COURSE: Gain an insight into the thriving British market for Japanese art and its influence on late 19th-century British design with curators and experts in this study day. Supported by Edwin Davies O.B.E.

This study day coincides with the

exhibition The Cult of Beauty and a major display of Japanese cloisonné enamels, mostly from the Meiji period. Examine the craze for Japan among progressive designers of the period and its influence on commercial manufacturers in Britain, investigate the market for Japanese objects, and consider the levels of interest amongst museums, collectors and consumers.

Programme

10.15 Welcome and Introduction
10.25 Collecting Japan: The V&A, International Exhibitions, and Antiquarians - Gregory Irvine (V&A)
11.00 Whistler and Japonisme - Dr Ayako Ono (Shinshu University, Nagano)
11.35 Coffee
11.50 From Specimen to Scrap: Japanese Textiles and Victorian Interiors - Dr Elizabeth Kramer (University of Northumbria)
12.25 Re-imagining Siegfried Bing: His Ties with Japan– Dr Gabriel Weisberg (University of Minnesota)
13.00 Lunch
14.00 E. W. Godwin – Frances Collard (V&A)
14.35 Christopher Dresser and the Cult of Japan – Dr Widar Halen (National Museum of Art, Oslo)
15.10 Tea
15.25 Japanese Fairy Tales and their Victorian Readers: Hasegawa, A Case Study – Dr Christine Guth (V&A)
16.10 Liberty’s and Commercial Japan – Sonia Ashmore (V&A)
16.45 Discussion

Fee: £50.00 Adult, £5.00 Studentm, £40.00 other concessions