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Ashmolean Blake Exhibition: Lectures and Conferences

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Members of the Illustration Network might be interested in the upcoming events associated with the Blake exhibition at the Ashmolean.

LECTURES

Towards a New Era in Printmaking: Innovation in the 18th Century With Dr Ad Stijnman FRHistS, private researcher, Ashmolean Lecture Theatre, Friday 16 January, 2-3pm £5/£4 concessions. Printmaking changed dramatically after 1700 with the introduction of new plate-making and plate-printing processes, coloured inks and state of the art print presses. Dr Stijnman looks at this era in which artists, printers, engravers and publishers produced work that astonished audiences. BOOK NOW AT http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/whatsontickets/

Reading in the Spirit of Blake With Saree Makdisi, Professor of English and Comparative Studies at UCLA Ashmolean Lecture Theatre, Friday 23 January, 4.30-5.30pm £5/£4 concessions. This lecture explores the relationship between William Blake’s words and the images in his illustrated books and hopes to show you how to read ‘in the spirit of Blake’. Part of the ‘Inspired by Blake’ Festival. BOOK NOW AT http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/whatsontickets/

Italian Old Master Prints Through the Eyes of Blake and His Friends With Michael Bury, University of Edinburgh. Ashmolean Lecture Theatre, Thursday 19 February, 2-3pm £5/£4 concessions. In the late 18th century, Blake and his contemporaries developed a distinctive approach to the study of Italian Renaissance prints. They paid attention to printmakers whose work has been largely ignored or disparaged in preceding years. This talk examines these artworks and identifies why Blake admired them so much. BOOK NOW AT http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/whatsontickets/

CONFERENCE

Apprentice & Master: Conference With the University of Oxford’s Faculty of English and the Birkbeck Centre for 19th-century Studies. Ashmolean Lecture Theatre, Saturday 24 January, 10am-8pm £30/£25 concessions. Leading academics in the study of Blake will explore a variety of perspectives on the exhibition. The conference includes lunch and is followed by a reception and private viewing of the exhibition. BOOK NOW AT http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/

Lecture: Rosie Dias (Warwick), ‘From Counting House to Country House: Building the Image of the East India Company’

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The Birkbeck Eighteenth-Century Research Group is delighted to announce a lecture in the new year by Rosie Dias, Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Warwick.

‘From Counting House to Country House: Building the Image of the East India Company’

6pm, Thursday 15th January
Room 407, 30 Russell Square

Rosie Dias’s research focuses on eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British art and visual culture. Her monograph, Exhibiting Englishness: John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and the Formation of a National Aesthetic, was published by Yale University Press in 2013.

All very welcome! For further information, please contact Kate Retford: k.retford@bbk.ac.uk

best wishes,
Ann Lewis, Kate Retford, Luisa Cale and Emily Senior

Blake, The Flaxmans, and Romantic Sociability: 18-19 July 2014

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RIN member Luisa Calè (Birkbeck) asks me to post the following:

I hope you are enjoying the summer. I am writing to invite you to attend

Blake, The Flaxmans, and Romantic Sociability
18-19 July 2014
Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, London

Registration and Programme:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/blake-the-flaxmans-and-romantic-sociability

Blake’s sociability encompasses the real, the satyrical, and the imaginary. His visionary company includes ‘Companions from Eternity’, corporeal friends, and spiritual enemies. From the salon to the moon, across the geographies of ‘a certain island near by a mighty continent’, a mighty cast of characters intermingle. Enter Steelyard the Lawgiver and Mrs Nannicantipot, Suction the Epicurean, Sipsop the Pythagorean, Quid the Cynic, Inflammable Gas the Wind Finder, Etruscan Column the Antiquarian, Aradobo the Dean of Morocco, Obtuse Angle, Tilly Lally the Siptippidist, Miss Gittipin, Gibble Gabble, and Scopprell. Their imaginary, emergent, and satyrical disciplines include ‘Fissic Follogy, Pistinology, Aridology, Arography, Transmography, Phizography, Hogamy HAtomy,& Hall that’. This wild jamboree is a record of the convivial friendship and patronage of John and Ann Flaxman, Harriet and her husband the Reverend Anthony Stephen Mathew, who provided the young artist with ‘The Bread of sweet Thought and the Wine of Delight’.

Starting from the world of An Island in the Moon, this conference illuminates Blake’s relationship with the ‘Sculptor of Eternity’ and his circle from the early days to the ‘Regions of Reminiscence’, from the 1780s to the 1820s, following the Flaxmans across the channel, into the cosmopolitan networks of the Grand Tour, in order to recover the material cultures, sites, and dynamic forms of their Romantic sociability.

Conference organizers: Helen Bruder and Luisa Calè
Contact: blakeflaxman@bbk.ac.uk
To book a place to attend the conference, you need to follow the link at the bottom of the website.