1956: Legacies of political change in Art and Visual Culture

Saturday 4th - Sunday 5th September 2004

Full programme here

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Convened by Dr. Nancy Jachec and Dr. Reuben Fowkes

Department of History of Art, School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP.

Sponsored in part by the British Academy

Although the events of 1956 had a considerable impact internationally on the sponsorship, production and dissemination of visual art, surprisingly little work has been done on artistic responses to the watershed events of that year. Consequently, NINETEEN-FIFTY-SIX: Legacies of Political Change in Art and Visual Culture is bringing together scholars from Britain, Europe and North America who are working in this area, in order to generate more scholarly interest amongst art historians on this topic, and to create useful contacts for scholars who may currently be working in isolation. It also aims to break down the idea of Cold War culture as necessarily embedded in East - West relations by looking at a more global range of responses not only within a number of geopolitical regions, but between them, as well.

Speakers include: Rasheed Araeen (founding editor, Third Text), Natalie Adamson (St. Andrews), Djurdja Bartlett (London College of Fashion), David Crowley (RCA, London), Eva Forgacs, (Art Center College of Design, Pasadena), Reuben Fowkes (independent), Boros Geza (Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség Minisztériuma, Budapest), Eleonory Gilburd (UCLA Berkeley), Nancy Jachec (Oxford Brookes), Isabelle Moffat (independent), Katarzyna Murawska (Birkbeck College, London), George Noszlopy (Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham), Kochi Okada (Goldsmiths College, London), Piotr Piotrowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan), Harriet Standeven, (RCA, London), Nevenka Stankovic, (University of British Columbia), and Jennifer Way (University of North Texas, Denton)