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


From Dust to Dust: A Mathematical and Digital Analysis of the Arabesque Design of Shaykh Luft Allah Mosque

Mahbobe Ghods, Columbia University


The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in World Art

Lowery Stokes Sims, Hunter and Queens College, Studio Museum of Harlem


Mathematical Series in Minimalism

Adrian Kohn, University of Texas, Austin


Trees, Quilts, and Clocks: Journey of a Math Artist

John Sims, independent artist, Sarasota


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The Miniaturized Metropolis: Urban Desire, Anxiety, and Time

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Nancy Stieber, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Mary N. Woods, Cornell University

Memory, Actuality, and Aspiration in Reuwich’s View of Jerusalem (1486)

Elizabeth Ross, University of Florida


The Memory Sees More than the Eyes: Collapsing Past and Present in Renaissance Imagery of Rome

Jessica Maier, Columbia University


Panoptic Visions of London: Possessing the Metropolis

Dana R. Arnold, University of Southampton


The Tempo of Modernity: Manhattan’s Rising Skyline and Its Metaphors

Mardges Bacon, Northeastern University


Discussant: Max Page, University of Massachusetts, Amherst


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Follow the Red Brick Road

Thursday, February 15, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Katja Zelljadt, Getty Research Institute; Maiken Umbach, University of Manchester

Industrial, Ecclesiastical, Monumental? The Use of Brick in 19th-Century Hungarian and Central European Architecture

József Sisa, Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences


Backstein oder Putzbau? The Architectural Physiognomy of Kommunale Berlin

Jennifer Reed Dillon, Duke University


Bernhard Hoetger’s Niedersachsenstein: Fantasies of National Rebirth and the Use of Brick in Monumental Sculpture after World War I

Arie Hartog, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen


Brick as Bauedelstein

Claudia Turtenwald, Universität Bielefeld


Mesopotamian, Hanseatic, or Modern? Arguing about Brick in Germany around 1900

Maiken Umbach, University of Manchester


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Thursday, February 15, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM

Architectural History Online: The Challenges of Digital Research and Publication

Thursday, February 15, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Hilary Ballon, Columbia University

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Spirituality, Nature, and Social Issues: Installations and Experiments in Space

Thursday, February 15, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Kyra Belán, Broward Community College

The Witness Report: An Installation Exploring the Spiritual Aftermath of Ground Zero

Robin Masi, Varo Registry of Women Artists


Celebrating the Sacred Feminine: Installations, Digital Works, Earthworks

Kyra Belán, Broward Community College


Diligent Peace

Carol Prusa, Florida Atlantic University


Installation Design

Nofa Dixon, University of North Florida


Woman Image Now: Defining Art in Space and Time (1974-1991)

Muriel Magenta, Arizona State University


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Pedagogy Issues Forum II: The Art of Teaching Art

Thursday, February 15, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: David Burton, Virginia Commonwealth University; Melody Milbrandt, Georgia State University

The Teacher: Personal Qualities and Professional Responsibilities

Amy Brook Snider, Pratt Institute


Planning: Research and Preparation

Renee Sandell, George Mason University


Instruction: Engaging the Students

Melody Milbrandt, Georgia State University


Assessment: Feedback and Evaluation

David Burton, Virginia Commonwealth University


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Mind the Gap: The Separate Spheres of Graphic and Product Design

Thursday, February 15, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Kristin U. Fedders, University of Saint Francis; Michael J. Golec, Iowa State University

The Changing Face of Packaging

Hsiao-Yun Chu, Buckminster Fuller Collection


Mend the Gap: Elevating Visual Rhetoric in Design Artifacts

Leslie Atzmon, Eastern Michigan University


Consumer Connections: Nostalgia in 1980s Hong Kong Design

D.J. Hupatz, Pratt Institute


An Empowering and Constraining Experience: A Multidisciplinary Student Design Collaborative

Carolina Gill, Ohio State University; Peter Chan, Ohio State University; Blaine Lilly, Ohio State University


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How to Develop a Session for the CAA Annual Conference

Thursday, February 15, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Emmanuel Lemakis, CAA

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Art History without Walls: Reconsidering the Artistic Canon

Thursday, February 15, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Heather McPherson, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Canonical Complexity and the Aztec Calendar Stone

Annabeth Headrick, Vanderbilt University


Embracing a Patriarchal Canon: Normative Aesthetics, Feminism, and Gender Identity in a 17th-Century Convent

Christina Morris McOmber, Cornell College


The “Heroic Generation”: Fictional Socialist Realist Painters in the Work of Ilya Kabakov

Wendy Koenig, Middle Tennessee State University


Discussant: Joy Sperling, Denison University


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Celebrating Time to Think: Research Dreams Realized

Thursday, February 15, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Inge Reist, Frick Art Reference Library

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Nota Bene II: Spotlighting the Work of Students and Emerging Professionals

Thursday, February 15, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Ben A. Schachter, Saint Vincent College; Austen Barron Bailly, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of California, Santa Barbara

“White People Like My Mother’s Rugs”: Gerald Nailor and the Display of Navajo Commerce, 1937–43

Rachel Leibowitz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


Unworkings of a Binary System

Lori Hepner, State University of New York College, Cortland


Paul Klee’s Late Work

Gabriele Hoffmann, independent scholar


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Worlds of Goods: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on 18th-Century Consumption

Thursday, February 15, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Stacey Sloboda, Southern Illinois University

18th-Century Ottoman Princesses as Collectors: From Chinese to European Porcelain

Tulay Artan, Sabanci University


Painted Indians and Painted Ladies: The Transatlantic Consumption of Vermilion

Beth Fowkes-Tobin, Arizona State University


Consuming Culture: Art in the Gazeta de Mexico

Kelly Donahue-Wallace, University of North Texas


Discussant: Craig Clunas, University of London


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Friday, February 16, 7:30 AM–9:30 AM

Defining Similarities, Refining Differences: Exploring the Diverse Universe of Community College Art Programs

Friday, February 16, 7:30 AM–9:30 AM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Thomas Morrissey, Community College of Rhode Island

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Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM

The Presence of History, the Persistence of Time

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Ann Jensen Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Alice Honig, University of California, Berkeley

Hieronymus Bosch’s Cosmogony

Margaret D. Carroll, Wellesley College


Time Out of Joint: Pieter Bruegel’s Peasant History

Stephanie Porras, Courtauld Institute of Art


The Paradox of Time in Pieter Bruegel’s Christ Carrying the Cross

Jürgen Müller, University of Dresden


History as Style in the Adriaen Ploos Family Epitaph and Hendrick ter Brugghen’s Crucifixion

Natasha Seaman, Berklee College of Music


News and Good News: Kairos and Chronos at Work in Communion

Lisa J. De Boer, Westmont College


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Art and Psychoanalysis, Part I: Theoretical Perspectives from Antiquity to the Comic Strip

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Laurie Schneider Adams, John Jay College, City University of New York

Freud on a Visual Obsession: The Psychoanalytic Meaning of the Baubo Gesture in Ancient Art

Larissa Bonfante, New York University


Dysfunctional Holy Families: Loss, Rage, and Desire in Renaissance Images of the Virgin and Child

Bradley Isham Collins, Parsons, New School for Design


Fragmentation, Transformation, and Self-Realization: Marcel Duchamp and the Formation of the Creative Imago

Bradley Bailey, Stephen F. Austin State University


Pollock’s Breakthrough: Psychohistory and the Origins of Style

Carroll Janis, Sidney Janis Gallery


Psychoanalysis, Metaphysics, and the Comic Art Form: An Ontology of Sequential Art

