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Cover of DYN No. 4-5, 1943 Courtesy Hayden Library Collections, ASU |
Tentative Conference Schedule
Surrealism and the American West Conference
Oct. 26-27, 2006
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
Panel I, Thursday, Oct. 26, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Carson Ballroom, Old Main Building
Surrealists Collect the West:
Native American Culture, Display, Ethics
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Totemic Landscapes and Vanishing Cultures through the Eyes of Wolfgang Paalen and Kurt Seligmann
Dr. Marie Mauzé, CNRS, Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, Paris
The Lost Highway: the Surrealist explorers of ancient America
Robert McNab, Cargo Press/Artists on Film Trust
Displaying Displacement: Surrealist exhibitions and Native American objects
Susan Power, Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
Surrealism and Native America
Dr. Ralph Shain, Loyola University, Chicago
Native American Art and Pan-Americanism in DYN
Dr. Courtney Gilbert, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
Respondents: Ms. Aleta Ringlero, Curator, Casino Arizona; Dr. W. Jackson Rushing, University of Texas, Dallas
Keynote lecture, Thursday, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.
Architecture Auditorium, AED 60
Surrealism and Native America
Speaker: Dr. Evan M. Maurer, Director Emeritus, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
A public reception follows the lecture.
Panel II, Friday, Oct. 27, 2006, 9 am - noon
Architecture Auditorium, AED 60
Surrealists in the West
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David Hare in the American West, 1939-1949
Jasper Sharp, Centre for Studies of Surrealism, Essex
Dalí´s American Dream: from the vegetable garden of Catalunya to the Great Plains of America
Dr. Frédérique Joseph-Lowery, Independent scholar
The Legendary Life of Max Ernst in America; preceded by a brief discussion on the Surrealist's need for a new myth
Dr. Ludger Derenthal, Museum of Photography, Berlin
Predicting Fetishism: Alfonso Ossorio´s Taos drawings, 1940-41
Dr. Ellen Landau, Case Western Reserve University
Mimesis and Metamorphosis: Ernst and Tanning in Arizona
Dr. Samantha Kavky, Pennsylvania State University, Berks
Respondent: Dr. Evan M. Maurer, Director Emeritus, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Lunch: 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Panel III, Friday, Oct. 27, 2006, 2 - 4:30 p.m.
Architecture Auditorium, AED 60
The Surrealist Lens
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´Surrealist and disturbing´: Timothy O´Sullivan as seen by Ansel Adams in the 1930s
Dr. Britt Salvesen, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
´As if one´s eyelids had been cut away´: Frederick Sommer´s Arizona Landscapes
Dr. Ian Walker, School of Art, Media and Design, University of Wales, Newport
Clarence John Laughlin: photographing Surrealist New Orleans and the West
Dr. Lewis Kachur, Kean University of New Jersey
Creamed Corn and Convulsive Beauty
A. Raihan Kadri, University of Essex, Colchester
Respondent: Dr. Britt Salvesen, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006
Travel possibility for conference participants to archeological sites of interest in Arizona, or, to Sedona to visit/view the site of the Ernst/Tanning House, Capricorn Hill; possible overnight stay in Sedona.