A Symposium on the History of Art

Presented by The Frick Collection
and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University

Friday, April 20 & Saturday, April 21, 2007

Program:

Friday Afternoon

at the Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street, New York

Thomas Quick presiding

3:00
Welcome: Mariet Westermann, Director, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University

3:10
Kourotrophos: Hermes and Dionysos to the Virgin and Child
Elizabeth Kessler, Princeton University

3:30
The Portrayal of Egypt at the Sydenham Crystal Palace
Alexis Goodin, Brown University

3:50
Revisioning a Tibetan-Buddhist Temple
Melissa R. Kerin, University of Pennsylvania

4:10
History and Myth: Reading Srirangam’s ‘Past’ in Its Contemporary
Spatiality and Historical Representations
Shriya Sridharan, Binghamton University

Intermission

Derek Weiler presiding

5:00
Pastoral America: Degeneracy and Physiognomy in Agrarian Tropes of Democracy
Nicole Casi, Cornell University

5:20
The demand for visual authority: Fernando de Szyszlo and the problem of
Peruanidad
Luis Castañeda, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

5:40
Matisse and Byzantium, or Mechanization Takes Command
David Lewis, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

6:00
‘Nothing if not of the Moment’: Confronting Claude Cahun, Encountering History
Claire L. Sykes, University of Rochester

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

Kristel Smentek presiding

9:30
Coffee will served in the Garden Court.

10:00
Welcome: Anne Litle Poulet, Director, The Frick Collection

10:10
About Time: On the Denial of Narrative in the Battle Mural at Cacaxtla
Claudia Brittenham, Yale University

10:30
From Father Time to Measured Time: Clocks in Eighteenth-Century France
Amy Sande-Friedman, Bard Graduate Center

10:50
A Clementine Conceit: Papal Intention and Sacred Decoration in St. Peter’s
Erin Benay, Rutgers University

11:10
The Great Executive Dream: George Maciunas, Adriano Olivetti and Fluxus
Incorporated
Mari Dumett, Boston University

Intermission

Christina Neilson presiding

11:45
The Delusion of Delight: Melancholy in the Work of Bosch
Anna Ratner, Columbia University

12:05
Rembrandt’s Samson and Delilah: A Study of Intimated Interiors
Rima Girnius, Bryn Mawr College

12:25
‘This artist has a poetic verve’: Pierre-Paul Prud’hon at the Salon of 1808
Elizabeth M. Rudy, Harvard University