Conference Program

Conference Room A
Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art of Latin America
Chair, Virginia Miller, University of Illinois – Chicago

• Catherine Burdick, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Dressed for Success: Elite Identity and the Adorned Head in Classic Maya Art.”
• Karen O’Day, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, “The story of one man’s regalia at Sitio Conte.”
• Meghan Rubenstein, Indiana University, “Historical Reenactment or Mythological Scene?: Questioning Representation on a Maya Shell Plaque.”
• Delia Cosentino, DePaul University, “Gender and Genealogy in Colonial Mexico.”

Conference Room B
Nineteenth-Century American Art, Science and Technology
Chair, Sarah E. Kelly, Art Institute of Chicago

• Sarah J. Tempton, Ohio University, “The Patent and Trademark Wars of a Nineteenth Century Photographic Process.”
• Elizabeth Williams, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, “Mixing Metals: 19th-Century American Adaptation of Japanese Mokume Gane.”
• Jason Weems, University of Michigan-Dearborn, “Under the Microscope: The Scale of Labor in Late Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture.”

Conference Room A
African Art
Chair, Mark DeLancey, De Paul University

• Fred T. Smith, Kent State University, “Ethnicity and Visual Culture in the Western Sudan.”
• Matthew F. Rarey, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Adrift on the Kalunga: The Transculturation of Kongo Minkisi.”
• Meredith Palumbo, Ferris State University, “God versus Apartheid: Black Theology and the Art of John Muafangejo.”
• Janine Sytsma, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “New Contexts, New Meanings: A Critical Examination of the Denver Art Museum’s African Arts Gallery.”

Conference Room B
Nineteenth-Century European Art
Chair, Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University

• Amy Bingaman, Bowling Green State University, “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Mrs. William Morris in a Blue Silk Dress and the Problematics of Ethnic Alterity.”
• Zirwat Chowdhury, Northwestern University, “Repose au contraire: Edouard Manet’s Le Repos (1870) and Berthe Morisot’s Dress.”
• Jacob Lewis, Northwestern University, “Reverse Strategies: Photography and Edouard Manet’s Prints circa 1871.”
• Marguerite V. Hodge, University of Louisville, “Forging the Visual Language of Horror: The Graphics of Le Théâtre du Grand Guignol (founded 1897, Paris).”

Conference Room A
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art
Chair, John Beldon Scott, University of Iowa

• Martha Pollak, University of Illinois – Chicago, “Pyrotechnics and the Unfolding of Military Urbanism.”
• Alena Robin, Université de Montréal, “Towards a ‘Franciscanization’ of Space: Mexico City’s Way of the Cross.”
• Heather Hyde Minor, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, “Piranesi’s Imperfect Ruins.”
• Heidi E. Kraus, University of Iowa, “Two Views of Rome: Jacques-Louis David and Hubert Robert.”

Conference Room B
American Art, 1938-1950
Chair, Judith Barter, Art Institute of Chicago

• Mark A. White, Oklahoma State University, “Doomsday and Deliverance: Postwar Anxiety and Dialectic of Human Creativity in Peter Blume’s The Rock.”
• Brandon Ruud, University of Illinois – Chicago, “Bombs and Bridges: O. Louis Guglielmi’s Paintings from the War Years.”
• Michael Klein, Western Kentucky University, “Willem de Kooning’s Excavation: Popular Sources, World War II and the Cold War.”

Conference Room A
Twentieth Century American Art
Chair, Paul B. Jaskot, DePaul University

• Rachel Duszynski, Case Western Reserve University, “Robert Henri’s Portraits of Dance: A Reflection of Life and Philosophy.”
• Gregory Gilbert, Knox College, “Collage and Montage in American Post-War Visual Culture and the Early Art of Robert Rauschenberg.”
• Michaela Merryday, University of Tulsa, “Westward Route 66 Takes Its Way: Ed Ruscha and the Promised Land.”
• Discussant, Joanna Gardner-Huggett, DePaul University

