MAISON FRANÇAISE D'OXFORD, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Saturday 21-Sunday 22 April 2001 This two-day symposium is organized in conjunction with the new exhibition, Jules Flandrin (1871-1947): the Other Fin de Siècle, which opens at the Ashmolean Museu

MAISON FRANÇAISE D'OXFORD, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Saturday 21-Sunday
22 April 2001

This two-day symposium is organized in conjunction with the new exhibition, Jules Flandrin (1871-1947): the Other Fin de Siècle, which opens at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford on 17 April-24 June 2001.

It explores the wider context for Flandrin's art, focusing in particular on the theme of tradition in fin-de-siècle and early 20th-century French art.

The symposium is supported by the Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques, Paris, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford; and is generously sponsored by the French Embassy.

Fee: £5.00 for the symposium (includes tea, coffee and vin
d'honneur), or £9.00 with lunch on Saturday 21 April (booking is
essential as places are limited). For further details and to book, please contact: Maison Française d'Oxford, Norham Road, Oxford, OX2
6SE, tel:01865 274220; e-mail:maison@sable.ox.ac.uk


PROGRAMME

SATURDAY 21 APRIL 2001

(Chair for day's session: Dr Juliet Simpson, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and Exhibition Curator)

9.30am - Registration and Welcome, Dr Jean-Claude Sergeant,
Directeur, Maison Française

10.00-10.30am - Introduction: Jules Flandrin et son contexte, Dr Juliet Simpson and Dr Georges Flandrin, Paris

10.30-11.15am - Gustave Moreau et ses élèves, Mme Geneviève Lacambre,conservateur en chef, Musée d'Orsay and conservateur, Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris

11.15-11.30am - Coffee

11.30-12.15 am - Gustave Moreau and his Legacy: Tradition, Innovation and Eccentricity, Dr Peter Cooke, University of Manchester

12.15-1.00pm - Odilon Redon: After Symbolism, Dr Richard Hobbs, University of Bristol

1.00-2.30pm - LUNCH

2.30-3.15pm - `Entre des souvenirs et des désirs': Jules Flandrin and the `Hommage', Dr Juliet Simpson

3.15-4.00 - Towards a Counter-revolutionary culture: Action française and the Dilemmas of Tradition in the Belle Époque, Professor Neil McWilliam, University of Warwick

4.00-4.30pm - Tea

4.30-5.15pm - Cézanne and the Illusion of Classicism or Making Mardi `Gras', Dr Paul Smith, University of Bristol

5.15 -6.00pm - Public Patronage and French Art in the Early 20th Century, Dr Jon Whiteley, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

6.15pm - Vin d'honneur


DINNER (Speakers and guests only)



SUNDAY 22 APRIL

(Chair for morning session: Dr MaryAnne Stevens, Royal Academy of
Arts, London)

10.00-10.15am - Coffee

10.15-11.00am - Cubism and Tradition, Dr Neil Cox, University of Essex

11.00-11.45am - Tradition and the Traditio: Scholastic Realism and the Avant-Garde, Dr Jane Lee, Kent Institute of Art and Design

11.50-1.00pm - Table ronde: Tradition and Identity, Chair, Dr MaryAnne Stevens and Speakers

1.00pm - LUNCH (Speakers only)

2.30pm - Symposium closes

Richard Hobbs
R.Hobbs@bristol.ac.uk
Department of French, University of Bristol
19 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TE
Fax 0117 928 8922