Scott Contreras-Koterbay, East Tennessee State University


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Rediscovering Vermeer

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
East Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Benjamin Binstock, Independent Scholar

The Subjective Turns in Vermeer and Descartes

Mary Wiseman, City University of New York


Astrology and History in Rembrandt's Faust and Vermeer's Astronomer

Paul Crenshaw, Washington University, St. Louis


Vermeer’s Allegory of Faith

David R. Smith, University of New Hampshire


Family Secrets: The Apprenticeship of Maria Vermeer

Benjamin Binstock, Independent Scholar


Discussant: Mariët Westermann, Institute of Fine Art, New York University


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Living Rock

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Pia Brancaccio, Drexel University; Frederick M. Asher, University of Minnesota

Seeing into Stone: Early Buddhist and Pre-Buddhist Carvings in Zangskar

Rob Linrothe, Skidmore College


Carving the Divine/Carving the Liberated: Articulations of “Presence” in Ellora’s Hindu and Jain Cave Temples

Lisa Nadine Owen


How the Monastic Communities of Kucha, Xinjiang, Used Their Rock Cliff Caves

Angela Howard, Rutgers State University of New Jersey


Living Rocks and the Special Dead: Stupa Reliefs in Medieval China

Sunkyung Kim, Duke University


King of Kings of Iran and Non-Iran: The Monumental Rock Relief in Sasanian Iran between East and West

Matthew Canepa, College of Charleston


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Now Really: Art and Theory of Realist Art in the 19th Century

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Therese Dolan, Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Realismo and the Risorgimento: Gioacchino Toma’s Luisa Sanfelice and Late-Century Disillusionment

Laura Watts Sommer, Daemen College


Victorian Realism, Material Culture, and Aesthetic Commodities

Julie F. Codell, Arizona State University


Realism from the Margins: Redefining Realism from a Belgian Perspective

Sura Levine, Hampshire College


Strategy and Fortune of Realist Art: Courbet and Germany

Stéphane Laurent, University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne


Redefining Realism

Michelle Facos, Indiana University


Discussant: Linda Nochlin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


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The Practice of the Print

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Anita Jung, University of Iowa

Altering Substrates

Patricia Villalobos-Echeverria, Indiana University of Pennsylvania


Encounters: Memory, Multiplicity, and Skepticism

Sang-Mi Yoo, Texas Tech University


Print Polyvalence

Enrique Leal, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha


Yankee Queer

Joel Seah, University of Southern Maine


Space 1026: Reflections on Printmaking as a Shared Practice

Jesse Goldstein, Space 1026


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When Is Technique Central to Meaning? Part I

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Janet Koplos, Art in America magazine; Bruce Metcalf, artist and independent scholar, Bala Cynwood, Pennsylvania

Muddy Miracles: Meaning and Technique in Agnes Martin’s Paintings

Christina Bryan Rosenberger, Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums


Bu-re, Bo-ke Photography and Subverting the Eye/Lens Distinction: The Shooting Method of Provoke Photographers

Yuko Teshima, Graduate Center, City University of New York


Weaving, New Technology, and Content

Lia Cook, California College of the Arts


Making Difficulties

Kim Grant, University of Southern Maine


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Ceramics: Five Emerging Artists Survey the Discipline

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Walter McConnell, New York State College of Ceramics Alfred University

Courting Risk

Linda Sormin, Rhode Island School of Design


Conspicuous Consumption

John Byrd, University of South Florida


Toward Incongruency

Michael Jones McKean, Virginia Commonwealth University


Functional Languages

Anders Ruhwald, independent artist, London and Copenhagen


On Function and Content

Sanam Emami, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University


Discussant: Mary Drach McInnes, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University


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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants or Shooting at Father’s Corpse? The History of Italian Art, Then and Now

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Julia I. Miller, California State University, Long Beach; Anne Derbes, Hood College

“To lighten the dead weight of familiarity”

John Paoletti, Wesleyan University


Hagiolatry, Manuscripts, and Painting: Edward B. Garrison and the Study of Late Medieval Italian Art

Jessica Richardson, Courtauld Institute of Art


Trecento Studies during the 1930s: The Italian Commune through the Lens of Economic Turmoil

Patricia A. Emison, University of New Hampshire


The Gendering of Libertas and the International Gothic: Carlo Crivelli’s Ascoli Annunciation

Timothy D. McCall, Villanova University


Gender and Homosexuality: Finding Our Grandparents, Teaching Our Parents

James M. Saslow, Queens College, and Graduate Center, City University of New York


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Stereotypes of Women: Evil by Design? Part I

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Elizabeth K. Mix, Butler University

Amy Cutler’s New Feminine Mystique

Lisa Freiman, Indianapolis Museum of Art


Bathroom Tales: Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice

Nikki Renee Anderson


Subverting the Tyranny of Polykleitos

Jo-Ann Morgan, Coastal Carolina University


Disguised Image Control

Erin V. Sotak


Stereotype Sabotage

Simone Paterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University


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The Art and Business of Printmaking in Europe, 1400–1800

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Nadine M. Orenstein, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hopfer’s Designs for a Tabernacle for the Holy Sacrament: Two Sides of a Confessional Debate

Freyda Spira


Preparatory Drawings for Prints by Stradanus: A Personal Creative Act or a Workshop’s Method of Work in Late Renaissance Printmaking?

Alessandra Baroni, University of Siena


Etchings vs. Engravings: A Publisher’s Choice for Book Illustrations

Karen L. Bowen


Italian Prints for the Dutch and Flemish Market: Antonio Tempesta’s Cooperation with Pieter de Jode

Eckhard Leuschner, Universität Passau


"Con Licenza de' Superiori": Censorship of Prints in circa 1600 Rome

Christopher Etheridge, Harvard University


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Transformations of Time and Place in Moving-Image Work in the Digital Age, Part I

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Melissa Ragona, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University

Site Specificity and the Moving Image

Andrew V. Uroskie, Georgia Institute of Technology


Information Visualization: Condensing Time in New Media Works

Melissa Ragona, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University


Disjunctures in Institutional Time: The Museum and the Loop as a Temporal Form

Margot Bouman, Parsons, New School for Design


The Digital Public Sphere and Experience

Frazer Ward, Smith College


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ART HISTORY OPEN SESSION: Arts of the Islamic World

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Marianna Shreve Simpson, independent scholar, Baltimore

From Textiles to Algorithms: Revising an Islamic Aesthetic Paradigm

Carol Bier, Textile Museum


Reinventing the Ahl al-bayt: Sunni Patrons and Shi’ite Shrines in Medieval Aleppo

Stephennie Mulder, University of Pennsylvania


Multiple Visions: Official and Unofficial Illustrated Ottoman Histories

Emine Fetvaci, Stanford University


Invented Traditions: Uses of the Past in the Samanid Mausoleum at Bukhara

Melanie Michailidis, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC


Mughal and Rajput Architecture: Reconsidering the Borders of Islamic Art History

D. Fairchild Ruggles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


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Troubling the Waters: Homoeroticism and the Politics of Identity in Black Visual Culture

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: James Smalls, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

A Roman Catholic’s Closet: Another Look at Richmond Barthé’s Male Nudes

Margaret Rose Vendryes, York College, Graduate Center, City University of New York


Eye-to-Eye: Transmissibility and the Black Male Gaze: The Photography of Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Alex Hirst

