Symposium
Dubuffet in Context: European Drawing in the 1940s and 1950s

Organized in conjunction with the exhibition, Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962 (on view at the Morgan until January 2), this symposium will explore issues related to drawing in the work of Dubuffet and his contemporaries in Europe during the postwar decades.

PROGRAM

1:30 pm
Introduction
Isabelle Dervaux, Acquavella Curator of Modern & Contemporary Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum

1:45 pm
Dubuffet, Luquet, and "Intellectual Realism”
Hal Foster, Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

2:15 pm
Cacography: Drawing without Light
Rachel E. Perry, Lecturer, Haifa University; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

2:45 pm
'Picture-writing'— Öyvind Fahlström’s ‘Opera’
Maibritt Borgen, Doctoral candidate, Department of Art History, Yale University

3:15 pm
Coffee break

3:45 pm
Dubuffet / Deleuze: Métromanie, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Sarah Wilson, Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art

4:15 pm
Drawing from Scratch: Dubuffet, Artaud, Michaux, and Wols
Isabelle Dervaux, Acquavella Curator of Modern & Contemporary Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum

4:45 pm
Tracing Figure: Asger Jorn’s 1940s Drawings
Niels Henriksen, Doctoral candidate, Department of Art and Archeology, Princeton University

The exhibition Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962 will be open for program attendees during museum hours, 10:30 am–9 pm.

Tickets:
$15; $10 for members; free for students with valid ID.
If you would like to attend, please visit our website to purchase tickets:
http://www.themorgan.org/programs/dubuffet-context-european-drawing-1940s-and-1950s