Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM

ART HISTORY OPEN SESSION: The Study of Drawings, Europe, 1300–1700, Part I

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Carmen C. Bambach, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pietro da Cortona's Corpus of Drawings after the Antique

Jorg Martin Merz, Universität Wien


Cornelis Dusart’s Use of Copying Within His Own Corpus

Susan Anderson


Correggio or Rondani: On the Attribution of Drawings and Its Significance

Mary Vaccaro, University of Texas, Arlington


Paolo Veronese and Drawing Practice in Renaissance Verona

Diana Gisolfi, Pratt Institute


From Design to Disegno: Drawing Modes in the Work of Friedrich Sustris

Susan Maxwell, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh


The Place of Drawings in the Art Patronage of Giulio de’ Medici (Pope Clement VII)

Sheryl E. Reiss, University of California, Riverside


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Collaboration and Participation in Design Practice and Education

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: John Bowers, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Karen White, University of Arizona

Sticks & Stones: A Collaborative Exchange Examining Labeling and Stereotyping

Pamela A. Beverly, University of Colorado, Boulder


Collaborative Methods and Strategies: A Case Study in Community Awareness

Andrea Marks, Oregon State University; Muneera U. Spence, Virginia Commonwealth University


The New Designers: Enabling Identity, Building Community

Thomas Hapgood, University of Arkansas


Transformation: Moving from Cooperative to Collaborative Learning in Design Education

Kelly Leslie, University of Arizona


“The Mangle of Practice”: Assemblages of Design, Structure, History, and Nauture

Dawn Hachenski, James Madison University


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Italia barbara: “Primitives” from Piero to Pasolini, Part I

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Emily Braun, Hunter College, Graduate Center, City University of New York; Michelangelo Sabatino, University of Houston

The Other Africa

Vivien Greene, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum


Waiting for the Barbarians: The Futurist Myth of African Primitivism

Lucia Re, University of California, Los Angeles


Longhi, Venturi, and the Italian Primitives

Andrée Hayum, Fordham University


Italia barbara al feminile: Anna Magnani and the Experience of the “Primitive Within”

Sharon Hecker, independent scholar, Milan


Turning Backward and Inward: Appropriations of the Vernacular in the Neighborhoods of Ina-Casa

Stephanie Pilat, University of Michigan


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China’s Bronze Age Art and Systems of Belief

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, Old Dominion University

Origins of Masking in Bronze Age China

Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, Old Dominion University


Context and Significance of Sanxingdui Bronze Masks

Kimberley Te Winkle, Institute of Archaeology, University College, London


Safeguarding/Masking the Deceased in Late Bronze Age China

Susan N. Erickson, University of Michigan, Dearborn


Antlered Tomb Monsters of the Chu

Cortney E. Chaffin, University of Pennsylvania


Discussant: Nancy Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania


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Painting in relation to Photography: Historical Perspectives from Current Practitioners

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: David Cohen, New York Studio School; artcritical.com

Susanna Coffey


Marilyn Minter


Ena Swansea


Alexi Worth


John Zinsser


Discussant: Stephen Maine


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Artists' Residencies/World-Wide Opportunities

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Elizabeth Conner; Caitlin Strokosch, Alliance of Artists Communities

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Dialectics of Mendicant Art in Europe, Latin America, and Africa

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Delia Cosentino, DePaul University; Justine Andrews, University of New Mexico

Dialogue or Polemic? The Case of the Kalenderhane Fresco of St. Francis

Paroma Chatterjee, University of Chicago


Mendicant Art for Private Devotion: The Paradoxes of a 15th-Century Case Study

Margaret Hadley


Discourse and Discord: The Colonial Interpretations of the Genealogical Imagery at Santiago Apostol in Cuilapan, Mexico

Sara Taylor


Sebastian and the Chichimecas: Franciscan Images of Concordia in the Utopian Landscape

Julie Shean


Images, Catechism, and the Shaping of Doctrine: Capuchin Missionary Methods and the Making of Kongo Christianity in Early Modern Central Africa

Cecile Fromont


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Reframing Modernism

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Robert S. Lubar, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Restaging Modernism

Jenny Anger, Grinell University


Modernizing Without Modernism: Asger Jorn's Modifications

Karen Kurczynski, Museum of Modern Art


Is Realism “Just” Kitsch? Realist Practice as Avant-Garde in Early 20th-Century China

Francesca Dal Lago, Leiden University


Georges Bataille and the Limits of Modernism

Raymond Spiteri, Victoria University of Wellington


Retooling Constructivism into Constructivity: The Transformations of Modernism in Early Stalinist Russia

Juan Ledezma, Columbia University


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Artists’ Periodicals: 1945–1990

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Stephen E. Perkins, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Azimuth, Zero, and the Network: Rethinking Communication and Consumption

Stephen Petersen, University of Pennsylvania


Akasegawa Genpei’s Print Intervention: The Sakura Illustrated (1970–71)

Reiko Tomii, independent scholar, New York


The Art Magazine as New Media: Aspen, 1965–1971

Gwen Allen, Maine College of Art


The Flight Into Reality: Dé-coll/age and Its Artists, 1962–69

Benjamin Lima, Yale University


Think of This Magazine as a Nonmagazine: The Bay Area Dadaists’ Dadazines

Emily Hage, Philadelphia Museum of Art


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Do No Harm: The Role of the Curator

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Steven Rand, apexart

Elizabeth Schlatter, University Museums, University of Richmond


Olga Kopenkina, independent curator, Brooklyn


Joshua Decter, independent curator and critic, New York


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Designing a Foundation Program for the 21st Century

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Stuart Steck, Art Institute of Boston; Arlene Grossman, Art Institute of Boston

The Baby and the Bathwater: Developing a Foundations Curriculum for a Pluralistic Era

Sherry Stone Clifton, Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University


Taming the Beast: Bridging Critical Theory with Studio Art

Kelly Phillips, Emily Carr Institute


Can’t We Just Be Artists?

