Convenor:
Annie Richardson and Dr Andrew Kennedy, University of Southampton, Division of Art and Design History, Park Avenue, Winchester SO23 8DL. Tel: 01962 842500

This strand invites papers on historical formations of the artist and categories of artistic identity, and on theoretical approaches to the figure of the artist in the discipline of art history. A combination of historical, critical and speculative analyses might produce a useful debate about the ways in which art history currently handles and constructs the artist. New approaches to biography and intentionality are also included.

• Jeremy Roe (University of Leeds) A Study of the Seville Biography of Velázquez
• Joanna Woodall (Courtauld Institute, London) Portraiture as Biography: Antonis Mor's Self-Portrait
• Annie Richardson (University of Southampton) The Artist at Play: Gainsborough's Letters
• Richard Wendorf (Boston Athenaeum) Reconstructing Sir Joshua
• Andrew Kennedy (University of Southampton) William Daniell and Richard Ayton - Panoptic versus Romantic Subject in the Mapping of the Nation
• Elizabeth Wilson (University of North London) Women in Bohemia
• Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University) Grethe Jürgens' Das Atelier: Women's Autobiography and Situated Subjectivity
• Christine Conley (Independent scholar) Reading her Desire: Allegory and the Symbolics of Loss in the Work of Eva Hesse
• Christopher Horrocks (Kingston University) Machine Agency: Andy Warhol and the Contradictions of Post-Avantgarde Identity
• Niru Ratnam (Independent scholar) Ignoring Biography, Constructing the Self and Deceiving the Others: the Artistic Career of Anish Kapoor
• Julian Stallabrass (Independent scholar) The Identity of the 'Young British Artist'