Carola Giedion-Welcker conference

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England

Friday 9 June 2006

Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) is the author of one of the first
extensive and fully illustrated books on modern sculpture, Modern Plastic
Art: Elements of Reality, Volume and Disintegration (1937) later revised as
Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space (1954). This
symposium examines the legacy of her writing on sculpture, her radical
politics and her close connections with living artists.

Programme:

Prof Reinhold Hohl, Magden, Switzerland
The Process of Working on Giedion-Welcker's Collected Writings

Dr Iris Bruderer-Oswald, University of Basel, Swiss National Foundation
Carola Giedion-Welcker and European Art Criticism

Prof Jürgen Partenheimer, Cologne, Germany
Carola Giedion-Welcker at Doldertal - A Personal Encounter Between
Literature and Art

Prof Carol Shloss, Stanford University
The Architecture of the Psyche; the Structure of Modern Literature: Carola
Giedion-Welcker between Joyce and Jung

Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, University of Ulster, Belfast
Aspects of Giedion-Welcker's Reception in the English-Speaking World

Dr Ileana Parvu, University of Geneva
Giedion-Welcker's Writings from the Double Perspective of Vocabulary and
Structure

Dr Henry Fernandez, Rhode Island School of Design: Architecture
The Giedions, Le Corbusier and Sculpture

Prof Antje von Graevenitz, University of Cologne
Carola Giedion-Welcker's Response to a Turn Towards the Biomorphic in the
Art of the Early 1930's

Discussion with Dr Sue Malvern (Reading University)

The conference will start at 9.30am.
The conference fee is £20.
Tea breaks, lunch and a drinks reception to conclude the event are included.

To book please contact

Ellen Tait
e-mail:ellenhenry-moore.ac.uk,
post: The Henry Moore Institute,
74 The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AH,
tel: 0113 246 7467