This informal symposium moderated by Matthias Waschek brought together an international group of art historians, museum professionals, and artists to discuss issues related to the exhibition Portrait/Homage/Embodiment, in particular, and aspects of modern portraiture, in general.
Saturday, June 30, 1007
SESSION 1 (Library): Portraiture: a Question of Context
Matthias Waschek, Director, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
The concept of the exhibition Portrait/Homage/Embodiment
James Holloway, Director, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Portrait galleries as custodians of the genre’s survival
LISTEN: A comparison between the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Madame Tussauds (in response to Matthias Waschek (0:38) Right click on the link to save audio file to desktop
Marie-Laure Bernadac, Chief Curator and Advisor on Contemporary Art, Musee du Louvre
Juxtaposing contemporary art with Old Masters at the Louvre
Robin Clark, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum
The concept of embodiment
SESSION 2 (Cube Gallery): The “Genre” in Contemporary Art
Joanna Woods-Marsden, Professor of Art History, University of California - Los Angeles
Cindy Sherman’s reworking of Raphael’s Fornarina and Caravaggio’s Bacchus
LISTEN: On Cindy Sherman and the Old Masters (3:03) Right click on the link to save audio file to desktop
Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Portraiture as a “genre” of photography
Luis Pérez-Oramas, Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Portraiture, a lifeless enunciation
LISTEN: The execution of portraiture (5:23) Right click on the link to save audio file to desktop
Stephan Wolohojian, Curator of European Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums
What remains of the genre’s tradition?
Sunday, July 1, 2007
SESSION 3 (Courtyard and Main Gallery South): Monuments as Portraits, Portraits as Monuments
Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Chairman and Founder of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Serra’s Joe, Joplin, Twain and other named sculptures
Norman Kleeblatt, Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator of Fine Arts.The Jewish Museum, New York
Monuments, presence, absence, and memory
Harriet Senie, Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of Museum Studies, City University of New York
Public and private memorials
Mieke Bal, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences Professor (KNAW) and Professor of the Theory of Literature, University of Amsterdam
Doris Salcedo, the memorial, art and politics
LISTEN: Salcedo’s Atrabiliarios: foregrounding singularity (2:18) Right click on the link to save audio file to desktop
SESSION 4 (Main Gallery North): Identities of the Artist and the Sitter
John Klein, Visiting Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Washington University in St. Louis; Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Missouri - Columbia
Chuck Close and tradition
LISTEN: Why elect portraiture in the 1960s? (1:47) Right click on the link to save audio file to desktop
Camran Mani, Curatorial Assistant, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Close and Warhol: carving out places for portraiture within the realm of abstraction
Andrew Walker, Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of American Art, Saint Louis Art Museum
Portraiture as a social contract
Carol Armstrong, Professor of History of Art, Yale University and Craigie Horsfield, Artist
Portraiture as a conversation
LISTEN: Close’s Keith : a refusal of engagement? (2:10) Right click on the link to save audio file to desktop
