SYMPOSIUM

Caricature in the Modern World, 1700-1900

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,
Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, Illinois 60208
www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu

Saturday, February 18, 2006

9:30 to 10 am
Breakfast Reception, Museum Lobby

10 am to 5 pm
Pick-Laudati Auditorium

10 am
Welcome and Introductory Remarks -
James Cuno, Art Institute of Chicago and Hollis Clayson, Northwestern
University

10:15 to 10:45 am
Shearer West, Professor of Art History, University of Birmingham, UK
Eccentricity and Celebrity in Georgian Caricature

10:45 to 11:15 am
David Bindman, Professor, Department of History of Art, University College
London
Caricature and 'Race' in the Late Eighteenth Century

11:15 to 11:45 am
Todd Porterfield, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair,
Département d'histoire de l'art, Université de Montréal
James Gillray and Marriage, Once Again, à la Mode

11:45 am to 12:15 pm
Panel (morning speakers and moderators): questions to morning speakers

12:15 to 1:45 pm
Lunch Break

Afternoon program begins at 1:45 PM

1:45 to 2:15 pm
Tom Gretton, Professor and Head, Department of History of Art, University
College London
Too Much of a Good Thing: Lithography, Wood Engraving and the Commodity
Forms of Caricature in the 1820s and 1830s

2:15 to 2:45 pm
Ségolène Le Men, Professeur d'histoire de l'art contemporain à
l'université de Paris X-Nanterre, membre de l'Institut universitaire de France
Victor Hugo and Caricature

2:45 to 3:15 pm
Michèle Hannoosh, Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Caricature, Parody, and the Politics of Representation

3:15 to 3:45 pm
Amelia Rauser, Associate Professor, Art History, Franklin and Marshall College
Caricature Unmasked: Natural Language, Representation, and the Modern Self

3:45 to 5:00 pm
Panel (all speakers and moderators): speakers field questions from the
floor, one another & moderators