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Midwest Art History Society Conference March 21-23, 2013, Columbus, Association of America. His publications include Figure Among the thematic and Likeness: On the Limits of sessions are two panels Representation in Byzantine devoted to Mark Rothko Representation (Princeton, 2002), and Josiah McElheny, and Contesting the Logic of the subjects of special Painting: Art and Understanding exhibitions at the in Eleventh-Century Byzantium Columbus Museum (Leiden, 2007). He is also working of Art and the Wexner with his students at Notre Dame Center for the Arts, on publishing the Snite Museum’s respectively. Thursday collection of Greek and Russian Downtown Columbus afternoon’s keynote icons. address will be delivered by Columbus is rapidly emerging as Charles Barber, Professor of one of the leading arts centers in Art History at the University of The Midwest Art History Society the nation. will hold its 40th annual Conference Notre Dame. Dr. Barber is one in Columbus Ohio, March 21- of today’s foremost scholars of The Wexner Center, which 23, 2013. The conference will Early Christian and Byzantine Art. be hosted by the Department of He has written extensively on public building designed by of The Ohio State theories of the image in Byzantium. continued on page 2 University, with additional support from the Wexner Center for the Arts as well as the Columbus Museum of Art. Sessions will take place in the state-of-the- facilities of the recently constructed Ohio Union. The conference hotels are the Blackwell Inn, on the campus of Ohio State, and the Hampton Inn, which is located about a mile from campus in the heart of Columbus’s celebrated arts district, . Twenty-three thematic and open sessions will be featured, along with a special round-table discussion on appraising as a career path for art historians, co-sponsored by Jacob Fine Art, Chicago and the Appraisers Columbus Museum of Art Conference continued from the front

postmodernist architect and celebrated , which of traditional diner fare made with theorist Peter Eisenman, has, houses a number of specialty locally sourced ingredients; and since its opening in 1989, food vendors, including the Deep Wood, which offers both been regarded as one of the nation’s premier venues for the Ice Creams. The Hampton Inn is See hotel accommodations on exhibition of . also adjacent to two of the city’s The Columbus Museum of Art, best new restaurants: Knead, page 7. which will host special viewing which serves updated versions hours and a reception for conference attendees, boasts a large and encyclopedic permanent collection, with particular strengths in European and American . Moreover, the Short North Arts District, located between OSU’s campus and Columbus’s downtown, is home to a number of art galleries as well as the city’s best restaurants and trendiest bars and clubs. Among the city’s other attractions are and , two historic residential districts; a number of urban parks, including the recently designed Riverwalk and Columbus Commons as well as , which features a “topiary interpretation” of George Seurat’s famous painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte; and , home to the NHL’s . The main conference hotel, The Hampton Inn, is located within walking distance of many of the city’s main attractions. It is across the street from the Columbus Convention Center, another building by Eisenman, and within blocks of historic Artemisia Gentileschi, David and Bathsheba, 1636-37, Columbus Museum of Art Goodale Park. It is also a block away from Columbus’s

