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Class
2004
The Lewis Walpole Library invites Yale faculty and graduate
students to spend a week in the country.
The Lewis Walpole Library
is again pleased to offer a five-day Master Class, “Reading
Prints and Graphic Images 1740-1840,” taught by Brian
Maidment. The class will meet
May 17-21, at the Lewis Walpole Library, in Farmington,
and is open, free of charge, to
Yale faculty and graduate students. A full description follows.
Class size is limited.
For more
information, and to register, please call Margaret K. Powell,
Librarian (860-284-5025), or send
email to walpole@yale.edu.
READING PRINTS AND GRAPHIC
IMAGES 1740-1840
Intended for faculty and
graduate students who may not have any specialist art historical
background,
this program will draw on the extraordinary resources of the
Lewis Walpole Library to offer
students an introduction to the descriptive processes, research
methodology, and interpretative
issues raised by the advanced study of graphic images, focusing
on a wide range of cultural artifacts. The topics covered will
include: printmaking techniques and their aesthetic implications;
the social history of technical and formal changes to printmaking
in this period; the codes, emblems and tropes used by printmakers
to construct their images; the distribution, audience, and
social purposes of printmaking; the relationship of printmaking
to other kinds of visual culture. Caricature and comic image-making
will form the central theme of the class, although a wide range
of different images will be studied. Detailed consideration
will be given to the shift from political caricature to more
socio-cultural discourses about the urban scene in the first
four decades of the nineteenth century. Classes and group discussion
will give way to a short small-group project as the primary
activity in the final two days of the program.
Although the class will be based in Farmington at the Lewis
Walpole Library, a visit to the
Yale Center for British Art will form part of the program.
Brian Maidment is Professor of English at
the University of Salford, Greater
Manchester, England. He is the author of Reading Popular
Prints 1790-1870 (1996) and has
published a series of recent articles on the representation
of popular education and social
change in the 1830s. He is currently completing a book on the
representation of London
dustmen in popular culture between 1780 and 1890, drawing on
theatrical, fictional, documentary,
and journalistic sources as well as graphic images. He held
a one-month research Fellowship
at the Lewis Walpole Library in 2001 and taught this course
in Farmington in Spring 2002 and 2003.
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