Alumna Julia Langbein Awarded Former Visiting Committee Publication Grant

Congratulations to department alumna Julia Langbein (Ph.D. ’14) for being the inaugural recipient of the Art History Former Visiting Committee Publication Grant! Funded by the department’s former Visiting Committee, this grant supports alumni with the publication of a first book manuscript with an academic press. Julia’s forthcoming publication, Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France, builds on the doctoral research she carried out for her dissertation, “Salon Caricature in Second Empire Paris.”

Roko Rumora Responds to Growing Debate in the Field of Classics

Roko Rumora (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History) has been published by Jutarnji List, Croatia's most widely circulated daily newspaper, with his opinion piece, "The Racism of Classics…in Croatia?"

Anneka Lenssen: The Developing Surface: Abstraction in Syria, Algeria, and Morocco circa 1965

What if no painting were flat? What if artists developed works around formlessness as well as form? This lecture explores the multidimensional models of abstract painting proposed in the mid-1960s, a moment defined by liberation struggles and an international art world slowly turning away from object-specific practices of making toward ephemeral, conceptualist work.

Globalized Perceptions: Art History in the Age of Asynchronicity

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago are pleased to announce the third annual Intercollegiate Art History Symposium (IAHS) for undergraduates writing in the Art History field.

The Symposium will be held virtually. Professor Darby English (Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History and the College, University of Chicago) and Professor Daniel Quiles (Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) will serve as co-keynote speakers for the event. 

Presenters:

African American Artistic Resistance in the Civil War South

This virtual reading group session, co-sponsored by the Slavery and Visual Culture project at the Neubauer Collegium and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago, will consider the role of African Americans as producers and viewers of art as well as in artistic resista

VMPEA: Meng Zhao

Court Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers, as one of the most exquisite examples of shinü hua (“paintings of elite women”), grants a glimpse of sheer sensuality of palace beauties in medieval China. The extraordinary limpidity of female imagery manifested in this work obscures intriguingly the question regarding the crafting and aestheticization of womanly beauty, which has curiously received little scholarly attention. This paper contextualizes the eighth-century praxis of painting court ladies through the lens of the coding of tactual experiences in medieval feminine space.

RAVE: Reconnecting Metadata: Race, Labor, and the Corporate Body through the History of the Eastman Kodak Company

In April 1967, protesters from Rochester, New York, all along the east coast, and at least as far west as Chicago gathered outside of Eastman-Kodak’s annual shareholder meeting to demonstrate against the company’s racialized hiring practices. Despite the increasing diversity of Rochester--the company town where Kodak had been based since 1880--most of Kodak’s employees were white.

Fiona Greenland with Christine Mehring

The University of Chicago Press’s “By the Book” series, in partnership with the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, presents an event featuring Fiona Greenland, author of Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy, in conversation with Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor in the Department of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago and adjunct curator at the University’s Smart Museum. 

PAN: The Avant-Garde Point of View with Dr. Max Koss

Art historian and alumnus Dr. Max Koss will present this lecture on the aesthetic and history of Berlin’s art and literary journal PAN with the Driehaus Museum. He also appeared last September during the episode of Live From the Drawing Room: The Art of Entertaining to introduce The Chap-Book and the development of poster art in the late 1800s.

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