Vuillard, EdEdours Vuillard, 1899 1900; Domestic Space in France and Belgium: Art, Literature and Design (c. 1850-1920) McClay Library, Queen s University, Belfast, 16th and 17th September 2016 1
Day 1 (Friday 16th of September) Venue: Auditorium 9-9.30 Registration - Tea and Coffee 9.30 Welcome: Prof. Sally Wheeler, Head of School, School or Art, English and Languages, Queen s University, Belfast 9.45-11.45: Session 1: Domestic Cultures and Modernity Chair: Claire Moran, Queen s University, Belfast Matteo Piccioni, Sapienza University of Rome, Louis-Philippe ou l intérieur. The Emergence of the Modern Interior Scene in the July Monarchy Visual Culture. Caroline Ardrey, University of Birmingham, Interior Decoration and Bricolage in the French Feminine Press of the 1870s, from La Ménagère to Stéphane Mallarmé s La Dernière Mode. Francesca Berry, University of Birmingham, Mère-Ménagère: The Politics of Domestic Labour in Edouard Vuillard s Practice. Kevin D. Murphy, Vanderbilt University, The Revival of the French Renaissance Interior in an International Context. 11.45-12.15: Coffee Break 12.15-1.15 Plenary 1 Chair: Claire Moran, Queen s University, Belfast Janet McLean, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin: Impressionist Interiors: A Closer View 1.15-2.15 pm Lunch (Break-out room) 2.15-3.45 pm: Session 2 Material Practices in the 19 th -century Urban Interior in France and Belgium 2
Chairs: Ilja Van Damme (University of Antwerp Centre for Urban History) & Marjan Sterckx (Ghent University Art History, ThIS) Britt Denis, University of Antwerp & Ilja Van Damme, University of Antwerp, Antiques at Home. Collecting Practices and the Domestic Interior in late 19th-c Antwerp. Ulrike Müller, Ghent University & University of Antwerp & Marjan Sterckx, Ghent University, Modern Domesticity: a Total Work of Art? Interiors of Belgian Private Collectors, c. 1850-1930.' Werner Adriaenssens, Royal Museums of Art and History, The Study of Domestic Objects in the late 19thc from the perspective of books on savoir vivre. 3.45.-4.15: Coffee Break 4.15.-5.15 Plenary 2 Chair: Steven Wilson, Queen s University, Belfast Anne Green, King s College, London: Shattered Spaces. The Domestic Interior in 19th-century French Literature 6.-7 pm: Wine reception, The Naughton Gallery at Queen s 7.30 pm Conference Dinner: Shu Restaurant, Lisburn Road, Belfast Day 2 Saturday, 17th of September, McClay Library 10 am session 3 (Auditorium): Displaying the Interior Chair: Francesca Berry, University of Birmingham Alexandra Fraser, University of Michigan, Installing Interiority: Practices of Artistic Display and the New Interior c. 1890 3
Pamela Bianchi, Université de Paris VIII, The Cabinet d amateur and the space of sociability. 11.-11.30 am: Coffee Break Parallel sessions: 11.30-1 pm: Session 4 (Auditorium): Domestic Objects and Aesthetics Chair: Dominique Bauer, KU Leuven James Illingworth, Queen s University, Belfast, Sand s Heterotopias: Domestic Space and the Allegorical Impulse. Jill Owen, Indiana University, Bloomington, The Bedroom as Portrait: Ekphrasis, Balzac, and Impressionism in the 19 th century. Anna Jozefacka, The Leonard A. Lauder Research Centre for Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Domestic Interior and Cubist Still-Life Session 5 (Training Room 1): Art Nouveau and the Symbolist Home Chair: Aude Campmas, University of Southampton Aniel Guxholli, McGill University, Montréal, Brussels Art Nouveau and Symbolist interiors. Maria Golovteeva, University of St Andrews, Villa Khnopff: the Home of an Artist and the Palace of Art. 1-2 pm: lunch (Break-out room) 2-3pm: Plenary 3 (Auditorium) Chair: Claire Moran Hilde Heynen, KU Leuven: Modernity, Interiority, Domesticity. Reflections from a Gender Perspective 4
3.-3.30: Coffee Break 3.30-5.pm- Parallel sessions Session 6 (Auditorium): Dialectics of Inside and Out Chair: Caroline Ardrey, University of Birmingham Aude Campmas, University of Southampton, Domestiquer: impérialisme sous verre. Dominique Bauer, KU Leuven, Cromedeyre tout entière est une seule maison. The Domestic Interior in Jules Romain s Cromedyre-le-Vieil. Natasha Ryan, St Anne s College, University of Oxford, Verre/vers parlant: the Fine line between clair and obscure. Session 7 (Training room 1) Gendered Spaces Chair: James Illingworth, Queen s University, Belfast Sarah Jones, Oriel College, Oxford, Medicalized Spaces of Desire: Nerves, the Doctor, and his Wife in Madame Bovary. Aina Marti, University of Kent, Home in Colette s Claudine : A Contemporary Discussion on Non-Normative Dwellings. Barry Nevin, Dublin Institute of Technology, (En)gendering Domestic Space in Jacques Feyder s Têtes de femmes, femmes de tête. 5.-5.30PM (Auditorium): Closing comments and Discussion Cover image: Edouard Vuillard, Woman Sweeping, (Oil on Cardboard, 1899-1900), Washington DC, Phillips Collection 5