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Association of Research Institutes in Art History
The Role of Research Institutes in Defining Art History's Future
Thursday, February 11, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Inge J. Reist, Association of Research Institutes in Art History; Marcie Karp, Association of Research Institutes in Art History
Museum of Contemporary Craft
Critical Craft Forum
Thursday, February 11, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Namita Gupta Wiggers, Museum of Contemporary Craft; Elisabeth Agro, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Innovation, Agency, History: Centering the Italian Fourteenth Century
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Acapulco, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: C. Jean Campbell, Emory University; Anne Dunlop, Yale University
Can Beauty Be Administered? Early Building Regulations in Medieval Tuscany and the Ideal Town
Klaus Tragbar, Hochschule Augsburg
Giotto's Envy and Francesco da Barberino's Renown: Naturalism, Personification, and Artistic Innovation
Shelley MacLaren, University of the South
Lust for Killing: Defining Culture by Its Margins: The "Massacre of the Innocents" by Giovanni Pisano and Giusto de' Menabuoi
Beate Fricke, University of California, Berkeley
Theories of Authorship in Fourteenth-Century Italian Art
Joost Keizer, Columbia University
Discussant:Klaus Kruger, Freie Universitat Berlin
Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda in the Middle Ages, Part I
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Kate Dimitrova, Wells College; Margaret Goehring, New Mexico State University
The Performance of Picture-Textiles: The Star Mantle of Henry II
David Ganz, University of Konstanz, Germany
Textiles Reconquested: Tissues from the Royal Tombs in the Spanish Convent of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos
Kristin Boese, University of Cologne
Material Evidence, Theological Requirements, and Medial Transformation: "Textile Strategies" in Fourteenth-Century Bohemian Panel Painting
Evelin Wetter, Abegg-Stiftung
Wearers of Meaning: Exoticism and the Political Significance of Clothing on Twelfth-Century Column-Figures
Janet E. Snyder, West Virginia University
Orthodox Liturgical Textiles and Clerical Self-Referentiality
Warren T. Woodfin, Queens College, City University of New York
CAA Committee on Women in the Arts
Old Women, Witches, and Old Wives
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Frima Fox Hofrichter, Pratt Institute
Alchemy's Old Wives
M. E. Warlick, University of Denver
Frans Hals's Portrait of an "Older" Judith Leyster
Paul Crenshaw, Providence College
Harridans and Busybodies: Passions and Humours in Transgressive Old Women
Jane Kromm, Purchase College, State University of New York
Old Woman/New Vision: Lucia Moholy's Photographs of Clara Zetkin
Vanessa Rocco, Pratt Institute and International Center of Photography
Sculptor, Hostess, Witch: Unpacking Louise Nevelson's Boxes
Johanna Ruth Epstein, Hollins University
ARTspace
Photography in Theory and Practice: Medium-Specificity and Its Discontents
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus GHIJ, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Mary Hunter, McGill University; Simon Baker, Tate
Proof Photographic: John William Draper and the Scientific Daguerreotype
Sarah Kate Gillespie, York College, City University of New York
Photographic Facts, Painted Fictions: Challenges to Medium-Specificity in Victorian Photocollage
Elizabeth Siegel, Art Institute of Chicago
Medium-Specificity and Its Surrogates: Practices around Photomechanical Reproduction in the Early Years of Its Industrial Application
Tom Gretton, University College London
On the Efficacy of Artifice: Radiophotographs and PM's Pictorial Critique of Photojournalism
Jason Hill, University of Southern California
Interrogating Photography’s Indexical "Identity Crisis"
Kris Belden-Adams, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Women, Femininity, and Public Space in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Heather Belnap Jensen, Brigham Young University; Temma Balducci, Arkansas State University
Female Presence in Post-Revolutionary French Painting
Susan Siegfried, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Mistresses of the Camera: Sallie Garrity and Beatrice Tonnesen
Margaret Denny, University of Illinois, Chicago
After the Femme Fatale: Nineteenth-Century Criminality and the Spaces of Photography
Mel Francis, University of Nottingham
"Wheeling Women": The Bourgeoise and the Bicycle in Fin-de-Siecle Visual Culture
Kimberly Morse Jones, Sweet Briar College
Women and the Creation of New Art Publics in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
Julie M. Johnson, University of Texas, San Antonio
The Senses in Early Modern Art and Visual Culture
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Christian K. Kleinbub, Ohio State University; KIm E. Butler, American University
Close Looking: Embodiment and Materiality in Titian's Later Paintings
Jodi Cranston, Boston University
The Sense of Rilievo: Apprehending Materiality in Quattrocento Art and Theory
Christopher R. Lakey, Reed College
Un colorito ch’e di vera carne: Correggio’s Ecce Homo and Incarnational Touch
Sara Switzer, Columbia University
Words Will Lead the Way: Guiding Devotion in Fra Bartolommeo's "God the Father with Saints Mary Magdalene and Catherine of Siena"
Jannette Vusich, University of King's College
In the Hand of the Beholder: The Collector's Caress in Early Modern Italy
Geraldine A. Johnson, University of Oxford
Representations of Brazil and Shifting Identities
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gold Coast, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Aleca Le Blanc, University of Southern California; Elena Shtromberg, University of Utah
Frans Post’s Brazilian Landscapes
Rebecca Parker Brienen, University of Miami
Brazil’s Gift: Coffee, Modernity, and the Brazilian Image World
Luciana Martins, Birkbeck, University of London
From o Morro to a Torre and Back Again: Brazilian Artists in Paris in the 1920s and the Trans-Atlantic Orbits of Brasilidade
Edith Wolfe, Tulane University
Resisting the Dominant Gaze: Prison Works by Brazilian Artist Rosangela Rennó and Filmmaker Maria Augusta Ramos
Marguerite Harrison, Smith College
Cannibalizing the Favela: The Production and Display of Contemporary Brazilianess in Dias and Riedweg’s Funk Staden
Melissa Geppert, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Crossing Paths, Changing Lives: Processes of Biculturalism in Ancient Art
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Barbara Mendoza, University of California, Berkeley
Trading Tradition: The Establishment and Continuation of Zoomorphic Mortars in the Ancient Andes
Paula Winn, Virginia Commonwealth University
Beyond Greece: Gandharan Sculpture and Indian Artistic Traditions
Shrita Gajendragadkar, University of Texas at Austin
Sculpture from the Edge of the Oikoumene: A Case Study of Biculturalism in the Northern Black Sea
Maya B. Muratov, Adelphi University
Multiculturalism at the Crossroads: Problems with Defining a Phoenician Art
S. Rebecca Martin, Southeast Missouri State University
Speculations on the Ambiguous Relationship between Ancient Egypt and Its African Context
Frederick John Lamp, Yale University
Commitment and Consumerism: Artistic Culture in Europe at the Mid-Twentieth Century
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Kent Minturn, Columbia University; Alexander Potts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Servant of Two Masters": Fontana's 1948 Sculptures in Milan's Cinema Arlecchino
Sharon Hecker, IES Abroad/Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
Dubuffet, Paulhan, Bachelard: From Materialism to Matiérisme
Seth McCormick, Western Carolina University
"A Tangible Reality and Perplexity for All": Temporal Crisis and Abstract Painting in France at Midcentury
Natalie Adamson, University of St. Andrews
Not Hand Painted: Design and the First Wave of Pop at the Royal College of Art
Thomas Crow, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Radical Art Caucus
Autonomizing Practices in Art, Art History, and Education
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Alan W. Moore, independent scholar, Staten Island, New York; Susan King Obarski, University of California, Irvine
Autonomy, Pseudo-Autonomy, and Prefigurative Politics
Rebecca Zorach, University of Chicago
San Francisco 1978-83: Socialist School and Rats for Profit
Michael R. Mosher, Saginaw Valley State University
The Guerrilla Clock-Fixers of UX
Jonathan Lackman, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Autonomous Practices: Media Collectives of the Women's Liberation Movement
Dara Greenwald, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Association of Historians of American Art
Rethinking Consumption in the History of American Art
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: John Ott, James Madison University
The Politics of Art Criticism and Consumption in the Antebellum Press
Wendy Katz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"Ready for Immediate Removal to the Parlor": Thomas Chambers and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Art Market
Kathleen A. Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art
"The Fur-Lined Museum": MoMA and the Consumption of Surrealism
Sandra Zalman, University of Houston
From Union Hall to Museum Hall: Creating a Working-Class Public for the Fine Arts
Frances Pohl, Pomona College
Helen Frankenthaler’s Early Paintings: A Journey into the Role of Gender in the Perception of an Artist’s Paintings
Sybil Gohari, University of Maryland, College Park
Post-Duchamp, Post-Production: Delineations of Media in Art Theory and Pedagogy
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: John Douglas Powers, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Joshua Bienko, Texas A&M University
I Don't Want to Teach Art; I'd Rather Teach Artists
Bethany Taylor, University of Florida
Post-Duchamp Critiques in Art School: Following the Narrative of Originality
Mariah Doren, Columbia University and Purchase College, State University of New York
Participatory Dissent and the Fine Arts PhD
Natalie Loveless, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Agnostic Readymade: Beyond Art and Anti-Art
Sean C. Lowry, University of Newcastle
A Case for Letterpress
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Jeff Pulaski, Wichita State University; Dennis Y. Ichiyama, Purdue University
Thinking through Making: Letterpress in Contemporary Graphic-Design Education
Ashley John Pigford, University of Delaware
Putting the Digits Back into the Digital
James Boyd-Brent, University of Minnesota
The Changing Face of Letterpress: Student and Staff Work from the School of Graphic Design at London College of Communication
Rose Gridneff and Alexander John Cooper, London College of Communication and University of Brighton
The Twentieth Century Did Not Invent Graphic Design: Returning Letterpress to Design Education
Dawn Hachenski-McCusker, James Madison University
Tough Love for Heavy Metal: Ensuring the Survival of 15 1/2 Tons of Lead at SAIC
Catherine Ruggie Saunders and Martha S. Chiplis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Futures of Criticism
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Lane Relyea, Northwestern University
Criticality, Critique, Critical Practice
Gail Day, University of Leeds
The Critique of the Incitement to Discourse and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology: Two or Three Critical Models in/around Tino Sehgal
David Lewis, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Who Needs an Art Critic: Law and the Space of Writing
Sergio Munoz Sarmiento, Clancco: Art and Law
Historicizing Contemporary Art: The Living, the Dead, and the Undead
Simone Osthoff, Pennsylvania State University
Criticisms, Publics, Communities
Frazer Ward, Smith College
Art History Open Session
Recent Research in Chicago Architecture
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: David Theodore Van Zanten, Northwestern University
The Skyscraper Street and Design for the Crowd ca. 1900
Joanna Merwood, Parsons the New School for Design
Marketing the Movies: Chicago Picture Palace Movie Theaters
Rachel Remmel, University of Rochester
A Preliminary Survey of the Chicago Courtyard Apartment Building: The North and West Sides
Michael Rabens, Oklahoma State University
From PWA to CHA: Chicago Architecture and the American Public-Housing Debate
Alison Fisher, Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University
The Inland Steel Building Inside Out
Amanda Douberley, University of Texas at Austin
Aspects of the Civic: Chicago's Daley Center and Plaza
Sharon Irish, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Early Modern Globalization (1400-1700)
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Angela Vanhaelen, McGill University; Bronwen Wilson, University of British Columbia
Cannibal Complexities: Metaphors of Incorporation and Early Modern Globalization
Susan Wight Swanson, University of Minnesota
Globalism, Economy, and Early Modern Print
Sean Roberts, University of Southern California
From Elogia to Physiognomy: Complicating Early Modern Globalization
Emine Fetvaci, Boston University
Made in China? Networks of Exchange in Ming Dynasty Porcelain
Stacey Sloboda, Southern Illinois University
Exoticism at Work: Dutch Culture in a Global Context (1600-50)
Claudia Swan, Northwestern University
Lifeloggers: Chronicling the Everyday
Thursday, February 11, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Nadine A. Wasserman, independent curator and critic, Albany, New York; Rachel C. Seligman, Mandeville Gallery, Union College
Self as Ritual
Suzanne E. Szucs, Rochester Institute of Technology
A Day Is a Day Is a Day Is a Day: The Language of Sol Lewitt's "Autobiography"
Prudence Peiffer, Harvard University
Trajectory: Stephen Cartwright
Stephen Cartwright, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Umali Awards, a History and Why
Renato G. Umali, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Discussant:Rachel C. Seligman, Mandeville Gallery, Union College
American Council for Southern Asian Art
A Return to Rasa: New Investigations into the Relationship of Indian Aesthetic (Rasa) Theory to the Visual Arts
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Molly Aitken, City College of New York, City University of New York
Rasa, Rasika, and Alamkara: Narrative and Performance in Painting at Mattanceri Palace
Mary Beth Heston, College of Charleston
Vaishnava Adaptations of Rasa Theory to the Devotional Arts
Pika Gosh, University of North Carolina
Tasters of Essence: Rasikas and Connoisseurship in Ancient Indian Art
Julie Romain, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Concept of Anukrti in Rasavada in Abhinavabharati
Parul Dave Mukherji, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Rasa and Java
Cecilia Levin, Harvard University
The Rasika and Alamkara: A Taste for Ornament
Michael Rabe, Saint Xavier University
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
New Scholars: Transforming Traditions in Eighteenth-Century Art
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Laura Auricchio, Parsons The New School for Design
Vision, Display, and Information: Chardin as Tapissier
Ryan Whyte, independent scholar, Toronto
Portrait of the Artist: John Francis Rigaud's Vision of the Role of the Artist in Eighteenth-Century England
Lyrica Taylor, University of Maryland, College Park
Classicism's Secret Histories: On Jean-Germain Drouais's Christ and the Canaanite
Hector Reyes, Northwestern University
Emma Hamilton as Grand Tourist
Amber Ludwig, Boston University
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Art
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Julie Codell, Arizona State University
Engineering, Photography, and a New Model of Pedagogy
Sean Weiss, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Sowing the Seeds of Nativism and Eugenics in America: Domestic Arts and Anti-Immigrant Political Action
Erin Leary, University of Rochester
“The Dignity of Disinfection”: The Labor and Rhetoric of Disease Containment in Street Life in London
Emily Morgan, University of Arizona
International Association of Word and Image Studies
Contesting the City: Experiments in Transnational Public Art
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Lori Cole
Making the Invisible Visible: Jens Haaning Presents a Few Colorful Jokes
Steven L. Bridges, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Seven Walks: Francis Alys Reads London
Jo Novelli, New York University
Streetscape: Sign Interventions in Public Space
Richard Tipping, University of Newcastle
Creative Capital Foundation
Transformers
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Buckingham, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Sean Elwood, Creative Capital Foundation
Nick Cave
Sabrina Raaf
Jason Salavon
National Endowment for the Arts
Grants Workshop
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Robert Frankel, National Endowment for the Arts; Wendy Clark, National Endowment for the Arts
CAA Services to Artists Committee
Meta-Mentors: Balancing Acts
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus GHIJ, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Reni Gower, Virginia Commonwealth University; Sabina Ott, Columbia College Chicago
Artist as Administrator
Theaster Gates, University of Chicago
Artist as Activist
Barbara Koenen, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Artist as Archivist / Artist Assistant (Nam June Paik)
Stephen Vitiello, Virginia Commonwealth University
Artist as Entrepreneur
Jorge Benitez, Virginia Commonwealth University
Artist as Designer
Rachele Riley, University of the Arts
International Association of Art Critics
New Challenges for Art Criticism: Relational Aesthetics, Social Collaborations, and Public Interactivity
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Kathryn Hixson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Michelle Grabner, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Joseph Grigely, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Joao Ribas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Committee on the History of Art
Emerging Art Histories
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Michael Ann Holly, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Marc Gotlieb, Williams College
Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History
Lost!
