Symposium

Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture, 1945–1975

The Getty Center, Los Angeles
April 25–26, 2008

Histories of American and British sculpture are often told separately,
creating a division that obscures a rich trans-Atlantic exchange between
British and American sculptors, critics, curators, teachers, and
institutions. This symposium brings attention to the international
movement of ideas, individuals, and aesthetic influences, and marks the
donation and permanent installation of the Fran and Ray Stark sculpture
collection--28 works of modern sculpture by some of the field's most
important artists.

The two-day symposium includes presentations and discussion, as well as
evening receptions and tours of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and modern outdoor sculpture at
the Getty Center.

View Schedule as PDF:
http://www.getty.edu/museum/pdfs/postwar_sculpture_schedule.pdf

Program:

DAY ONE—Friday, April 25, 2008
Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall, 9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Coffee and registration

9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Welcome: David Bomford
Associate Director of Collections, J. Paul Getty Museum

Introduction: Antonia Boström
Senior Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, J. Paul Getty Museum

9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Keynote Lecture: John Welchman
Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, University of
California, San Diego
Object Relations: Notes on some Trans-Atlantic Allusions

SESSION I: HENRY MOORE AND THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE
Chair: Jonathan Wood
Research Coordinator, Henry Moore Institute

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Pauline Rose
Senior Lecturer, Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Henry Moore in America: The Role of Journalism and Photography

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Jennifer Wulffson
Senior Editor, Bibliography of the History of Art, Getty Research
Institute
“More Light and Less Heat”: the Intersection of Henry Seldis’ Art
Criticism and the
Career of Henry Moore in America

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Coffee break

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Robert Slifkin
Assistant Professor of Art History, Reed College
Nauman’s Bound for Moore Failure: Figuring Failure in 1960s Sculpture

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Jo Applin
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art, University of York
There’s a Sculpture on My Shoulder: Bruce McLean and the Anxiety of
Influence c.1969

12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Discussion

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch on your own

SESSION II: CLEMENT GREENBERG, ABSORPTION AND REACTION
Chair: Christopher Bedford
Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Sarah Hamill
Doctoral candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Polychrome in the Sixties: David Smith and Anthony Caro at Bennington

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Alexis Carrozza
Independent scholar
Critical Ideas about Anti-Illusionism and Nationalism in American
Sculpture

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. David J. Getsy
Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Herbert Read, Clement Greenberg, and the Future of Sculpture in the
1950s

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Discussion

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Tour of the Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Terrace
and Garden

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Cocktail reception, Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture
Garden

DAY TWO—Saturday, April 26, 2008
Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall, 9:15 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Coffee and registration

9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Introduction: Andrew Perchuk
Assistant Director, Getty Research Institute

SESSION III: ART, LAND, AND LANGUAGE
Chair: Rebecca Peabody
Research Associate, Getty Research Institute

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Alistair Rider
Henry Moore Fellow, University of York
The Curve over the Crest of the Hill

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Joy Sleeman
Senior Lecturer, University College London
“Like Two Guys Discovering Neptune”: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues in the
Emergence
of Land art

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Coffee break

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Tim Martin
Reader in Cultural Theory, De Montfort University
Robert Smithson: The British Connection

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Discussion

12:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch on your own
Participants are invited to view the LA Art Girls’ staging of Overflow,
which includes a reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s 1967 happening Fluids.

SESSION IV: NETWORKS AND EXCHANGES
Chairs: Penelope Curtis, Curator, Henry Moore Institute;
Andrew Perchuk, Assistant Director, Getty Research Institute

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lynda Morris
Curator, Norwich School of Art and Design
Out of Düsseldorf: Factual and Economic Data on British and American
Conceptual
Art 1967 – 1977

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Courtney Martin
Doctoral candidate, Yale University
“Noncompositional and Nonhierarchical” Rasheed Araeen’s Search for the
Conceptual and the Political in British Sculpture

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Discussion and conclusion

4:00 p.m. Depart for Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County
Museum of
Art (LACMA)

5:00 p.m. Tour of Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA

6:00 p.m. Cocktail reception

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Advance registration is required. The symposium is $10 per day; free for
students. Each reception is $25. Parking is free with your registration.
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