the London area, where most sporting a significant label, may be the innovative Independent Art Historians are based. It is good that thinker of the future! Perhaps convenors could make Conferences are held regularly in the regions, but time for people to introduce themselves at the when they are far away from London it is very beginning of each day? difficult for some people to get there. Independents have to pay their own costs and, with travel and Which brings me to a final point. A glance at the extra meals, attendance at a regional conference is Conference programme makes clear that most now not far short of £250. This is way beyond the papers are given by those from institutions. Perhaps pockets of many Independents, who are now it could become a practice that, where possible, struggling to make a living in a declining market - convenors try to include at least one Independent as was brought to the attention of the AGM 1997. scholar in their collection of speakers. The Register reveals that there is a huge store of knowledge A glance at the Register of Independent Art and among Independents and I am sure a number of Design Historians, which has just been republished, them would respond willingly to an approach to give will show that they have a very wide range of skills a paper. which make an important contribution to the profession. Often they work very much alone, Independents want to play a full role in the future without the ongoing support and companionship that development of the Association. A more positive comes with membership of an academic department. 'Conference experience' for the Independents would Conferences, therefore, are a very important part of surely be of benefit to the entire membership. their lives, enabling them to make contacts, exchange ideas and keep up with the latest VIVIEN NORTHCOTE scholarship. Secretary to Independent Art & Design Historians subcommittee Proposal for one-day conferences Now that AAH Annual Conferences are expected to be held more frequently outside London, the suggestion has been made, that an occasional one- Meeting of Independent day Conference should be held in London. This could have a smaller number of sections, with say six or Art and Design Historians seven papers in each, held in the morning and early afternoon. There could then be a key-note address, MONDAY 26 OCTOBER 1998 followed by a meal at which people would have a 6.30PM-8.30PM chance to talk at length.
Such a Conference could easily be attended by those Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, living in London and, for those out of London, a one- Piccadilly day return ticket is much cheaper than a full return. In the past it was possible to book for one day of the After the success of the last such meeting in March annual conference, but attendance at only one day of 1996, the subcommittee has managed to arrange what a three-day event usually means missing out on a is becoming a biennial event - a networking evening for good deal. Although accommodation costs in London independent art and design historians. are high, perhaps it would be easier and cheaper to The meeting is open to independent members of the find somewhere for one day. The Independents Association, and to non-AAH members working in the Subcommittee would be interested to have comments same field. on this idea. Tickets for the event will be £6.00 (made payable to the Introductions? Association of Art Historians), to include drink and light At present, apart from the special interest group refreshments. meetings, there is no opportunity at the Conference They should be obtained in advance from: for newcomers to get to know other delegates, Vivien Northcote without the rather daunting task of approaching c/o 10 Davisville Rd strangers, all of whom seem to be deeply engaged in London W12 9SJ. important conversations with those they know well! At every Conference I have attended, I have noticed Please send an s.a.e. when applying for tickets. In case some people standing forlornly on the edge of the of query telephone Vivien on 0181 847 1574. room, munching their sandwiches in solitude. Often
11 STUDENTS
A New Student Group Chair Farewell from Gabriele
My name is Dennis Wardleworth and I am the new I first became involved in the subcommittee three chairperson of the Student Group, taking over from years ago when I helped to set up the series of One- Gabrielle Neher. I am a postgraduate student at Day conferences. At the same time, the Voluntary Southampton Institute and I have been active on the Work Placement lists, which many of you will have Student Subcommittee for some time, working with used, were being drawn up. In April 1997 I Emma Roberts and Gabriele to build the Student succeeded Emma Roberts as chair of the Student Group. They are both a hard act to follow. Group, and in this capacity I attended the meetings of the Executive Committee of the AAH in order to I will aim, along with the Student Subcommittee, to represent the interests of the numerous student continue to make the group an active and lively part members of the Association. It has been a great of the Association and to help the student members privilege to be able to attend these meetings, and I achieve their professional aspirations. We will am delighted to have been elected as member of the continue to hold one-day student conferences, and committee for the next three years. are looking at the possibility of holding a weekend conference. In April 1998, at the Annual Conference of the AAH, the Student Subcommittee was active as never Current activities before, and its various activities included the We are putting together a register of research provision of information for student delegates, the activities which we hope to publish soon. This will organisation of a Special Interest Forum about help you get in touch with those with similar 'Careers in Art History', and an open meeting for all research interests. student members.
