...and painting continues

…and painting continues

Friday 31 May 2024, University of Nottingham, Clive Granger A48

Convened by Will Atkin, Chloë Julius, Mark Rawlinson

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The persistence of painting is an art-historical conundrum, one that the Centre for Research in Visual Culture is considering throughout the academic year 2023-2024. Painting has survived many assaults, blows that – at the time – were deemed to be fatal. By tracking the continuity of painting in the face of these challenges we are as interested in exploring the possibilities posed by chemical and material innovations as we are the pressures of stylistic and transmedial shifts. Drawing on current scholarship on the time and temporalities of art and art history, this conference will capture the many ‘times’ contained and sustained within painting, taking on the temporalities involved in its production, display and reception, as well as those citational and allegorical references that pull individual paintings across time and space.

PROGRAMME

9.30 – 10.00 Teas and Coffees

10.00 – 10.05 Welcome Will Atkin, Chloë Julius, Mark Rawlinson)

10.05 - 10.15 Introduction (Will Atkin)

PANEL ONE: THE PERSISTENCE OF PAINTING SINCE 1900

10.15 - 10.35 Manet After Neoliberalism
Saul Nelson, University of Cambridge

10.35 - 10.55 What if I used Printing Press Like A Paintbrush? Helen Frankenthaler’s Painterly Perseverance
Cora Chalaby, University College London

10.55 – 11.15 Abstraction, Appropriation, & Representation in the paintings of William T. Williams
Christa Robbins, University of Virginia

11.15 – 12.00 Discussion

12.00 – 12.30 Curator’s Talk: Fiontan Moran on Mike Kelley’s Paintings

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 13.40 Introduction (Mark Rawlinson)

PANEL TWO: PAINTING AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY

13.40 – 14.00 Painting the Movie of Life: Rosalyn Drexler, Kathe Burkhart, and the Ambivalence of Appropriation
Beni Muhl, University of Fribourg

14.00 – 14.20 “Down with all this modern junk that takes thinking to understand”: Bringing Readers of Playboy Round to Abstract Painting
Jason Derouin, Carleton University

14.20 – 14.40 An ‘Exhilarating Tension’: Situating Paul Klee’s Facture and Materiality in the Painting versus Photography Debate
Charlotte Healy, The Art Institute of Chicago

14.40 – 15.15 Discussion

15.15 – 15.45 Teas and Coffees

15.45 – 15.55 Introduction (Chloë Julius)

PANEL THREE: PAINT, WRITE, REPEAT

15.55 – 16.15 Surrealism Africanus? Ellen Gallagher’s Black Fantastic, abstract art and the question of literature
Amna Malik, Independent art historian

16.15 – 16.35 Having Words with Painting: October contra Neoexpressionism
Matthew Bowman, University of Suffolk

16.35 – 16.55 Modes Under Investigation: Abstract Painting and Art Writing in France, c.1968.
Natalie Adamson, University of St. Andrews

16.55 – 17.30 Discussion

17.30 – 17.45 Plenary

17.45 – 18.30 Drinks Reception