University of Reading, April 11 – 13, 2013 Deadline: Nov 12, 2012
Association of Art Historians Annual Conference 2013 Call for Papers for session on Horace Vernet (1789-1863) and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
« A sort of agile and frequent masturbation, an irritation of the French epidermis. » So said Baudelaire of Horace Vernet’s pictures in his Salon of 1846, articulating a negative view of the artist’s work that has suffused accounts of nineteenth-century French art ever since. Despite Baudelaire’s disdain for Vernet’s « lowly » art that he thought bereft of stylistic conviction or artistic inspiration, the critic nevertheless recognized that Vernet might be thought of as « the most complete representative of his age. » Scrambling . . . → En lire plus