David Kamm, Luther College


Rethinking Foundations: From Start to Finish

Mary Stewart, Northern Illinois University


Drawing and Design in the Digital Age; or, Adding the Two-Button Wireless Mouse to Your Tool Box

Peet Cocke, Cuesta College


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Iconography of War in Ancient Greece and Rome

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Katherine Welch, New York University

Cavalry and Cult in Early Greece

Erin Walcek Averett, University of Missouri, Columbia


The Roman Fornix: Development of a Triumphal Monument

Anne Hrychuk, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


The Severan Battle Frieze of Cyrene: A Study in the Architectural Framing of War

James F.D. Frakes, University of North Carolina, Charlotte


The Urban Iconography of Flavian Victory: Domitian's Restoration of the Triumphal Processional Route

Michael L. Thomas, Tufts University


Centum Homines: The Prototype of the Alexander Mosaic and the Military Museum in the Hellenistic World

Peter E. Nulton, Rhode Island School of Design


The Trophy Tableau Monument in Rome: From Marius to Caecilia Metella

Lauren Kinnee, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


The Iconography of Divine Warfare in the Dura-Europos Synagogue Frescoes

Kara L. Schenk, Maryland Institute College of Art


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Late Style Modernism

Wednesday, February 14, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Marek Wieczorek, University of Washington

Is Bonnard a Modernist?

Karen Stock, Winthrop University


Late-Style Mondrian

Marek Wieczorek, University of Washington


Arrested Development? George Grosz’s Late Montages

Michael White, University of York


The Fate of Automatism: Late Surrealism and the Problem of Style

Neil Matheson, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster


The Tortoise Who Wins: Myron Stout’s Abstract Paintings of the 1950s and 1960s

Alison Green, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design


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Wednesday, February 14, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM

Rethinking Pedagogy in the Arts: New Models for a Changing World

Wednesday, February 14, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Jacki Apple, Art Center College of Design

From Collecting to Collaboration

Kermit Bailey, North Carolina State University


Inter-Classrooms: Interdisciplinary, Multidepartmental, Interinstitutional Art History Projects

Hannah Higgins, University of Illinois, Chicago


Food Always Brings People Together: Art and History as Social Action

Bernard L. Herman, University of Delaware


Concept Maps and Complex Questions: New Approaches to Media Design, Technology, and Cultural History

Conrad Gleber, LaSalle University


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Open Session

Wednesday, February 14, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Scott Betz, Winston-Salem State University

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Out of the Frame: Creativity and Change

Wednesday, February 14, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Amy V. Grimm

Working from the Perimeter

Willie Ray Parish, University of Texas, El Paso


Hillbilly Happiness: The Barnstormers' Pilgrimage Down South

David J. Brown, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art


From the Big Picture to the Small Object

Kate Bonansinga, University of Texas, El Paso


Beautiful Losers

Christian Strike, Atelier Noir, Iconoclast Editions


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Funding Sources from the National Endowment for the Humanities: New Programs and Updates on Grants in Art History and Museum Exhibitions

Wednesday, February 14, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Lisa Kahn, National Endowment for the Humanities

Clay Lewis, National Endowment for the Humanities


Lisa Kahn, National Endowment for the Humanities


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Information Meeting

Wednesday, February 14, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Max Marmor, ARTstor

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Ask the Lawyer: Legal and Business Issues for Arts Professionals

Wednesday, February 14, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Elena M. Paul, Esq., Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

Ask the Lawyer

Elena M. Paul, Esq., Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts; Alexei Auld, Esq., Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts


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Notes from the Paleolithic Project: The Onomatopoetry of Desire

Wednesday, February 14, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Hunt Prothro, Sidwell Friends School

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Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM

Consuming Images, Constructing Selves: Europe and the Orient in the 18th Century

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Nebahat Avcioglu, Institute for Scholars, Columbia University; Finbarr Barry Flood, New York University

Jean-Étienne Liotard, the Turkish Painter

Kristel Smentek, Frick Collection


Piranesi, the Aesthetic of Eclecticism, and His Stile Egiziano

Sarah Lawrence, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum


James Gillray’s China: A Late Mercantile Critique

Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia


Contesting the Exotic: Taste, Collecting, Empire, 1750–95

Natasha Eaton, University College, London


Performing Cross-Cultural Encounters in 18th-Century Venice: Andrea Brustolon’s Allegory of Strength

Erin Campbell, University of Victoria


On Seeing and Viewing in Early 18th-Century Isfahan

Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania


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The Reception of Caribbean Art

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Judith Bettelheim, San Francisco State University; Kristine Juncker, Vassar College

Arriving at the Caribbean: Visual Representation of Transatlantic and Transcultural Experience

Allison Thompson, Barbados Community College


The Birth of Haitian Art as a “Renaissance”

Legrace Benson, Arts of Haiti Research Project


Writing about Art in the Caribbean: Issues of Representation and Reception within the Region

Veerle Poupeye, Emory University


Curating with/out a Jamaican Accent

Catherine Amidon, Plymouth State University


Hispanophone Caribbean Art in the US: Between the Museum and the Classroom

Edward Sullivan, New York University


Discussant: Judith Bettelheim, San Francisco State University


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Black Vitruvius: The Appropriation of Classical and Gothic Architecture by Indigenous and Diasporic Communities

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Deidre Brown, University of Auckland

On Painting Architecture Black

Michael Linzey, University of Auckland


Maya Baroque Facades

Carol Ventura, Tennessee Technological University


The Gothic and Cross-Cultural Revival of Hybrid Churches of Samoa

Lama Tone, University of Auckland


Worship Aesthetics and the Employment of Western Forms and Materials in 19th-Century Maori Ecclesiastical Architecture

