Arthur
Symons
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Writing across Arts and Cultures 25 settembre 2015 Badoer, aula Tafuri ore 10 organizers Elisa Bizzotto Stefano Evangelista Dipartimento
di Progettazione e pianificazione in ambienti complessi Scuola dottorale
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Situated
between two centuries, British and foreign cultures, literature and non-verbal
art forms, sanity and illness, Arthur Symons (1865-1945) was a crucial
liminal figure. He was a skilled cultural mediator who facilitated the
transition from the fin de siècle to the avant gardes and
modernism. This symposium
aims to revaluate his work and, in particular, to challenge the
misrepresentations first advanced by the modernists.
Poeta, critico,
giornalista e scrittore creativo, Arthur Symons (1865-1945) fu una figura
liminare, collocata tra due secoli, diverse culture, letteratura e forme
d’arte non verbale, sanità e malattia. La sua opera rappresenta
un’espressione fondamentale nel passaggio tra fin de siècle, avanguardie
e modernismo. Questa conferenza intende restituirne l’immagine, oltre le
distorsioni che il modernismo stesso per primo alimentò.
program
10.00
Welcome and Introduction
10.00 >
12.30
Session I –
Aesthetics and the Arts
Chair and
Respondent: Lene Østermark-Johansen (Copenhagen)
Jane Desmarais (Goldsmiths)
The Musical
Aesthetic of Arthur Symons
Nicholas Freeman (Loughborough)
'They keep
mad people there': Arthur Symons, Venice and the Conte Cruel
Angelo
Maggi (Università Iuav di Venezia)
Symons and Coburn: The Aesthetics of Photography at the Turn of the
Nineteenth Century
John Stokes (KCL)
‘A
New Art of the Stage’ and the seven Arts of Arthur Symons.
Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary, London)
Arthur Symons:
Perfumed Thoughts and Fragrant Memories
12.30>
14.00
Lunch
14.00 >
15.30
Session II – Writing across Borders
Chair: Elisa Bizzotto (Università Iuav di Venezia)
Stefano Evangelista (Oxford)
Symons,
D’Annunzio and the International Language of Decadence
Matthew Creasy (University of Glasgow)
The
Sinister Guest: Arthur Symons, Villiers de l’Isle Adam and Translation
Bénédicte Coste (Dijon)
A Different Symons:
The French Reception of Arthur Symons’s Writings, 1895-2015
15.30 >
16.00
coffee break
16.00 > 17.30
Session III – Between Aestheticism and Modernism
Chair: Stefano
Evangelista (Oxford)
Katharina Herold (Oxford)
‘Against
Civilisation’: Symons, the Gypsy Lore and politicised Aestheticism
Laura Giovannelli (University of Pisa)
‘Serious in the reality of his devotion to art’: Symons's Assessment
in A Study of Oscar Wilde
Elisa Bizzotto (Università
Iuav di Venezia)
Symons on
Italy and the metamorphoses of urban travel writing
17.30 > 18.00
Final Discussion