The Art History Newsletter

CAA 2012

by | 18 November 2011 | Conferences

The 100th annual conference of the College Art Association convenes February 22-25. Among the sessions I’m looking forward to:

Theorizing the Body
Chair: Jean M. Borgatti, Clark University

  • Medusa as “Seduction of Excess”
    Basia Sliwinska, independent scholar

  • Body of Work: Stylization and Ambiguity in the Benin Plaque Corpus
    Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch, New York University

  • Body Networks: Corporeality in Luba Art and Politics
    Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles

  • H(ai)rmeneutics
    Shir Aloni Yaari, Courtauld Institute

  • Humorous Transformations into Abstraction: Layering Images of Identity in the Art of Shahzia Sikander
    Anneke Schulenberg, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Art History Open Session: Renaissance Art
Form and Function: Art and Design?
Chair: Antonia Madeleine Boström, J. Paul Getty Museum

  • The Separation of Form and Function: Challenging the Historiography of Renaissance Pilgrim Flasks
    Annette LeZotte, Wichita State University

  • Function, Ritual, and Sculpture: Holy-Water Stoups in Early Modern Tuscany
    Francesco Freddolini, Getty Research Institute

  • Treillage in Sixteenth-Century Italy and France: Between Art and Craft
    Natsumi Nonaka, University of Texas at Austin

  • “Modern in an Antique Way”: Giulio Romano’s Designs for Living
    Valerie Taylor, independent scholar

  • Winds, Farts, and Bellows: The Airy Imagery of Early Modern Ornament Prints
    Madeleine C. Viljoen, New York Public Library

Design, from “California Dreamin’” to “Designed in California,” ca. 1965-2012
Chairs: James Housefield, University of California, Davis; Stuart Kendall, California College of the Arts

  • Simulating Spatial Experience in the People’s Berkeley: The Urban Design Experiments of Donald Appleyard and Kenneth Craik
    Anthony Raynsford, San Jose State University

  • April Greiman and California’s Technology of Enchantment
    Elizabeth Guffey, Purchase College, State University of New York

  • Steve Jobs, Architect
    Simon Sadler, University of California, Davis

  • California Design: What Are We Talking About?
    Bobbye Tigerman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Beyond the Oil Spill: Art and Ecology in the Americas
Chairs: Florencia Bazzano-Nelson, Tulane University; Santiago Rueda Fajardo, independent scholar, Bogotá, Colombia

  • Landscape Seen through the Eyes of Contemporary Art and Science
    Hugo Fortes, Universidade de São Paulo

  • The Land, the Road, and the Freedom to Move On: Allegory vs. Documentary in “Iracema, uma transa amazônica”
    Erin Aldana, independent scholar, San Diego

  • Environmental Crisis and Creative Response: Ala Plástica’s “Magdalena Project”
    Lisa Crossman, Tulane University

  • The Invisible Beginning: Imagining Trees in the Contemporary Urban Environment
    Gesche Würfel, Goldsmiths, University of London

CAA Distinguished Scholar Session Honoring Rosalind Krauss
The Theoretical Turn
Chair: Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Studies

  • Harry Cooper, National Gallery of Art

  • Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Harvard University
  • Hal Foster, Princeton University
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University
  • Briony Fer, University College London

No Talking Allowed: Making a Visual Argument about Art History
Chairs: Jean Robertson, Indiana University; Craig McDaniel, Indiana University

  • Degas and Italy: A Pictorial Exegesis
    Claire L. Kovacs, Coe College

  • Dubai Referents
    Julia Townsend, American University in Dubai

  • The Political Ecology of Energy Consumption: An Official Guide
    Matthew Friday, State University of New York at New Paltz

  • Overlooked Sites of Neoconcretism: The Newsroom, the Dance Floor, and the Flooded Underground
    Simone Osthoff, Pennsylvania State University

  • Superdutch: Photography, Process, and the Internet-Polder
    Jordan Tate, University of Cincinnati

  • Who Was Thomas Waterman Wood? Finding the Artist in the Art
    Jo-Ann Morgan, Western Illinois University

  • The History of Mystery: Human Representation “Sub Specie Aeternitatis”
    Carol Ciarniello, independent artist

The State of the Discipline
Chairs: Sandra Esslinger, Mt. San Antonio College; Deana Hight, Mt. San Antonio College

  • Rebooting Artistry and Its History, Theory, and Criticism
    Donald Preziosi, University of California, Los Angeles

  • A Labyrinth without a Thread: Decreating Art History
    Jae Emerling, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

  • Has Visual Studies Come of Age?
    Bridget R. Cooks, University of California, Irvine

Flying Solo: The Opportunities and Challenges Presented to the Solitary Art Historian in a Small College
Chairs: Laura J. Crary, Presbyterian College; William Ganis, Wells College

  • Curricular and Pedagogical Strategies for Solo Flyers in Studio Departments
    Lisa DeBoer, Westmont College

  • No Art Historian Is an Island
    Amy Von Lintel, West Texas A&M University

  • Between Scylla and Charybdis: One Educator’s Personal Odyssey from Classicist to Generalist in Three Years
    Kimberly Busby, Angelo State University

  • The Solitary Art Historian in a Liberal Arts College: Strategies for Aligning Faculty and Student Research
    Gregory Gilbert, Knox College

Best affiliation: Maureen Connor, The Institute for Wishful Thinking (and Queens College, City University of New York).