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Maureen Pelta, Moore College of Art and Design
The Pull of the Unknown: Jan van Eyck’s Saint Jerome
Kandice Rawlings, independent scholar
“Outstanding works … shamefully destroyed”: Maerten van Heemskerck’s Lost Altarpieces and the Sculpture of Antiquity
Arthur J. Di Furia, Moore College of Art and Design
Mastering the Loss of Modernism: Rauschenberg’s "Erased de Kooning" as Site of Failure
Nancy A. Nield, independent scholar, La Grange, Illinois
Discussant:Tina Waldeier Bizzarro, Rosemont College
Visual Resources Association
Academic Image Collections in Transition: Saving the Baby while Repurposing the Bath Water
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Mark Pompelia, Rice University; Meghan Musolff, University of Michigan
The Value of Images and Locally Managed Image Collections: Library, Visual Resources, and Faculty Perspectives
Allan T. Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Digital Image Myths
Betha Whitlow, Washington University in St. Louis
Successful Scenarios
Meghan Musolff, University of Michigan
CAA Committee on Intellectual Property
Copyright Assertion and Protection for Artists
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Marci Rolnik, Lawyers for the Creative Arts; Anne Swartz, Savannah College of Art and Design
William E. Rattner, Lawyers for the Creative Arts
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
Learning to Look: Winslow Homer Watercolors and Gouaches
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Print Study Room, Jean and Steven Goldman Study Center, Art Institute of Chicago
Chair: Rebecca Rushfield
Mid America College Art Association
Current Models for Integrating Research into Teaching
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Scott Sherer
Course Catalogue: Making Research Real in the Art-History Classroom
Kevin Concannon, University of Akron
Enhancing Art Education to Include Design
Robin Vande Zande, Kent State University
The Benefits of Going "Under the Table" and Other Pedagogical Tactics for Encouraging Independent Learning
Mysoon Rizk, University of Toledo
From Teaching Art to Art-ing Taught: University Studio Practice as Event
John Richardson, Wayne State University
Queer Caucus for Art: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus for Art, Artists, and Historians
How is “Queer” Art Relational?
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Virginia Margaret Solomon, University of Southern California; Robert Summers, University of California, Los Angeles
"Forget Bourriaud": Queer Relationally and/as a Queer Aesthetics of Existence
Robert Summers, Otis College of Art
On Queer Art, Minimal Form, and Relationality
Joe Madura, Emory University
Queer Relational: A Conversation from Empyre-Soft-Skinned Space
Christina McPhee, naxsmash group productions and University of California, Santa Cruz
Relational Aesthetics, Activist Public Art, and Queer Desi Futures
Alpesh Kantilal Patel, independent scholar
All Tomorrow's Parties: Queer Aesthetics and Cultural Politics
Virginia Solomon, University of Southern California
Public Art Dialogue
Chicago Revisited: A Critical Roundtable on Public Art
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Mary M. Tinti, WaterFire Providence; Nancy Scott, Brandeis University
Mary Jane Jacob, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Eli Robb, Lake Forest College
John Pitman Weber, Elmhurst College
CAA Committee on Women in the Arts
International Perspectives on the Legacy of American Feminist Art and Art Histories
Thursday, February 11, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Kathleen Wentrack, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York
Feminisms: Struggle and Choice in the New China
Monika Lin, artist and independent curator, Shanghai
Challenging Orientalism: Contemporary Feminist Art from Northern Africa
Cynthia Becker, Boston University
Reluctant Proletariat Divas: Embracing Feminism in Postrevolutionary Cuba—A Narrative of Slow Motion toward Freedom
Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Modernism and Collectivism
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Bridget Alsdorf, Princeton University
Fraternity vs. Family: Two Models of Nineteenth-Century Collectivism
Cordula Grewe, Columbia University
Untimely Collectivity
Sarah Betzer, University of Virginia
Expressionism, Collectivism, and the Development of Modern Architecture
Kai K. Gutschow, Carnegie Mellon University
New Youth: The Generational Politics of "Club Dada"
Michael White, University of York
Barnett Newman's Self-Evidence
Michael Schreyach, Trinity University
Thinking about Colonial Latin American Art
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Tulane University
Historiographies of the Art and Architecture of Colonial Latin America
Valerie Fraser, University of Essex
Architecture and Archives in Spanish America: The Case of Colonial Quito
Susan Verdi Webster, College of William and Mary
Colonial Style and the History of Things in Spanish America
Dana Leibsohn, Smith College
The Politics of Competing Visualities in Early Colonial Latin American Art
Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant:Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Princeton University
Blackness as Model
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Huey Copeland, Northwestern University
Ultrablacklight: Kerry James Marshall's "7 am Sunday Morning" and "Black Artist (Studio View)"
Rael Jero Salley, University of Chicago and Columbia College
Black Futures
Kara Keeling, University of Southern California
Blackness and Discrepant Abstraction
Julie L. McGee, University of Delaware
"There Is No Racism Intended"
Fred Moten, Duke University
Discussant:Jennifer A. Gonzalez, University of California, Santa Cruz
Art History Open Session
Surrealism
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Stephanie D'Alessandro, Art Institute of Chicago
Ins and Outs: Surrealiam, Bloomsbury, and the Sense of Drama
Mary Ann Caws, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Captured Encounters: Documenting the Surrealist Object, "VU" Magazine, 1933
Anne Umland, The Museum of Modern Art
Andre Breton's "Nadja": Recollecting Curiosity
Abagail Susik, Millsaps College
The Witnesses Awakened: The Re-creation of a Surrealist Collection at the Menil
Katharine Conley, Dartmouth College
Discussant:Janine Mileaf, Swarthmore College
Chicago's Sculptor: The Legacy of Lorado Taft (1860-1936)
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Brian Edward Hack, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York; Caterina Yvonne Pierre, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York
Lorado Taft's Modern Transformation
Susan M. Martis, Ball State University
Plaster Casts, Peep Shows, and Plays: Lorado Taft’s Humanized Art History for America’s Schoolchildren
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Wellesley College
Beyond the City Beautiful: Lorado Taft's Fountain of Time
Mark Pohlad, DePaul University
Lorado Taft and Allen Weller
Henry Adams, Case Western Reserve University
The Materiality of Early Modern Prints Part I: Manipulation of the Image
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Art Institute of Chicago; Lia Markey, Princeton University Art Museum
Dürer’s Indexical Fantasy: The Rhinoceros and Printmaking
Susan Dackerman, Harvard Art Museum
Cut-and-Paste Prints from Mantegna to Andreani
Eva Allan, Yale University
Unique Woodcuts as Sixteenth-Century Box Decorations
Gero Seelig, Staatliches Museum Schwerin
Keeping “Courtesie and Custome:” Printed Trenchers, Literacy, and Ritual in English Banquets, 1585-1662
Mary Anne Caton, independent scholar, Montclair, New Jersey
"Prosper Thou Our Handyworks": Prints and Protestant Devotion at Little Gidding
Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Autofictions, Avatars, and Alter Egos: Fabricating Artists
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Monica Kjellman-Chapin, Emporia State University
Beyond Documentary: Autofiction in Varda's "The Beaches of Agnes"
Rebecca J. DeRoo, Washington University in St. Louis
An American Jewish Artist and Marcel Duchamp: Rrose Selavy in Context
Deborah J. Johnson, Providence College
Autofiction as Dissidence: Julius Koller's Extra-Terrestrial Alter Ego
Klara Kemp-Welch, Courtauld Institute of Art
Black Skin, Black Masks: The Citational Self in the Work of Glenn Ligon
Lauren DeLand, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
All about Yves
Rosemary O'Neill, Parsons the New School for Design
ARTspace
The Object of Nostalgia
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus GHIJ, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Rene J. Marquez, University of Delaware; Lance Winn, University of Delaware
Installation and Nostalgia: Landscape of Desire
Marlene Alt, Southern Oregon University
Try a Little Tenderness
Pamela L. Fraser, University of Illinois, Chicago
Ah, but It Was Good
Elaine B. Rutherford, College of Saint Benedict and Saint Johns University
The Interstice between the Sentimental and Cynical Act of Painting
Brian Bishop, Framingham State College
Questioning “Cultural Influence” in the Medieval Mediterranean: Artistic Production in a Hybrid Culture
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Karen Rose Mathews, University of Miami; Catherine Barrett, University of Washington
Intercultural Aspects of Style and Meaning in the Architecture of Norman Sicily
Charles E. Nicklies
Relic and Icon in Sinai Pilgrimage: Saint Catherine and the Crusades
Kristine M. Hess, University of Chicago
Hybridity, Methexis, and the Churches of Medieval Morea
Heather E. Grossman, University of Illinois, Chicago
The Wild Boar and the Domestic Sow: Reflections on the Nature of Hybridity
Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University
Discussant:Eva Hoffman, Tufts University
Lisa Reilly, University of Virginia
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
Myths of the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Neil McWilliam, Duke University
"Empire's Dust"? Disintegration and Formation in Turner's "Waterloo"
Leo Costello, Rice University
Capturing Liberalism for the Nation: Henri Leys and the Murals for the Antwerp City Hall
Jan Dirk Baetens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
From "Peuple" to "Nation": State Nationalism, Class Conflict, and Aesthetics in Early Third Republic France
Michael Orwicz, University of Connecticut
The Graeco-Gothic Paradigm: The Nationalization of the Gothic in Nineteenth-Century French Art Criticism
Michela Passini, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art
Creating Spanishness: The Institucion Libre de Ensenanza, El Greco, and the Myth of Toledo
Dena Crosson, independent scholar, Riverdale, Maryland
Photography at Work
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Acapulco, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Stephanie Schwartz, Courtauld Institute of Art; Devin Fore, Princeton University
Unworking “between Art and Garbage”
Susan Laxton, University of California, Riverside
Gordon Matta-Clark: Working Photographically
Lisa Zaher, University of Chicago
Photography and the Social Production of Space
John Roberts, University of Wolverhampton
Monumental Snapshots
Juliet Koss, Scripps College
Surface Mining
Lucy Raven
The Modern and the Fashionable
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Aenne Soell, Universität Potsdam
Fashioning the Mistress
Gloria Groom, Art Institute of Chicago
Fashion and Figuration in the Work of J. M. Whistler: Modernism/Antimodernism and the Art of Aesthetic Dressing
Kimberly Wahl, Ryerson University
Fashioning the Neue Frau
Michelle Gewurtz, University of Leeds
Drawing the Line: Solarization and Spectacle Culture
Margaret Sundell, independent scholar, New York
A Man of Taste: Alexander Liberman between Fashion and Art
Antje Krause-Wahl, Akademie fur Bildende Kunste Mainz
Discussant:Andre Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania
Ornament: Theoretical Perspectives
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Loretta Vandi, Istituto Statale d'Arte di Urbino
Form, Function, and Flux: Ornamental Theory and the Modern Search for Perceptual Equilibrium
Debra Schafter, San Antonio University
Look at Your Fish (or Your Lotus): Science, Modernism, and Alois Riegl's "Stilfragen"
Margaret Olin, Yale Divinity School
August Schmarsow's Theory of Ornament
Christiane Hertel, Bryn Mawr College
Gombrich, Perception, and the Ordering of Ornament
Isabelle J. Frank, Fordham University
From Ornamental to Environmental: The Matissean Revolution as an Opening of a New Paradigm for Contemporary Art
Jean-Claude Bonne, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Moguls, Mansions, and Museums: Art and Culture in America’s First "Gilded Age”
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Sally Webster, Graduate Center, City University of New York
California's First Gilded-Age Mansions: Conspicuous Consumption as Civic Infrastructure
Diana Strazdes, University of California, Davis
Going Public: Sculpture in the Art of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Linda J. Docherty, Bowdoin College
Strike Out: John La Farge's Proposed Murals for the Boston Public Library
James L. Yarnall, Salve Regina University
Boom (and Bust) of Artistic Reputations: Collecting Contemporary European Art in Gilded Age America
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University
What's France Got to Do with It?: Chicago Responds to "Parisian" Art at the Interstate Industrial Exposition
Kirsten M. Jensen, independent scholar, Stamford, Connecticut
Hypo-Technology: Artists Remix the Anachronistic and the Obsolete with the Present
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gold Coast, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Diane Willow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Joan Brigham, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
As Many Hours as It Takes: Impractical Labor
Emily Larned, University of Bridgeport
The Turntable as a Lens
Walter Kitundu
Remixing the Phenomenology of Technology: An Analysis of Unplugged Performance-Installations
Robrecht Vanderbeeken, Ghent University
Seeing Is Believing: Vectography and the Anachronism of Vision
Robert Mertens, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
The Light in the Background Is the Sun
Victoria Bradbury, University of Florida
Terra Foundation for American Art
