Art Histories, Cultural Studies and the Cold War
Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London Friday 24 th
September 2010
Registration from 9am: Tea, Coffee & Croissant
9.45
Welcome: [Professor David Ayers; Drs Grant Pooke and Ben Thomas]
Propaganda and Photography – Chair: David Ayers
10.00 Irina Bystrova (Moscow): The Americans, Russian and the British in conditions
of the Cold War: from the history of mutual perceptions
10.20 Martha and John Langford (Concordia and Victoria): Showing, Without
Telling: A Cold War Tourist and His Camera
10.40 Sally Stein (Los Angeles): Photography, Feminism and the Cold War in the USA
[title tbc]
11.00 Sarah James (Oxford): “Scratching the History of Men”: Humanism,
Photography, Art History, and the Politics of the Subject in a Divided Germany
11.20 Coffee
11.35 Caroline Blinder (Goldsmiths): American Alphabet: On Paul Strand’s Post War
Photography
11.55 Jane Powell (Kent): The Changing Iconography of Cold War Posters at the
Marx Memorial Library
12.15 Victoria Zhurlvaleva (Moscow): “The Cold War of Images”: the Soviet Union in
American Political Cartoons
12.35 Plenary – Discussion
1.00
Lunch
Keynote Address
2.00
Miranda Carter: Anthony Blunt: Art and Intelligence
Strand 1: Cold War Art History and Criticism – Chair: Ben Thomas
2.45
Matthew Potter (Leicester): The Neglected Field of Germanism in British Art
History, 1850-1939
3.05
Ben Thomas (Kent): Edgar Wind and the Congress for Cultural Freedom
3.25
Marina Dmitrieva (Leipzig): The Renaissance behind the Iron Curtain
3.45
Tea
4.15
Ljiljana Kolesnik (Zagreb): Social Realism, Modernism and the “Formalist
Turn” in Yugoslav Art Criticism of the 1950s
4.35
Monika Rutecka (Kent): Jan Matejko. A symbol of Polish National Identity or a
Victim of Political Manipulation?
4.55
Peter McMaster (Kent): Peter Fuller: A Dissident Voice
5.15
Strand 1 – Discussion
Strand 2: The Contested Cultural Sphere – Chair: Grant Pooke
2.45
Joes Segal (Utrecht): Modern Art and Cultural Warfare in East and West
3.05
Christine Bianco (Oxford Brookes): Modern Art and Freedom: Cold War
Cultural Politics in American Mass Magazines
3.25
Tiziana Villani (Kent): The “Biennale of Dissent”: A Page from the Italian Cold
War
3.45
Tea
4.15
David Ayers (Kent): Hewlett Johnson: Britain’s ‘Red Dean’ and the Cold War
4.35
Verity Clarkson (Brighton): Contested visions of Soviet art in Britain: the Art in
Revolution exhibition (1971).
4.55
Lucy Weir (Glasgow):“The Pornography of Pain”: Exploring Imagery of the
Cold War in Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof and Nelken
5.15
Strand 2 – Discussion
5.30
Full Plenary – Discussion
6.00
Reception – Wine and Refreshments
Reserve Paper – Grant Pooke (Kent): Francis Klingender: Cold War Reflections and
Valedictions c.1948-1955