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Graduate Humanities Forum
Sixth Annual
Conference
Visual
Dialogues
February 16-17, 2006
Program Highlights
Thursday, February 16
Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust
Walk
1:30p: Registration
2:00p: Welcome
2:15-3:15p
Session 1: Rethinking the Giants
Session 2: The Buying Game
3:30-5:00p
Session 3: Reading Buildings/Building Readings
Session 4: Words and Images in Motion: Liturgy, Devotion,
Dance
5:30p
Meyerson Hall Gallery, 3420
S. 34th Street
Art Exhibition and Reception
Friday, February 17, 9:30a-7:00p
Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust
Walk
10:00-11:15a
Session 5: Visualizing Literature
Session 6: Supplementary Icons/Complementary Words
11:30a-12:45p
Session 7: Constructing Communities
Session 8: Alternate Literacies
2:00-3:15p
Session 9: Voices in the Book: Visualizing Music, Speech,
and Meter
Session 10: Media and Mediation
3:30-5:00p
Session 11: Pictures of You: Photo, Text, Modernity
Session 12: Art and Ideas of the U.S.
5:30-7:00p (reception follows)
Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt Library
Keynote Address (public
invited)
Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein, and the Everyday
Michael Fried,
James R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities
Director, Humanities Center, and Professor, History of Art
Johns Hopkins University
A renowned author and art historian,
Michael Fried will consider the role of the everyday in Jeff
Wall's art, with particular reference to Wall's picture "Morning
Cleaning, Barcelona Pavilion" and a 1930 extract from
Wittgenstein's notes (from the volume "Culture and Value").
Fried began publishing texts (on Pollock and Stella among
others) as an art critic in the 1960s. Many of his writings
are now considered classics. Later he turned to the beginnings
of modern art, and his influential publications have affected
our understanding of modern painting. In his most recent project,
which again deals with a prevailing topic, Fried has directed
his attention to contemporary photography and to Jeff Wall
as its outstanding representative.
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