Richard A. Sundt, University of Oregon


Rangiatea: Gothic Provocations

Robin Skinner, Victoria University of Wellington


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Western Art Studies in a Middle Eastern Context

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Judy Bullington, University of Sharjah

Modeling Visual Learning between East and West

Ann Shafer, American University in Cairo


Martin Luther King Lived in the Renaissance: Teaching Art History in Qatar

Jochen Sokoly, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Qatar


Present (Re)Present: Toward a Contemporary Regional Identity

Chris Kienke, Savannah College of Art and Design


Western Art Studies in Turkey: Art on a Pale Blue Dot

Ilgim Veryeri Alaca, Bilkent University


Grids Meet the Arabesque: Design Education in Doha, Qatar

Mary McLaughlin, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Qatar; Erik Brandt, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar


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The Fall of the Studio: Reassessing the atelier d’artiste in the Post-Studio Era

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Wouter Davidts, Ghent University; Kim Paice, University of Cincinnati

The Studio after Reconstruction: The Atelier Brancusi as Model

Jon Wood, Henry Moore Institute


Studio Vertigo: Mark Rothko

Morgan Thomas, University of Canterbury


The Studio as Test Site: Bruce Nauman

MaryJo Marks, School of Visual Arts


Back to the Studio: The Making of the Male Artist

Julia Gelshorn, Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris; University of Zurich


Machines in the Studio: Olafur Eliasson and the Globalised Art World

Philip Ursprung, University of Zurich


Discussant: Kirsten Swenson, Case Western Reserve University


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Digital Difference: Recontextualizing New Media Art

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Juliet Davis, University of Tampa; Jeff Warmouth, Fitchburg State College

Three Pleasures of the Medium

Will Pappenheimer, Pace University


When the Sitter Is the User: New Media and the Static Body

Michele White, Tulane University


New Forms of Fragmentation: Samples, Cycles, and Elements in Motion

Roberto Bocci, Georgetown University


Early Generative Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Movements

Christoph Klütsch, International University, Bremen


Collaboration in New Media

Patrick Lichty, Columbia College, Chicago


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New Perspectives on the Italian Renaissance Interior, 1400–1600

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Maria DePrano, Washington State University; Stephanie Miller, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

The Kitchen as Exemplary Space from Renaissance Treatise to Period Room

Deborah Krohn, Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture


The Venetian “Portego”: Family Piety and Public Prestige

Margaret Morse, Washington and Lee University


A Richly Ornate Space: Abbess Giovanna da Piacenza’s Residence in Renaissance Parma

Giancarla Periti, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC


Ethical and Practical Considerations in Uniting Fragments from Disparate Italian Renaissance Domestic Interiors

Susan Wegner, Bowdoin College


Discussant: Beth Holman, Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University


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Metro Poles: Current Art at the City’s Limits

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Erin Donnelly, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Mott Haven: A Case Study in Gentrification

Edwin Ramoran, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx Council on the Arts


Off the Grid: Connecting Creative Corridors

Erin Donnelly, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council


The Question Is the Tension Among Various Poles

Heng-Gil Han, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning


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Art after Communism

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Sabine Eckmann, Washington University, St. Louis

Pawel Althamer and Katarzyna Kozyra, Performing New Realities

Paulina Pobocha


Beyond Freedom or beyond Democracy?

Piotr Piotrowski, Adam Mickiewicz University


House of Hollies/Chambers of Death: Emplacing a Politics of Time in the Age of German Normality

Richard Langston, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


Expanding the Present: Michael Wesely and the Intractability of Time

Lutz Koepnick, Washington University, St. Louis


Affective Interruptions: Mapping with Transition

Clare Pritchard


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Double-Headed Creatures: Professors Who Teach Both Art and Art History, and the Combined Departments of Art Practice and Art History

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: DeWitt A. Godfrey, Colgate University; Bertha Steinhardt Gutman, Delaware County Community College

Challenges and Models: A Very Brief History of Studio Art and Art History in American Colleges and Universities

Lisa De Boer, Westmont College


Integrating Art Studio, History, and Theory: A Pedagogical and Practical Approach

Barbara Yontz, St. Thomas Aquinas College


A Case Study: Combined Departments of Art Practice and Art History, Cohabitation or Colonialism

Sandra Lotte Esslinger, Mt. San Antonio College


Teach Art History? I Can Do That

Robert Sites, Norfolk State University


The Column of Trajan Reconsidered and Viewed by a Double-Headed Creature

Bertha Steinhardt Gutman, Delaware County Community College


Discussant: Beth Stewart, Mercer University


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The Art of Being Global: International Art of International Artists

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Laurie E. T. Hall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Dizz/placement: Half Moon Eyes

Mina Cheon, Maryland Institute College of Art


The New Great Game: The New Colonization in Globalization

Sarina Khan Reddy, Eastman Kodak Company Research Laboratories


Plays Well with Others: Opportunity for Artists in the Global Village

Daria Dorosh, University of East London


Compassionate Actions: Art Envisions a World without Borders

Lisa Marie Kaftori, independent artist, Israel; Joan Giroux, Columbia College, Chicago


Speaking into the Silence

Karen Frostig, Lesley University


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Ephemeral Art in the 18th Century

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Cathie C. Kelly, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Roman Obsequies for Peter II (1707) and John V (1751) of Portugal

John E. Moore, Smith College


Political Fireworks: The Chinea of 1745

Jill Deupi


Fragonard’s Trees between Scenic Artifices and Metaphors

Patrick Coue, University of Pennyslvania


Jailhouse Rocks: Pierre-François Palloy’s Movable Monuments

Richard Taws, McGill University


The Short Life of Neoclassical Chairs

Ethan Lasser, Yale University


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Art and Education at the End of the Age of Critique

