EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES on AMERICAN ART
Program:
9:00
Welcome, Winfried Fluck, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut
Greetings from the Terra, Veerle Thielemans, Terra Foundation for
American Art
Introduction to the Conference, Katherine Manthorne, Terra Professor,
JFKI, Berlin & Graduate Center, City University of New York
Session 1. European Perspectives
9:30 Bettina Friedl, Professor emerita, Hamburg University
Distinction and Repetition: Some Thoughts on "Influence"
10:00 Winfried Fluck, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut.
Superiority and Inferiority in the Work of Thomas Eakins
10:30 Questions and Discussion of Session 1
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Session 2. Art & Travel
11:30 Katherine Manthorne, Terra Professor, JFKI, Berlin & Grad Center,
CU of New York
Traveller-Artists & Transnationalism: Frederic Church and Louis Mignot
12:00 Kirsten Einfeldt, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
“Going West”: Landscape, Technology and National Identity in William
Henry Jackson’s U.S. and Mexican oeuvre
12:30 Questions and Discussion of Session 2
13:00 Lunch
Session 3 Among & Between
14:30 Rosella Mamoli, University of Venice
“Literature & Art: From Thoreau to Margaret Atwood”
15:00 Frank Mehring, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut.
"Ja zum 'Non-Objective-Painting'": Promoting American Art and Cultural
Diplomacy between The Advancement of American Art (1947), Hilla von
Rebay's Contemporary Art and the Promotion of Arts in the U.S.A. (1947)
and American Primitive Painters (1954-55).
15:30 Questions and Discussion of Session 3
16:00 Coffee Break
Session 4. Mapping & Converging
16:30 Philipp Freytag, Universität Tübingen
Mapping ‘New Topographies’: The Photographs, the Cultural Concept, and
the In-Between
17:00 Michele Bottalico, University of Salerno
Art in the Third Space: Cultural Convergence in Early Chicano Murals
17:30 Questions & Discussion of Session 4 & Closing Remarks
19:00 dinner at a local restaurant for speakers and conference
participants
Conference organized by Katherine Manthorne
Quellennachweis:
CONF: European Perspectives on American Art (Berlin, 9 Dec 11). In: ArtHist.net, 01.12.2011. Letzter Zugriff 28.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/2352>.