Annual Postgraduate History of Art Conference: Authenticity

This conference provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present and discuss their research among the History of Art PhD community as a whole, exploring synergies across research strands, media, and historical periods.

Programme

10.30   Introduction and Welcome (Cordula van Wyhe and Liz Prettejohn)

10.45   Session 1: Religion and Authenticity (Chair: James Jago)

Clive Kennard: Jewish Nostalgia and the Aesthetics of Victorian Christianity

Emma Woolfrey: Eighteenth-Century Gothic: The Creation of an Authentic Idiom

Katie Harrison: Questions of Authenticity in the St Cuthbert Window, York Minster

12.15   Lunch

13.30   Session 2: Corporeality and Authenticity (Chair: Jeanne Nuechterlein)

Melissa Gustin: Emma Stubbin’s Lotus-Eater: An Authentic Antinuous between Winckelmann and Symonds

Ciarán O’Neill:  Column Bodies: Authenticating the Caryatid as a Motif in the Work of Frederic Leighton through his Drawings and Sketchbooks

Maria-Anna Aristova: The example of Brutes’: Civility, Artifice and the Body in Jacobean Architectural Ornament

15:00   Coffee Break in the Tree House    

15.30   Session 3: Authenticity of Other Communities (Chair: Madeline Boden)

Jiyi Ryu:  Within, Within, Within: the principle of visualising the British Imperial World

16.00   Roundup and future planning (Chair: Richard Johns)

16.30   Reception, Department of History of Art, Vanbrugh College

Authenticity Abstracts (PDF , 114kb)