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Saul L. Ostrow, Cleveland Institute of Art

American Idol and the Rise of Mediocrity

Peet Cocke, Cuesta College


Critique as Critical Reflection

Mariah Doren, Central Michigan University


The Enhancement of Critical Thinking through Critique

Neil Matthiessen, Arkansas State University


Who Is the Programmer

Jere Williams, St. Paul’s School


Discussant: Elaine King, Carnegie Mellon School of Art


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Studio Art Open Session: Topics in Drawing

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Elena Sisto, School of Visual Arts

Pier Consagra


Diana Cooper


David Humphrey


James Siena


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Visual Power: An Exhibition of Native American Artists/Scholars, A Project by the US Department of State Art and Culture Programs

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Duane Slick, Rhode Island School of Design; Phoebe Farris, Purdue University

Fostering Diversity of American Cultural Diplomacy Abroad

Evangeline J. Montgomery, Office of Citizen Exchanges, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Washington, DC


Gail Tremblay, Evergreen State University


International Relations via Our Shared Solstice Sun over This World and the 50-Foot Outdoor Circular Denver Sculpture Wheel

Edgar Heap of Birds, University of Oklahoma


Devotional Art for the Feminine Divine

Nadema Agard, Red Earth Studio Consulting/Productions


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Gustave Doré: Revisiting a Once-Famed Artist

Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Lisa Small, Dahesh Museum of Art; Eric Zafran, Wadsworth Atheneum

Doré in America: Recent Discoveries

Eric Zafran, Wadsworth Atheneum


“Plus Dante illustré par Doré, c’est Doré illustré par Dante”: The Innovations and Influence of Doré’s Illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy

Aida Audeh, Hamline University


“Our misfortune is immense, and our anguish terrible”: Gustave Doré and The Black Eagle of Prussia

Lisa Small, Dahesh Museum of Art


Doré and Gérôme: Classical Sculptors?

Leanne M. Zalewski, Graduate Center, City University of New York


Van Gogh Remembering (with) Doré

Judy Sund, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York


Gustave Doré and the Graphic Novel

Patricia Mainardi, Graduate Center, City University of New York


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Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM

Art History Open Session: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes: Art History, Science, Collecting, and Display

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
The Music Room, Main Floor, Frick Collection
Chairs: Denise Allen, Frick Collection; Betsy Rosasco, Princeton University Art Museum

A Roman Antiquity among Henry Clay Frick’s Renaissance Bronzes? Assessing Issues of Historicity

Joaneath Spicer, Walters Art Museum


Building upon Technique: Continuing Research into the Bronzes of Severo da Ravenna

Dylan T. Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC


The Small Bronzes of Severo Calzetta da Ravenna: New Means of Connoisseurship

Richard E. Stone, Metropolitan Museum of Art


Discussant: Francesca Bewer, Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums


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Painting and Plurality: Schisms, -Isms, and the Difficulty of Definition

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Brian Bishop, University of Alabama; Lance Winn, University of Delaware

High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–75

Katy Siegel, Hunter College, City University of New York


Invisible -ism

Robert Mertens, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater


Luc Tuymans and the Use Value of Irony

George Anastasias Magalios, independent artist


Discussant: Barry Schwabsky, independent critic and poet


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UNESCO: Reengaging with Global Culture

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Caroline Boyle-Turner, Pont-Aven School of Art; Christopher Pearson, Quest University

Helene-Marie Gosselin, Director, UNESCO Office in New York


Bonnie Burnham, World Monuments Fund


Christina Cameron, Canadian Delegation to the World Heritage Committee


Ray Wanner, Americans for UNESCO


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What’s Love Got to Do with It? The Myth and Politics of Love in Art and Art History

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
East Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Norma Broude, American University; Mary D. Garrard, American University

The Malevolent Eros and the Imperial Jupiter: The Portrayal of Power in the Renaissance Court of Love

Leatrice Mendelsohn, independent scholar, New York


The Artist as Lover in 18th-Century France: The Case of Fragonard

Melissa Hyde, University of Florida


Leaving Home, Losing Love: J.-L. David’s Farewell of 1818

Issa Lampe, American University


Unhappily Ever After: Agnes Varda's Happiness and the Myth of the Loving Housewife

Rebecca J. DeRoo, Washington University, St. Louis


Art and Eros: Love as Politics in the 1960s

Jonathan D. Katz, Smithsonian Museum of American Art


Love Made Visible: Indirect Representation of Love as a Political Strategy in the Artwork of Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Nizan Shaked, California State University, Long Beach


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A Nation of Shopkeepers: Innovation and the Art Market in Great Britain

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Pamela Fletcher, Bowdoin College

Goupil at the Intersection of the London and Parisian Art Markets, c. 1857–1901

Anne Helmreich, Case Western Reserve University


Negotiating a Reputation: Whistler, Rossetti, and the Art Market, 1860–1900

Patricia de Montfort, University of Glasgow


Sculptural Innovation and the Market for Statuettes in Late 19th-Century Britain

Martina Droth, Henry Moore Institute


The Chenil: An Artists’ Colony for Chelsea

Ysanne Holt, University of Northumbria


Strategies of Display and Modes of Visuality in London Art Galleries in the Interwar Years

Andrew Stephenson, University of East London


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Constructed Realities: Diorama as Art

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Diane H. Fox, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Habitat Diorama and the Integration of Academic Art for Science

Kevin J. Avery, Metropolitan Museum of Art


Seeing and Believing: Dioramas in the Thyer-Roosevelt Debates

Matthew Brower, York University


Disrupting the Diorama’s Illusionism: A Visual Examination of Pippa Skotnes’ Miscast

