CVLC 7th Annual Conference

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF VISUAL AND
LITERARY CULTURES IN FRANCE

SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Artists and writers on the arts:
manifestos and treatises in France from 1800

Saturday 18^th  - Sunday 19^th  March 2006

Manifestos and treatises have played a central role in the arts of modern France. Within a range from combative invective to dispassionate commentary, they have aimed both to publicise the arts and to influence their evolution. They have addressed topical disputes and broad historical issues. This conference will examine specific examples of such manifestos and treatises, and will consider their broader significance as a cultural phenomenon. Case studies from the last two hundred years, with particular emphasis on the early twentieth century, will encompass painting, the novel, music, photography and cinema. More generally, the conference will identify how different types of treatise and manifesto, created through diverse socio-political contexts, invoke wide theoretical issues about their function. A small display of manifestos and treatises will accompany the conference.

This weekend conference will take place at the Burwalls Conference Centre, where accommodation will be available. Burwalls is located in Leigh Woods, next to the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

Organiser: Richard Hobbs (R.Hobbs@bristol.ac.uk)

Administrator: Katherine Shingler (Katherine.Shingler@bristol.ac.uk)

PROGRAMME

SATURDAY 18^th MARCH

9.30    Registration

10.15 Welcome

10.30    Dominique Lévy-Eisenberg (Tel-Aviv University, Department of
            Art History)
           Le Discours de la pratique de Henri Matisse

11.00  Philippe Geinoz (Université de Fribourg)
            Pragmatisme d'une vertu plastique : la vérité de l'oeuvre selon
            Guillaume Apollinaire

11.30  Nancy Ireson(National Gallery, London)
            André Derain: Painting and Modern Thought

12.15   LUNCH

2.00     Vittorio Trionfi (University of Colorado at Boulder)
            Les manifestes surréalistes d'Antonin Artaud

2.30     Joanna Peiron (Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I)
            Sept manifestes dada et Lampisteries : naissance et
            caractéristiques du manifeste postmoderne

3.00     Kurt Ozment (University of California, Irvine, & Université
            de Paris X, Nanterre)
            Roger Laporte's 'manifestos'

3.30 TEA

4.00   Magali Nachtergael (Université de Bordeaux)
            Le manifeste du surréalisme et Nadja d'André Breton,
            une propagande littéraire dans les années 20 : comment
            révolutionner la littérature avec la photographie?                             

4.30 Kim Knowles (University of Edinburgh)
            Manifestos and marginality: the case of Man Ray

5.00     Audrey Vermetten (Université de Tours)
            A Manifesto against the seventh art:Georges Duhamel,
            Scènes de la vie future

5.30    Vin d'honneur  followed by Conference Dinner

8.30    Paris - Capital of Modernism:
            Stephen Bann introduces a small display of artists' statements
            and manifestos of the 20th century.

SUNDAY 19^th MARCH

9.30     Margaret MacNamidhe (University College Dublin, and Art
            Institute of Chicago)
            A Salon decked with cold-hearted paintings: Stendhal's call
            for change in 1824

10.00    Paul Smith (University of Warwick)
            Going round in circles: red and green in painting and colour
            theory c. 1830-1910

10.30 COFFEE

11.00  Michelle Cheyne    (Concord Academy, Massachusetts)
            Poking fun for profit: Situating Satiric Treatises in the Shift from
            Artistic Militants to Literary Industrialists (1815-1843)

11.30  Andrew Watts (University of Birmingham)
            Manuals, manifestos, and how to write the visual in 1840: Balzac's
            Lettres sur la littérature, le théâtre et les arts.

12.00  Ben Walton (University of Bristol, Department of Music)
            Biography as Manifesto: Joseph d'Ortigue and the Creation of
            French Romantic Music

12.30 LUNCH

2.00     Charlyne Audin  (Université de Namur)
            'Bavardage d'art  à plume courante' (F. Rops) : quand les
            peintres se mettent à écrire en Belgique au XIXème siècle

2.30     Jean-Frederic Hennuy    (Bennington College, Vermont)
            Manifeste du Groupe du Lundi   

3.00     Nathalie Aubert     (Oxford Brookes University)
            'Le coup du faux dilemme': un manifeste surréaliste
            révolutionnaire contre André Breton

3.30 TEA AND END OF CONFERENCE

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Tariffs

Full Fee  £112
Inclusive of accommodation at Burwalls on the Saturday night and all meals and refreshments from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon.

Non-residential Fee £78 
Excluding overnight accommodation on Saturday, but inclusive of all meals and refreshments including dinner on Saturday evening.

Day Fee  £35
For Saturday or Sunday, including lunch and refreshments, but not dinner.

Concessions  -  Concessionary rates are available to postgraduate students and unwaged delegates. For details, please contact the organisers.

Accommodation for Friday night can be arranged with a supplement.

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CONFERENCE BOOKING FORM

Artists and writers on the arts: manifestos and treatises in France from 1800

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The closing date for registration is Wednesday 8th March 2006.