Quote: 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). A set of neat conclusions, as to the outcome of the conference, was neither expected nor desired. Rather, it was hoped that progress would be made in the exposure of hidden assumptions, in the uprooting of obsolete ideas, and in the framing of new questions.
You notice both Frank Lloyd Wright and Marcel Duchamp both seated there? Check out UBUweb’s full abstract of the proceedings including transcripts, recordings and images, here.