Private Passions as Public Legacies
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
The (Cyber) Space of Hands-On Studio Learning: Theory and Praxis
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
Professional Concerns of Studio Art Faculty: A Second Look
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
ART HISTORY OPEN SESSION: The Study of Drawings, Europe, 1300–1700, Part II
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
Studio Art Open Session: Meanings and Functions of Narrative
Robert Colesecott
Eric Fischl
Mernet Larsen
Judith Linhares
Beverly McIver
Photography in and about the Middle East
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
Breaking New Ground or Conflict of Interest: An Examination of Contemporary Ethical Practices in the Visual Arts
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
International Center of Medieval Art
The Coming of Age of Medieval “Minor” Arts
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
What’s So Funny? Senses of Humor in 19th-Century American Visual Culture
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
ART HISTORY OPEN SESSION: New Perspectives on the Pre-Columbian Arts of Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and Veracruz
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
Art and Transnationalism in China and Its Neighbors, 900–1300
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
ART HISTORY OPEN SESSION: Late Antique Art
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
The Contemporary Relevance of the Renaissance Palette
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
Detecting Architecture: Questions of Evidence in Architectural History
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
Association of Art Editors
Art Catalogues Then and Now
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
ARTspace
Safety Hazards for the Artist and the Art Institution
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
Depolarizing American Modernism, 1915–40
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
Creative Capital
Grant Information Session
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Queer Caucus for Art
Art Partners: The Erotics of Collaboration
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
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Sex Acts: Performance and Perversion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
Play, Politics, and the Self in 18th-Century Art
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
ARTspace
Speaking of the Artist Lecture
Carol Becker, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Mary Heilmann, independent artist
Romi Crawford, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
CAA Publications Committee
Issues in Art History Publishing
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
Advanced Placement Program Art History
Teaching the College Art History Survey Course
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
International Association of Art Critics
A Faustian Bargain? Emerging Artists, Critics, and the Market
Jeffrey Deitch, Deitch Projects
Mera and Don Rubell, private collectors, Miami
Jerry Saltz, critic, Village Voice
Peter Plagens, independent artist and critic, New York
Association for Latin American Art
Drawing Blood: Images of Sacrifice and Identity in Mexico, Pre-Hispanic to the Present
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
Art and Psychoanalysis, Part II: 20th-Century Perspectives
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
Italia barbara: “Primitives” from Piero to Pasolini, Part II
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
Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law, and Beyond, Part II
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
STUDIO ART OPEN SESSION: Book Arts
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
CAA Museum Committee
Museum Counter-Culture: The History of University Art Museums in America
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
When Is Technique Central to Meaning? Part II
Bruce Metcalf, artist and independent scholar, Bala Cynwood, Pennsylvania
Mia Reinoso Genoni, University of Richmond
Virginia B. Spivey, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Lost and Found
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
Taking Sides: The Role of the Artist in Conflict Situations
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
Stereotypes of Women: Evil by Design? Part II
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
Subject: Photography
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
ARTspace
Ephemeral Art and the Tyranny of Preservation
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
Transformations of Time and Place in Moving-Image Work in the Digital Age, Part II
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
Studio Art Open Session
The Field of Abstraction and the Thickness of Paint
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
Venturing Overseas: Best Practices in Study Abroad Programs in the Visual Arts
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
Tradition Unbound: Contemporary Responses to Art's Past, Part II
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
Ecology and Ethics of Art | Science Projects
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
