American Views

A symposium in honor of Prof. John Wilmerding

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Princeton University
101 McCormick Hall

9:00AM - 6:30PM

American Views is a symposium organized by the Department of Art &
Archaeology and co-sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and
the Program in American Studies at Princeton.

American Views honors Professor John Wilmerding, Christopher B. Sarofim
'86 Professor of American Art, whose 19 years of teaching at Princeton
University, leadership at numerous arts institutions, including the
National Gallery of Art, and groundbreaking scholarship constitute an
unparalleled contribution to the field of American art history. The
lectures presented at the symposium will evoke many of the topics and
themes of Professor Wilmerding’s research and writing, from landscape
painting to the art and culture of the 1960s, and will highlight the depth
and breadth of his scholarly work as well its lasting significance.
Professor Wilmerding has inspired generations of students and scholars of
American art and culture and his legacy at Princeton is one of dedicated
teaching, collegiality and good humor, and intellectual curiosity and rigor.

Schedule:

Morning Session

Introductory Remarks

Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota Bartram’s Botanical Imagination

Franklin Kelly, National Gallery of Art Asher B. Durand’s Imaginary Landscapes

H. Daniel Peck, Vassar College 'Something Underneath': The Uneasy
Relationship between Concepts of Landscape and Environment in American
Artistic Culture

Lunch Symposium attendees may reserve a box lunch when registering for the
symposium.

Afternoon Session

Introductory Remarks

Mark Stevens, Art critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning author The Last Great
Romantics: De Kooning, Diebenkorn, Mitchell and American Landscape Painting

Cécile Whiting, University of California, Irvine Vija Celmins: New
Frontiers of Space and Visuality

Jennifer Roberts, Harvard University Dreams of Transmission: Fred
Tomaselli's Bird Collages and American Ornithological Illustration

Keynote Address, 5:00 pm Michael Kammen, Cornell University The Eyes
Have It: Visual Culture and the American 'Vision Thing'

Reception, 6:00 - 7:30 pm Princeton University Art Museum, McCormick Hall

Registration

There is no registration fee, but advanced registration for the symposium
is required. Space is limited. Reservations will be accepted in the order
they are received. Registration deadline: April 20, 2007. Late
registration and walk-ins will be accepted pending availability.

Contact: Andrea Stearly Conference & Events Services 71 University Place
Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Ph:(609)258-1741 Fax (609) 258-4656 astearlyprinceton.edu