Distinguished Scholar Session Honoring Jules David Prown: Generations--Art, Ideas, and Change
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Bryan J. Wolf, Stanford University
Alex Nemerov, Yale University
Margaretta Lovell, University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Roberts, Harvard University
Jennifer Greenhill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ethan Lasser, Chipstone Foundation
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
Representing the Psyche in Eighteenth-Century Art
Thursday, February 11, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Michael Yonan, University of Missouri, Columbia
Thinking Heads: Representing Mental Activity in Eighteenth-Century Portraiture
Heather McPherson, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Figures of Pathos: Melancholy and Interiority in Late-Eighteenth-Century Art
Emma Barker, Open University
Awestruck: Claude-Joseph Vernet and the French Sublime
Thomas Beachdel, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Divas, Nymphs, and Fallen Maidens: Greuze's Experiments in Expression
Yuriko Jackall, Universite de Lyon 2
Romantic Stained Glass and the Formation of a Neomedieval Consciousness
Barrett Kalter, University of Wisconisn, Milwaukee
Association of Historians of American Art
From Parlor to Print Room to Classroom: Approaches to Teaching Historic American Visual Culture
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Georgia Barnhill, American Antiquarian Society
Connoisseurship of Prints and Paintings
Anne Verplanck, independent scholar, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
History in Print: The Theory/Practice/Challenge of Teaching with Works on Paper
Nancy J. Siegel, Towson University
Teaching the Materiality of Visual Culture
Kevin Muller, Chabot College
Print Collections and the "Active Learning" Art-History Classroom
Kristina Wilson, Clark University
"A True Record of an Interesting Event": Exploring the Intersections between Graphic Art and Painting in the Classroom
Ross Barrett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Virtual Exhibitions of WPA Prints
Ellen G. Landau, Case Western Reserve University
Coalition of Women in the Arts Organization
Regional Women Artists: Exploring Nature, Spirituality, and Universal Order
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Acapulco, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Kyra Belan, Broward College
Mother Earth, Thought Woman: Mixed-Media Installation
Kyra Belan, Broward College
A New Urgency and Relevance in Postmodern Plein-Air Painting
Lilian Garcia-Roig, Florida State University
Women, Nature, and New Technology
Jeane Cooper, Florida Atlantic University
Tribute and Remembrance: Vanitas and the Holocaust in the Works of Helene Baker
Debra Murphy, University of North Florida
Arts Council of the African Studies Association
The Arts of Africa: Recent Issues and Trends
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Art Institute of Chicago
Looks, Effects, and Contexts: Finding (a) Perspective on the (Empty) Connoisseurship of Contextual Meaning
Will Rea, University of Leeds
Children of Sidi Uqba: Fulbe Collective Identity and Architectural Continuity
Mark D. DeLancey, DePaul University
Mechanisms in Uyai: Rewriting Her Body with Accoutrements of Beauty and Power
Imo N. Imeh, Westfield State College
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education
Going the Distance: Teaching Foundations through Distance Education
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Steven Bleicher, Coastal Carolina University
The Pitfalls and Benefits of Teaching Online Studio Art (from One Who Has Been There)
Nancy L. Anderson, Adams State College
Color Theory: Brick 'n' Mortar Becomes Virtual: Same Concepts Different Venues
Debra Malschick, Savannah College of Art and Design
Role Reversal: A Traditional Faculty Member Becomes a Distant Learner
Kelly Thames, Art Institute of Atlanta
International Trends and Techniques Used to Teach Studio-Art Courses through Distance Education
Kathryn Sheldon, Southside Virginia Community College
Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
In Considering Legacy: Perspectives on Philip Johnson, Donald Judd, and Isamu Noguchi
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Sarah Gerda, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Isamu Noguchi and His Museum
Jenny Dixon, Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
Donald Judd: Stewardship
Barbara Hunt McClanahan, Judd Foundation
The Glass House: An Icon with No Agenda
Christy MacLear, Philip Johnson Glass House, National Trust for Historic Preservation
CAA Education Committee
Creative Research in the Twenty-First Century
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Rosanne Gibel, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
Barbara Bickel, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Mark Harris, University of Cincinnati
Brett Hunter, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University
David Yager, University of California, Santa Cruz
Design Studies Forum
By the Book: Toward a New Paradigm of Design Studies?
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Carma R. Gorman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
The Design Culture Reader
Ben Highmore, University of Sussex
The Object Reader
Fiona Candlin, Birkbeck, University of London
Raiford Guins, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Design Studies: A Reader
Hazel Clark, Parsons the New School for Design
David Brody, Parsons the New School for Design
The Design History Reader
Grace Lees-Maffei, University of Hertfordshire; Rebecca Houze, Northern Illinois University
Association for Critical Race Art History
Group Practices: New Diversity Institutions
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Camara Dia Holloway, University of Delaware
The Latina/o Studies Working Group
Robb Hernandez, University of Maryland
Critical Mixed Race Studies Association
Laura Kina, DePaul University
FACTORYwork: Matterz of the Fact; Products from the New Line
John Jennings, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Pacific Arts Association
Visual Histories in and of Polynesia
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Stacy L. Kamehiro, University of California, Santa Cruz
Civilizing Images: Violence and the Visual Interpellation of Maori Women
Michelle Erai, University of California, Santa Cruz
Polynesia on the Potomac: Maori Art at the National Museum of Natural History
Jennifer Wagelie, Smithsonian Institution
Hawai'i and the World Fairs, 1867-1893
Stacy L. Kamehiro, University of California, Santa Cruz
In Her Shadow: Exploring Representations of Hula Girls in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Caroline Vercoe, University of Auckland
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design
In the Making: New Texts and Resources in American Craft
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Katie Lee, Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, University of North Carolina
Constructing a History from Secondary Resources
Janet Koplos, independent critic and scholar, New York
Choosing Craft: The Artist's Viewpoint
Vicki Halper, independent art historian
Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art
Maria Elena Buszek, Kansas City Art Institute
Women's Caucus for Art
Investigating the Need for Women's Art Galleries, Exhibitions, and Organizations: From Our Center
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Janice Nesser-Chu, Women's Caucus for Art and Florissant Valley College
Melissa H. Potter, Columbia College Chicago
Amy Galpin, San Diego Museum of Art and Woman Made Gallery
Joanna Gardner-Huggett, DePaul University
Beate Minkovski, Woman Made Gallery
Dena Muller, ArtTable
Joyce Owens, Chicago State University and Sapphire and Crystals Artist Collective
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Ask the Lawyer: Contracts, Copyright, Corporations, and More!
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Elena M. Paul, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
AP Studio Art
Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Michael X. Ryan, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Resurrecting the Disappeared: The Problem of Re-Presentation and Exhibition of Time-Based Twentieth-Century Art in the Twenty-First Century
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Jacki Apple, Art Center College of Design
Introduction: Resurrecting the Disappeared
Jacki Apple, Art Center College of Design
Living through Instantiations: The Variable Nature of Time-Based Art
Ariane Noel De Tilly, University of Amsterdam
The Digital Dark Age: Why Art Historians Should Care about Web Archiving
Lindsay M. King, Northwestern University
Revisioning the Archive: The Zg Project
Rosetta Brooks, Art Center College of Design
Discussant:Hannah Higgins, Center for the Study of Modern Art, Phillips Collection, and University of Illinois, Chicago
Historians of British Art
British Art: Survey and Field in the Context of Glocalization
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Colette Crossman, independent scholar, Arlington, Virginia
British Art and the Uncertainties of Britishness
David Bindman
Art on the Margins: The Paradoxical Canon of Early British Art
Sara N. James, Mary Baldwin College
1870-1910: The Lost Decades of British Artistic Modernity
Andrea Wolk Rager, Yale Center for British Art
Zarina Bhimji: Broadening Definitions of Britishness?
Alice Correia, University of Sussex and Gimpel Fils
Neomedieval Art after Britain
Neil Mulholland, Edinburgh College of Art
Discussant:Jennifer Way, University of North Texas
Studio Art Open Session
The Saranay Motel: The Collapse of Design Methodology, Detroit, and Discipline
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Elliott Earls, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Matthew Biro, University of Michigan
Benjamin Teague
Rachele Riley
Elliott Earls, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Impressionism and Art History: What Comes Next?
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Michelle Foa, Tulane University
The New Politics of Vision: Feminism and Impressionist/Postimpressionist Studies
Aruna D'Souza, Binghamton University
Family Portraits: Visualizing Modern Identities in Impressionism
Greg M. Thomas, University of Hong Kong
A New Look at Color: Impressionism and the Color Revolution of the Nineteenth Century
Laura Anne Kalba, Smith College
Selling Impressionism: The Myth and the Marketplace
Jane M. Roos, Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
Discussant:James H. Rubin, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Translating the Lingua Franca
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: David Getsy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Globalization and Indigenization in Contemporary Art
T. J. Demos, University College London
Jamming the Transmission of the Lingua Franca in the Postcolonies
Delinda Collier, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Appropriation Art Appropriated by the Metropole
Sarah Evans, Northern Illinois University
Invented Dialects: Jose Luis Sert and the Latinization of "International Style" Architecture
Anthony Raynsford, San Jose State University
(Un)Translatability from Above and Below: The Migration of the Freestanding House in the Early Twentieth Century
Esra Akcan, University of Illinois, Chicago
Women's Caucus for Art
The Power of the Image: The Studio Artist and Civil Society
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Fay Grajower, independent artist, Boston; Marsha L. Heck, Indiana University, South Bend
Processing Imagery: Reflecting Issues of Contemporary Anxiety
Yvonne Petkus, Western Kentucky University
A Voice for the Voiceless
Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein, La Sierra University
Collaborative Art: Theory and Practice of Working with Community
Brett Cook
Wendy Ewald, Amherst College
Modernizing Millet
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Vivien Greene, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Simon Kelly, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Of Furrows and Faith in the Art of Jean-Francois Millet
Bradley Fratello, St. Louis Community College, Meramec
Symbolism, Rural Time, and the Allegorical Millet
Maura Coughlin, Bryant University
"Peasant and Painter": Selling Jean-Francois Millet to the American Public
Page Knox, Columbia University
Pent Fury: Winslow Homer and Jean-Francois Millet
Erica E. Hirshler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Misok, Materiality, and Millet: The Paintings of Park Su-geun
Christine Hahn, Kalamazoo College
Studio Art Open Session
New Media: The Culture of Dispersion
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Patrick Lichty, Columbia College Chicago
Inferences to the Atomization of the Artistic System beyond Institutional Spaces
M. Elena Ubeda, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Art in the Age of Dispersion: Snacks, Niche Culture, and the High End of the Long Tail
Patrick Lichty, Columbia College Chicago
Giving Things Away Is Hard Work: Three Creative Commons Case Studies on DIY
Michael Mandiberg, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Professional Surfers: Contemporary Internet Art and the Montage of Conspicuous Consumption
Marisa Olson, Rhizome
Using Software (Art) to See the World
Warren Sack, University of California, Santa Cruz
How to Draw a Bunny: Reconsidering Mail Art
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Stephen Perkins, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Portrait of Robin Crozier
Simon Anderson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Origins and Formation of the Mail-Art Network: 1959-79
Michael Crane, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University
Mailings from the Margins of South America: Edgardo-Antonio Vigo's Mail-Art Practice
Vanessa K. Davidson, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Relations between Ray Johnson and Eastern Europe
Kornelia Roder, Staatliches Museum Schwerin
My Paper's in the Mail: A Response to the Panel
Craig Saper, University of Central Florida
Historians of Netherlandish Art
Seeing Sensation/Perceiving Perception
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Noel Schiller, University of South Florida; Alfred Acres, Georgetown University
Rogier van der Weyden’s "Descent from the Cross": A Scene of Carthusian Compassion?
