Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, 52nd Annual Sessions
Since 1971 the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts has partnered with the department of art history and archaeology at the University of Maryland to present the annual Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art. The Center and the University of Maryland are pleased to continue this important tradition, which brings together the museum and academic communities and provides a platform for the latest research from select graduate students in our region.
Morning Session, 10:00–11:30 a.m.
Steven D. Nelson, moderator
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Joseph Kopta
Temple University
Chromatic Networks: Materiality and Materialism of Middle Byzantine Gospel Lectionaries (ca. 850–1204 CE)
Introduction: Elizabeth S. Bolman
Amanda Chen
University of Maryland
Transition, Transformation, and the Threshold of the Domus M. Caesi Blandi [VII.1.40] in Pompeii
Introduction: Maryl B. Gensheimer
Jamie Richardson Sandhu
Bryn Mawr College
The Divine Liefhebber: A New Interpretation of Frans Francken the Younger’s Allegory of the Pictura Sacra (c. 1635)
Introduction: Sylvia W. Houghteling
Carolyn Davis
George Washington University
Literacy, Devotion, and Globalism: Enconchado Paintings of St. Anne in Colonial Mexico
Introduction: Barbara von Barghahn
Afternoon Session, 12:15–2:00 p.m.
Tess Korobkin, moderator
University of Maryland
Rachel Ozerkevich
University of North Carolina
Class and Leisure Along the Seine: Seurat’s Bathers at Asnières (1884) and Olympic Ideals
Introduction: Tatiana C. String
Meg MacKenzie
American University
The Darkroom as Weapon? Anti-Colonialism and Ethnography in Raoul Ubac’s Penthésilée Photomontages
Introduction: Juliet Bellow
Marica Antonucci
Johns Hopkins University
What’s in a Name? Mario Schifano, Sidney Janis, and the Politics of Style in Postwar Italy
Introduction: Stephen J. Campbell
Eleanore Neumann
University of Virginia
“Who would believe it?”: Maria Graham and the Gendered Representation of Slavery during the Independence of Brazil (1821–1824)
Introduction: Douglas Fordham