Academic Session: Bristol 2005
Revolution and the Reception and Conception of Visual Culture in France 1789–1871
Convenors:
Emily Richardson, University College, London Emrichardson79@aol.com and Steven Adams, University of Hertfordshire s.adams@herts.ac.uk
Abstract:
The succession of revolutions and restorations that punctuated the political life of late 18th and 19th–century France resulted in a series of dramatic changes in the way visual and material and culture was made, circulated, critiqued, consumed, destroyed and revived. This session seeks to provide a forum for the exploration of such changes. Central to the interests of this session is the impact of French revolutions and restorations had on cultural forms that have not traditionally been included in many of the established narratives of 18th and 19th–century art.
With papers on such varied topics as sculptural ephemera, passports, porcelain production and magic lanterns, fantasies about space flight, new forms of spatiality in revolutionary France and concepts of memory and revolution, this session sets out to examine some of the ways in which political instability during the period gave rise to a range of new cultural forms, new discursive conventions and new patterns of production, consumption and display.
Steven Adams (University of Hertfordshire), Revolutionary Space
Daniel Harkett (Columbia University), Art Exhibitions, Public Space, and the ‘Spirit of Rebellion’ during the French Restoration
Claudette Hould (Université du Quebec à Montréal), The Reception and Impact of the ‘Tableaux historiques de la Révolution Française’ in France and Europe
Zoe Kahr (University College London), Charlet’s Depictions of Napoleon: Villain or Hero?
Valerie Mainz (University of Leeds), Festivals, Acts of Commemoration and Works on Paper
Charity Mewburn (University of British Columbia), The Irish in French Satires: the exchange of poverty and revolution between France and Britain in the mid–19th century
Emily Richardson (University College London), Taking the biscuit: revolutionary sculpture made at the manufactory of Sèvres porcelain.
Richard Taws (University College London), Identity Crisis: passports and the visual imaginary in revolutionary France
Susannah Walker (Sutton College of Learning for Adults), The Production, Loss and Recovery of Popular Appeal: Exhibiting the work of Nicolas–Toussaint Charlet
Helen Weston (University College London), Magic Lanterns in Revolutionary France: Where Street and Salon intersect