FIFTH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART

Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York

March 21, 2008, 10 AM to 4 PM.

The symposium is free and open to all.

10 AM ­ 12: 30 PM ­ Morning Session
Patricia Mainardi, City University of New York: Welcome
Stephen Edidin, New York Historical Society: Introductions

Monica Steinberg (City University of New York): Thomas Rowlandson's Doctor
Syntax: The Picturesque Parodied.

Crawford Alexander Mann III (Yale University): Two Voyages of Life: Ditlev
Blunck, Thomas Cole, and the Temptations of Italy.

Barbara Laux (City University of New York): J. M. W. Turner's Popular Book
Illustrations from the 1830s: The Ongoing Dialogue with the Muse of Poetry.

Emily Beeny (Columbia University): Gérôme in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction.

12:00 PM ­ 1:00 PM ­ Lunch

1:00 ­ 2:30 ­ First Afternoon Session
Elizabeth Mansfield, University of the South: Introductions
Annah Kellogg-Krieg (University of Pittsburgh): "Now I prophesize, Lehnin,
your future destiny": Christoph Hehl and the Revival of the Romanesque Roots
of Berlin Catholicism in the Crown of Roses Basilica (1899-1900).

Lana Sloutsky (Boston University): Isak Levitan: Poetry on Canvas.

Eszter Polonyi (Columbia University): The Dream of the Modern: Secessionist
Nationalism at the Gödöllö Artists' Colony in Hungary.

2:30 PM ­ 3.00 PM Break

3:00 PM ­ 4 PM

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University, Introductions

Noa Turrell (University of California at Santa Barbara): Repainting Rape:
Edgar Degas' Medieval War Scene.

Merel van Tilburg (University of Geneva, Switzerland): Organic Images:
Ibsen's Women through the Eyes of Edouard Vuillard and Lou Andreas-Salomé.

4.00 PM Reception

The symposium is co-sponsored by the Associaion of Historians of
Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA), the Graduate Program in Art History of the
City University of New York, and the Art History Program of Seton Hall
University.