Round Table on Modern Art

 

The Western Round Table on Modern Art.

San Francisco, April 8, 9 and 10, 1949.

The object of the Round Table was to bring a representation of the best informed opinion of the time to bear on questions about art today (1949). 

with  George Boas (Moderator): philosopher; John Hopkins University; Trustee, Baltimore Museum of Art. Gregory Bateson: cultural anthropologist, lecturer, authority on Bali and New Guinea. Kenneth Burke: literary critic, philosopher, novelist. Marcel Duchamp: artist. Alfred Frankenstein: critic; music and art editor, San Francisco Chronicle. Robert Goldwater: critic and art historian; Associate Professor of Art, Queens College. Darius Milhaud: composer and conductor. Andrew C. Richie: art historian and critic. Mark Tobey: artist. Frank Lloyd Wright: architect &  Arnold Schönberg: composer.

 

Marcel Duchamp & Gregory Bateson

 

Three sessions were scheduled for the first two days; an unscheduled fourth session was added the third day at the request of some participants. The second session was open by invitation to the public and to members of the San Francisco Art Association; the three other sessions were closed.

 

recordings,  images  &  transcript

Schönberg was unable to participate in the round table discussion, and instead recorded part of his contribution on his Webster Wire Recorder.

 

thanks to UBU web for these documents

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