Bulletin OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS No. 8 February 1979 Blake's sentiment "Eternity is in love with the Productions of Time' takes on a haunting reality for editors as copy deadlines come and go and the delicate motions leading to the next Bulletin are set in train. In a world where time is in short supply for all of us, 1979 seems to betoken developments which may enable us to make more efficient use of it. This issue contains news of readier access to areas of the Tate's collections with the Spring open• ing of its extension; of a mail order firm which specialises in the speedy delivery of urgently- needed art books; of discussions on the idea of computerised data banks for art historians. Detailed arrangements for the Spring Conference are also far advanced as we go to press. Please send me copy for No. 9 by ist June. John Sweetman, Editor, Department of Fine Art, The University, Southampton, SO9 5NH. AAH LONDON CONFERENCE SATURDAY 31 MARCH Friday 30th March—Monday 2nd April 09.30 1 st paper in each academic session (see below for details) Institute of Education, University of London, 20 10.15 2nd paper in each academic session Bedford Way, London WCi. 11.00 Coffee Programme of the Fifth Annual Conference 11.30 3 rd paper in each academic session 12.15 4th paper in each academic session FRIDAY 30 MARCH 01.00 Lunch Warncliffe Suite, Hotel Russell (£3.50 per person) 11.00 Registration •02.15 Polytechnic and Art School Group Meeting. Chairman: Mary Stewart The Registration booths are situated in the Crush Hall, 03.00 Tea on the Lower Ground Floor. Each person attending 03.30 Museums & Art Galleries and Higher Education will be given full details of the Conference, timetable, Chairman: Michael Diamond. map of the area, plan of the building and a complete set 06.30 Reception at The Victoria and Albert Museum, of abstracts of all the papers in all sessions. Raphael Cartoon Court. There will be a display of publishers' books on art and design history in the Crush Hall SUNDAY 1 APRIL 02.00 Opening Session: Chairman: Prof John White Visits: Please indicate on the enclosed booking form which visit you would prefer. Prof H. W. Janson: The Image of the Human Soul. Visits Organiser: Leela Meinertas, department of 03.00 Tea in the Jeffrey Hall Furniture, Victoria and Albert Museum. Transport will be arranged for all these visits, as and 03.30 Prof Peter Murray Whither Art History? where appropriate. 04.15 Adrian Heath Some Debts acknowledged—the This programme has not been finalised in every detail, artist and art history. but it is expected that the final arrangements will in most cases be as follows: 06.00 Reception at the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall Visit no 1 (£1.00 per person) Greenwich Dulwich College Gallery; Royal Naval College; Queens 2 Dr Paul Hetherington: House; Rangers House. Artist or Patron} Visit no 2 3 Anna Muthesius: Adam Houses Inscribed Imperial Byzantine silks in western shrines Osterley Park; Syon House; Adelphi Room, V & A; and treasures before 1200. Kenwood House. 4 John Beckwith: Visit no 3 Byzantine Art and the West: the First Phase Kent Houses and Castles 5 John Osbourne: Knole; Penshurst Place and church; Lullingstone Castle. The Iconography of St. John the Baptist and St. John Visit no 4 the Evangelist flanking the Mystic Lamb of God. 19th century in London 6 Dorothy Reynolds: Lejghton House; Ernest Debenham House, Addison The role of Westminster Cathedral in the Byzantine Road; Greek Othodox Cathedral, Notting Hill Gate; revival. Forbes Collection, Old Battersea House. Visit no 5 7 (To be arranged) Art and Crafts Architecture The Orchard, Shire Lane, Chorleywood; Tilehurst, Quattrocento Patronage and Collecting Session no 2 Bushey; Myholme, Bushey; Grimsdyke Hotel, Harrow Weald. Conveners: Dr Charles Avery, Department of Sculpture, Visit no 6 Victoria & Albert Museum, Dr Francis Ames-Lewis, 19th and 20th century Industrial Architecture Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College, Abbey Mills Pumping Station, Paddington-Euston- University of London, Malet Street, London WCiE Kings Cross. 7HX Visit no 7 1 Ruth Rubenstein: London Hotels Clement VII's Antique River God in the Belvedere Charing Cross Hotel—dining room; The Ritz—winter 2 Anthony Radcliffe: Garden and dining room; Inverness Court; Cambridge Riccio and his Humanist Patrons Gate, Regent's Park, Cafe Royal. 3 Dr Charles Avery: Visit no 8 The Art patronage of the earliest Medici Henry Moore Collection, Much Hadham 4 Toby Yuen: Visit no 9 Some influences of the minor arts of antiquity upon 20th century visit Giulio Romano in Mantua To include the Eileen Gray exhibition (V & A) and Hampstead Garden Suburb. 