The international conference Questioning Cold War Art (1945-1965) will be held in Copenhagen the 8th and 9th of March 2013. It is a collaboration between the University of Copenhagen and the National Gallery of Denmark.
The aim of the conference is to create an environment for open, penetrating and interdisciplinary discussion of Cold War art in the period 1945-1965.
Keynotes: Professor Serge Guilbaut and journalist Frances Stonor Saunders.
Conference site with online registration: http://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/coldwarart/
Programme:
Day 1: Friday, March 8
Venue: University of Copenhagen, Emil Holms Kanal, building 22, auditorium 22.0.11
9.30 – 10.00 Arrival and coffee
10.00-10.10 Opening by Mette Sandbye, Head of Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
Session 1 moderated by: Associate Professor Michael Fjeldsøe (University of Copenhagen)
10.10 – 10.50 Professor Susan E. Reid (University of Sheffield, England): Cold War Optics and the Construction of Artistic ‘Dissent’
10.50 – 11.30 Post-Doctoral Fellow Oliver Johnson (University of Sheffield, England):
The Invisible Other: Anti-Formalist Hysteria in the Soviet Art World, 1945-1953
11.30 – 12.10 Research Librarian Morten Thing (Roskilde University Library, Denmark):
Socialist Realism or communist serials?
12.10 – 13.10 Lunch
Session 2 moderated by: Rector Mikkel Bogh (Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen)
13.10 – 13.50 PhD Fellow Karen Westphal Eriksen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Reconstruction - building a new world through art
13.50 – 14.30 PhD Fellow Liza Burmeister Kaaring (University of Copenhagen and National Gallery of Denmark): The artist group Man and the question of a genuine Cold War Art expression
14.30 – 15.10 Adjunct Professor Simo Mikkonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): Soviet Artistic Exchanges with the West: From Official to Transnational Networks
15.10 – 15.45 Coffee
Keynote address moderated by: Rector Mikkel Bogh (Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen)
15.45 – 16.45 Keynote address: Professor Serge Guilbaut (University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada): Pleasure of Failure: The Saga of the 'Advancing American Art' Exhibition and the role of Modern Art during the Cold War
Day 2, Saturday, March 9
Venue: National Gallery of Denmark, Sølvgade 48-50, 1307 Copenhagen K, the Cinema
10.00 – 10.20 Arrival and coffee
Keynote address moderated by: Professor Emeritus Peter Madsen (University of Copenhagen)
10.20 – 11.20 Keynote address: Journalist Frances Stonor Saunders (England):
American Art from Un-American Artists
11.20 – 11.45 Coffee
Session 3 moderated by: Professor Emeritus Peter Madsen (University of Copenhagen)
11.45 – 12.25 Associate Professor Greg Castillo (University of California at Berkeley, USA): How West Germans Helped MoMA ‘Steal the Idea’ of Modern Architecture
12.25 – 13.05 Post Doc Researcher Iben Vyff (Aarhus University, Denmark): Cold War in a Danish kitchen culture
13.05 – 14.05 Lunch
Session 4 moderated by: Associate Professor Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)
14.05 – 14.45 PhD Fellow Jens Tang Kristensen (University of Copenhagen and Sorø Kunstmuseum, Denmark): Cool Constructed Danish art in light of the Cold War
14.45 – 15.25 PhD Fellow Helle Brøns (National Galley of Denmark, Museum Jorn and University of Copenhagen): Asger Jorn between Cold War and the Society of the Spectacle
15.25 – 16.05 Professor Ordinarius Piotr Piotrowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland): Globalizing Eastern Europe
16.05 – 16.45 Coffee and farewell
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