Department of Art History

Please join us this Wednesday, February 9, from 4:30-6:30pm for our ‘mock CAA panel,' followed by an informal discussion over (virtual) dinner; full schedule below. We're very excited to get a preview of CAA papers by Maggie Borowitz (PhD Candidate), Jesse Lockard (PhD, postdoctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut), and Solveig Nelson (PhD, Julius Rosenwald postdoctoral fellow at UChicago and visiting curator at the Art Institute of Chicago).

Brandon Sward (PhD Student, Sociology)

“My practice is staying alive": Critique and care in the sculptures of Emily Barker

Respondent: Sila Ulug

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Maria Kuran (MAPH Student, Art History)

“Mona Hatoum: Transforming Tate Modern”

Maria Kuran is a graduate student in the Masters of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) at UChicago, with a focus in art history. My research pertains to issues of identity and displacement in the practices of Middle Eastern women artists residing in exile—whether forced or voluntary—alongside broader interests in feminist art historical practices.”

"Expanding Space in Passageway: the Architectural Space and Image of a 5th-century Tomb in Xi’an"

Boyao Ma (Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago; Ph.D Candidate, Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University)

Discussant: Li Jiang (Ph.D Student, Department of Art History, University of Chicago)

"New wine in old bottles?: The re-tagging of playthings in twentieth-century China"

Speaker: Valentina Boretti, Research Associate, Department of History, SOAS

Discussant: Zhang Xi, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Art History, UChicago 

"The Social Lives of Picture Postcards"

Speaker: Stephanie Lee (Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University)

Discussant: Kaeun Park (Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan)

Join the Smart Museum of Art, the Center for the Art of East Asia, and The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong, to celebrate the launch of The Allure of Matter: Materiality Across Chinese Art.

Finding rigorous ways to account for the nonvisual senses has increasingly become an important priority for architectural history. In recent years, curators of museums and historic buildings have begun to explore new ways to evoke the sensory experiences of people in the past. Ongoing shifts in architectural media continue to overturn many of the visualist assumptions associated with hand drawing, printed books, and analog photography.

How to Make a Palladio Drawing

Guido Beltramini

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Q&A to follow.

Persons in need of assistance please contact arthistory@uchicago.edu or call 773.702.0278

Dr. Elizabeth Lev received her undergraduate degree in art history from University of Chicago, and her doctorate from University of Bologna specializing in the art of the Counter Reformation. Her books include The Tigress of Forlì (Harcourt Mifflin 2012), and A Body for Glory (Vatican Museums Press 2014). She has been living in Rome since she completed her studies in 1997 and teaching art history for Duquesne University’s Italian Campus since 2002. Dr. Lev has lectured world-wide and her TED talk on the Sistine Chapel has garnered over 1.8 million views.