Schedule of talks during Autumn/Winter term 2009/10
15 Aug 2013
Dates: 13 October 2009 - 9 March 2010
Location: Grand Parade, University of Brighton
Tuesday 13 October 2009: 'Independently Modern: Women Artists In Britain 1890-1930'
It was difficult for female artists to participate in the early twentieth-century avant-garde owing to traditional prejudices about ‘women’s art’ and hostility from limelight-hogging progressives. Professor Gerrish-Nunn, curator of the display Independently Modern, which exhibited at Tate Britain, looks at the women who contributed to the development of British modern painting despite this, and considers their divergent takes on modernity.
Professor Gerrish Nunn is a curator and historian of women's art in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain. Her most recent book is From Victorian to Modern: Innovation and Tradition in the Work of Vanessa Bell, Gwen John and Laura Knight (Djangoly Art Gallery, 2007).
Tuesday 20 October 2009: 'Liaisons Dangereuses: Buttons, Button-holes and the Materials of Masculinity in Eighteenth-century England'
Marcia Pointon, Professor Emeritus in History of Art, Manchester University
andHonorary Research Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art
27 October 2009: 'Formulating National Design Policies: Recycling the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’? A critical response to the American Design Communities’ Federal Design Policy proposals for Redesigning America’s Future (2009)'
Professor Jonathan Woodham, Director, Centre for Research and Development, Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton
10 November 2009: 'Mirror Images of Double Dressing: Like-dressing and the Dress of the Doppelganger in British Art, Photography and Society, 1857- 1877'
Anna Kirk, Courtauld Institute of Art
24 November 2009: 'Gas Masks: Material Culture, Memory and the Senses'
Gabriel Moshenska, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
8 December 2009: 'The Color Revolution: Color, Design and Commerce in Twentieth-Century America commercial color in the twentieth century'
Reggie Blaszczyk, Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, and the University of Pennsylvania's Department of the History & Sociology of Science
19 January 2010: 'On ‘Race’, Universalism and the Novel'
Dr Cathy Bergin, Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton
9 February 2010: 'The Degenerate Desire to be Costumed in the Latest Mode: Fashionable Dress and the Past in the Nineteenth Century'
Charlotte Nicklas, Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton
23 February 2010: 'The 1928 Phono-lamp: Design, Networks and Modernity'
Dr Deborah Sugg Ryan, University College Falmouth
9 March 2010: 'From Kitsch to Kitsch: Issues of Luxury in Design and Craft in 1960s Italy'
Cat Rossi, Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum
