CAA 2017, New York
105th Annual Conference of the College Art Association
New York Hilton Midtown, 15–18 February 2017
The 2017 College Art Association conference takes place in New York, February 15–18, at the New York Hilton Midtown (1335 Avenue of the Americas). In introducing the eighteenth-century offerings for CAA 2016, I complained there were only four panels that seemed obviously relevant for the period. This year, again there are only a handful of sessions. Still, these look fabulous, and for anyone put off by the exorbitant registration fee (which can run as high as $495), bear in mind that there are other options ($20 per single time-slot session), which might be especially attractive for anyone in the New York area. We would love to have you join us!
Also, I’m glad to extend a warm invitation to HECAA members to join a group of HBA members on Saturday for a day trip to visit the recently re-opened Yale Center for British Art and to tour the exhibition Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World with Lisa Ford, Assistant Director of Research. Space is limited. For more information or to reserve a spot, please email: CraigAshleyHanson@gmail.com. –CH
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Charting a New Course: Reorienting the Discourse of Early African American Art History
Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 3:30–5:00, Clinton Suite, 2nd Floor
Chairs: Mia L. Bagneris (Tulane University) and Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton University)
• Jennifer Van Horn (George Mason University), Stealing a Glance: Enslaved Viewers in the Plantation South
• Key Jo Lee (Yale University), Face(ing) the Impossibility of Recovery: Tracing the Affective Terrain of the Anonymous in African American Photography
• Phillip Troutman (The George Washington University), Techniques of the Engraver: Patrick Henry Reason’s African American Portraits, 1830s–1860s
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Editing Journals in a Digital Age, Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH)
Thursday, 16 February 2017, 8:30–10:00am, East Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Chairs: Sarah Victoria Turner (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) and Martina Droth (Yale Center for British Art)
• Samuel Bibby, Reflections on Editing Art History
• Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Reflections on Editing Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
• Kirk Ambrose, Reflection on Editing The Art Bulletin
• Alison M. Kettering, Reflections on Editing the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art
• Discussant: Gail Feigenbaum (Getty Research Institute)
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Transglobal Collecting: Co-Producing and Re-visioning British Art Abroad (HBA)
Thursday, 16 February 2017, 3:30–5:00, Gramercy B/East, 2nd Floor
Chair: Julie Codell (Arizona State University)
• Kathleen Stuart (Denver Art Museum), The Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum: British Art in the Rocky Mountain West
• Elizabeth A. Pergam (Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York), The British Model of Collecting: Importing British Art to America
• Andrew Stephenson (University of East London), ‘A Thing That Racially Belongs to Us More Than Any of the Latin Styles’: Collecting and Displaying English Art in Private Collections in the United States, c.1890–1926
• Nancy Scott (Brandeis University), Paintings across the Pond: Anchoring J. M. W. Turner in American Collections
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Studies in Eighteenth-Century Style
Friday, 17 February 2017, 8:30–10:00am, Gramercy B/East, 2nd Floor
• Josefine Baark (Lingnan University), ‘The King Stared at the Figure in Astonishment’: Chinese Nodding-Head Figures in Early Modern Denmark
• Andrea Bell (Parsons School of Design, The New School), The Geometrical Landscape: Architecture and the Severity of Style in Rome
• Tracy Ehrlich (The New School), Fashioning the Architectural Body in Eighteenth-Century Rome
• Kristin O’Rourke (Dartmouth College), The Toilette: Dressing in Public and Private
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Superpowers in the Global Eighteenth Century: Empire, Colonialism, and Cultural Contact
Friday, 17 February 2017, 10:30–12:00, Beekman Parlor, 2nd Floor
Chair: Tara Zanardi (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Joanna Gohmann (Walters Art Museum), A Sign of Empire: The Pineapple in the Colonial British World
• Jocelyn Anderson (Independent Scholar), ‘The Most Remarkable Places’: Military Views of North America and the Caribbean in the Mid-Eighteenth Century”
• Amelia Rauser (Franklin and Marshall College), Satanic Mills, Indian Muslin, and the Materiality of Neoclassical Dress in the 1790s
• Discussant: Michael Yonan (University of Missouri)
The session is dedicated to the memory of Mary Sheriff (1950–2016).
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Yale Center for British Art and Paul Mellon Center Reception
Friday, 17 February 2017, 12:00–1:30, East Ballroom Foyer, 3rd Floor
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Art and Caricature
Friday, 17 February 2017, 5:30–7:00, Gramercy A/West, 2nd Floor
Chair: Phoebe Wolfskill (Indiana University)
• Anne L. Williams (Virginia Commonwealth University), Early Modern Multivalence: Caricature, Subversion, and Veneration in Sacred Art
• Richard Taws (University College London), The Smiling Face of Terror: Etienne Béricourt’s French Revolution
• Matthew Von Vogt (Indiana University), Pasolini’s Authorial Caricature: Reconsidering Authorship in the Intellettuale
• Corina L. Apostol (Rutgers University), Aggravating the Powerful: Political Caricature Now and Then
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The Netherlands and the Global Baroque, Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA)
Saturday, 18 February 2017, 8:30–10:00am, Trianon Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Chair: Caroline Fowler (Yale University)
• Adam Eaker (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Suriname on Display
• Christina An (Boston University), Art beyond Price or Place: Vermeer, Asia, and the Poetics of Painting
• Marsely Kehoe (Michigan State University), A Global Dutch Architecture?: Hybridity in Curaçao’s Eighteenth-Century Merchant Homes
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Key Conversation: Mary Sheriff (1950–2016): A Memorial Session
Saturday, 18 February 2017, 12:15–1:15, Madison Suite, 2nd Floor
Chair: Francesca Fiorani (University of Virginia)
Join this session to remember Mary Sheriff. Come together, share memories, and celebrate her achievements.
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Graphic Growth: Discovering, Drawing, and Understanding Nature in the Early Modern World
Saturday, 18 February 2017, 1:30–3:00, Madison Suite, 2nd Floor
Chairs: Catherine Girard (Williams College) and Jaya Remond (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
• Madeleine C. Viljoen (The New York Public Library), Ornament’s Science
• Katherine M. Reinhart (University of Cambridge), Graphic Practice and Natural Philosophy in the Early Paris Académie Royale des Sciences
• Elizabeth Athens (Worcester Art Museum), The Animating Mark: William Bartram’s Drawings from Life
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Day Trip to New Haven for the Yale Center for British Art
Saturday, 18 February 2017, 10:00am–5:00pm
Opportunity to visit the recently re-opened Yale Center for British Art and to tour the exhibition Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World with Lisa Ford, Assistant Director of Research. Space is limited. For more information or to reserve a spot, please email: CraigAshleyHanson@gmail.com.
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Note (added 25 January 2017) — The original posting did not include the memorial session for Mary Sheriff.
Note (added 6 February 2017) — The original posting did not include the session on editing journals in a digital age.
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