Beyond Connoisseurship:
Rethinking Prints from the Belle Épreuve (1875) to the Present
November 7, 2014, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
10:00 – 10:15 AM – Opening Remarks (Claire Bishop, Professor and Executive Officer, PhD Program in Art History, Graduate Center, CUNY)
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM – Session One: Subject, Form and Technique
Bridget Alsdorf, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Princeton University
Bonnard’s Sidewalk Theater
Alison Chang, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, RISD Museum
The Circus and the Weimar Republic: Die Hölle and Jahrmarktas Cultural Critique
Christina Weyl, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, Rutgers University
Size Matters: Abstract Expressionism and the Epic Print at Atelier 17
Elizabeth DeRose, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Printmaking as Conceptualist Strategy in Postwar Latin American Art
12:15 – 1:15 PM – Lunch
1:15 – 3:15 PM – Session Two: Redefining the Traditions of Print
Marsha Morton, Professor, Department of Art and Design History, Pratt Institute
Max Klinger and the Illustrated Press
Shannon Vittoria, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Etching New Paths: Mary Nimmo Moran and the Development of America’s Etching Revival, 1879-1885
Katherine Alcauskas, Collection Specialist, Department of Drawings & Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Rethinking the Print Room: Its History, Present, and Future
Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Van Gogh Museum
Looking for Unicity in the Medium of the Multiple: The Private Cult of the Belle Épreuve
3:15 – 3:30 PM – Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:30 PM – Session Three: Originality and Reproduction
Jay A. Clarke, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Intermediality and the Photogravure
Sarah C. Schaefer, Lecturer, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
New Translations: Modern Biblical Print Culture and the Limits of “Reproduction”
Lisa Conte, Assistant Paper Conservator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Images of Resistance or Violence: The Early Prints of David Wojnarowicz
Ruth E. Iskin, Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Birth of the Modern Art Print and the Multiple Original
5:30 – 6:00 PM – Respondent Session (Susan Tallman, Editor-in-Chief, Art in Print)
6:15 PM – Reception
