Neo-Impressionism Conference at Richmond

16/08/2010

CONFERENCE:
New Directions in Neo-Impressionism

Conference Date: Saturday 20 November 2010

Conference Venue: 17 Young Street, Kensington, London W8 5PH
(High Street Kensington Tube)

Professor Robert Wallis (Richmond The American International University in London), Professor Anthea Callen (University of Nottingham) and Dr Tania Woloshyn (McGill University) are organizing this one-day conference which will take place at Richmond's Kensington Campus.

2010 marks the centenary of the death of Neo-Impressionist Henri-Edmond Cross (1856-1910) as well as the release of a new book of collected essays which re-evaluate the work of Georges Seurat (1859-1891), Seurat Re-Viewed (edited by Paul Smith and published by Penn State Press, 2010). It is therefore a fitting time to reconsider the artistic production and contextual themes around Neo-Impressionism, a much maligned movement that has often been described as a series of artistic, political and scientific failures. Its new direction after the death of Seurat in 1891, under the self-declared leadership of Paul Signac (1863-1935), has been posited less as a renewal towards alternative but equally radical luminous experiments than a progressive degeneration from its original conception. Specifically, the works of Cross, Signac and Théo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926) produced along the Côte d’Azur during the 1890s and early 1900s deserve new academic attention as more than merely utopic or escapist visions set in ‘holiday’ landscapes.

This conference brings together emerging and established scholars of Neo-Impressionism for an exciting reappraisal of its history within the heart of London at an international, bilingual conference at Richmond, the American International University in London.

For further details, please contact Robert Wallis

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