Dear colleagues,
I am posting this on behalf of Barbara Pezzini of the Burlington
Magazine
Max Marmor
The Art Press in the Twentieth Century:
History, criticism and the art market in magazines and journals
A one-day conference organised by Sotheby’s Institute of Art and The
Burlington Magazine
1st February 2013 at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 30 Bedford Square, London
WC1B 3EE
SESSION 1: 1890–1929
Chaired by Ysanne Holt (University of Northumbria) and (The Burlington
Magazine)
Meaghan Clarke (University of Sussex) – The art press at the fin-de-siècle:
women, collecting and connoisseurship
Yu-Jen Liu (Academia Sinica) – Art, reproduction and the market: the politics
and poetics of Chinese art illustration 1908–11
Poppy Sfakianaki (University of Crete) – Promoting the value(s) of Modernism:
the interviews of Tériade and Zervos with art dealers in Cahiers d’art, 1927–28
SESSION 2: 1930–69
Chaired by Bernard Vere (Sotheby’s Institute of Art) and Anne Blood (The
Burlington Magazine)
Sam Rose (Courtauld Institute of Art) – The visual arts in the BBC Listener
magazine 1929–39
Adrian Clark (British Art Journal) – The art contributions to Horizon (1940–50)
Dorothea Schoene (University of Hamburg) – Shaping the perception of German
art after 1945 – MoMA and the New York Times
SESSION 3: 1970–present
Chaired by Lis Darby (Sotheby’s Institute of Art) and Clive Phillpot
J.J. Charlesworth (Royal College of Art) – Young Conservatives: the formalist
revival from One magazine to Artscribe
Patricia Bickers (Art Monthly) – Partial History: Art Monthly 1976–
Samuel Bibby (Art History) – ‘The pursuit of understanding’: towards a history
of Art History