ART IN BATTLE

Organised by KODE (Bergen Art Museum) and the University of Bergen Bergen, Norway, 14-16 August 2014

An international research conference about art, ideology and politics.

The Tower Room, KODE 4

 

What battles were fought over art in Nazi Germany, 1933'1945?

How did artists respond to the Nazi regime?

How was art used as propaganda during the German occupation in Norway?

ART IN BATTLE takes as its starting-point the exhibition, ‘Kunst og ukunst’ ['Art and non-art'] in Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen in 1942'43. It was modelled on two different types of official art shows in National Socialist Germany: The annual ‘Great German Art’ exhibitions from 1937 on, and the exhibition ‘Entartete Kunst’ in Munich in 1937 and 1938. These exhibitions showcased official ideology under Hitler and were the principal manifestations of a well-organised policy that could deploy art as a political instrument from the centre of the Reich to its peripheries. By examining connections between ideology, politics and artistic expressions in these concrete manifestations, the conference looks at how art can function in different ways in a contemporary context, and how art is written into or excluded from history.

 

Speakers

Line Daatland – KODE; Gregory Maertz – St. John’s University, New York; Erik Tonning, University of Bergen; James Van Dyke, University of Missouri; Peter Chametzky, University of South Carolina; Christian Fuhrmeister, Zentralinstitut f r Kunstgeschichte, M nchen; Terje Emberland, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religios Minorities, University of Oslo; Despina Stratigakos, University of Buffalo; Anita Kongssund, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design; Dag Solhjell, Art Sociologist, Dr. Philos; Eirik Vassenden, University of Bergen

Matthew Feldman, Teesside University

 

Please use the form to register. Lunch and refreshments included.

Day tickets: NOK 250

Full conference ticket: NOK 700

Register by: August 11, 2014.

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