Workshopping Future Directions in Impressionism 1.0
IN-PERSON: 5-6 September 2024
ONLINE: 9 September 2024
Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London
Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London
Thursday 5 September
10.00 | Registration / Coffee | 10.30 | Speed Networking
11.30 | Opening Remarks, Allison Deutsch
11.45 | Visions of Impressionism Chair: David Peters Corbett
Alexandra Courtois de Viçose, Teaching Impressionism and Disability
Paul Smith, The Meaning of his Work Cannot be Determined from his Life: Cézanne, Biography, Autism
Rebecca Gosling, The Mirror and the Toilette in French Art 1870-90
Theresa A. Cunningham, Renoir’s Telescope
Harmon Siegel, Let’s Criticise Impressionism
12.30 | Discussion | 13.30 | Lunch
14.30 | Unseen/Obscured: Race & Impressionism Chair: Linda Goddard
Anna E. Dobbins, An Investigation into Degas’s Brothel Monotypes
Allison Deutsch, Impressionism in Black and White
Alexis Clark, Tone
15.05 | Discussion | 15.45 | Coffee Break
16.15 | Breakout Discussions | 17.00 | Reception
18.00 | Roundtable: What is Impressionism? Chair: Alexis Clark
With: Hailey Chomos, Frances Fowle, Christopher Riopelle, Karen Serres, and Sam Rose
Friday 6 September
10.00 | Registration / Coffee
10.30 | Opening Remarks, Samuel Raybone
10.45 | Printing Impressionism Chair: Richard Taws
Jillian Kruse, Printing Utopia: Pissarro and Printmaking
Isabelle Sagraves, Marginality and Regional Politics in Félix Buhot’s Etchings
Ashley Dunn, The Always Unfinished Print
Samuel Raybone, Throwaway Impressions
11.30 | Discussion | 12:15 | Lunch
13.45 | Rethinking Narratives Chair: Allison Deutsch
Linda Goddard, Morisot, Mallarmé and the Art of Correspondence
Francesca Berry, Nabis Politics
Claire Moran, E Manet, Intimacy, and Micro-Histories of Impressionism
14.20 | Discussion
15.00 | Roundtable: Being and Becoming an Impressionist Scholar Chair: Claire Moran
With: Helena Erikstrup, Danielle Smith, MaryAnne Stevens, and Clare Willsdon
16.30 | Reception
Monday 9 September
13.00 (BST) | Opening Remarks, Claire Moran
13.15 | Global Histories of Impressionism Chair: Frances Fowle
Greg M. Thomas, Impressionism in 1970s Beijing: The No-Name Group
Hoyon Mephokee, Modern Thai Painting and the Problem of Impressionism
Ilia Doronchenkov, Who is Afraid of Impressionism? Enemies of Modern French Painting in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Elizabeth Heath, Visualizing Dispossession: Renoir and the Art of Imperial Impressionism
14.00 | Discussion
14.45 | Bad Impressionism Chair: Samuel Raybone
Sebastian Hammerschmidt, Impressionism, Gone Transepochal, Gone Transcultural?
Isabelle Mattar, Monticelli and the Margins of Impressionism
Lucy Whelan, Édouard Vuillard’s Landscapes
15.20 | Discussion | 16.00 | Break
16.30 | Feminist Futures of Impressionism Chair: Marni Reva Kessler
James McCabe, Reassessing the Parisian Interior in Morisot’s Jeune fille sur une chaise-longue (1889)
Shira Gottlieb, Why Are There No Old Women in Impressionist Art?
Mary Hunter, Degas’s Portraits of Pregnancy
Rachel Sloan, Embracing the Domestic: Vanessa Bell, the Women Impressionists and the Nabis
17.15 | Discussion | 18.00 | Closing Remarks, Allison Deutsch
'Workshopping Future Directions in Impressionism' was supported by The Leverhulme Trust, University College London, and Queen's University, Belfast.
Images: Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas. Green Landscape (Paysage vert) c. 1890. MoMA | Paul Cezanne, Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Chair, 1888-90. Art Institute Chicago | Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt in the Paintings Gallery at the Louvre, 1879–80. Art Institute Chicago | Berthe Morisot, Eugène Manet et sa fille dans le jardin de Bougival, 1881. Musée Marmottan-Monet. All public domain.