Jennifer Hammerschmidt, University of California, Santa Barbara
Fusion, Confusion, Vision, Cognition
Bret Rothstein, Indiana University
Adam van Vianen's Silver: The Perception of Substance and Property
Richard Checketts, Victoria and Albert Museum
Mastering Attention: Abraham Bloemaert’s "Tekenboek"
Caroline O. Fowler, Princeton University
From Elusive to Explicit in Vermeer's "The Love Letter"
Lisa Vergara, Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
"The West as America" Revisited
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Sascha Scott, Syracuse University; Alan C. Braddock, Temple University
“The Best Damned Soldiers”: Frederic Remington’s All-Black Tenth
Lauren Cordes Tate, Indiana University
Invention and Tradition: Maria Martinez and the Technology of Pueblo Black-on-Black Pottery
Cody Hartley, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Traveling East to Revisit the West: Robert Adam's "Turning Back"
Holly Markovitz, Boston University
The New West: Suburbia or Sustainability
Ruth Wallen, Goddard College
Discussant:William H. Truettner, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Collectivism after Collapse: Chicago Activist Art Spaces, Collectives, and Projects
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Gregory Sholette, REPOhistory; Salem Collo-Julin, Temporary Services and Mess Hall, and Nicholas Lampert, Justseeds Artist's Cooperative and Mess Hall
Society of Architectural Historians
Painting and the Built Environment
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Julia A. Sienkewicz, Smithsonian Institution
Shifting Points of View: Landscape, Painting, and Architecture at the Villa della Farnesina in Rome
Rachel Foulk, Emory University
Grave Cites
Allison Levy
Already Weeds Are Writing the Scriptures: Painting, Architecture, and the Organization of Thai Religious Space at Suan Mokkh
Lawrence Chua, Cornell University
A Square Removal from a Wall: Seeing Works by Lawrence Weiner, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Dan Graham in the Light of Colin Rowe's Formal Methodology
Susanneh Bieber, Freie Universitat Berlin
Redefining the "Field": Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Gestural Painting and Architectural Form
Katherine Smith, Agnes Scott College
WTF: Talking Theory with Art and Art-History Undergrads
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Gold Coast, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Virginia B. Spivey, independent scholar, Silver Spring, Maryland; Anna Cox, Longwood University
Defend Yourself: Ideas about Art
Kathleen Desmond, University of Central Missouri
Theory: It's Not a Dirty Word
Parme Giuntini, Otis College of Art and Design
The Copulation of Theory and Practice in the Creative Arts
Sean Lowry, University of Newcastle
Jocelyn McKinnon, University of Newcastle
What Makes Them So Smart? Art Theory and Undergraduate Preparation
Donna M. Meeks, Lamar University
Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture
Transformation Reconsidered: "Utopias", Realities, and National Traditions in Post-1989 Central Europe
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Acapulco, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Andrzej Szczerski, Jagiellonian University
Work with Drawers, Slide Trays, Files, and Boxes !
Georg Schoellhammer, Springerin, Hefte fur Gegenwartskunst
Continuity of Art Informel and Artistic Self-Assertion in the GDR after the Cold War
Sigrid Hofer, Philipps-Universitat Marburg
“The Future Is Behind Us”
Edit Andras, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Possibility of the Postnational in Contemporary East European Art
Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Translocal.org and University College London
The Situation: Contemporary Art Practice in the Post-Cold War Era
Elizabeth M. Grady, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York
Authors of Cultural History from the Ottoman Empire to Nation-States
Thursday, February 11, 8:00 PM–10:30 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Belgin Turan Ozkaya, Middle East Technical University; Elvan Altan Ergut, Middle East Technical University
Constructing a National Artistic Past in the Modern Greek State
Eleonora Vratskidou, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Gertrude Bell as Architectural Historian
Veronica Kalas, University of Michigan
Theodor Wiegand and Hamdi Edhem Bey: Wilhelmine Kulturpolitik in the Ottoman Empire
Lawrence M. Shapiro, Cornell University
(Re)Locating Anatolia during the Cold War: Cevat Erder and the Establishment of METU Department of Restoration and Preservation of Historical Monuments
Burak Erdim, University of Virginia
Discussant:Elvan Altan Ergut, Middle East Technical University
Joan Mitchell Foundation
Creating a Lasting Legacy: A Resource for Artists' Documenting Their Careers
Friday, February 12, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Christa Blatchford, Joan Mitchell Foundation
Christa Blatchford, Joan Mitchell Foundation
Harmony Hammond, CALL artist
Southeastern College Art Conference
The Importance of Art in Economic and Social Revitalization: The Creation of Modern Cultural Economies
Friday, February 12, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Thomasine Miller, Tulane University
The University of New Orleans-St. Claude Gallery: Art, Cultural Economy, and the Recovery of Post-Katrina New Orleans
Lawrence Jenkens, University of New Orleans
Post-Deluvian New Orleans: Prospect 1, Artists’ Cooperatives, and the Revival of the Visual Arts
Srdjan Loncar, Tulane University
Work-Detroit: The University of Michigan School of Art and Design’s Creative Connection with Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Beyond
Stephen Schudlich, University of Michigan
Academic Missions/Economic Realities: The Merger between University of North Florida and Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art
Paul Karabinis, University of North Florida
After the Fact: Making a Photographic Record of the Past
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Kate Palmer Albers, University of Arizona; Rebecca A. Senf, Center for Creative Photography
Landscape via History: Locating the American Past in the Present
Kate Palmer Albers, University of Arizona
Jeff Wall and Edward S. Curtis: Near-Documentary Photographs of the Historical Past
Shannon Egan, Gettysburg College
Catharsis
Angela Kelly, Rochester Institute of Technology
Mining the Past in Search of the Present: Susan Meiselas’s Kurdish Archive
Mitra M. Abbaspour, Graduate Center, City University of New York
From Fiction to Archive: Reconstructing Public Memory in South Korea
Young Min Moon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
They Might Be Giants: The Effect and Affect of Colossal Imagery
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gold Coast, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Catherine Becker, University of Illinois, Chicago
Big Men in Charge: Rethinking the Urban Colossus in Medieval Central Europe
S. Adam Hindin, Harvard University
The Renaissance Colossus as a Composite
Nicole Bensoussan, Boston University
From Brobdignag to Lilliput: The Agency and Afterlife of the Aztec Calendar Stone
Khristaan Villela, University of New Mexico
Thomas Cole's "The Titan's Goblet" (1833): Freemasonry, the Erie Canal, and America's Global Mission
David Bjelajac, George Washington University
Beyond Clifford: Jeff Koons's Big Red, Yellow, Green, Pink, Purple, White, and Orange Dog
Sarah Rosenbaum-Kranson, Harvard University
ARTspace
Hand to Mouth: Pedagogical Paradigms In Contemporary Ceramics
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus GHIJ, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Adam Davis, Scripps College
The Current Flavors of Ceramic Art Pedagogy at Institutes of Higher Education
Aurore Chabot, University of Arizona
The Big Bang
Katherine L. Ross, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Experimentation and Individual Ceramic Identity through the Use of Mixed Media and Nonfired Clay in Graduate-Student Ceramic Works
Rebecca Hutchinson, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Discussant:Michael Jones McKean, Virginia Commonwealth University
The Art of War: Conflict, Trauma, and Representation from the Vietnam War to Today
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Sabrina DeTurk, Saint Joseph's University
John Baky, La Salle University
Jane Irish, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Heyman, Rhode Island School of Design
Art and the Televisual
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Acapulco, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Aviva Dove-Viebahn, University of Rochester
Andy Warhol’s Proto-TV Production
Melissa Ragona, Carnegie Mellon University
Vanishing Mediators: The Televised Event and the Politics of Emergent Video
Andrew Weiner, University of California, Berkeley
Televisual Spaces and the Paradox of Anamorphosis
Margot Bouman, Parsons the New School for Design
Visualizing the Viewing Public: Kutlug Ataman, Thomas Hirschhorn, and the Return of the Television Audience
Maeve Connolly, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology
Art History Open Session
Eighteenth-Century European Art
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Nina Dubin, University of Illinois, Chicago
Pray, Sir, Whose Dog Are You? Nobility and Animality in Eighteenth-Century French Hunting Pictures
Amy Freund, Texas Christian University
Sensibilite and Sociability: Antoine-Jean Gros's Embodied Classicism
Rachel Lindheim, Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Understanding Overdoors
Mimi Hellman, Skidmore College
"Temples Became Theatres": Henry Fuseli and the Cultural Politics of Antiquity, 1760-1800
Andrei Pop, Harvard University
Not Being David: Eccentric History Painters of the D’Angiviller Generation
Mark Ledbury, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The Roles of Acquisition: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in Europe, the United States, Britain, and Australia during the Early to Mid-Twentieth Century
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Noelle Giuffrida, Case Western Reserve University
Playing All the Roles: Osvald Siren as Curator, Collector, Dealer, and Art Historian
Minna Torma, University of Helsinki
Refashioning China: Displaying Chinese Art at the Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, during the 1930s
Wei-Cheng Lin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Before and Beyond: Exhibiting and Expanding the East Asian Collection of Charles Lang Freer (1912-46)
Noelle Giuffrida, Case Western Reserve University
Laurence Binyon’s Role as Curator and Collector in Forming the National Collection of Chinese Painting in Britain
Michelle Ying-Ling Huang, University of St. Andrews
The Japanese Collection at the Art Gallery of South Australia: Tangible Evidence of "Civilisation and Enlightenment" (Bunmei Kaika)
Jennifer Harris, University of Adelaide
International Center of Medieval Art
Questioning Geographies and Temporalities: Postcolonizing Medieval Art
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Catherine Elizabeth Karkov, University of Leeds; Eva Frojmovic, University of Leeds
Manuscripts on the Move: Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Regime du Corps
Jennifer Borland, University of Pennsylvania and Oklahoma State University
Rhetorics of Sanctity and Subversion: The St. Thomas Becket Windows of Angers and Coutances
Alyce Jordan, Northern Arizona University
Postcrusade and Postcolonial: Latin Architecture in Fourteenth-Century Cyprus
Justine Andrews, University of New Mexico
Of Saints and Empire: Venice, Hungary, and Dalmatian Zadar, 1350-1450
Zoe Willis, University of Warwick
Romanesque and Republic, Ethnography and Empire: Displaying Medieval and African Art at the Trocadero, 1878-1937
Risham Majeed, Columbia University
Sculpture and Race, 1750-Present
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Linda Kim, Smith College
The Life Cast of Bodybuilder Eugen Sandow and Racial Display at the Britsh Museum of Natural History
Ellery Foutch, University of Pennsylvania
Ethnographic Sculpture and the Complexities of Race: The Cultural Politics of Charles Cordier, Theodore Riviere, and Auguste Rodin
Marco Deyasi, University of Idaho
The Lingering Trace: Public Sculpture and Its Aftereffect
Petrina Dacres, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts
"I Have A King": The Struggle of Race, Memory, and Representation in Lei Yixin's Memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kirsten Pai Buick, University of New Mexico
Discussant:Maria Gindhart, Georgia State University
Studio Art Open Session
The Artist's Book as a Site for Interdisciplinary Work
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Clifton Meador, Columbia College Chicago
Draft Notation
Jen Bervin
Relating the Book Space to Performance Space
Brandon Graham
Same Things Arranged Differently
Amber Hares
Virtual Environment/Physical Artifact
Tate Shaw, Visual Studies Workshop
Art as Event
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Nadja Rottner, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Mass Action, Aleksei Gan, and the Social Aesthetics of Russian Constructivism
Kristin Romberg, Columbia University
Antiart, Nonevent: The Situationist Inverse of Relational Aesthetics
Jennifer Stob, Yale University
Rolywholyover to theanyspacewhatever: John Cage's Compositions for Museums, or Relational in Retrospect
Sandra Skurvida, Bard College, Fashion Institute of Technology, and School of Visual Arts
Inducing Spirits: Oscar Masotta’s Apperceptive Participant
Daniel R. Quiles, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Situational Aesthetics and the Art of Participation
Kirsi Peltomaki, Oregon State University
Discussant:Irene Small, University of Ilinois, Urbana-Champaign
Public Art Dialogue
Site Variations: The Shifting Grounds of Public Art
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Harriet F. Senie, City College, City University of New York; Cher Krause Knight, Emerson College
Non-Sites and Non-Places
Janna Eggebeen, University of Toronto
Invisible Venue(s): Alternatives to the Institution
Christian L. Frock, Invisible Venue
The Neighborhood Narratives Project: Investigating Public Sites for New Encounters
Hana Iverson, Rutgers University
Social Practice as Public Art: The Shifting Landscape of Community as Site
Elizabeth Mangini, California College of the Arts
A Front Lawn, A Hotel Room, A Coffee Cup
Gregory Sale, Arizona State University
Design Studies Forum
Design and the Rhetoric of Democratization
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Ezra Shales, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University
Made in Canada (but What Do the Americans Think?)
Sandra Alfoldy, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Redefining Social Design in 1970s Belgium: Affordable Design vs. Elite Design
Javier Gimeno-Martinez, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Research Foundation-Flanders
IKEA’s Genealogy of Democratic Design
Jeff Werner, Goteborg Museum of Art
Rogue Design in China: Democratizing or Devaluing Design?
