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Conference - 'Abstract Painting and Beyond'
History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
February 9-11, 2012
Let us say, if only for the sake of argument, that abstract painting
began with Manet, and ended with Abstract Expressionism, and that
there is a “beyond.” How would we conceptualize this “beyond”? Would
we say that it is painting’s own return to figuration? The extension
of abstraction into other mediums: drawing, sculpture, dance,
photography, and digital images? Or is it perhaps something internal
to abstract painting itself—something that our critical paradigms did
not permit us to see, but that later painters have rendered visible,
and that calls for a different periodization? These are a few of the
questions that this conference will address.
Abstract Painting and Beyond is inspired by, and will coincide with,
an exhibition of Charline von Heyl’s paintings and drawings at the
Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. The conference will begin
with an evening conversation between von Heyl and Kaja Silverman, and
continue over the following two days, with talks by a distinguished
group of speakers including: Elise Archias, Nancy Davenport, André
Dombrowski, Darby English, Briony Fer, Rachel Haidu, Michael Leja,
Daniel Marcus, Christine Poggi, Anne M. Wagner, Margaret Werth
Please visit www.kajasilverman.com for more details.
Free registration: http://abstract_painting_and_beyond.eventbrite.com
Contact: Erica Levin elev@sas.upenn.edu