Current Research in American Art symposium
Posted on | July 11, 2010 | No Comments
Just a reminder…please save the date for the “Current Research in American Art” symposium at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, Oct. 8-9, 2010. There will be 31 exciting papers in 8, non-concurrent sessions: Visual Culture, Colonial/17th-18th c., 19th c., 20th c. to 1970, Sculpture, Ethnicity/Race, Photography and Other Multiples, Folk/Outsider/Self-taught Art.
Michael Harris, Assoc. Prof. at Emory University, will give the keynote address, “Etymologies and Black Love: Another View of African American Art.”
Selected papers of special interest may be:
Race and Ethnicity Panel
Session Co-Chair: Camara HollowayPanelists:
Nancy Palm, Indiana University
“The Persistence of “Red” in Thomas Cole’s National Landscapes, Native Americans, and the Politics of Patronage”James Peck, University of Oklahoma
“Invoking Nat Turner: Moran’s Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp, Virginia as Displaced Memory/Premonition”Anna Marley, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
“A Visit to the Tomb of Lazarus: Orientalism, Race, and Fin-de-Siècle French Photography in Henry O. Tanner’s Work”Anne Monahan, Eastern Connecticut State University
“1963 and the Representation of Race in American Art”Respondent:
Jo-Ann Morgan, Western Illinois UniversityColonial and 18th Century
Mark Castro, Bryn Mawr College
“The National Painter: Jose Campeche and Latin American Colonial Portraiture”Folk/Outsider/Self Taught Art
Martha McNamara, Wellesley College
“Tovookan’s Narrative: Autobiography, Abolition, and Landscape Representation in Nineteenth-Century American Folk Art”Edward Puchner, Indiana University
“‘Winning the Peace over Mr. Prejudice: Horace Pippin’s Divinely Inspired Depictions of Racialized Theology and the Double V During World War II”Joseph L. Larnerd, Temple University
“Christian Missile Crisis: ‘Nuclearism’ and James Hampton’s Throne of the Third Heaven”Sculpture
Vivien Green Fryd, Vanderbilt University
“Veiling and Unveiling of Race and Slavery in Thomas Crawford’s Statue of Freedom”
Theresa Leininger-Miller, University of Cincinnati
“Icon of the Harlem Renaissance: Augusta Savage’s Gamin (1929)”Photography and Other Multiples
Erin Pauwels
“Dressed to Transgress: Gilded Age Costume Balls and the Dramatic Portraiture of Jose Maria Mora”19th Century
Jennifer C. Raab
“Details of Absence: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Post-Emancipation Jamaica”Francesca N. Marzullo
“George Caleb Bingham’s Jolly Flatboatmen and Blackface Minstrelsy”
There will be tours at the Brooklyn Historical Society and Brooklyn Museum; a film screening on art brut, and receptions at the Brooklyn Museum, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, and the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation. Online registration for this free symposium begins Aug. 1; details to follow.In the meantime, if you would like to make hotel reservations, there is a special rate at the Nu Hotel, but there is a cap of 20 rooms at this rate, and they are going fast. Contact Ariana Goldkuhl, Sales Manager, directly to book the rooms under the St. Francis rate of $239 ($199, as St. Francis is paying the remaining balance). Please mention AHAA and the $199 rate. 347.227.4854 d 718.852.8585 p
For more information about hotels, this article is from New York Magazine.http://nymag.com/urban/guides/nyonthecheap/travel/hotels.htm
This site lists a few hotels in Brooklyn.
http://www.ehow.com/list_6154818_cheap-hotels-brooklyn_-new-york.html
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