International Arts and Crafts
Friday 22 & Saturday 23 April
This international conference complements the exhibition International Arts and Crafts being held at the Museum from 17 March to 24 July 2005.
A distinguished panel of speakers will examine the ideas and underlying philosophies of the Arts and Crafts Movement from their British origins in the works of John Ruskin and William Morris to their later development and adaptation in continental Europe, the United States and Japan. They will explore ideas central to the movement such as prevailing attitudes towards social and industrial reform, the revival of traditional techniques, the establishment of workshops, artists' communities and 'back to the land' utopianism. Prominent on both days will be two inter-related themes: the international dissemination of Arts and Crafts ideas and objects, and the significance of changing perceptions of home and lifestyle to the development of the movement.
The conference will be of special interest to art historians, design historians, museum curators, dealers and collectors, as well as scholars and others studying the history of design and the decorative arts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The conference is supported by The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Download the conference abstracts in PDF format.
Download the speakers' biographies in PDF format.
Programme
| 22 April: Ideas and Philosophy |
| 10:00 |
Museum opens |
| 10:10 |
Coffee and registration |
| 10:30 |
Welcome |
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Francis Pugh, V&A |
| 10:40 |
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement |
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Linda Parry, V&A |
| 11:20 |
'Meet Me at St. Louis': William Morris at the Louisiana Purchase |
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Exposition, 1904 |
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Peter Stansky, Stanford University |
| 12:00 |
'Moot Points': Art, Industry and the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society |
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Karen Livingstone, V&A |
| 12:40 |
Panel discussion and questions |
| 13:00 |
Lunch and opportunity to visit the exhibition |
| 14:20 |
The Back to the Land Impulse |
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Dr. Jan Marsh, writer and curator |
| 15:00 |
1884 and the Arts and Crafts Movement |
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Dr. Alan Powers, University of Greenwich |
| 15:40 |
Tea |
| 16:00 |
Lifestyle and Design in the Arts and Crafts Home |
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Dr. Wendy Hitchmough, Curator, Charleston, East Sussex |
| 16:40 |
Panel discussion and questions |
| 17:10 |
Close |
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| 23 April: International Developments |
| 10:00 |
Museum opens |
| 10:10 |
Coffee and registration |
| 10:30 |
Welcome |
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Francis Pugh, V&A |
| 10:40 |
Home and Away: British Arts and Crafts Across the World |
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Dr. Elizabeth Cumming, University of Glasgow |
| 11:20 |
From East to West: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America |
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Edward R. Bosley, James N. Gamble Director of the Gamble House, Pasadena, California |
| 12:00 |
An Artists' Community, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt |
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Dr. Renate Ulmer, Museum Künstlerkolonie, Darmstadt |
| 12:40 |
Panel discussion and questions |
| 13:00 |
Lunch and opportunity to visit the exhibition |
| 14:20 |
Stanislaw Wyspiañski and the Polish Arts and Crafts Movement |
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Dr. Edyta Supiñska-Polit, University of Warsaw |
| 15:00 |
Cultured Living: Japan and the Model Room |
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Edmund de Waal, potter and writer |
| 15:40 |
Tea |
| 16:00 |
Paradise Postponed - What Happened to the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain |
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Tanya Harrod, Royal College of Art |
| 16:40 |
Panel discussion and questions |
| 17:10 |
Close |
 How to Book
Call V&A Bookings Office + 44 (0) 20 7942 2211 or email bookings.office@vam.ac.uk
Ticket includes morning coffee, sandwich lunch, afternoon tea and free admission to the exhibition International Arts and Crafts. The exhibition book can be obtained at a 10% discount by those attending the conference.
Tickets: Full rate: £50 per day. There is a discount price of £92 for those booking both days of the conference at full rate.
Concessions:
V&A Patron, V&A Member, Senior Citizen: £42 per day
Student: £10 per day
Disabled: £12.50 per day
ES40-holder: £12.50 per day
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