At the Getty
The Getty will host sessions chaired by Getty curators and staff at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa on Wednesday and Saturday. A parking fee of $10 will be charged at the Getty Center and The Getty Villa for the daytime sessions.
Wednesday, February 25
Sessions at the Getty Center:
9:30 AM–12:00 PM
That Captured Instant of Time: Realism and Drama in Baroque SculptureChair: Catherine Hess
(Harold M. Williams Auditorium)
The Languet de Gergy Tomb: Visible and Invisible Components
Anne Betty Weinshenker, Montclair State University
Temporality and Narration in the Sculptural Morceaux de Reception of the Academie Royale in Paris
Ursula Stroebele, Heinrich-Heine University
Acting and Symbolizing Sacred Narratives: Polychrome Sculpture in the Sacro Monte of Varese
Marco Musillo, Centro Incontri Umani
Speaking of Likeness: The Act of Liveliness
Maarten Delbeke, Ghent University
Ferrata on Fire, Agnes in Flames
Jessica Boehman, University of Pennsylvania
Luxury Devotional Books and Their Female Owners
Chairs: Thomas Kren and Richard Leson
(Museum Lecture Hall)
The Breviary of Beatrijs van Assendelft
Anne Margreet W. As-Vijvers, independent scholar, IJsselstein, Netherlands
Purple-Spun and Purple-Dressed: Imaging Mary for a Byzantine Princess
Maria Evangelatou, University of California, Santa Cruz
Marginalia in the Psalter: Hours of Ghuiluys de Boisleux
Richard A. Leson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The Prayer Book of Queen Claude de France
Roger Wieck, Morgan Library and Museum
Discussant: Anne Rudloff Stanton, University of Missouri, Columbia
What We Talk about When We Talk about Artist’s Books
Chair: Marcia Reed
(GRI Lecture Hall)
Read This If You Can; Or, Reader Beware
Barbara Balfour, York University
Surface Readings: Ruscha Surveys LA
Whitney Rugg, University of Chicago
Formalism of Artist’s Books
Tatiana Ginsberg, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Book as Performance: Carolee Schneemann’s ABC—We Print Anything—In the Cards
Kathleen Wentrack, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York
12:30 PM–2:00 PM
European Drawings, 1400–1900
Chairs: Lee Hendrix and Stephanie Schrader
(Harold M. Williams Auditorium)\
Dirk Vellert’s Apocalypse Drawings, Dürer, and Some Reformist Images in Antwerp
Ellen Konowitz, State University of New York, New Paltz
Michelangelo’s Study Child’s Head in Haarlem: The Artist’s Nephew as a Baby or a Black African Girl?
Joaneath Spicer, Walters Art Museum
With His Back to Nature: The Rhetoric of Landscape in Rubens’s Drawing of a Fallen Tree with Brambles, ca. 1615–17
Catherine H. Lusheck
Anatomy of a Design Repertory: Giulio Romano’s Drawings for Dining
Valerie Taylor, independent scholar, Burbank
A New Source for David’s Architectural Perceptiveness: The Roman Drawings of Hubert Robert
Heidi Kraus, University of Iowa
Networks and Boundaries
Chair: Thomas Gaehtgens
(Museum Lecture Hall)
Photographic Contacts: Reflections on Photography and Orientalism
Ali Behdad, University of California, Los Angeles
Convergences and Collisions: Art Networks in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
Mary Roberts, University of Sydney
Object and Space: George Kubler’s Prime Object and the Search for Territorial Definitions
Avinoam Shalem, Kunsthistorisches Institut; Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität München
2:30–5:00 PM
Cabinet Pictures in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Chair: Andreas Henning
(Harold M. Williams Auditorium)
Praise or Censure of Small Pictures? Rubens as a Critic of Adam Elsheimer
Michael Thimann, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz; Max-Planck-Institut
The Cabinet Picture: Toward a Definition
Susannah Rutherglen, Princeton University
The Love for the Small and Curious: Paintings on Copper by the Children of Bacchus in Rome
Christine Göttler, University of Washington
“Piccole” Paintings for the Home: Women and the Market for Cabinet Pictures in Seventeenth-Century Bologna
Erin J. Campbell, University of Victoria
The Cabinet of Minister Colbert
Tatiana V. Senkevitch, University of Southern California
The Medieval Manuscript Transformed
Chairs: Kristen Collins and Christine Sciacca
(Museum Lecture Hall)
Cult and Codex: The Case of the St. Albans Psalter
Kathryn Gerry, Walters Art Museum
Interleaving Narrative and Devotion: Fifteenth-Century Additions to a Late Romanesque Vita Christi (Getty Ms.101)
Kristen Collins, J. Paul Getty Museum
Destruction and Reinvention: Reconstructing the Laudario of Sant’Agnese
Christine Sciacca, J. Paul Getty Museum
Cut, Pasted, and Cut Again: The Original Function and Later Collection of Early Prints in Western Europe
Kathryn M. Rudy, Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Pilgrimage through the Pages: Pilgrims’ Badges in Late Medieval Devotional Manuscripts
