A Symposium on the History of Art
For more than half a century, The Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University have hosted a symposium for graduate students in art history. The symposium offers doctoral candidates in art history the opportunity to deliver papers of original research in a public forum and to engage with colleagues in the field — novice and expert.
Friday, April 3 & Saturday, April 4, 2009
Presented by The Frick Collection
and the Institute of Fine Arts
of New York University
All graduate students in the history of art, faculty members, and museum staff members are cordially invited to attend. No reservations are necessary.
Friday Afternoon (April 3)
at the Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, New York
Sarah Humphrey presiding
3:00
Welcome: Michele D. Marincola, Interim Director, Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University
3:10
The Photographic Reproduction of Space: Wölfflin, Kracauer, Panofsky
Megan R. Luke, Harvard University
3:30
“What’s in a Name?”: Photography, Nomenclature, and the Reconfiguration of Visual Truth, 1840-1911
Yi Gu, Brown University
3:50
Without Medium: A Consideration of Loss via Thomas Demand
Carrie Robbins, Bryn Mawr College
4:10
Reproducing Gérôme
Emerson Bowyer, Columbia University
Intermission
Grace Dingledine presiding
5:00
John Cage’s Vexations: A Long, Long, Long Night (and Day)
Clare Davies, New York University
5:20
White Walls, High Culture: Yves Klein and André Malraux in late ’50s Paris
Godfre Leung, University of Rochester
5:40
A Living Museum: Nationalizing Bodies in Niger
Amanda Gilvin, Cornell University
6:00
Against the Tide: Edward Hopper’s Rooms by the Sea and Abstract Expressionism
Mary Dailey Pattee, Yale University
No one will be seated once a lecture has begun.
Refreshments will be served after the lectures.
Saturday Morning (April 4)
at The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, New York
Pablo Pérez d’Ors presiding
9:30
Coffee will be served in the Garden Court.
10:00
Welcome: Anne Litle Poulet, Director, The Frick Collection
10:10
Cigoli’s Color and the Revival of Andrea del Sarto
Lisa Bourla, University of Pennsylvania
10:30
Parallel Lives: Mantegna’s Exemplars and the Limits of Imitation
Francis Fletcher, Rutgers University
10:50
Piranesi as Interpreter of the Renaissance
Johanna D. Heinrichs, Princeton University
11:10
The Restoration of Antoine-Jean Gros: Mythology in Bacchus and Ariadne
Katie Hanson, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Intermission
Charlotte Vignon presiding
11:45
Mario Praz, an Art Historian at Home: Collecting, the Romantic Interior, and the Domestication of the Sublime
Shax Riegler, The Bard Graduate Center
12:05
From Redemption to Rehabilitation: Hansel Mieth, LIFE Magazine, and the Transformation of Twentieth-Century Maternity Homes
Dalia Habib Linssen, Boston University
12:25
The Modern House in Question: Gender, Domesticity, and the Making of a Lower-Middle-Class Residential Culture in 1930s Ankara
Kivanc Kilinc, Binghamton University
For more information on these programs, contact education@frick.org. |
