Fri 2 Jul, 2021 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: The Ashcan School and Camden Town ...

The Ashcan School and Camden Town Group Comparative Project   David Peters Corbett, Professor of American Art and Director of the Centre for American Art, The Courtauld – david.peterscorbett@courtauld.ac.uk Anne Collins Goodyear, Co-Director, Bowdoin College Museum of Art – agoodyear@bowdoin.edu Pamela Fletcher, Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College – pfletcher@bowdoin.edu…

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Thu 25 Feb, 2021 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Brutal Aesthetics – Hal Foster and Kent Mi...

To mark the Barbican’s forthcoming exhibition Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty, the first of the artist in the UK in over 50 years, The Courtauld Research Forum is hosting a conversation between acclaimed art historian Hal Foster (Princeton) and Dubuffet scholar Kent Minturn (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University). Based on Hal…

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Mon 7 Jun, 2021 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] ‘“It’s Showtime!”: Anton Perich Presents and th...

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Mon 17 May, 2021 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Andy and Edie planning an ‘Afternoon̵...

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Thu 29 Apr, 2021 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] False Advertising: The Reception of Television a...

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Mon 26 Apr, 2021 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] The Shop Girl in Movies and Fine Art

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Mon 15 Mar, 2021 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Tom Day and Jo Applin – In Conversation wi...

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Mon 10 May, 2021 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] Painting Dissent: The American Pre-Raphaelite Ex...

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Mon 8 Mar, 2021 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] Earth Diplomacy: Diné Arts of Reciprocity, 1966–...

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Mon 22 Feb, 2021 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] Blackening Surrealism: Ted Joans’s Ethnographic ...

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Mon 25 Jan, 2021 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE]Light, Land, and Water: Native and non-Native Vis...

Museums in the United States like the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have long represented the Anglo-American tradition of landscape painting. But what about artists who used different techniques to explore the natural world? This lecture will attempt to honor diverse definitions of “landscape” by examining Wabanaki baskets and beadwork alongside canvases by New England painters such…

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Mon 26 Oct, 2020 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] New politics, new methods: James Barry’s printma...

Rifts in the fabric of the British Empire produced spectacular and sometimes strange effects in eighteenth-century British art. The “revolution of history painting” described by Edgar Wind as long ago as 1938, in which contemporary events and topical detail came to be portrayed in the grand manner traditionally reserved for…

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Mon 16 Nov, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] ‘Dogs of the world unite’: Keith Haring and New ...

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Tue 30 Jun, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] Sam Francis and the Philosophy of a New Aesthesis

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Tue 26 May, 2020 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Ornament and Obsolescence: Lee Krasner’s M...

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Tue 23 Jun, 2020 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[NEW DATE – ONLINE] Facture Wars: The expanded fiel...

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Fri 23 Apr, 2021 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Afrotropes and Art History’s Global Imagination

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Mon 17 Feb, 2020 Documenting Fashion, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

Panel talk with Kwame Brathwaite Jr. and Tanisha Ford

Kwame Samori Brathwaite, son of photographer Kwame Brathwaite, is the Director of the Kwame Brathwaite Archive, through which he manages his father’s photographic archive and collaborative projects that are concordant with the themes in his father’s work, namely activism, politics, fashion and music. Kwame Samori authored a chapter entitled Fashion…

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Mon 10 Feb, 2020 Artist in Conversation, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

Describing a Movement: Toward a Feminist Drawing

Anna Lovatt in conversation with Jo Applin Drawing was a feminist issue in 1976. That spring, a group of artists led by Nancy Spero picketed MoMA and the Guggenheim to protest the lack of women in two major surveys of contemporary drawing. Meanwhile, drawing was becoming a crucial strategy for…

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Fri 12 Feb, 2021 American Art, Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] Meyer Schapiro: Thinking between Art and the 20t...

Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996) was a dazzling midcentury entrepôt of ideas, bridging the worlds of artists and intellectuals in ways that are truly incomparable. Just as he impressed Noam Chomsky, beseeched Walter Benjamin, and critiqued Martin Heidegger, so too did he mentor Robert Motherwell, assist Barnett Newman, and inspire Fernand Léger.…

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Tue 10 Mar, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[CANCELLED] Facture Wars: The expanded field of American ...

