Academic Sessions: London 2003
Just what is it that makes today\'s surrealism so different, so appealing?
Convenors:
Simon Baker, Department of History of Art, University College London, 39-41 Gordon Square, London, WC1E 6BT; s.baker@ucl.ac.uk
Neil Cox, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ; ncox@essex.ac.uk
Abstract:
This session will explore the shifting context for the study of surrealism and reflect on tensions between the unfashionableness associated with surrealism in the visual field, and the increasing centrality of figures such as Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris. It will also consider the relevance of surrealism to contemporary practice and debate recent trends in exhibiting surrealism in museums and galleries. This session will be run with the support of the AHRB Centre for Studies in Surrealism and its Legacies (Essex/Manchester/Tate).
Haim Finkelstein (Ben–Gurion University) Struggling with Dali anew; or, what’s new in Daliland.
Elliott H. King (University of Essex) Carrots and Cretins: Considering Dali’s Negative Appraisal of (and by) Modern Art.
Susan Laxton (Columbia University) The Guarantor of Chance.
Patricia Allmer (School of Art and Design, Loughborough University) The True Art of Painting, Magritte and the Ends of October.
David Cunningham (Department of English and Linguistics, University of Westminster) A Question of Tomorrow: André Breton and the Writing of Surrealism.
David Hopkins (University of Glasgow) Barney, Gober and their Critics: Post–Surrealism in 90s America.
Angela Dimitrakaki (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) Surrealism and the Post–feminist Unconscious: Meaning, Loss and Ideology in Contemporary Video Art by Women.
Amna Malik (Slade School of Art) Mass culture as woman? Surrealism in the Museum at the end of the 20th century.
Krzysztof Fijalkowski (Norwich School of Art and Design) ‘Ouvrez-vous?’ Surrealists and Curators.
Lewis Kachur (Kean University) Framing Surrealism in 1930s: displaying desire versus the modernist white cube.
Panel discussion: Simon Baker (chair), Dawn Ades (University of Essex), Fiona Bradley (Hayward Gallery), Haim Finkelstein (Ben-Gurion University), Lewis Kachur (Kean University).
Simon Baker, Department of History of Art, University College London, 39-41 Gordon Square, London, WC1E 6BT; s.baker@ucl.ac.uk
Neil Cox, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ; ncox@essex.ac.uk
Abstract:
This session will explore the shifting context for the study of surrealism and reflect on tensions between the unfashionableness associated with surrealism in the visual field, and the increasing centrality of figures such as Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris. It will also consider the relevance of surrealism to contemporary practice and debate recent trends in exhibiting surrealism in museums and galleries. This session will be run with the support of the AHRB Centre for Studies in Surrealism and its Legacies (Essex/Manchester/Tate).
Haim Finkelstein (Ben–Gurion University) Struggling with Dali anew; or, what’s new in Daliland.
Elliott H. King (University of Essex) Carrots and Cretins: Considering Dali’s Negative Appraisal of (and by) Modern Art.
Susan Laxton (Columbia University) The Guarantor of Chance.
Patricia Allmer (School of Art and Design, Loughborough University) The True Art of Painting, Magritte and the Ends of October.
David Cunningham (Department of English and Linguistics, University of Westminster) A Question of Tomorrow: André Breton and the Writing of Surrealism.
David Hopkins (University of Glasgow) Barney, Gober and their Critics: Post–Surrealism in 90s America.
Angela Dimitrakaki (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) Surrealism and the Post–feminist Unconscious: Meaning, Loss and Ideology in Contemporary Video Art by Women.
Amna Malik (Slade School of Art) Mass culture as woman? Surrealism in the Museum at the end of the 20th century.
Krzysztof Fijalkowski (Norwich School of Art and Design) ‘Ouvrez-vous?’ Surrealists and Curators.
Lewis Kachur (Kean University) Framing Surrealism in 1930s: displaying desire versus the modernist white cube.
Panel discussion: Simon Baker (chair), Dawn Ades (University of Essex), Fiona Bradley (Hayward Gallery), Haim Finkelstein (Ben-Gurion University), Lewis Kachur (Kean University).