Jessica Joye Taplin-Stephenson, Emory University, Michael C. Carlos Museum


Double Take: Dioramas, Photography, Representation

Robert Silberman, University of Minnesota


Myths of Nature in Art, Science, and Religion: From Dioramas to Dogmas

Katerina Lanfranco, independent artist, New York


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Art History and National Socialist Germany: A Reevaluation

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Christian Fuhrmeister, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

The Art-Historical Use of the Baroque under National Socialism

Evonne Levy, University of Toronto


“Gestalt,” “Liveliness,” and “Physiognomy”: Keywords and Concepts of German Art-Historical Writing in the Thirties and Forties

Daniela Bohde, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt


Painterly Formalism and National Socialism: Wölfflin and Greenberg

Daniel Adler, University of Guelph


The Legacies of National Socialist Art Policies in the British Zone of Germany, 1945–50

Veronica Davies, Open University


Discussant: Paul B. Jaskot, DePaul University


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Interactive Type and Image: Changing the Face of Graphic Design

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Dana Ezzell Gay, independent graphic designer

Nuances: Understanding the Fundamentals of Motion Design

Sarah Lowe, University of Tennessee


Reshaping the Meaning of Type with Sound and Motion

Bonnie Blake, Ramapo College of New Jersey


Application of a Sketchbook to a Motion Graphics Project

Ravinder Basra, University of San Francisco


We Don’t Have to Reinvent the Wheel: Applying Film Theory to Motion Graphics Design

Chris Corneal, Michigan State University


Disruptive Creative Process in the Interactive Classroom

Kim Grable, University of North Texas


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Studio Art within the Liberal Arts Setting: What Do We Offer?

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Nevin Mercede, Antioch College

Book Arts: A Tool for Liberal-Arts Learning in the Studio

Anne E. Beidler, Agnes Scott College


Going Beyond the Studio Walls: A Liberal-Arts Partnership

Pamela Flynn, Holy Family University


Art Education in the Liberal Arts: Key Components of a Contemporary Model

Mark Klassen, Beloit College


Fish Out of Water? Casting Reflections on Teaching Studio Art at a Rural Liberal Arts University in Alabama

Jessica L. Smith, University of West Alabama


Comparative Art-Educational Experiences from Community College to Graduate School

Natalie Funk


Career Preparation in the Bachelor of Arts Degree in General Studio Art at Delaware State University

Roberta Tucci, Delaware State University


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The Status of Interpretation in Art History

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Robert S. Nelson, Yale University

The Thinking Image: Beyond Interpretation

Hanneke Grootenboer, University of Amsterdam


Desire and the Body without Organs: Rereading Magritte’s Le Viol through the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Feliz Guattari

Lisa Lipinski, Corcoran College of Art and Design


Return to Damisch

Kent Minturn, Sarah Lawrence College


Just Noticeable Difference and the Thresholds of Artistic Perception

Joan Hart, Indiana University


Functions of Historiography

Elizabeth Sears, University of Michigan


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The Object in Its Cultural Context: Promises and Perils

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Kathleen Pyne, University of Notre Dame

Close Reading

Alexander Nemerov, Yale University


Interpretation in the Age of the Digital Zoom

Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania


The Single-Artist Museum: Problems and Solutions

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center


Object Lessons

Sylvia Yount, High Museum of Art


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The Thematization of the Senses in 16th-Century European Art

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Lisa M. Rafanelli, Manhattanville College

A Touching Compassion: Dürer’s Haptic Theology

Shira Brisman, Yale University


The Collector’s Caress: The Tactile Allure of Sculpture in Early Modern Italy

Geraldine A. Johnson, Oxford University


Perspective, Optics, and Vision in El Greco’s Christ Healing the Blind

Andrew Casper, University of Pennsylvania


The Mechanics of Sight and Moral Choice in Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Blind Leading the Blind

Charles Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara


Sight, Science, and the Still-Life Paintings of Juan Sanchez Cotán

Mindy Nancarrow, University of Alabama


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The “Globalization of Taste”: Cultural Convergence, Syncretism, and Artistic Production in Asia, Iberia, and the Iberian-American Colonies

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Sofia Sanabrais, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

A Taste for the New: Collecting Chinese Ceramics in Renaissance Spain

Maite Alvarez, J. Paul Getty Museum, Mendoza Research Project, University of Southern California


Chinese “Gewgaws and Ornaments of Little Value”: Trading Anxieties in Manila, Mexico, and Latin American Art History

Dana Leibsohn, Smith College


Nanban Art between Nagasaki, Macao, and Acapulco

Alexandra Curvelo, Centro de Historía de Além Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa


“Nuestro joven”: San Felipe de Jesús: Syncretism and Innovation in the Martyr Murals at Cuernavaca Cathedral

Sara K. Klein, independent scholar, Chicago


Sublime Passion: Translating Text and Image in a 19th-century Philippine Colonial Manuscript in Valladolid

Florina H. Capistrano-Baker, Ayala Museum


Discussant: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University


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Blue

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Steve Shipps, Emerson College

Rang de Nila (Color Me Blue)

Siona Benjamin-Kruge, Drew University


In the Pandemonium of Image: Derek Jarman’s Blue

Ignaz Cassar, University of Leeds


Blue Jeans: America’s National Pants

Nan Freeman, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


The Blue Glass Cure

Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Parsons, New School for Design


Weeping Virgins and Wailing Women: Examining Grief and Piety in the Middle Ages

Vibeke Olson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington


Experiential Blue and the Architecture of the Swimming Pool

Jada Schumacher, University of Wisconsin, Stout


Post-Partum Blues

Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, Hampshire College


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Time Loops: Producing “Primitivism” in Africa

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Z. S. Strother, University of California, Los Angeles

Picasso: Relooking at Africa

Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University


Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture in the Spaces of French Modernism

