Conference Program
Midwest Art History Society Program
Annual Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus
March 21 – 23, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
9:00 am – 10:45 am
East Asian Art
Chair: Mikiko Hirayama, University of Cincinnati
Hays Cape Room 3152, Ohio Union
- Mina Kim, Ohio State University
“Lotus and Birds in the Cincinnati Art Museum: Philosophical Syncretism in the Transitional Work of Bada Shanren” - Yun-Jeong Min, Ohio State University
“The Reception of Western Art Academy in Meiji Period Japan” - Leah Daniel, University of Cincinnati
“Morita Shiryu and Artistic Classification: Avant-Garde, Abstract Expressionist, or Sho?” - Winnie Tsang, Ohio State University
“The Popular Mao: A Study of Liu Chunhua's Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan”
Renaissance Art (I)
Chair: Henry Luttikhuizen, Calvin College
Scharer Room 3146, Ohio Union
- Anna Goodman, Indiana University
“Holy Heroines: Il Moretto da Brescia's St Ursula in Context” - Edward Olszewski, Case Western Reserve University
“Bronzino's London Venus for Catherine de' Medici” - Shannon Pritchard, University of Southern Indiana
“Giambologna's Bronze Reliefs and Their Relationship to the Paragone
Seeing the Civil War I: Illustrations, Landscapes, Memphis, and the Sea Islands
Chair: Theresa Leininger-Miller, University of Cincinnati
Ailabouni Room 3148, Ohio Union
- Baird Jarman, Carleton College
“The Melodramatic Mode of Reportage: Thomas Nast as a Civil War Illustrator” - Maura Lyons, Drake University
“Civil War Landscapes: The Forgotten Chapter of the American Landscape Tradition?” - Earnestine Jenkins, University of Memphis
“The Visual Culture of Emancipation: Fort Pickering, Black Soldiers, and Freedwomen in Civil War Era Memphis” - Dana Byrd, Bowdoin College
“The Space Between: Seeing the Civil War Plantation”
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Ancient Art
Chair: Timothy J. McNiven, Ohio State University
Rutner Room 3150, Ohio Union
- Kristin M. Barry, Pennsylvania State University
“For Art’s Sake?’: Reading ‘Values’ in the Architectural Presentation of Rock Art” - Virginia S. Poston, University of Southern Indiana
“The Parthenon Frieze, Some Practical Considerations and Possibilities” - Michael R. Bowman, Ohio State University
“Planes of Experience: The Forma Urbis Romae and Virtual Space”
Renaissance Art (II)
Chair: Henry Luttikhuizen, Calvin College
Scharer Room 3146, Ohio Union
- Paul Bacon, Dominican University
“From Wilsnack to Wittenberg: Frederick the Wise and Blood Piety in Electoral Saxony, 1484 to 1525” - Javier Berzal de Dios, Ohio State University
“Between Siegecraft and Stagecraft: The Question of Ideal Space” - Leslie Ann Blacksberg, Eastern Kentucky University
“Albrecht Dürer and the Jews: Anti-Semitism in the Work of a Revered Artist”
18th and 19th Century Art (I)
Chair: Andrew Carrington Shelton, Ohio State University
Tootle Room 3156, Ohio Union
- Barbara Brooks, University of Missouri, Kansas City
“Caricature and Medicine in 18th Century England” - Karissa E. Bushman, University of Iowa
“Goya’s Representation of the History of Inquisitorial Terror in Los Caprichos” - Kate Scott, Rutgers University
“A Knife to the Eye: Truth by Sight in Ammi Phillips’ Peter Guernsey, the Eye Doctor”
Modern Graphic Art
Chair: Amanda Gluibizzi, Ohio State University
Cartoon 1 Room, 3145, Ohio Union
- Emma Newcombe, Boston University
“America ‘Plainly Set Down’: Civil War Maps in the New York Herald and the New-York Tribune - Karen L. Carter, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University
