Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962 (on view at the Morgan until January 2), this symposium will explore issues related to drawing in the work of Dubuffet and his contemporaries in Europe during the postwar decades.
Friday, October 28, 1:30–5:30 pm
1:30 pm
Introduction
Isabelle Dervaux, Acquavella Curator of Modern & Contemporary Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum
1:45 pm
Dubuffet, Luquet, and "Intellectual Realism”
Hal Foster, Townsend Martin Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
2:15 pm
Cacography: Drawing without Light
Rachel E. Perry, Lecturer, Haifa University; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2:45 pm
'Picture-writing'— Öyvind Fahlström’s ‘Opera’
Maibritt Borgen, Doctoral candidate, Department of Art History, Yale University
3:15 pm
Coffee break
3:45 pm
Dubuffet / Deleuze: Métromanie, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Sarah Wilson, Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art
4:15 pm
Drawing from Scratch: Dubuffet, Artaud, Michaux, and Wols
Isabelle Dervaux, Acquavella Curator of Modern & Contemporary Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum
4:45 pm
Tracing Figure: Asger Jorn’s 1940s Drawings
Niels Henriksen, Doctoral candidate, Department of Art and Archeology, Princeton University
The exhibition Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962 will be open for program attendees during museum hours, 10:30 am–9 pm.
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985). Le Metro, March 1943, gouache CNAC/MNAM. Dist. RMN- Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photography by Philippe Migeat.