Scholars focus on Royal Academy’s influence on artists
Posted on 27 November 2008
Scholars from the USA and Australia, as well as the UK, will feature at the conference, Living with the Royal Academy: Artistic Ideals and Experiences in Britain, 1768–1848, which has been organised by Professor John Barrell, Professor Mark Hallett and Dr Sarah Monks.
Dr Monks says: "The conference aims to explore the Academy as a lived organism, one whose most effective role was as a reference point towards, around and against which artists operated in their relationships with each other and with artistic practice itself."
The two-day conference, held at the King’s Manor, York, on 28 and 29 November is hosted by the University’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and the British Art Research School in the Department of the History of Art. It is generously supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
The conference will feature an international range of speakers, including John Barrell, John Bonehill, Ann Bermingham, Matthew Craske, Rosie Dias, Jason Edwards, Mark Hallett, Iain McCalman, Sarah Monks, Martin Myrone, Martin Postle and Aris Sarafianos.
More information is available at www.york.ac.uk/inst/cecs/conf/Academy/home.htm
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