Hammer Museum

Subtle Histories: Uncovering the Unseen in Visual Culture

The 39th annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium
November 11-12, 2004, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ahgsa/SubtleHistories/home.htm

Programme

Thursday, November 11, 2004, 7:00pm:

Keynote Lecture: "The Lottery of the Sea," by Allan Sekula; reception to
follow.

Friday, November 12, 2004:

9:30am - 9:45am
Welcome by Prof. Cecelia F. Klein, UCLA Art History Dept. Chair

9:45am - 10:45am: Subtle Strategies: Confronting Visual Histories

Litia Perta (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
Perceiving Play: Deliberate Distraction; Willful Blindness, Evidentiary
Erasure
David Michael Perez (Visual Cultures, Goldsmith's College, London)
The Relational Politics of the Sonic Field

11:00am - 12:30pm: Subtle Exposure: Locating the Spectacular in Sights and
Sites

Renu Cappelli (Performance Studies, UC Berkeley)
Schlong Journeys and The Great White Way: William Pope.L's spectacular
masculinity
Eva Friedberg (Visual Studies, UC Irvine)
Welcome to Pershing Square: Exclusion by Design in L.A.'s Public Center
*Thomas Stubblefield (Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago)
Deleuze and the Cinema of Decay: Bill Morrison's Decasia

12:20pm - 2:00pm
Lunch

2:00pm - 4:00pm: Subtle Networks: Challenging Patterns of Patronage

Christopher de Fay (Art History, University of Michigan)
Refraction and Diffusion: Robert Irwin's Interrogation of Medium in the
1960s
Elisa Foster (Art History, Southern Methodist University)
The Writing on the Walls: The Presence of Arabic Inscription in the
Synagogue
of El Tránsito.
Wen-shing Chou (Art History, UC Berkeley)
Constructing China in Eighteenth-Century Sicily
Kim Richter (Art History, UCLA)
The Meaning and Function of Incised Skin Motifs on Epiclassic/Early
Postclassic
Huastec Sculpture

4:00pm - 5:45pm: Subtle Sexuality: Manipulating Gender Politics

Gianna Carotenuto (Art History, UCLA)
Domesticating the Harem: The Zenana Photographs of Raja Lala Deen Dayal
Wendy Weise (English Literature, University of Arizona) & Peter Fine
(Studio
Arts, University of Arizona)
Renaissance Poetics and Modern Visual Communication - Or, How did Petrarch
get
into my Chanel?
*Stacy Berenguel (Art History, University of New Mexico)
'Outing' the Hombre Nuevo: Institutionalized Homophobia, Subversion, and
Raul
Martinez's Isla 70

5:45pm - 6:00pm: Closing Comments