“The Académie Julian and the Origins of Modern Graphic Design and Illustration” - Tracy Flagg, University of Cincinnati
“In Spiritual Solidarity: The Significance of Black Chorus Members as Christ’s Sympathizers in Allan Rohan Crite’s Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?(1944)”
2:15 pm – 4:00 pm
The Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora
Chair: Fred T. Smith, Kent State University
Scharer Room 3146, Ohio Union
- Christopher Richards, University of Florida
“We Have Always Been Fashionable: The Historicity of Fashion in Accra, Ghana” - Idris Kabir Syed, Kent State University
“Nigerian Influences in the Ceramic Work of El Anatsui” - Allison Martino, University of Michigan
“From a Shama Photo Studio to the Kotoka Airport and Beyond: Imagined Narratives in Philip Kwame Apagya’s Photographs” - Amy M. Nygaard Mickelson, University of Missouri, Kansas City
“Wangechi Mutu: The Backlash Blues”
Medieval and Byzantine Art
Chair: Gerry Guest, John Carroll University
Hays Cape Room 3152, Ohio Union
- Gerry Guest, John Carroll University
“Masculinity and Beauty in the Twelfth Century” - Rebecca A. Smith, University of Iowa
“Flowers of Fragility: An Examination of the Structure and Design of Rose Windows” - Steven J. Kerrigan, University of Iowa
“Making Sense of the Flamboyant Style in Normandy”
Seeing the Civil War II: A Diary, An Illuminated Manuscript, Food Still-Lifes, and Memorials
Chair: Theresa Leininger-Miller, University of Cincinnati
Ailabouni Room 3148, Ohio Union
- Kelly Quinn, Archives of American Art
“Henry Mosler’s Civil War Diary, a Digital Exhibition” - Chris Bell, Northwestern University
“Substance and Shadow in the Spectacular Civil War” - Shana Klein, University of New Mexico
“Plant Corn and Be Free or Plant Cotton and Be Whipped: Contextualizing Still-Life Representations of Food During and After the American Civil War” - Michael Panhorst, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
“Lest We Forget: Memorial Art and Architecture on Civil War Battlefields”
18th and 19th Century Art (II)
Chair: Andrew Carrington Shelton, Ohio State University
Tootle Room, 3156, Ohio Union
- Emily Talbot, University of Michigan
“Facture, Fracture, Photography: Fragmenting Degas’s ‘Photographic Eye’” - Lynne Ambrosini, Taft Museum of Art
“The Mirror of Water before Giverny: Reflections on Monet and his Predecessors” - Galina Olmsted, The Cleveland Museum of Art
“‘The Great Delights of Life’: Beyond the Window in Gustave Caillebotte’s Portrait of a Man” - Ashley Bartman, Case Western Reserve University
“A Gilded Woman: John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis”
4:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Wexner Center of the Arts Theatre
Keynote Address
Professor Charles Barber, University of Notre Dame
Looking Otherwise: Illumination and Subjectivity in Late Byzantine Painting
Reception to follow
Mershon Auditorium
Friday, March 22, 2013
9:00 am – 10:45 am
Art History and Technology
Chair: Catherine Carter Goebel, Augustana College
Hays Cape Room 3152, Ohio Union
- Karil J. Kucera, St. Olaf College
“Multi-Media Approaches to Sacred Sites: A Chinese Case Study” - Craig A. Hanson, Calvin College
“From 100 to 10,000 Readers: En?lade as a Case Study for Rethinking Audiences” - Catherine C. Goebel, Augustana College
“An Arrangement in Digital Archiving: James McNeill Whistler and His Critics” - Indra K. Lacis, Case Western Reserve University
“Analyzing Online Celebrity: Marina Abramovic’s Internet Presence”
The Gau-gang’s All Here
Chair: Thor J. Mednick, University of Toledo
Ailabouni Room 3148, Ohio Union
- Bart Pushaw, University of Chicago
