CONF 08.10.2015

Association of Print Scholars Inaugural Symposium (New York, 7 Nov 15)

Hunter College (HW615), 695 Park Avenue, New York NY, 07.11.2015

Christina Weyl

ASSOCIATION OF PRINT SCHOLARS INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM
November 7, 2015, 10 am – 6 pm
Hunter College (Hunter West 615)
695 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Entrance On Lexington Avenue, Between 67th And 68th Streets

This symposium will present new critical ideas and research about printmaking. The morning session features graduate students speaking about dissertation research. The afternoon panel, titled “Method, Material And Meaning: Technical Art History and The Study of Prints,” centers on the relationship between the technical choices made by printmakers, printers, or publishers in order to rethink the connections between process, material, and meaning in the graphic arts.

For further information and registration (recommended but not
required), please visit https://printscholars.org/aps-inaugural-symposium/ or contact symposiumprintscholars.org.


GRADUATE LIGHTING ROUND: 10:00 – 12:00
Moderator: Marilyn Symmes, Independent Scholar and Curator

Ruth Ezra, Harvard University, “The Sculptural Engravings of Veit Stoss (c. 1500)”

Casey Lee, Queen’s University, “Dutch Artists and Their Collections of Works on Paper, 1600-1750”

Emily Floyd, Tulane University, “Matrices of Devotion: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Limeñian Devotional Prints and Local Religion in the Viceroyalty of Peru”

Nicole Simpson, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Prints on Display: Exhibitions of Etching and Engraving in England, 1770s-1858”

Sarah Buck, Florida State University, “Printmaking Practices and Collecting Habits: the Circulation of the Costumes Grotesques (c. 1688-1695) in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”

Kate Addleman-Frankel, University of Toronto, “Dividing Lines: The Photogravures of Édouard Baldus”

Nikki Otten, University of Minnesota, “Monsters of the Microscope: Symbolist Representations of Germs and Disease”

Allison Rudnick, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Printmaking Practices in West Germany, 1964-1975”

India Rael Young, University of New Mexico, “cultural imPRINT: Contemporary Northwest Coast Native Art in Print”

AFTERNOON SCHOLARLY SESSION: 1:30 – 5:00
METHOD, MATERIAL AND MEANING: TECHNICAL ART HISTORY AND THE STUDY OF PRINTS

FIRST PANEL: 1:30 – 3:00
Iris Moon, Pratt Institute, “Broken Transmissions: Stylistic and Technical Ruptures in the Prints of Jean-Baptiste and Victor Pillement”

Anne Verplanck, Penn State University, “‘He inherited these traits’: Portraiture and Memory”

Ad Stijnman, Herzog August Library, “It’s All About Matter: Thinking from the Perspective of the Printmaker”

COFFEE BREAK: 3:00 – 3:30

SECOND PANEL: 3:30 – 5:00
Thomas Primeau, Baltimore Museum of Art, “From Drawing to Print: The Transfer Lithographs of Henri Matisse”

Elizabeth Wyckoff, Saint Louis Art Museum and Yelizaveta Sorokin, Harvard Art Museums, “Through Hell and Back: A Conservation and Materials Study of Max Beckmann’s Works on Paper in the Collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum”

Claire Whitner, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, “Between the Copper Plate and Bronze Cast: Käthe Kollwitz’s Woodcuts and the Sculptural Shift”

RESPONDENT: 5:00 – 5:30
Susan Tallman, Editor, Art in Print

RECEPTION: 5:30

The APS Inaugural Symposium is the first event of a two-part series held in collaboration with Ars Graphica. The series, entitled “New Impressions: Emerging Research on Prints,” aims to shed light on innovative research currently being completed around the globe about the graphic arts. The second part of the series, sponsored by Ars Graphica, will take place in Spring 2016 at the Instituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome and will feature the theme “Curating graphic arts! Le arti grafiche al museo.”

Support for the APS Inaugural Symposium provided by the International Fine Print Dealers Association.

Quellennachweis:
CONF: Association of Print Scholars Inaugural Symposium (New York, 7 Nov 15). In: ArtHist.net, 08.10.2015. Letzter Zugriff 28.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/11182>.

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