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Submitted by: Keith Holz
HOLZK@centum.utulsa.edu
ARTISTS FROM NAZI GERMANY AND THE ENIGMA OF EXILE
Saturday, April 12, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 13, 9 a.m-
1:30 p.m.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - The Leo S. Bing Theater
Admission: $50 for both days; $34 for Saturday only $18 for
Sunday only
For tickets please call 213-857-6010
The symposium was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art with the collaboration of the Villa Aurora in conjunction
with the exhibition Exiles and Emigres: The Flight of European
Artists from Hitler
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Saturday, April 12, 9 a.m -12 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Comments
Stephanie Barron, exhibition curator, senior curator of twentieth
century art, and vice president for education and public
programs, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Volker Skierka, chair of the board of directors, Villa Aurora,
Foundation for European-American Relations, Pacific Palisades and
Berlin
Questions of Exile
Keith Holz, symposium organizer, moderator and assistant
professor of art history, University of Tulsa
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Session 1
German Exile Studies in Academe:
National Historiographies and Current International Perspectives
Chair & respondent: Martin Jay, professor of history, University
of California-Berkeley
Papers in this session assess the historiography of exile from
Nazi Germany as produced East and West Germany before the 1989
unification, France, and the United States. Scholars from a
variety of disciplines--art history, literary criticism, politi-
cal and social science, and philosophy) explore developments in
the postwar study of this emigration. The authors examine
specific cases and shifting paradigms in exile scholarship within
a variety of postwar contexts, including politics, institutional
receptivity, and changing national policies and public opinion
regarding late-twentieth-century migrations.
On the History of Art Historical Exile Research
Jutta Held, professor of art history, Universitat Osnabruck,
founder of the Guernica-Gesellschaft
A Moveable Myth: German Literary Exile in the U.S. as a Topic of
Scholarship
Frank Trommler, professor of german and comparative literature,
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of
Pennsylvania
The Changing Legacy of the Emigre Social and Political Scientists
Alfons Sollner, professor of political theory and the history of
ideas, and vice president of the Technische Universitat Chemnitz-
Zwickau
Exiled German Philosophers in France: their Reception and
Institutionalization since 1945
Daniel Azuelos, assistant professor, Department of German
Studies, Universite de Caen
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Saturday, April 12, 1997, 2 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Session 2
Artists from Nazi Germany in Exile: Comparative Geographies
Chair and respondent: Romy Golan, associate professor of art
history, Yale University
Art historical case studies are presented to address the situa-
tions exile artists, designers, architects, critics, and art
institutions from Nazi Germany in the metropolitan centers of
Paris, Amsterdam, London, New York, and Chicago. In what ways
did exile enter the visual imagination and its material
manifestations? How well do traditional perspectives and inter-
pretive models (e.g. anti-fascism, acculturation, assimilation,
influence, biography, modernist negation, resistance, etc.) still
adequately characterize the dynamics of exile within specific
visual arts practices and interactions? In what ways might con-
cepts and categories such as the foreigner, gender, race,
domesticity, and nation be utilized to better illuminate exilic
visual cultural productions and practices?
False Refuge: Exiled Women Artists in France
Karen Fiss, assistant professor of art history, Department of Art
History and Archeology, Washington University, Saint Louis
Paul Westheim en exil en France et la rubrique artistique du
Pariser Tageblatt / Pariser Tageszeitung (in French with
simultaneous translation)
Helene Roussel, professor of German, Universite Paris VIII
Paul Citroen and the New Art School: The Bauhaus in Amsterdam
1933-1939
Gerard Forde, free-lance curator and writer, London and Rotterdam
Design in Central-European London: interactions between Emigres
and Natives in the 1940s
Robin Kinross, typographer, publisher, design historian, London
and Amsterdam
Moholy-Nagy's Bauhaus in Chicago and the Metaphor of the Graft
Alain Findeli, associate professor of design and design theory,
Universite de Montreal
Between Emigration and Exile: George Grosz in New York
Barbara McCloskey, assistant professor of modern art, University
of Pittsburgh
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Sunday, April 13, 9 a.m - 12 p.m.
Session Three: New Approaches to the Study of Exile
Chair & Respondent: Anton Kaes, professor of German and film
studies, University of California, Berkeley
Scholars in this section explore ways in which the experience of
exile can be described, evaluated, and studied beyond the
biographical dimension. New impulses from psychoanalysis, criti-
cal theory, and postcolonial discourse are examined and recent
analytical approaches to the concepts of diaspora, migrancy, and
national and cultural identity are tested. The convergence of
the condition of exile with issues of gender, ethnicity, race,
loss, memory, home, and nation and their configurations in lan-
guage and history emerge as key areas to recast the study of
exile culture. What does "being at home" mean in a multicultural
society? How do we negotiate our various identities? By compar-
ing and contrasting various forms of displacement we might be
able to shed new light on the experiences of exiles and emigres
in the 1930s and 1940s.
Exiles, Diasporas, and Public Spheres: African-American Writers
in Paris after World War II
Lloyd S. Kramer, associate professor of history & member of
Program for Social Theory and Cross-Cultural Studies, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Moving On--Migration and the Intertextuality of Trauma
Irit Rogoff, professor of visual culture, University of
California, Davis
Virtual Homelands
Elisabeth Bronfen, professor of English, Universitat Zurich
A Stranger in the House: The uncanny proximity of domesticity
and exile
Iain Chambers, pofessor of the history of English culture,
Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples
The Exile Optique
Hamid Naficy, associate professor of media studies, Rice
University, Houston
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GENERAL DISCUSSION: Sunday, 12 - 1:30 p.m.
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