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Tadeusz Kantor, Bridge—Clothes Hanger, 1970-1971 |
Photocollage, 31 x 34 cm
Archive of Jacek Maria Stokłosa, Cracow | Photograph courtesy of Jacek Maria Stokłosa
Archive of Jacek Maria Stokłosa, Cracow | Photograph courtesy of Jacek Maria Stokłosa
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The symposium “American Art of the Sixties: Visual and Material Forms in a Transnational Context” aims to shed new light on American art of the long Sixties by furthering research that places artworks, artists and art production within a transnational context. The two-day event, taking place on March 26 & 27 at Texas A&M University, features ten national and international scholars grouped into five thematic sessions, a keynote speaker and a roundtable discussion.
The invited scholars examine how visual and material forms generate meanings within different geographical and cultural contexts, drawing on social art-historical, poststructural and formal methodologies, thus bridging what Joshua Shannon, Jason Weems and Jennifer Roberts have discussed as the “Americanist-Modernist divide.” Recuperating various transnational contexts that provide new interpretations of Sixties art, the symposium explores why some of these meanings have become dominant while others were lost as the artworks traveled through time and space.
The symposium intends to advance our understanding of American Art of the long 1960s in a transnational context, further the dialogue across the Americanist-Modernist divide and facilitate exchange between US-American and international scholars. In addition, the symposium hopes to provide incentives for interdisciplinary dialogues that understand art, art history and theory as part of the larger field of visual and material culture.
Susanneh Bieber | Assistant Professor
Departments of Visualization and Architecture
Texas A&M University
The invited scholars examine how visual and material forms generate meanings within different geographical and cultural contexts, drawing on social art-historical, poststructural and formal methodologies, thus bridging what Joshua Shannon, Jason Weems and Jennifer Roberts have discussed as the “Americanist-Modernist divide.” Recuperating various transnational contexts that provide new interpretations of Sixties art, the symposium explores why some of these meanings have become dominant while others were lost as the artworks traveled through time and space.
The symposium intends to advance our understanding of American Art of the long 1960s in a transnational context, further the dialogue across the Americanist-Modernist divide and facilitate exchange between US-American and international scholars. In addition, the symposium hopes to provide incentives for interdisciplinary dialogues that understand art, art history and theory as part of the larger field of visual and material culture.
Susanneh Bieber | Assistant Professor
Departments of Visualization and Architecture
Texas A&M University
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The symposium will be delivered online via Zoom. No events are taking place on the Texas A&M University campus. When clicking the link below to join the symposium, you automatically will be prompted to download zoom.You can do this at any time.
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With generous support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, the Institute for Applied Creativity, the Departments of Visualization and Architecture, and in-kind support from the College of Engineering, Texas A&M University.