Department of Art History

After the Tsunami: Japanese Contemporary Art since 2011

Adrian Favell, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, University of Leeds

Zsofi Valyi-Nagy, PhD student, Department of Art History

Qualifying Paper, Title TBD

Respondent: Solveig Nelson, PhD candidate, Department of Art History

Laura Steward, Curator of Public Art and Director of the Open Practice Committee, Smart Museum of Art and the Department of Visual Arts

“Complexity for Art Historians: Ann Hamilton Case Study”

Respondent: Jason Salavon, Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts

Brandon Sward, PhD student, Department of Sociology

“Identity Specificity’ and the Art of the AIDS Crisis”

Respondent: Maggie Borowitz, PhD Student, Department of Art History

Yves Porter, Aix-Marseille Université

Jeremy Melius, Tufts University, will give a lecture that revisits the relationship between the Victorian critic John Ruskin and his disciple and translator Marcel Proust in order to rethink key aspects of Ruskin’s investment in the durational intensity of works of art.

In a volume dedicated to the Wars of the Roses, historian Colin Richmond opens his essay on the visual arts with the delightfully cavalier dismissal: “the badness of English art, as well as the Englishness of English art, in the fifteenth century is a theme, a text rather than a sub-text of my contribution.” Historians of medieval art will be familiar with this attitude, one that has relegated England to the periphery of our field. Yet aesthetic dissatisfaction accounts only partially for this neglect.

Event Recording

Please join us on Wednesday 18 October at 4:30pm in CWAC 156, for the second meeting of the Research in Art and Visual Evidence (RAVE) workshop for the 2017-2018 academic year. 

Joana Konova, PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago, will present one of her dissertation chapters, tentatively titled "Strategies and Meaning of Restoration of Ancient Sculpture in Late Renaissance Rome." Patch Crowley, Assistant Professor of Art History and the College, will respond. 

Serge Guilbaut is a leading Marxist art historian of postwar art in the United States and Europe. He is Professor Emeritus of art history at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Guilbaut’s book How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom and the Cold War, first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1983, remains one of the most important and canonical texts on 20th century art.