Latin American and Pre-Columbian Open Session: Ellen T. Baird (etbaird@uic.edu) El Arte in the Midwest: Jamie Ratliff (jratliff@d.umn.edu) This session invites papers on any aspect of art and visual culture that attests to the significant presence of Latina/o cultures in Chicago and the Midwest. While in art history, the terms “Latina/o” and “Chicana/o” are […]
Beyond Featherwork: Mexican Visual Identity Between Conquest and Independence Time: 02/03/2016, 9:30 AM—12:00 PM Location: Delaware Suite B, Lobby Level Chairs: Aliza M. Benjamin, Temple University; Bradley Cavallo, Temple University “Cool Gardens with Many Trees”: La Alameda as a Transcultural Arena Diantha Steinhilper, University of Texas at Arlington Framing the Otherness: Picturesque Atlases of Mexico […]
From Local to Global: Ancient and Contemporary Òrìsà Imagery within and Outside Africa Time: 02/03/2016, 9:30 AM—12:00 PM Location: Wilson C, Mezzanine Level Chair: Babatunde Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University Òrìsà Art and Iconography at Home and Abroad Babatunde Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University Sacred Art of Meaning: Òrìsà Altars in Cuba and New York City Marta […]
Living Archives: Latin American and Latino Art Materials in U.S. Institutions Time: 02/03/2016, 12:30 PM—2:00 PM Location: Harding, Mezzanine Level International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Chair: Olga U. Herrera, University of Illinois at Chicago Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art Project Maria C. Gaztambide, Museum […]
Sensorial Regimes: Reflections on Postcolonial Art History in Latin America Time: 02/03/2016, 2:30 PM—5:00 PM Location: Salon 1, Lobby Level Chairs: Jens Baumgarten, Federal University of São Paulo; Tristan Weddigen, Universität Zürich Introduction: Sensorial Regimes: Reflections on Postcolonial Art History in Latin America Jens Baumgarten, Federal University of São Paulo; Tristan Weddigen, Universität Zürich ‘It […]
Keynote Address: Artist Tania Bruguera will give a keynote address titled: Aest-ethics: Art with Consequences Time: 02/03/2016, 6:30 PM—7:00 PM Location: Salon 2, Lobby Level
(Mis)Representing “Justice” in Mesoamerica, AD 100-1650 Time: 02/04/2016, 9:30 AM—12:00 PM Location: Salon 1, Lobby Level Chairs: Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol, Arizona State University; Cecelia F. Klein, University of California, Los Angeles In Search of the Toltec Ethos: Violence, Power, and Polity in the Art of Tula Keith Jordan, California State University, Fresno On Parity and […]
Artists and Their Collaborators Time: 02/04/2016, 12:30 PM—2:00 PM Location: Harding, Mezzanine Level Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association Chairs: Susan Cooke, The Estate of David Smith, New York; Shaina D. Larrivee, The Hedda Sterne Foundation, Inc. Isamu Noguchi and Edward A. Rumely: The Artist and His Patron Deborah A. Goldberg, School of Visual Arts, New York Authorship and […]
Without Borders: The Promise and Pitfalls of Inter-American Art History Time: 02/04/2016, 2:30 PM—5:00 PM Location: Washington 4, Exhibition Level Chairs: Breanne Robertson, American University; Fabiola Martinez, Saint Louis University America in Circulation: Joaquín Torres-García and Stuart Davis on View and in Print Lori Cole, New York University Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s Optical Parable: Mexico’s First […]
Pre-Columbia in Nineteenth-Century Art and Science Time: 02/04/2016, 2:30 PM—5:00 PM Location: Coolidge, Mezzanine Level Chairs: John F. López, Skidmore College; Lisa Trever, University of California, Berkeley Scale, Scholarship, and the Nineteenth Century Andrew J. Hamilton, Princeton University Out of the Andes: Paintings of the Inca in Nineteenth-Century Europe Janet G. Stephens, Georgia Gwinnett College […]