David Dibosa, Wimbledon School of Art


If I’d Had a Cock I Would’ve Surely Had an Erection: Queering Adrian Piper’s Mythic Being

John P. Bowles, Indiana University


Afro-Latino Critique of a Kantian Enwhitened Idealism: Miguel Algarín’s Nuyorican Angels of Night

María DeGuzmán, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


Rockin’ the Boat: Illegal Identities, Illegal Identifications

Robert Summers, University of California, Los Angeles


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Skepticism and the Arts

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Aron Vinegar, Ohio State University; Bronwen Wilson, McGill University, University of British Columbia

Caravaggio, the Skeptical Painter; Montaigne, the Tenebrist Philosopher: Knowledge, Visibility, and Darkness around 1600

Itay Sapir, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales


Emanuel Maignan, Antiskepticism, and Anamorphosis

Lyle Massey, Northwestern University


Irresistible Dictation: Matisse and Personnalité

Todd Cronan, University of California, Berkeley


In the Face of Skepticism: Giacometti, Portraiture, and Alterity

Leo Costello, Rice University


The Crying Game: Skeptical Reflections on Bill Viola’s The Passions

Francis Chung, University of California, Berkeley


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The Unethical Art Museum

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary; Sally Anne Duncan, Plymouth State University

“The Congo, I Presume”: Tepid Revisionism and Belgian “Colonial Times” at the Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, 2005

Debora Silverman, University of California, Los Angeles


The Louvre’s Galerie Espagnole (1838–48) and the Politics of Acquisition

Alisa Luxenberg, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia


Museum Ethics vs. Vanity and Desperation

Elaine King, Carnegie Mellon University


The Ethical Art Museum

James Cuno, Art Institute of Chicago


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Robert Henri and “The Eight”: A Precentennial Reassessment

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Laural Weintraub, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York

Henri Encounters Chase: A Clash of Realisms

Kimberly A. Orcutt, Bruce Museum


Alternative Realities: Prendergast, Cézanne, and Early Film in 1908

Nancy Mowll Mathews, Williams College Museum of Art


Unearthing the Modern: George Bellows’s Excavation Series

Sarah Newman, National Gallery of Art


Will the Real John Sloan Please Stand Up?

Sascha Scott, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey


Discussant: Barbara Haskell, Whitney Museum of American Art


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Reversal: Artists Talk about Art History

Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Reva Wolf, State University of New York, New Paltz

Reading Art History: A New York Story

Peter Halley, Yale University


Inevitable Liminality: Oscillations of Sense in the Historical

George Quasha, Station Hill Press


Why Some People Make Art and Others Write about It

Faith Ringgold, University of California, San Diego


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Friday, February 16, 10:00 AM–12:30 PM

Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law, and Beyond, Part I

Friday, February 16, 10:00 AM–12:30 PM
Great Hall, 2nd Floor, New York City Bar Association
Chairs: Martha Buskirk, Montserrat College of Art; Virginia Rutledge, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Pierre N. Leval, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit


Inappropriate? Copying in the Renaissance

Lisa Pon, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University


The Problematic of the Signature: Reexamining Appropriation in Contemporary Indigenous Art and Cultural Heritage

Tressa Berman, San Francisco Art Institute


From Appropriation to Postproduction

Jaimey Hamilton, University of Hawai’i, Manoa


William Patry, Google


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Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM

Recent Work of Photo Grant Recipients

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Mickey Abel, University of North Texas

17th-Century Spanish Signatures

Lisandra Estevez, Rutgers State University of New Jersey


Christ Is in the Details: A Closer Look at Cristos Yacentes

Ilenia Colon Mendoza, Penn State University


Portraiture and Performance at the Court of Phillip II

Alejandra Gimenez-Berger, Temple University


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Cloisters: Urban Politics and the Monastic Ideal

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Kathleen G. Arthur, James Madison University; Amber A. McAlister, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg

The Dead Come to Town: Episcopal Burial Cloisters in the Medieval Italian City

Caroline A. Bruzelius, Duke University


Cloister, Control, and Community: Art and Observance at the Florentine Badia (1419–39)

Anne Leader, City University of New York


The Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore (Siena) and its Frescoes

Kurt Sundstrom, Currier Museum of Art


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Visual Culture in the War on Terror

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Zainab Bahrani, Columbia University

Target America—the Exhibit: The Implication of Visual Images in the War on Terrorism

Hashim al Tawil, Henry Ford Community College


Constructing Victory: Iraqi Visual Culture after 2003

Nada Shabout, University of North Texas


Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago


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International Residencies for Artists: Nuts and Bolts

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Anna Calluori Holcombe, Kansas State University

The “How To” for International Residencies

Anna Calluori Holcombe, Kansas State University


Global Exchanges and Their Impact

Linda Lighton, Lighton International Exchange Program, Kansas City Artists Coalition


Foreign Residencies: The Questions to Ask when Choosing

Caroline Boyle-Turner, Pont-Aven School of Art


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Records of the Past: New Electronic Resources from the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Katherine Crum, independent curator, New York

New Technologies Applied to Old Digs by the Harvard–Museum of Fine Arts Expeditions to the Giza Pyramids

Peter der Hanuelian, Giza Archives, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Peter Janosi, Institute of Egyptology, University of Vienna


The Culin Archives and Records of an Innovative 1923 Exhibition on African Art

Deirdre Laurence, Brooklyn Museum; Helen M. Shannon, independent scholar


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History of Art, History of Torture

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Stephen Eisenman, Northwestern University; Greg Sholette, independent artist, New York

Torture and Masculinity in George Grosz’s Drawings of 1934–35

James van Dyke, Reed College


Theaters of Duress: Leon Golub’s White Squads

Amber Travis, Northwestern University


Star Gazing

Hans Haacke, independent artist


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Managing Diversity in Studio Critique

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Coco Fusco, Columbia University

Anoka Faruqee, California Institute of the Arts


Pepon Osorio, Temple University


Terry Adkins, University of Pennsylvania


Discussant: Howard Singerman, University of Virginia


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Cultural Properties - Reconnecting Pacific Arts

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Haidy Geismar, New York University

Anita Herle, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology


Huhana Smith, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa


Joshua Bell, University of East Anglia


Jade Baker, Canterbury University


Discussant: Mark Busse, University of Auckland


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Fair Use in the Trenches: When to Seek Permission and When Not To

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: David Green, Knowledge Culture

Fair Use: Lessons from the Past to Help with Present Decisions

Siva Vaidhyanathan, New York University


Legal Perspectives

Gretchen Wagner, ARTstor


Fair Use and Visual Resource Collections

Benjamin Kessler, visual resources professional, Chicago


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Educational Programs of the International Sculpture Center

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Johannah Hutchison, International Sculpture Center; Paul Hubbard, Moore School of Art and Design, International Sculpture Center

Glenn Harper, International Sculpture Center, Sculpture magazine


Dawn Molignano, International Sculpture Center


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Waterflow

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: George Lorio, University of Texas at Brownsville

Waterflow

George Lorio, University of Texas at Brownsville


Waterflow

William Willis, American University


Waterflow

Steven Sherman, The Moore College of Art


water marks

Karen Schiff, Harwood Museum of Art


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Prints and the Revolution: A Conversation about Contemporary Art on Paper

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Traci Molloy, independent artist, Brooklyn

Peter Nesbitt, Art on Paper magazine


Dusica Kirjakovic, Lower East Side Printshop


Franklin Sirmans, Menil Collection


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Future-Minded: On the Resiliency of Feminism in Art

