College Art Association Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Chicago, IL, USA
10-13 February 2010
Notable sessions include:
Maureen Pelta (chair): Lost! [Kandice Rawlings: The Pull of the Unknown: Jan van Eyck’s Saint Jerome; Arthur J. Di Furia: “Outstanding works … shamefully destroyed”: Maerten van Heemskerck’s Lost Altarpieces and the Sculpture of Antiquity; Nancy A. Nield: Mastering the Loss of Modernism: Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning” as Site of Failure]
11 February 2010, 12:30PM – 2:00PM
Sally Webster (chair): Moguls, Mansions, and Museums: Art and Culture in America’s First “Gilded Age” [Diana Strazdes: California’s First Gilded-Age Mansions: Conspicuous Consumption as Civic Infrastructure; Linda J. Docherty: Going Public: Sculpture in the Art of Isabella Stewart Gardner; James L. Yarnall: Strike Out: John La Farge’s Proposed Murals for the Boston Public Library; Petra ten-Doesschate Chu: Boom (and Bust) of Artistic Reputations : Collecting Contemporary European Art in Gilded Age America; What’s France Got to Do with It?: Chicago Responds to “Parisian” Art at the Interstate Industrial Exposition]
11 February 2010, 2:30PM – 5:00PM
Noelle Giuffrida (chair): The Roles of Acquisition: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in Europe, the United States, Britain, and Australia during the Early to Mid-Twentieth Century [Minna Torma: Playing All the Roles: Osvald Siren as Curator, Collector, Dealer, and Art Historian; Wei-Cheng Lin: Refashioning China: Displaying Chinese Art at the Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, during the 1930s; Noelle Giuffrida: Before and Beyond: Exhibiting and Expanding the East Asian Collection of Charles Lang Freer (1912-46); Michelle Ying-Ling Huang: Laurence Binyon’s Role as Curator and Collector in Forming the National Collection of Chinese Painting in Britain; Jennifer Harris: The Japanese Collection at the Art Gallery of South Australia: Tangible Evidence of “Civilisation and Enlightenment” (Bunmei Kaika)]
12 February 2010, 9:30AM – 12:00PM
Veronique Chagnon-Burke (chair): “It Is a Small World after All”: Contemporary Art in the Age of Emerging Art Markets [Anuradha Vikram: Building Critical Infrastructure in a Developing Art Market: How International Patronage Underpins Chinese Contemporary Art and What India Can Learn; J.P. Park: The Cult of Origin: Ethnicity, Diaspora, and Cultural Capital in Contemporary Chinese Art; Till Richter: Speculation vs. Real Quality and the Quality Standard Conundrum: The 3C Methods Applied to the Market for Chinese Contemporary Art; Saskia Sorg: Contemporary Drawings as an Opportunity to Open a Dialogue between the Artists, Market, International Artistic Institutions, and Collectors; Thomas Skowronek: When East Means West: Art Markets in Poland and Russia]
12 February 2010, 2:30PM – 5:00PM
Thomas Martin (chair): Fifty Years after Berenson: His Legacy and Phenomenon [Andrea J. Bayer: Berenson and Lorenzo Lotto; Tiffany Johnston: Marketing Madonnas: The Berensons and the Promotion of Italian Renaissance Art in America; Nadia Marx: A New Quattrocento: Bernard Berenson and the Study of Islamic Art; Diana Gisolfi: Berenson, Vasari, Verona, and Venice; Carmen C. Bambach: Berenson’s Michelangelo]
13 February 2010, 9:30AM – 12:00PM