100TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE L O S A N G E L E S FEBRUARY 22–25, 2012 ABSTRACTS ABSTRACTS 2012 100th Annual Conference, Los Angeles Wednesday, February 22–Saturday, February 25, 2012 50 Broadway, 21st Floor New York, NY 10004 www.collegeart.org College Art Association 50 Broadway, 21st Floor New York, NY 10004 www.collegeart.org Copyright © 2012 College Art Association All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Sessions are listed alphabetically according to the name of the chair. Abstracts 2012 is produced on a very abbreviated schedule. Although every effort is made to avoid defects, information in this book is subject to change. CAA regrets any editorial errors or omissions. We extend our special thanks to the CAA Annual Conference Committee members responsible for the 2012 program: Sue Gollifer, University of Brighton, vice president for Annual Conference, chair; Sharon Matt Atkins, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Peter Barnet, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Brian Bishop, Framingham State University; Connie Cortez, Texas Tech University; Ken Gonzales-Day, Scripps College; and Sabina Ott, Columbia College Chicago. Regional Representatives: Stephanie Barron, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Margaret Lazzari, University of Southern California. We also thank all the volunteers and staff members who made the conference possible. Cover: Photograph provided by Security Pacific National Bank Collection, Los Angeles Public Library. Design: Ellen Nygaard CAA2012 FEBRUARY 22–25 3 Contents CAA International Committee 11 Concerning the Spiritual in Art: Kandinsky’s 19 Confrontation in Global Art History: Past/Present; Pride/ Radical Work at 100 Prejudice Surrounding Art and Artists Chairs: Susan J. Baker, University of Houston, Downtown; Chair: Richmond Teye Ackam, Kwame Nkrumah University Valerie Hedquist, University of Montana of Science and Technology Redefining Mediterranean Aesthetics 20 Historians of Netherlandish Art 12 Chairs: John Baldacchino, University College Falmouth; Affect and Agency: The Netherlandish Portrait (1400–1750) Elena Stylianou, European University Cyprus Chair: Ann Jensen Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara Centennial Session 21 The Eye, the Hand, the Mind: Revelations Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern 13 Chair: Susan Ball, New York Foundation for the Arts Period, Part I Chair: Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, University of Freiburg Avant ’68: France and the Transnational Flow of Culture in 21 the Global “Long Sixties” Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern 13 Chairs: Noit Banai, Tufts University and School of the Museum Period, Part II of Fine Arts; Hannah Feldman, Northwestern University Chair: Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes, University of Freiburg About Time in the Ancient Americas 22 Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art 14 Chairs: William Landon Barnes, University of St. Thomas; Future Directions in Nineteenth-Century Art History Bryan R. Just, Princeton University Art Museum Chair: Scott Allan, J. Paul Getty Museum Beyond the Oil Spill: Art and Ecology in the Americas 23 Pacific Arts Association 15 Chairs: Florencia Bazzano-Nelson, Tulane University; Santiago The Body Politic: The Role of Body Art and Rueda Fajardo, independent scholar, Bogotá, Colombia Anthropomorphic Depictions in Oceanic Societies Chair: Anne E. Guernsey Allen, Indiana University Southeast Coalition of Women in the Arts Organization 24 Asian American Women Artists: A Postmodern Perspective (Re)Writing the Local in Latin American Art 16 Chair: Kyra Belán, Coalition of Women in the Arts Organization Chairs: Mariola V. Alvarez, University of California, San Diego; Bill Kelley Jr., independent scholar The Modern Gesamtkunstwerk 24 Chairs: Juliet Bellow, American University; Jenny Anger, ARTspace 16 Grinnell College Art in the Public Realm: Activism and Interventions Chairs: Jacki Apple, Art Center College of Design; Tim Nolan, Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture 25 independent artist; and Conrad Gleber, LaSalle University Emerging Scholars Chair: Timothy O. Benson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ARTspace 16 Art in the Public Realm: The Global Environment Is It Time to Question the “Privileging” of Visual Art? 26 Chairs: Jacki Apple, Art Center College of Design; Tim Nolan, Chairs: Greta Berman, The Juilliard School; Ellen K. Levy, independent artist; and Conrad Gleber, LaSalle University independent artist, New York ARTspace 17 Mid America College Art Association 26 Art in the Public Realm: Creating New Paradigms What Is Conceptual Thinking? Chairs: Jacki Apple, Art Center College of Design; Tim Nolan, Chair: Steven Bleicher, Coastal Carolina University independent artist; and Conrad Gleber, LaSalle University CAA Student and Emerging