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Dena Muller

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Contemporary African Art: Moving Forward, Looking Back; Investigating the Currency of Contemporary African Art

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Odili Donald Odita, Tyler School of Art

Isolde Brielmaier, Rotunda Gallery, Vassar College


Olu Oguibe, University of Connecticut, Storrs


Barbara Pollack, independent artist, critic, and curator


Claude Simard, Jack Shainman Gallery


Carol Thompson, High Museum of Art


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Documentation for Video Artists: A Case Study of Nam June Paik

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Titus Auditorium, Theater Level, Museum of Modern Art
Chair: Gwynne Ryan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ulrich Lang, Museum of Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt


Jochen Saueracker, Independent Artist


Rodolf Freiling, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art


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Troubling that 1945 Border Again: Chronology, Geography, and Interpretation in American Art

Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Ellen Wiley Todd, George Mason University

C. Conrads, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art


Stephanie Fay, University of California Press


Francis Pohl, Pomona College


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Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM

Informal Conversations with New York Artists

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: - -

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35 Years Later: Feminist Art Practice after Womanhouse

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Becca Albee, City College, City University of New York; Tammy Rae Carland, California College of the Arts

The Big He/ad (re)Encounter: Beyond Dismissiveness

Jeanine Oleson, Sarah Lawrence College; Laurie Jo Reynolds, Columbia College, Chicago


LTTR

Ginger Brooks Takahashi, independent artist, Brooklyn


Feminist Skill Sharing: An Introduction to Pro Tools

Kathleen Hanna, independent artist and musician, New York


Work in Progress

Ava Johnson, independent artist, Durham, North Carolina


Making and Breaking News: New Report in Conversation

Wynne Greenwood, independent artist; K8 Hardy, independent artist


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Contemporary Postures to Meaning, Reception, and Integration of Outsider Art and the Academy

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Brooke Davis Anderson, Contemporary Center, American Folk Art Museum; Colin Rhodes, Sydney College of the Arts

Jane Kallir, Galerie St. Étienne


Contemporary Postures to Meaning, Reception, and Integration of Outsider Art and the Academy

Gregory Amenoff, Columbia University


Kevin Sampson, independent artist, Newark


Discussant: Bernard Herman, University of Delaware


Discussant: Lowery Stokes Sims, Studio Museum in Harlem


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Piety or Propaganda? Modern Religious Art in France, 1850–1927

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Maura Coughlin, Brown University

Jules Michelet, Modern Mother Mary, and the Catholic Left

Joyce C. Polistena, Pratt Institute


Piety, Propaganda, and Pognon: The Life of Our Savior Jesus Christ by James Tissot

Judith Dolkart, Brooklyn Museum


Stirring up Passions: The Reception of Mihály Munkácsky’s Christ Paintings in Late 19th-Century France

Laura Morowitz, Wagner College


Primitives and Believers: Debating Style and Spirituality in Early 20th-Century French Art

Neil McWilliam, Duke University


Matter and Mass at Monet’s Orangerie

James D. Herbert, University of California, Irvine


Discussant: Emily Gephart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts College of Art


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Virtualities: Contemporary Art between Fact and Fiction

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: T.J. Demos, University College, London; Margaret Sundell, independent critic, New York

Touching Pictures

David Joselit, Yale University


Staging an Archive

Vered Maimon, Columbia University


Compression

Tim Griffin, Artforum International magazine


Fiction Is the Only Way to Penetrate Reality: On Pierre Huyghe’s A Journey that Wasn’t

Mark Godfrey, Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London


Utopia as the Real in “Real Virtuality” and other Improbable Fictions

Hannah Feldman, Northwestern University


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Comic Relief: Humor’s Edge in Contemporary Art

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Douglas Dreishpoon, Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Jane Hammond


Jeanne Silverthorne


Fred Tomaselli


Janine Antoni


Charles Long


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Double Take: New Forms in Printmaking and Sculpture

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Carson Fox, Adelphi University; Cynthia Thompson, Memphis College of Art

The Graphic Unconscious: Prints at the Core of Contemporary Artistic Production

Jose Roca, Philagrafika


The Repetitive Gesture: From Image to Form and Back Again

Patricia Olynyk, University of Michigan


Intersection: Established and Emerging Forms of New Media

Mark Johnson, New York University


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Art History Open Session: Renaissance and Baroque Art

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: David Freedberg, Columbia University

Whose Cult (of) Images? Art and Idolatry in the 16th Century and Now

Claire Farago, University of Colorado, Boulder


Living Images: The Concept of Impetus in Italian Renaissance Art

Frank Fehrenbach, Harvard University


Between Phenomenology and Culture: The Places of Renaissance Mapping

Francesca Fiorani, University of Virginia


Montezuma’s Portraits: Semblance and Colonialism in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Michael Schreffler, Virginia Commonwealth University


Art History and Anthropology: Aura and Action

Ian Verstegen, independent scholar, Philadelphia


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Art and the Civilizing Process, 1200–1520

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Jacqueline E. Jung, Yale University; Mitchell B. Merback, DePauw University

Introduction: Norbert Elias, the Civilizing Process, and Art History

Mitchell B. Merback, DePauw University


Rogier van der Weyden’s Portraits of the Civilized Individual

Jessica Buskirk, University of California, Berkeley


The Spectacle of Sociability: The Loggia as Theater of Urbanitas

Kim S. Sexton, University of Arkansas


Civilizing Sex? Erotic Genre Painting in North Italy, c. 1520

Chriscinda Henry, University of Chicago


Lost in Self-Control? Urs Graf’s Images of Masculinity

Maike Christadler, Universität Basel


Response: Medieval Art and the Civilizing Process

Jacqueline E. Jung, Yale University


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Ruins

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Padma Kaimal, Colgate University; Janice Leoshko, University of Texas

From Knife Blades to Credit Cards: Penetrating Inka Ruins

Carolyn Dean, University of California, Santa Cruz


Recycling Ruins: Fountains Abbey, Studley Royal, and the Question of Authenticity

Sarah Thompson, Rochester Institute of Technology


A Clean Sweep: The Ruins of Postwar London

Deborah Lewittes, Tufts University


Decrepitude and Memory in Post-Unification Berlin

Daniela Sandler, Rhode Island School of Design


Locations of Longing: The Ruins of Old Lahore

Saleema Waraich, University of California, Los Angeles


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Visual Music

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Cornelia Lund, Fluctuating Images Contemporary Media Art

The Silent Music Is Finally Heard: Early Experiments in Visual Music

Lorettann Gascard, Franklin Pierce College


Designing in Time

Brian Evans, University of Alabama


Nicolas Schoeffer’s Visual Music: The Regulation of All the Senses

Herve Vanel, Brown University


Performing Pictures/Picturing Performance: Some Efforts to Distinguish Visual Music from Music Videos

Matthias Weiss, Freie Universität, Berlin


If You Could See It, Then You’d Understand: Visual Musician Mark Romanek and Coldplay’s Speed of Sound

Henry Keazor, Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Kunstgeschichte


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The Politics of Modernism: Architecture and Power in the Postwar Decades

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Israel Institute of Technology; Juliana Maxim, University of San Diego

Tensions in Postwar Italian Architecture: Receptions and Rejections of American Modernism during the Cold War

Paolo Scrivano, University of Toronto


Monumentality by the Linear Foot: Carlu's Temporary UN and the Architecture of Parliamentary Diplomacy

Lucia Allais, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Sea, Sun, and Modernism: Leisure as a Political Strategy in Socialist Romania

