Academic Sessions: Exeter 1998
Genre Painting: Ideas of nation, class, gender, race, region
Convener:
Dr Christiana Payne (Oxford Brookes University)
Genre painting has played a significant role in the formation of different kinds of identity. In many periods and countries, genre has been regarded as a mirror of everyday life and hence of national or regional characteristics: the virtues and idiosyncracies of the characters it represents being seen as thoroughly Dutch, Russian, Yankee or Scottish, urban or rural. At the same time, the roles assigned by particular societies to men and women, or to different classes or races, are often clearly indicated in genre painting.
Papers in this session could look at genre painting in any period or country, from 17th-century Holland to 19th-century Britain, America, France; they could discuss particular types of identity, eg. masculinity; they could compare the functions and characteristics of genre in the visual arts to genre in literature. It is intended that the session will focus on painting, but papers on genre subjects in other media ( e.g. sculpture or prints) will be welcome.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the convener at the following address:
School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP.
Tel: (01865) 483582; Fax: (01865) 484082; Email: cjepayne@brookes.ac.uk
Dr Christiana Payne (Oxford Brookes University)
Genre painting has played a significant role in the formation of different kinds of identity. In many periods and countries, genre has been regarded as a mirror of everyday life and hence of national or regional characteristics: the virtues and idiosyncracies of the characters it represents being seen as thoroughly Dutch, Russian, Yankee or Scottish, urban or rural. At the same time, the roles assigned by particular societies to men and women, or to different classes or races, are often clearly indicated in genre painting.
Papers in this session could look at genre painting in any period or country, from 17th-century Holland to 19th-century Britain, America, France; they could discuss particular types of identity, eg. masculinity; they could compare the functions and characteristics of genre in the visual arts to genre in literature. It is intended that the session will focus on painting, but papers on genre subjects in other media ( e.g. sculpture or prints) will be welcome.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the convener at the following address:
School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP.
Tel: (01865) 483582; Fax: (01865) 484082; Email: cjepayne@brookes.ac.uk