"Useful and Beautiful"
Possible topic areas include:
William
Morris's Influence in and on the Americas ?? The American Ruskinians ??
Transatlantic Arts and Crafts Architecture ?? British Connections to the
American Aesthetic Movement ?? Designers Traveling, East to West or West
to East ?? Arts and Crafts Places, Real and/or Imaginary ?? British
Aesthetic Ideals and American Domestic Interiors ?? The Kelmscott Press
and Transatlantic Print Culture ?? Aesthetic Periodicals and/or Little
Magazines Crossing the Atlantic ?? Publishing the Pre-Raphaelites in the
Americas ?? American Book Illustrators and Pre-Raphaelite Influences ??
The Transatlantic Poster Craze ?? Exhibiting the Pre-Raphaelites in the
Americas ?? Americans Collecting Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites ??
Selling Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts Goods Across the Atlantic ??
Pre-Raphaelite Imagery and American Advertising ?? The Morris Chair as a
Transatlantic Object ?? Morris and American Needlework ?? American Dress
Reform and Pre-Raphaelite Influence ?? The Pre-Raphaelites and the
Literature of the Americas ?? Oscar Wilde Visits America ?? Whitman and
the Pre-Raphaelites ?? Morris and American Socialism ?? Morris & Co.
Stained Glass in the Americas ?? American Drama and Pre-Raphaelite
Figures ?? Pre-Raphaelitism and American Art Education ?? Photography and
the Circulation of Pre-Raphaelite Images ?? Pre-Raphaelitism and
American Music
The deadline for 250- to 500-word
proposals is 15 March 2010. Please forward electronic submissions to:
Mark Samuels Lasner, marksl@udel.edu.
Limited funding may
be available for speakers whose papers focus specifically on William
Morris and who are in need of financial assistance. To be considered
for support, explain your circumstances when submitting your paper
proposal.
In addition to conference sessions, there will
be a keynote lecture, demonstrations by leading practitioners who make
and design Arts and Crafts objects, special exhibitions, and related
film, theater, and musical performances. The following exhibitions are
anticipated at the time of the conference: Delaware Art Museum ("May
Morris," also permanent display of the Samuel and Mary Bancroft
Pre-Raphaelite collection); University of Delaware Library (American
literature, 1870-1916 exhibition and "William Morris"); University
Gallery, University of Delaware ("Ethel Reed: Transatlantic Artist of
the 1890s"); Winterthur (Arts and Crafts archival resources); and
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts ("David Mabb: The Morris
Kitsch Archive").
For more information go to www.morrissociety.org or contact Mark Samuels Lasner, (302) 831-3250, marksl@udel.edu.
"Useful and Beautiful" is supported by the Delaware Art Museum, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, the William Morris Society in the United States, the William Morris Society (UK), and the following University of Delaware departments and programs: College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Delaware Library, Art, Art Conservation, Art History, English, History, and Material Culture Studies.