Symposium: Medievalism, Modernity, and the Sacred in Britain and America after 1900

Organized by ISM Fellow Ayla Lepine

Saturday, February 23, 2013 | 1:30-6:30 pM
Loria Center, Room 351
190 York Street
New Haven

Free; open to the public. Presented with support from the Department of the History of Art.

Stephen Dykes Bower, pulpitum ceiling, Lancing College Chapel, 1977.

(photograph courtesy James O. Davies/English Heritage)

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Participants

Tim Barringer

Barry Bergdoll

Karla Britton

Edward Cooke

Kathleen Curran

Margaret Grubiak

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim

Ayla Lepine

Robert Nelson

Alan Powers

Sally M. Promey

Jason Rosenfeld

Katherine Solomonson

Overview

This international symposium will explore ways in which medievalism and the Gothic style were incorporated into modern art, architecture, and design. Concentrating on Britain and the United States from 1900 onwards, the event interlaces shifting understandings of the sacred and religious traditions with discourses surrounding powerful and avant-garde notions of the Middle Ages as a rich material, literary, and ideological territory. Gothic themes will demonstrate how cross-disciplinary perspectives in theology and the arts increasingly underpin new thinking regarding modern transatlantic revivalism, cultural identity, rituals, and hermeneutics.

Schedule

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1:30-1:45 - Arrival and refreshments

1:45-2:00 - Welcome and introduction: Sally Promey and Ayla Lepine (Yale)

Session I - Edward Cooke (Yale), chair

2:00-2:30 - Tim Barringer (Yale) - Radical Neo: Vaughan Williams, Thomas Tallis and English National Identity in 1910

2:30-3:00 - Margaret Grubiak (Villanova University) - The Neo-Gothic’s Emotional Appeal: Recapturing Student Belief at Princeton University, 1928

3:00-3:30 - Coffee break

Session II - Karla Britton (Yale), chair

3:30-4:00 - Jongwoo Jeremy Kim (University of Louisville) - Medieval Monstrosity and Modernist Carnality

4:00-4.30 - Alan Powers (NYU, London) - Between Medieval and Modern: Architecture and Authenticity in Interwar England

4:30-5:00 - Katherine Solomonson (University of Minnesota) - Tribune Tower: Medievalism and Memory in the Wake of the War

Panel Discussion

5:00-5:30 - Respondents (c.5 minutes each):

• Barry Bergdoll (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
• Kathleen Curran (Trinity College, Hartford)
• Ayla Lepine (Yale)
• Robert Nelson (Yale)
• Jason Rosenfeld (Marymount Manhattan College)

5:30-6:00 - Discussion

6:00-6:45 - Reception

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