[MassHistPres] bauhaus

[Dennis De Witt]

If you want a change from older old to newer old  . . .


Conference:
  Bauhaus Palimpsest: the Object of Discourse

March 14-15, 2008
  Harvard University
  Arthur M. Sackler Museum
  485 Broadway, Cambridge MA
  Free and open to the public

Conference mailer: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/users/rschul/
Bauhaus_Palimpsest.pdf

The Bauhaus has proved an unwieldy, even unstable, historical
subject, couched as an idea, crucible, and—for some—pariah. This
symposium brings together scholars of art history, architecture, and
design to discuss the various strategies through which the history of
the Bauhaus has been told and, importantly, how so-called Bauhaus
objects function—in the past or today—in light of the school’s
mercurial identity. Presentations will address the practice of key
Bauhaus personalities, including Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger, and
the work of the sculpture, weaving, metal, and other Bauhaus
workshops. Objects produced by Bauhaus masters and students are on
display in the Busch-Reisinger Museum.

Friday, March 14
  6 p.m., opening lecture

Barry Bergdoll
  The Museum of Modern Art
  Fabrication and Authorship: New Perspectives on Making at the Bauhaus

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Saturday, March 15
  9:30 a.m.-6 p.m., conference

Robin Schuldenfrei
University of Illinois at Chicago
and
Jeffrey Saletnik
University of Chicago
Introductory Remarks: Provisions

Session I: Agents

Karen Koehler
  Hampshire College
  The Bauhaus Manifesto Postwar to Postwar: From the Street to the Wall
to the Radio to the Memoir

Greg Castillo
  University of Sydney
  The Soft Power of the Bauhaus: Design History as Cold War Palimpsest

Frederic J. Schwartz
  University College London
  The Disappearing Bauhaus: Architecture and its Public in the Early
Federal Republic

12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. lunch

Session II: Transference

Paul Monty Paret
  University of Utah
  Picturing Sculpture: Allegories of Bauhaus Modernism

Annie Bourneuf
  Princeton University
  Paul Klee's Grids and the Ends of Reading at the Bauhaus

Laura Muir
  Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University
  Lyonel Feininger’s Bauhaus Photographs

Session III: Object Identity

Maria Stavrinaki
  Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
  The Object Vanishes: the Fate of Marcel Breuer’s Chair(s)

Magdalena Droste
  Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus
  How to Sign a Chair? Bauhaus Objects between Authorship and Anonymity.

T’ai Smith
  Maryland Institute College of Art
  The Identity of Design as Intellectual Property

Alina Payne
  Harvard University
  Respondent

This symposium has been organized by Robin Schuldenfrei (Harvard
University Graduate School of Design and the University of Illinois
at Chicago) and Jeffrey Saletnik (University of Chicago), with Peter
Nisbet (Daimler-Benz Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard
University).