听鈥淧ost-Impressionism,鈥 a term invented and used by Roger Fry in the exhibition he organized in London in 1910, became a deeply influential critical and historical construct that was (and sometimes is still) used widely in Britain and America. 听Critics and historians often uncritically deployed the highly selective, Franco-centric and exclusively male model that emerged from the writing on Fry鈥檚 two post-impressionist exhibitions that privileged C茅zanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso, who were regarded as a natural group, and Seurat was soon added to the list. The currency, significance and lasting impact of this canon of foundational artists on subsequent generations of art practice, criticism, art historical education and the marketing, collecting and exhibition of modern art in these two countries has been insufficiently examined. We seek to make fresh听comparative and discursive听analysis of the substantial impact and pervasive reception of this critical strain of modern art in Britain and America and beyond.
Organised by Elizabeth Childs (Steinberg Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis), Anna Gruetzner Robins (Professor Emerita, University of Reading) and David Peters Corbett (Professor of American Art and Director of the Centre for American Art, The Courtauld).听听听
Programme
鈥淐rossing Borders, Constructing Canons: 鈥楶ost-Impressionism鈥 in Britain, America and Beyond鈥欌
You can find the speaker biographies听here
Thursday 10 June and Friday 11 June
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Thursday 10 June 2021 (11am – 4.30pm)
11:00听 David Peters Corbett, Introduction听
11:05听 SESSION 1 听Post-Impressionism
Chair: Anna Gruetzner Robins
Anna Gruetzner Robins ( University of Reading)
Introduction: Transmitting Post-Impressionism
Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh and National Galleries of Scotland)
Post-Impressionism and Philanthropy: The Maitland Collection at the National Galleries of Scotland
Discussant: Elizabeth Childs (Washington University in St Louis)
11:45听 Break
11:55听 SESSION 2 Responses to Fry – Case studies of individual artists and critics
Chair: Elizabeth Childs听 听 听 听 听 听
Andrea Rosen (Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont)
Wood Gaylor, Primitivism and American Folk art after the Armory Show
James Church (PhD Candidate, Kingston University)
The Art of 1910: C. Lewis Hind and The Post Impressionists
听Discussant: Anna Gruetzner Robins
12:30听 Q&A session chaired by David Peters Corbett
12:50听 Lunch Break
13:20听 SESSION 3 Post-Impressionism in the United States: collecting and exhibitions
Chair: Elizabeth Childs
Susan Behrends Frank (The Phillips Collection, Washington DC)
The Influence of Roger Fry鈥檚 Vision and Design on Duncan Phillips鈥檚 Aesthetic Vision and Exhibition Strategy for The Phillips Collection
Sandra Zalman (University of Houston)
Post-Impressionism at MoMA, then and now
Discussant: Anna Gruetzner Robins
14:00听 Break
14:10听 SESSION 4 Post-Impressionism in Russia
Chair: Anna Gruetzner Robins
Ilia Doronchenkov (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)
The Avant-Garde鈥檚 Trojan Horse: The Golden Fleece exhibitions (Moscow 1908, 1909) and the arrival of Post-Impressionism in Russia
Katarina Lopatkina (Helsinki)
Between Moscow and Leningrad: displaying French modern art in the 听听 Soviet Union, 1920 鈥 1950s
Discussant: Christina Lodder (University of Kent)
14: 50听 Q&A: Chaired by Elizabeth Childs
15:10听 Break
15:20听 KEYNOTE
Introduction: Gavin Parkinson听 (Courtauld Institute 听of Art)
Richard Shiff (Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, University of Texas at Austin)
Expression and Abstraction during the Early Twentieth Century
16:10听 Open discussion, moderated by Gavin Parkinson (Courtauld Institute of Art)
16:30听 End
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Friday 11 June 2021 (11am – 4.35pm)听
11:00听 SESSION 5 International responses to Fry
Chair: Anna Gruetzner Robins
Craig Clunas (University of Oxford)
鈥楢lternative Criteria Must be Sought鈥: Post-Impressionism in China and Beyond
Paul Bevan (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)
In search of a Chinese Matisse
Discussant: Sam Rose (University of St Andrews)
11:40听 Break听
11:50听 SESSION 6 听The Reach of Post-Impressionism
Chair: Elizabeth Childs
MaryClaire Pappas (PhD Candidate, Indiana University)
Explaining Expressionism: Liljevalchs Konsthall and Swedish Expressionism
Gavin Parkinson (Courtauld Institute of Art)
A Surrealist Manifesto for Symbolism: Andr茅 Breton and Dessins 听 Symbolistes 听
Discussant: Sam Rose (University of St Andrews)
12:25听 Q&A chaired by David Peters Corbett
12:45听 Lunch Break听
13:15听 SESSION 7 听 Fry鈥檚 Artists: addressing the legacies I: C茅zanne, Van Gogh
Chair: Elizabeth Childs
Elizabeth Childs
Legacies of the Post-Impressionists: Tracing the Impact
Anne Robbins (National Gallery, London)
鈥楥ontroversy, admiration, misunderstanding, and enthusiasm鈥: Aspects of C茅zanne鈥檚 reception in Britain
Discussant: Richard Shiff (University of Texas)
Joost van der Hoeven ( Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)
Van Gogh鈥檚 Popular Status and the Canon in America 1913-1936听
Discussant: Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh)
14:10听 Break
14:20听 SESSION 8听 Fry鈥檚 Artists: addressing the legacies II –听听Gauguin, Seurat
Chair: Anna Gruetzner Robins
Elizabeth Childs (Washington University in St Louis)
Case studies in Gauguin鈥檚 reception (Chicago 1913)
Discussant: Belinda Thomson (University of Edinburgh)
Marnin Young (Yeshiva University)
Was Seurat a Post-Impressionist?听
Discussant:听 Paul Smith (University of Warwick)
15:10听 Q&A chaired by Anna Gruetzner Robins
15:30听 Break
15:40听 SESSION 9听 Fry鈥檚 Artists:听听 A panel discussion of Matisse and Picasso
Chair: Anna Gruetzner Robins
John Klein (Washington University in Saint Louis)
Framing Matisse
Discussion by Richard Shiff
16:05听 Open Discussion chaired by Elizabeth Childs and Anna Gruetzner Robins
16.35听 End