Conference Room B
Partners in Conservation: Case Studies at the Art Institute of Chicago
Chair, Martha Tedeschi, Curator of Prints & Drawings, Department of Prints & Drawings

• Panel Participants: Karen Manchester, The Elizabeth McIlvaine Curator of Ancient Art, Department of Asian and Ancient Art
• Francesca Casadio, Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Scientist, Conservation Department
• Emily Heye, Associate Conservator of Objects, Conservation Department
• Gloria Groom, David and Mary Winton Green Curator, Department of Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Julie Simek, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, Conservation Department
• Kristi Dahm, Assistant Conservator of Prints and Drawings, Department of Prints & Drawings

Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Avenue
(Admission to the museum is free. Tickets must be purchased for the Homer and Hopper exhibitions.)

• Lecture, Judith Barter, Field-McCormick Chair of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, “Edward Hopper,” Price Auditorium (for MAHS members only)
• Lecture, Thomas Hines, “The Other Hollywood: Modern Architecture and the Hollywood Film Community,” Fullerton Hall (free and open to the public)

Conference Room A
The History of Photography as the Study of Photographs
Chairs, Greg Foster-Rice, Columbia College Chicago and Mark Pohlad, DePaul University

• Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University, “Modernist Photographs in the Zodiaque Series of Books on Romanesque Art.”
• Michael Golec, Iowa State University, “Beautiful Science: Science Illustrated, Eye Appeal, and a Photographic Inversion.”
• Kris Cohen, University of Chicago, “Encounter Non-Critical” Form and Flickr.”

Conference Room B
Byzantine Connections
Chair, Elena Boeck, DePaul University

• Alicia Walker, Washington University in St. Louis, “Picturing Universal Rule in Medieval Byzantium: The Emperor and the Other.”
• Cecily Hilsdale, Northwestern University, “Greeks Bearing Gifts: Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline.”
• Elena Boeck, DePaul University, “Engaging the Byzantine Past: Strategies of Visualizing History in Sicily and Bulgaria.”

Conference Room A
Public Art in Chicago
Chair, Levy Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

• Patrick Page, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Millennium Park as Representation.”
• Joanna Inglot, Macalester College, “On Abakanowicz’s Agora: A 2007 Installation in Grant Park.”
• Drea Howenstein with Rachel Moore, Kirsten Larson and Brendan Hudson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Local Public Art in Chicago: The Pedagogy of Practice.”

Conference Room B
Narration and Naturalism in Renaissance Art
Chair, Ann Roberts, Lake Forest College

• Andrea G. J. Kann, University of Iowa, “A Wrinkle in Time: Narrative and Space in the Travels of Sir John Mandeville.”
• Barnaby R. Nygren, Loyola College in Maryland, “Fra Angelico’s Linaiuoli Tabernacle and the Modalities of Realism.”
• Erin Sutherland, Washington University in St. Louis, “Carpaccio’s Dead Christ: Enigmatic Narrative and Spiritual Topography.”

Conference Room A
Asian Art
Chair, Helen Nagata, Northern Illinois University

• Janice Katz, Art Institute of Chicago, “The Art Institute of Chicago’s Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books: Its History, Contents and Conservation.”
• Amelia Kit-Yiu Chau, Detroit Institute of Arts, “Making it Relevant: Contextualizing Asian Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts.”
• Anne Burkus-Chasson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “When Institutions Go Native: Collecting Asia in a Small Town in the Rural Mid-West”
• David Cateforis, The University of Kansas, “Wenda Gu’s Metamorphoses.”

Conference Room B
Women Artists and Art Patrons in Early Modern Europe
Chair, Marilyn Dunn, Loyola University Chicago

• Kimberly L. Dennis, Rollins College: “Camilla Peretti, Sixtus V, and the Construction of Peretti Family Identity in Counter-Reformation Rome.”
• Jennifer Newlands, University of Missouri-Kansas City, “Rubens’ Vision for the Luxembourg Palace.”
• Rochelle Ziskin, University of Missouri-Kansas City, “The Spaces of the Salons in 18th Century Paris.”

