About the event

Speaker: Dr Francesca Berry

Chair: Dr Hannah Halliwell

Abstract

This talk introduces Édouard Vuillard’s Parisian-apartment bedroom-studio practice, including slippages between the perceptualism of his semi-automatic sketching and the conceptualism of his Symbolist painting. Sexual politics and the relationships of care are frameworks integral to this talk’s socio-historical interpretation of two bedroom paintings on the subject of sexual initiation and stillbirth.

Biography

Francesca Berry is Associate Professor of History of Art at the University of Birmingham. She is an expert in the visual culture of domesticity in France, 1850–1940. Her latest book is Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity. She is an editor of Oxford Art Journal.

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Image credit: Édouard Vuillard, The Chat (La Causette), 1893, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, presented by Sir Alexander Maitland in memory of his wife Rosalind, 1960.