Symposium

Re-evaluating New Objectivity and August Sander

Name: Re-evaluating New Objectivity and August Sander - International symposium
Start: 2022-05-12
End: 2022-05-13

International symposium

12 - 13 May 2022

Related to Berlin, nos années 20

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This international symposium is organised in the context of a partnership between the Centre Pompidou and the Max Weber Foundation – a German centre for art history, with the support of the ComUE University Paris Lumières (UPL). It forms part of the programme around the exhibition entitled "Germany / 20s / New Objectivity / August Sander".

The symposium brings together both new and experienced international researchers from diverse horizons. It completes the exhibition by dealing with original topics and developing some of them in depth with four panels: definition of the neo-objective aesthetic, questions of reception, political ideologies and new insights into Weimar society will structure these two days. In conclusion, a conference with contemporary artists Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann will explore the importance of the Cologne Progressives for current creation.

Program

Thursday 12 mai in the German Centre for Art History

14h-14h30
Accueil et mot d’introduction

Session : L’esthétique néo-objective

Modération : Florian Ebner

14h30-15h
« Inconscient optique » : histoire, enjeux, actualité d'un concept

Antonio Somaini (université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3)

15h00-15h30
Existe-t-il une photographie néo-objective ?
Christian Joschke (École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris)

15h30-16h
Le groupe des Progressistes face à la Nouvelle Objectivité
Anastasia Simoniello (Institut catholique de Paris / Panthéon-Sorbonne) 

16h-16h30 : Discussion

16h30-17h : Pause

Session : Questions de réception

Modération : Sophie Goetzmann

17h00-17h30
De l’exposition de Mannheim aux Réalismes (1981) : pistes pour une réception française de la Nouvelle Objectivité
Marie Gispert (université Paris 1) 

17h30-18h
Un paradigme photographique et ses échos lointains. Partage d'héritage dans la postérité internationale d’August Sander
Wolfgang Brückle (université de Lucerne)

18h00-18h30: Discussion

Friday 13 May in the Centre Pompidou

Session : Idéologies politiques

Modération : Angela Lampe et Florian Ebner

11h-11h30
Das Neue Frankfurt, des rives du Main à celles de la Volga
Jean-Louis Cohen (New York University) 

11h30-12h
The New Objectivity and National Socialism
James van Dyke (University of Missouri)

12h-12h30
Sander, Stände, Sociology: New Objectivity Beyond Socio-economic Classes and Political Parties
Noam M. Elcott (Columbia University, New York)

12h30-13h : Discussion

Session : Nouveaux regards sur la société de Weimar

Modération : Angela Lampe

14h-14h30
The New Woman of Weimar Germany - social fact and media fiction
Patrick Rössler (Universität Erfurt) 

14h30-15h
Fashion, Photography and Celebrity Culture in two Portraits by Otto Dix
Anne Reimers (University for the Creative Arts – London College of Fashion) 

15h-15h45 : Discussion et pause

15h45-16h15
Subjects as Objects: race, representation and Neue Sachlichkeit
Dorothy Price (Courtauld Institute) 

16h15-16h45
“We are here”: Neue Sachlichkeit, Erotic Print Culture and Queer Identity Histories
Camilla Smith (University of Birmingham) 

16h45-17h30 : Discussion et pause

17h30-18h30
Updating the Atlas. On the Relevance of Gerd Arntz' and Otto Neurath's "Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft. Bildstatistisches Elementarwerk" today

Alice Creischer et Andreas Siekmann