Art History Graduate Symposium
Friday, October 24th

The Martin E. Segal Theatre
Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street)
New York, New York 10016

Morning Session
10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks

10:10-10:30 Karen Leader (Institute Of Fine Arts, New York University)
"Harlot, Housewife or Heroine? A Recovered Identity for the Workers Wife in Courbet’s Studio"

10:30-10:50 Suzanne Donahue (Temple University)
"Gauguin, Allegory, and Tahiti"

10:50-11:15 Moderated Discussion
- Professor Patricia Mainardi, Graduate Center
- Professor Jane Roos, Graduate Center

11:15-11:25 Break

11:25-11:50 Jordan Bear (Columbia University)
"Rogues’ Galleries: Two Images of the Criminal in the Nineteenth-Century"

11:50-12:10 Jennifer Mc Comas (Indiana University)
"The Sublime Vision: Romanticism in the Photography of Albert Renger Patzsch"

12:10-12:35 Moderated Discussion
- Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Graduate Center
- Professor Rose-Carol Washton-Long, Graduate Center

12:35-1:30 Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session
1:30-1:55 Katherina Romanenko (Graduate Center)
"Pro Eto. Rodchenko and Mayakovsky’s Groundbreaking Collaboration"

1:55-2:15 Frank Spicer (Case Western Reserve University)
"Subject, Object, Abject: Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Disasters of War"

2:15-2:40 Moderated Discussion
- Professor Rose-Carol Washton-Long, Graduate Center
- Professor Romy Golan, Graduate Center

2:40-3:10 Robert S. Slifkin (Yale University)
"Purity and its Discontents: Philip Guston’s 1970 Marlborough Exhibition"

3:10-3:30 Marisa Angell (Yale University)
"The Image of Community: Paul Rudolph, Bertrand Goldberg, Robert Venturi and the Architecture of Public Housing"

3:30-3:55 Moderated Discussion
- Professor Emeritus, Matthew Baigell, Rutgers University
- Professor Kevin Murphy, Graduate Center

3:55-4:10 Concluding Remarks

4:15-5:30 Reception in the Art History Student Lounge (3rd Floor)

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