Art History Lecture Series
Spring 2013
CALL & RESPONSE: A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ARTS SYMPOSIUM
Organized by Susanna Gold, Art History, Tyler School of Art
Saturday, April 20, 2013, 1:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Reception to follow
Conwell Dance Theater
5th floor Conwell Hall, 1801 N. Broad St.
Temple University Main Campus
Free and open to the public
THE 3rd ANNUAL VIVIAN AND STEUBEN LECTURE IN AMERICAN ART
"The Afterlife of Iconoclasm: Sculpture in Early New York"
A lecture by Wendy Bellion, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Delaware
Thursday, Feb. 7th, 2013, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Reception to follow
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
B004 Auditorium
Free and open to the public
Fall 2012
"What Technical Art History Can Tell Us:
Jacopo Bassano's Baptism of Christ and the Old-Age Problem"
A lecture by Dr. Andrea Bayer, Curator in European Paintings,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Temple University, Main Campus
Anderson Hall, 007
1114 West Berks Street
Free and open to the public
"In Pursuit of Publicness: Conceptual Art of the 1960s & '70s"
A lecture by Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History,
Barnard College and Columbia University
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
B004 Auditorium
Free and open to the public
"The Council of Trent: It's Not What You Think"
A lecture by John W. O'Malley, S.J., Professor, Department of Theology,
Georgetown University
Thursday, October 25th, 2012, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Temple University, Main Campus
Anderson Hall, 007
1114 West Berks Street
Free and open to the public
"The Public Purse: Accessorizing the 19th-Century Woman"
A lecture by Susan Hiner, Department of French, Vassar College
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
B004 Auditorium
Free and open to the public
"From the Avant-Garde to the Post Avant-Garde"
A lecture by Dr. Iving Sandler, BA, 1948
Thursday., October 18, 2012, 6:00 pm
Temple Contemporary
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Free and open to the public
Spring 2012
"Winslow Homer's The Life Line"
A lecture by Kathleen A. Foster, Robert McNeil Curator of American Art and
Director of the Center for American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Monday, April 16th, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
B004 Auditorium
Free and open to the public
"Left Unfinished by Albrecht Durer: What We Can Learn from Technical Art History"
A lecture by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Curator of European Paintings,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Thursday, April 12th, 2012, 5:30 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
B004 Auditorium
Free and open to the public
"Ovid & the Metamorphoses of European Art"
A lecture by Paul Barolsky, Professor of Art History, University of Virginia
Thursday, March 29th, 2012, 5:30 p.m.
Temple University, Main Campus
Anderson 007
Free and open to the public
"The Women of Abstract Expressionism: Art, Critics, and Ethical Issues"
The First Annual Distinguished Art History Alumni and Scholars Lecture by
Joan Marter, Distinguished Professor of Art History, Rutgers University
Thursday, March 14th, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
B004 Auditorium
Reception to follow
Free and open to the public
"Woodmere Today: Nature, Realism, and Contemporary Art"
A lecture by Matthew J. Palczynski, Curator, Woomere Art Museum
Friday, February 24th, 2012, 1:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Room B083
Free and open to the public
Fall 2011
"The Lure of the East: Venetian Viaggiatori in Asia Minor and Beyond"
A lecture by Patricia Fortini Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton University
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
Temple University, Main Campus
Anderson, Room 07
Free and open to the public
"Testing Some Beliefs"
A performance/lecture by Gregg Bordowitz, Chair of Film, Video, New Media and Animation, University of Chicago
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Monday, November 28th, 2011, 6:00p.m
Temple Gallery
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Free and open to the public
"Violence's Vestiges: The Martyrs' Museum in Tehran"
A lecture by Christiane Gruber, Associate Professor of Art Histoty,
University of Michigan
Thursday, November 17th, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
Temple University, Main Campus
Gladfelter Hall, 10th Floor
Lounge, Center for the Humanities
Free and open to the public
"The Sick City: Perceptions of Disease in Symbolist Art"
A lecture by Sharon L. Hirsh, President, Rosemont College
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011, 4:00 p.m
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
"The Process of Making Visible"
A lecture by Moe Brooker, Chair of Foundation, Professor of Fine Arts and Foundation, Moore College of Art and Design
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011, 3:30 p.m
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
"Toward a Grammar of Emergency"
A lecture by Hal Foster, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
"Social Networking: The Album Amicorum and Early Modern Public Making"
A lecture by Dr. Bronwen Wilson, University of British Columbia
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011, 5:00 p.m.