Carmen Popescu


A Constitutional Modernism: Law, Planning, and Architecture in Postwar Cuba

Timothy Hyde, Harvard University


Alvar Aalto, the Discourse of Universal Humanist Architecture, and Finland’s Geopolitical Dilemma after the Second World War

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale University


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The Art Market as Medium of Cultural Transfers

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Michael North, University of Greifswald; Christian Huemer

How New York Stole the Art Market: The American Art Association, the French Picture Craze, and Bourgeois Identity in Gilded Age America

John Ott, James Madison University


On the Cusp of Global Prominence: The New Vanguard of Indian Contemporary Art

Arshiya Mansoor Lokhandwala


The Merchant Made Maecenas: Joseph Duveen and the Translation of the Art Dealer into Museum Philanthropist

Christopher R. Marshall


Examining the Economics of Art: The Rise of Leo Castelli Gallery and Its Global Effect

Midori Yamamura


How Folk Artists Become Great Masters: Museum Exhibition and/as Global Marketing

Mary K. Coffey, Dartmouth College


Discussant: Hans Van Miegroet


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The Middle Path? Between Style and Cultural History in Chinese Painting Scholarship

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Kathleen M. Ryor, Carleton College; Jennifer G. Purtle, University of Toronto

Yu Controlling the Flood: Ecology, Emperorship, and 11th-Century Chinese Painting

Heping Liu, Wellesley College


Murals without Manuscripts: Style, Substance, and Social Constructs in the Dunhuang Caves

Winston Kyan, Macalester College


Yan Liben and the Authoritative Documentary Style in Chinese Painting History

Julia K. Murray, University of Wisconsin, Madison


A Tale of Two Scholars: Rhetorical Exigencies and Strategies in Cahill and Fong

Jason C. Kuo, University of Maryland


Discussant: Anne Burkus-Chasson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


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Love/Sick

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Rendezvous Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Tina Takemoto, California College of the Arts; Elizabeth Stephens, University of California, Santa Cruz

Linda Montano, independent artist, Saugerties, New York


Tania Katan, independent playwright, Phoenix


Angela Ellsworth, Arizona State University


Tina Takemoto, California College of the Arts


Elizabeth Stephens, University of California, Santa Cruz


Annie Sprinkle, independent artist, San Francisco


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Art and Pornography

Friday, February 16, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Joe A. Thomas, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Art vs. Pornography? On the Discursive Limits of Sexual Representation

Annamari Vänskä, University of Helsinki


Henry Fuseli’s “Pornographic” Drawings: Difficult Viewing Material?

Camilla Smith, University of Birmingham


Media Exposure and Celebrity Intimacy: Jeff Koons’s Made in Heaven

Beck Feibelman, University of Pennsylvania


Digital Appropriation and Pornography in Reverse

Kelly Dennis, University of Connecticut


Discussant: Alyce Mahon, University of Cambridge


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Friday, February 16, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM

Feminist Art in Southern California

Friday, February 16, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Betty Ann Brown, California State University, Northridge

Southern California Feminists and Body Image: A Performative Response

Stacy Schultz, California State University, Northridge


Beyond Essentialism and Social Construction: Femaleness and Feminism in Post-Postmodernity

Marlena Donohue, Otis College of Art and Design


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The Qualities of Enduring Art Publications

Friday, February 16, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Susan Chun, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kraig Binkowski, Yale Center for British Art


Max Marmor, ARTstor


Sharon Helgason Gallagher, D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers


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African Art and Visual Culture: Pedagogical Perspectives from Classroom to Museum

Friday, February 16, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Christa Clarke, Newark Museum; Kim Miller, Wheaton College

Representing Africa in the Classroom: Teaching African Issues and African Art

Kim Miller, Wheaton College


Wrestling with Geography, Ethnicity, and Culture in the African Survey: Views from a Nonspecialist

Renee Ater, University of Maryland


Enriching the Museum Visitor Experience with African Art

Heather Nielsen, Denver Art Museum


Audience, Accessibilty and African Art: Making Exhibitions Matter

Christa Clarke, Newark Museum


Discussant: Kate Ezra, Columbia College, Chicago


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Innovative Course Design Competition

Friday, February 16, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Kelly Donahue-Wallace, University of North Texas

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Exhibitors' Session: Finding Common Ground—Understanding the Most Important Structural Part of Your Painting

Friday, February 16, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Mark Gottsegen, Art Materials Information and Education Network (AMIEN) and author of The Painter’s Handbook

The Importance of Proper Ground for Your Painting, Properties of a Quality Ground, and the Difference between House Paint and Gesso

Mark D. Gottsegen, Art Materials Information and Education Network (AMIEN) and author of The Painter’s Handbook


Treating Your Substrate before Applying a Ground and Using Primers or Sizes under Your Ground

Scott Gellatly, Gamblin Artist Colors


Applying Grounds to Your Canvas: Application Methods on Various Substrates, Including Board and Paper

Tim Hopper, Holbein Artist’s Materials


Differences between Traditional Gesso and Acrylic Dispersion Primers

Pierre Guidetti, Savoire Faire, importer of Lascaux and Sennelier paints


Using Acrylic Dispersion Primers underneath Oil Paintings

Lynne Pearl, Winsor & Newton, ColArt Americas


Other than Acrylic Dispersion Primers: Alternative Grounds with Which to Start Your Work

Joe Gyurcsak, Utrecht Art Supplies


Developing Standards for Primers and Grounds

William Berthel, Golden Artist Colors


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Roundtable: Questioning Our Methods, Part II: Style

Friday, February 16, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Alka Patel

Questioning Our Methods: Past, Present, and Future

Alka Patel


The Problem of Gandharan Style: Colonialism and Chronology

Kurt Behrendt, Metropolitan Museum of Art


Rethinking Style in Indian Temple Architecture

Tamara I. Sears, New York University


Conceiving Style in Rajput Painting

Molly Emma Aitken, independent scholar


Deconstructing “Style” through Practice: Contemporary Art from Pakistan

Anna Sloan, Mount Holyoke College


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Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM

Private Passions as Public Legacies

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Bryant Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: K. Porter Aichele, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

In Storage: George Gustav Heye, His Collection, and the National Museum of the American Indian

Jeffrey Abt, Wayne State University


Reexamining a National Gift: The Philanthropy of Samuel H. Kress and the Passage of Italian Art into Middle America

Roger J. Crum, University of Dayton


Brahmin Fantasies: Japanese Collections in Boston

Christopher Reed, Lake Forest College


Samuel Bancroft’s Pre-Raphaelite Collection at the Delaware Art Museum: A Case Study . . . In Progress

Margaretta S. Frederick, Delaware Art Museum


American and Modern: Edward W. Root and the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Mary E. Murray, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute


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The (Cyber) Space of Hands-On Studio Learning: Theory and Praxis

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Rebecca Alm, Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Carol Padberg, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford

Doing the Same Thing Differently: The Impact of Technology in Teaching Painting, Drawing, and Design

Rebecca Alm, Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Carol Padberg, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford


The Accessibility of Labor: Rethinking the Pedagogy of the Digital Curriculum

Stephan Hillerbrand, University of Houston


Mobile Mapping for Everyday Spaces

Kevin Hamilton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; M. Simon Levin


A Pedagogy for Computational Studio Practice

Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths College, University of London


Discussant: Craig Smith, Goldsmiths College, University of London


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Professional Concerns of Studio Art Faculty: A Second Look

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Michael Aurbach, Vanderbilt University

Joe Deal, Rhode Island School of Design


Ruth Weisberg, University of Southern California


Emma Amos, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey


Carmon Colangelo, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University, St. Louis