Megan H. Foster-Campbell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Adam S. Cohen, University of Toronto
Tours and Open Houses for Session Participants
5:30–7:00 PM
The department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum will host an open house and two presentations about the department's collections and activities for session attendees, prior to the evening reception. In the conservation lab, manuscripts conservator Nancy Turner and assistant curator Christine Sciacca will discuss the use of various analytical methods such as photo-micrographic study, infrared reflectography, and pigment analysis for manuscripts research. In the manuscripts reading room, senior curator Thomas Kren, curator Beth Morrison, and associate curator Kristen Collins will show some recent acquisitions from the permanent collection, including a thirteenth-century English bestiary and leaves by artists such as Cosmé Tura and Jean Bourdichon. Space limited to two groups of twenty people. Tour sign-up will take place onsite.
The departments of Paintings and Paintings Conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum invite session attendees for guided tours of the collection and studio prior to the reception. Paintings department curators will lead groups through the galleries, highlighting some of the acquisitions made over the last decade, including works by Rousseau, Degas, and Gauguin, as well as through the special exhibitions: Sur le motif: Painting in Nature around 1800 and Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575-1725. The Department of Paintings Conservation will offer guided visits of the studio featuring current projects and the Conservation Partnership program. Space limited. Tour sign-up will take place onsite.
The Drawings department at the J. Paul Getty Museum will offer a tour of the exhibition Drawing the Classical Figure by organizing curator, Stephanie Schrader. Space limited. Tour sign-up will take place onsite.
The department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum invites session attendees to visit the Center for Photographs, where curators Judith Keller, Anne Lacoste and Erin Garcia will provide a guided visit to the two current exhibitions In Focus: The Portrait and Dialogue among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California and the permanent collection. Space limited. Tour sign-up will take place onsite.
The Exhibition Design department at the J. Paul Getty Museum will offer a guided tour through the exhibition Tango with Cows at the Getty Research Institute followed by a tour of the Exhibition Design Studio. Senior Designer Robert Checchi will address the special challenges associated with creating exhibitions that incorporate interactive media which support the art object. The tour of the design studio will include a presentation of the methods used to bring such an exhibition from concept to installation including model making, full size mock-ups and graphics proofing. Space limited. Tour sign-up will take place onsite.
Getty Research Institute
Open House
5:30–8:30 PM
The Getty Research Institute (GRI) will host guests at an open house to learn more about its departments, programs, activities, exhibitions, and collections. Visitors are invited to take self-guided tours of the library and other public areas of the building and to attend presentations hosted by staff from the Research Library, the residential scholars program, GRI publications, digital initiatives, and scholarly programs. Guided tours focusing on rare materials held in special collections will also take place: please join us for a curator-led walk-through of the exhibition Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917, or a behind-the-scenes visit to the conservation labs and digital-imaging facilities.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Session at the Getty Villa:
3:30–6:00 PM
The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria
Chair: Karol Wight
(The Auditorium, The Getty Villa)
Relationships between Divine and Human Bodies: The Temple of Asklepios at Epidauros (ca. 390–375 BCE)
Ann E. Patnaude, University of Chicago
Adopting Identity: Afterlife Personae in Second- and Third-Century Rome
Linda Moskeland Fuchs, independent scholar, Ithaca, New York
Portraits of Piety: Images of Priestesses in the Second Century CE
Molly Lindner, Kent State University
Virtus and the Virtuous Breast
Lillian B. Joyce, University of Alabama, Huntsville
Roma and Augustus on the Gemma Augustea
Mark Fullerton, Ohio State University
For session at the Getty Villa: Due to site requirements, a ticket is required for entrance to the Getty Villa. Please secure a ticket from CAA at the registration table. Shuttle service will not be provided for the session at the Getty Villa. Carpooling is recommended. Taxis are easily available from the Convention Center headquarters.
