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<p>John Marin, Middle of Atlantic, 1909

John Marin, Middle of Atlantic, 1909, watercolor on wove paper, Gift of John Marin, Jr., 1986.54.42

53rd Annual Sessions: Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art

Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art

  • Saturday, March 4, 2023
  • 10:15 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
  • West Building Lecture Hall
  • Hybrid
  • Registration Required

Since 1971 the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts has partnered with the department of art history and archaeology at the University of Maryland to present this annual symposium that brings together museum and academic communities and provides a platform for the latest research from graduate students in our region.

53rd Annual Sessions

Morning Session, 10:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Introduction and session moderated by Steven Nelson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Annie Maloney, Emory University
“Saving Roman Painting: The Antiquarian Reproductions of Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635–1700)”
Introducer: Sarah McPhee

Jordan Hillman, University of Delaware
“Jules-Alexandre Grün: ‘An Enemy of the Authorities’?”
Introducer: Margaret Werth

Maria Puzyreva, University of Pennsylvania
“Hidden in the Landscape: Imperial Propaganda in Tokuriki Tomikichirō’s Wartime Prints”
Introducer: Julie Nelson Davis

Marco Polo Juarez Cruz, University of Maryland
“Entering Muralist Abstraction: Reimaging the Mexican Pavilion at the Osaka World’s Fair (1970)”
Introducer: Abigail McEwen

Afternoon Session, 2:00–4:00 p.m.

Session moderated by Emily Catherine Egan, University of Maryland

Kyle Marini, Penn State University
“Two-Ply Art History: Parsing Threads of Iconographic Continuity and Rupture in Colonial Inca Embroidery”
Introducer: Amara Solari

Kate Sunderlin, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Medium and Myth in a Southern City: Plaster in the Studio of Edward Virginius Valentine and the Valentine Museum”
Introducer: Tobias Wofford

Kathryn Carney, University of Pittsburgh
“Modernizing the Body at German Hygiene Exhibitions, 1911–1930”
Introducer: Barbara McCloskey

Jessica Orzulak, Duke University
“Transcendent Futurisms: The Photography of Cara Romero”
Introducer: Kristine Stiles

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