Tao Huang, Columbia College Chicago
Discussant:Jennifer Geigel Mikulay, Indiana University and Purdue University
Edvard Munch at 2010: Reassessing a Century of Scholarship, Directions for the Future
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Clarence Burton Sheffield, Rochester Institute of Technology
Edvard Munch, Writer and Disciple of Edgar Allan Poe
Joan Templeton, Long Island University
Edvard Munch's Use of Caricature, Satire, and Humor
Gerd Woll, Munch-museet
Munch’s Spanish Flu as Medical Performance
Patricia Gray Berman, Wellesley College
Discussant:Alison Chang, University of Pennsylvania
"Classicisms," "Mannerisms," and "Baroquisms": Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Visual Culture in Europe and Other Cultural Centers, Part I
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania; Lynette M. F. Bosch, State University of New York, Geneseo
Vermeer's Poetics of Painting
Michael Zell, Boston University
Appointments in Isfahan: The Ill Fortunes of the Painters to the Safavid Shahs
Gary D. Schwartz, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies
Flattening out the World: Planarity in Early Modern Visual Culture
Stephanie Leitch, Florida State University
Collecting Baroque Allegories: The Kleinplastik of Leonhard Kern
Miya Tokumitsu, University of Pennsylvania
African Diaspora Art History: State of the Field
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Krista Thompson, Northwestern University; Jacqueline Francis, California College of the Arts
A Historiography of African Diaspora Art History: From the Field to the Studio
Judith Bettelheim, San Francisco State University
What Is Africa to Me?: African American Art and the Problem of Origins
Tobias Wofford, University of California, Los Angeles
Modernist Painting and Diaspora Criticism
William Ian Bourland, University of Chicago
Teaching Contemporary African Diaspora Art History
Cheryl Finley, Cornell University
Visual Culture around the Indian Ocean Littoral
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Nancy Um, Binghamton University; Prita Meier, Cornell University
A Community in Transition: Tamil Merchants in China
Risha Lee, Columbia University
Dispersal and Entanglement: (Dis)locating Symbols of Authority in the Mosques of East Africa and Arabia
Ruba Kana'an, York University
Architecture and Society on the Asian Seas: On the Built Environment and Social Order of the Dutch East India Company's Ships
Richard Guy, Cornell University
Images of Efficacy: Devotional Diasporas of Shirdi Sai Baba in the Indian Ocean World
Mary Nooter Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles
CAMP's WHARFAGE Project: Recasting the Indian Ocean as a Space of Contact and Exchange
Murtaza Vali, independent scholar, Brooklyn
Association of Art Museum Curators
Expanding Museums: Spaces and Choices
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Alexandra and John Nichols Board of Trustees Suite, 2nd Floor, Art Institute of Chicago
Chair: Douglas Druick, Art Institute of Chicago
Stephanie D'Alessandro, Art Institute of Chicago
James Rondeau, Art Institute of Chicago
Joseph G. Rosa, Art Institute of Chicago
Matthew S. Witkovsky, Art Institute of Chicago
John Ravenal, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Origin of Colors
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Mark Gottsegen, Intermuseum Conservation Association
Beth Bergman, Wet Paint
Ed Brickler, Canson
Mark Golden, Golden Artist Colors
Richard Frumess, R&F Handmade Paints
George O'Hanlan, Natural Pigments
Michael Skalka, National Gallery of Art
Art Libraries Society of North America
Collecting the Contemporary: Building and Managing Artists' Book Collections
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Laura Graveline, Art Libraries Society of North America
Being Collected: Portrait of an Artist as a Collectee
Elisabeth Long
Pushing the Limits: Using and Sustaining a Teaching Collection
Tony White, Art Libraries Society of North America
"Fine," "Fair," "Poor": Balancing Usage and Preservation at the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
Doro Boehme, Art Libraries Society of North America
The Herron Artist Book Alcove: Community Outreach and Marketing of an Artist's Book Collection
Sonja Staum-Kuniej, Art Libraries Society of North America
CAA Professional Practices Committee
The Associate of Fine Arts Degree: Is It But a Mere Frill or Is It a New Necessity?
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Bertha Steinhardt Gutman, Delaware County Community College
David Koffman, Georgia Perimeter College
Susan Altman, Middlesex County College
Christine McNearney, Pima Community College
Mark S. Szantyr, Quinebaug Valley Community College
Radical Art Caucus
Occupations: Labor, Activism, Art, and the Academy in Crisis
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Sarah Kanouse, University of Iowa
Taking a Radical Stance against Occupation without Perpetuating Myths of a Militant Resistance
Aaron Hughes, Iraq Veterans Against the War
3Cs: Counter-Cartographies Collective
Tim Stallman, 3Cs: Counter-Cartographies Collective
Liz Mason-Deese, 3Cs: Counter-Cartographies Collective
Preoccupied: Organizing, the Work of Art School Academics
Therese Quinn, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Erosion or Evolution? Scholarly Art Publishing in the Twenty-First Century
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Christine Kuan, ARTstor
Patricia Fidler, Yale University Press
David Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University
Doug Dodds, Victoria and Albert Museum
National Endowment for the Humanities
Getting Funded in the Humanities: Grant Opportunities for Museums, Educators, and Art Historians
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Clay Lewis, National Endowment for the Humanities
Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture
Emerging Scholars Session
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Barbara McCloskey, University of Pittsburgh
The Dialectics of Vision: A Reevaluation of Viennese Expressionism
Nathan J. Timpano, Florida State University and Harvard Art Museum/Busch-Reisinger Museum
Alfred Roller, the Vienna Secession, and the Gesamtkunstwerk
Diane Silverthorne, Birkbeck, University of London and Royal College of Art
Kunstwissenschaft and the "Primitive": Excursions in the History of Art History, 1880-1925
Priyanka Basu, University of Southern California and Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
CAA Services to Artists Committee
Meta-Mentors: Opt Out of Obscurity
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus GHIJ, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Sabina Ott, Columbia College Chicago; Reni Gower, Virginia Commonwealth University
Curator's Perspective
Michelle Grabner, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Suburban
Critic's Perspective
Corey Postiglione, Columbia College Chicago and "Artforum"
Gallerist's Perspective
Gosia Koscielak, Koscielak Gallery
Producer's Perspective
Duncan MacKenzie, Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk
Richard Holland, Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk
Italian Art Society
Caravaggio at Four Hundred and Beyond
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Catherine R. Puglisi, Rutgers University
Caravaggio, Early vs. Late: New Directions
David M. Stone, University of Delaware
Age of Caravaggio: Its Legacy after Twenty-Five Years
Keith Christiansen, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Why Caravaggio?
Philip Sohm, University of Toronto
ArtTable
Career Advisory Roundtables
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Riverside Center, East Tower, Purple Level, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Geri Thomas, Thomas and Associates, Inc.
Association for Latin American Art
Emerging Scholars
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Khristaan Villela, University of New Mexico; Patricia Joan Sarro, Youngstown State University
Forbidden Angels in the Cathedral of Mexico City
Orlando Amado Hernandez Ying, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Listening to Shadows with a Stethoscope: Urban Redevelopment and the Problem of Transparency at Tlatelolco
George F. Flaherty, University of California, Santa Barbara
Noticias de Arte (1952-53) and Cuba's Horizon of Vanguards
Abigail McEwen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
New Media Caucus
New Media/New Terrain: Pioneering a PhD in Creative Research
Friday, February 12, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Jessica Walker
Being in Between: The Art and Science of Redefining the Ph.D.
Victoria Vesna, University of California, Los Angeles, and Parsons the New School of Design
Legitimizing the Ph.D. as Creative Research
Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Trinity College Dublin
DXARTS, University of Washington
James Coupe, University of Washington
Intermix: Art and Language in Independent Publishing
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Sally Alatalo, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Mapping Art, Language, World
Jan Estep, University of Minnesota
Day In, Day Out
Karol Shewmaker, FLAT Publications
Image Process Literature: Project Overview
Chris Burnett, University of Toledo
Discussant:Simon Cutts, Coracle
Erica Van Horn, Coracle
Modern and Contemporary African Art: Recent Issues and Trends
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Art Institute of Chicago
Reframing the African Art Workshop: The Mission Model and Serima Station, Rhodesia
Elizabeth Morton, Wabash College
Discursive Gender across Media: South African Masculinity in Printmaking and Clay
Elizabeth Perrill, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Refashioning Portraiture: West-African Photography in Global Contexts
Candace Keller, Michigan State University
Bright Ugochukwu Eke and Otobong Nkanga: Two Nigerian Environmental Artists
Andrea Fabiola Vazquez, Columbia University
Critical White Studies and African Art
Kevin Mulhearn, Graduate Center, City University of New York
"It Is a Small World after All": Contemporary Art in the Age of Emerging Art Markets
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Veronique Chagnon-Burke, Christie's Education
Building Critical Infrasctucture in a Developing Art Market: How International Patronage Underpins Chinese Contemporary Art and What India Can Learn
Anuradha Vikram, independent curator and critic, Richmond, California
The Cult of Origin: Ethnicity, Diaspora, and Cultural Capital in Contemporary Chinese Art
J. P. Park, University of Colorado
Speculation vs. Real Quality and the Quality Standard Conundrum: The 3C Methods Applied to the Market for Chinese Contemporary Art
Till Richter, University of Texas at Austin
Contemporary Drawings as a Opportunity to Open a Dialogue between the Artists, Market, International Artistic Institutions, and Collectors
Saskia Sorg, Loughborough University
When East Means West: Art Markets in Poland and Russia
Thomas Skowronek, Humboldt University
Art History Open Session
Nineteenth-Century Art: The Prehistory of Modernity
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Stephen F. Eisenman, Northwestern University
Women and Erotic Pleasure in the Lithographs of Achille Devéria
Andrew Shelton, Ohio State University
The Way of All Flesh: Manet, the Morgue, and the Death of History Painting
Emily Beeny, Columbia University
Rewriting Japonisme: Felix Regamey’s "The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysantheme"
Christopher Reed, Pennsylvania State University
Claiming Forefathers: Contemporary Painting, 1899
Sarah Ganz Bythe, Rhode Island School of Design
The City Looks Back: Charles Sheeler, the Human Presence, and the American Past, 1917-27
David Peters Corbett, York University
Discussant:Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary
Transcultural Migrations: Indigenous Americans and Mestizos in Early Modern Europe
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Cristina Cruz Gonzalez, Oklahoma State University; Ray Hernandez-Duran, University of New Mexico
Assimilation at the Court of Charles V: Indigenous American Performance in Christoph Weiditz's "Trachtenbuch" (1529) and Hapsburg Imperial Identity
Andrea M. Satterfield, Emory University
Hybridity in Exile: Bicultural Structures in the Engravings of Diego Valades
Brendan Branley, independent scholar, Albuquerque, New Mexico
El Mestizo and the Brown Atlantis: Revivals of Early Modern Orientalism and the Imagining of Mexico between 1870-1940
Mauricio Tenorio, University of Chicago
Under Fire: 3D Animation Pedagogy and Industry Complicity in New-Media Education
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Claudia Constance Hart, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Rachel Elizabeth Clarke, California State University, Sacramento
Expressive 3D
Jennifer J. Steinkamp
The Industry Is OK
Joshua Mosley
3D Computer Graphics and the Aesthetics of Denial
Gregory A. Little, Bowling Green State University
Enhancing Creativity with 3D Software in Art Education
Bruce Wands, School of Visual Arts
Techno Luddite
Michael S. Rees
Can 3D Art Be Taught? A Reflection on Challenges and Strategies
Claudia Herbst-Tait, Pratt Institute
War Stories: Violence and Narrative in Early Modern Europe
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Elizabeth Alice Honig, University of California, Berkeley; Suzanne Walker, Tulane University
Mercenary Warfare: Political and Satirical Narratives by Urs Graf ca. 1515-25
Christiane Andersson, Bucknell University
Velazquez Breaking Breda: Typology as Ante-Narrative
Vanessa Lyon, University of California, Berkeley
Nicolas Poussin's "The Plague at Ashdod": Narrating Unconventional Warfare
Luke Nicholson, Concordia University
Symbol and Allegory in the Many Deaths of General Wolfe
Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia
Discussant:James Clifton, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Art History Open Session
Contemporary Chinese Art: Contexts and Narratives
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Wu Hung, University of Chicago
Postmedium in Postsocialist China?
Eugene Y. Wang, Harvard University
Displacement in the Narratives of Chinese Contemporary Art
Ming Lu Gao, University of Pittsburgh
Micronarratives in Contemporary Chinese Art
Silvia Fok Siu Har, Hong Kong University
Towards a Multilinear and Interactive Approach to Contemporary Chinese Art
Wu Hung, University of Chicago
Discussant:James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Art and Violence
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Cary Levine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Philip Glahn, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Martyrdom in Contemporary Art
Andrea D. Fitzpatrick, University of Ottawa
Revealing Histories of Violence in Contemporary African Art
Allison M. Moore, Savannah College of Art and Design
Cartographies of Violence: Narration and Abstraction in the Work of Atlas Group/Walid Raad and Emily Jacir
Kassandra Nakas, Berlin University of Arts
Violence's Relics: The Martyrs' Museum in Tehran
Christiane Jacqueline Gruber, Indiana University, Bloomington
Pacific Arts Association
Views from the Continent: Art and the US Pacific Diaspora
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Acapulco, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Margo Machida, University of Connecticut; Jewel Castro, independent artist, Gig Harbor, Washington
Pacific Islander Art in the Continental US
Teri Sowell, University of California, San Diego and Oceanside Museum of Art
Hawaiian Cover-Ups
Adrienne Pao, San Francisco Art Institute and Academy of Art University
In the Nest of the Eagle
Dan Taulapapa McMullin, independent artist, Laguna Niguel, California
Oceania as Center in Pacific American Art
Bernida Webb-Binder, Cornell University
Kuleana Media: Making Hawaiian Resistance Media in the Era of Elimination
Anne Keala Kelly, independent artist, Kailua, Hawai`i
Queer Caucus for Art: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus for Art, Artists, and Historians
Desire is Queer!
