Tate Modern
Discussion 2
Jane Burton, Jason Gaiger, Jonathan Jones, Mark Godfrey, Paul Wood, Phyllida Barlow, Sophie Howarth
05/10/2002
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Abstraction and the Media
Jonathan Jones
05/10/2002
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Speaker: Jonathan Jones, Guardian writer.Abstract art is the opposite of what you might call a good news story, argues journalist Jonathan Jones. Good stories are precise, they have characters, they can be told quickly. None of which abstraction delivers. Yet surprisingly, some of the biggest news splashes in the history of modern art have been concerned with abstraction, from Whistler's court...
Experience and Interpretation
Jane Burton
05/10/2002
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Speaker: Jane Burton, Curator of Interpretation, Tate Modern.Taking the Barnett Newman exhibition as its focus, Jane Burton seeks to unravel some of the possible interpretative approaches to Newman's art adopted by museums, both in his lifetime and today. She considers the debates in the press about interpretation surrounding the opening of Tate Modern, and outlines some of the ways in which...
Barnett Newman and the Evocation of the Sublime
Jason Gaiger
05/10/2002
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Speaker: Jason Gaiger, Lecturer in Art History at The Open University.In an important essay, 'The Sublime is Now', written in 1948, Barnett Newman rejected the search for beauty in favour of 'man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to the absolute emotions'. Whilst acknowledging that he lived in an age that lacked suitable myths and legends, he claimed that a new...
Discussion 1
Mark Godfrey, Paul Wood, Phyllida Barlow, Sophie Howarth
05/10/2002
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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New Generation Sculpture in Britain
Phyllida Barlow
05/10/2002
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Speaker: Phyllida Barlow, artist and Head of Undergraduate Sculpture, Slade School of ArtInvestigating abstraction as a force in British sculpture, Phyllida Barlow focuses on the 1965 New Generation Sculpture Exhibition, held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. She particularly considers the influence of American art of the 1950s and 1960s on redefining British sculpture.Further ReadingThe New...
Barnett Newman’s Abstraction
Mark Godfrey
05/10/2002
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Speaker: Mark Godfrey, Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the Slade School of Art. Mark Godfrey considers some ways in which Barnett Newman's art has been interpreted. First, there are those who read it as if it were a code to be deciphered (Thomas Hess). Then there are those who 'see' it, and locate the meaning of the work in the seeing experience (Fried, Judd, Bois, Serra, Sylvester). After...
An Introduction to the Idea of Abstraction and Interpretation
Paul Wood
05/10/2002
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Paul Wood starts the day considering the roots of abstraction in Symbolism, and how it tended to be theorised by Modernist writers, including Alfred Barr. He also covers the role of Cubism in helping to realise a fully abstract art, with particular reference to Mondrian and Malevich, as well as exceptions to that rule, such as Kandinsky. The talk also explores the contrast between idealist and...
Introduction
Sophie Howarth
05/10/2002
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Introduction. This study day focuses on debates around the interpretation of abstract art. From Russian Suprematism through Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and beyond, abstraction has been variously interpreted as nihilistic, political, sublime, decorative and ironic. While much writing about abstract art has been opaque, the talks here aim to clearly open up a variety of theoretical models...
Amna Malik, Briony Fer, David Batchelor, Jaime Gili, Jason Gaiger, Matthew Gale, Paul Wood
27/03/2010
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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This study day is dedicated to the memory of Professor Charles Harrison, Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Art at The Open University.
On the occasion of two major exhibitions of abstract art, Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World and Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, this study day considers some of the broad issues and ideas associated with the...
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