Temple University, Main Campus
Anderson, Room 07
Free and open to the public
Spring 2011
"Géricault: The Science of the Self"
A lecture by Nina Kallmyer, Professor and Chair of Art History, University of Delaware
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
"Flesh, Fiber, Paint: The Later Portraits of John Singer Sargent"
A lecture by Susan Sidlauskas, Rutgers University
The Inaugural Steuben and Vivian Granger Lecture in American Art
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011, 6:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
"Why Academies?: The Organization and Training of Artists across Time and Cultures"
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011, 5:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Room B 082
Free and open to the public
"Vicarious Conquest: The New World in Late Renaissance Florence"
Dr. Markey will speak to us about how the Medici Grand Dukes of Florence were vigorously involved in illustrating the land and people of the Americas and in collecting New World objects, such as featherwork, codices, turquoise masks, and live plants and animals.
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Room B082
Free and open to the public
"Eleven Seconds out of 113 Years: An(ant)tomy of a Conflict"
A lecture by Jonathan Katz, SUNY Buffalo
Jonathan Katz, co-curator of the exhibition “Hide/Seek” and Queer studies scholar, will address the stakes
of our repeated cultural skirmishes over the depiction of same sex desire and why he now
understands this latest flare up as an unprecedented, and definitive, victory. Temple University has a particular involvement in this issue: exactly twenty years ago at the height of the ”Culture Wars,” Temple Gallery hosted the exhibition: “David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame” and in conjunction, held a symposium “AIDS: Issues in Representation.” Wojnarowicz, who in art and writing boldly addressed issues of same sex desire and the response to the AIDS crisis, was embroiled in several controversies. These include his essay, “Post Cards from America: X-Rays from Hell,” for the exhibition “Witnesses: Against our Vanishing”; his suit against the misleading use of cropped elements of his art by a conservative group trying to whip up support to de-fund the NEA; and the recent removal of the “A Fire in My Belly" excerpt from the NPG show.
Tyler Art History wishes to thank the following for their support of this programming: American Studies; Art and Art Education; the Beasley School of Law; the Center for Humanities at Temple; Faculty Senate Lectures and Forums; Foundations; General Activities Fund; Graduate Art History Organization; LGBT and Women’s Studies; Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture; Temple Gallery; Tyler Student Life; Undergraduate Art History Guild.
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
Fall 2010
"Form, Value, Waste: The Economics of Manet's Abject Still Lifes"
A lecture by Andre Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, December 6th, 4:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Room B089
Free and open to the public
"The settlement history of the Ierapetra area, Crete, Greece: The archaeological evidence from Chryssi Island."
A lecture by Kostantinos Chalikias
Wednesday, December 1st, 3:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Room B081
Free and open to the public
"The Man Who Made Vermeers"
A lecture by Jonathan Lopez
Jonathan Lopez discusses his book The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren, which the The New Yorker has described as "Profoundly research, focused, absorbing."
Thursday, November 18th, 2010, 5:30 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
A lecture by Susanne Altmann, art critic, art historian, and independent curator based in Dresden
Thursday, November 4th, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
Susanne Altmann is an art historian, art critic, and independent curator based in Dresden. She studied art history and philosophy in Dresden and at the New School for Social Research in New York City. In 1998 she curated two site-specific installations of American artists Nancy Spero and Leon Golub in Dresden. In 1998/99, she worked at the curatorial department at Dia Center for the Arts as a curatorial intern. In 2004, she received the Reuters Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford. In 2005, she organized the German-Polish symposium Mechanisms of Oblivion about phenomena of marginalization and canonization of art before and after the transformations of 1989 (conference reader, Revolver publishers 2006). Susanne Altmann has written widely on visual arts in the post-communist countries such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Russia. Since 2008, she has been head of the jury for the Czech State Award for Contemporary Art Jindrich Chalupecky Prize. Since 2000, she has been corresponent to the widely read German art magazine Art - Das Kunstmagazin. Her recent shows include The Drawing Biennal (for the Drawing Association of Norway in Oslo/Moss 2010), KUDA/WOHIN: Russia Today with video artists Ine Lamers & Martina Wolf (Motorenhalle, Dresden 2010), Zellinnendruck: East German artists' books from the 1980’s (Neues Museum, Nuremberg 2010) and Have I not amused you brilliantly: Female Subversions in the art of the late GDR (2009/10 Dresden, 2011 Kunsthalle Mannheim). In January 2011, she will be guest curating the National Members Exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery/ NYC. Susanne Altmann has been teaching in Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Dresden and is the artistic director of the International Dresden Summer Academy.