John Monroe, Iowa State University


Primitivism on Trial: the “Picasso and Africa” Exhibition in South Africa

Julie L. McGee, Bowdoin College


The Legacy of Primitivism in Contemporary Senegal: Art, Politics, and Institutional Discourses since the 1990s

Maureen Murphy, Université Paris I Sorbonne


Cultural Heritage and the Popularity of Primitivism

Peter M. Probst, Tufts University


Discussant: Steven Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles


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Tradition Unbound: Contemporary Responses to Art’s Past, Part I

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Murtaza Vali, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Anna Sloan, Mount Holyoke College

Political Pots and Contentious Clay: A Postmodern Reading of Contemporary Ceramic Art

Tamsin Whitehead, independent scholar, Northwood, New Hampshire


Elaine Reichek’s Modern-Day Samplers

Paula J. Birnbaum, University of San Francisco


An Ambivalent Reappearance of the Orientalist Hamam

Michel Oren, California State University, Fullerton


Sacred Love and Sexual Devotion in the Late “Gay” Paintings of Bhupen Khakhar

Karin J. Zitzewitz, University of Chicago


Re-Presenting Tradition: Strategies of Transnational Contemporary Artists in the International Exhibitions Network

Joe Martin Hill, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


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The Practice of Drawing and the Construction of Artistic Identity

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, Yale University

Anatomical Drawings and Florentine Identity in the 16th Century

Jennifer Bird, Bryn Mawr College


Why Robert Hooke Stopped Drawing

Matthew C. Hunter, University of Chicago


Drawing, Performance, and Salon Sociability in Early-19th-Century France

Daniel Harkett, Columbia University


Contesting Identity and the Meta-praxis of Drawing

Anthony Auerbach


Discussant: Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University


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Re-Presentation of Beauty and the Feminine in East Asian Societies

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Aida Yuen Wong, Brandeis University

The Endogamous Eugenic Japanese Nude: Koide Narashige

Bert Winther-Tamaki, University of California, Irvine


Finding Beauty in the House Functional: Class, Gender, and Beauty in Design Discourse in Modern Japan

Sarah Teasley, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth


Virtuous Beauty or Beautified Virtue?

Seokyung Han, Binghamton University


Moba Moga (Modern Boy, Modern Girl) in Colonial Korea: 1910–45

Shim Chung, New York University


Conflicting Perspectives: Re-Presenting Feminine Beauty in 20th-Century Chinese Art

Sandy Ng, University of Hong Kong


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Beginning and End of Public Art Projects

Thursday, February 15, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Elyn Zimmerman

Alice Aycock, independent artist, New York


Julian LaVerdiere, independent artist, New York


Harriet Senie, Graduate Center, City University of New York


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Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM

HGCEA at 10

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Peter Chametzky, Southern Illinois University

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Religion and Ritual

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Thomas Crow, Getty Research Institute; Charles Salas, Getty Research Institute

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Creating Culture in 19th Century in Boston: Blue Prints in Arts and Letters

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
East Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Alicia Faxon, Simmons College

“Borgo Allegro”: Art in the Letters of Isabella Gardner

Margaret Hanni, Simmons College


Commercial Art and the Making of an Artist

Sister Ellen Gavin, Emmanuel College


Religious Symbolism in Medieval Art and Architecture

Allyson Sheckler, Stonehill College


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Grant Opportunities in the Visual Arts

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Robert Frankel, National Endowment for the Arts; Wendy Clark, National Endowment for the Arts

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Clamoring at the Gates or Tearing Down the Walls: Dealing with Canonicity

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: David Getsy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Angela Rosenthal, Dartmouth College


Lowery Stokes Sims, Studio Museum in Harlem


Julian Stallabrass, Courtauld Institute of Art


Anne Wagner, University of California, Berkeley


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Thinking vs. Making

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Gabriel Harp, University of Michigan

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Practical Tips for the Classroom Instructor: Get What You Want from Digital Tools

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Trudy Jacoby, Princeton University

Practical Applications for Managing Personal Digital Image Collections

Virginia Hall, Johns Hopkins University


The Tipping Point: Finally, the Digital Classroom! (MDID2)

Kathe Hicks Albrecht, American University


Should Quality Matter? The Gritty Truth About Images and Art

Christine Sundt, visual resources consultant


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Does the Art World Have a Political Bias?

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Stephen Lamia, Dowling College; Thomas Kleese, University of Wisconsin, Richland

Hegemony Cricket: The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness

Thomas Kleese, University of Wisconsin, Richland


Separating the Sheep from the Goats, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Art World

James Panero, The New Criterion magazine; Martha Rosler, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey


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New Directions in 19th-Century Art History

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Mark Ledbury, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Tramping the Boulevard: The Beggar, Masculinity, and Public Space

Temma Balducci, Arkansas State University


The Homoerotics of Bacchus: John Gibson and Simeon Solomon in Victorian Rome

Roberto Ferrari, Graduate Center, City University of New York


A Hysterical Reading of Auguste Rodin’s The Gates of Hell

Natasha Ruiz Gomez, University of Pennsylvania


The Artist and the Alienists: Portraits and Painters in the Victorian Asylum

Eleanor Stansbie, Birkbeck College, University of London


Bodies of Evidence: The Rhetoric and Illustrative Apparatus of the 19th-Century Anatomical Atlas

Cindy Stelmackowich, Binghamton University


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Immigrant Women and Their Artist Daughters

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Carolyn H. Manosevitz, Colorado Mountain College

Lap Swimmer, Crossing

Micaela Amato Amateau, Penn State University


The Beauty of Disorder

Cara Judea Alhadeff, independent artist


Reflections of a Second Generation: The Grass Is Always Greener

Deborah Rader, independent artist


Journey into the Past

Carolyn H. Manosevitz, Colorado Mountain College


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Pedagogical Training for MFA and Ph.D Candidates in the Arts

