1.15.2009

CAA Annual Conference in L.A.-Points of Interest

I don't have a plane ticket to L.A. for the Annual College Art Association Conference. I do have class on the East Coast every day the conference is set to take place. But if neither of these factors presented an issue, this is what I'd be penning into my planner:

Baroque Anatomy: Motives and Methods
Thursday, February 26, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center

-" ... we have the very subject before us ... :" Parsing the "Truth" in Seventeenth-Century Anatomical Images
Lyle Massey, University of California, Irvine

Renaissance Society of America
Renaissance and/or Early Modern: Naming and/or Knowing the Past
Thursday, February 26, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center

-Some Thoughts on Misnaming/Misreading the Past
Marvin Trachtenberg, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

-Renaissance Perspective: A Medieval Invention?
Samuel Y. Edgerton, Williams College

-When the Renaissance Came to Germany
Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas at Austin

-The Return of the Renaissance
David Cast, Bryn Mawr College

Wunderkammer: Art as Information/Information as Art
Thursday, February 26, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408A, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center

-Creating a Feminist Art-History Archives in Academia: A Wunderkammer of Women Artists’ Voices and Visions
Gloria F. Orenstein, University of Southern California

-The Performing Archive
Suzanne Lacy, Otis College of Art and Design

-Mnemonic Reading: Fictions, Objects, and Quotation in Art and Literature
Lucy Mulrouney, University of Rochester

-Blogging as Wunderkammer: Finding the Authenticness in Virtual Collections and Personal Taxonomies
Heather McDougal, independent artist, Davenport, California

-The Artist as Reader: Renée Green’s Bibliophilism
Monica McTighe, Tufts University

-The Latino Cabinet of Curiosities: A Postcolonial Interrogation
Amalia Mesa-Bains, California State University, Monterey Bay

-Floating Fast Like a Hummingbird
Alissa Walls Mazow, Pennsylvania State University

Thursday, February 26 5:30-7:00 PM
Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture
Business Meeting
Concourse Meeting Room 407, Level 2

Italian Art Society
The International Contribution to Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art
Friday, February 27, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 502B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center

-Oppenord in Italy: The French Academy in Rome and the Debate over the Baroque
Jean-François Bédard, Syracuse University

Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
New Scholars of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
Friday, February 27, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center

-French Sculptors and Painters in the Royal Court of Sweden
Linda Hinners, University of Stockholm

The Secret Spaces of Early Modern Europe
Friday, February 27, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 404B, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center

-The Secret and the Sacred: Unveiling the Body
Elina Gertsman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Baroque Art from a Global Perspective: Hybridization in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe
Saturday, February 28, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM

-The Baroque Gothic: The Hybrid Architectures of J. B. Santini and the Culture of Memory in Post-Reformation Bohemia
Pavel Kalina, Czech Technical University Prague

The Northern Court Artist, 1400–1650
Saturday, February 28, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 402AB, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center

-What Court Artists Did (and Sometimes Did Not Do)
Carol Herselle Krinsky, New York University

-Hans Springinklee, Johannes Stabius, and the Emperor's Printed Horoscopes
Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Art Institute of Chicago

-Sculpture, the Antique Mode, and Aristocratic Identity at Courts of the Low Countries, 1520–50
Ethan Matt Kavaler, University of Toronto

-Jacopo Strada: Court Antiquarian/Court Artist
Sarah E. Lawrence, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

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