Professionals Committee 27 Design Studies Forum 17 What Makes a Competitive Candidate? Design, Thing Theory, and the Lives of Objects Chair: Steven Bleicher, Coastal Carolina University Chair: Leslie Atzmon, Eastern Michigan University National Alliance of Artists from Historical Black Colleges 27 Women’s Caucus for Art 17 and Universities Multiplicities in Dialogue: From Political Caucus to Perceptions and Assumptions: Whiteness Engaged Community Chairs: Peggy Blood, National Alliance of Artists from Chairs: Tanya Augsburg, San Francisco State University; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Zelana Davis, Deborah Thomas, Glendale College Savannah State University Making Up a Historiography: Contemporary Arts 18 Arts Council of the African Studies Association 28 of the Middle East Theorizing the Body Chairs: Sussan Babaie, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich; Chair: Jean M. Borgatti, Clark University Abdallah Kahil, Lebanese American University CAA2012 FEBRUARY 22–25 4 Art History Open Session: Renaissance Art 29 Flying Solo: The Opportunities and Challenges Presented to 41 Form and Function: Art and Design? the Solitary Art Historian in a Small College Chair: Antonia Madeleine Boström, J. Paul Getty Museum Chairs: Laura J. Crary, Presbyterian College; William Ganis, Wells College Breaking Laws in the Name of Art: New Perspectives 30 on Contemporary Latin American Art Southeastern College Art Conference 42 Chair: Estrellita B. Brodsky, independent scholar and curator Historicizing “the Local” in Contemporary Art Chairs: Jessica Dallow, University of Alabama, Birmingham; American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies 31 Lucy Curzon, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa New Research in the Early Modern Hispanic World Chairs: Michael A. Brown, Denver Art Museum; Sofia Pacific Standard Time and Chicano Art: A New Los Angeles 42 Sanabrais, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Art History Chair: Karen Mary Davalos, Loyola Marymount University CAA Committee on Women in the Arts 31 “Necessary Positions”: Intergenerational Collaboration The Other Histories of Photography: The First One 43 in Feminist Art and Activism Hundred Years Chair: Maria Elena Buszek, University of Colorado, Denver Chair: Melody D. Davis, Sage College of Albany ARTspace 33 Fractured Atlas 44 Contemporary Collaboratives and Collectives Fundraising in a Box: Crowdsourcing Microgrants Chairs: Sharon L. Butler, Eastern Connecticut State University; Chair: Dianne Debicella, Fractured Atlas and Micol Hebron, Chapman University Asian American Women Artists Association 45 Ephemeral Cinema: Film and the Other Arts 33 Challenging Societal Assumptions and Creating Community: Chair: Kaira Cabañas, Columbia University Asian American Women Artists Chair: Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, California College Italian Art Society 34 of the Arts Territory and Border: Geographic Considerations of Italian Art and Architecture Society of Architectural Historians 45 Chairs: Nicola Camerlenghi, University of Oregon; Catherine World Architecture and “Non-Western” Stories Carver McCurrach, University of Michigan Chair: Madhuri Desai, Pennsylvania State University Queer Caucus for Art: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and 35 “Disrupt This Session”: Rebellion in Art Practices Today 46 Transgender Caucus for Art, Artists, and Historians Chair: Wendy DesChene, Auburn University Flagging: Aesthetic Tactics and Queer Signification Chair: Anna Campbell, Grand Valley State University Conceptual Art as Comedic Practice 47 Chairs: Heather Diack, Keene State College; Louis Kaplan, American Council for Southern Asian Art 36 University of Toronto Intersecting Publics: Access, Audience, and Circulation in Colonial Indian Photography Foundations in Art: Theory and Education 48 Chair: Gianna M. Carotenuto, University of Washington Foundations in Literature: Developing a Culture of Reading within the Art and Design Foundations Program New Media Caucus 36 Chair: Sara Dismukes, Troy University Magic and Media Chairs: Mina Cheon, Maryland Institute College of Art; American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies 48 Lisa Paul Streitfeld, independent curator “Useful to the Public and Agreeable to the King”: Academies and Their Products in Spain and New Spain Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture 37 Chair: Kelly Donahue-Wallace, University of North Texas New Scholars Session Chair: Kevin Chua, Texas Tech University Centennial Session 49 LA RAW: Conversations on Art, Life, and Practice in Tourism (and) Culture, Part I 38 Los Angeles Chair: Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin Chair: Michael Duncan, independent curator Tourism (and) Culture, Part II 39 Association of Art Museum Curators 49 Chair: Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin Mapping Cultural Authority: Revisionism, Provincialism,