A Symposium on the History of Art 2007
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.
Presented by The Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University
Friday, April 20 & Saturday, April 21, 2007
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
at the Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, New York
Thomas Quick presiding
3:00
Welcome: Mariët Westermann, Director, Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University
3:10
Kourotrophos: Hermes and Dionysos to the Virgin and Child
Elizabeth Kessler, Princeton University
3:30
The Portrayal of Egypt at the Sydenham Crystal Palace
Alexis Goodin, Brown University
3:50
Revisioning a Tibetan-Buddhist Temple
Melissa R. Kerin, University of Pennsylvania
4:10
History and Myth: Reading Śrirangam’s “Past” in Its Contemporary Spatiality and Historical Representations
Shriya Sridharan, Binghamton University
Intermission
Derek Weiler presiding
5:00
Pastoral America: Physiognomy and Degeneracy in Agrarian Tropes of Democracy
Nicole Casi, Cornell University
5:20
The Demand for Visual Authority: Fernando de Szyszlo and the Problem of “Peruanidad”
Luis Castañeda, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
5:40
Matisse and Byzantium, or Mechanization Takes Command
David Lewis, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
6:00
“Nothing if not of the Moment”: Confronting Claude Cahun, Encountering History
Claire L. Sykes, University of Rochester
No one will be seated once a lecture has begun.
Refreshments will be served after the lectures.
Saturday Morning
at The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, New York
Kristel Smentek presiding
9:30
Coffee will be served in the Garden Court.
10:00
Welcome: Anne Litle Poulet, Director, The Frick Collection
10:10
About Time: On the Denial of Narrative in the Battle Mural at Cacaxtla
Claudia Brittenham, Yale University
10:30
From Father Time to Measured Time: Clocks in Eighteenth-Century France
Amy Sande-Friedman, The Bard Graduate Center
10:50
A Clementine Conceit: Papal Intention and Sacred Decoration in St. Peter’s
Erin Benay, Rutgers University
11:10
The Great Executive Dream: George Maciunas, Adriano Olivetti and Fluxus Incorporated
Mari Dumett, Boston University
Intermission
Christina Neilson presiding
11:45
The Delusion of Delight: Melancholy in the Work of Bosch
Anna Ratner, Columbia University
12:05
Rembrandt’s Samson and Delilah: A Study of Intimated Interiors
Rima Girnius, Bryn Mawr College
12:25
“This artist has a poetic verve”: Pierre-Paul Prud’hon at the Salon of 1808
Elizabeth M. Rudy, Harvard University
For more information on these programs, contact education@frick.org.
For the 2006 symposium schedule, follow this link. |
