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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:
Prof Reinhold Hohl, Magden, Switzerland
The Process of Working on Giedion-Welcker’s Collected Writings
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@henry-moore.ac.uk
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