2 CALL FOR PAPERS Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference March 21-23, 2013, Columbus, Ohio

Proposed Panels for the 2013 others see them as designed to Seeing the Civil War MAHS Conference, Columbus OH. hide meaning, to make it mysterious Theresa Leininger-Miller, College and entrancing. This session of Design, Architecture, Art, and Proposals of no more than 250 explores the concepts of metaphor Planning, University of Cincinnati words and a recent CV are due and analogy in visual art, in relation [email protected]) by December 15 electronically to to both historical and contemporary the respective chairs of individual The sesquicentennial of the sessions. are pictorial metaphors different American Civil War (1861-1865) from verbal ones? How do visual Thematic Sessions: media also work both to reveal Rothko in the 1940s and conceal meaning? Which culture recorded, interpreted, and Dominique H. Vasseur, Columbus theoretical perspectives on these panel welcomes papers that explore Museum of Art literary terms are most helpful for new approaches to visualizing [email protected] art historians? How do pictures operate to emphasize analogy and the war. Media may include From February 2 through May 25, likeness in ways that words cannot? paintings, sculpture, drawings, 2013, the Columbus Museum of Probing our understanding of these prints, photographs, textiles, Art is hosting an exhibition Mark complex terms can help move us images from the pictorial press, Rothko: The Decisive Decade 1940- closer to understanding some of book and periodical illustrations, 1950. This session invites papers the core questions of our discipline, maps, murals, political cartoons, that examine Rothko’s work from related to issues of explication, and ephemera. The time frame the 1940s as well as that of his may concern the 1860s or beyond, colleagues Adolph Gottlieb, Clifford likeness. Proposals are welcome with consideration of the impact of Still, Milton Avery, and Jackson which deal with these issues more Civil War imagery on subsequent Pollock. Other relevant topics could theoretically or in historical case generations. continued on p. 4 include art criticism of the 1940s studies. as well as socio-political issues and modernist art trends that impacted art in America during the 1940s. Metaphor, Analogy, Art History Karl Whittington, Department of History of Art, [email protected] Metaphor and analogy, as well as other rhetorical tropes and tools like symbol and allegory, have long been explored by literary scholars as strategies for creating poetic meaning, animating prose for the interpretive enjoyment of readers. Theories of these devices are by no means monolithic, however; most fundamentally, some argue that metaphor and analogy are about clarifying and explaining, while 3 Columbus Short North CALL FOR PAPERS continued from page 3 The Gau-Gang’s All Here Gauguin’s counsel be traced in his in the theoretical and empirical Thor J. Mednick, Department of Art, pupils’ subsequent dissemination considerations of ornament in University of Toledo of Synthetism? What happened that would encompass to Gauguin’s Synthetism in the nineteenth century stylistic theory— [email protected] hands of his non-French followers? from Ruskin to Riegl—as well as The broad international make-up Papers that address any aspect aspects of postmodernist discourse of Paul Gauguin’s artistic circles regarding representation and at Pont Aven, Le Pouldu, and design. Paris is well-documented. By the Optical Allusions: Josiah welcome. time of Gauguin’s departure for McElheny, Vision, and Utopia Papeete in 1891, he could count Is Ornament a Crime? Amanda Potter, among his disciples and pupils Myroslava Mudrak, Department of artists from Denmark, Hungary, Wexner Center for the Art History of Art, Ohio State University The Netherlands, and Poland. [email protected] Several of these artists, such as [email protected] Using glass to explore a range of Wladislaw ´Slewi´nski in Poland, ´ ´ From rejection in the modernist age artistic and intellectual concerns, returned to their home countries to recovery in postmodernism, the New York artist and master to become important exponents question of ornament has become craftsman Josiah McElheny of a Gauguin-inspired Synthetism. an engaging area of art historical produces dazzling objects that This panel seeks to explore study and analysis. A century after address such topics as the nature Gauguin’s role as a mentor for Adolf Loos declared it obsolete, of visual perception, the narratives emerging non-French artists and the emblematic, functional, and of modernism, and the origins of the perceptual aspects of ornament universe. Josiah McElheny: Towards Were there particular aspects of constitute a compelling area of a Light Club, which will be on view Gauguin’s artistic philosophy that inquiry and re-evaluation. This this winter at The Wexner Center drew these non-French artists to his panel invites scholars to engage for the Arts, focuses on McElheny’s tutelage? Can particular legacies of explorations of the utopian ideas embedded in modernist architecture and design. This session invites papers on McElheny’s work, as well as the artists, architects, and thinkers that inform it, including Paul Scheerbart, Bruno Taut, Buckminster Fuller, and Isamu Noguchi. Art History and Technology Catherine Carter Goebel, Department of Art History, Augustana College, [email protected]

In recent times, art historians have technology, whether in transitioning pedagogy from slides to digital media or engaging in new research storage and retrieval systems. George Bellows, River Front 1, 1915, Columbus Museum of Art Furthermore, with the dual 4 dynamic of narrowing hardcopy members of Congress pressured modern period? Although we will be publication opportunities coupled the Smithsonian Institution to censor focusing on discussions of landscape with impressive advances offered A Fire in My Belly, during the modern and contemporary toward digital research and ostensibly for a ten-second clip eras (1750 to the present), particularly publication, technology is clearly those dealing with the changing here to stay and indeed ripe for This session welcomes discussion of pursuit. Papers are welcome that this and other works by Wojnarowicz, of landscape, papers from all cultures explore and present projects in along with the consideration of their and periods that deal with the theme of the landscape will be considered. such advances toward furthering also address broader issues facing queer artists, such as censorship whether in teaching, research, and of speech, the role of or preserving and facilitating government funding for the arts, and accessibility to important archival the controversies surrounding the resources. exhibition of queer art. Radical Recovery: Getting Dissecting the Landscape Censored, Going Viral, within Modern Art and Learning from David Christine Bentley, Department of Art Wojnarowicz and Design, University of Mysoon Rizk, Department of Art, [email protected] University of Toledo mysoon. [email protected] This panel welcomes papers that ‘dissect’ the meaning of landscape This session revolves around the in modern painting. Questions New York-based queer artist, to consider: What function did David Wojnarowiz, who was born landscape painting have within in 1954 and died of AIDS-related modernism? What did the ‘land’ illnesses at age thirty-seven in represent in terms of national identity during the 19th and 20th centuries? the practice of showcasing just In what ways did the landscape how “it gets better,” Wojnarowiz has been the target of repeated or economic concerns during the witch hunts by religious modern era? How did landscape and political conservatives, painting participate in broader racial, most notably in 2010 when nationalist, or gender shifts during the

