Goals and Limits of Formalist Criticism in the Interpretation of American Art
International Conference
18 November 2014
Organizer: Michael Schreyach
9:45-10:00 Opening Remarks
10:00-10:25 Gregor Stemmrich (KHI, Freie Universität Berlin): “Modernism/Literalism/Postmodernism: Regarding Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953)”
10:30-10:55 Winfried Fluck (JFKI, Freie Universität Berlin): “Art and Narrative”
11:00-11:25 Graham Bader (Rice University und Humboldt Universität Berlin): “Lichtenstein’s Touch”
11:30-11:55 Eva Ehninger (Universität Bern): “Continuous Project: Formalism and the Issue of Painting”
12:00-12:30 Discussion
13:45-14:10 Regine Prange (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): “Andy Warhol’s ‘Flatness’: In Defense of a Materialist Formalism”
14:15-14:35 Ralph Ubl (Universität Basel): “Good Objecthood: Michael Fried in 1966”
14:40-15:05 Michael Schreyach (Trinity University und JFKI, Freie Universität Berlin): “Perceiving and Interpreting Abstract Expressionist Paintings”
15:10-15:35 Magdalena Nieslony (Universität Heidelberg): “Perspective as Form”
15:35-16:15 Discussion