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MODERN MEANS
A Graduate Student Symposium
Hosted by
The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,
Design, and Culture
38 West 86th Street, New York, New York
19 April 2002
9:30 a.m. -5:30 p.m.
What is the significance of the term modern when it seems to have
so many meanings? How does modern bridge the present with the
future, or the present with the past? How do societies image
modern in the things they design, build, market, and consume? Is
modern rational, whimsical, pragmatic or dogmatic, traditional, or
avant-garde?
The inaugural Graduate Symposium at The Bard Graduate Center will
address the various meanings of the concept of modern in an
interdisciplinary atmosphere encouraging critical discussion and
open dialogue. An international panel of student presenters has
been assembled with topics representing a diversity of approaches.
Anthony Vidler, Acting Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of
Architecture of The Cooper Union, New York City, and author of
such influential publications as The Architecture of the Uncanny:
Essays in the Modern Unhomely (M.I.T., 1992) and Warped Space:
Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (M.I.T., 2000)
will deliver the keynote address.
Presenters include:
John Stuart Gordon, The Bard Graduate Center
The Martini and Manhattan: Cocktail Shakers and American Modernism
Sarah Hoadley, University of Illinois
New Babylon and Mumford Good City Formularies for a Utopian Urbanism
Helena Kaberg, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Swedish Modern as a Sales Argument
Kimberly Jean Phillips, University of British Columbia, Canada
Looking for Berlin: Imaging the Modern in a Post-Unification
Landscape
Robin S. Schuldenfrei, Graduate School of Design, Harvard
University
Bauhutten in Weimar: Walter Gropius, Utopian Visions for Postwar
Germany, and a Retreat from Modernism
To attend this special event with complimentary admission, please
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