Special Session Appraising as a Career Path for Art Historians Special Saturday Morning Breakfast Roundtable Discussion, co-sponsored by Jacob Fine Art, Chicago and the Appraisers Association of America; chair Patricia J. Graham [email protected] Open Sessions Art of Africa and the African Diaspora Fred Smith, School of Art, Kent State University [email protected] Wexner Center for the Arts, This session invites papers on all aspects of the art and visual culture of Africa Columbus and the African Diaspora. Open Sessions continued on p. 6

5 Open Sessions continued from p. 5 Ancient Art East Asian Art Timothy McNiven, Ohio State University—Marion Campus [email protected] of DAAP, University of Cincinnati This session invites papers on all aspects of the art [email protected] and architecture of classical antiquity. This session invites papers on the art and Byzantine and Medieval Art architecture of East Asia. Gerald B. Guest, Department of Art History and South Asian Art Humanities, Marcella Sirhandi, Bartlett Center for the Arts, John Carroll University [email protected] Oklahoma State University, This session invites papers on all aspects [email protected] of Byzantine and Western medieval art and This session invites papers on the art and architecture. architecture of South Asia. Renaissance Art Women Artists, Patrons, Henry Luttikhuizen, Department of Art and Art Collectors and Critics History, Valerie Hedquist, School of Art, University of Calvin College [email protected] Montana, [email protected] This session invites papers on all aspects of both This session invites papers on women’s Northern and Southern Renaissance art and intervention in the arts throughout history. architecture. Drawings in Midwestern Collections Baroque Art Robert Randolf Coleman, University of Shelley Perlove, Department of Literature, Notre Dame, [email protected] Philosophy, and the Arts, University of Michigan— This session invites papers examining drawings Dearborn, [email protected] from Midwestern collections. This session invites papers on all aspects of 17th- Recent Acquisitions of century European art and architecture. Midwestern Art Museums 18th-19th-Century Art Judith W. Mann, Saint Louis Art Museum judy. Andrew Shelton, Department of History of Art, Ohio [email protected]; Salvador Salort-Pons, Detroit State University [email protected] Institute of Arts, [email protected] This session invites papers on all aspects of 18th- This session invites papers on recent acquisitions and 19th-century European and American art and of Midwestern Art Museums. architecture. Best Practices in Art History Pedagogy Islamic Art Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris, Department of Esra Akin-Kivanc, Department of Art, Oberlin Anthropology, University of Missouri—St. Louis College, [email protected] [email protected] This session invites papers on best practices in art This session invites papers on all aspects of Islamic historical pedagogy. art. Latin American Art Guisela Latorre, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University, [email protected] This session invites papers on all aspects of the art and architecture of both pre- and post-conquest Latin America. 6 Registration Form 2012 Annual Midwest Art History Conference — Columbus, Ohio Early registration ends February 15, 2013. Name ______ ______Address ______E-mail ______Billing address (if different from above) ______***Please indicate if you will need any sort of special assistance at the conference or have any dietary restrictions for the Members’ Luncheon ______Conference fees: Please note: you must be a member of MAHS to register for and attend the conference The conference fee includes admission to all sessions, receptions, member luncheon, and shuttle service to the museum. Early registration fee $125. ______We highly recommend that you register online Student fee $50. ______for the conference at mahsonline.org. You ______may also register at the conference, paying by Annual MAHS Membership for 2013 (if not already paid) check. One Year Two Years this form, enclose with a check made out to Student membership $30.00 $50.00 “MAHS,”and mail to : Individual membership $60.00 $90.00 Heidi J. Hornik Institution $150.00 Baylor University Patron $100.00 Department of Art Sustaining $150.00 One Bear Place #97263 Waco, Texas 76798-7263 Voluntary contribution to the Charles Cuttler Graduate Student Travel Fund ______TOTAL ______

Hotel accommodations: Columbus, OH 43210, Phone: 614-247-4000 - Toll Free: 866-247-4003 - Fax: 614-247-4040) is holding 20 rooms at a conference rate of $133 per night. Guests have until Feb 19th to book before the rooms will be opened. Use the group code: MAHS or Midwest Art History Society when booking. The Hampton Inn and Suites, 501 N High Street, Columbus, $122 per night, guests have until February 19 to reserve for the conference rate. Shuttle service will be provided from the Hampton Inn and Suites downtown and the Ohio Union on campus. Use the code MAH when making a reservation. 7 , View of Bennecourt, 1887, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Ohio

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