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GRADUATE SYMPOSIUMSaturday, March 110:00am - 3:00pm
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115
*Please enter through the Fenway entrance
Featuring papers by graduate students from nationally-recognized programs, the symposium explores the employment and reception of light in the history of art and visual culture. See reverse for entire program.
See the Light:
KEYNOTE ADDRESSFriday, February 28, 5:30pm
Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215
Professor S. Hollis ClaysonProfessor of Art History and History, Northwestern University
Questions? Please contact Caitlin Dalton, Symposium Coordinator, Art History Department, Boston University, at BUgraduatesymposiumHAA@gmail.com or visit www.bu.edu/ah/
Boulevard Saint-Denis, Argenteuil, in Winter , 1875.Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) Museum purchase with funds donated by the Linde Family Foundation *Gift of Richard Saltonstall *Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The 30th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture
FEB 28- MAR 1, 2014
This event is generously sponsored by The Boston University Center for the Humanities; the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art
& Architecture Association; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery.
10:00am – COFFEE IN RILEY SEMINAR ROOM
10:30am – MORNING SESSION
Discussant:EmilyVoelker, PhD Candidate, Boston University ElisabethBerryDrago, PhD Candidate, University of Delaware Shadowed Spectatorship in the Photographic Nocturne, 1895-1910
SarahRovang, PhD Candidate, Brown University “A Light in Every Heart”: Electric Lighting and the Modernization of the American Farmstead
TinaRivers, PhD Candidate, Columbia University Tripping the Light Fantastic: “TV as a Creative Medium”
12:00pm – BREAK FOR LUNCH
1:00pm – COFFEE IN RILEY SEMINAR ROOM
1:30pm – AFTERNOON SESSION
Discussant:JordanKarney, PhD Student, Boston University
JungE.Choi, PhD Candidate, Duke University Temporalizing the Space of Light: Your Atmospheric Colour Atlas
BrendanMcMahon, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California Tricks of the Light: Representing Iridescence in the Seventeenth- Century Spanish World BetsyStepinaZinn, PhD student, Rice University Waiting for Ganzfeld: James Turrell’s End Around and the New Landscape
This event is generously sponsored by The Boston University Center for the Humanities; the Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Boston University Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association; and the Boston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery.
S Y M P O S I U M S C H E D U L EBoth Friday and Saturday events are free and open to the public.
See the Light:The 30th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art & Architecture
Professor S. Hollis Clayson is the Samuel H. Kress Professor at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 2013-2014. She is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Art History and History at Northwestern University. She has published widely on nineteenth-century French art and culture including two monographs, Painted Love and Paris in Despair. Her forthcoming book is entitled Electric Paris: The Visual Cultures of the City of Light in the Era of Thomas Edison.
Symposium Dates:Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2014
GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM Saturday, March 1, 10am - 3pmRiley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 - www.mfa.org
This symposium considers the employment and reception of light in the history of art and visual culture.
For more information, please contact Caitlin Dalton, 2013/2014 Symposium Coordinator, Boston University Department of History of Art & Architecture, atBUgraduatesymposiumHAA@gmail.com or visit the symposium’s website - www.bu.edu/ah
KEYNOTE ADDRESSFriday, Feb 28, 5:30 pmBoston University Art Gallery at the Stone Gallery855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 - www.bu.edu/art
ProfessorS.HollisClayson, Professor of Art History and History, Northwestern University Episodes from the Visual Culture of the Electrified City of Light