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

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grace Rainey Rogers, Main Floor, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chair: Carmen C. Bambach, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Leonardo da Vinci’s Giant Crossbow

Matthew Landrus, Rhode Island School of Design


Bramante’s Disegno Grandissimo: Raising UA 287

Henry Dietrich Fernandez, Rhode Island School of Design


Antwerp Mannerist Drawings and the Goal of Connoisseurship

Yao-Fen You, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; William Robinson, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University


Drawing in the Art of the Young Guido Reni

Rachel Kordonowy McGarry, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


An Important Collector in Madrid: Francisco de Solis

Lisa Banner, Hispanic Society of America


The Making of John Talman’s Collection

Cinzia Sicca Bursill-Hall, Università di Pisa


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Studio Art Open Session: Meanings and Functions of Narrative

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Robert Berlind, Purchase College, State University of New York; Jenny Dubnau, independent artist, New York

Robert Colesecott


Eric Fischl


Mernet Larsen


Judith Linhares


Beverly McIver


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Photography in and about the Middle East

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Frederick Bohrer, Hood College; David Prochaska, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Images in Afghanistan

Holly Edwards, Williams College


Ottoman Snaps

Nancy Micklewright, Getty Foundation


New Eyes: Postcards of the Holy Land, Geographic and Imagined

Shelley Hornstein, York University


Photography and the Performance of Middle-Classness in Interwar Egypt

Lucie Ryzova, St. John's College, Oxford


Photography, Taxonomy, and Irony: Strategies of the Arab Image Foundation

Alexandra Karentzos, University of Trier


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Breaking New Ground or Conflict of Interest: An Examination of Contemporary Ethical Practices in the Visual Arts

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Hilary Braysmith, University of Southern Indiana

The Ethics of Contracts with Persons: Life Models in the University Studio

Sherry Lee Short, Minnesota State University


The Intersection of Art, Ethics, and Biotechnology

Ellen K. Levy, independent artist, New York


Ethical Models: How Buddhism Informs Public Practices

Suzanne Lacy, Otis College of Art and Design


The Field Weighs in: Identifying Ethical Concerns and Solutions in the Visual Arts—A Facilitated Discussion

Hilary Braysmith, University of Southern Indiana


Discussant: Gail Levin, Baruch College, and Graduate Center, City University of New York


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The Coming of Age of Medieval “Minor” Arts

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Brigitte Buettner, Smith College

When the “Minor” Arts Are Major: From Jewelry to Ships in Scandinavia

Nancy L. Wicker, University of Mississippi


Cloths of Conquest: The Bayeux Tapestry and the Coronation Cloak of Roger II

Lisa Reilly, University of Virginia


Adorning Heaven on Earth: The Materials of the Reliquary of Otto I

Eliza Garrison, Middlebury College


The Relief Icon: On the Tactility of Vision in Byzantium

Bissera V. Pentcheva, Stanford University


Discussant: Ilene H. Forsyth, University of Michigan


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What’s So Funny? Senses of Humor in 19th-Century American Visual Culture

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Sarah Burns, Indiana University; Jennifer Greenhill, Yale University

Dirty Laundry: Dark Humor in Raphaelle Peale’s Venus Rising From the Sea—A Deception

Lauren Lessing, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Mary Schafer, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art


“A Striking Likeness”: Politics, Pugilism, and Pictorial Humor in Antebellum America

Ross Barrett, Boston University


Photography’s Blacks and Whites: Racial Humor in 19th-Century Photographic Discourse

Tanya Sheehan, Columbia University


Undermining the Foundations: Architecture, Caricature, Modernity

Preston Thayer, Radford University Art Museum


Laughing Matters: Caricature and Criticism in American Art Schools

Heather Campbell Coyle, University of Delaware


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ART HISTORY OPEN SESSION: New Perspectives on the Pre-Columbian Arts of Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and Veracruz

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Diana Fane, Brooklyn Museum; Emily Umberger, Arizona State University

Old Men and Fire: The Place of Huehueteotl in Central Mexican Art

Matthew H. Robb, Yale University


Cacaxtla Figural Ceramics

Debra Nagao, Columbia University


Cacaxtla Figural Ceramics

Claudia Brittenham, Yale University


New Perspectives on the Art of Eastern Nahua, Mixtec, and Zapotec Confederacies, 1300–1521

John M. D. Pohl, Princeton University Art Museum; Virginia Fields, Los Angeles County Museum of Art


Written in the Flesh: Huastec Sculpture and the Cult of the Feathered Serpent

Kim Richter, University of California, Los Angeles


Pictures Silenced by Words: Rethinking the Problem of Aztec Picture-Writing

Janice Lynn Robertson, independent scholar, New York


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Art and Transnationalism in China and Its Neighbors, 900–1300

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Shih-shan Susan Huang, Rice University; Hsueh-man Shen, University of Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland

Metal Crowns of the Liao (907–1125) Khitan

Hiromi Kinoshita, British Museum


Xi Xia Buddhist Woodcut Prints Excavated in Khara Khoto: An Example of Transculturation in East Asia

Anne Saliceti-Collins, University of Washington


Exhaustive Explorations of Muqi: Noami’s Ink Bird-and-Flower Screen

Xiaojin Wu, Princeton University


The Moment of a Synthesis: The Sculptural Portrait of Yang Liangzhenjia and the Intergration of Tibetan and Chinese Style Images at Feilaifeng

Chang Qing, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


Discussant: François Louis, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture


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ART HISTORY OPEN SESSION: Late Antique Art

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Ann Kuttner, University of Pennsylvania

Hierarchical Pluralism and the Semiotics of Late Antique Ornament

Benjamin Anderson, Bryn Mawr College


Heavenly Rome in the Apse Mosaic of Santa Pudenziana

Marice Rose, Fairfield University


Aesthetic Decisions in the 4th-Century City Wall of Aphrodisias

Peter De Staebler, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


A 4th-Century Villa at Constantinople

Orgu Dalgic, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


Spinning the Self: Spindle Whorls, Sword Beads, and the Construction of Late Antique Identity

Genevra Kornbluth, University of Maryland


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The Contemporary Relevance of the Renaissance Palette

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Michael Price, independent artist, New York

The Use of Traditional Pigments in Conjunction with Contemporary Binding Media and Techniques

Michael Skalka, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC


The Effect of Different Binding Media on the Color of Azurite Paints during Aging

Shuya Wei, Vienna University of Technology


The Preparation of Red Pigments, Cinnabar, Purple, Carmine, and Madder Lake Compared with the New Products

Georg Kremer, Kremer Pigments


The Myth of the Secret Juice of the Flemish Masters

Michael Price, independent artist, New York


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Detecting Architecture: Questions of Evidence in Architectural History

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Charles Rice, University of Technology, Sydney; Barbara Penner, University College, London

Detecting Architecture: Questions of Evidence in Architectural History

Barbara Penner, University College, London


On the Observation of Trifles

Laura J. Miller, Harvard University


Lexicon for an Architectural Subject: Subjectivity, Experience, and the Intimate Encounter

Lilian Chee, National University of Singapore


Secondhand Sight

Mitchell Schwarzer, California College of the Arts


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Art Catalogues Then and Now

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Susan F. Rossen, Art Institute of Chicago; Martha M. Ward, University of Chicago

An Ivory Carver’s Life and Works: An Early Catalogue Raisonné?

