Academic Sessions: Glasgow 2010
AAH Annual Conference 2010
15 - 17 April, University of Glasgow
Insular Preconceptions? The Arts of Iberia and Latin America and their Reception in Britain
Session Convenors:
Hilary Macartney, University of Glasgow and ARTES Co-Founder, h.macartney@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk
Robert Wenley, Glasgow Museums, Robert.Wenley@csglasgow.org
To mark the tenth anniversary of the founding of ARTES Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group, to promote study and discussion of the arts of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America in the UK and Ireland, ARTES is delighted to collaborate with Glasgow Museums in offering a session for the first time at the AAH. Ten years on, Iberian and Latin American art remains marginalised in learning and teaching in art history in the UK, yet popular and scholarly interest in the visual arts of these areas has never been greater, as response to recent exhibitions has shown. Such paradoxes are not new: in the 19th entury, unprecedented numbers of Spanish pictures especially were available on the art market in Britain but only a small percentage remained in British collections. Why has Iberian and Latin American art never become ‘mainstream’ here? Could dedicated programmes of research finally turn around past prejudices? This session will explore such issues and, through its collaboration with Glasgow Museums, will also offer access to the city’s famous Stirling Maxwell and other collections, including works not currently on public display.
Speakers:
Piers Baker-Bates (Open University)
‘A Stupendous Picture’: A Discussion of the Sources for the Art of Morales and Ribalta and the British Response
Xanthe Brooke (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
The Fifteenth-Century Spanish Paintings in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight and their Reception
Rachel Bullough (CEU Universidad San Pablo, Madrid)
Charles Clifford: A New Way of Looking at Spain in the 19th Century
Lara Eggleton (University of Leeds)
Surface Deceits: Misreading Horror Vacui in the Ornament of al-Andalus
Hilary Macartney (University of Glasgow)
A Highland Woman at Pollok House: Stirling Maxwell and Nineteenth-Century Taste for Murillo
Philip McEvansoneya (Trinity College, Dublin)
Spanish Painting and Ireland
Julian Minton (Open University/University of Essex)
Góngora the Poet, Carducho the Theorist, and Velázquez’s Late Paintings: Reflection on the ‘Idea’ in Velázquez
Tom Nickson (University of York)
Art History and the Historians of Medieval Spain
Edward Payne (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Britain’s Bête Noire? The Reception of Ribera in the 19th Century
Sarah Symmons (University of Essex)
A Scottish Heroine in Portugal and Spain
Richard Tilbury (Birkbeck, University of London)
The Spanish Canker. Black Legends: Spain and its Image in Early Modern Europe
Zahira Veliz (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
George Scharf's Selection and Display of Spanish Paintings for the Manchester Exhibition of 1857