Events

We are pleased to announce a 1½ day conference with the following speakers/papers:

 

Thursday 17 February, 2-4pm

Jonathan Black, University of Kingston

'A New Form of Sculpture for England': British Monumental Public Sculpture between the Wars and the Struggle for Realism

Sarah Turner, University of York

Ezra Pound's new 'order' of artists: 'The New Sculpture' (1914) and the sculptural avant-garde in early twentieth-century Britain

 

Friday 18 February, 10.30-4pm

Alex Potts, University of Michigan

Conflicting Transatlantic Perspectives on Modern Sculpture

Jennifer Powell, Tate Britain

A 'Coherent'/'National'/'School' of Sculpture? Constructing Britishness through Exhibition Practices in Post-War London

Jay Curley, Wake Forest University

Caro's Secret

Joy Sleeman, Slade School of Art

The New Art, Hayward Gallery London, 1972: New as Compromise, or when what happens around the exhibition is as interesting as what happens in the exhibition

Nick Baker, Open University

Managing the Reputations of the New British Sculptors in the 1990s

Danielle Child, University of Leeds

Could You Make Me One Like That? Examining the YBAs Aesthetic and the Mike Smith Studio

James Brown, Plymouth College of Art

Sculpture and the Rebranding of Tradition in Saatchi's' Newspeak: British Art Now'

 

A full programme for this event will be confirmed closer to the date. The cost for the conference is £10/£5 concessions.  To book a place or for more information please contact Kirstie Gregory, kirstie@henry-moore.org.