Genius for Sale!

Artistic Production & Economic Context in the Long Nineteenth Century Thursday, May 8th 2014 at the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford

Image: Claude Monet, The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

This one-day conference brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to examine the relationship between creative output and economic forces in the long nineteenth century, a period that saw a radical transformation in the economic circumstances facing artists. Speakers include economists, historians, economic historians, art historians, and modern linguists working on different kinds of cultural production in diverse geographic settings.

Program
10:00 10:30 ! 10:30 10:40 10:40 10:55 ! Registration & Coffee Welcome to Wolfson
Introduction: Metaphors and Methods: Mapping Lives and Works in the Long Nineteenth Century Prof. Dame Hermione Lee Dr Philip Ross Bullock!!

10:55 12:40

Art

Discussant: Prof. Avner Offer

Taste Endures! The Rankings of Roger de Piles and Three Centuries of Art Prices Picturing the Country in the City: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery at the Paris Salon Everything Flows: Networking the Everyday in Napoleonic Paris

Prof. Kathryn Graddy, Brandeis University! Ms Diana Greenwald, University of Oxford! Dr Richard Taws, UCL

For registration & more information: www.artsandecon.com

Genius for Sale!

Artistic Production & Economic Context in the Long Nineteenth Century Thursday, May 8th 2014 at the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford

Image: Claude Monet, The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

12:40 13:45 13:45 15:00

Lunch Music & Drama

Discussant: Dr Philip Ross Bullock Prof Karol Borowiecki, U.of S. Denmark! Prof Narve Fulsas, University of Tromso!

How Are You, My Dearest Mozart? An Economic Analysis of the Well-being and Creativity of Three Famous Composers Market Economy, Work Discipline, and Prose in the Making of Ibsen's Modern Drama

15:00 15:20 15:20 17:00

Coffee Literature
Discussant: Prof. Robin Feuer-Miller Prof Robert Gildea, University of Oxford! Mr Jonathan Paine, University of Oxford! Prof William Todd III, Harvard University!

Historians, Literature & Art: The Case of 19th century France Que vaut le rcit? Narrative as Economic Function Dostoevsky and the Moral Hazards of Serial Publication

17:00 18:00

Drinks Reception

Thanks to funding from the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre, there are 25 graduate student bursaries available. For all other participants, the registration fee is 15.