VARIE (Visual Arts Research Institute, Edinburgh)

Monet and French Landscape Painting

Royal Museum Lecture Theatre
Chambers Street, Edinburgh
17-18 October 2003

http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/varie/conference.htm

A conference held in conjunction with the exhibition
Monet: The Seine and the Sea (6 August -26 October 2003)
organised by the National Gallery of Scotland

Convenor: Professor Richard Thomson
University of Edinburgh - VARIE

Speakers include: Robert Herbert (USA), John House (Courtauld
Institute), Richard Kendall (USA), Ségolène Le Men (Paris, Ecole Normale
Supérieure), MaryAnne Stevens (Royal Academy)

Conference supporters:
The British Academy
Bonhams Auctioneers and Valuers
The Royal Bank of Scotland
National Galleries of Scotland

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Conference Programme

Friday 17 October

1.30 Registration

2pm Welcome address: Professor Richard Thomson

2.15 John House (Courtauld Institute of Art, London), Opportunism and
Opportunists: Monet and the Third Republic, c. 1880

3pm Adrian Lewis (De Montfort University, Leicester), Monet's Garden at
Vétheuil (1879) and the Radical Imaginary

3.45 Tea

4.15 MaryAnne Stevens (Royal Academy of Arts, London), Monet and Sisley:
touch and subject, 1876-80

5pm Anne Cowe (University of Edinburgh), A Working Village: Sisley at
Saint-Mammès

6.30pm Evening Reception, National Gallery of Scotland

Saturday 18 October

9am Registration

9.30 Richard Kendall (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA), Monet and
Degas in the 1880s

10.15 Ségolène Le Men (Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure), The Seascapes of
Monet and Courbet

11.00 Tea/Coffee

11.30 Robert Herbert (Mount Holyoke College), Monet's Sublime: Seascapes
1881-1886

12.15 Rodolphe Rapetti (Paris, Musée Henner), Cézanne and the City

1pm Lunch

2pm Richard Hobbs (University of Bristol), Monet and the Poets

2.45 Tea

3.15 Anna Gruetzner Robins (University of Reading), 'Slabs of pink' and
'lumps of brown': the British reaction to Monet

4pm Frances Fowle (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh), Making Money
out of Monet: Monet and the British art market

4.45 Plenary

6.00 Close