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LEC: The Gertrude Stein Paradox @ SVA
This Monday, April 2nd at 7:00 p.m., the Visual & Critical Studies Department will present “The Gertrude Stein Paradox: Michèle Cone heads a panel of renowned Stein scholars.” Here is a detailed description of the event from SVA’s Press Resources page:
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents The Gertrude Stein Paradox, a roundtable discussion led by historian and SVA faculty member Michèle C. Cone about Gertrude Stein, patron of the arts and mercurial author and thinker. The panel discussion coincides with “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde,” the exhibition on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 21 – June 3, 2012. Dr. Cone will be joined in conversation by Mary Ann Caws, distinguished professor of English, French and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Catharine Stimpson, University Professor and Dean Emerita of the Graduate…
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Exhibition: ‘Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story’ at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Exhibition dates: 29th October 2011 – 7th April 2012
Teenie Harris (American, 1908-1998)
Construction site with bulldozer, two men, including one in front holding child, large tank with hose, and car on right, possibly in construction site of Belmar Gardens
c. 1954
Gelatin silver print
© Carnegie Museum of Art
What an astonishing photographer this man was. These photographs are a revelation. African American artist Charles “Teenie” Harris, captured “the essence of daily African-American life in the 20th century. For more than 40 years, Harris – as lead photographer of the influential Pittsburgh Courier newspaper – took almost 80,000 pictures of people from all walks: presidents, housewives, sports stars, babies, civil rights leaders and even cross-dressing drag queens.”
While Harris is most famous for depicting an innovative and thriving black urban community – daily life in Pittsburgh’s Hill District – it is the less figurative, more abstract urban landscape…
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CFP: Feminist Art History Conference @ American University
Announcing the Third Annual
FEMINIST ART HISTORY CONFERENCE
at American University in Washington DC
Friday-Sunday, November 9-11, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS: please submit via email a one-page, single-spaced proposal and two-page curriculum vita by May 15, 2012 to fahc3.cfp@gmail.com.
Notification of acceptance by July 1, 2012
This conference builds on the legacy of feminist art-historical scholarship and pedagogy initiated by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard at American University. To further the inclusive spirit of their groundbreaking anthologies, we invite papers on subjects spanning the chronological and geographic spectrum to foster a broad dialogue on feminist art-historical practice. Speakers may address such topics as: artists, movements, and works of art and architecture; cultural institutions and critical discourses; practices of collecting, patronage, and display; the gendering of objects, spaces, and media; the reception of images; and issues of power, agency, gender, and sexuality within visual cultures.
Keynote address:
“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Feminism, Art History and the Story of a Book”
Whitney Chadwick, Professor Emerita of Art History
San Francisco State University
Sessions and keynote will be held on AU’s campus
with additional events at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
in conjunction with its 25th Anniversary celebration
Sponsored by the Art History Program, Department of Art,
College of Arts and Sciences at American University
Organizing committee: Kathe Albrecht, Juliet Bellow, Norma Broude, Kim Butler,
Mary D. Garrard, Namiko Kunimoto, Helen Langa, and Andrea Pearson
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: VISIONS OF VICTORY AT THE WOLFSONIAN
Today’s blog post comes to you courtesy of Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn. Rochelle has been processing and cataloguing recent additions to the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection at the Wolfsonian, and has also been selecting objects and writing interpretative text for some of the Spanish-American War materials that will be featured in an exhibit on the fifth floor gallery. In the course of culling items and condensing the interpretative text down to very concise labels, lots of information gets left out. Rather than see that exhaustive research go to waste, we thought that we would share some of it with you, as a teaser to entice you to visit the show which will be up in time for the 110th anniversary of Cuban Independence celebrated in Miami on May 20th, 2012.
My dear friend Isis took a harrowing boat ride from Cuba to the United States at…
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CFP: Extended Deadline for Proposals for AHAA-sponsored session @ CAA 2014
DEADLINE REMINDER: Proposals for the AHAA-sponsored scholarly session at CAA 2014 are due April 1. Because April 1 is Sunday, proposals will be accepted through Monday, April 2.
As an affiliated society of CAA, AHAA (Association of Historians of American Art) sponsors two sessions at the CAA annual conference: a one-and-a-half-hour professional session and a two-and-a-half-hour scholarly session.
AHAA-sponsored scholarly sessions are similar to the scholarly sessions generally held at CAA, although sometimes more topical issues are addressed. Scholarly session proposals should be sent by email to Katherine Smith, AHAA Sessions Coordinator (kasmith at agnesscott.edu). Successful chairs will be notified by June 1, 2012.
AHAA seeks to include new voices, and younger scholars are encouraged to make submissions. Chairs of AHAA-sponsored sessions must be current members of both AHAA and CAA. Proposals should include a title for, and short description of, the session along with the proposer’s c.v. and a statement of expertise on the topic or area proposed. For examples of appropriate topics, see the list of past AHAA-sponsored CAA sessions at ahaaonline.org.
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