"Contested Ground: Defining Historical Landscape" a graduate symposium
at the Yale Center for British Art

Connecticut, United_States
Call for Papers Deadline: 2004-10-15

This one-day graduate student symposium on 28 January 2005 will examine
historical landscape painting, its manifestations, and its meanings from
the eighteenth century to the present. This investigation will not focus
solely on British art, but rather examine historical landscape painting as
an international phenomenon. We invite interpretations of this theme as 30-
minute papers from graduate students working on all aspects of the Arts and
Humanities. Cross-disciplinary approaches are particularly welcome. Topics
may include but are not restricted to

manifestations of historical landscape
historical landscape and national identity
colonialism and empire
questions of genre
historical landscape and literature
topography
antiquarianism
modern reinterpretations of and responses to historical landscape
* historical landscape in print culture and photography

This event will complement two exhibitions opening at the Center in January
2005: William Hodges: The Art of Exploration, organized by the National
Maritime Museum in Greenwich, and Nobleness and Grandeur: Forging
Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760-1850, drawn from the Center's
permanent collection. This exhibition places the work of Hodges in context
with that of Richard Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, and J. M. W. Turner,
among others, to offer new insight into the role played by landscape
painting in the development of political and artistic identity in
eighteenth-century Britain.
The symposium program will include discussion sessions and tours of the two
exhibitions by their curators. The day will draw to its close with a
keynote lecture.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words. Limited travels funds
for speakers are available upon request.

Morna O'Neill, Research Department, Yale Center for British Art, PO Box
208280, New Haven, CT 06520-8280
Email: morna.oneillyale.edu