Conference Program

Monumental Medieval Art & Architecture
Janet Snyder, West Virginia University, Chair

• Annette LeZotte, Wichita State University
  Monumental Intersections: Louis IX’s Sainte-Chapelle and Louis of Anjou’s Apocalypse Tapestries
• Maria C. Wiering, University of St. Thomas
  Approaching the Miniature Basilica: An Interior Pilgrimage to the Shrine-Altar of Saint-Denis near Paris

Global Connections in Nineteenth-Century Art
Nancy Wilkinson, Oklahoma State University, Chair

• Marcella Sirhandi, Oklahoma State University
  Though 19th century British colonial rule decimated Indian Aesthetics, hybrid forms that filled the gap enabled the emergence of Indian modernism
• Rebecca A. Szantyr, Case Western Reserve University [Graduate Student]
  Prospecting Desire: Re-reading Fantasy in North African Photography
• Stuart T. Robinson, University of Cincinnati [Graduate Student]
  Memories of Charleston: Influences in the Tropical Landscapes from 1857 to 1859 by Louis Remy Mignot (1831-1870)

Italian Baroque Art
Gustav Medicus, Kent State University, Chair

• Matthew Knox Averette, Creighton Univeristy
  The Piazza Barberini: Claiming Space in Baroque Rome
• Bethany Corriveau, Case Western Reserve University
  Terra Cotta Tears: Attributing the Cleveland Museum of Art’s “Head of Prosevina”
• Adam Ladd,
  The Devil’s Mass: Italian Influence in the Set Designs of Inigo Jones for the English Masque “Salmacida Spolia”

Open Session II
Jane Hutchison, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Chair

• Colleen Halpin, Case Western Reserve University [Graduate Student]
  Emotion in the Face of Insanity: The Facial Expression of Rodin’s “Heroic Head of Pierre de Wiessant”
• Rebecka Black, University of Houston
  John Singer Sargent’s “Gassed” (1918)
• Anna L. Miller, Case Western Reserve University [Graduate Student]
  Marsh’s Deviation: “A Paramount Picture”
• Catherine Jolivette, Missouri State University
  British Art in the 1950's: The Impact of Scientific Discovery on the Perception and Representation of Scale

Renaissance and Baroque Art Outside of Italy
Henry Luttikhuizen, Calvin College, Chair

• Diane Scillia, Kent State University
  The Liege Bible (London B.L. Add. Ms., 254) c. 1440: An Early Work by Barthelemy d’Eyck?
• James Wehn, Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art
  Behold the Man: Spiritual Pilgrimage in Lucas van Leyden’s “Ecce Homo”
• Denise Giannino, University of Kansas [Graduate Student]
  An Iconographical Exploration of Identity in Rembrandt’s “Equestrian Portrait of Frederick Rihel”
• Joseph Saravo, Case Western Reserve University [Graduate Student]
  If These Walls Could Talk: The Role of Ruins and Nature in Dutch Landscape Painting

The Monumental Vernacular: Representing the Midwest
Acacia Warwick and Elizabeth Kauffman, Bradley University, Chairs

• Annaka Marie, Columbia College
  Our Literal Nowhere: The Poor Farm of Manawa, Wisconsin
• M. Melissa Wolfe, Columbus Museum of Art
  Windmills, Fences, and Photographs: Visualizing Victory on the Plains
• Ashley Kolka, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  John Banvard’s Mississippi River Panorama: Popular Spectacle and Changing Visions of the American West
• Sarah S. Jones, University of Missouri - Columbia
  Keith Jacobshagen’s Nebraska: Sense of Place in a Minimalist Landscape

Monumentality [?] in African and Native American Art
Fred T. Smith, Kent State University, Chair

• Fred T. Smith, Kent State University
  What is Monumental about West African Art?
• Mark Dike DeLancey, DePaul University
  Who Will Fear it Now: Monumentality in the Palace Architecture of Northern Cameroon
• Gay Sweely, Eastern Kentucky University
  Monumental Indian Site: Cahokia
• Chisato O. Dubreuil, St. Bonaventure University
  Monuments in Cedar: A Clash of Cultures

Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Artwork’s Scale is Affected by Infinite Reproducibility
Liz Murphy Thomas, University of Illinois, Springfield