We want to improve information for students and are All of these activities - and more - have been planning a starter pack for new members. We have organised by the Student Subcommittee, providing an email mailing list giving news of our activities student members of the AAH with an opportunity to and have revived the student web-site on: voice their opinions and concerns. The AAH is one of * DENNIS WARDLEWORTH GABRIELE NEHER AAH Thesis Prize for 1999 One-day Conferences There are two separate categories of entry: Unfortunately, the November Conference has been • undergraduate students on predominantly studio- cancelled due to lack of interest, but a conference is based courses pencilled in for February at the University of • undergraduate students on non-studio-based Nottingham Arts Centre. courses whose course comprises 50% or more of history of art, design or architecture. The date has yet to be confirmed, but further details will The prizes for the competition are provided by be publicised nearer the time on the Student Web-site: Manchester University Press, Reaktion Books and Yale University Press. Please submit entries by 31 October 1998 to: Gudrun Please send abstracts of no more than 150 words to: Schubert, University of Brighton, 10-11 Pavilion Parade, Brighton BN2 1RA. Tel: 01273 Dennis Wardleworth (for address see back page) or 643325/643086; Fax: 01273 681935; Gabriele Neher, Deptartment of Art History, University email: 12 STUDENTS wishing to come to Britain can apply for a range of Sources of funding for scholarships: Rhodes, Fullbright, Marshall and postgraduate study Rotary. If you are considering a postgraduate course, 6 An employer masters or doctorate, in the next academic year or Employers or potential employers may offer support beyond, finding adequate funding for fees, research for postgraduate work, particularly part-time, if it expenses and living can be a major headache. This has relevance to the job. If you already have an art- article is intended to give you a few starting points history related job or have an employer in mind, ask. and ideas. It is not comprehensive, but will, I hope, be useful. 7 The Educational Grants Advisory Service (EGAS) 1 The University This is part of the Family Welfare Association, and The university at which you intend to study may be was established to offer students, particularly able to offer a number of sources of funding: disadvantaged students, expert guidance to secure • Research Studentships will cover fees and funding. However, its literature says 'EGAS finds it research expenses and some living expenses. extremely difficult to help certain groups of students: Ask at your current university, and look . . .postgraduate students'. regularly at the educational supplements of, among others, The Times and The Guardian. 8 Part-time teaching There is also a useful web-site at 3 Local Education Authorities (LEAs) UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX There are no mandatory LEA grants for Centre for German-Jewish Studies postgraduate studies except for the PGCE. LEA are also not allowed to offer discretionary grants. Cataloguer (Fixed Term) 4 Charitable Trusts An LEA may, however, be acting as administrator for A cataloguer is required to work on the Arnold educational trusts. These are funds based on Daghani Collection of artistic and commemorative charitable donations made from wills and are usually works by a Holocaust survivor. restricted to residents of a particular area. Authorities other than LEAs, such as borough, town The position is fixed term for six months (full-time) or even parish councils, may administer, or have or one year (part-time), starting in January 1999. information about, local charitable trusts which will make donations for educational purposes. Salary in the Research and Analogous Grade 1A Universities, schools or local churches may also scale (£15,735-£18,275) pro rata, depending on administer charitable trusts. These are rarely qualifications. advertised but can be very useful sources of supplementary funding. Ask around in your town or Closing date: 31 October 1998 village. For further details please contact the 5 Other charitable sources Director, Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN. There are also national organisations such as the British Federation of Graduate Women, which will Tel/Fax: 01273 678495 provide funding for special groups. US students e-mail: [email protected]. 13 SCHOOLS ACHiS The British School at Rome A Research Project for Art Critics and Awards for Research in the Historians in Schools Humanities In association with the AAH, the Institute of Via Gramsci 61, 00197 Rome, Italy. Education, University of London, and Tate Tel: 0039-063264939; Fax: 0039-063221201 Education are seeking funding to run a research Deadline for receiving applications: Friday 13 November. Interviews will take place in December 1998. For an application form or further information Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellowship 1999-2000 contact: Nicholas Addison, Art and Design For research on the Grand Tour or on Anglo-Italian Education, Institute of Education, University of cultural and artistic relations. London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAL. • 6-month residency, inc. full board, research Tel: 0171 612 6192/6247; Fax: 0171-612 6202; grant: £l,000/month + travel allowance. email: 14 ACCESSIONS Major Accessions to Repositories in 1997 relating to Art The following is a list of manuscripts and manuscript John Dodgson (1890-1969), painter: sketch books collections relating to art received by repositories (TGA972) during 1997. Some collections are not yet fully