LOCATING EXPRESSIONISM
Symposium sponsored by HGCEA (Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture), the Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies at USC, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Organizers: Timothy Benson, Jay A. Clarke, Rose-Carol Washton Long, and Marsha Morton
Program
Saturday 10:00-12:30
INTRODUCTION: Timothy Benson and Paul Lerner
Françoise Forster Hahn
"The Hostility of Politics and the Spectacle of Art Displays: German French Relations 1871-1914."
I. LOCATING EXPRESSIONISM: DEFINITIONS AND POSITIONS
Charles W. Haxthausen, Williams College
“Expressionism, ‘Impressionism,’ ‘Expressionism’: A German Muddle”
Kathleen Chapman, Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Flattened: The Leveling of Differences between the Commercial and the Aesthetic in German Expressionism"
Richard Shiff, Director, Center for the Study of Modernism
Art History: Modern and Contemporary Art of Europe and America, University of Texas at Austin
“Cry Out Cézanne”
Saturday 1:30-4:00
II LOCATING EXPRESSIONISM: CIRCUMFERENCES
Maria Elena Versari, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Art History, Carnegie Mellon University
“No Longer French, Not Yet German: The Expressionist Fortune of Italian Futurism”
Michelle Facos, Professor, History of Art, Adjunct Professor, Jewish Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Kandinsky and the 1918 Expressionist Exhibition in Stockholm”
Naomi Hume, Associate Professor, Art and Art History Department, Seattle University
“Bridging Expressionism and Cubism through El Greco”
4:00-4:30
PANEL DISCUSSION led by conference organizers
Sunday 10-12:00 AM
III LOCATING EXPRESSIONISM: CONNECTIONS WITH THE EAST
Bart Pushaw, University of Maryland
“Nikolai Triik and the Art of ‘Europe’s Last Barbarians’: Progressive or Provincializing”
Éva Forgács, Art Center College of design, Pasadena
“Expressionism Avant la Lettre in Hungary before and during World War I: A Case Study”
Magdalena Nieslony, Wissenschaftliche Assistentin, Institut für Europäische Kunstgeschichte, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
“The Unconditional Signs of Painting. Kazimir Malevich’s Expressionism”
SUMMATION and PANEL DISCUSSION
Quellennachweis:
CONF: Locating Expressionism (Los Angeles, 6-7 Sep 14). In: ArtHist.net, 14.07.2014. Letzter Zugriff 28.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/8209>.