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Miranda Mason, independent scholar, Leeds; Jonathan Frederick Walz, University of Maryland, College Park
LINEAGE: Queer Desire and Matchmaking in the Archive
E. G. Crichton, University of California, Santa Cruz
Unmade Beds: Works of Art and the Projection of Queer Desire
Mark Denaci, St. Lawrence University
Censoring Paul Cadmus: Queer Desire and "The Fleet's In!" Controversy
Anthony J. Morris, Case Western Reserve University
Fire Smoulders in the Veins: Toyen's Expression of Queer Desire
Karla Huebner, Wright State University
A Long, Hard Look: Queer Desire in Contemporary Life Drawing
Jason Watson, Appalachian State University
Intention and Interpretation, Part I
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Charles J. Palermo, College of William and Mary; Todd Cronan, Virginia Commonwealth University
Intention/Identity/Interpretation/Affect
Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois, Chicago
Re-turning the Hermeneutic Circle
David Summers, University of Virginia
Intention, Interpretation, and the Balance of Theory
Stephen Melville, Ohio State University
Picturer's Meaning: Replication and Intentionality in Depiction
Whitney Davis, University of California, Berkeley
The Photographic Act: Event, Encounter, Configuration, Network
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Damian P. Sutton, Glasgow School of Art
Interpellating the Image: The Consequences of Alain Badiou's Thought for Film and Photography
David Brancaleone, Limerick Institute of Technology
Realism vs. Reality TV in the War on Terror: Artworks as Models of Interpretation
David Crawford, Flagler College
The Breathing Factory: Multivocality, Gesture, and the Global Laboring Body
Mark Curran, Dublin Institute of Technology and Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology
Between Solidarity and Solubility: Photography and Social Movements in South Korea
Jung Joon Lee, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Discussant:John Roberts, University of Wolverhampton
American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies
The Portrait in Golden-Age Spain: Expanding the Frame
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Tanya J. Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Laura R. Bass, Tulane University
Diplomacy and Devotion: Giulio Clovio’s Miniature Portraits in Hapsburg Spain
Elena Calvillo, University of Richmond
Cultural Transfer and Dynastic Identity: Portrait Medals in Habsburg Spain (1543-98)
Walter Cupperi, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Children´s Portraits at the Spanish Court
Mercedes Llorente, University College London
Feminine Culture and Representation at the Spanish Court, 1570-1644
Maria Cruz de Carlos Varona, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Characterizing a Portrait of Christ in Seventeenth-Century Andalucía
Jeffrey Schrader, University of Colorado, Denver
Mice that Roar: Miniature Visions of Nationalism and Empire
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gold Coast, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Ben C. Tilghman, Walters Art Museum
Intimate Empire: Egypt in the French Domestic Interior
Lisa Cherkerzian, University of California, San Diego
Shifting the Scale of Empire: Colonial American City Views
Jennifer Van Horn, University of Virginia
Imagining Nations in Miniature: A Comparison of Splendid Chinas in Florida and Shenzhen
Ipek Tureli, Brown University
Annual Artists' Interviews
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus GHIJ, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; John Neff, independent scholar, curator, and critic
Phyllis Bramson and Tony Tasset will be interviewed.
American Art and the "Period Eye"
Friday, February 12, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Kristina Wilson, Clark University
Failing to See: Imagination, Gender, and Illusion in Antebellum American Visual Culture
Catherine Reed Holochwost, University of Delaware
Light, Blindness, and Touch in American Neoclassical Sculpture
Crawford Alexander Mann III, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Diagrammatics: Industrialism and the Modernizing of American Art
Barbara Jaffee, Northern Illinois University
Know Before You Go: Preconditions and Public Art of the New Deal
George V. Speer, Northern Arizona University Art Museum
Seeing Race in the "Saturday Evening Post"
Eric J. Segal, University of Florida
Italian Art Society
"I primi lumi": Studies in Italian Renaissance Art in Memory of Andrew T. Ladis
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Diane Cole Ahl, Lafayette College
Sacred and Secular: The "Tabernacolo della Tromba" in Florence (1243-1905)
Elizabeth Bailey, Wesleyan College
Rebellion, Reconciliation, and a Painting for the Florentine Wool Guild
George R. Bent, Washington and Lee University
Preparing the Mind, Preparing the Soul: The Fusion of Franciscan Thought in the Sacristy Decoration of Santa Croce, Florence
Michelle A. Erhardt, Christopher Newport University
Agnolo Gaddi and the Opera del Duomo in the Late Trecento
Jean K. Cadogan, Trinity College
Vasari’s Taddeo Gaddi
Perri Lee Roberts, University of Miami
American Council for Southern Asian Art
Masterpiece or Craft, Courtly or Popular? Situating Textiles in South and Southeast Asian Visual Culture
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Gold Coast, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Rebecca M. Brown, Johns Hopkins University; Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Reframing Borders: Analysis and Interpretation of Himalayan Textile Frames
Melissa Kerin, College of William and Mary
Seeing Banners: Gendered Meanings of Buddhist Wat Textiles
Rebecca Hall, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
Modernist Grids and Homespun Weaves
Sonal Khullar, University of Washington
Clothes Make the God: The Importance of Textiles in the Worship of the God Krishna
Cynthia Packert, Middlebury College
Discussant:Katherine Hacker, University of British Columbia
Texting and Imaging the Oriental Body
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Joan DelPlato, Bard College at Simon's Rock
Sapphism in the Seraglio
Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts
Menace at the Gate: Masculinity and the Homoerotics of Orientalism
James Smalls, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Tropes of Blackness in Jean-Leon Gerome’s "Moorish Bath"
Adrienne L. Childs, University of Maryland, College Park
Embodying Memories of Travel
Mary Roberts, University of Sydney and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Discussant:Julie Codell, Arizona State University
Visual Culture Caucus
Vision, Space, and Ideology: Light in Modernity
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Niharika Dinkar, Boise State University
Through Stained Glass: Abstraction and Embodiment in Early Avant-Garde Circles
Barbara Larson, University of West Florida
Something New under the Sun: The Dramaturgy of Curative Light in Weimar Germany
Jennifer Dillon, Duke University
Benjamin's Rainbow
Gordon Hughes, Rice University
The Fantasy of Night, the Metaphor of Light: Louis Kahn’s Decorative and Referential Lighting
George Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant:Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University
Art after Camouflage
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Ann D. Elias, University of Sydney; Tanya Peterson, University of Sydney
Invisible Landscapes: Camouflage and Contemporary Landscape Architecture
Sonja Duempelmann, University of Maryland
Designing Men: Andy Warhol’s Camouflage and Patterns of Masculinity
Stephen Monteiro, American University of Paris
Camouflaging the East: Vladimir Mamyshev-Monroe and the Post-Soviet Russian Identity
Amy Bryzgel, University of Aberdeen
The Storm Trooper’s Smock: Ian Hamilton Finlay and Camouflage
Rob Silberman, University of Minnesota
The Insistent Visibility of Disappearance
Craig J. Peariso, Boise State University
New Media Art in China: Understanding the Emergence of the Dragon
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Scott David Groeniger, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Alternative Art Spaces in China: Adventures in Disappointment, Guanxi, and Language
Ellen Zweig, New York University, Shanghai
China Video Stories: China as Subject, Scene, and Mind
Conrad Gleber, La Salle University
A New "Lure of the East": Artistic Opportunities in China
William J. Andersen, American University of Kuwait
Collaboration, Cooperation, and Installation: Three Summers in Taiyuan
Scott Groeniger, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Beijing and the Context of Location: The China Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) as Site for Studio Art and International Programs
Stephen Lane, Columbia University
Shopping Malls and Wall Drawings: The Zendai Museum of Modern Art's 366 Days of Art in Shanghai
Kirsten Rae Simonsen, Hawaii Pacific University
The Vernacular and Medieval Art
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Margaret E. Hadley, Lawrence Technological University
Cele houre meimes: Vernacular Poesis and Pictorial Organization in the Ellesmere Psalter-Hours
Alexa Sand, Utah State University
"Though It Be Noght in the Registre of Venus": Illustrating Gower’s Learned Interlude
Sonja Drimmer, Columbia University
Anthonis de Roovere, Hugo van der Goes, and the Language of Immediacy
Jessica Buskirk, Technische Universitat
Carlo Crivelli: Vernacular or Hybrid Visual Language?
Liliana Leopardi, Chapman University
Multiples and Multiplicity: Beyond Benjamin
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Friedhard Kiekeben, Columbia College Chicago; Doro Boehme, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Mass-Market Manque: The Ambivalent Ambitions of the Multiple
Susan Tallman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
electroSTATIC ATTRACTION: xerox, seriality, permutation, ca.1965
Alicia Imperiale, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Scale and the Multiple
Lane Hall, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Toward an “Aesthetics of Access”: Distributing the Unlimited Multiple
Lindsay Bosch, Art Institute of Chicago
Art History Open Session
Twentieth-Century Art
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: John Klein, Washington University in St. Louis
Mediating the Avant-Garde: Russian Influences on Modern Japanese Art in the Early Twentieth Century
Yang Wang, Ohio State University
The Torres de la Ciudad Satelite: Modernist Monumentality in Mexico City
Jennifer Josten, Yale University
Modernism and the Politics of South African Primitivism, 1962-68: The Amadlozi Group
Anitra Nettleton, University of the Witwatersrand
Global Modernity and the Contemporary Construction of a Visual Chinese Culture Tradition
Xin Wu, American University
Discussant:James Housefield, University of California, Davis
Afterlife: The Berlin Wall's Continuing Cultural Presence
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Andreas Luescher, Bowling Green State University; Carolyn S. Loeb, Michigan State University
Art and Spaces of Unification in the Divided City
John Powers, Cleveland Institute of Art
Virtual Barrier: Reimagining the Berlin Wall
Gregory Williams, Boston University
Painting the Wall in the East Berlin
April Eisman, Iowa State University
Image Crisis at the Wall: Leonard Freed's Berlin
Paul Michael Farber, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Walking the Wall
Kinga Araya, Ringling College of Art and Design
Theorizing Things
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Jennifer Jane Marshall, University of Minnesota; Kate Mondloch, University of Oregon
Visualizing Agency: Thing Theory and the Practice of Painting
Katherine Rieder, Harvard University
Between Documents and Objects: Surrealism and the Agency of Things
Joyce Cheng, University of Oregon
The Coevalness of Persons and Things: Thinking through "Hidden Art" in Irish Neolithic Passage Tombs
Robert J. Wallis, Richmond, the American International University in London
Game Artifacts: What Do These Things Want?
Raiford Guins, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Postconceptual Art and the Affordance of Obsolete Things
Amanda Boetzkes, University of Alberta
Do We Have to Read the Textbook? American Art Textbooks and the Shape of the Field, a Roundtable
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Maurie L. McInnis, University of Virginia; Alexis Boylan, University of Tennessee
Sarah Burns, Indiana University
John Davis, Smith College
Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame
Barbara Groseclose, Ohio State University
Angela Miller, Washington University in St. Louis
Jennifer Roberts, Harvard University
Frances Pohl, Ponoma College
Intersections of Art and Design
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Debra Riley Parr, Columbia College Chicago
Recycle, Reuse, Readymade
Amanda Gluibizzi, Ohio State University
Environmental Affections: Women, Art, and Ecology
Adrian Parr, University of Cincinnati
An Art and Design Imperative: Ecomodernism Hybrid
Eric Benson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Beyond Eco-Art: Twenty-First-Century Eco-visualization
Tiffany G. Holmes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Discussant:Annette Ferrara, IDEO
Studio Practice and Poststudio Production: Reconsidering the Roles of Artist and Curator
Friday, February 12, 6:30 PM–9:00 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Michelle White, Menil Collection; Hilary Wilder, Virginia Commonwealth University
Conflict of Interest: When Artists Become Gatekeepers
Leta Ming, University of Southern California
The Function of the Home: Womanhouse in Los Angeles
Aram Moshayedi, University of Southern California
New York and Chicago Alternative and Artist-Run Art Spaces 2000-10: What Next?
