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For more than half a century, The Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts have hosted a symposium for graduate students in art history. The symposium offers doctoral candidates in art history the opportunity to deliver original research papers in a public forum and to engage with colleagues in the field — novice and expert.
The 2013 IFA - Frick Symposium will be held on Friday April 19, 2013 at the Institute of Fine Arts and on Saturday April 20, 2013 at the Frick Collection.
All graduate students in the history of art, faculty members, and museum staff members
are cordially invited to attend. R.S.V.P. for the event at the Institute of Fine Arts on Friday
to ifa.events@nyu.edu.
Friday Afternoon
at the Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, New York
Anne Cross presiding
3:00
Welcome: Patricia Rubin, Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director, Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University
3:10
“Figure in the Landscape: Abbott Thayer’s Camouflage”
Maggie M. Cao, Harvard University
3:30
“The Secularized Guadalupe: Mexican National Identity at the Beginnings of Muralism”
Sean Nesselrode, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
3:50
“‘A Living Art’: Resistance, Redemption, and the Danish Avant-Garde during World War II”
Kerry Greaves, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
4:10
“‘Is It Jazz? Is It Static? Is It Op Art?’: The Early Museum Events of Merce Cunningham”
Jenevive Nykolak, University of Rochester
Intermission
Sarah Humphreville presiding
5:00
“Short Circuit: Marcel Broodthaers’s Meta-Pop in the Channels of the European Art Market, 1964–67”
Michael Sanchez, Columbia University
5:20
“Exposed: Process, Couture, and Photography in Marfa, Texas”
Josh T. Franco, Binghamton University
5:40
“Self-Representation of the Multitude: Franco Vaccari’s Photobooth Projects in the 1970s”
Martina M. Tanga, Boston University
6:00
“Sonali Gulati’s I AM: Mourning and Kinship in Queer Indian Documentary”
Natasha Bissonauth, Cornell University
No one will be seated once a lecture has begun.
Refreshments will be served after the lectures.
Saturday Morning
at The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, New York
Jeongho Park presiding
9:00
Coffee will be served in the Garden Court.
9:30
Welcome: Colin B. Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection
9:40
“Liberating the Gods: The Permeability of the Frame on Classical Greek Votive Reliefs”
Carolyn Laferrière, Yale University
10:00
“Dynamics of Subjectivity: Self, Devotion, and Representation in a Fourteenth-Century Book of Hours”
Maeve Doyle, Bryn Mawr College
10:20
“Drawing Bridges: Leonardo da Vinci on Mastering Nature”
Leslie A. Geddes, Princeton University
Intermission
Emerson Bowyer presiding
11:00
“Rediscovering St. Cecilia: Stefano Maderno’s Santa Cecilia and the Jubilee of 1600”
Kelly Whitford, Brown University
11:20
“Ignatius, Christ, and Fire in Baciccio’s Triumph of the Name of Jesus (1677–79) at the Gesù in Rome”
Reshma Nayyar, Rutgers University
11:40
“The Poetics of Interior Drapery in Eighteenth-Century France: Space, Sociability, and Body”
Mei Mei Rado, Bard Graduate Center
12:00
“William Chambers’ Somerset House and the Legacy of Italian Humanism in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain”
Miranda Routh, University of Pennsylvania