Seeking to achieve a fresh reassessment of Edward Burne-Jones as an artist both progressive and resisted by ‘modernist’ art history.
Welcome and Opening remarks: Katherine Hinzman (University of York)
Panel 1 – Reassessing Influences
Glenda Youde (University of York)
Burne-Jones and the Rossetti Influence: But Which Rossetti?
Polina Tokmacheva (Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)
The Art of E.C. Burne-Jones in the Context of Anglo-Italian Dialogue of Cultures
Katherine Hinzman (University of York)
‘Things that will never be out of me’: Burne-Jones, John Henry Newman and a Theology of Art
Panel 2 – Design and Innovation across Media
Colin Cruise (Aberystwyth University)
On the Aesthetics of Skin: Burne-Jones and Vellum
Adel Kormanik (University of York)
The Prioress’s Tale Wardrobe: A New Form of Pre-Raphaelite Altarpiece?
Samantha Timm (Jewel Spiegel Gallery, USA)
Panel 3 – Conservation, and Exhibition
Debbie Innes (University of York)
Edward Burne-Jones and the New Gallery
Alison Smith (National Gallery, London)
Curating the Edward Burne-Jones Exhibition in 2018
Rachel Scott (Tate)
The Making of a Triptych: The Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi by Burne-Jones, 1861
(Paper prepared in collaboration with Joyce Townsend and Alastair Johnson (Tate))
Keynote 1
Fiona Mann (Oxford-Brookes University)
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Pre-dinner drinks and Conference Dinner
Panel 4 – Christmas Carol Christianity: Christ and the Angels
Charlotte Horne (University of York)
Angel Wings: The Protest of Sir Edward Burne-Jones in Favour of the Soul’s Immortality
Madeleine Emerald Thiele (Aberystwyth University)
Edward Burne-Jones: A Mediating Angel?
Ciarán Rua O’Neill (University of York)
It ‘Will Be in Rome and Will Last for Ever’: Edward Burne-Jones, Architecture, and St. Paul’s Within-the-Walls
Ayla Lepine (Diocese of London)
Personal Jesus: Burne-Jones’ Images of Christ
Panel 5 – Music and Medievalism: Burne-Jones’s Unique Interpretations
Marte Stinis (University of York)
Edward Burne-Jones’s The Golden Stairs: Reassessing Music as Painted Movement
Pola Durajska (University of York)
Burne-Jones’s Two Versions of Chaucer’s Dream of Good Women
Carlo Scapecchi (University of Edinburgh)
Panel 6 – ‘Sick-sad dreams’: The Female Enigma
Elisa Korb
The ‘Pollution and Purification’ of Edward Burne-Jones’s Classical Heroines
Simon Poë
Burne-Jones and His Legacy: Let’s Talk About Sex
Melissa Gustin (Henry Moore Institute)
She’s a Maneater, Ooo: Burne-Jones’s Depths of the Sea and Contemporary Mermaid Culture
Panel 7 – International Acclaim
Maria Golovteeva (University of St Andrews)
Edward Burne-Jones and Fernand Khnopff: The ‘Last Pre-Raphaelite’ in Belgium.
Piotr Kopszak (National Museum, Warsaw)
Burne-Jones Seen from Poland Before 1914
Mariela Saldias
Burne-Jones’s French Critical Reception (1878-1900)
Judith Stapleton (Yale University)
Edward Burne-Jones: Between East and West
Keynote 2
Stacey Sell (National Gallery, Washington)
“Sick of Dead Bodies”: Tomb Designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
More info: https://reassessingburnejones.wordpress.com/