Contemporary Art: It Figures
A symposium, Saturday, November 14, 1998
Please join a panel of internationally recognized artists and historians of contemporary art for a morning conference to
discuss the re-emergence of the human figure in art during the past fifteen years.
Cosponsored by the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and the Contemporary Art Society of the Cleveland Museum of Art (CAS).
8:30-9:00 Check in
9:00
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Robert H. Jackson, CAS, conference chair
Judy Simon, president, CAS
Robert Bergman, director, CMA
9:15
Robert Rosenblum, art historian, New York City. Dr. Rosenblum has been Professor of Fine Arts at New York University since 1967. He has written about contemporary artists Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons, among others, and on many aspects and periods of art history, with titles including
Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition
(1984) and Art of the Nineteenth Century
(with H.W. Janson, 1984). Currently, he is also Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
10:00
Alex Katz, painter, New York City. Katz came of age as an artist in New York City in the early 1950s, the age of Abstract Expressionism. Bucking that trend and continuing to forge his own way for the subsequent 40 years, he has explored representational art, from landscapes to portraits, inspired by bold images of billboards and close-up shots from movies.
10:40 Break
11:00
David Salle, painter, New York City. Salle is known for his provocative composite paintings of images appropriated from diverse sources including art history, film, and theater. Educated at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in the 1970s, he became known as a leading American painter during the 1980s.
11:45 Panel Discussion
Tom E. Hinson, curator of contemporary art and photography, CMA, moderator
Alex Katz
Robert Rosenblum
David Salle
12:30 Conference ends
Registration
$35 ($25 for CMA and CAS members and seniors; $10 for students with ID).
Registration materials may be picked up in the museum on Saturday, November 14, 8:30-9:00 AM.
For recorded information call 216-421-7340, ext. 464.
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