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04/21/2023 - 04/21/2023 | Berlin

Rewriting American Modernism: Hale Woodruff, Mildred Thompson, and the Black Atlantic, 1958-68

public talk by John J. Curley

public programs in the framework of the Linking (Art) Worlds traveling seminar-series

John J. Curley’s talk will address notions of the transatlantic in Black American art of the late 1950s and 1960s. First, Curley will explore Hale Woodruff's Africa and the Bull (c. 1958) as an Abstract Expressionist painting that counters typical narratives of the centrality of European-American artistic exchange through introducing references to Africa, cultural theft, and the slave trade. Secondly, Mildred Thompson and the prints and sculptures she makes during her self-imposed exile in West Germany (1958-60 and 1964-74) will be considered as emblematic of a "counterfactual modernism" -- a practice of forging alternative artistic genealogies that foreground mobility, diaspora and barbarity.

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John J. Curley is Core Faculty of the Linking (Art) Worlds seminar series. In “real life” he is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. He has published widely on postwar American and European art, and is currently at work on a new book project provisionally titled “Critical Distance: Black American Artists in Europe 1958-1968.”

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Mitveranstalter: ERIAC: European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture

Information on participating / attending:

Date:

04/21/2023 17:00 - 04/21/2023 18:30

Event venue:

ERIAC: European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture
Reinhardtstraße 41-43
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany

Target group:

Scientists and scholars, Students

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Art / design, Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Politics, Social studies

Types of events:

Presentation / colloquium / lecture

Entry:

04/07/2023

Sender/author:

Virginie Michaels

Department:

Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event74037


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