Friday 9 September 2005, 14.00–18.00

In the last decade many historians and commentators have become fascinated by the apparent similarities between the concept of fame and artistic practice in the eighteenth century and how these concepts are thought about in our own times.

This study day, which has been organised to compliment the exhibition, Joshua Reynolds and the Creation of Celebrity, considers the various ways in which art and its institutions have helped to construct the idea of the artist as a celebrity who participates in highly visual social rituals and welcomes media exposure.

It compares and contrasts some eighteenth-strategies for enhancing and institutionalising artistic visibility with those adopted in contemporary British art and culture.

Tate Britain  Auditorium
£20 (£15 concessions), booking required

    

Programme:

14.00–14.30
Registration

15.00–15.30
Mark Hallett
Pall Mall Pastoral: Reynolds, Celebrity and Solitude

15.30–16.00
Gill Perry
Women of Fashion and Fantastical Coquets: The Comic Actress as Flirt and Fashion Icon in Portraits by Reynolds and his Contemporaries

16.00–16.30
Tea

16.30–17.00
David Mannings
Before He Was Famous: Reynolds in Venice

17.00 – 17.30
Robin Simon
Journalism and Celebrity

17.30–18.00
Panel discussion

18.00
Drinks reception and private view of the exhibition Joshua Reynolds and the Creation of Celebrity

This event is related to the Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity exhibition