Maika Pollack, Princeton University
The Public Is the Public
Mary Jane Jacob, independent curator, Chicago
Skyscrapers by the Roots
Claire Barliant, independent critic, Brooklyn
“Classicisms," "Mannerisms," and "Baroquisms": Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Visual Culture in Europe and Other Cultural Centers. Part II
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Lynette M. F. Bosch, State University of New York, Geneseo; Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania
Darkness at Dawn: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Aurora, ca. 1625-27
Susan E. Wegner, Bowdoin College
Lifting the Veil of the Body: Imaginining the Souls of Holy People in the Renaissance Literature on Art
Steven Stowell, Oxford University
"Si grande Apelle, e non minore Apollo": Bronzino's Ugolino Martelli and the Paragone of the Arts
Julia Alexandra Siemon, Columbia University
Cigoli’s Ecorche and the Reform of Disegno
Lisa Bourla, University of Pennsylvania
Association for Latin American Art
Between/Beyond Text-Image: Engaging Visual Culture in Mesoamerica and South America
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Gold Coast, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Catherine Burdick, University of Illinois,Chicago; Virginia Miller, University of Illinois, Chicago
Not an Alphabet: Semasiography in Ancient America
Margaret A. Jackson, University of California, Los Angeles
Tipquis and Tupus: Pinning Together Inca and Colonial Costume Tradition
Sarah Holian, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Seeing with Old Eyes: The Carved Lintels from Temple I, Tikal, Guatemala
Elizabeth Olton, University of New Mexico
The Shape of Mythic Time: Moteuczoma II's Temple Stone and the Apotheosis of Aztec Imperial History
William Barnes, University of St. Thomas
The Later Lives of Two Aztec Sacrificial Stones
Emily Umberger, Arizona State University
Studio Art Open Session
Painting
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Michelle Ann Grabner, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Ann Craven, Yale University
Anoka Faruqee, California Institute of the Arts
Peter Halley, Yale University
Rebecca Morris, Pasadena City College
Thomas Lawson, California Institute of the Arts
Judy Ledgerwood, Northwestern University
Sabina Ott, Columbia College Chicago
Scott Reeder, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Molly Zuckerman Hartung, independent artist, Chicago
Susanna Coffey, independent artist, New York
Carrie Moyer, Rhode Island School of Design
Jon Pestoni, independent artist
More of the Same? Analyzing Repetition in Ancient Art
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Ann C. Gunter, Northwestern University; Ann Steiner, Franklin and Marshall College
The Omnipresent Ruler: The Multiplication of the Royal Statue in Late-Third-Millennium Mesopotamia
Melissa Eppihimer, University of Pittsburgh
Repetition and Meaning in the Trojan Cycle: Helen and the Sacrificial Virgins in Greek Vase-Painting
Anthony F. Mangieri, Savannah College of Art and Design
Repetition, Reflection, and Intergenerational Storytelling on Attic Grave Stelai of the Fourth Century BCE
Elizabeth P. McGowan, Williams College
Repetition Breeds Polysemy: Copy Books and the Roman Viewer
Stephanie Pearson, University of California, Berkeley
In Time with the Seasons: Movement and Repetition on Roman Season Sarcophagi
Mont Allen, University of California, Berkeley
The Materiality of Early Modern Prints, Part II: Plates, States, and Collections
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Art Institute of Chicago; Lia Markey, Princeton University Art Museum
Prints and Precious Plates
Madeleine Viljoen, La Salle University Art Museum
Print, Interrupted: Tracing Rembrandt’s Etched Sketches
Amy Frederick, University of Louisville
From Copper to Satin: Engraved Portraits Printed on Silk in Seventeenth-Century France and Their Preservation
Audrey Adamczak, University of Paris-Sorbonne
Examining Physical Evidence for the Medici Print Collection
Alessandra Baroni, University of Siena
Improvising Art History: Three Eighteenth-Century Albums of Prints
Kristel Smentek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ananda Coomaraswamy’s Legacy and Influence on Twentieth-Century Art, Part I
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Lise Kjaer, City College, City University of New York; William Wroth, independent scholar, Santa Fe
A "New Order of Things": Ananda Coomaraswamy, the India Society, and the Networks Colonial Modernity in Britain, ca. 1910-14
Sarah V. Turner, University of York
Modernist Affinities
Allan Antliff, University of Victoria
Circles of Influence: Ananda Coomaraswamy and the Stieglitz Circle
Katherine Hoffman, St. Anselm College
Georgia O’Keeffe and Coomaraswamy’s "The Door in the Sky": Painting Passages beyond Western Horizons
Deborah Jenner, Ecole du Louvre
Ananda Coomaraswamy, Alice Boner, and the Symbolic Dimension of Indian Art
Johannes Beltz, Museum Rietberg
Discussant:Parul Dave Mukherji, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Autofictions, Avatars, and Alter Egos: Fabricating Artists, Part II
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Buckingham, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Monica Kjellman-Chapin, Emporia State University
White Masculine Fin-de-Siecle Hysteria in Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs and the Art of Matthew Barney
Dinah Holtzman, University of Rochester
Alter Ego as Consumer, Theorist, and Producer: Cultural Studies as Art Production
Cindy Smith, Independent artist and scholar, Brooklyn
Making History
Darryl Lauster, University of Texas at Arlington
Social Proxies and Real-World Avatars: Impersonation as a Mode of Capitalist Production
Antoinette LaFarge, University of California, Irvine
Discussant:Beauvais Lyons, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
An Audience of One: Assessing the Arts of Privacy
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Anne Leonard, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
In the Shadow of Biedermeier: Max Klinger and the Exposure of Privacy
Marsha Morton, Pratt Institute
Anna Mary Howitt and the Paradoxes of Privacy
Rachel Oberter, Haverford College
Harmony, Musicality, and Atmosphere in Edouard Vuillard’s Early Decorative Ensembles
Merel van Tilburg, Universite de Geneve
The Luxurious Demise of the Tortoise: A Decadent Art Experiment
Colin Nelson-Dusek, National Gallery of Art
Discussant:Peter Parshall, National Gallery of Art
Fifty Years after Berenson: His Legacy and Phenomenon
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Thomas Martin, Bard High School Early College
Berenson and Lorenzo Lotto
Andrea J. Bayer, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Marketing Madonnas: The Berensons and the Promotion of Italian Renaissance Art in America
Tiffany Johnston, independent scholar
A New Quattrocento: Bernard Berenson and the Study of Islamic Art
Nadia Marx, Harvard University
Berenson, Vasari, Verona, and Venice
Diana Gisolfi, Pratt Institute
Berenson's Michelangelo
Carmen C. Bambach, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sounding American Art: Patterns and Possibilities
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Leo G. Mazow, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; Asma Naeem, University of Maryland
Ear-y: Sound and Burying Ground Meditation in Early New England
Jason LaFountain, Harvard University
Going the Distance: Spatial Conceptualizations of Sound in Winslow Homer
Asma Naeem, University of Maryland
Arthur Dove and Sonic Translation
Rachael Ziady DeLue, Princeton University
Lorentz’s Soundscapes: Vision and Aurality in New Deal Documentary
Jason Weems, University of California, Riverside
Basquiat, Bebop, and Patterns of Improvisation
Jordana Moore Saggese, California College of the Arts
Art History Open Session
East Asian Art
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Amy McNair, University of Kansas
Politic Piety: Confucianism, Conservatism, and the Social Art of Wang Yiting
Walter Davis, University of Alberta
Metamorphosis of a Bird-and-Flower Painting: Bird and Peach Blossoms as a Memorial Portrait
Ai-lian Liu, University of Kansas
Navigating the Waters, Picturing the Landmarks: Both Banks of the Yodo River as Map
Pauline Ayumi Ota, DePauw University
Collected Images from the Dianshi Studio (Shanghai, 1885): Book, Artists, Audience
Roberta Wue, University of California, Irvine
The Elusive Crane: Metaphor and Memory in a Tombstone from Sixth-Century China
Lei Xue, College of William and Mary
Immortalizing an Empress in Ming China
Yu Ping Luk, St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford
Discipline on the Edge: Michael Camille and the Shifting Contours of Art History, 1985-2010
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Mitchell Merback, Johns Hopkins University; Benjamin Withers, University of Kentucky
The Laocoon Group: Reflections on Michael Camille and L'Ecole Chicago in the 1980s
W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago
Sex and Sensibility: The Other Middle Ages of Michael Camille
Robert S. Nelson, Yale University
Of Camille, Chameleons, and Chimeras: The Shifting Politics of Medieval Studies in the 1980s and Beyond
Madeline H. Caviness, Tufts University
Discussant:Whitney Davis, University of California, Berkeley
The Age of Enlargement
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Leah Modigliani, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
From “Mr. Big of SoHo” to “The Man Who Bought Marfa”: Donald Judd and the Lateral Amplification of Sculpture
Wouter Davidts, VU University Amsterdam
Trash as Livelihood: The Chiffonnier(e) in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Amy Brandt, Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Politics of Hope: Contemporary American Indian Art
Dana Claxton, Simon Fraser University
The Value of Photography: Albert Renger-Patzsch’s "The World is Beautiful" and the Crisis of Photo-Inflation in the Weimar Republic
Pepper Stetler, University of Vermont
The Fatness of the Earth
Laurie Palmer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Comics in Art History, Part I
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Andrei Molotiu, Indiana University, Bloomington; Patricia Mainardi, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Dick Racy and Nance: The Comic Collages of Jess
James Boaden, University of York
Kirby after Lichtenstein
Andrei Molotiu, Indiana University, Bloomington
Comic Conceptualism and Critical Comedians: Two Sides of a Wooden Nickel
John P. Hogan, independent artist, Los Angeles
Reading Seth through Appropriation Theory
Simon Grennan, University of the Arts London
Posthysterical: The Study of Comics Advances a Plurogenic View of Art History
Mark Staff Brandl, University of Zurich
CAA Museum Committee
African American Art
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Kymberly N. Pinder, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Surveillance of Whiteness: Another Look at Jules Lion and Joshua Johnston
Sara Mandel, Indiana University
Figures in the Landscape: Kerry James Marshall's Founding Fathers at SFMOMA
John Zarobell, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Lyle Ashton Harris's Toussaint L'Ouverture: Haiti as Masquerade
Lindsay Twa, Augustana College
Turning Signs: Black Feminist Theory through the Art of Barbara Jones-Hogu
Richard Allen May III, independent scholar, Rialto, California
Studio Art Open Session
Fashion, Art, and Architecture
Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Arti Sandhu, Columbia College Chicago
Archigram: Tailoring the Future
Valerie Rangel, Dominican University and International Academy of Design and Technology
The Comme des Garcons Retail Revolution
Emily M. Orr, Yale University Art Gallery
Persuasive Textiles
Barbara Layne, Studio subTela
Sensing the Fashion Exhibition: Viktor and Rolf, A Case Study
Mara Gladstone, University of Rochester and J. Paul Getty Museum
Artist Residency Session
Be Our Guest: Finding Time and Space to Create
Saturday, February 13, 10:00 AM–11:30 AM
Columbus GHIJ, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Virginia Taylor Derryberry, University of North Carolina, Asheville; Caitlin Strokosch, Alliance of Artists Communities
Caitlin Strokosch, Alliance of Artists Communities
Hunter O'Hanian, Anderson Ranch Arts Center and Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Brad Kik, Institute for Sustainable Living, Art, and Natural Design
Cecil McDonald, Prairie Center of the Arts
Sarah Workneh, Ox-Bow
Shannon Stratton, threewalls
CAA Services to Artists Committee
Meta-Mentors: Show Me the Money
Saturday, February 13, 12:00 PM–1:30 PM
Columbus GHIJ, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Reni Gower, Virginia Commonwealth University; Melissa Potter, Columbia College Chicago
Tax and Accounting Needs for Artists
Julie Herwitt, CPA
Grant-Writing Tips
Melissa Potter, Columbia College Chicago
Grants for Individuals in the Arts, Chicago
Esther Grimm, 3Arts
The Art of Promotion
Mari Hulick, Cleveland Institute of Art
The Artist's Guide to Public Art
Lynn Basa, independent artist, Chicago
CAA Committee on Diversity Practices
Institutionalizing Diversity
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Renee Ater, University of Maryland
Collaborative Practices in Diversity: Utilizing Visual Art and Film to Synergize Multiple Disciplines
Peggy Jones, University of Nebraska, Omaha
The Conney Project on Jewish Arts at the University of Wisconsin
Douglas Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Walking the Talk of Diversity through Studio-Art Practice
Barbara Nesin, Art Institute of Atlanta
Arts Spaces Archives Projects
Alternative Publishing and Distribution Models as Art and Curatorial Practice
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Ann Butler, Bard College and Arts Spaces Archives Project
Anthony Elms, White Walls and Gallery 400
James Hoff, Primary Information, New York
Emily Roysdon, LTTR and independent artist, New York
Ann Butler, Bard College and Arts Spaces Archives Projects
CAA Museum Committee
The Work of Art in the Age of Economic Meltdown
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Jay A. Clarke, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary
Jay M. Fisher, Baltimore Museum of Art
Andrew McClellan, Tufts University
Karol Ann Lawson, Sweet Briar College
Historians of British Art
Aesthetic Culture in British India: The Amateur Arts of Brush, Pencil, and Camera in the Colonial Periphery
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Gold Coast, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Renate Dohmen, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Bringing India to the British: The Making and Marketing of British India, 1770-1800
Meredith Gamer, Yale University
Sketchbooks and Scrapbooks: Aesthetic Collecting Practices in British India, 1770-1840
Beth Tobin, Arizona State University
Samuel Bourne and the Amateur Divide in Photography under the Raj
Gary Sampson, Cleveland Institute of Art
CAA Publications Committee
Celebrating "The Art Bulletin"
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Helen C. Evans, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cammy Brothers, University of Virginia
Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University
Steven Nelson, University of California, Los Angeles
Elizabeth Sears, University of Michigan
Eugene Wang, Harvard University
Discussant: Michael Ann Holly, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Midwest Art History Society
New Acquisitions in Midwestern Museums
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Leesa Fanning, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Jaume Plensa and Michele Oka Doner: Conquering Sites, Fulfilling Mission
Joseph Antenucci Becherer, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park and Aquinas College
Collecting Contemporary at the Art Institute of Chicago
Lisa Dorin, Art Institute of Chicago
Centering Art in the Liberal Arts: Constructing and Integrating a Relevant Art-History Collection
Catherine Carter Goebel, Augustana College
This Just In: Josiah McElheny, Chromatic Modernism (Yellow, Blue, Red)
Mary E. Murray, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Happy (Museum) Anniversary! An Opportunity for Gifting
Jan Schall, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
CAA International Committee
Exploring New Horizons: What Researching, Studying, and Working Abroad Can Bring to Us
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Sue Gollifer, University of Brighton; Veerle Thielemans, Terra Foundation for American Art Europe
Georgina Cole, University of Sydney
DeWitt Godfrey, Colgate University
Jody Patterson, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris
Vivian Rehberg, Parsons Paris School of Art and Design
Gwyan Rhabyt, California State University
Jennifer Milam, University of Sydney
Printed Digital Media and Imagery
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Mark Gottsegen, Intermuseum Conservation Association
Beth Bergman, Wet Paint