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Anderson Hall, Room 14
Temple University, Main Campus
Free and open to the public
"Art and Salvation in Upper Egypt: The Red and White Monasteries"
A lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Bolman, Associate Professor Art History, Temple University
Thursday, October 21st, 2010, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
Friday, October 15th, 2010, 1:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
Robert A. Pruitt was born in 1975 in Houston, Texas. He received his BFA from Texas Southern University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a founding member of the Artist collective Otabenga Jones & Associates. Pruitt creates sculptures, drawings, video, and installations about the dichotomy of the black experience in America, and the impact of black cultural production on the global landscape. He has exhibited his work at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and was a participating artist in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Pruitt is a recipient of the Artadia artist award in 2004, and a Tiffany Foundation award in 2008. In 2007, he was a resident artist at Artpace in San Antonio. Pruitt was a recent visiting artist instructor at Northwestern University. He now lives and works in Houston, Texas.
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010, 1:45-3:30 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
"Red Scare and Black Lists: Communism and the Arts"
A gallery talk by Dr. Gerald Silk, Chair and Professor of Art History, Temple University
Friday, October 8th, 2010, 12:00 p.m.
Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Free and open to the public
Take an in-depth look at Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums with Dr. Gerald Silk, Chair of the Art History Department of Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Dr. Silk will discuss some of the historical figures, events, and artists Fiks refers to in this exhibition, including Congressman George Dondero's condemnation of Modern Art and Communism, the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the treatment of political art by museums in relation to the art historical canon, and individual artists such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Diego Rivera, and Joseph Kosuth. Audience members are invited to participate in discussion.
"Signature Killer: Caravaggio and the Poetics of Blood"
A lecture by Dr. David M. Stone, Professor of Art History, University of Delaware
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
Caravaggio has been the subject of numerous scholarly works and exhibitions, and continues to appeal to modern taste for his striking naturalism and rough depictions of everyday characters in religious and mythological compositions—choices that scandalized contemporaries. He has a popular following for embodying the anti-hero (what is now recognized as a carefully constructed identity), as witness books, films (notably Derek Jarman), and endless newspaper articles (the most recent about the discovery of his bones in Porto Ercole with verification through a proposed DNA sequencing). Professor Stone is recognized world-wide as an authority on the artist. His particular research has covered the late years, especially the 15 months when the artist worked on the island of Malta and was admitted into the Order of the Knights of St. John. Professor Stone deftly weaves close observations of the artist’s paintings with his deep understanding of the historical circumstances and proposes a fascinating interpretation of this revolutionary artist’s work. It has a wide appeal among art historians, artists and filmmakers interested in the neobaroque, literary and cultural theorists and psychologists concerned with questions of authorship and identity, historians and anthropologists of popular culture, not to mention a public that can’t get enough of this bad boy genius.