Malcolm C. Baker, University of Southern California


The Power of the Word in the Early Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Matthias Waschek, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts


The Catalogue as Critical Intervention

Martha M. Ward, University of Chicago


1930s Soviet Museum Catalogues

Konstantin Akinsha, Harvard University


Catalogues of Today: An Endangered Species?

Susan F. Rossen, Art Institute of Chicago


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Safety Hazards for the Artist and the Art Institution

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Duane Slick, Rhode Island School of Design

Art and the Agencies: OSHA, EPA, CPSC, and More

Monona Rossol, Arts, Crafts, and Theater Safety


The “Art” of Federal Environmental Enforcement

Carl F. Plossl, US Environmental Protection Agency


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Depolarizing American Modernism, 1915–40

Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Kristina Wilson, Clark University; Baird Jarman, Carleton College

Cross-Pollinating Modernism: Stuart Davis and Marcel Duchamp

Timothy G. Andrus, Virginia Commonwealth University


American Art in Black and White: Depolarizing the 1930s

Phoebe Wolfskill, Dartmouth College


A Modern Reality: Audrey Buller in Retrospect

Susan J. Baker, University of Houston, Downtown; Mark Cervenka, University of Houston, Downtown


Beyond Modernist Histories: Rethinking the Marketplace for American Modernist Art

Andrea Pappas, Santa Clara University


The Polarization of American Modernism at the American Art Today Exhibition at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Michele Greet, George Mason University


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Saturday, February 17, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM

Grant Information Session

Saturday, February 17, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Sean Elwood, Creative Capital Foundation

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Art Partners: The Erotics of Collaboration

Saturday, February 17, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Tirza Latimer, Yale University; Harmony Hammond, independent artist, Galisteo, New Mexico

Kim Anno and Anne Carson, Collaboration

Kim Anno


Finger in the Dyke Productions

Lori Millan; Shawna Dempsey


Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe, Collaboration

Carrie Moyer; Sheila Pepe


LTTR

Ulrike Mueller; Ginger Takahashi


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Sex Acts: Performance and Perversion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Saturday, February 17, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Allison Levy, Wheaton College

Gay Kisses/Queer Wishes: Enactments of Sodomy in the Bible moralisée Tradition

Robert Mills, King’s College, London


Embodying Women: The Relationship between the Body of the Cleric and the Imagery of English Medieval Misericords

Erin Griffey, University of Auckland


Witness and Wit: The Visual Culture of Erotic Humor in Renaissance Italy

Patricia Simons, University of Michigan


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Play, Politics, and the Self in 18th-Century Art

Saturday, February 17, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Bryant Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Jennifer Milam, University of Sydney

Play in the Garden in 18th-Century Venice

Sally Grant, University of Sydney


The National Élysée: François Gérard’s Portrait of Louis-Marie Revelliere-Lépeaux and the Politics of Landscape Portraiture during the French Revolution

Amy Freund, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington


Marie-Geneviève Bouliar (1763–1825) and the Invention of Self in Revolutionary France

Yuriko Anne Bacon, École du Louvre Paris X


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Speaking of the Artist Lecture

Saturday, February 17, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Patricia C. Phillips, State University of New York, New Paltz

Carol Becker, School of the Art Institute of Chicago


Mary Heilmann, independent artist


Romi Crawford, School of the Art Institute of Chicago


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Issues in Art History Publishing

Saturday, February 17, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Catherine Soussloff, University of California, Santa Cruz; William Tronzo, Stanford Humanities Center

Mariët Westermann, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


Susan Bielstein, University of Chicago Press


Patricia Rubin, Courtauld Institute of Art


The Art Book as Object:The Aesthetics of Publishing from Print to Digital

Robert Stein, Institute for the Future of the Book


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Teaching the College Art History Survey Course

Saturday, February 17, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Joy Sperling, Denison University

Strategies of Inclusion: The Nonwestern Challenge

Susan Aberth, Bard College


Merging Contemporary Art into the Curriculum throughout the Year

Doug Darracott, Plano West Senior High School


Teaching to the Exam: Teaching Away from the Exam

John Nici, Lawrence High School


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A Faustian Bargain? Emerging Artists, Critics, and the Market

Saturday, February 17, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Amei Wallach, independent critic and filmmaker, New York

Jeffrey Deitch, Deitch Projects


Mera and Don Rubell, private collectors, Miami


Jerry Saltz, critic, Village Voice


Peter Plagens, independent artist and critic, New York


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Drawing Blood: Images of Sacrifice and Identity in Mexico, Pre-Hispanic to the Present

Saturday, February 17, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Juliet Wiersema, University of Maryland; Pamela Huckins, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Aztec Royal Bloodletting and the Postbellum Reinvention of a Sculptural Genre

William L. Barnes, Saginaw Valley State University


The Significance of Extreme Violence in Franciscan Martyr Portraits

Chad Alvarez, Harvard University


Blood as Symbol of Sacrifice and Redemption in Codex Delilah

Ann Marie Leimer, University of Redlands


David Stuart, University of Texas, Austin


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Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM

Art and Psychoanalysis, Part II: 20th-Century Perspectives

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gramercy A, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Laurie Schneider Adams, John Jay College, City University of New York

Doppelgänger: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Self-Self Object Relationship

Scott Budzynski, Justus-Liebig University


Childhood and Eros: Parallels between Paul Klee and Sigmund Freud

Jonathan Perkins, University of Illinois, Springfield


Jackson Pollock, Psychological Projection, and the Virtuality of Screening

Francis V. O'Connor, independent scholar, New York


In Memory of My Feelings: Jasper Johns, Psychoanalysis, and the Expressive Gesture

Seth McCormick, Columbia University


Narrative or Episodic Self-Consciousness? The View from Neuroaesthetics

Barbara Maria Stafford, University of Chicago


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

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Petit Trianon, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Emily Braun, Hunter College, Graduate Center, City University of New York; Michelangelo Sabatino, University of Houston

Brigands for Hire: Painting, Politics, and Sexuality in Leopold Robert’s Post-Napoleonic Italy

Crawford Alexander Mann III, Yale University


Aphorism and Primitivism: De Chirico’s The Evil Genius of a King between the Antedeluvian and the Posthuman

Ara Merjian, University of California, Berkeley


The Photographic Vision of Architettura rurale italiana

Lindsay Harris, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University


Archaic Mediterranean: Sicily, the Land of Myth in the Films of Vittorio de Seta and the Novels of Elio Vittorini

Maria Antonietta Malleo, Università degli Studi di Palermo


Cultural Revolution/Culture Clash: Arte Povera as “Guerilla War”

Nicholas Cullinan, Courtauld Institute of Art


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Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law, and Beyond, Part II

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Martha Buskirk, Montserrat College of Art; Virginia Rutledge, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Stopped Making Sense: Appropriation as a 1970s Social Phenomenon

Sarah Evans, Cornell University


The Reign of the Quotation—Appropriation and Its Audience

Johanna Burton, Princeton University


Art Appropriation and Identity

Sharon Matt Atkins, Currier Museum of Art


Art and Activism: The Xingwei of Wang Hai and Zhao Bandi

Winnie Wong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Discussant: Arindam Dutta


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STUDIO ART OPEN SESSION: Book Arts

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Steve Clay, Granary Books

Talespin: On Making Artist’s Books

Susan Bee, School of Visual Art


Clifton Meador’s Memory Lapse and The Nameless Dead: In[ter]ventions of the Travel Memoir

