UPCOMING CONFERENCE - 2010

Historical Prints—
Fact and Fiction

November 12-13, 2010
Worcester, Massachusetts

Keynote Address:
"History Prints for the Parlor"
by Mark Thistlethwaite, Kay and Velma Kimbell Chair of Art History, Texas Christian University,

Council Room Presentation:
"Beauties of America: The True Creation, Publication, and Distribution of Historical Imagery of American Cities by Staffordshire Potter John Ridgway, 1822"
by Ruth Ann Penka


~ Panels ~

Creating an American Identity

  • Nancy Siegel, Associate Professor of Art History, Towson University, "Savage Conflict: The 'Indian Princess' as Aggressor and Aggrieved in 18th-Century Prints"
  • Carl Robert Keyes, Assistant Professor of History, Assumption College, "Marketing the New Nation: Patriotic Imperatives in Advertisements for Early American Prints"
  • Laura Wasowicz, Curator of Children's Books, American Antiquarian Society, "Where Bravery, History, and Fantasy Meet: Heroic Prints in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Books"

Consumption of Historical Prints

  • Allison Stagg, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, University of London, "'The first will grumble and the last will laugh:' An American Audience for British Visual Humor, 1790-1810"
  • Aimee E. Newell, Director of Collections, National Heritage Museum, "Educational Exercise, Decoration or Symbol of Brotherhood? The Use of Historical Prints in Early American Masonic Lodges"
  • Katharine Martinez, Herman & Joan Suit Librarian of the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, "Families during Wartime: Representations of Domestic Disruption during the American Civil War"

Prints for a Cause

  • Jeffrey Croteau, Manager of Library & Archives, National Heritage Museum, "From Blind Man's Bluff to the Poor Blind Candidate: David Claypoole Johnston's Anti-Masonic Woodcuts for New England Almanacs"
  • Kimberly Curtiss, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, Rutgers University, "Osceola and the Abolitionist Prints"
  • Maurie McInnis, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Virginia, "The Slave Auction in Anti-Slavery Prints"

Artistic License in Art and Literature

  • Erika Piola, Assistant Curator, Prints and Photographs, Library Company of Philadelphia, "Great and Terrible: Lithographs of Public Celebrations and Tragedies in Nineteenth-Century Philadlephia"
  • Anne Roth-Reinhardt, Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Minnesota, "Pirate of Patriot? Representations of John Paul Jones in Melville's Israel Potter"
  • Katherine E. Manthorne, Professor of Modern Art of the Americas, Graduate Center, City University of New York, "Eliza Pratt Greatorex's Re-Construction of Old New York (1875)"

Europe and America

  • Christopher N. Phillips, Assistant Professor, English, Lafayette College, "How Benjamin West's Prints Made Art Epic"
  • Daniel C. Lewis, Dean of Communications and Humanities, Northern Virginia Community College, "Printmaker Goupil, Leutze's Washington the Delaware, and the Prints that Made it a National Icon in Nineteenth-Century America"
  • Marie-Stephanie Delamaire, Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, Columbia University, "European History vs. American Politics: Thomas Nast's Cartoons of the Reconstruction Era"

Presidents and Print Culture

  • Rachel E. Stephens, Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, University of Iowa, "Jackson in Print: Politics, Competition, and Propaganda in Presidential Printmaking"
  • Julie Mellby, Graphic Arts Curator, Princeton University, "Biddy Buchanan: the Vanity Fair Caricatures of President James Buchanan"
  • Volker Depkat, Professor of American Studies, Universität Regensburg, "Representing Democratic Legitimacy and Authority in Founding Situations: An Asymmetric Comparison of the USA and Weimar Germany"

 

This conference is supported by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Registration materials will be posted in June 2010.


 

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