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American Art in a Global Context Smithsonian American Art Museum American Art in a Global Context Speaker Biographies and Abstracts Renée Ater..................................................................................................................................................... 3 Martha Bayles............................................................................................................................................... 3 “The Ugly Americans: Losing the Global Culture War”........................................................................... 3 Katherine Bourguignon ............................................................................................................................... 4 “The ‘Giverny Trick’” ............................................................................................................................... 5 John Bowles................................................................................................................................................... 6 “African American Culture in Japan: A Transnational Dialogue” ............................................................ 6 François Brunet ............................................................................................................................................ 7 “American Photography in France: A Brief History of Reception” .......................................................... 7 Luciano Cheles.............................................................................................................................................. 8 “Piero della Francesca’s Impact on American Painting in the 1930s and ‘40s”........................................ 9 David Peters Corbett.................................................................................................................................... 9 “‘Food for Starving Souls’: John Sloan, the Ashcan School, and Walter Sickert”.................................. 10 Wanda M. Corn.......................................................................................................................................... 10 Sergio Cortesini .......................................................................................................................................... 10 “Mussolini’s Artists Across the American Scene” .................................................................................. 11 Kirstin L. Ellsworth.................................................................................................................................... 12 “AFRI-COBRA: Global Art of Beauty and Blackness”.......................................................................... 12 Henry Estrada............................................................................................................................................. 13 Winfried Fluck............................................................................................................................................ 13 “Narratives about American Art: A View from Abroad” ........................................................................ 13 Adam Gopnik.............................................................................................................................................. 14 Barbara Groseclose .................................................................................................................................... 15 “The Haven-Finding Art: Hawthorne, James, and Story in Italy”........................................................... 15 Helen A. Harrison....................................................................................................................................... 16 “Pollock in Europe/Europe in Pollock” ................................................................................................... 17 Michael Hatt ............................................................................................................................................... 17 Laura Katzman........................................................................................................................................... 18 Rob Kroes.................................................................................................................................................... 18 Smithsonian American Art Museum 1 American Art in a Global Context SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum “The Family of Man Revisited”............................................................................................................... 19 Anthony Lee................................................................................................................................................ 19 Margaretta M. Lovell................................................................................................................................. 20 “Trophy Heads”....................................................................................................................................... 20 Margo Machida .......................................................................................................................................... 21 “The Global Within: Dialogism and Asian American Art”..................................................................... 21 Nancy Mowll Mathews............................................................................................................................... 22 “American Moving Pictures in an International Context, 1890-1900”.................................................... 22 Angela Miller .............................................................................................................................................. 23 “The Global Turn in American Art”........................................................................................................ 24 Keith Morrison ........................................................................................................................................... 25 “From Jamaica to New York: The Artist as a Citizen of the World” ...................................................... 25 Joann Moser................................................................................................................................................ 25 Kevin Muller............................................................................................................................................... 26 “Queen Anne and the ‘Four Indian Kings’: A Transatlantic Dialogue” .................................................. 26 Chon Noriega .............................................................................................................................................. 26 “A Ver: Revisioning Art History”............................................................................................................ 27 Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro .............................................................................................................................. 27 “America/Americas: Placing U.S. Art in a Hemispheric Context”.......................................................... 28 Frances Pohl................................................................................................................................................ 28 “Revisiting the Relationship between Canadian and American Art and Culture”................................... 29 Jennifer Roberts ......................................................................................................................................... 29 “Copley’s Cargo” .................................................................................................................................... 30 Takashi Sasaki ............................................................................................................................................ 30 “Winslow Homer: Modernization and the Archetype in the Late Nineteenth Century”.......................... 31 Smithsonian American Art Museum 2 American Art in a Global Context Renée Ater Renée Ater is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland. Her publications include “Making History: Meta Warrick Fuller’s Ethiopia,” in American Art (2003) and Keith Morrison, Volume 5 of the David C. Driskell Series on African American Art (2005). She received a 2004-2005 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for University Teachers to revise her manuscript Meta Warrick Fuller: Public Sculpture for a New Nation. She is currently writing an essay on Aaron Douglas and the Texas Centennial Exposition of 1936 for the Spencer Museum of Art’s exhibition catalog Aaron Douglas, African American Modernist (2007). Martha Bayles Martha Bayles writes about arts, music, media, and cultural policy for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Weekly Standard, the Wilson Quarterly, and many other publications. She is the author of Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music (1994), and a frequent lecturer throughout the United States and in Europe. Bayles has also been literary editor of the Wilson Quarterly, arts correspondent for PBS, and a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute. She teaches at Boston College. “The Ugly Americans: Losing the Global Culture War” Since 9/11 there has been an upsurge of interest in Cold War cultural diplomacy, and voices across the political spectrum are calling for a return to tried-and-true methods: “Rerun our Cold War cultural diplomacy,” Alan Riding
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