Betty Bright, independent curator, Deephaven, Minnesota


If It Works, It’s Obsolete: Retrieving Marshall McLuhan

Harry Reese, University of California, Santa Barbara


Books of the MKimberly Press

Mare Blocker, University of Idaho


Outside of What? Tracing the Aesthetic, Economic, and Political Strategies of Contemporary Do-It-Yourself Culture

Doro Boehme, School of the Art Institute of Chicago


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Museum Counter-Culture: The History of University Art Museums in America

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Bonnie G. Kelm, independent scholar, Ventura, California

The College Art Gallery, the Museum, and the Student Room: Reading Photographs of Art at Harvard and Smith, c. 1900

Dorothy Moss, University of Delaware


Maori Art in the Ivy League: The Early Collection and Display of Maori Art at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Jennifer Wagelie, National Gallery of Art, Washington


A Movable Art: University Exhibitions of the Société Anonyme Collection, 1942–52

Susan Greenberg Fisher, Yale University Art Gallery


Neuberger Museum of Art: Rethinking Its Role as a College Museum

Tracy Fitzpatrick, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York


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When Is Technique Central to Meaning? Part II

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Janet Koplos, Art in America magazine; Bruce Metcalf, artist and independent scholar, Bala Cynwood, Pennsylvania

Bruce Metcalf, artist and independent scholar, Bala Cynwood, Pennsylvania


Mia Reinoso Genoni, University of Richmond


Virginia B. Spivey, University of North Carolina, Asheville


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Lost and Found

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Jessica Levin Martinez, University of Chicago

Lost on the Borderlands: Destroying Art in Roman Germany

Rachel Kousser, Brooklyn College, City University of New York


The Missing Chief’s House of Hilimondregeraya Village, South Nias

Jerome Feldman, Hawai’i Pacific University


Lost and Found Dada Objects (and Subjects): George Grosz’s Germany: A Winter’s Tale and Hannah Höch’s Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada, and German Jewish Identity

Peter Chametzky, Southern Illinois University


The Theft of Caravaggio’s Palermo Nativity

Danielle Carrabino, Courtauld Institute of Art


Revealing Richard Prince

Michael Lobel, Purchase College, State University of New York


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Taking Sides: The Role of the Artist in Conflict Situations

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sutton Parlor South, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Conor McGrady, independent artist, Brooklyn

Male Fantasies: Otto Dix’s Soldier Selves

Elizabeth Otto, State University of New York, Buffalo


Cultural Collaboration: Artists in the Service of Global Oil

Kevin Noble, New York City College of Technology


War Is Surreal: Lee Miller’s Photodocumentation of World War II

Caitlin S. Davis, The Frick Collection


Loyal Enemy Alien: Yasuo Kuniyoshi and US Anti-Japan Propaganda

ShiPu Wang, University of California, Merced


Hannah Arendt vs. Immanuel Kant: Banality or Radical Evil? The Political Responsibility of Artists in the Face of Three Historical Episodes of Genocide

Gary Laurence Nickard, University at Buffalo, State University of New York


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Stereotypes of Women: Evil by Design? Part II

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Bryant Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Elizabeth K. Mix, Butler University

Five Things Created Subject to Frailty

Kimberly Hylton, Purdue University


The Spin on Models of Femininity and Female “Culture” in the Art of Janine Antoni

Stephanie Karamitsos, School of the Art Institute of Chicago


Embodying Conflict: The Cheryl Yun Collection, Lingerie and Swimwear Series

Cheryl Yun, Purdue University


The Geisha Within? History and Translatability in Miwa Yanagi’s My Grandmothers

Miriam Wattles, University of California, Santa Barbara


Purging the Criminal Compulsion—The Ritualization of Deviant Female Acts

Catherine E. Bell, Monash University


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Subject: Photography

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Stephen C. Pinson, New York Public Library; Andres Mario Zervigon, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey

Douglas Crimp, University of Rochester


Liz Deschenne, independent artist


Natasha Egan, Museum of Contemporary Photography


Douglas Nickel, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona


Joel Snyder, University of Chicago


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Ephemeral Art and the Tyranny of Preservation

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Murray Hill Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Allyson Purpura, George Washington University

Performance and Documentation: (Re)Presenting Ana Mendieta

Beth Nardella, West Virginia University


Liminality, Memory, and the Ephemeral

Michele Brody, independent artist, New York


From Ruin to Rise: The Contradictions of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Building Fragments

Ellen Moody, Pomona College


Acquisition, Alteration, and Ambivalence: The Preservation of the Noah Purifoy Sculpture Park

Linda Lui, independent scholar, Alameda, California


Very Large Collections and Ephemeral Art: The Joseph Selle Collection of Street Vendor Photography

Andrew Eskind, Visual Studies Workshop; David Mount, Visual Studies Workshop


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Transformations of Time and Place in Moving-Image Work in the Digital Age, Part II

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gramercy B, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Melissa Ragona, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University

Divorced Horizons: Form, Effect, and Notions of Documentary

Benjamin Gerdes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


The Simultaneity of Time in New Media Art: The Work of Melik Ohanian

Christine Ross


“In All Its Quantized Splendor”: Gary Hill from Pixel to Grid

Zabet Patterson, University of California, Berkeley


Digitalization, Installation, and Contradiction: Approaching the Digital as Concept

Michael Graham, Sheffield Hallam University


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The Field of Abstraction and the Thickness of Paint

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Lane Relyea, Northwestern University

When Action Painting Is a Monochrome

Annika Marie, University of Texas, Austin


From Depth to Surface: Material, Rhetorical, and Historical Dimensions of Loss

Jennifer Way, University of North Texas


Expedient Facture: Ryman, Nozkowski, and Zurier

Vittorio Colaizzi, St. Mary’s College of Maryland


Trend Report

Joanne Greenbaum, independent artist, New York


Electric Orange Paisley

Mark Harris, University of Cincinnati


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Venturing Overseas: Best Practices in Study Abroad Programs in the Visual Arts

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gibson Room, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Jean Robertson, Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University; Craig McDaniel, Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University

Time, Space and Inspiration: The Lessons of Study Abroad

Timothy Emlyn Jones, Burren College of Art


Safe and Sound: Sifting through Current International Studies Experiences

Ginger Sheridan, Jacksonville University; Scott Tayloe, Jacksonville University


MICA Korea: Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Program

Mina Cheon, Maryland Institute College of Art


Ecstasy in situ: The Discovery of Baroque Art on Study Abroad

Terry Kirk, American University of Rome


Discussant: Nevin Brown, International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership


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Tradition Unbound: Contemporary Responses to Art's Past, Part II

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Madison Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Murtaza Vali, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Anna Sloan, Mount Holyoke College

Then and Now/Here and There: Nomadism and Poetry in the Art of Francesco Clemente

Anna Mecugni, Graduate Center, City University of New York


Wellspring or Dam? The Politics of Tradition in Contemporary Art in Iran

Alisa Eimen, Minnesota State University, Mankato


Between the Traditional and the Modern: Contemporary Art in India and Nigeria

Margaret Richardson, George Mason University


Revisiting Tradition in Contemporary African Art

Kimberly Allen-Kattus, Northern Kentucky University


Global Africa: Contemporary Art of the Black Atlantic World

Carol Thompson, High Museum of Art


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Ecology and Ethics of Art | Science Projects

Saturday, February 17, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Victoria Vesna, University of California, Los Angeles, Art|Science Center

Activist Discourses: Inside the Lab Context

Jill Scott, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich; Daniel Bisig, Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Zurich


Morphing Art and Science Labs: Negotiating Unknown Terrain

James Gimzewski, University of California, Los Angeles


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