53rd Annual Sessions of the Middle Atlantic Symposium
53rd Annual Sessions of the Middle Atlantic Symposium
Saturday, March 4, 2023
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Since 1971, the department and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art have jointly sponsored the Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art.
Morning Session, 10:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Introduction and session moderated by Steven Nelson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Annie Maloney
Emory University
Saving Roman Painting: The Antiquarian Reproductions of Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635–1700)
Introduction: Sarah McPhee
Jordan Hillman
University of Delaware
Jules-Alexandre Grün: ‘An Enemy of the Authorities’?
Introduction: Margaret Werth
Maria Puzyreva
University of Pennsylvania
Hidden in the Landscape: Imperial Propaganda in Tokuriki Tomikichirō’s Wartime Prints
Introduction: Julie Nelson Davis
Marco Polo Juarez Cruz
University of Maryland
Entering Muralist Abstraction: Reimaging the Mexican Pavilion at the Osaka World’s Fair (1970)
Introduction: Abigail McEwen
Afternoon Session, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Session moderated by Emily Catherine Egan, University of Maryland
Kyle Marini
Penn State University
Two-Ply Art History: Parsing Threads of Iconographic Continuity and Rupture in Colonial Inca Embroidery
Introduction: Amara Solari
Kate Sunderlin
Virginia Commonwealth University
Medium and Myth in a Southern City: Plaster in the Studio of Edward Virginius Valentine and the Valentine Museum
Introduction: Tobias Wofford
Kathryn Carney
University of Pittsburgh
Modernizing the Body at German Hygiene Exhibitions, 1911–1930
Introduction: Barbara McCloskey
Jessica Orzulak
Duke University
Transcendent Futurisms: The Photography of Cara Romero
Introduction: Kristine Stiles