Whistler, Faed and Painting Copyright in the Nineteenth Century

Published: 23 September 2019

Tuesday 8 October 2019

Tuesday 8 October 2019
5.15pm for 5.30pm
Hunterian Art Gallery
Admission free

Talk co-sponsored by CREATe, University of Glasgow, and the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association (BLACA).

Until recently, copyright history has overwhelmingly concerned literary copyright protecting books. Drawing on her recent monograph, Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image (CUP, 2018), the first in-depth and longitudinal account of copyright as it applies to the visual arts, Dr Elena Cooper will explore a number of ways in which nineteenth century copyright applying to painting was understood to be different. In doing so, and to celebrate the fact that this is the first BLACA event in Scotland for some years, Dr Cooper will connect copyright history to two paintings with links to Scotland: Brown and Gold: Portrait of Lady Eden by James McNeil Whistler (1834-1903) and Home and the Homeless by Thomas Faed (1826-1900). The former picture forms part of the collection of The Hunterian.

This talk forms part of the CREATe Symposium which runs from 8-10 October 2019. View complete programme.

Biography
Elena Cooper is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at CREATe, University of Glasgow and the author of Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image (CUP, 2018).


First published: 23 September 2019

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