Due to UCU industrial action beginning Thursday 20th February and ending on Friday 13th March, our events programme is subject to change, including cancellation. This event is cancelled.   What’s in a brushstroke made with quick-drying tempera? Or in a can of industrial paint deftly poured out on the canvas?…

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Mon 3 Feb, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

The Future is a Rectangle: Modernist University Architect...

International Style modernist architecture, together with many of its major practitioners, arrived in the United States after World War II. It famously took form in corporate office buildings and public housing projects by the mid-1950s. The predominant effect of the International Style’s migration, however, would be its near-universal adoption for…

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Fri 6 Dec, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Walking Tour

Walking Tour with Prof Coll Thrush

One of the most mistaken perceptions of Indigenous history is that it is, by definition, not urban – that cities and Indigenous people exist at the opposite ends of Big History, with “real” Indigenous people representing the past and cities the future. In fact, Indigenous and urban histories have been…

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Mon 27 Jan, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Conflict Objects, Restitution and the Future of Art History

This presentation will consider two episodes in the history of empire, the history of war, and the history of art: the 1762 British campaign against Manila, which was attended by both widespread looting and the seizure of treasure-laden ships as prize; and the 1899 outbreak of the Philippine-American War, which…

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Tue 26 Nov, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

EVENT CANCELLED: Historizing Art in California

This event has been postponed.  California’s art history has largely been told through exhibitions, catalogs, and art criticism. This behind-the-scenes talk is a special preview of the in-process book, Art in California, which is being written expressly for the Thames & Hudson World of Art series, to relaunch in 2021. The…

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Thu 3 Jun, 2021 - Fri 4 Jun, 2021 Conference, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

[ONLINE] 1940s in Focus: American Art during the Decade o...

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Mon 27 Apr, 2020 Event Recording, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] “Not so much a line as a star” Donald Judd in Th...

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Mon 24 Feb, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[CANCELLED] Erotic Art and Feminism in the 1960s

Due to UCU industrial action beginning Thursday 20th February and ending on Friday 13th March, our events programme is subject to change, including cancellation. This event is cancelled.   In 1960s New York, erotic art was a broad, popular category that included everything from Pop art to abstract sculpture. The…

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Mon 20 Jan, 2020 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Vision and Value: Cotton and the Materiality of Race

This talk examines the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of the black body in American culture, using historical case studies and contemporary art. Juxtaposing contemporary interventions with historical moments, it examines how cotton materially influenced the way black bodies were seen, and how black Americans saw…

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Thu 28 Nov, 2019 Book launch, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

EVENT POSTPONED: Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowi...

This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced soon. In the 1970s, Manhattan’s west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighbourhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers’ sexual…

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Mon 18 Nov, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

‘Art and Narrative’: Competing Narratives Abo...

In interpreting visual culture, including American art, we face an irritating dilemma: On the one hand, we value visual culture because it can create the impression of an immediate experience that the written word cannot provide. But when we want to describe this experience and the artistic means by which…

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Mon 28 Oct, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

“Visions of Great Usefulness and Progress”: A Chica...

In 1928, when interviewed for a Chicago-based publication, photographer William E. Woodard stated that he was motivated to migrate to this city in order to realize “visions of great usefulness and progress.” Like many other early twentieth century African American entrepreneurs, he believed in the potential of racial pride to…

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Thu 10 Oct, 2019 - Fri 11 Oct, 2019 Conference, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters of Art and Politics

Conference and Book Launch This conference celebrates the publication of Conceptualism and Materiality: Matters of Art and Politics (ed. by Christian Berger, Brill, 2019). The aim is to underscore the significance of materials and materiality within Anglo-American Conceptual art, as well as conceptualism more broadly. It challenges the notion of conceptualism as…

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Tue 18 Jun, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

Lee Krasner: Making Art, Making Trouble, and Making Do in...

