We thus invite submissions that examine and question this accepted idea, looking at how ‘British Sculpture' has been variously addressed and defined across a 150-year period and at how it has emerged as a construct at distinct moments and within distinct cultural contexts. ‘British Sculpture' was also presented as ‘new' and ‘young' before 1945 and this session invites papers that focus on earlier 19th-century incarnations of this concept, asking how ‘British Sculpture' became ‘new' and different from what preceded it, and what roles novelty and youth played in shaping these national cultural identities. Papers that consider the ways in which critics, historians, curators, dealers and artists have employed these terms to promote and delineate practice are also welcomed.
Convenors: Jon Wood (Henry Moore Institute), Ann Compton (Glasgow University) and Martina Droth (Yale Center for British Art). Please send abstracts of 300 words and a brief cv to Kirstie Gregory, kirstie@henry-moore.org, Deadline: 30 June 2010.