1956: Legacies of Political Change in Art and Visual Culture

On the 4th & 5th of September 2004, the following conference will be
convened at Oxford Brookes University.

Conference sessions:
Saturday, 4th September
Session 1, 10-11.30 a.m.: Critical Debates in 1956
George Noszlopy, (Birmingham Institute of Art & Design), 'Reflections on
Stalinist Ideology & Public Sculpture in Hungary in 1956'
Reuben Fowkes, (independent), '1956: Socialist Realist Art Criticism at
the Crossroads'
Natalie Adamson, (University of St. Andrews), 'Reprising the Situation
of "la jeune peinture" in Paris, 1956'

Session 2, 1-3.00 p.m.: Artists' Responses: Britain and Abroad
Harriet Standeven, (Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum), 'The
Year of Change in the Visual Arts: British Artists' Experimentation with
Non-Traditional Materials in 1956'
Jennifer Way, (University of Texas, Denton), 'Devolution and
Internationalism, 1956: Topographies of Art and Culture'
Isabelle Moffat, (independent), 'The Independent Group versus the
Situationist International'
David Crowley, (Royal College of Art, London), 'New Cultural Spaces, New
Cultural Politics? Art and Performance in Poland after the Thaw'

Session 3, 4-5.30 p.m.: Representing Visual Cultures
Eleonory Gilburd, (UCLA Berkeley), 'Through the Looking-glass of
Socialist Realism: Foreign Art Exhibits in the Soviet Union'
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, (Birkbeck College, University of London),
'1956 in the British Gaze'
Djurdja Bartlett, (London Institute), 'It's Paris, Of Course: Bizarre
Spaces of Socialist Fashion in the late 1950s'

Sunday, 5th September
Session 1, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Art and Politics
Piotr Piotrowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan),'What Was the Real
Legacy of 1956? Political Change in Central European Art'
Eva Forgacs, (Art Center College of Design, Pasadena), '1956 & the
Concept of East European Art'
Nevenka Stankovic, (University of British Columbia), 'The Case of
Exploited Modernism: How Did Yugoslav Communists, "the Cold War
Profiteers", Use the Idea of Modern Art to Promote Political Agendas?'
Geza Boros, (Nemzeti Kulturalis Orokseg Miniszteriuma, Budapest), '1956:
the Unknown Hungarian Freedom Fighter as Person of the Year'

Session 2, 2-3.30 p.m.: Colonialism
Nancy Jachec, (Oxford Brookes) 'Pan-Arabism, Nonalignment, & the
Modernisation of Egypt in the late 1950s: an Alternative Genealogy for
Modernist Art'
Rasheed Araeen, (founding ed., /Third Text/), 'The Cold War, Abstract
Expressionism & the Presence of the American Artists Elaine Hamilton, at
the Time of the CIA's Supported Military Coup in Pakistan in 1957'
Kochi Okada, (Goldsmiths, University of London), 'Miniature Painting in
Uzbekistan 1985-2003'

Registration forms are available
from npludlowbrookes.ac.uk. Further information is also available from
our website:
ah.brookes.ac.uk/conferences/1956legacies/index.html