Tenth Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art
Friday, March 22, 2013, 10AM to 4:30PM

Silver Center 301, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New
York City
[Enter at 32 Waverly Place]


PROGRAM

10 AM
Welcome
Peter Trippi (President, Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century
Art)

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
First Morning Session & Discussion
Marilyn Satin Kushner (New-York Historical Society), Moderator

Jeff Richmond-Moll (University of Delaware)
Ideal Companions: Horatio Greenough's Busts of Christ and Lucifer

A little-studied pair of busts of Christ and Lucifer from the 1840's by
Horatio Greenough (1805-1852) provides a unique example of the artist's
vanguard efforts in ideal sculpture. Jeff Richmond-Moll explores anew
the creation and display of these unprecedented works, and unfolds
Greenough's efforts to counteract the busts' potentially blasphemous
connotations as he aimed to present them blamelessly before contemporary
Protestant audiences.

Sarah Schaefer (Columbia University)
'With the Smallest Fragment': The Archeology of the Doré Bible

In Gustave Doré's Bible illustrations, viewers witnessed the fragments
of archaeological excavations circulating in museums, photographs, and
publications, now rendered whole and placed within the familiar context
of the Bible. Sarah Schaefer explains that through its accumulation and
reconstruction of archaeological fragments, the Doré Bible represents
the various ways in which the biblical past operated in
nineteenth-century France.


11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Second Morning Session & Discussion
James Rubin (Stony Brook University), Moderator

Peggy Moorhead Seas (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
'On Your Head Delacroix!': The Reception of Renoir

In exploring Renoir's brushwork or touche, Peggy Moorhead Seas considers
the role of Delacroix, both as an influence on the Impressionist painter
and as a polarizing force, who, even after his 1863 death, was invoked,
for better and for worse, in the critical reception of painterly
painters.

Heather Read (Washington University, St. Louis)
Gauguin's Tupapa'u as 'Primitive' Phantasmagoria

Heather Read explains how phantasmagoria informed Paul Gauguin's Manao
Tupapa'u (1892). Using pictorial devices inspired by phantasmagoric
spectacle, Gauguin depicted the tupapa'u, or spirit of the dead, as a
physically tangible entity to demonstrate how superstition can overwhelm
empirical reality and render the believer vulnerable to social or sexual
violation.

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch Break


1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
First Afternoon Session & Discussion
Patricia Mainardi (New York University), Moderator

Steven Lauritano (Yale University)
Schinkel, Spolia and Caryatids that Travel

Focusing on a sequence of caryatids in designs by Karl Friedrich
Schinkel and several of his students, Steven Lauritano explores an
emerging conception of the female support as an allegory for
architecture in motion - a motif specially equipped to raise questions
of appropriation and the role of architectural remnants.

Nina E. Harkrader (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Building for 'the Other': The Spatial Embodiment of Poverty in Victorian
England, 1850-1914

Victorian poverty theories evolved together with medical models, and
veered between charity and control, integration and isolation,
moralizing and sympathy. Nina E. Harkrader offers specific examples
suggesting that buildings for the poor in Victorian England not only
reflected—in form, plan, iconography and spatial organization—these
evolving medical-social models but themselves helped construct the
social programs they embodied.


3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Second Afternoon Session & Discussion
Nebahat Avcioglu (Hunter College, CUNY), Moderator

Kelly C. Tang (University of Oxford)
Sex, Drugs, and Reclining Women in 19th-Century Chinese Photography

Kelly C. Tang traces the subject of reclining women in
nineteenth-century Chinese photography, a reoccurring motif that has an
extensive history within the history of Western art, but not in the
history of Chinese art. The motif is traced within the histories of
prostitution and opium in China.

Rashmi Viswanatan (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Selling Science: Packaging the Art of Balthazar Solvyns

In 1796, Balthazar Solvyns published a body of prints depicting the
castes of India. He re-issued this body of work twice in subsequent
years, with the addition of descriptive text and the advertisement of
increasingly didactic functions. Rashmi Viswanatan historicizes his
anthropologizing interventions in terms of changing market trends, to
illustrate the complicity of fashion in the formations of his
'documentary' art.

Beth Fadeley (University of Georgia)
Object Lessons: Francis Davis Millet and the Politics of Domestic
Orientalism

Through a close reading of The Expansionist, an 1899 painting by
American artist Francis Davis Millet, Beth Fadeley argues that the
domestic interior—as both a living space and a cultural concept—emerged
as a crucial site for the negotiation of political values during the age
of American imperialism.


The symposium is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of
Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) and New York University. This year's jury
is composed of Nebahat Avc?o?lu, Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Marilyn Satin
Kushner, Patricia Mainardi, James Rubin and Peter Trippi. The symposium
committee includes Caterina Pierre, Margaret Samu and Mary Frances
Zawadzki.

Special thanks to the Dahesh Museum of Art for the Dahesh Museum of Art
Prize for the Best Paper, AHNCA Graduate Student Symposium 2013, as a
gift in honor of Mrs. Mervat Zahid on behalf of the Board of Trustees.

The symposium is free and open to the public; reservations are not
necessary.
For further information: pm569nyu.edu.