Symposium on the occasion of the exhibition
BORIS LURIE:
►Knives in Cement and Other Selected Constructions
Curated by Estera Milman
University of Iowa Museum of Art | 150 North Riverside Drive | Iowa City
March 5 and 6, 1999
This symposium is affiliated with The University of Iowa's Global Focus Human Rights celebration which commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations' ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an international consensus that many scholars argue would not have been achieved were it not for the incomprehensible horror of the Holocaust experience. Upon their return from Weimar in the Fall of 1999, Lurie's work from the late 1950s through the mid-sixties will be installed in the UIMA galleries as one important component of the retrospective exhibition NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom.This exhibition is affiliated with The University of Iowa's Global Focus Human Rights celebration which commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations' ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an international consensus that many scholars argue would not have been achieved were it not for the incomprehensible horror of the Holocaust experience. Upon their return from Weimar in the Fall of 1999, Lurie's work from the late 1950s through the mid-sixties will be installed in the UIMA galleries as one important component of the retrospective exhibition NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom.This exhibition is affiliated with The University of Iowa's Global Focus Human Rights celebration which commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations' ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an international consensus that many scholars argue would not have been achieved were it not for the incomprehensible horror of the Holocaust experience. Upon their return from Weimar in the Fall of 1999, Lurie's work from the late 1950s through the mid-sixties will be installed in the UIMA galleries as one important component of the retrospective exhibition NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom.—Estera Milman
FLYER
PROGRAMM
Art Actions and Human Rights: A Global Focus Celebration
A collaboration among The University of Iowa’s Museum of Art, University Libraries,
Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts, the Institute for Cinema and Culture
and the Anthology Film Archive, New York CityMarch 4, 8-10 pm
Conference opening and reception
Video Screening by Ray Wisniewsky, NO!art, 1963
“A Conversation with Gertrude Stein”, Gallery Gertrude Stein, New YorkMarch 5, 10:30 am
“NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom”
Estera Milman, The University of Iowa, Alternative Traditions
in the Contemporary Arts ►moreMarch 5, 11:15 am
“NO!art and the Dialectic of Enlightenment”
Rainer Rumold, Northwestern University, Department of German ►moreMarch 5, 1:00 pm
“Boris Lurie: Self Representation in the Wake of the Holocaust”
Susan Chewlowe, The Jewish Museum, New YorkMarch 5, 1:45 pm
“An Intersection of Holocaust Post-Modernism with Americanist
Post-Millenialism: The Spiritual Coordinates of the NO! Collectives”
Charles Vernoff, Cornell College, Department of ReligionMarch 5, 2:30 pm
“NO! and Holocaust Infory in Germany”
Curt Germundson, The University of Iowa School of Art and Art HistoryMarch 5, 3:30 pm
“Doom and the Triumph of American Painting”
Daniel A. Siedell, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden,
The University of NebraskaMarch 5, 4:15 pm
“Aesthetics of Freedom: NO! and the Political Construction
of the Individual”
Stephen C. Foster, The Universty of Iowa, School of Art and Art History
