Universität Wien

080104 PS Immigration and Modern Art and Architecture (2011S)

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max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 11.03. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 18.03. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 25.03. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 01.04. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 08.04. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 08.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 06.05. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 13.05. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 20.05. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 27.05. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 03.06. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 10.06. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 17.06. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 24.06. 10:00 - 11:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 24.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This proseminar examines the contribution of immigrant artists, architects, gallerists, museum curators and art historians to the formation of modern art and architecture in Europe and in the U.S.A. The focus of the proseminar are first and second generations of émigrés to European capitals and cities such as Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Paris, London, and to central cities in the U.S. such as New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles.This course reconsiders the influence of immigrants on modern art and architecture by arguing that cultural dialogue was as integral to their own processes of acculturation and self-fashioning in their new societies as it was to their formation of new art and architecture. Questions addressed include: How did immigrant artists, architects, gallerists, curators and art historians express their awareness of cultural difference and their need for new self-representation in their art, publications, exhibitions and teachings? Further, did their artworks/ intellectual works reflect cultural transformation as it simultaneously initiated cultural transformation within art and society?

Assessment and permitted materials

Referat in class (20 %), reading assignment (15 %), proseminar paper (65 %)
Obligatory presence in all lectures/ The engagement in the discussions during the course will be evaluated and will contribute to the final grade.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The aims of this proseminar are to examine the contribution of immigrant artists, architects, gallerists, curators and art historians to the formation of modern art and architecture and to grant students critical tools to approach different representations of cultural transformation in art and architecture in the twentieth century.

Examination topics

Methodologies used include sociological and art theories as well as theoretical considerations of identity in the disapora to provide a broader perspective on the history of modern art.

Reading list

Ackermann, Andreas, "Wechselwirkung - Komplexität - Einleitende Bemerkungen zum
Kulturbegriff von Pluralismus und Multikulturalismus," in: Andreas Ackermann, Klaus E.
Müller (hrsg.) Patchwork: Dimensionen multikultureller Gesellschaften, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2002.
Baron, Stephanie, Matthew Affron (eds.) Exiles and Emigrés, The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, München: Prestel, 1997.
Boeckl, Matthias (hrsg.) Visionäre & Vertriebene, Berlin: Ernst, 1995.
Cohen-Solal, Annie, Leo and his Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli, New York, Knopf, 2010
Cork, Richard, David Bomberg, New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press,1987.
Eckmann, Sabine, Hitler exiles and American visual culture, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Fineberg, Jonathan. Kandinsky in Paris 1906-1907, Studies in the Fine Arts: The Avant-Garde, 44. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984 (1975).
Frankl, Paul T., New Dimensions, The Decorative Arts of Today in Words and Pictures, New Yrok: Da Capo, (1928) 1975.
Facos, Michelle (ed.) Art, culture, and national identity in fin-de-siècle Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003
Gandini, Manuela, Ileana Sonnabend: the queen of art, Roma: Castelvecchi, 2008.
Gardiner, Stephen, Epstein, Artist against the establishment, London: Michael Joseph,1992
Gatje, Robert F., Marcel Breuer, A Memoir, New York: Monacelli Press, 2000.
Greenblatt, Stephen (ed.) Cultural mobility, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Greenough, Sarah, Modern art and America: Alfred Stieglitz & his New York galleries, London: Little, Brown, 2001.
Hall, Stuart, "Cultural Identity and Diaspora," in: Jonathan Rutherford (ed.,) Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1990, 222-237.
Hardwick, Jeffrey M., Mall Maker, Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004
Heinze, Andrew R., Adapting to Abundance, Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption, and the Search for American Identity, New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.Held, Jutta, Avantgarde und Politik in Frankreich: Revolution, Krieg und Faschismus im Blickfeld der Künste, Berlin: Reimer,2005.
Helfenstein, Josef (ed.) Lipchitz and the avant-garde: from Paris to New York, Essays by Jonathan Fineberg [on the occasion of the exhibition ... Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 22, 2001 - January 6, 2002, Seattle, Wash.]: Univ of Washington Press, 2001.
Kallir, Jane, Saved from Europe: Otto Kallir and the history of the Galerie St. Etienne in commemoration of the gallery's 60th anniversary, New York, NY: Galerie St. Etienne,1999.
Kitaj, R. B., First Diasporist Manifesto, London: Thames and Hudson, 1989.
Kochmann, Adrienne, "Russian émigré artists and political opposition in fin-de-siè Munich," in: Emporia State Research Studies, Vol 45, no. 1, 6-26 (2009). Internet: http://www.emporia.edu/esrs/vol45/kochman.pdf
McCabe, Cynthia Jaffee, The golden door: artist-immigrants of America, 1876-1976, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden exhibition dates: May 20 - Oct. 20, 1976, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Inst. Press, 1976.
Mercer, Kobena, Exiles, diasporas and strangers, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas (ed.) Diaspora and Visual Culture, Representing Africans and Jews, London and New York: Routledge, 2000
Neutra, Richard Joseph, Wie baut Amerika? Stuttgart: Hoffmann, 1927.
Nieszawer, Nadine, Peintres juifs à Paris: 1905-1939, école de Paris, Paris: Éd. Denoël , 2000 .
Perry, Gill, Women artists and the Parisian avant-garde, Modernism and 'feminine' art, 1900 to the late 1920s, Manchester University Press: Manchester and New York, 1995.
Weibel, Peter, Friedrich Stadler (ed.) Cultural Exodus from Austria, Wien: Löcker, 1993.
De Zayas, Marius How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York, Cambridge, 1996

Association in the course directory

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