Interiors and Exteriors: Avant-Garde Itineraries in Postwar France

Colloquium - Friday, February 21, 2014

Cochrane-Woods Art Center, room 157, 5540 S. Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637

In conjunction with an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art and an accompanying film and events series, scholars from France, the United Kingdom, and the United States convene to present on emerging and enduring avant-garde movements in post-World War II Paris.
Presented by the Department of Art History, the France Chicago Center, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Norman Wait Harris Fund, and the Uncommon Fund at the University of Chicago.

Schedule

9–9:15 am
Coffee

9:15–9:30 am
Opening Remarks
Jennifer Cohen and Marin Sarvé-Tarr
University of Chicago

9:30 am–noon
Panel 1: Lettrism and the Legacy of the Historical Avant-Garde

“Right bank, left bank? For a new topography of Avant-garde art galleries in Paris after 1945”
Julie Verlaine
History, Sorbonne Paris I

“The library of Isidore Isou: The hidden face of lettrism”
Fabrice Flahutez
History of Art, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

Title TBA
Hannah Feldman
Art History, Northwestern University

noon–1 pm
Lunch

1–1:30 pm
Tour of Interiors and Exteriors exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art
Jennifer Cohen and Marin Sarvé-Tarr

1:30–3:30 pm
Panel 2: Postwar Surrealism

Title TBA
Alyce Mahon
History of Art, Cambridge University

“Opening out Surrealism : truly, madly, deeply”
Jérôme Duwa
History of Art, Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine

3:30–4 pm
Coffee

4–5 pm
Keynote Lecture: “From Hunger Strike to Human Strike”
Tom McDonough
Art History, Binghamton University

5–5:30 pm
Roundtable Discussion
Alison James (Romance Languages and Literatures, UChicago), Christine Mehring (Art History, UChicago), Molly Warnock (Art History, Johns Hopkins University), and Jennifer Wild (Cinema and Media Studies, UChicago

5:30–6 pm
Reception