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Maxine Payne, Hendrix College; Sue Gollifer, University of Brighton

Teaching New Teachers: How MFA Students Learn to Engage Beginning Art Students

Lee Ann Garrison, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


After the Sheepskin

Joe Seipel, Virginia Commonwealth University


Identifying Transferable Skills that are Embedded in the Learning Experience of Graduate Level Students

Sue Gollifer, University of Brighton


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The Transition/New Directors and Old Organizations: Creative Approaches to Organizational Art History of the 1970s to the Present

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: David Platzker, Art Spaces Archives Project

Anne Pasternak, Creative Time


Debra Singer, The Kitchen


Matthew Higgs, White Columns


Benjamin Weil, Artists Space


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Curators’ War IV: The Return of the Object

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: George T.M. Shackelford

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Can Geeks Be Humanists?

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Marcia Tanner, independent curator, Berkeley

Intimacy in New Media Art

Andrea Ackerman, independent artist and psychiatrist


On the Geek as Humanist

Claudia Hart, Sarah Lawrence College; NY/Polytechnic University


Beyond Functional: Embedding Responsive Art into Human Systems

Sabrina Raaf, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Chicago


Animate Objects, and the Evocation of Empathy

John Slepian, Wesleyan University


The Beautiful and the Terrifying

Gail Wight, Stanford University


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Closing the Modern–Postmodern Divide: Toward a History of Visual Parody

Thursday, February 15, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Lauren S. Weingarden, Florida State University

Parody; or, the Quandary of Place: Conservative Reactions to Modernism in Late 19th-Century Spain

Oscar E. Vazquez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


Seurat’s Gravity

Richard A. Shiff, University of Texas, Austin


Fictions of Facial Representation: Paul Klee’s “Portraits”

Charles W. Haxthausen, Williams College


Discussant: Linda Hutchon, University of Toronto


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Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM

The Ties that Bind? Homosocial Collaboration in American Art

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Alexis L. Boylan, University of Tennessee; Elizabeth Lee, Dickinson College

Toward an Understanding of Washington Allston and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Todd Smith, Gibbes Museum of Art


A Shared Artistic Life: James Suydam, His Art Collection, and His Collaborative Circle

Katherine Manthorne, Graduate Center, City University of New York


Violet Oakley and Edith Emerson

Bailey van Hook, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University


Homage to Twombly: Rauschenberg’s Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno

Anna Kamplain, Boston University


General Idea’s Exquisite Corpse: Configuring the Collaborative Body

Deborah Barkun, Millersville University of Pennsylvania


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"Difficult" Content in the Public Realm

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Elizabeth Conner

Catherine de Zegher


Discussant: Norie Sato, independent artist, Seattle


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Globalism and Its Discontents

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Aruna D’Souza, Binghamton University; Tom McDonough, Binghamton University

Where We Come From: Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Art

T.J. Demos, University College, London


Going Astray: Network Transformations and the Asymmetries of Globalization

Helge Mooshammer, Thinkarchitecture; Peter Mörtenböck, Goldsmiths College, University of London


Collectivity and Its Discontents: Rethinking the Global and the Local in Current Art Practice

Grant Kester, University of California, San Diego


Discontinuous States: Art on the Border

Krista Geneviève Lynes, San Francisco Art Institute


From Nomadism to Cosmopolitanism

James Meyer, Emory University


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Engaging Pedagogy: Undergraduate Art History and Active Learning

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Kimberly L. Dennis, Rollins College; Kristin Huffman Lanzoni, Duke University

Building an Understanding of Architectural History

Craig Eliason, University of St. Thomas


Student Curators: A New Approach to Active Learning through Museum and Library Partnerships

Lana A. Burgess, Florida State University


Engaging Masquerades: Ritual Performance in the Classroom

Carol Magee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


Service Learning Projects: Connecting Student Research with the Needs of Community Partners

William Stargard, Pine Manor College


The Visual Essay Project: Thinking Visually, Conceptually and Synthetically

Janice Simon, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia


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Creative Futures: Is the MBA Us?

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Stephanie Ellis, San Francisco Art Institute; Stacy Garfinkel, San Francisco Art Institute

Why the PhD Studio?

Naren Barfield, Glasgow School of Art; Laura González, Glasgow School of Art


Ante Magazine: What Are the Stakes?

Nicholas Herman, independent artist, New York; Dmitri Siegel, Sundance Channel


1957 Brain Rush

Stephanie Ellis, San Francisco Art Institute; Stacy Garfinkel, San Francisco Art Institute


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The Court of Philip IV

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Jesús Escobar, Fairfield University; Amanda Wunder, University of New Hampshire

Velázquez’s First Portrait of Philip IV and the Sources of Courtly Success

Tanya J. Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee


Uncovering the Role of Queen Isabella of Bourbon in Spanish Baroque Art

Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


The Count Duke of Olivares, Politics, and the Cult of St. Dominic Soriano at the Court of Philip IV

Marta Bustillo, National College of Art and Design, Dublin


The Portrait of Juan Rana, King of Comedy at the Court of Philip IV

Laura R. Bass, Tulane University


Discussant: John Elliott, Oxford University


Discussant: Jonathan Brown, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


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Why Beat Pulp? Mapping Paper Terrains in 2007

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Helen C. Frederick, George Mason University

The Weight of An Expressive Silence

Rie Hachiyanagi, Mount Holyoke College


The Mummy’s Curse

Sandy Kinnee


Paper Dolls: Women Sculptors and the Body in Pulp

Virginia Maksymowicz, Franklin and Marshall College


Empire on Course

Eve Ingalls


Paper Keeps the Pace

Rachel Foullon, Public-Holiday Projects


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DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR SESSION HONORING LINDA NOCHLIN