Monday, October 4th, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
Practice Talks for the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference
Thérèse A. Dolan, “Manet, Champfleury and Courbet: Questioning Realism in 1862”
Suzanne Singletary, “Baudelairean Methodology: Whistler, the Dandy, and Modernity”
Whitney Kruckenberg, “Domestic Interiority and Reverie in the Works of Mary Cassatt”
Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
Elizabeth S. Bolman, Paintings for Salvation: A Donor Portrait at the Red Monastery (Sohag, Egypt)
Agnieszka E. Szymanska, Painting Episcopal Authority in the Cathedral of Pachoras (Faras), Nubia
Friday, September 17, 2010, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Free and open to the public
Spring 2010
Monday, April 26th, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Monday, April 19th, 2010, 1:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Mary Anne Friel is Project Coordinator and Master Printer at the Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) in Philadelphia where she is responsible for developing new work for FWM Artists in Residence. She brings an artist’s concept to realization through extensive technical research and material experimentation in close collaboration with the artist, FWM staff, and a broad range of specialists in science, industry, engineering, media, and design. In this role she has been responsible for realizing new works at The Fabric Workshop and Museum for artists Doug Aitken, Chris Burden, Rachel Whiteread, Ed Ruscha, Carrie Mae Weems, Teresita Fernández, Mike Kelly, and Jana Sterbak among many others. These projects, executed and premiered at the FWM, have gone on to be widely exhibited and published nationally and internationally and are included in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery, London; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles County Museum; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; and FWM.
"Cycladic Figurines: An Overview," a lecture by Peggy Sotirakopoulou, Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Bryn Mawr College
Thursday, April 8th, 2010, 11:00 a.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Subhankar Banerjee: Photographer and Conservationist
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Since 2000, Indian-born American artist, educator, and activist Subhankar Banerjee has used photography to raise awareness about issues that threaten the health and well-being of our planet. His photographs of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge attracted international attention in 2003 when they became the focus of controversy amid political debate in the U.S. Congress over oil drilling at the refuge. A recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the inaugural Greenleaf Artist Award from the United Nations Environment Programme (2005) and the inaugural Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation (2003), Banerjee has exhibited work in over 50 solo and group shows around the world. In this public lecture, he will discuss his career, his recent work Land as Home, and a recent exhibition of his work in Copenhagen in conjunction with the COP15 international climate change conference.
A Talk by Teresa Jaynes, Executive Director of Philagraphika
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Teresa Jaynes speaks about the conception, organization, and significance of PHILAGRAFIKA 2010, Philadelphia’s international festival celebrating print in contemporary art.
Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 3:30 p.m.
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Main Campus
2001 North 13th Street (13th and Norris)
Basement Auditorium, B004
Dr. Ferrence, a specialist in the art and archaeology of the Minoan Crete, is the author of one of the definitive studies about the ancient uses of saffron for healing. The yellow spice derived from the crocus blossom, still widely used in cooking, was regarded as a remedy for a wide variety of medical problems in the ancient world. Its association with an enthroned goddess on a wall painting from Bronze Age Thera raises the possibility that the ceremonies in honor of the deity were part of a belief in healing. Dr. Ferrence, a Temple alumna, is the Director of Publications for the INSTAP Academic press. The lecture is open to the public; it will be followed by a reception.
Fall 2009
“A Conversation with the World: A Revelation of Our Common Humanity”
Lonnie Graham
Friday, November 13th, 2009
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
12th and Norris
North Basement, B004
Lonnie Graham is internationally renowned for his photographic and activist projects. Amongst his many awards and honors, he was Pennsylvania Artist of the Year (2006) for which he received the Governor's Award from Governor Edward Rendell. He is also a Pew Fellow, and a professor of Photography at Pennsylvania State University. Graham will present selections from his decade-long series of photographs and interviews entitled, “A Conversation with the World.”
“Exhibitions- New Insights into Old Objects”
Dr. Helen Evans
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 5:30-6:30
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
12th and Norris
North Basement, B004
Dr. Helen Evans, Head Curator of the Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Art Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will lecture on strategies for putting on an exhibition. The subjects covered include aesthetic issues, such as how best to present works of art, technical aspects of their display, pitching the idea of the show to the public, among others.
Spring 2009
"~Post Controversy': The Afterlife of Contested Public Art."
Dr. Cher Krause Knight
Monday March 30, 2009, 12 noon
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
12th and Norris
North Basement, B089
When controversy swirls, works of public art often hold the rapt attention of critics and the public alike. As outrage and debate are quelled, these same works may slip into distant memories. This talk revisits four works of public art after their respective controversies subsided to see what has become of them. Using Richard Serra's famous--and infamous--Tilted Arc as a foundation for these inquiries, we will also consider A. Thomas Schomberg's Rocky Balboa, Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Bronze Sculpture Park by John Ahearn. Issues of taste, audience agency, and the popular versus the populist are among those to be addressed.
