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When New York looks at the School of Paris (1930-1950). Reception, rereadings, and appropriations

Type: Calls For Papers [View all]
Posted by: Musée de l'Orangerie
Deadline: Thu, July 15th, 2021

 The dialogue that the Musée de l’Orangerie has chosen to establish between the School of Paris painter Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943) and the American Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), affords researchers the opportunity to explore the impact on the then-nascent American Abstract Expressionism movement by the art produced by European artists living in Paris during the interwar period.

After long decades of asserting the “triumph” of the New York School and its autonomy, a historiographical review seems desirable. The univocal account of the independence of American art from Surrealism seems to have been the “dominant” explanation. Entire movements and their circulation may have been ignored, considered irrelevant, and deemed “local” or “peripheral”.

This symposium aims to revisit the sources and encourages candidates to participate in a review of what was visible of European art in the United States before 1950, in terms of exhibitions, journals, and private collections.

It aims to examine the conditions of the birth of American Abstract Expressionism in its relationship to the European, and particularly French, figurative tradition, in the specific context of the Second World War, based on individual artistic trajectories.

Unlike Surrealism, whose contributions to the American art scene have been widely documented (Paris-New York, Surrealism in Exile), we do not have an inventory of the contributions of European figurative art, united under the banner of the “School of Paris” to American Abstract Expressionism. The contributions to this colloquium will help to define its contours.
 
Online symposium

Monday 29 November 2021, 6pm to 10pm
Tuesday 30 novembre 2021, from 10am to 5pm

To download the detailed call for submission:

https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/en/event/online-conference

Contributions must be sent before July, 15th, 2021 in the form of a paragraph of 500 words, accompanied by a short CV to the following address: scarlett.reliquet@musee-orsay.fr

 

 

Posted on Mon, May 17th, 2021
Expires on Thu, July 15th, 2021

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