Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) looks across the arts to construct a monumental meditation on the significance of art in life. Proust’s sweep is both retrospective, turning to painting, architecture and music from centuries past, and forward-looking, anticipating the fragmented aesthetic of a new century. On the centenary of the publication of Swann’s Way, the first volume of Proust’s immense novel, this conference brings together scholars and performers from a plurality of fields to examine and celebrate the connections Proust invites us to make between art and life, past and future.
Exhibitions and programming accompanying the conference highlight Harvard University’s extraordinary Proust-related holdings, including drafts, letters and drawings by Proust at Houghton Library, turn-of-the-century photographs from the Harvard Art Museums at the Mather House SNLHTC Gallery, and selections from the Harvard Art Museums' remarkably Proustian collection of paintings and drawings at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum and in an online exhibition.
Students enrolled in French 165: Marcel Proust, offered in Spring 2013, will be actively involved in the conference and related events.
Exhibitions and programming accompanying the conference highlight Harvard University’s extraordinary Proust-related holdings, including drafts, letters and drawings by Proust at Houghton Library, turn-of-the-century photographs from the Harvard Art Museums at the Mather House SNLHTC Gallery, and selections from the Harvard Art Museums' remarkably Proustian collection of paintings and drawings at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum and in an online exhibition.
Students enrolled in French 165: Marcel Proust, offered in Spring 2013, will be actively involved in the conference and related events.
Above: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Blue and Silver, (c. 1871-1872, detail). Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.176