Dr. Cher Krause Knight is Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. Dr. Knight holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Tyler School of Art, Temple. She has lectured and published widely on the subject of public art and her book titled Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism (Blackwell Press) came out in 2008.
Fall 2008
"Neo-Tonalism in the 1950s"
Dr. Michael J. Lewis
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008, 5:15 pm
Art and architectural historian, Dr. Michael J. Lewis, is Professor of American art at Williams College in Massachusetts. He is the author of The Gothic Revival and American Art and Architecture, both published by Thames and Hudson and is a regular contributor to The New Criterion, Commentary, and The New York Times. Dr. Lewis will be talking about Whistler's influence in the twentieth century, the topic of his catalogue essay for the recent exhibition, Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly at the Stirling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
"Complicated Business: Chicano Art, Museums, and Corporate Sponsorship"
Joseph Gonzales, Ph.D.
Monday, October 13, 2008
In conjunction with Dr. Susanna Gold's Art History Graduate Seminar, "Exhibition Studies"
Dr. Joseph Gonzales speaks about his involvement with associate exhibit developer for "Chicano Now: American Expressions," the 2001-03 traveling exhibition of contemporary Chicano culture, which appeared at the Museo Americano in San Antonio, TX, the Smithsonian Institution Arts and Industries Building in Washington, DC and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM. His talk addresses the political, cultural, and practical concerns in organizing this exhibition as well as its concurrent "Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge" exhibition of contemporary fine art by Chicano artists, spearheaded by actor and comedian, Cheech Marin. Gonzales navigates the conflicted terrain of exhibition's corporate sponsorship by Target department stores, Hewlett-Packard and DaimlerChrysler, wrestling with broader issues of commercial pressures, ethical responsibilities, and authority that arise from corporate involvement in public exhibitions.
Spring 2008
"The Qipchak Burial"
Dr. Renata Holod
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Dr. Renata Holod will discuss her current work on the Qipchak burial, the late 12th/ early 13th century burial of a nomadic khan located in present- day Ukraine. The burial took place in a re-used Bronze Age burial mound and contained a wealth of objects from Islamic Syria, Byzantine Asia Minor, Kievan Rus' and Romanesque Germany.
This incredible find raises issues of cultural property, trade, and the relationships that this nomadic group had with Germany, Kievan Rus', Byzantium and Islamic Syria. Supported by a Collaborative Research Grant from the Getty Foundation, the project's research is geared towards understanding how this impressive array of works of art arrived in the possession of a steppe nomad and how they might have been used and interpreted as expressions of power of a leader on the borders between the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds.
Dr. Renata Holod is a professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of Near Eastern Art at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. She has participated in archaeological work in Syria, Iran, Morocco, Central Asia, and Turkey and has recently directed a field study on the island of Jerba, Tunisia.
Art History Lectures
Fall 2007
"Expanding Egypt's Tourism Potential:
The Little-Known Coptic Monasteries"
Dr. Shaza Ismail
Tuesday September 18th 6:30 P.M.
Temple University Main Campus
Tuttleman Learning Center 307
13th Street & Montgomery Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Dr. Shaza Ismail is a short-term visiting scholar in the Department of Art History, Temple University. This is her second visit to Temple, last summer she came on a Fulbright grant for four months. Presently, she has returned on a grant from the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education. Dr. Ismail teaches at the Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, Helwan University, Cairo. She received her Masters from her home university and her PhD was a joint supervision between Helwan University and the University of South Wales, Swansea, UK.
African Impressions / Contemporary Art "Fist & Foot: Black Dance in Visual Art"
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 5:30PM - 8:30PM
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS:
Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Author/Performer & Professor Emerita, Temple University Odili Donald Odita, Artist and Associate Professor of Painting, Tyler School of Art Dr. Gaynell Sherrod, Assistant Professor of Dance, Florida A&M University Dr. Robert Farris Thompson, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University
SYMPOSIUM MODERATOR:
Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, Dean of Graduate Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art
PERFORMANCE BY Kariamu & Company: Traditions
Dr. Kariamu Welsh, Artistic Director and Dance Department Chair, Temple University
Temple University Main Campus
Conwell Hall Dance Theater, 5th Floor of Conwell Hall
NE Corner of Broad Street and Montgomery Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122
African Impressions / Contemporary Art is a series of symposia and events that explore modern and contemporary art from the perspective of African influences and voices. The aesthetics and social history of the African Diaspora have had an impact on many visual artists, yet this remains under-represented in art historical scholarship. Each event brings a multi-faceted and holistic experience of art and art criticism to the university audience and to the broader Philadelphia public by including established artists, scholars, curators, and performers.