Ed Brickler, Canson
Mark Golden, Golden Artist Colors
Richard Frumess, R&F Handmade Paints
George O'Hanlan, Natural Pigments
Michael Skalka
CAA Student and Emerging Professionals Committee
How Technology is Changing the Teaching of Art and Art History
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Buckingham, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Randall Griffin, Southern Methodist University; Jennifer L. Stoneking-Steward, Belmont University
Catherine Zurybida, DePaul University
James Sullivan, Southern Methodist University
Sara Lasser, American Folk Art Museum
Shaurya Kumar, Bowling Green State University
Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology
Migratory Structures: Scientific Imagery and Contemporary Art Practice
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Paul Hertz, independent artist and curator, Chicago
RE:presentation
Marlena Novak, Northwestern University
Jay Alan Yim, Northwestern University
Algorithmic Practices at the Intersection of Art and Science
Jean-Pierre Hebert, University of California, Santa Barbara
Better than Drugs: VR, Meditation, and Pain
Diane Gromala, Simon Fraser University
Visualization and the Art of Metaphoric Mapping
Jack Ox, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Discussant:Hannah Higgins, University of Illinois, Chicago
Society of Contemporary Art Historians
Contemporary Art History in 2020
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Matthew Jesse Jackson, University of Chicago; Andrew Perchuk, Getty Research Institute
Hannah Feldman, Northwestern University
Amelia Jones, McGill University
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Harvard University
Robert Storr, Yale University
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Art Scandals and Scandalous Art in the Eighteenth Century
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Mark Ledbury, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Angela Rosenthal, Dartmouth College
"Quoi! c’est moi la?" Wertmuller's Portrait of Marie-Antoinette and Her Children
Melissa Hyde, University of Florida
Spreading Scandal: The Defamation of Women Artists in Pre-Revolutionary France
Bernadette Fort, Northwestern University
Sex, Lies, and Caricature: Scandalizing Lafayette in the French Revolution
Laura Auricchio, Parsons the New School for Design
Southern Graphics Council
Printmaking and the Mundane
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Janet Marcavage, Southern Graphics Council
Making Prints about Prints
Joseph A. Lupo, West Virginia University
Repetitive Nature/Transcending the Mundane
Tonia Bonnell, independent artist, Denver
Dark Woods, Light Woods, Dark Woods:
 Autism and the Archive of the Everyday
Leona Christie, 
University at Albany, State University of New York
Visual Culture Caucus
Food Aesthetics
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Alison Pearlman, California State Polytechnic University
The Iconography of Kitchen Wallpaper
Gwendolyn Owens, McGill University and the Canadian Centre for Architecture
Outside the Plate: Food as Medium
Yael Raviv, New York University and Umami: Food and Art Festival
Bento Blogs: Women’s Expression in Japanese Food Culture
Klara B. Seddon, Institute of Cultural Research, New York
Mapping the Kitchen: Constraints and Opportunities in Food Design
Erin S. White, North Carolina State University
Northern California Art Historians
ECOART: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Sustainability
Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Anthony Raynsford, San Jose State University
Governing Geometries: Buckminster Fuller's Sumptuary Aesthetic
Jonathan Massey, Syracuse University
The Solar House in the 1950s: Aesthetics Politics and Research in Architecture
Daniel Barber, Oberlin College
Andy Goldsworthy: An Aesthetics of Sustainability
Stuart Kendall
CAA Services to Artists Committee
Meta-Mentors: DIY
Saturday, February 13, 2:00 PM–3:30 PM
Columbus GHIJ, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Melissa Potter, Columbia College Chicago; Reni Gower, Virginia Commonwealth University
Mess Hall: An Experimental Cultural Center
Dan Wang, Mess Hall
Industry of the Ordinary: Moving beyond the Quotidian
Adam Brooks, Industry of the Ordinary
JEMA: A Location Variable Museum
Sean Miller, John Erickson Museum of Art
Temporary Services: Noncompetitive Art Practices
Marc Fischer, Temporary Services
Bertran Projects
Britton Bertran, independent curator and writer, Chicago
(Mis)Remembering the Sixties
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Jo Applin, University of York; Anna Lovatt, University of Nottingham
As a Glass Eye: Vija Celmins, Trompe l’Oeil, and Other Anomalies
Briony Fer, University College London
For an Uncool Sixties
Robert Slifkin, Reed College
The Paradox of Time: Nouveau Realisme and the "Archaeology of the Present"
Jill Carrick, Carleton University
Reremembering Documenta 5, 1972
David Platzker, Specific Object
Nostalgia and Memory: Kerry James Marshall’s "Mementos"
James Meyer, Emory University
Pictures That Pack a Punch: Violence in American Art, 1780-1917
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Ross Barrett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Kevin R. Muller, Chabot College
The Space of Iconoclasm: New York, 1776
Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware
Managing Death in Antebellum Representations of the Hunt
Kenneth Haltman, University of Oklahoma
Wounded Trees: The Traumatic Landscape of Civil War Photography
Maura Lyons, Drake University
George Bellows and the Great War
Carol Troyen, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Females under Fire: Depictions of Women and Violence in Francis Picabia’s Violà elle and Other New York Work
Hannah Wong, University of Texas, Austin
The Political Landscapes of Capitals
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Jessica Joyce Christie, East Carolina University; Jelena Bogdanovic, East Carolina University
The Relational Geopolitical Landscape of Constantinople, the Capital of the Byzantine Empire
Jelena Bogdanovic, East Carolina University
Benito Mussolini's "Third Rome": Between Tradition and Modernity
Michelangelo Sabatino, University of Houston
Landscape, Landmark, Object, Image: The Political Landscape of American-Occupied Manila
JoAnne Mancini, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Along the Chaophraya River: The Birth of Bangkok as a Modern Capital City
Melody Rod-ari, University of California, Los Angeles
Akhenaton's Amarna in New Kingdom Egypt: Relations of Landscape and Ideology
Jessica Christie, East Carolina University
Artist Citizen: Catalysts, Collectives, and Utopias
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand B, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Joan M. Giroux, Columbia College Chicago; Amy M. Mooney, Columbia College Chicago
Transitory Utopian Potential: Spontaneous Models for Creative Critical Communities
Gillian Whiteley, Loughborough University
Cause Collective: Creating a Dynamic Conversation between Issues, Sites, and the Public Audience
Jessica Ingram, California College of the Arts
Ryan Alexiev, Cause Collective
Food as Art as Sustainability Activism: The Politics of Agriculture and Food Systems in Twenty-First-Century Art Practices
Liena Vayzman, independent artist and curator, Oakland
Recording Change: Youth Dialogues on Progressive Efforts in Chicago
Jim Duignan, DePaul University
Creative Fix: Looking to Artists for Change
Sheryl Oring, University of California, San Diego
Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda in the Middle Ages, Part II
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Buckingham, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Margaret Goehring, New Mexico State University; Kate Dimitrova, Wells College
Liturgical Textiles as Papal Donations in Late Medieval Italy
Christiane Elster, University of Cologne
Stephan the Great as Patron and Propagandist: Post-Byzantine Liturgical Textiles as Sites for the Display of Byzantine Identity and Imperial Authority
Henry Schilb, independent scholar, Bloomington, Indiana
Textile Wealth in an Eleventh-Century Armenian Miniature: Dynastic Succession and Affluence in a Royal Portrait
Hazel Antaramian-Hofman, California State University, Fresno
"So lyvely in cullers and gilting”: Decorative Vestments on Medieval Episcopal Effigies
Catherine Walden, University of Virginia
Weaving Legitimacy: The Jouvenel des Ursins Family and Constructing Nobility in Fifteenth-Century France
Jennifer E. Naumann, Florida State University
Ananda Coomaraswamy’s Legacy and Influence on Twentieth-Century Art, Part II
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Lise Kjaer, City College, City University of New York; William Wroth, independent scholar, Santa Fe
How Ananda Coomaraswamy Made Modernist Photography a Spiritual Art
Lauren Kroiz, Illinois at the Phillips and University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Universal and the Unequal: Coomaraswamy, Eliade, and the Colonial Project
Madhuri Desai, Pennsylvania State University
Transforming Meaning through Art: Coomaraswamy and Collecting
Brinda Kumar, Cornell University
Discussant:Parul Dave Mukherji, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Comics in Art History, Part II
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand CD South, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Patricia Mainardi, Graduate Center, City University of New York; Andrei Molotiu, Indiana University, Bloomington
Speaking in Emanata: Navigating the Conceptual Gulf between Comics and Narrative Art
Robert S. Petersen, Eastern Illinois University
Comics in 3-D from the Medieval Islamic World
Marianna Shreve Simpson, independent scholar, Baltimore
From Popular Prints to Comics
Patricia Mainardi, Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Marriage of Anxiety and Humor in Winsor McCay's "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend"
Katherine Roeder, University of Delaware.
How to Look: Ad Reinhardt, "PM", and the "Art-Politics Syndrome"
Karen Leader, Florida Atlantic University
American Art from the Outside
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus AB, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Pamela Jean Meecham, Institute of Education, University of London; Julie Lynne Sheldon, Liverpool John Moores University
Of Contemporary Nomads and Their America: William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas
Elena Stylianou
Eliza Spalding’s Ladder to Heaven: A Medievalist’s Perspective on the Visual Culture of Early Nineteenth-Century American Missionaries
Anne McClanan, Portland State University
The American Register: Images of the Paris/American Art World in the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century
Madeleine Fidell Beaufort
Step Right Up! Freaks and the Performance of Difference in 1930s America and Beyond
Andrea Kann, Coe College
Holger Cahill’s Exhibitions of American Art at the Newark Museum, 1924-30
Jillian Russo, City University of New York
Max Imdahl: The Reception of Postwar American Art in Bochum
Timothy Grundy, University of Basel
Historicizing Globalization: Studying the Visual in the Age of Three Worlds
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus CD, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Erin Morton, University of New Brunswick; Kirsty Robertson, University of Western Ontario
Creativity, Left and Right
Imre Szeman, University of Alberta
The Art of War: Visualising Afghanistan within Canadian and Australian Conflict History
Susan Cahill, Queen's University
Remix: Indigenous Visual Culture in Narratives of the New North America
Sarah E. K. Smith, Queen's University
Images of a "Miraculous Metamorphosis": The Tanka Fishermen of Hong Kong
Emily Stokes-Rees, independent scholar, Brookline, Massachusetts
Looking to the Future: Antiquities and the Art Museum
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Jenifer Neils, Case Western Reserve University and Johns Hopkins University
Is the Market in Antiquities Evolving toward Greater Care? Changing Museum Standards and Their Legal Background
Patty Gerstenblith, DePaul Unviersity
"Due Diligence": Rationalizing Acquisition in the "Universal Museum"
Irene Winter, Harvard University
The Shape of Things to Come: Developing Collections of Antiquities and Archaeological Materials in the Twenty-First Century
Timothy Rub, Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Future for Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Karol Wight, J. Paul Getty Museum
Acropolis in Motion: Reflections on the New Acropolis Museum in Athens and Its Predecessors
Christina Papadimitriou, Princeton University
Intention and Interpretation, Part II
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Charles Palermo, College of William and Mary; Todd Cronan, Virginia Commonwealth University
Intentionality and Art-Historical Methodology: A Case Study
Thierry de Duve, Ecole des Beaux-Arts
The Case for Inferred Intention
Claude Cernuschi, Boston College
The Angel of Art History
David McNeill, University of New South Wales
Best Intentions
Michael Garral, Baruch College, City University of New York
The Intentionality of a Vow: Inscriptions in the Sakyamuni Triad, Golden Hall, Horyuji
Akiko Walley, University of Oregon
Can Description Help Images Speak?
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency C, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Glenn A. Peers, University of Texas at Austin; Laura Weigert, Rutgers University
The Inexpressible
Vernon Hyde Minor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
A Description of Description: Looking at Images in Hysminias and Hysmine
Paroma Chatterjee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Limits of Words: Description and Art Criticism in the 1960s
Kerr Houston, Maryland Institute College of Art
Framing Painting: Some Instances of Visual/Verbal Relations in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Art and Theory
Paul Duro, University of Rochester
Discussant:Richard Shiff, University of Texas at Austin
Consuming the Renaissance in Popular Culture
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Gold Coast, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Lisa M. Rafanelli, Manhattanville College
The Contrada and the Condo: The Siena of Montclair
Laura Morowitz, Wagner College
Reenacting the Renaissance: A Consideration of Reenactment Material Culture and the Consumption of Renaissance Objects and Design
Maya Rae Oppenheimer, Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum
Art and Advertising: The Case of Botticelli's "Venus"
Alessandra Cardarelli, Queen's University
Art and Sound in the Premodern Era
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Regency A, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Diane J. Reilly, Indiana University, Bloomington; Sheri F. Shaneyfelt, Vanderbilt University
In choro sed non in tympano: Music-Making and Its Representations in the Premodern Church
Eric Rice, University of Connecticut
An Enduring Resonance: Sound in Chinese Painting
Theresa McNichol, Mercer County Community College
A Multisensorial Message of the Divine and the Personal: Qur'anic Inscriptions and Recitation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Mosques
Nina Ergin, Koc University
Discussant:Adam Herring, Southern Methodist University
Strangers in Paradise: Immigrant Artistic Communities in Modern Paris
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Grand CD North, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Susan Waller, University of Missouri, St. Louis; Karen L. Carter, independent scholar, Dunkirk, New York
Negotiating Paris: The Role of American Art Clubs in Late-Nineteenth-Century France
Emily Burns, Washington University in St. Louis
Catalan Artists in Paris, 1890-1914
Laura Karp Lugo, Sorbonne University (Paris I) and the National Institute of Art History of France
A Transnational Bohemia in Paris: Integrating the Italian Artist, 1906-14
Zoe Marie Jones, Duke University
Discussant:Jay A. Clarke, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Visual Cultures of Contagion, Hygiene, and Convalescence, ca. 1870-1940
Saturday, February 13, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Columbus EF, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chairs: Tania Anne Woloshyn, Richmond University; Anthea Callen, University of Nottingham
Friction and Contradiction in Edgar Degas’s "Le Pedicure"
Marni Kessler, University of Kansas
The Pasted Paper Devolution: Health and Degeneration, Hygiene, and Contamination in the Cubist Papier-Colles
Fae Brauer, University of East London and University of New South Wales
The Aura of the Asylum: The Photographs of the Holloway Sanatorium
Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers University
Of Sweatshops and Sequins: Fashion Victims in Gilded Age New York
Alison Matthews David, Ryerson University
Make Your Health Points: FAP Posters and Public Health Education
Cory Pillen, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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