ARTWORK THROUGH THE MARKET: The Past and the Present
(Art between Ideology and Commerce)

An international colloquium
Bratislava, 11-13 December, 2003

SPEAKERS AND PAPERS:

Ján Bako¹
(Institute of Art History, Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava):
"From Ideology Critique to Apology of the Market"

Oskar Bätschmann
(Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Bern):
[The theme not yet specified]

Michael Bibikov
(Institute of Universal History, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow):
"Arts in the Context of Development of Means of Communication and Spread
of Information"

Peter Burke
(Faculty of History, Emmanuel College Cambridge):
"Art, Market and Collecting in Early Modern Europe"

Gábor Ebli
(Institute for Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest):
"How Civil Society Makes Art History. Collecting Modern Art in
Post-World
War II Hungary"

Claire Farago
(Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder):
"Museum and cultural property in the age of globalisation"

Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort
(American University Paris):
On Art Collecting in America 1860-1870

Eva Forgács
(Art Center College of Design Passadena):
"Moral Success versus Commercial Success. The Implications of a Dilemma"

Ursula Frohne
(International University Bremen):
"New Economies: Art, Commodity and Corporate Collecting?"

Christian Huemer
(Graduate Center, City University of New York /
IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Wien):
"Charles Sedelmeyer´s Theatricality: Art and Speculation in the late
19th
Century Paris"

Patricia Mainardi
(Graduate Center, City University New York):
"Impressionist Replication, Art History and the Market"

Paul Mattick
(Philosophy Department, Adelphi University):
"Art After Culture"

DeCourcy McIntosh
(New York):
"Intersections in Publishing and Art Dealing: New York Favorite Pictures
1872-1872"

Michael North
(Institut für Geschichte, Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität Greifswald):
"The European Art Market from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth
Centuries"

Donald Preziosi
(History of Art and Visual Study Centre University Oxford):
"Art History and the Dialectics of Commodity Fetishism"

Brandon Taylor (University of Southampton):
"The Semiotics of Commerce: Mr Saatchi´s New Empire"

Mariet Westermann
(Institute of Fine Arts, New York University):
"Playing the Market: The Artist as Agent in the Dutch Golden Age"

Martha Woodmansee
(Society for Critical Exchange, Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland):
[The theme not yet specified]

Venues:

Hotel FORUM Bratislava
Faculty of Arts Commenius University Bratislava
City Gallery Bratislava

Organizers:

SCCA (Foundation - Center for Contemporary Art) Bratislava
Institute of Art History, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Bratislava

ARTWORK THROUGH THE MARKET colloquium is intended as a sequel to the
project "The past in the Present: Contemporary Art and Art History Myths",
Bratislava 2001-2002, that consisted of a series of lectures by Michael
Ann Holly, Keith Moxey, Olga Hazan, Donald Preziosi, Wolfgang Kemp, Stephan
Bann, Matthew Rampley and James Elkins (see Proceedings The Past in the
Present: CONTEMPORARY ART AND ART HISTORY MYTHS, edited and introduced by Jan
Bakos,
SCCA Bratislava 2002).