Conference Room A
Open Session
Chair, Simone Zurawski, DePaul University

• Britany L. Salsbury, Art Institute of Chicago, “Art is Absolution: Theorizing the Gaze in Representations of Prostitutes by Elfriede Lohse-Wachtler.”
• Erin Schwartz, Ohio University, “From Kirchner to Kiefer: The Search for Agency in the Confrontation of History.”
• Jonathan Perkins, University of Illinois – Springfield, “’In the Womb of Nature’: Paul Klee’s Images of Fertility.”
• Isabel Graziani, Shawnee State University, “Beyond the Exotic: The Transnational Dimension of Ana Mendieta’s Work.”

Conference Room B
Ancient and Medieval Art and Architecture
Chair, Susan Solway, DePaul University

• Onur Öztürk, University of Texas at Austin, “Dual Patronage in the Architecture of Roman Asia: Two Case Studies.”
• Sigrid Danielson, Grand Valley State University, “Material Contributions: Bishops and their Gifts in the Early Middle Ages.”
• Lisa Mahoney, Johns Hopkins University, “Formulations of Power and Legitimacy in the Latin East.”
• Jesse Hurlbut, Brigham Young University, “Signets for a City: The Lion, the Girl, and the Holy Lamb as Medieval Ghent.”

Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanter Meeting Center
The Criticism of Art Criticsm
Chair, Annika Marie, Columbia College Chicago

• Catherine Goebel, Augustana College, “James McNeill Whistler: The Criticism of Art Criticism.”
• Emily Burns, Washington University in St. Louis, “Sublime Eyesight: Art Criticism and Early Americanist Art History in the 1950s and 1960s.”
• Patricia Briggs, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, “Art Criticism and the Local.”
• Corinna Kirsch, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “The Politics of Persuasion in Relational Aesthetics.”

Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA Theater
Keepin’ It Real: African American Art and Popular Culture
Chairs, Amy Mooney, Columbia College Chicago and Kymberly Pinder, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

• Hank Willis Thomas, artist, “B®anded.”
• Angelina Lucento, Northwestern University, “Cool Sound, Cool Image: Jamel Shabazz and the Visualization of the Sonic Subject in Hip-Hop Culture.”
• Mark Addison Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Collage in Motion: Romare Bearden and Contemporary Cinema.”

Simpson Room, Loyola Museum of Art
“Art Informs Life”: Papers on Northern Renaissance Art in Honor of Charles D. Cuttler (1913-2008)
Chair, Burton L. Dunbar, University of Missouri-Kansas City

• Ann M. Roberts, Lake Forest College, "The Lucy Master and Spain: New Works with Spanish Connections."
• Jane C. Hutchison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "High and Low Music in 15^th - Century Flemish Painting."
• Stephen Goddard, The Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, "Thoughts on Modular Printing during the 15^th and 16^th Centuries"
• Molly Faries, Indiana University, "Reliving Pilgrimage: Jan van Scorel's Portraits of Pilgrims to Jerusalem."
• Burton L. Dunbar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, "Three Northern Drawings in Midwestern Collections."

Simpson Room, Loyola Museum of Art
Renaissance Acquisitions in Midwestern Collections
Chair, Judith W. Mann, Saint Louis Art Museum

• Bruce Boucher, Curator of European Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, “St. Michael and the Devil: A Recent Acquisition at the Art Institute of Chicago.”
• Judith W. Mann, Curator of European Art to 1800, Saint Louis Art Museum, “Ambrosius Benson’s Portrait of Ann Stafford: Fashion and Rank at the Court of Henry VIII.”
• Laurie Winters, Curator of Earlier European Painting, Milwaukee Art Museum, “A Short History of Keeping Time: German Renaissance Clocks from the Milwaukee Art Museum.”
• Carole MacNamara, Senior Curator of Western Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, “A Second Preparatory Drawing for Guercino’s Esther and Ahasuerus: A New Acquisition for the University of Michigan Museum of Art.”