“Synthetism in Finland: The Gauguin Connection?” - Britany L. Salsbury, Graduate Center, City University of New York
“Félix Vallotton’s Intimités and the Print Portfolio in Fin-de Siècle Paris” - Michelle Facos, Indiana University
“Gauguin’s Copenhagen Exhibition and its Fallout in Sweden”
Latin American Art
Chair: Guisela Latorre, Ohio State University
Rutner Room 3150, Ohio Union
- Alejandra Rojas, Harvard University
“Aztec Ritual, European Vice: Picturing Chocolate and Tobacco in Sixteenth-Century Mexico” - Guisela Latorre, Ohio State University
“Hecho en Chile: Graffiti, Muralism and Urban Intervention in Post-Dictatorship Chile” - Kate Bonansinga, University of Cincinnati
“Art at the Edge of the U.S. and Mexico” - Debra Lavelle, Ohio State University
“Selling Cigars, Sand, and Sexuality: Advertising and the Cuban Woman in Nineteenth Century Tobacco Art and Twentieth Century Travel Posters”
Women Artists, Patrons, Collectors, and Critics
Chair: Valerie Hedquist, University of Montana, Missoula
Scharer Room 3146, Ohio Union
- Meaghan Duffy, Ohio University
“Framing Faith: Exploring the Frame in the work of Faith Ringgold” - Chelby King, University of Houston
“Jermayne MacAgy and Dominique de Menil: An Educational Collaboration” - Laura S. Taylor, University of Missouri–Kansas City, Missouri
“Art in Scale: The Miniature Collection of Barbara Hall Marshall” - Susan Waller, Associate Professor, University of Missouri–Saint Louis, Missouri
“Emma Dupont and the Praxis of the Pose in Belle Epoque Paris”
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Radical Recovery: Getting Censored, Going Viral, and Learning from David Wojnarowicz
Chair: Mysoon Rizk, University of Toledo
Cartoon 1 Room, 3145, Ohio Union
- Mysoon Rizk, University of Toledo
“Kid Breathes Fire: Learning from David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly” - Lauren DeLand, University of Minnesota
“After Fire: Combating 21st Century Conservative Activism via the Legacy of David Wojnarowicz” - Scott A. Sherer, The University of Texas at San Antonio
“Beyond Censorship”
American Art
Chairs: Anne Norcross, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University
Tootle Room 3156, Ohio Union
- Lauren Cordes Tate, Indiana University
“Symbolic Slavery and Frontier Fears in George Caleb Bingham’s Election Series” - Patricia D. Siska, Independent Scholar, New York City
“Beginning and End of the Civil War: Revisiting George P. A. Healy's Paintings of General Beauregard, and The Peacemakers” - Lucie Steinberg, Williams College
“Redemption Undone in the Work of Dario Robleto”
Recent Acquisitions in Midwestern Museums
Co-Chairs: Judith W. Mann, Saint Louis Art Museum; Salvador Salort-Pons, Detroit Institute of Arts
Cartoon 2 Room, 3147, Ohio Union
- E. Jane Connell, Muskegon Museum of Art
“New Art for the New Century: The Muskegon Museum of Art’s Centennial Collection” - Cheryl Snay, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
“Manners of Speaking: Recent Acquisitions of Sixteenth-Century Works on Paper at the Snite Museum of Art” - Salvador Salort-Pons, Detroit Institute of Arts
“A Golden Age at the DIA: Collecting Spanish Art”
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Members Luncheon and Business Meeting
Great Hall Meeting Room, 1 & 2
Ohio Union
2:15 pm – 4:00 pm
Metaphor, Analogy, Art History
Chair: Karl Whittington, Ohio State University
Tootle Room 3156, Ohio Union
- Tina Le, University of Michigan
“Danh Vo’s We The People: Examining Problems of Scale and Symbols” - Lisa Safford, Hiram College
“Angels Among Us? Clothing, Dance and Aire in Ghirlandaio’s Birth-room Attendants” - Barbara Jaffee, Northern Illinois University
