Rethinking Mesoamerican Monumentality, from Midcentury Mexico City to Chicano Los Angeles
Mexican Studies Seminar Fall 2019
Jennifer Josten is Associate Professor of modern and contemporary art in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the Univeristy of Pittsburgh, where she also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures and is core faculty in the Center for Latin American Studies.
After Fiction
“That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact.” This is the OED definition of fiction.
After Fiction
“That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact.” This is the OED definition of fiction.
After Fiction
“That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact.” This is the OED definition of fiction.
"A Preliminary Survey of the Swat Valley and the Taxila Region"
Alice Casalini, PhD student, Department of Art History
Schedule:
14:00 Welcoming Remarks
14:15 Kirsten Cather (UT Austin), "Japanese Censorship in Theory & Practice"
15:00 Namiko Kunimoto (Ohio State) "Art and Activism in Japan"
15:45 Shimada Yoshiko, " 'Being a Statue of Non Freedom of Expression' : Gender is the Core Issue of the Censorship"
16:45 Roundtable Discussion: Kyeong-hee Choi (UChicago), Laura Hein (Northwestern), Matthew Jesse Jackson (UChicago), W.J.T. Mitchell (UChicago)
18:00 Reception
Free and Open to the Public
Art and Materiality Symposium
February 6–8, 2020 | The University of Chicago
Presented in conjunction with the opening weekend of The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, this symposium uses the lens of materiality to investigate topics central to the development and study of art around the world.
Featured presentations:
Morning session: CWAC 157
11-11:15: Introductory remarks (Seth Estrin and Sarah Nooter)
11:15-1:15: Images in practice
11:15 Angharad Darden “Euripides' Ion and the Acropolis”
11:55 Karin Krause “Incarnation Symbolism: the Mandylion and Its Multiples”
12:35 May Peterson “Amuletic or Cosmetic? A Late-Antique Alabaster Mirror-Plaque at the Art Institute of Chicago”
Afternoon session: Classics 21
Aden Kumler, Associate Professor of Art History and of Romance Languages and Literatures, will deliver the 2019 Nuveen Lecture at The Divinity School: "Unmade by design: The Eucharist and other medieval works of art."
Johannes Stradanus’s Nova Reperta (c.