Third International Conference on the Arts and Crafts Movement
The Role of the Arts & Crafts in the Quest for National Identity

October 19 – 22, 2005, Barcelona, Spain

www.nationalromanticismconference.com
Presented by Arts & Crafts Consultancy

Wednesday, 19 October, 2005
Caixa FORUM

15:00
Bus leaves for Caixa Forum to view exhibition on Maison Bing followed
by tour of “Fabrica Casaramona”, (1911), designed by Josep Puig i
Cadafalch as a textile factory.

15:30
Introduction to exhibition by Dr. Martin Eidelberg, Professor Emeritus
of Art History at Rutgers University
“S. Bing—from Japonisme to Art Nouveau”

17:30
Opening Lecture:
Dr. Arnau Puig, philosopher and art critic, Barcelona
“The fissure in the wall that gave rise to National Romanticism in
Catalonia”

18:30 Reception

19:30 Bus returns to Gallery Hotel

Dinner on your own.

Thursday, 20, October, 2005
Gallery Hotel

9:30 Stephen Wildman, Curator, Ruskin Library, Lancaster University
“One great factory in the form of a globe: John Ruskin and the Art of
Nations”

10:30 Alan Crawford, Author, C.R.Ashbee Architect, Designer and
Romantic Socialist
“The Arts and Crafts movement and National Identity in England”

11:30 Questions and Answers

12:00 Lunch on your own

16:00 Dr. Jozsef Sisa, Research Fellow, Art Historical Institute of
the Hungarian Academy
“How Central European Artists Responded to the Emergence of National
Romanticism”

17:00 Dr. Pekka Korvenmaa, Professor, University of Art & Design,
Helsinki “Architecture and Nation-Building: Finland and the Baltic
provinces at the turn of the 20th century”

18:00 Questions and Answers

Dinner on your own

Friday, 21 October, 2005
Terrassa and Canet de Mar

9:00 Bus leaves Gallery Hotel

9:30 Tour of the Palau de la Musica

11:30 Bus leaves Palau de la Musica for Canet de Mar

12:30 Tour of Casa-Museu Lluis Domenech i Montaner
Lourdes Figueras, Director, Casa-Museu Lluis Domenech i Montaner

13:30 Lunch at the Casa-Museu
Walking tour of Canet de Mar

15:00 Bus leaves for Terrassa

16:00 Tours of various buildings by Lluis Muncunill in Terrassa and
reception.

20:00 Bus departs for Barcelona

Saturday, 22 October, 2005

9:30 Dr. James Macaulay, Emeritus Senior lecturer in architectural
history at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow. Honorary
research fellow, University of Glasgow
“Charles Rennie Mackintosh, A National Romanticist? From Abbotsford to
The Hill House”

10:30 Professor Rossend Casanova Mandri, Deputy Commissioner of the
“Year Gaudi”
“Antoni Gaudi: A National Romanticist?”

11:30 Questions and Answers

12:00 Coffee Break

12:30 Tour of Modernisme buildings on Passeig de Gracia/Hospital San Pau

14:00 Lunch on your own

16:00 Round Table Discussion Among Lecturers
“From the thick mists of Scotland to the blue Mediterranean and beyond”
Moderator: R.W. Apple, Jr., Associate Editor, The New York Times

20:00Formal Closing Dinner
Gallery Hotel

Sunday, October 23, 2005 (Optional)

9:00 Bus departs from Gallery Hotel for Mataro

In Mataro and Argentona we will visit several buildings by the
important Moderisme architect Puig i Cadafalch – Casa Sisternes
(1891), El Rengle (1893), Casa Parera (1894), Casa Coll i Regàs
(1897), Casa Garí (1900) and Casa Puig i Cadafalch (1905).

Program is subject to revision and addition.

Elaine Hirschl Ellis, President
Arts & Crafts Tours
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New York, New York 10024 USA

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