Call for papers - 'Visions of the North'

Abstracts are invited for a conference on ''Visions of the North': Reinventing the Germanic 'North' in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture in Britain and the Low Countries', to be held at Compton Verney Museum, Warwickshire, on Friday 17 June 2016.

January 2016: Call for papers - 'Visions of the North'

Abstracts are invited for a conference on ''Visions of the North': Reinventing the Germanic 'North' in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture in Britain and the Low Countries', to be held at Compton Verney Museum, Warwickshire, on Friday 17 June 2016.

The organisers are pleased to invite proposals for papers addressing nineteenth-century Britain/the Low Countries, especially Belgium, that focus on (but are not limited to) the following indicative areas:

• Historiographies of Germanic art revivals, renaissances and reinventions;
• Identities/geographies/meanings of 'Netherlandish' and 'Germanic' art;
• Taste, beauty and Northern Renaissance art;
• The impact of Germanic art, philosophy and German Romanticism;
• Religion, history, and the Germanic North in narratives of modernity;
• Private/public collecting of early Germanic works;
• Netherlandish and Germanic prints and the print trade;
• Germanic art travel, cosmopolitanism and art writing in Britain and the Low Countries;
• The role of Germanic art in cultural tourism and art markets;
• Artists' responses to Germanic art;
• Germanic art in 'national' collections/discourses;
• Reframing Catholic/Protestant identities of Germanic Renaissance visual cultures;
• Portraits and the early Germanic North: identities of 'national' character and mood;
• Pre-Raphaelites and early Germanic art;
• Northern interiors: displays, interiors, homes;
• Staging/photographing the visual cultures of the Germanic North;
• Northern fakes, forgeries: reinventing/performing ideas of visual and material inheritance and taste;
• Translating the North; writing the North
• Reinventing ideas of a Germanic North in industry, craft and design;
• Reimagining/Imaging/Re-writing the Northern Gothic city in art, design and literary reception

Abstracts of 250-300 words (maximum) titled 'Visions of the North' should be sent to: juliet.simpson@coventry.ac.uk by Monday 15 February 2016 (extended deadline).

Please send abstracts in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.

Please include the following details with your abstract:  name and surname, affiliation, contact e-mail address and short biography. 

For more details see the full call for papers.