THE ART AND SOCIETY IN NEWPORT SERIES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

Exploring art and society in Newport - surveys

[3] Documenting the City: Art and Society in Newport (2007) 

[2] Documenting the Twentieth Century (2000) 

[1] James Flewitt Mullock and the Victorian Achievement (1993)

 

The Art and Society in Newport series explores the permanent collections of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery, and seeks to bring together the practices of art curation and historical research. 

 

Each project in the Art and Society in Newport series has been produced by John Wilson as Guest Curator, in collaboration with Roger Cucksey, Keeper of Art, Newport Museum and Art Gallery.

 

 

Locating art and society on Newport: Culture and the public sphere


The Art and Society in Newport series has sought to produce public exhibitions and publications - and latterly online resources - that engage the challenge of culture and the public sphere. 

 

 

Conceived as large-scale exhibitions and research projects, the three part series comprises surveys of the nineteenth century and the twentieth century plus a focus upon Newport's evolution as a city throughout this period. Hence the series as a whole explores the locus of Newport in its long-term process of evolution across the generations. 

 

 

We have worked together against the grain of fashion in an effort to place on public record something of the energy of the Newport art world and the Newport College of Art. 

 

 

At the empirical level, we have engaged the challenge of cultural critic Raymond Williams to provide a historical redress to "the neglected works left in the wide margin of the century". 

 

 

Critically, in the shift to today's "post-industrial" phase of "liquid modernity", we affirm our focus upon place as a means towards a more vital "space of place" in which questions of place, identity, history, culture and society can be engaged.  



 

John Wilson,  July 2007


 

 

[3]  DOCUMENTING THE CITY







 

 

 

DOCUMENTING THE CITY: ART AND SOCIETY IN NEWPORT

 John Wilson, Guest Curator

Newport Museum and Art Gallery (2007)

 

An exhibition to celebrate Newport's coming of age as a City, showcasing art works from the permanent collection of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery.


 

  

[2]  DOCUMENTING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DOCUMENTING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: ART AND SOCIETY IN NEWPORT

John Wilson, Guest Curator

Newport Museum and Art Gallery ( 2000)

 


A Newport Museum and Art Gallery  Millennium Year exhibition, exploring the twentieth century art world of Newport with particular reference to the history of the Newport College of Art.

 

 

 

   

[1]  JAMES FLEWITT MULLOCK AND THE VICTORIAN ACHIEVEMENT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JAMES FLEWITT MULLOCK AND THE VICTORIAN ACHIEVEMENT:  

ART AND SOCIETY IN NEWPORT

 John Wilson, Guest Curator

Newport Museum and Art Gallery (1993)

 

 

An exhibition exploring art and the public sphere in nineteenth century Newport, with  particular reference to leading Victorian artist James Flewitt Mullock and the formation of the Newport Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery and Schools of Science and Art.