Conference "Rethinking Malevich." Preliminary program.

[The Malevich Society]

Dear colleagues,

Please, find below a preliminary program for the conference “Rethinking
Malevich.”

The conference “Rethinking Malevich,” organized by The Malevich Society in
celebration of the 125th anniversary of Kazimir Malevich’s birth, will be
held on Friday and Saturday February 6-7, 2004, in the Elebash Recital Hall
of The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New
York, located at 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street in New York City.

Preliminary registration will be available via mail one month prior to the
conference.

Presentations will be 30 minutes each. Abstracts of the presentations are
available on The Malevich Society’s web-site at www.malevichsociety.org


PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM

FRIDAY, February 6, 2004

Registration
9:30 am – 10:00 am

MORNING SESSION
10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Charlotte Douglas, President of the Malevich Society
Introduction

John Bowlt, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
Kazimir Malevich and Fedor Rerberg

Irina Vakar, The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Malevich and Ortega y Gassett on the New Art

Discussion

Coffee Break

Tatiana Mikhienko, The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Malevich on Picasso

Pamela Kachurin, Davis Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
Malevich as Soviet Bureaucrat: Ginkhuk and the Survival of the Avant-Garde
1923-1926

Discussion


LUNCH BREAK
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm



AFTERNOON SESSION
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Elena Basner, Independent scholar, St.-Petersburg, Russia
The Early Work of Malevich and Kandinsky: A Comparative Analysis

Natalia Avtonomova, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Malevich and Kandinsky: The Post-Virtual Choices

Discussion

Short Break

Tatiana Goriacheva, The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Suprematism and Constructivism: The Intersection of Parallels

Linda Boersma, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Malevich and the Dutch ‘Style’ Movement

Discussion



SATURDAY, February 7, 2004

MORNING SESSION
11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Christina Lodder, Vice-President of The Malevich Society
Introduction

Miroslava Mudrak, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
Malevich and his Ukrainian Contemporaries

Adrian Barr, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
>From ‘Vozbuzhdenie’ to ‘Oschushchenie’: Theoretical Shifts, ‘Nova
Generatsiya’, and the Late Paintings

Konstantin Akinsha, Independent Scholar, Washington, DC, United States
The Funeral of the Revolution

Discussion


LUNCH BREAK
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm



AFTERNOON SESSION
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

James Lawrence, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
False Positives: Malevich, MoMA and Minimalism

Eva Forgacs, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, United States
Malevich and Western Modernism

Discussion

Short Break

Irina Karasik, The State Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg, Russia
Extending Malevich: Malevich as a Subject in Russian Art after WWII

Alexandra Shatskikh, Independent Scholar, Moscow, Russia
Features of Kazimir Malevich’s Literary Legacy: a Summary

Discussion


RECEPTION
5 pm – 6 pm

Reception will be held in the lobby of Elebash Recital Hall of The Graduate
School and University Center of the City University of New York

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