A Symposium on the History of Art 2008
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 11 & Saturday, April 12, 2008
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
At the Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, New York
Mariska Gatha presiding
3:00
Welcome: Mariët Westermann, Director, Institute of Fine Arts
New York University
3:10
Video Loops: Rethinking Narcissism in Video Practice
Jeremy Culler, Binghamton University
3:30
Invoking Charlie Chan: Basquiat’s Hornplayers as an Imprint of
Racial Tensions
Kenneth Hartvigsen, Boston University
3:50
“Traditional— Compositional, Pictorial, and Hierarchical”: Rasheed Araeen’s Search for the Conceptual and the Political in British Sculpture
Courtney J. Martin, Yale University
4:10
4-Dimensional Crystals: Paul Sharits’s Flicker Films
William Smith, New York University
Intermission
Elisabeth Williams presiding
5:00
Constructing Amerika: The Role of Photography in Erich Mendelsohn’s Photo Books
John P. Casey, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
5:20
Swastikas and Soap: Silvia Gruner’s The Birth of Venus
Jessica Horton, University of Rochester
5:40
Radical Reform and the Modern School in 1930s Mexico City
Kathryn E. O’Rourke, University of Pennsylvania
6:00
Reinventing Tradition in Japanese Architecture: Katsura (1960), a photographic collaboration by Ishimoto Yasuhiro and Tange Kenzo
Yasufumi Nakamori, Cornell University
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
Christina Neilson presiding
9:30
Coffee will be served in the Garden Court.
10:00
Welcome: Anne L. Poulet, Director, The Frick Collection
10:10
Ivory Women in the Neo-Assyrian Royal Court
Amy Gansell, Harvard University
10:30
Interior Motives: The Virgin abridera in the Iberian Peninsula
Melissa R. Katz, Brown University
10:50
A “Touching” Image: Andrea Mantegna’s Engraving of the Virgin and Child
Susannah Fisher, Rutgers University
11:10
Giovanni Bellini: The Sacred Dawn
Susannah Rutherglen, Princeton University
Intermission
Charlotte Vignon presiding
11:45
A Study in Temporality: The Role of the Vladimir Mother of God with Feasts and Saints in the Rise of Sixteenth-Century Muscovy
Marie E. Gasper-Hulvat, Bryn Mawr College
12:05
The Tyranny of Usage and Claude Perrault’s Architectural Theory
Carolyn Yerkes, Columbia University
12:25
Readings and Misreadings: The William Morris Circle and The Prioress's Tale Wardrobe
Allison Stielau, The Bard Graduate Center
For more information on these programs, contact education@frick.org.
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