Graduate Seminar: A Global Observatory of the Visual Arts in Cuba
New for summer 2008!
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July 14-August 2
H39.2955.001 * 4 points
Instructor: Annie Cohen-Solal
In the 1980s, a series of developments such as the Havana Biennale, led new, non-Western artists to the art market and challenged the U.S. domination of the visual arts scene. These shifts juxtaposed Western artists and other artists who were born in those countries that Jean-Paul Sartre once called "invisible cultures," that is, from the periphery of our Western cultural centers. From this a new map of the visual arts began to emerge, including the rise of Cuban artists on the international art market, thus shattering the long supremacy of western hegemony and giving way to an age of globalization in the art world. This graduate seminar examines the Cuban visual arts scene and its contribution in reorganizing the ecology of the art world in the twenty-first century, as well as the future of Cuban art in this context. The sociological and intercultural aspects of Cuban art are analyzed, including the conditions of production and the different types of actors (artists but also gallerists, curators, critics, collectors, etc) involved in the art world, and the role of the different actors in becoming efficient in the process of legitimization of the Cuban art on the international scene.
Note: This course is only open to NYU graduate students.
About Annie Cohen-Solal
Annie Cohen-Solal is a Professor at the University of Caen (American Studies), a Visiting Arts Professor at New York University (Tisch School of the Arts), and she is in charge of a seminar the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (Sociology of American art). She was born in Algeria, received a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne and taught at the Freie Universität in Berlin, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Paris XIII. After her Paul Nizan, communiste impossible, (Grasset, 1980), she published a biography of Sartre, Sartre 1905-1980 (Gallimard, 1985) which was translated into sixteen languages; the current American version, Sartre (The New Press, 2005) has been prefaced by Cornel West. On the occasion of Sartre's centennial, in 2005, Dr Cohen-Solal published: Sartre, un penseur pour le XXI° siècle (Gallimard, « Découvertes ») and Jean-Paul Sartre (PUF, « Que sais-je»), contributed articles in Dictionnaire Sartre (Champion, 2004), Sartre dans son siècle (BNF and Gallimard, 2005), lectured internationally. In Brazil, after meeting with Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, she was asked to create a Sartre Chair at the University of Brasilia.
From 1989 to 1993, Dr Cohen-Solal served as the Cultural Counselor to the French Embassy in the United States. Following her experience as a cultural diplomat, she published 'Un jour ils auront des peintres', l'avènement des peintres américains : Paris 1867-New York 1948, Gallimard, 2000, which received the Prix Bernier of the Académie Française. Painting American, the Rise of American Artists : Paris 1867-New-York 1948, Knopf, 2001, in the Netherlands and Italy. Subsequently, Dr. Cohen-Solal produced a radio series De Frederic Church à Jackson Pollock, la longue marche des peintres américains for France-Culture. In 2005-2006, as Fellow at the Pollock-Krasner Foundation at SUNY-Stony Brook, she has been conducting a research on the gallerist Leo Castelli, organizing a Symposium “From Abstract Expressionists to Magicians of the Earth, The New State of The Art World”. In 2007-2010, she will be organizing an Institute: An Observatory for the Global Visual Arts, in partnership between Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) and the EHESS-Paris.
Financial Aid
Financial Aid is available for NYU graduate students. For an application, please visit the Office of Financial Aid.
