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Veerle Thielemans
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Organized by the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny / Terra Foundation for American Art
and the International Cultural Center in conjunction with the exhibition "Faces of America. Portraits from the Collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, 1770–1940"
International Cultural Center Gallery, Krakow, February 16–May 7, 2006.
About the Terra exhibitions around the world
I. Panel Discussion: «The Face of a Nation: Portraiture and National Identity».
Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 4:30 pm
At the International Cultural Center, Krakow, Poland
Art historians will discuss the role of portraiture in the creation and preservation of a political identity of the American and the Polish nations in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
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II. Lecture/Seminar: «Portraiture and Politics».
Thursday, March 23, 2006, 10:15 am
Institute of American Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
This seminar will look at the way in which visual images acquire an iconic status in American culture by focusing on the role played by portraits in politics and media from the colonial period to the present.
Invited guest lecturers:
David Lubin, Wake Forest University
Richard Saunders, Middlebury College Museum of Art.
Richard Saunders, author of American Colonial Portraits: 1700–1776 (with Ellen Miles, 1987), and The American Face: Portraiture and Identity in American Culture (forthcoming), will discuss eighteenth century portraiture in the climate of the forming of the American nation, while David Lubin will comment on the circulation of images of John F. Kennedy's assassination in reference to his book Shooting Kennedy. JFK and the Culture of Images, 2003, winner of the Smithsonian Institution's Eldredge Prize.
This seminar will be held in the context of the cycle of conferences on the History of American Culture, organized by professor Radoslaw Rybkowski for students enrolled in graduate studies, and in collaboration with Maria Hussakowska-Szyszko, PhD, professor of post-1945 American art history, the Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University.
III. Debate on the history of American culture: «Generating Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Linking Private and Public Action».
Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 6 pm
At the International Cultural Center, Krakow, Poland
Discussants:
Mark Meigs, Professor of American Studies, University of Paris VII: "Intimate Contributions to Public Culture: Family Portraits in Philadelphia's Museums"
Marek Wilczynski, Professor, American Literature Department, University Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan, President of the Polish Association for American Studies
Moderator:
Andrzej Mania, Professor and Director of the Institute of American Studies of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow
International Symposium
«Heroism and Reportage» ; organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Courtauld Institute Research Forum to coincide with the exhibition "Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea,"
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, February 22-May 21, 2006.
Monday and Tuesday, April 10 and 11, 2006
At the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Between 1850 and 1900 the illustrated press grew immensely in the United States, Britain and Europe both in terms of audience size and significance. Popular imagery, largely produced in the context of the periodical press, had a profound impact on nineteenth-century art, particularly in works that dealt with contemporary events and modern life. Investigative reporting and sensationalist presentation of events in the media redefined the lineaments of heroism that had once been more securely the preserve of history painting. At the same time, history painting sought to give new relevance to traditional hierarchies of value. The interaction between high art and popular imagery destabilised more traditional forms of representation through the mixture of the factual and the heroic, thereby changing the role of pictorial devices such as staging and composition as well as influencing the rhetoric of pose and gesture, the construction and position of the viewer and pictorial style. Related topics include witness, record and documentation, the emergence of the anti-hero and the redefinition of the heroic in modern times.
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> On the exhibition “Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea”
International Symposium: «On Democracy in America: Arts, Science and Politics, 1776–1865» ;
organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Musée du Louvre, Paris
in conjunction with the exhibition “American Artists and the Louvre”,
1760–1940, June 14–September 18, 2006.
Friday, June 16, 2006
At the Auditorium of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
From the Declaration of Independence to the end of the Civil War, the American nation enjoyed a period of intense creative investment in the arts as well as in science and technology as the young nation took shape. This colloquium intends to study the cultural cross-currents that developed between Europe and the United States during this time period through emblematic figures such as Samuel Finley Breese Morse and Alexis de Tocqueville. The social vision of a "new world," the wealth of political thought, trends and the scientific production of artists such as Charles Willson Peale, Samuel Morse and Thomas Cole, form part of a universal societal model in which history is integrated into the development of a culture of communication.
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