International Art History Conference
Liverpool Hope University (Creative Campus)
Friday 5th and Saturday 6th April 2013

While major exhibitions, such as “Migrations - Journeys into British Art” (January – August 2012) at Tate Britain, address the impact of migration on the cultural heritage and artistic production in a particular country, the conference seeks to investigate further this exciting topic by discussing thematically the latest research of international scholars. Instead of focusing on the 20th and 21st centuries and the strong consequences migration caused in modern and postmodern societies, we intend to look back and explore the effects of migration on art and artists in Europe and beyond before, during and shortly after the Industrial Revolution.

Why have artists left their comfort zone, travelled to faraway places and adapted to new living conditions when only very few had a noteworthy impact on local artistic production, such as Hans Holbein the Younger at Henry VIII’s court or El Greco, who is the prime example for intercultural artistic exchange in early modern times? How important was national identity for the artists and also for the reception of their work? What are the differences and parallels between pre- and post-Industrial Revolution migration of artists?

If you would like to register for the conference, please find a registration form on www.hope.ac.uk/inter-culture/.

Conference Programme

Friday, 5th April 2013

8.00-9.00am
Registration/Refreshments

9.00-9.30am
Welcome
Professor Kenneth Newport, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Liverpool Hope University

9.30-10.15am
Keynote Lecture
Professor Eberhard König, Free University Berlin: tbc

10.15-11.00am
Guest talk
Tim Batchelor, Tate Britain London, Co-curator of ‘Migrations – Journeys into British Art’: tbc

11.00-11.30
Coffee Break

11.30-1pm
Section 1
Old versus New Society – Artists’ Perceptions

Anette Schaffer, The Warburg Institute, London: El Greco: reviewing the question of early modern artistic eccentricity

Stephanie Porras, Tulane University, New Orleans: The real, rejected and virtual travels of Marten de Vos

Gitta Ho, Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris: German Art Pupils in Paris 1793-1843

1.00-2.00pm
Lunch Break

2.00-3.30pm
Section 2
New environments and influences on artistic practices

Silvia Ferreira, University of Lisbon: From Stone to Wood: Claude Laprade and his journey from Provence to Portugal

Clemence Matthieu, Clare Hall, Cambridge: Cultures of Exchange. The architecture of the Low Countries and Southern England in the 16th century

Matej Klemencic, University of Ljubljana: Venetian Sculptors of the 18th century in Habsburg lands: Francesco Robba, Antonio Corradini and Giovanni Marchiori

3.30-4pm
Coffee Break

4.00-5.30pm
Section 3
Cultural Confrontations

Natasha Eaton, University City of London: Subaltern Colour? Between the Global and the Local in Britain and India

Jessica David, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven: Johan Zoffany’s painting practice in Kolkata and Lucknow: the technical exploration of an ad hoc studio

Katelyn Crawford, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington: John Greenwood, portraiture, and mobility in the British Atlantic, 1752-1772

6.30pm Conference Dinner

Saturday, 6th April 2013

9-10am
Keynote Lecture
Professor Fintan Cullen, University of Nottingham: Migrating Objects: Ireland and Empire

10-11.30am
Section 4
Forced Migration and its resistance

Julia Crispin, University of Münster: French Manuscript Illumination between Propaganda and Pragmatism: The Talbot Workshop in Rouen and its patrons during the last stages of the Hundred Years’ War

Frederica Van Dam, Ghent University: Tableau Poetique: A recently discovered manuscript by the Flemish Migrant Painter-Poet Lucas de Heere (1534-84)

Gerrit Walczak, Technical University Berlin: Mutual Irritations: Migrant Artists in London during the French Revolution

12-12.45pm
Visit: Walker Art Gallery

1-2.30pm
Lunch Break

2.30-3.30pm
Section 5
The returned artist

Kathrin Wagner, Liverpool Hope University: Malversation, Escape, Return: the sculptor Hans Hesse from Luebeck and his temporary migration to Dalarna (Sweden) 1457-58

Fiona V. Salvesen Murrell, University of Aberdeen: The Returned Artist: American lessons learned; shaping the new Scottish Academy from 1826

Laura MacCulloch, Royal Holloway, University of London: Revaluating the Outsider: Ford Madox Brown and cultural Dialogues in mid-19th century Europe

3.30-4pm
Coffee Break

4-4.30pm
Final Remarks/Conclusion