Friday 18 November 2005, 09.30–18.30

The Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870–1910 exhibition explores the creative interchange between British and French artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this period notions of modernity became linked with a growing interest in popular culture, decadent entertainment and the idea that places of leisure were becoming the new spaces of contemporary life. This symposium considers the work of the three artists in the exhibition, and addresses popular culture, art, performance, early film and music-hall in Victorian London and turn-of-the-century France.

The speakers include Dr Peter Bailey, Professor Richard Thomson, Dr Anna Gruetzner Robins, Philip D Cate, Professor David Peters Corbett and Nicola Moorby.

Tate Britain  Auditorium
£25 (£20 concessions), booking required

    

Programme

9.30–10.00
Registration and Coffee

10.00–10.10
Introduction

Session One: Popular Culture and The City
Chair: Professor Richard Thomson

10.10–10.40
Professor Richard Thomson – Degas, Sickert & Toulouse-Lautrec

11.40–11.10
Dr Peter Bailey – A New Leisure World: Popular Culture in London’s Belle Epoque’

11.10 – 11.40
Professor David Peters Corbett – ‘Food for Starving Souls’: Walter Sickert and the Ashcan School

11.40–12.15
Discussion

12.15–13.45
Lunch and an opportunity to see the exhibition

Session Two: Art and the Music Hall
Chair: Dr Anna Gruetzner Robins

13.45–14.15
Nicola Moorby – ‘Poor, abraded butterflies of the stage’: Sickert and the Brighton Pierrots

14.15–14.45
Phillip D Cate – 'In the Fin-de-Siècle Battle Between the "Ancients" and the "Moderns", The Avant-Garde Was in Montmartre'

14.45–15.15
Tea

15.15–16.00
Dr Anna Gruetzner Robins – ‘Cheap-Tripping’ to the Music-Hall: A Narrative

16.00–16.30
Professor Jacky Bratton – On whose terms? Staging alternatives in Victorian London

16.30–17.00
Michael Kilgarriff – To be confirmed

17.00–17.30
Discussion

17.30–18.00
Chris Green

18.00–19.00
Reception

This event is related to the Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870–1910 exhibition