The Cleveland Symposium -- a showcase of art history graduate student scholarship

Submitted by Evelyn Kiefer on Fri, 04/14/2006 - 11:28.
04/15/2006 - 09:30
04/15/2006 - 17:00
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"Art About Art" - Now in its 32nd year, the Cleveland Symposium is organized by the graduate students in the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Museum of Art Joint Program in Art History & Museum Studies.

Graduate students from around the country will present papers addressing a variety of topics including self-portraits, artist academies and training, artist's quoting earlier art, paintings-within-paintings, etc.

Location: Thwing Ballroom
Free of charge
Open to the public

Location

Case Western Reserve University, Thwing Ballroom
Euclid Ave. (across from University Hospital)
Cleveland, OH
United States
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Cleveland Symposium Agenda

Submitted by Norm Roulet on Fri, 04/14/2006 - 22:34.

From the Case website:


Breakfast and Opening Remarks 8:30-9:00

Session One:
1. The Postmodern World View from Jorge Pardo's Avant-Garde Restaurant—Jodi Kovach, Washington University
2. Open Book, Closed Drawer: Censorship, Taste, and the Politics of Visual Circulation in Walker Evans Cuban Portfolio—Jordan Bear, Columbia University
3. The Starvation of Mary: Chekhonin'a Famine and Its Reinterpretation of the Bogomatep— Rachel Gratiy, Pennsylvania State University

Short Break 10:30-10:45

Session Two:
4. "Funnier to be noticed than not to be": Charles Demuth's Local Landscape as Queer Self-Portrait—Jonathan Walz, University of Maryland
5. Charles Bird King's Itinerant Artist: Fictitious Self-Portrait as Genre—Rowena Dasch, University of Texas at Austin
6. Les caricaturistes peints par eux-memes—Karen Leader, New York University
7 John Flaxman Modeling the Bust of William Hayley by George Romney: A Visual Paragone—Todd Magreta, City University of New York

Lunch 12:45-2:00

Session Three:
8. Grey-eyed Athena: Reflections of the Erechtheion in the Portico of Lorenzo de Medici's Villa at Poggio a Caiano—Jeremy Johnson, Florida State University
9. Imitatio and the Quotation of Renaissance Masters in Late Italian Baroque Painting—Chris Naffziger, University of Maryland
10. Academies' Anatomy: The Gender Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century Academic Practices as Reflected in Zeuxis Imagery--Reagan Duplisea, Case Western Reserve University

Break 3:30-3:45

Awards 3:45-4:00

Keynote Presentation
11. Michelangelo Redivivus: Bernini's Faun Reconsidered—Lindsey Schneider,New York University