This third symposium in the series presents artists who are investigating the powerful impact of dances of the African Diaspora in popular culture and contemporary art. Following the talks, there will be a performance by Kariamu & Company: Traditions of The Museum Piece. The event is curated by Sophie Sanders, PhD candidate in Art History, Tyler School of Art of Temple University with support from Dr. Kariamu Welsh, Professor and Dance Department Chair, Boyer College of Music, Temple University.
Conference Participants:
Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Author/Performer & Professor Emerita, Dance Studies, Temple University is a cultural historian and performer. Gottschild graduated from the Performance Studies Department of New York University. She performs with her husband, choreographer Hellmut Gottschild, in collaborative work for which they have coined the term, "movement theater discourse." Dr. Gottschild is also a senior consultant and writer for Dance Magazine. She is author of The Black Dancing Body (2003; winner of the 2004 de la Torre Bueno Prize for excellence); Waltzing in the Dark (2000; winner of the 2001 Congress on Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Scholarship); and Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance (1996).
Odili Donald Odita, Artist, is an Associate Professor of Painting at Tyler School of Art, and formerly a Visiting Critic in Painting at Yale University School of Art. Odita was a critic for Flash Art International, and a writer and consulting editor for NKA, Journal of Contemporary African Art. Odita has exhibited extensively including representing North America in 2004 at the Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Senegal, and he is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Haunch of Venison, Zurich. In November 2006, Odita had his one-person exhibition, Fusion at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. Odita was selected by curator Robert Storr to participate in the 52nd Venice Biennale in summer 2007.
Dr. Gaynell Sherrod, Assistant Professor of Dance, Florida A&M University studied dance with Dr. Kariamu Welsh, Pearl Reynolds, Joan Meyers Brown and other acclaimed choreographers. She earned a BA in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after 15 years of performing with such companies as Philadanco and Urban Bush Women, she earned a M.Ed. and Ed.D. in dance education from Temple University in Philadelphia. A Fulbright-Hayes scholar, Dr. Sherrod taught at Florida A&M University, New Jersey City University, and New York University. She has served as Director of Dance Pedagogy for New York City Department of Education and Executive Director of Touring for the Philadelphia Dance Company.
Robert Farris Thompson, Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art, Yale University is among the most respected scholars of African Art. He has organized several major exhibitions, including The Four Moments of the Sun (1981) and The Face of the Gods: Shrines and Altars of the Black Atlantic World (1985) at the National Gallery of Art. Dr. Thompson has received many research grants, including support from the Ford Foundation (1962-1964) and the National Gallery of Art (1977, 1979, 1980) to name a few. He has produced an immense number of catalogues and books; several recent works include: Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. (New York: Vintage, 1984); with Georges Meurant, Mbuti Design: Paintings by Pygmy Women from the Ituri Forest. (London: Thames and Hudson, 1995); Tango: The Art History of Love. (Vintage, 2006).
Dr. Kariamu Welsh, Artistic Director of Kariamu & Company: Traditions and Professor and Dance Department Chair, Temple University received her Doctorate of Arts from New York University and her MA.H. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has written extensively on African and African Diasporan dance. Dr. Welsh was the founding artistic director of the National Dance Company of Zimbabwe and she has choreographed works for the African American Dance Ensemble, Seventh Principle, Philadanco and her own company Kariamu & Company: Traditions. Dr. Welsh has received numerous grants and awards including the Pew Artist Fellowship and the Simon Guggeheim Fellowship. Dr. Welsh is also on the registry as a Fulbright Specialist in African Dance.
