Research Institute for Humanities
& Social Sciences
Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis
The Power Institute
present
RICHARD
WOLLHEIM
Mills Professor of Philosophy
University of California at Berkeley
Understanding Life and Art
21, 22, 23 June 2001
University of Sydney
June 21: Art
(venue: Withdrawing Room, Holme Bld)
Richard Wollheim (abstract)
Terry Smith University of Sydney, Power Institute
(abstract)
Adrian Heathcote University of Sydney
(abstract)
June 22: Emotion
(venue: Badham Room, Holme Bld)
Richard Wollheim (abstract)
Paul Griffiths University of Pittsburgh
(abstract)
Paul Redding University of Sydney
(abstract)
June 23: Psychoanalysis
(venue: Withdrawing Room, Holme Bld)
Richard Wollheim (abstract)
Russell Grigg Deakin University
(abstract)
Tamas Pataki University of Melbourne
(abstract)
Three days of conference on Art, Emotion and Psychoanalysis. Each
morning session will feature a theme paper by Richard Wollheim (registration
from 10.00 am, Richard Wollheim's paper to commence at 10.45 am sharp).
Each afternoon session will feature theme papers by distinguished guests
and response by Richard Wollheim. All sessions include periods of
open discussion.
Richard Wollheim in Australia, by Lloyd Reinhardt
Richard Wollheim's publications include Art and its Objects (1968), On Art and the Mind (1973), Painting as an Art (1987) and On Painting and the Self (1992). On Drawing an Object was given as an Inaugural Lecture in 1965. He has published works on Freud, Hume and Adrian Stokes, as well as many reviews and papers for journals and anthologies. He was Grote Professor of Mind & Logic at the University of London from 1963 to 1982. He then took up the post of Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, and moved to the University of California at Berkeley in 1985 as Mills Professor of Philosophy. This year he becomes the Chair of the department. He has been Visiting Professor at Columbia University, Visva-Bharati University in India, the University of Minnesota, City University of New York, Harvard University, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Guelph and Washington University in St. Louis. In May 1997, the conference Art: Representation & Expression , in Utrecht, honoured 'his untiring efforts to do with aesthetics with his eyes open to art criticism and art history'.