• Diane A. Mullin, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnisota
  Stretching and Shaping Time, Place, and Address: Scale in the Work of R. Luke Dubois
• Jordan Cleland, Purdue University [Graduate Student]
  Digital Reproduction in Physical Space
• Todd Jokl, University of New Haven
  Micro/Macro: image sequence and multiple image compositing

The Permeable West: (Im)migrant Encounters and Aesthetic Entanglements in the Visual Culture of the American West
Louise Siddons, Oklahoma State University, Chair

• Elizabeth Spear, University of California, Riverside
  Playing Out the Difference: Painting Identity in the American West
• Kate Elliott, Independent Scholar
  Insiders and Outsiders: Charles Russell and the Definition of the ‘True’ Westerner
• Rachel Sailor, University of Texas at Tyler
  Local Place Making: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Photography in the American West

Open Session III
Jane Hutchison, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Chair

• Rosemary L. Burk, Ingalls Library, Cleveland Museum of Art
  Jacob Lawrence as Urban Storyteller: Sociological Commentary in ‘Fulton and Nostrand’
• Patrick J. Jung, Milwaukee School of Engineering
  A Labor of Love (and a Love of Labor): Milwaukee’s ‘Man at Work’ Collection as a Scholarly Resource
• Vittorio Colaizzi, Winona State University
  Un-Un-Un-Monumental: Instances of Scale in Contemporary Abstract Painting

Monumentality in Modern and Contemporary Asian Art & Architecture
Patricia J. Graham, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, Chair

• Catherine Becker, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Amaravati’s Colossal Dhyana Buddha: Concretizing Buddhist Heritage in South India
• Curt Hansman, DePaul University
  Monumentality / China / [RE] Interactions
• Elizabeth Lillehoj, DePaul University
  Ideology and Monumentality in Japanese Art
• Patricia J. Graham, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas
  Devotional Icons As Spectacle: Buddha-Buildings In Modern and Contemporary Japan

African-American Artists in the Midwest
Julia R. Myers, Eastern Michigan University, Chair

• Catrina Hill, Baltimore Museum of Art
  Class is the Art of Archbald Motley
• Lindsay J. Twa, Augustana College
  ‘For the Well-being of Mankind’: The Julius Rosenwald Fund and African-American Artists
• David Lusenhop, Independent Scholar, Chicago
  The Formative Years of the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists
• Julia R. Myers, Eastern Michigan University
  Energy, Equality, and Interconnectedness: An Overview of the Sixty-Year Career of Detroit African-American Artist Charles McGee

Encountering the “Other”: Cross-Cultural Exchanges between Asian and Euro-American Art
Jan Kennedy, Kansas City Art Institute, Chair

• Erin Dahl, Kansas City Art Institute and University of Kansas [Graduate Student]
  Autobiographical Impulse: Pipo Nguyen-Duy and ‘East of Eden: Vietnam’
• Catherine Dossin, Purdue University
  “Le Voyage en Chine” of 1974: Barthes, Kristeva, Fromanger and the People’s Republic of China
• Allison Norris, University of Manchester, UK [Graduate Student]
  J-Pop is Not an Art Form
• Tracy Krumm, Kansas City Art Institute
  Craft and Social Practice
• Pauline Verbeek Cowart, Kansas City Art Institute
  New Tools in Weaving

Constructing and Contesting Bounderies: Gender and Art
Reed Anderson, Kansas City Art Institute, Chair

• Laura Eccleston, Bowling Green State University
  New Woman, Old Obstacles: The Works of Hanna Höch and Barbara Kruger
• Paula Rose, University of Kasas
  Sailor Moon: Feminist Superheroine?
• Julie L. Schutte. Case Western Reserve University [Graduate Student]
  Hidden Mixtures: Stirring Up the Kitchen Table
• Sarah Sims, Case Western Reserve University [Graduate Student]
  The Sala delle Donne: Gender in the Borgia Apartments

Reading the Large Print: Monumentality and the Printed Image
James Wehn, Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art, Chair

• Debra Lamm, Kent State University
  Image in Transition: The Printing Press and the Image in the Low Countries from the Late Fifteenth Century
• Charles Hausberg, Philadelphia Museum of Art
  Learning from Large Prints: Lucas van Leyden and the Monumental Woodcut
• Linda Rosefsky, West Virginia University
  Beyond Pop: A Look Beneath the Surface of Warhol’s ‘Last Supper’
• Nathan A. Popp, University of Iowa
  Larger than Life: Size and Scope of the Work of Mauricio Lasansky