{"id":4412,"date":"2014-04-11T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2014-04-11T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T20:49:10","slug":"4412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/2014\/04\/11\/4412\/","title":{"rendered":"American Visual Culture in Context: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Patricia Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date and Time: Saturday, April 26, 2014, 12:30 p.m. \u2013 6:00 p.m. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Venue: Metcalf Ballroom and Reception Area, 2<\/span><\/span>nd <\/span><\/span>Floor, George Sherman Union, Boston University <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This symposium features scholarly papers on American visual culture by former students of Dr. Patricia Hills, Professor of American Art at Boston University for over three decades. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Program:<\/p>\n

“Rethinking Neoclassicism: Imperial Aesthetics in Federal America,” Dr. Patricia Johnston, Professor of Art History, Rev. J. Gerard Mears, S.J. Chair in Fine Arts, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA<\/p>\n

“Landscapes and Lucre: Martin Johnson Heade\u2019s Speculative Prospects,” Dr. Ross Barrett, Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art, University of South Carolina, Columbia<\/p>\n

“Hybrid Republicanism: Hiram Powers and Horatio Greenough in Florence,” Dr. Melissa Dabakis, Professor of Art History, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, and Terra Foundation Senior Fellow in American Art (2013-2014), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

“Beyond the \u2018Shingle Factory\u2019: The Armory Show in the Popular Press after 1913,” Dr. Melissa Renn, Senior Curatorial Research Associate, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA<\/p>\n

“Remembering Loss, Sacrifice, and the Pacific War in Honolulu: Paul R. Williams\u2019 Monument to the Unknown Sailor <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i>(1952),” Dr. Amy Lyford, Professor, Department of Art History & Visual Arts, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA<\/span><\/p>\n

“Visual Culture and the Emergence of the New American Design College,” Dr. Theodore C. Landsmark, President and CEO, Boston Architectural College, Boston, MA<\/p>\n

“Do Not Disturb: Design, Hotels, and Labor,” Dr. David Brody, Associate Professor of Design Studies, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY<\/p>\n

“Kara Walker\u2019s Annotations,” Dr. John R. Stomberg, Florence Finch Abbott Director, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA<\/p>\n

Celebrants:<\/p>\n

Dr. David D. Hall, Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Alan Wallach, Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History Emeritus, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA<\/p>\n

Dr. Marianne Doezema, Independent Scholar<\/p>\n

Mr. Warren Adelson, M.A., Adelson Galleries, New York, NY and Boston, MA<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, alumni & current students, the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Department of History of Art & Architecture, the American & New England Studies Program, and the African American Studies Program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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