The NYU German Department and Deutsches Haus at NYU present The Cover-Up: Contributions to a Political Iconography.
This conference was organized by Christine Landfried, Max Weber Professor of German and European Studies, NYU and Christopher Wood, Department of German, NYU.
“Political Iconography” is the ongoing research project of the pioneering art historian Martin Warnke. Already in the late 1960s Warnke conceived a “new art history” alert to concealed ideological content, the historicity of aesthetic value, and the power of images. Building on his pioneering studies of the social tensions and economic realities that conditioned the construction of the Gothic cathedrals ( Bau und Überbau, 1976) and the relation of political sovereignty to artistic creativity ( Der Hofkünstler, 1985), Warnke developed a new way of reading works of art.
Political Iconography might be said to extend a basic momentum of modernity in the sense that it formalizes as an art historical hermeneutic a skeptical attitude toward the self-representation of authority, an attitude first defined by the Enlightenment critique of the insignia, triumphs, spectacles, and icons that sustained the governing institutions of the ancien régime.
This conference brings together art historians, including some who worked with Warnke, and scholars of political science and law to recognize Warnke’s achievement and mark out new paths in the hermeneutics of art and image. The rubric “cover-up,” a prompt for the participants, alludes to the basic operations of sleuthing and unmasking that drive any study of the politics of the image.
Speakers: Claire Bishop, Diane Bodart, John Curley, Dennis Curtis, Nilüfer Göle, Romy Golan, Boris Groys, Sylvia Houghteling, Evonne Levy, Judith Resnik, Marvin Trachtenberg, Monika Wagner, Ittai Weinryb
Events at Deutsches Haus are free and open to the public. If you would like to attend this event, please send an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. As space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event to ensure you get a good seat. Thank you!
Thursday, May 5th
2.00-2.30 Christopher Wood: Welcome and introduction
2.30-4.00 Christine Landfried, “ The Cover-Up of Picasso’s Guernica in the United Nations”
Romy Golan, “ Let’s Talk a Bit about Exhibitions”
4.00-4.30 coffee break
4.30-6.45 Evonne Levy, “ Propaganda Images, Hiding in Plain Sight”
Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center, New York, “ Throning: Political Iconography, Political Theology and Beyond”
Monika Wagner, “ Red Granite in China: Reconciliation of Politics and Commerce”
Friday, May 6th
10.00-11.30 Sylvia Houghteling, “ The Telltale Textile in Mughal India”
Nilüfer Göle, “ Visual Art and Controversies around Islam in Europe”
11.30-11.45 break
11.45-1.15 Boris Groys, “ Installation as Political Prison: Alphonse Laurencic in Barcelona”
Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis, “ Representations and Abstractions: Identity, Politics, and Rights”
1.15-2.30 lunch
2.30-4.00 Marvin Trachtenberg, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, “ Unmasking Renaissance Urbanism”
Diane Bodart, “ Triumph and Infamy: Serpotta’s monument of Charles II in Messina”
4.00-4.30 coffee break
4.30-6.00 Jay Curley, “ Gerhard Richter’s Cold War Conspiracies”
Claire Bishop, “ Christoph Schlingensief and Political Undecidability”
Events at Deutsches Haus are free and open to the public. If you would like to attend this event, please send an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. As space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event to ensure you get a good seat. Thank you!
" The Cover-Up: Contributions to a Political Iconography" is a DAAD-sponsored event.
This conference was organized by Christine Landfried, Max Weber Professor of German and European Studies, NYU and Christopher Wood, Department of German, NYU.
“Political Iconography” is the ongoing research project of the pioneering art historian Martin Warnke. Already in the late 1960s Warnke conceived a “new art history” alert to concealed ideological content, the historicity of aesthetic value, and the power of images. Building on his pioneering studies of the social tensions and economic realities that conditioned the construction of the Gothic cathedrals ( Bau und Überbau, 1976) and the relation of political sovereignty to artistic creativity ( Der Hofkünstler, 1985), Warnke developed a new way of reading works of art.
Political Iconography might be said to extend a basic momentum of modernity in the sense that it formalizes as an art historical hermeneutic a skeptical attitude toward the self-representation of authority, an attitude first defined by the Enlightenment critique of the insignia, triumphs, spectacles, and icons that sustained the governing institutions of the ancien régime.
This conference brings together art historians, including some who worked with Warnke, and scholars of political science and law to recognize Warnke’s achievement and mark out new paths in the hermeneutics of art and image. The rubric “cover-up,” a prompt for the participants, alludes to the basic operations of sleuthing and unmasking that drive any study of the politics of the image.
Speakers: Claire Bishop, Diane Bodart, John Curley, Dennis Curtis, Nilüfer Göle, Romy Golan, Boris Groys, Sylvia Houghteling, Evonne Levy, Judith Resnik, Marvin Trachtenberg, Monika Wagner, Ittai Weinryb
Events at Deutsches Haus are free and open to the public. If you would like to attend this event, please send an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. As space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event to ensure you get a good seat. Thank you!
Thursday, May 5th
2.00-2.30 Christopher Wood: Welcome and introduction
2.30-4.00 Christine Landfried, “ The Cover-Up of Picasso’s Guernica in the United Nations”
Romy Golan, “ Let’s Talk a Bit about Exhibitions”
4.00-4.30 coffee break
4.30-6.45 Evonne Levy, “ Propaganda Images, Hiding in Plain Sight”
Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center, New York, “ Throning: Political Iconography, Political Theology and Beyond”
Monika Wagner, “ Red Granite in China: Reconciliation of Politics and Commerce”
Friday, May 6th
10.00-11.30 Sylvia Houghteling, “ The Telltale Textile in Mughal India”
Nilüfer Göle, “ Visual Art and Controversies around Islam in Europe”
11.30-11.45 break
11.45-1.15 Boris Groys, “ Installation as Political Prison: Alphonse Laurencic in Barcelona”
Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis, “ Representations and Abstractions: Identity, Politics, and Rights”
1.15-2.30 lunch
2.30-4.00 Marvin Trachtenberg, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, “ Unmasking Renaissance Urbanism”
Diane Bodart, “ Triumph and Infamy: Serpotta’s monument of Charles II in Messina”
4.00-4.30 coffee break
4.30-6.00 Jay Curley, “ Gerhard Richter’s Cold War Conspiracies”
Claire Bishop, “ Christoph Schlingensief and Political Undecidability”
Events at Deutsches Haus are free and open to the public. If you would like to attend this event, please send an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. As space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event to ensure you get a good seat. Thank you!
" The Cover-Up: Contributions to a Political Iconography" is a DAAD-sponsored event.