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From Bodies to Billboards: Alternative Sites of Display
2012 History of Art Graduate Student Symposium
Oct
27
2012
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To greater and lesser degrees, a viewer’s engagement with works of art will always be informed by the conditions of display. This symposium will build upon recent developments in curatorial practice and museum theory by focusing attention on alternative sites and modes of display.
Symposium Schedule
Morning
9:00 - Welcome Reception
9:40 - Welcome, Achim Timmerman, Associate Professor and Director of
Graduate Studies, UM Department of History of Art
9:50 - Introduction, Tappan Graduate Association, UM Department of
History of Art
10:00 - Sarah Schaefer, Columbia University
“’Where the Godly Take Their Children’: Exhibiting Gustave Doré’s Christ
Leaving the Praetorium”
10:30 - Emily Cook, Columbia University
“Images, Ornament, and Liminality in the Reliefs of the Ara Pacis Augustae”
11:00 - Morning Break
11:10 - Mya Dosch, Graduate Center, The City University of New York
“Magazine Muralist: Diego Rivera and Mexican Folkways, 1926-1927”
11:40 - Q&A Discussion
12:00 - Break for lunch
Afternoon
1:30 - Kim Conaty Hollely, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
“Breaking Ground: Avalance Magazine, Agent and Vehicle for the ‘New
Forms of Art-Making’”
2:00 - Christopher Oliver, University of Virginia
“Art O ered as Spectacle: Popular Exhibitions of American Art, 1850-70”
2:30 - Afternoon Break
3:00 - Keynote Lecture, Mary Coffey, Associate Professor of Art History,
Dartmouth College
“Museums, Trans-Nationalism, and the Ethno-Geographies of Mexican
Folk Art”
4:00 - Q&A Discussion and Closing Remarks
