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The Art Press in the Twentieth Century: History, criticism and the art market in magazines and journals
Date: 1st February 2013
Location: Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 30 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3EE
Programme
09.45–10.20 Registration and coffee
10.20–10.30 Opening remarks – Jos Hackforth-Jones, Director, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
10.30–12.30 SESSION 1: 1890–1929
Chaired by Ysanne Holt (University of Northumbria) and Barbara Pezzini (The Burlington Magazine)
10.30–10.55 Meaghan Clarke (University of Sussex) – The art press at the fin-de-siècle: women, collecting and connoisseurship
11.00–11.25 Yu-Jen Liu (Academia Sinica) – Art, reproduction and the market: the politics and poetics of Chinese art illustration 1908–11
11.30–11.55 Poppy Sfakianaki (University of Crete) – Promoting the value(s) of Modernism: the interviews of Tériade and Zervos with art dealers in Cahiers d’art, 1927–28
12.00–12.30 Panel Discussion
12.30–13.30 LUNCH
13.30–15.30 SESSION 2: 1930–69
Chaired by Bernard Vere (Sotheby’s Institute of Art) and Anne Blood (The Burlington Magazine)
13.30–13.55 Sam Rose (Courtauld Institute of Art) – The visual arts in the BBC Listener magazine 1929–39
14.00–14.25 Adrian Clark (British Art Journal) – The art contributions to Horizon (1940–50)
14.30–14.55 Dorothea Schoene (University of Hamburg) – Shaping the perception of German art after 1945 – MoMA and the New York Times
15.00–15.30 Panel Discussion
15.30–16.00 TEA AND COFFEE
16.00–18.00 SESSION 3: 1970–present
Chaired by Lis Darby (Sotheby’s Institute of Art) and Clive Phillpot
16.00–16.25 J.J. Charlesworth (Royal College of Art) – Young Conservatives: the formalist revival from One magazine to Artscribe
16.30–16.55 Patricia Bickers (Art Monthly) – Partial History: Art Monthly 1976–
17.00–17.25 Samuel Bibby (Art History) – ‘The pursuit of understanding’: towards a history of Art History
17.30–18.00 Panel Discussion
18.00–19.00 Drinks reception – Hosted by Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Registration fee: £25 – Students £10 – no registration fee for speakers
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