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
East Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Tamar Garb, University College, London

The Student Movement

Molly Nesbit, Vassar College


Interiority

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University


The Twilight Zone: Photography and the Uncanny

Abigail Solomon-Godeau, University of California, Santa Barbara


Of Aby Warburg, Writing, and Time

Moira Roth, Mills College, Oakland


Discussant: Linda Nochlin


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Everywhere and Nowhere: Americanness in American Art

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Heather Hole, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center; Kristin Ann Schwain, University of Missouri, Columbia

Elsewhere as Nowhere: Color, Vision, and the Void in Titian Ramsay Peale’s Kilauea Pendant

Wendy Ikemoto, Harvard University


“Unquestionably a picture”: George Seeley’s Winter Landscape of 1909

Sarah Caylor, Duke University


Native Spirits and Racial Souls: African American Artists and the Rhetoric of “Distinctive Contribution”

Mary Ann Calo, Colgate University


American in Spite of Himself: Joseph Cornell, an Imaginary Expatriate

Kirsten Hoving, Middlebury College


Discussant: Angela L. Miller, Washington University, St. Louis


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Object Lessons: Looking Closely at Museums and Universities

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: David E. Little, Museum of Modern Art; Elizabeth Rodini, Johns Hopkins University

Michael Hatt, Yale Center for British Art


Daniel H. Weiss, Lafayette College


Kimerly Rorschach, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University


Jessica Stockholder, Yale University


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Visionary Leadership: Art, Politicians, and the Image of a Nation

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Karen E. Milbourne, Baltimore Museum of Art

Designing “Empire” in Early Imperial China (221 BCE–220 CE)

Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu, Brown University


Hadrian’s Hydraulic Vision of Roman Cultural Identity

Brenda Longfellow, University of Iowa


Inchoata Roma Forma Leonis: An Augustan Model for Imperial Propaganda at the Forum of Mussolini

Valentina Follo, University of Pennsylvania


Building the Tropical World of Tomorrow: The Construction of Brasilidade at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Aleca Le Blanc, University of Southern California


Spectacular Nation: Expo ’67, Prime Minister L. B. Pearson and the Photographic Promotion of Canada

Carol Payne, Carleton University


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Work in Progress: Presentations by CAA Professional Development Fellowship Recipients

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse F., Concourse Level, Hilton New York
Chair: Stacy Miller, College Art Association

Christopher Lowtner, Indiana University


Amy Yao, Yale University


Legions in Mourning: Reconstructing Communities in the Roman Provinces

Alvaro Ibarra, University of Texas, Austin


Art without Objects: Michael Asher’s Empty Spaces

Jennifer King, Princeton University


Dymaxicrat Architecture: Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College

Eva Diaz, Princeton University


The Notion of Family: Family Work 2002–6

LaToya Frazier, Syracuse University


“It’s not an archive”: Christian Boltanski’s Les Archives de C.B.

Kate Palmer Albers, Boston University


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Disability and Visual Culture

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Nicholas D. Mirzoeff, New York University

“What is that ghastly lady doing there?” Marc Quinn’s Alison Lapper Pregnant and the Ability of Art

Christopher Bedford, J. Paul Getty Museum


Matters of Fluency

Erica Duffy, University of Northern Iowa


Disability as Divine: Special Bodies in Ancient American Art

Rebecca Rollins Stone, Emory University


Aesthetics of Accessibility

Jon Berge, independent artist, Columbus, Ohio


Seeing Disability

W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago


Play It Again, Sam; and Again; and Again: Obsession in Art

Lennard Davis, University of Illinois, Chicago


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Making French History, 1300 to 1500

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Elizabeth Morrison, J. Paul Getty Museum; Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Romans or Estoire? Late Capetian History as Imagined for the Queen

Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Sweet Briar College


Old Age and Glory: The History and Romance of the Family Saint-Floret

Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross


Crusade History at the Court of Philip VI of Valois: British Library Royal Ms. 19 D I

Maureen Quigley, Saint Louis University


Drawing upon the Past: Historical Romances Illustrated by the Wavrin Master

Stephen Perkinson, Bowdoin College


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Fairfield Porter: His Work and Legacy

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Hearne Pardee, University of California, Davis

Fairfield Porter and the “American Cramp”

Ted Leigh, independent artist and scholar, York, Pennsylvania


The Interwoven World of Fairfield Porter

George Rush, Yale University


Porter the Painter, Illuminated by His Short Reviews

Anne Devaney, University of Missouri, Kansas City


The Art and Writings of Fairfield Porter

Mario Naves, New York Observer


Fairfield Porter: Memoir

David Shapiro, independent poet and critic, Riverdale, New York


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“From today, photography is dead”: The Paradox of Photography’s Life and Death

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Gary D. Sampson, Cleveland Institute of Art

Striking Affinities: The Combination and the Conspiracy in Early Photographic Culture

Jordan Bear, Columbia University


Can You Hold a Pixel in Your Hand? Rethinking the Photograph as a Physical Object

Richard Turnbull, Fashion Institute of Technology


Vale Photography

Geoffrey Batchen, Graduate Center, City University of New York


That Was Then, This Is Now: A Radical Reorganization of Process

Wendy Babcox, University of South Florida


Parallel Universes: Making Do and Getting By + Thoughtless Acts (Mapping the Quotidian from Two Perspectives)

Kevin Henry, Columbia College, Chicago


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Art and the Mathematical Instinct

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Peter Spooner, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth; John Sims, independent artist, Sarasota

The Spatial 'Fourth Dimension' versus Space-Time at Mid-Century: Stuart Davis, Marcel Duchamp, and Robert Smithson

Linda Dalrymple Henderson, University of Texas at Austin