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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