Academic Sessions: Bristol 2005

1. Revolution and the Reception and Conception of Visual Culture in France 1789–1871
2. The Forgotten Surrealists: Belgian Surrealism 1924–1981
3. Sentimentality
4. Engaging Encounter
5. Student Session
6. Corpus Delecti: Aesthetics, Eugenics and the Sexed Body
7. Dialogues, Discourses and Difference
8. Agency and Mediation: Women‘s Contribution to Visual Culture between the Wars, 1918–1939
9. Boredom and Banality
10. ‘Foul Biting’ and other ‘Accidents’ of Facture in Late 19th–Century Art: Surface, Subjectivity, and the Marks of Modernity
11. Kitsch in Formation and On Parade: Conception, Display and Audience
12. Painting and Planting. Art – Garden – Landscape
13. Narrative in Nineteenth–Century Art
14. Art History and the Uses of Reception
15. Reconsidering the Artist–Model Transaction
16. Renaissance Material Culture – Conceptions and Receptions
17. Function, and its Relation to the Conception and Reception of Portraiture in the 18th Century
18. ‘Lives’ of the Renaissance Artists: Biography and Reception
19. Conceptions and Receptions of Medieval Art and Architecture
20. 21st Century Art History: Global Reception