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In  the wake of a number of recent critical studies of the  nineteenth-century art novel (including a special issue of French  Studies, published in 2007), the University of Nottingham will be  organising a conference to examine the various forms and manifestations  of visual art in French fiction since 1900. How do writers of fiction  respond to the visual arts in their work? To what extent do  twentieth-century novels about art borrow from nineteenth-century  precedents (such as the ‘big three’ – Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu, Manette  Salomon, and L’Œuvre), and to what extent do they move beyond these  narratives of artistic creation and failure, and beyond the central  trope of artist and model, to investigate art in new ways?  Why are  writers attracted to the visual, and to what extent are visual images  and prose narratives natural bedfellows? Alongside these questions, the  conference will also interrogate the boundaries between art fiction and  art criticism, and consider the ways in which fictions of art might help  us to understand the visual domain.PROGRAMMEMONDAY 11 APRIL10hRegistration &#38; coffee 10.30Welcome/ introduction10.45-12.15Early twentieth-century experiments Caroline  Levitt, Courtauld Institute of Art: ‘Monumentality and Marginalisation:  Depicting the Arts in Guillaume Apollinaire’s Le Poète assassiné’Claire  Ghëerardyn, École Normale Supérieure (Ulm)/ Université de Strasbourg:  ‘La Révolte des statues: enquête sur un nouveau modèle pour le roman  d’art’Silvia Loreti, University of Manchester: ‘Representation ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ in Gide’s Faux-Monnayeurs’12.15 – 13.30Lunch13.30-Photography and fiction Kathrin Yacavone, University of Edinburgh: ‘Photography and “le jeu des clefs”: Barthes, Nadar, Proust’Olga Smith, University of Cambridge: ‘Édouard Levé’s “écriture blanche” in photography and writing’Geneviève  Guetemme, Université d’Orléans: ‘Eros mélancolique de Jacques Roubaud  et Françoise Garetta: écriture, photographie et disparition’15-15.30Tea15.30-17Femmes peintres, femmes écrivainsNella  Arambasin, Université de Franche-Comté: ‘Femmes artistes et femmes  écrivains (Michèle Desbordes, Catherine Weinzaepflen, Sophie Calle)’Élodie  Lacroix di Méo, Université de Bordeaux-III: ‘Art, Politics and Female  Emancipation in Victor Margueritte’s Trilogy La Femme en chemin  (1922-24)’Eva Sansavior, Oxford University: ‘Fiction into Art/ Art  into Fiction: Literature, Art and Criticism in the work of Maryse Condé’17.5-18.15Keynote lectureJean Duffy, University of Edinburgh: ‘Visualising the Unspeakable in Hélène Lenoir and Marie Darrieussecq’18.15-19.15Vin d’honneur20.00Conference dinnerTUESDAY 12 APRIL9-9.30Registration9.30-10.30The nouveau roman and beyond Chiara  Falangola, University of British Columbia: ‘Pour une esthétique de la  synthèse: Du jardin d’eau de Claude Monet au Jardin des Plantes de  Claude Simon’Gavin Parkinson, Courtauld Institute of Art: ‘The Delvaux Mystery’10.30-11Coffee11-13Dérives et déceptions de l’artCatherine Howell, La Trobe University: ‘The Deceptive Consolations of Art: Jean-Pierre Milovanoff’s Le Maître des paons’Edouard  Rolland, University de Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne: ‘Lorsque j’étais une  œuvre d’art d’Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: fiction fantastique d’une dérive  réelle de l’art contemporain’David Gascoigne, University of St Andrews: ‘Perec’s La Vie mode d’emploi: or, How to take on painting and win’Mohamed Ridha Bouguerra, Université de Tunis: ‘Le Romancier au miroir de la peinture’13-14.15Lunch14.15-15.45Contemporary interactionsMarjolein van Tooren, VU University Amsterdam: ‘L’Atelier, topos du roman de peintre contemporain?’Elisabeth  Grodek, McMaster University, ‘De l’autre côté du point de fuite:  éclosion d’un sous-texte visuel dans quelques romans d’art contemporains  et ses implications didactiques’David Houston Jones, University of Exeter: ‘Dado and Claude Louis-Combet: Archival Arts’To register for this conference, please complete the registration form available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/french/research/artinfrenchfiction/artinfrenchfiction.aspxAny queries may be sent to the conference organiser, Katherine Shingler, at: katherine.shingler@nottingham.ac.uk