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April 22–24, 2004 Location: Nevada Museum of Art 160 West Liberty Street Reno, Nevada |
Conference Presenters and Topics (continued): Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe – “Frank Gehry Is Not Andy Warhol: A Choice Between Life and Death” Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe teaches at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in painting and criticism, as well as a Guggenheim fellowship in painting. Among his books: Immanence and Contradiction: Recent Essays on the Artistic Device (1986), Beyond Piety: Critical Essays on the Visual Arts 1986–1993 (1995), Art As a Philosophical Context (1996), Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime (1999), and Frank Gerhy (2002). He participated in Sticky Sublime (2001). Reputed critic, painter and writer, Gilbert-Rolfe provides a critical reconsideration of the classical philosophical distinctions between beauty and the sublime. Anna María Guasch – “Global Museums versus Local Artists. Utopia versus Entertainment” Anna Maria Guasch is Professor of Art History and Art Criticism at the University of Barcelona (Spain). She is the editor of a series on contemporary art in Akal /Arte Contemporáneo (Madrid). Her recent publications include: El arte del siglo XX en sus exposiciones: 1945-1995 (1997), El arte último del siglo XX. Del postminimalismo a lo multicultural: 1968-1995 (2000). She is also the editor of Los manifiestos del arte posmoderno. Textos de exposiciones 1980-1995 (2000) and co-author of Crítica de Arte: Historia, Teoría y praxis ( 2003). She has been awarded the Espais Prize for Art Criticism (1998) and ACCA Prize for Art Criticism (2001). She has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton, Yale, and Columbia Universities and a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Serge Guilbaut – “Sleeping in Bilbao: The Guggenheim as a New Cultural Edsel” Serge Guilbaut is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). His main field of interest is Post-war American and French history, including the history of post-war Franco-American relations in relation to art. His publications include How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art (1983), published also in French, Spanish, Polish and German; Sobre la desaparición de ciertas obras de arte (1995); co-editor of Modernism and Modernity (1983), Reconstructing Modernism: Art in New York, Paris and Montreal 1945-64 (1990), and Théodore Géricault. The Alien Body: Tradition in Chaos (1997). Hans Haacke – “The Guggenheim Museum: A Business Plan” Born in Germany, Hans Haacke moved to the US in 1961. He taught at Cooper Union from 1967–2002. His works have been included in Documenta, the Biennials of Venice, São Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, Johannesburg, and Whitney Biennial, New York. A renowned conceptual artist, he conceives his work as a critique of the politics of art and the ideologies of culture. One of his most well-known works, Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, A Real-Time Social System as of May 1, 1971, exposed the malpractice of Harry Shapolsky’s real-estate business and caused Haacke’s April 1971 exhibition at the Guggenheim to be cancelled. Among his latest exhibitions are The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, (1960–1982), Berlin-Moskau-Berlin 1950–2000, A Simple Plan, Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, and Antagonismos. Steven High – Director, Nevada Museum of Art [participant] Steven High has worked in the museum field for 27 years, and has been the Executive Director for the Nevada Museum of Art since 1996. Under his leadership, the museum received the National Award for Museum Service in 1999. He was an Associate Professor at the School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University prior to his move to Reno. He holds an M.A. degree in Art History from Williams College, Massachusetts and a M.B.A. degree from the School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University. Mr. High’s curatorial experience and interests are in 20th century art and, in particular, contemporary American and international art. He is the recipient of numerous foundation and governmental grants for exhibition development including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, David and Lucile Packard Foundation grant, and a $10.5 million capital grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. He recently completed overseeing the design and construction of a new facility designed by Will Bruder, and the completion of a $24 million capital/endowment campaign. Lucy Lippard – “On Not Having Seen the Bilbao Guggenheim” Art critic, theorist and political activist (she prefers “cultural critic”) Lucy Lippard is the author of eighteen books on subjects ranging from Pop Art to Native American art. Her theorizing reaches into all realms of art; her texts offer new ways to understand the social and political impulses that create art, and which art, in turn, creates. As one of the earliest feminists, she brought the aesthetic, economic, material, and practical concerns of women artists into the art-historical dialogue. Her most recent book, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place (1999), unpacks the cultural voyeurism implicit in the act of “going sight-seeing.” Dean MacCannell – “The Fate of the Symbolic in Architecture for Tourists: Piranesi, Disney, Gehry” Dean MacCannell received a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University. He is currently a faculty member of the Department of Environmental Design and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis. His book The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (1976) is the canonical work in the interdisciplinary field of tourism studies and has been translated into several languages. Among his other notable publications are The Time of the Sign: A Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture (1982–coauthored with Juliet Flower MacCannell) and Empty Meeting Grounds (1992), a selection of his essays on tourism and community development. He is presently writing a book on Landscaping the Unconscious. Keith Moxey – “Gehry’s Bilbao: Visits and Visions” Keith Moxey is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City. He is the author of books on the historiography and philosophy of art history, as well as on sixteenth-century painting and prints in Northern Europe. His publications include The Practice of Persuasion: Politics and Paradox in Art History (2001); The Practice of Theory: Poststructuralism, Cultural Politics and Art History (1994); Peasants, Warriors, and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation (1989). He is also co-editor of several anthologies: Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Culture (2002), The Subjects of Art History: Historical Objects in Contemporary Perspective (1998), Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations (1994), and Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation (1991). Antoni Muntadas – “Business as Usual” Antoni Muntadas is Visiting Professor of art at the Institute of Technology of Massachusetts. He has taught and directed seminars at the University of California San Diego, the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux and Grenoble, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Ecole National de Beaux Arts de Paris, the Cooper Union in New York, and many other institutions. He has received several prizes and grants including those of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts. His works haven been exhibited throughout the world: Venice Biennale, Documenta VI and X in Kassel, the Biennale de Lyon , the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum in California, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, and the MACBA in Barcelona. > To next page |
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