Fintan Cullen to chair the second day and bring the conference to a close. Total of 10 papers: 8 papers of approx 30 mins each and 2 plenaries of an hour each.ĭeborah Cherry to introduce the conference and chair the first afternoon. The provisional timetable for the conference is as follows:Īndrew McClellan (Tufts University, Boston): The Museum as Mausoleum, Revisited The two day conference, Thursday/Friday 4-5 January 2007 will take place at the University of Nottingham. This was followed in April 2006 by About Stephen Bann, ed., Deborah Cherry and in 2007 we will publish Location, eds, Deborah Cherry and Fintan Cullen (having appeared as an issue of the journal in December 2006). French Decorative Arts in the Eighteenth Century, eds, Katie Scott and Deborah Cherry. In December 2005, we published Between Luxury and the Everyday. Recent examples of this journal to book format have included Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women's Practice, ed., Gill Perry, 2004 and Art: History: Visual: Culture, ed., Deborah Cherry, 2005. The paperback book will hopefully appear in time for the College Art Association meeting in February 2008 (Dallas, Texas). The special issue of Art History which will carry a majority of the papers delivered at the January 2007 conference will later appear as a Blackwell's book publication. 01 email: aim of the conference is to create an international forum of speakers some of whose work will subsequently appear in the pages of Art History. If you are interested in attending this conference or if you would like further information, please contact Liz Jennings, Department of Art history, University of Nottingham, tel. In the ten years since Carol Duncan's much used text book, Civilising Rituals: inside public art museums (1995), public and scholarly interest in the way art and the visual are and have been displayed has increased enormously. The conference will also form the basis for a collection of essays for publication in an issue of the journal in September 2007 on the theme of 'Display and Spectacle'. The Editors of Art History, Deborah Cherry and Fintan Cullen, will host a two day conference in the University of Nottingam from 4-5 January 2007 that focuses on issues relating to the politics of display and public spectacle.
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