This lecture, set in New York City during the Great Depression, will focus on the formative years of Brooklyn-born painter, Lee Krasner (1908-1984), beginning with her study at the National Academy of Design. There she met her long-time companion, the artist Igor Pantuhoff, a Russian émigré, whose family had been…

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Fri 7 Jun, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art

Alfred Cohen: An American Vision of Britain and Europe

Alfred Cohen (1920-2001) came to Europe in 1949, living in Paris and Heidelberg before settling in Britain in 1960. In anticipation of exhibitions planned for his centenary next year, art historians, curators and critics assess his unique and vibrant work. Following on from a successful study day at the Centre…

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Wed 29 May, 2019 American Art, Group Work: Contemporary Art and Feminism, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

UN/COMMON RITUAL

This event focuses on Barbara McCullough’s pioneering short film Water Ritual 1: An Urban Rite of Purification (1979) including a screening of the film. Rizvana Bradley (History of Art and African-American Studies, Yale University) will give a presentation on the work, introducing its themes and ideas. This will be followed…

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Fri 10 May, 2019 Conference, Modern and Contemporary, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

Thinking Drawing 1960 to Now

This day-long symposium takes as its subject the status of drawing since 1960 as a complex and dynamic medium. Bringing together artists, curators, and art historians, the symposium will explore drawing’s status as a significant medium in its own right, beyond notions of the preparatory and private. Through a series…

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Sat 22 Jun, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

‘This Transitional Age In Art’, Modernism and...

Reflecting on the 1913 Armory Show, painter and exhibition organiser Jerome Myers noted its disorienting effect on American artists: ‘in the swirling medley of art on parade…more than ever before we had become provincials’. The American artist was not the only figure seemingly made provincial by the dramatic processes of…

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Thu 28 Feb, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Out of the Woodwork

The nineteenth century saw the rise of a new text-image economy, one defined by the mass reproduction and dissemination of pictures, together with text, in lucrative and popular illustrated newspapers, weeklies, and books. The explosion of these media had many proximate material causes, including the development of the steam press…

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Fri 24 May, 2019 - Sat 25 May, 2019 Conference, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

Art Institutions and Race in the Atlantic World, 1750–1850

The long eighteenth century gave rise to a host of art institutions throughout the Atlantic world, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, and the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro. Vibrant markets for paintings, sculpture, decorative arts,…

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Mon 13 May, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum

‘The World is My Palette’: Rauschenberg’...

At a press conference organized at UN headquarters in 1984, the artist Robert Rauschenberg announced the formation of an ambitious new program: the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, known as ROCI. The initiative would take the artist to so-called “sensitive” countries, including totalitarian states behind the Iron Curtain, where he would…

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Mon 18 Mar, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

American Standards

This talk is about editing and the afterlives of photographs. It takes as its subject the photographic book 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. A collaboration between the novelist Richard Wright and the photo-editor Edwin Rosskam, the book, which was published to great acclaim…

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Mon 29 Apr, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Andrew Wyeth and the Landscape of War

During World War II American artists recast the terms of landscape painting as it had been practiced in the 1930s, broadening its scope from the local to the international, and from the pastoral to the anti-pastoral. Many, including Andrew Wyeth, adopted oblique visual languages both to evoke the devastated landscape…

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Mon 3 Jun, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Dark Mines, Dusty Workshops: Silver beyond the Smith

The history of silversmithing in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain and Europe takes the maker’s mark as its starting point. This talk, and the forthcoming exhibition upon which it is based, will build on past scholarship to plot a broader history, one that looks out and back from the mark and workshop…

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Mon 20 May, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

Picturing Perception in Nineteenth-Century America

When philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1837 that “Our Age is Ocular,” he offered a succinct assessment of antebellum America’s cultural, commercial, and physiological preoccupation with sight. In the early nineteenth century, the American city’s visual culture was manifest in pamphlets, newspapers, painting exhibitions, and spectacular entertainments; businesses promoted…

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Mon 19 Nov, 2018 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars

From the Easel to the Wall (and back again): Large-Scale ...

In 1943, as the WPA Federal Art Project was dismantled, Jackson Pollock was commissioned to produce a large painting as the centerpiece for his first solo show at Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery Art of This Century. Although not painted directly on the wall, the immense oil on canvas measures more than 19…

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