Preliminaryprogram

Wednesday, May 13

8:30 - registration

9:15-9:30 welcome& announcements

9:30-10:30 keynotelecture I

HEINZ ICKSTADT “Transcendentalistsand Cultural Nationalists: Transformations of the Natural Sublime from Thoreauand Church to the Painters and Poets of the Stieglitz Circle”

10:30-10:45 coffeebreak

10:45-12:10

BRYAN J. ZYGMONT -“Charles Willson Peale, the Enlightenment, and The Great Mastodon: Identity,Science, and Art in Early Federal America”

ALLISON STAGG -“The Politics of Low Art: The Networking of Caricaturists in Early America”

MAREK WILCZYNSKI -“The Americanization of the Sublime: Washington Allston and Thomas Cole asTheorists of American Art”

12:10-14:00 lunchbreak

14:00-15:00 keynotelecture II

DERRICK CARTWRIGHT - “Ashcan Images and Anarchist Ideals: Robert Henri’s Radical Texts”

15:00-15:55

ZUZANA TABACKOVA -“Gibran Khalil Gibran: A WritingArtist or a Drawing Writer?”

RACHEL SANDERS -“Intellectual Convictions and Emotional Experience: Women Artists and Criticsin The Liberator and New Masses”

15:55-16:10 coffeebreak

16:10-17:55

EDYTA FRELIK -“Calling Things by Their Right Names’: Thomas Hart Benton as Raconteur”

SARAH ARCHINO -“Image Withheld: Censorship and Avant-Garde Parody”

SIOFRA MCSHERRY - “‘Ever-Grateful Wonder.’ The Gift as a Modelfor the Artistic Community: An Interdisciplinary Exchange Between JosephCornell and Marianne Moore”

DANIELA DANIELE -“Surrealist Group Autobiographies: Experiments in Lyrical Prose by AmericanWomen Artists”

Thursday, May 14

9:00-10:00 keynotelecture III

ANDREW HEMINGWAY - “TheNew God: Paul Strand and the Romantic Anti-Capitalist Worldview”

10:00-10:15 coffeebreak

10:15-12:00

RACHEL STELLA - “Harry Holtzman: The Artist as Editor/Publisher”

JERZY KUTNIK -“Straddling the Abyss: Robert Motherwell as Reluctant Wordsmith”

JAMES FINCH -“Franz Kline and the Artist Interview”

KAREN HEATH - “The Artist as Political Admirer: The Curious Tale of Andrew Wyeth andRichard Nixon”

12:00-13:30 lunchbreak

13:30-14:30 keynotelecture IV

ERIKA DOSS - “WritingMy Religion: Journalistic Practices and Issues of Faith for Modern AmericanArtists”

14:30-14:45 coffeebreak

15:00-18:00 tripto the Lublin Museum

18:30 dinner inthe Old Town

Friday, May 15

9:00-10:00 keynotelecture V

ROBERT WESTERFELHAUS - “Illustrators, Mass Media, and the Rise – and Demise – ofAmerica’s Middle Class, Middle Brow Culture”

10:00-10:15 coffeebreak

10:15-12:00

YULIAKLYMCHUK - “Artist and Writer Ludwig Bemelmans in the Context of AmericanArtistic Trends”

IRYNA YAKOVENKO - “Flannery O’Connoras a Cartoonist”

FILIP LIPINSKI -“Inscribed Canvases: Writing-in-Painting in American Art”

CAROLYN STUART -“Generations of Feminist Intelligentsia: June Wayne and Gilah Yelin Hirsch,Joans of Art”

12:00-13:30 lunchbreak

13:30-14:30 keynotelecture VI

LIZA KIRWIN - “TheA to Z of Artist/Writers at the Archives of American Art”

14:30-15:25

SUSAN GREENBERGFISHER - ”The Head and the Hand: American Sculptors as Authors”

DOMINIKA GLOGOWSKI- “Isamu Noguchi’s Relationship of Things”

15:25-15:40 coffeebreak

15:40-17:25

CHRISTA NOELROBBINS - “Kenneth Noland’s Reichian Theory of Self”

STAMATINADIMAKOPOLOU - “Sites of Art and Trails ofExperience in the Writings of Vito Acconci, Robert Smithson and BernadetteMayer”

ANNAKRAWCZYK-LASKARZEWSKA - “Looking Harder at Movies, or the Challenge ofScaffolding Painterly Reviews”

ANNA GAIDASH -“Ageing Artists in Tina Howe’s Plays”

Saturday, May 16

9:00-10:45

EWA ANTOSZEK -“Crossing the Borders of Tradition: The Play of Pre-texts in Alma López’sRepresentations of La Virgen de Guadalupe”

IZABELLA KIMAK -“Tagging Brooklyn: Graffiti, Race and Class in Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude”

URSZULA NIEWIADOMSKA-FLIS- “‘I'sein Town, Honey’: African American ArtistsReclaiming Black Womanhood”

MALGORZATA OLSZA -“A Portrait of the Artist as …? The Author in American Non-Fiction GraphicNovels”

10:45-11:00 coffeebreak

11:00-12:30

round table &closing