“Visualizing an Analogy”
Dissecting the Landscape within Modern Art
Chair: Christine Bentley, University of Indianapolis
Cartoon 1 Room, 3145, Ohio Union
- Nancy Palm, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
“Soon to be Known Only in History’: Indian Figures, U.S. Landscape Painting, and the Backdrop of Indian Policy” - Edward M. Puchner, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina
“Godly Presence in the Landscapes of Minnie Evans” - Lara Kuykendall, Ball State University
“In Defense of the Farm: John Steuart Curry’s Wartime Landscapes” - Navjotika Kumar, Kent State University
“Disjunctive Spaces: The Emergence of Landscape as Museum”
Rothko in the 1940s
Chair: Dominique H. Vasseur, Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus Museum of Art, 480 East Broad St. (shuttle to CMA provided)
- Heather Haden, Kent State University
“Unveiling Color: Giotto’s Influence on the Oeuvre of Mark Rothko” - Morgan Thomas, University of Cincinnati
“Liquidities: Rothko, Pollock, and Thinned Paint” - Michael Schreyach, Trinity University
“The Modernist Picture Plane in Rothko and Pollock” - Paula Wisotzki, Loyola University Chicago
“David Smith and the 1940s: A Different Path”
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Columbus Museum of Art
Special Viewing Hours and Reception
480 East Broad St.
Shuttle service provided
Saturday, March 23, 2013
8:45 am – 10:15 am
Breakfast Roundtable Discussion: Appraising as a Career Path for Art Historians
Cartoon 1 & 2 Room, 3145, Ohio Union
Patricia J. Graham, University of Kansas and Asian Art Research & Appraisals, Lawrence, KS
Jane C.H. Jacob, Jacob Fine Art, Chicago
Lisa Darling, Jacob Fine Art, Chicago
10:30 am – 12:15 am
The Baroque in Italy, Flanders and Spain
Chair: Shelley Perlove, University of Michigan
Hays Cape Room, 3152, Ohio Union
- Amanda Castleberry, Case Western Reserve University
“Caravaggio’s Martyrdom of Saint Ursula: Honoring Patronage and Purity” - Melissa Yuen, Rutgers University
“Mattia Preti’s Miracle of St. Pantaleon: The Reemergence of Caravaggism near Mid-Century” - Linda C. Hults, College of Wooster
“Rubens’s Dying Seneca and Early Modern Masculinity” - Lauren Maceross, Case Western Reserve University
“Ignoble Love, Elevated Folly: Seeing Velázquez’s Calabazas as Courtier”
Islamic Art
Chair: Esra Akin-Kivanc, Oberlin College
Tootle Room 3156, Ohio Union
- Aneta Samkoff, City University of New York
“From Central Asia to Anatolia: the Transmission of the Cuerda Seca Technique and the History of a Tile from the Metropolitan Museum of Art” - Sara Mahdizadeh, University of Sheffield
“The Role of Religion and Tradition in Garden Conservation: A Case Study, Qadamgah Tomb-Garden, Neyshabur, Iran” - Zeliha Kumbasar Akyol & Seher Kalender, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Waqf University
“Structural and Cultural Memory in the Shaping of the Ottoman Neighborhood: Islamic Primary Sources and Their Influence” - Courtney Lesoon, University of Sharjah
“Maturing a Market: Contemporary Art in the Emirates”
South Asian Art
Chair: Marcela Sirhandi, Oklahoma State University and the University of Missouri at Kansas City
Scharer Room 3146, Ohio Union
- Nandaka Kalugampitiya, Ohio University
“Sigiriya: Aesthetics and State Power” - Kimberly Masteller, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“Context is Everything: Negotiating Culture in a Manuscript of the Jain Kalpusutra and Kalakacharyakatha” - Samina Iqbal, Virgina Commonwealth University
“The Complexity of the Ordinary” - Ankur Desai, Ohio State University
“From Head to Toe: Portraiture and the Sacred Image in the Svaminarayana Sampradaya”