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International Colloquium: « The American West: Tracing the Genesis of a Myth »
September 28, 2007
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
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This international colloquium, co-organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Rouen, will highlight two major exhibitions devoted to the representations of the West and of Native Americans in the nineteenth century: “La Mythologie de l’Ouest dans l’art américain, 1830–1940” (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, September 28, 2007 – January 7, 2008) and “Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860–1880” (Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, July 10 – October 31, 2007).
The colloquium will bring together several of the foremost specialists in art, literature and cinema from both sides of the Atlantic, including Laurent Salomé (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen), Pierre-Yves Pétillon (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), Jean-Louis Leurat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), Joan Troccoli (Denver Art Museum) and Timothy Brown (Center of the American West, University of Colorado). They have been invited to raise critical questions about the creation of a repertoire of mythical images representing the open spaces, the Frontier experience and the heroism of the cowboy and Indian as icons of the American West. These images rapidly took on an emblematic status and the speakers will pay particular attention to their circulation from one artistic medium to another. The analysis of these transfers between painting and illustration, literary texts, photography and cinematographic images, allows us to rediscover a little known chapter in the history of American art. It reveals the existence of a corpus that should be treated in its poetical dimension rather than as simple historical truth, thereby transforming historical facts, ethnological documents and identity discourses into aesthetic objects in their own right. In response to the works shown in the exhibition by renowned artists such as Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Remington, as well as those almost unknown in France such as Alfred Jacob Miller, George Catlin or N. C. Wyeth, the speakers will reflect on the nature and the role of this corpus.
There will be simultaneous translation from French to English.
Admission: Free of charge
Information: www.rouen-musees.com
International Colloquium: « Survey Photography of the American West »
September 29, 2007
UFR d’Etudes Anglophones - Institut Charles V, Université Paris 7 Denis-Diderot
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This colloquium, organized by François Brunet and the Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 with generous support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, acts as a counterpart to the exhibition « Images of the West: Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880 » being shown at the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny from July 10 to October 31.
It will bring together several of the foremost American specialists on this subject, as well as European researchers and curators working on the corpus of American exploration between 1860 and 1880: Martha Sandweiss (Amherst College), Joel Snyder (University of Chicago), Robin Kelsey (Harvard University), Mick Gidley (Leeds University), Christine Barthe (Musée du quai Branly), Evelyne Payen (Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle), Didier Aubert (Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle).
The colloquium will firstly allow us to review several decades of research and exhibitions on survey photographs taken during the years 1860 to 1880, years that are recognised today as a key moment of American photography. The uses to which these photographs were put – in other words, the scientific as well as the political, institutional, commercial, cultural and artistic logic that governed them, - will be at the centre of the discussion. Further, the role of the individual photographer in the midst of this complex network will not be forgotten. The often neglected relationship linking landscape and ethnographic photography, will also be scrutinized, especially from the viewpoint of the reception of the images. For the first time, this question of reception will be extended to include the European context so as to offer interpretations of the important distribution of images to France and the reactions they provoked at that time.
Most of the talks will be given in English, without simultaneous translation.
Registration: 5 euros. (Students, free of charge)
Information: www.ufr-anglais.univ-paris7.fr
International colloquium: "American Artists in Munich"
October 9–11, 2007
Amerikahaus München
This two-and-a-half day international colloquium, co-organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art, will focus on the attraction of the self-proclaimed "Kunststadt" / City of the Art(s)" for American artists between 1850 and World War I. The Akademie der Bildenden Künste München– a world renowned institution for higher artistic education, especially in the second half of the nineteenth century, and second only to Paris – will celebrate its bicentenary in 2008. Who came, when, and why? How did the Munich experience shape the later careers of visiting artists? Speakers are to look at the influences on the decision of a place in which to study, which depended not just on the attractiveness of a city and its art institutions but also on the students’ own cultural background. By also considering figures that traveled to the Academy after the peak of its success in the years '78, '80 and '90, this history will be extended well into the twentieth century.
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International symposium: "Between Fontainebleau and Giverny: Territories of Modern Landscape Painting"
Friday April 27, 2007
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Saturday April 28, 2007
Musée d’Art Américain Giverny
An international colloquium will be held in conjunction with two major exhibitions scheduled in Paris and Giverny: "The Forest of Fontainebleau. A Life-Sized Studio. From Corot to Picasso" (Musée d'Orsay, March 6 to May 13, 2007) and "Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915" (Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, April 1 to July 1, 2007). Organized jointly by the Musée d’Orsay and the Terra Foundation for American Art, Between Fontainebleau and Giverny: Territories of Modern Landscape Painting will be held on April 27 in the auditorium of the Musée d’Orsay and on April 28 in the auditorium of the Musée d'Art Américain Giverny.
From the first artists of the Barbizon School to the late works of Claude Monet, French landscape painting changed radically, without ever denying its attachment to its home soil. It is interesting to detect, through the pictorial representations of 1930 onwards, the construction of a symbolic French territory linked to the descriptions of the same era by historians such as Michelet, geographers or writers. But the century of the geographers was also that of tourism and of foreign artists’ colonies, travellers who came to France to learn or simply to be informed, whether or not they conformed to the imagery that was then structuring the representation of the country and its different regions. This symposium will also explore the divisions that art history loves to create between the different eras of modern landscape and the borders it erects between the supposedly "national" schools.
> Download the program (in French)
> Detailed program available on Musée d’Orsay website (French version)
International colloquium: "Narratives of American Art"
May 24–26, 2007
John F. Kennedy Institut d’Etudes Nord-Américaines, Freie Universität, Berlin
A two-and-a-half-day international colloquium devoted to master narratives used in American art scholarship and exhibitions, will take place in Berlin on May 24 - 26, 2007. Organized by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the John F. Kennedy Institute), an important center for American studies in Germany, with support from the German Association for American Studies, this conference will bring together American and European scholars of art history and cultural history who will present substantial papers on the different heuristic models that have been used to explain historic American art, its nature and development. Speakers will discuss five different narratives that have shaped our perception of art in the US over time:
1. American exception,
2. high/low,
3. visual culture,
4. multiculturalism,
5. trans-nationalism.
> Detailed program available on the John F. Kennedy Institute website
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