THE ARTS OF THE BRITISH 1890S

WASHINGTON, DC, 10-12 SEPTEMBER 1999

This interdisciplinary conference in Washington, DC, exploring the arts of the British 1890s, is a joint collaboration of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, the Georgetown University English Department, and the National Gallery of Art in association with the William Morris Society and the Eighteen Nineties Society.

It will include a keynote address at the Freer Gallery, on the evening of Friday, 10 September by the author Merlin Holland (grandson of Oscar Wilde); one day of academic papers at Georgetown University; and a lecture by the distinguished Beardsley scholar Linda Zatlin at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday, 12 September.

A related exhibition, "British Printmakers of the 1890s," will take place at Georgetown University's Fairchild Gallery, located on the 5th floor of Lauinger Library.

All events are free and open to the public; no registration is necessary.

PROGRAM

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    Friday, 10 September
    FREER GALLERY OF ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    Meyer Auditorium
    Info: (202) 357-2700, www.si.edu/asia

    KEYNOTE ADDRESS

    7.00 pm

    "From Madonna Lily to Green Carnation: Wildean Perspectives on the Arts of His Era"
    Merlin Holland

    After the lecture, Merlin Holland will sign copies of his book, The Wilde Album

    Saturday, 11 September
    GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    Bunn Auditorium, Inter-Cultural Center (ICC)
    Info: (202) 687-7435, www.georgetown.edu

    9.30 am

    Welcome
    Margaret D. Stetz, Georgetown University

    SESSION I
    9.45-10.45

    "Representing Salome in the So-called Decadence"
    Chris Snodgrass, University of Florida

    "Wagnerism and the Woman Singer in 1890s Fiction"
    Paula Gillett, San Jose State University

    "Music, Gender, and Mobility in the 1890s"
    Vanessa Manhire, Rutgers University

    "Lacunae and Textual Consummation: Openings, Absences, and Other Sexy Spaces at the Fin de Siècle"
    Samuel Lyndon Gladden, Virginia State University

    SESSION II
    11.30-12.30

    "The British 1890s in Boston, Massachusetts"
    Richard Dellamora, Trent University

    "Crossing the Atlantic: A New Lens for Reading Turn-of-the-Century Women Writers"
    Esther Schwartz-McKinzie, Temple University

    "Contacts in the Darkroom: 'Stevenson' Between Women, 1890s, 1990s"
    Jill Casid and María DeGuzmán, SPIR: Conceptual Photography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    12:30-2.00

    Lunch break

    SESSION III
    2.00-3.00 pm

    "Remodeling Models: Morris 's Myths, Glaswegian Tea, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Barrel Chairs"
    Sarah Newman, University of California-Berkeley

    "British Wood Block Prints of the 1890s"
    Lindsay Leard, art historian

    "The Scottish Art Review and Victorian Periodicals"
    Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University

    "Decorative Arts: Women Writing in the 1890s"
    Meaghan Clarke, University of Sussex

    SESSION IV
    3.30-4.30

    "The Aesthetic Connoisseur and the Domestic Craftswoman"
    Talia Schaffer, Queens College, CUNY

    "The Artful Religion: Aestheticism and Theosophy"
    Bonnie J. Robinson, North Georgia College and State University

    "Beautiful and Ineffectual Angels: (Im)Moral Discourse and the 1890s Book"
    Rosie Miles, University of Wolverhampton

    "Poetic Designs: The Decorative Language of 1890s Poetry"
    Nick Frankel, Virginia Commonwealth University

    4.45-5.45

    Discussion

    Sunday, 12 September
    NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
    Info: (202) 737-4215, www.nga.gov

    East Building Auditorium

    SUNDAY AFTERNOON LECTURE SERIES

    2.00 pm

    "Aubrey Beardsley and Fin de Siècle Japonisme"
    Linda Gertner Zatlin, Morehouse College

    National Gallery of Art Library, East Building

    SPECIAL EXHIBITION VIEWING

    3.00-4.00

    "Useful and Beautiful: British Books of the 1890s"

     

    RELATED EXHIBITION

    Fairchild Gallery, 5th floor, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University

    "British Printmakers of the 1890s.

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