listed Alan Durst (1883-1970), sculptor: corresp and and consequently are not open to researchers. Other papers (TGA973) collections are closed for specific periods. George Fuller, artist: corresp 1965-87 (TGA9716) Researchers should note that the description of a Barbara Ker-Seymer, artist: corresp and papers collection in this document does not imply that 1925-81 (TGA974) it is available for research. Please address any Bernard Meninsky (1891-1950), painter: drawings queries regarding access to the staff of the relevant (TGA9715) repository. EQ Nicholson (1908-92), painter and designer: corresp and papers (TGA977) NATIONAL, UNIVERSITY AND SPECIAL Glyn Philpot (1884-1937), painter and sculptor: REPOSITORIES corresp and papers (TGA9714) Patrick Symons (bl925), painter: corresp and Cambridge University Library, West Road, papers (TGA9711) Cambridge CB3 9DR Roland, Browse & Delbanco Gallery, London: John Robert Monsell (1877-1952), illustrator: business records 1944-82 (TGA975) corresp and papers (Add 9437) Edward Totah Gallery, London: records 1979-91 (TGA978) Glasgow University Library, Hillhead Street, British Council: administrative records rel to Glasgow G12 8QE Visual Arts 1936-67 (TGA9712) Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), etcher and Contemporary Art Society (addnl): records 1946- surgeon: corresp, papers and artefacts rel to Whistler 90 (TGA979) family (MS Whistler) University College London, Manuscripts Room, The University of Hull, Brynmor Jones Library, The Library, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Hull HU6 7RX Slade School of Fine Art, University College Louie Burrell (1873-1971), artist: corresp London: records 1868-1995 (SLADE ARCHIVE) Imperial War Museum, Department of Victoria and Albert Museum, National Art Documents, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ Library, Archive of Art and Design, Blythe House, Frank Owen Salisbury, historical and ceremonial 23 Blythe Road, London W14 0QF portrait and landscape painter: corresp rel to portrait Antoni and Alison, fashion designers: papers of Jack Cornwell VC 1916-18 c 1983-97 (AAD/1997/20) George Gamon Adams (1821-98), sculptor: papers King's College Library, Cambridge CB2 1ST (AAD/1997/12) Roger Fry (1866-1934), art critic and artist (addnl): Ervin Bossanyi, painter and stained glass artist sketch books (REF) (addnl): cartoons and designs cl924-70 (AAD/1997/11) Loulou Brown, fashion illustrator: papers 1916-50 National Library of Scotland, Dept of Manu• (AAD/1997/10) scripts, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EW Eric Fraser( 1902-83), graphic artist and illustrator: William Skeoch dimming, painter (addnl): corresp papers (AAD/1997/16) and papers c 1894-1900 (Acc 11544) George Him, graphic designer: papers c 1920-82 Charles McCall (1907-89), painter: corresp and papers (AAD/1997/19) (Acc 11494) Vera Law, calligrapher and gilder: papers 1923-68 Sir Henry Raeburn, painter: corresp and papers rel to (AAD/1997/5) financial affairs 1807-18 (Acc 11547) Mark Luka, fashion designer: papers 1919-71 (AAD/1997/6) National Library of Wales, Department of Rosamonde Nairac, ceramic and tableware Manuscripts and Records, Aberystwyth SY23 3BU designer: papers 1963-92 (AAD/1997/3) Augustus Edwin John (1878-1961), artist (addnl): Harold Shelton, artist and principal of Hornsey corresp (NLW MSS 23508D, 23567D) College of Art: papers c 1940-89 (AAD/1997/9) David Jones (1895-1974), artist and writer (addnl): Birgit Skiold (1923-82), printer and founder of the corresp (NLW MSS 23537E, 2354IE, 23559E) Print Studio: papers (AAD/1997/18) Cadogan Press, magazine publisher: records 1980— Scottish Record Office, HM General Register 91 (AAD/1997/2) House, Edinburgh EH1 3YY Heal & Son Holdings pic, bedding and furniture Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland: mfrs and retailer, London (addnl): records c 1980-95 minutes and case files 1961-96 (RF) (AAD/1997/4) London Lorries Ltd, commercial motor body Tate Gallery, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG builders: records c 1920-33 (AAD/1997/17) Crafts Council (addnl): records c 1984-94 Maxwell A Armfield (1881-1972), painter and (ADD/1997/1) designer: corresp and papers (TGA976) To be continued in Bulletin 70, February 1999 15 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1998-99 Chair Chairs of Reyahn King Toshio Watanabe Subcommittees (Artists' Papers Register) Chelsea College of Art & Design (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery) Manresa Road Schools London SW3 6LS Nicholas Addison Tel: 0171 514 7770 Adrian Rifkin Art and Design Fax: 0171 514 7778 (Editor, Art History) Institute of Education (University of Leeds) University of London Hon Secretary 20 Bedford Way Howard Hollands Fintan Cullen London WC1H 0AL Department of Art History Tel: 0171 612 6247 (Honorary Editor, The Art The University of Nottingham Fax: 0171 612 6202 Book) University Park Elected 1997 Co-opted member Sarah Wilson Dana Arnold (AICA Representative) Christopher Bailey (Associate Editor, Art History) (Courtauld Institute of Art) (University of Northumbria) (University of Leeds) Pauline Ridley (University of Brighton) Ex-officio members Please send contributions to John Morrison Anthea Callen Bulletin (preferably on disk (University of Aberdeen) (Ex-Chair AAH) (Mac or PC) or by email) to: Peter Funnell (De Montfort University) (National Portrait Gallery) Jannet King John House 48 Stafford Road Elected 1998 (Chair of the British National Brighton BN1 5PF Committee of CIHA) Tel & Fax: 01273 509653 Oriana Baddeley (Courtauld Institute of Art) Designed and Typeset by Jannet King. 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