Symposia Moderator:
Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, Dean of Graduate Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art, Scholar, Curator, and Artist received her doctorate in Art History from The Johns Hopkins University in 1976. Some of Dr. King-Hammond's recent exhibitions and publications include Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox; Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence (University of Washington Press, 2000); Sugar and Spice: The Art of Bettye Saar (Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2003); "Aminah Robinson: Aesthetic Realities/Artistic Vision" in The Art of Aminah Robinson (Columbus Museum of Art, 2003); and "Inner Being/Altered States: Painting the Life-Worlds of Beverly McIver's Realities" in The Many Faces of Beverly McIver (40 Acres Gallery, 2004). King-Hammond is Chairperson of the Collections and Exhibits Committee at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture.
Performance:
Kariamu & Company: Traditions is a collection of professional dancers who seek to broaden and deepen the genre of African dance with contemporary choreography, music, and poetry. Using the Umfundalai technique, Kariamu & Company: Traditions reaches its audiences with political, social, and cultural commentary situated in African Diasporan contexts.
Kariamu & Company has been creating soul-stirring dance works since 1970, the birth of Umfundalai. In its thirty years of excellence, the base of the company moved from Buffalo, New York to Zimbabwe, South Africa to its current home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The current Traditions company was started in 1996 in preparation for Kariamu & Company's home season concert and its inception demarcates the third generation of Umfundalai dancers, singers, and poets.
The Museum Piece
Choreography by Kariamu Welsh
Africans have literally and metaphorically been placed in an exhibit for centuries. From the auction block to mounted wall "art" to the "smiling jockey" that graced a good number of lawns during the past century, the African on exhibit is a nostalgic part of Americana. The Museum Piece inverts and hopefully subverts the idea of inspection, introspection and exhibit. This work examines as it is being examined and finally begs the question, "Who are you looking at and why?"
"The Shroud of Turin as Visual Culture"
John Beldon Scott
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 5:00pm Lecture and Reception
Temple University Main Campus
Tuttleman Learning Center 307
13th Street & Montgomery Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122
John Beldon Scott, Professor in Art History, Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor of the Arts, received the B.A. from Indiana University (1968) and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University (1975, 1982). His field of teaching and research is the art and architecture of Early Modern Italy. He is the author of Images of Nepotism: The Painted Ceilings of Palazzo Barberini (Princeton, 1991) and Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin (Chicago, 2003). The latter book was awarded the 2004 College Art Association Charles Rufus Morey Prize. His other publications include studies of Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, Annibale Carracci, Bernini, the patronage of the Barberini family, and urbanism in early modern Turin. His articles have appeared in Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Storia dell'Arte, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, and Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. He has been a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, the National Humanities Center, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Stanford Humanities Center. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians (1997-2000). He is currently preparing a monograph on Borromini.
"Renoir and the Modern Landscape: Reflections of the New Economy "
James Rubin
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 3:00pm Lecture
Temple University Main Campus
Tuttleman Learning Center 307
13th Street & Montgomery Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Renoir and the Modern Landscape: Reflections of the New Economy. Among the aims of the Impressionists was to forge a "modern landscape," discarding nostalgic views of nature for a reflection of their contemporary surroundings. Although Impressionism is associated primarily with scenes of pleasure and leisure, this presentation will argue that representations of contemporary economic and industrial activities were equally at the heart of the Impressionists' concept of modernity. It recognizes, however, that different painters gave such themes more or less priority in their imagery. It will assess Renoir's position within the range of modern landscape possibilities as exemplified by the other Impressionists who were his friends and cohorts.
James Rubin was educated at Yale, Harvard and the University of Paris and has taught at Harvard, Princeton and for the past 25 years at Stony Brook, the State University of New York. He has published over 30 articles and essays on subjects ranging from the eighteenth-century to the present. His specialty is French art of the Realist and Impressionist period. He has written 9 books, including two on the painter Gustave Courbet, one on Edouard Manet, and three on Impressionism. His book Impressionism in the "~Art and Ideas' series by Phaidon press is used in many college courses in North America. His most recent book was Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life, which looks closely at a previously unnoticed aspect of Impressionist paintings. He is currently finishing a new monograph on Edouard Manet, due in 2009. Today's lecture is related to a book which is currently in press, called Impressionism and the Modern Landscape: Productivity, Technology and Urbanization from Manet to Van Gogh.
