Spanish art has been collected in the UK since the 17th century. This conference will explore collecting practices, attitudes to and perceptions of Spanish decorative arts in Britain and Spain, and how these attitudes influenced the development of museums and museum collections in both countries. The case studies will be drawn from the V&A and Spanish museum collections.
The conference is organized in joint sessions dealing with the same subject from Spanish and then British perspectives. The first day considers the collecting of particular media, while the second day focuses on the dissemination, display and conservation of these collections. The conference will include poster session during the coffee breaks.
Opening remarks on the history of collecting Spanish Decorative Arts by medium: Collecting, Display & Dissemination: the changing face of the decorative arts collection at South Kensington (1852-1873), Dr Susanna Avery-Quash (Senior Research Curator, History of Collecting, National Gallery)
- Ceramics: Lusterware:
M. Rosser-Owen (Asian Department, V&A): Collecting Spanish lustreware by the Victoria and Albert MuseumJaume Coll (Museo Nacional de Cerámica, Valencia): A survey and history of collecting Spanish Decorative Arts: Lusterware - Textiles:
Ana Cabrera (Marie S.-Curie Fellow, V&A): Following the thread: collecting Spanish textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum Spanish case
Silvia Carbonell (Centro de Documentación Museo Textil, Tarrasa): Textile collecting in Catalonia - Silver:
Kirstin Kennedy (Metalwork Department, V&A): The Scholar, the scoundrel and the skater: How the V&A collections of Hispanic silver were formed
Jesús Rivas (Universidad de Murcia): Collecting Spanish silverwork - Furniture:
Nick Humphrey (Furniture, Textiles and Fashion department, V&A): Collecting Spanish Furniture, Woodwork and Leatherwork, 1850-1950
Sofía Rodríguez (Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid): Collecting Spanish Furniture in Madrid (1880-1920) - Sculpture and Plaster Cast:
Xavier Bray (Wallace Collection): A Vogue for St FrancisHolly Trusted (Sculpture Department, V&A): Spanish Monuments Displayed at South Kensington: Raising the profile of Spanish Art through Plaster CastsMaria Bolaños (Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid): Electrical treasuries: the Decorative Arts collection from Antiquity at the Museo Nacional de Reproducciones (1881-1915)
- Fashion:
Oriole Cullen (Furniture, Textiles and Fashion Department, V&A): Fashion and Spain at the Victoria and Albert MuseumHelena López del Hierro (Museo del Traje, Madrid): From Dress to Fashion:the collection of The Museo del Traje
- Displaying, interpreting and conserving collections of Spanish decorative arts:
Isabel Rodríguez (Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid): Displaying Decorative Arts in Britain and Spain. A Comparative AnalysisCorinna Gardner and
Johanna Agerman Ross (Design, Architecture and Digital, V&A): 20th century Galleries at the V&A Lesley Miller (Furniture, Textiles and Fashion, V&A): Spain in the Europe 1600-1815 GalleriesVictor Borges (Conservation Department, V&A): The Conservation of the Cast Courts. New discoveries on the Spanish Casts
- Closing speaker: Dr Edward Payne (Head Curator: Spanish Art, Auckland Castle): Collecting in Action: Building a Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland
- Closing remarks: Joanna Norman, Head of the Victoria and Albert Research Institute (VARI)
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