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| Modernity in Translation? The global phenomenon of Modernism
Symposium of the LMU Munich (Faculty of History and the Arts) at the Center for Advanced Studies, Munich Concept and organisation: Prof. Dr. Christoph Balme (LMU Munich) und Prof. Dr. Avinoam Shalem (LMU Munich / KHI Florence) The investigation of artistic and cultural diversity has been undertaken within discrete frames and disciplines towards the understanding of the semantic specificity of works, writers, artists and genres or schools, and, more importantly, within a nationally oriented paradigm. What art studies have not yet attempted to do is to explain how the global phenomenon of Modernism came to be. What were the factors that led to a particular set of mainly Western, artistic practices being exported to and established in entirely diverse and distinct cultural environments? How did these processes of transposition affect the new host cultures and how did they in turn transform the practices being exported? This conference aims to provide several corrective insights into existing historiographical principles and research agendas by re-thinking modernism as an artistic practice and modernisation as a political, economic and institutional manifestation. Program: 10:00 h Introduction 10:15 h Kirsten Scheid: Unbounded Landscapes: Secular Modernism and Subversive Nationalism? 11.00 h Christoph Balme: The Cairo Opera House and the Beginnings of Global Theatre 11.45 h Burcu Dogramaci: An Oriental as Orientalist? The Painter Osman Hamdi Bey from Istanbul [lecture in German] 12:30 h Lunch 14.00 h Wendy Shaw: Cubism on the Bosporus 14.45 h Avinoam Shalem: Surrealism on the Nile 15.30 h Glenn Panny: Concluding Remarks Afterwards visit to the exhibition "The Future of Tradition - The Tradition of Future" in the House of Art (Haus der Kunst) |
 Date December 4th, 2010 Location Center for Advanced Studies Seestraße 13 80802 München Contact Prof. Dr. Avinoam Shalem E-mail: avinoam.shalem@lrz.uni- muenchen.de Further information Website |
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