Advance Notice
TOM WEDGWOOD BICENTENARY SYMPOSIUM
THE ROYAL INSTITUTION,
21 Albemarle St., London
Thursday 12 MAY 2005
LARRY SCHAAF, the
celebrated photo historian and biographer of Fox Talbot will present recent
research on Wedgwood
MICHAEL GRAY, formerly
of the Fox
Talbot Museum,
will demonstrate the processes used by Wedgwood and Davy in relation to the
surprising results of his own recent experiments with photography on leather
Professor DAVID
KNIGHT, of the University
of Durham, the biographer
of Humphry Davy, will discuss Wedgwood’s productive relationship with Davy
NEIL VICKERS, of
King’s College, London,
author of the recently published ’Coleridge and the Doctors’
and
GAVIN BUDGE, of
the University of
Central England, will
discuss the influence of Wedgwood on Coleridge and the Romantic Poets
Others participating include (subject to change)
MARTIN KEMP,
Professor of Art History, University
of Oxford, author of ‘The
Science of Art’
RUSSELL ROBERTS,
Senior Curator of Photographs, and Head of Photography at the National
Museum of Photography
Film and TV, Bradford
JENNY UGLOW of
the University of
Warwick, author of ‘The
Lunar Men
An exhibition of artefacts and papers relating to Tom
Wedgwood (courtesy of the Wedgwood
Museum and the NMSI) will
be displayed in the Faraday Galleries.
Booking starts February 2005
Enquiries: Alan Barnes
[A.S.Barnes@derby.ac.uk]
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