5 Caroline Elam: Public and private patronage in early 15th century Florentine architecture—S. Spirito and S. Lorenzo MONDAY 2 APRIL 6 Dr Francis Ames-Lewis: 09.30 Museums Group Meeting Tapestry and the Quattrocento Court Chairman: Colin Thompson 7 Mark Evans: 09.30 Extra Mural Departments' Meeting Northern Painters and Italian Patrons during the 15th Chairman: Maria Shirley century 09.30 Art History in Secondary Schools Chairman: Flavia Petrie Art & patronage at the Early Stuart Court Session no 3 11.00 Coffee 11.30 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Convener: Sir Oliver Millar, Lord Chamberlain's Office, 01.00 Lunch St. James's Palace London SWi. 02.00 5th paper in each academic session 1 Dr John Newman: 02.45 6th paper in each academic session Funeral Monuments of some Caroline Courtiers 03.30 7th paper in each academic session 04.15 Tea 2 Prof Kerry Downes: 05.00 Close of Conference (title to be announced) 3 Sir Oliver Millar: ACADEMIC SESSIONS The role of Queen Henrietta Maria 4 Dr Christopher White: Charles I and Honthorst's Apollo and Dianna Byzantium and the West Session no 1 5 David Pinto: Convener: Dr Ann Powell, department of History of Song Writers of the Early Stuart Court Art, Ealing Technical College, St Mary's Road, Ealing, 6 David Howarth: London W5 5RF 'Loving William Petty' 1 Dr Robin Cormack: 7 Dr Roy Strong: Was Albania in between} (title to be announced) Central Europe in the Eighteenth Century Session no 4 5 Elizabeth Aslin: The prize of excellence—Ceramic Manufacture under Convenor: Dr Peter Cannon-Brookes, National Museum the Second Empire. of Wales, Cardiff CFi 6 Philip Ward-Jackson: Sculpture for the Lourve and Tuileries 1852-1870. 1 Richard Morrice: Statzdahlum, Pommersfelden and the German Baroque 7 (To be arranged) staircase. 2 Alastair Lang: Art Architecture and Design in Britain, 1880-1914 Augsburg and the evolution of Rococo stucco. Session no 7 3 Brian Knox: Convener: Thomas Faulkner, Department of History The indefensible fortresses in South East Poland. of Art, Newcasde-upon-Tyne, Polytechnic, Squires 4 Dr Peter Cannon-Brookes: Building, Sandyford Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NEi The Sacre Monte of Northern Italy as a source for the 8 ST Asam brothers. 1 Hilary Taylor: 5 Dr Slavak Sverakova: An Artist's Life in London and Paris Kuks—Count Sporck and Mathias Bernhard Braun. 2 Dr John Turpin: 6 (To be arranged) William Orpen's early years in London. 7 (To be arranged) 3 Dr Colin Cunningham: A Big Tower and a Bit of Baroque. Art Architecture and Design During the French Revo• 4 Gavin Stamp: lution Session no 5 The 'Entente Cordiale3 and the destruction of English Architecture. Convenor: Miss Helen Weston, History of art Depart• ment, University College, Gower Street, London WCiE 5 Jeanne Sheehy: 6BT The Celtic Revival and the Applied Arts. 1 Norman Bryson: 6 Thomas Faulkner: The Jacobin Fete 'The insidious disease': British responses to Art Nouveau 2 Tom Gretton: 7 Hilary Grainger: The Revolution in popular Imagery 1788-1795 Pont Street Dutch 3 Dr Anita Brookner: David makes a speech Aspects of Nineteenth Century London Session no 8 4 Jennifer Harris: Artists and the Establishment of a Revolutionary Convener: Tony Dyson, Institute of Education, Uni• Costume versity of London, London WCiH oAL. 5 Dr William Vaughan: 1 Pamela Nunn : The Reaction of Artists in Rome to the French Revo• The Victorian Family: art, life—the city. lution 2 Tony Dyson: 6 Helen Weston: Fifty Years of plate printing in London 1833-1883. Prud'hon in exile 3 Dr Anthony Hobson: 7 Dr Helen Rosenau: The Primrose Hill Mob 1880-1900. Ledoux's Chauxs the first Garden-City 4 Dr Henry Ley: Burckhardt in London—a Centenary Note. Art Architecture and Design During the Second Empire in France Session no 6 (This section has been convened in response to papers offered. It is at present planned to run only on the Convener: Mary Stewart, Department of Art History, Saturday morning of the Conference, but should more Leicester Polytechnic, Fletcher Building, Leicester LEi papers suitable for this section be offered, it will be 9BH extended to the Monday afternoon) 1 James Thompson: 'Eugene Fromentin and the Image of the Arab9 during Art and Design 1914-1918 Session no 9 the Second Empire. 2 David Bromfield: Convener: Joseph Darracott, Department of Art, Far Eastern Art and French Criticism in the Second Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London SEi Empire. 6HZ 3 Jo Miller: 1 Dr David Brown: The Empress Eugenie—Arbiter of Taste. An account of the work of John Nash as a war artist5 with 4 Michael Howard: special reference to 'Over the Top\ 'The Young Man and Death9—a study of the relationship 2 Barry Curtis: between Theodore Chasseriau and Gustave Moreau. Posters and other propaganda in the First World War 3 Theo Cowdell: Janet Baker Concert The Royal Academy and the Great War. In the Logan Hall, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, on Saturday 31st March at 7.30 pm.