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CAA 106th Annual Conference, New York, February 21-24, 2018
LA Convention Center
February 21–24, 2018
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Wednesday
02/21/2018
8:30am
“Against Algorithms (Or the Arts of Resistance in the Age of Quantification)”
Room 409A
“Ariadne’s Thread: Understanding Eurasia Through Textiles”
Room 408B
“Changing Interactions: Japanese Artists and the West Coast, Part I”
Room 503
“Framing the Struggle: Early Twentieth-Century Women Modernists”
Room 501C
“Historicizing Loss in Early Modern Europe”
Room 404A
“Imitation, Influence, and Invention in the Enlightenment” (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture HECAA)
Room 501B
“International Abstraction after World War II: The US, France, Germany, and Beyond”
Room 410
“Materials and Techniques in the Cultural Sphere”
Room 409B
“Practical Approaches and Collaborations: A Sessions to Share Ideas and Methods for the Art History Survey”
Room 402A
“Sport, Fitness, and Wellbeing in Art History”
Room 404B
“Theorizing Drawing: The Gap between Historical Accounts and Studio Practice”
Room 406A
“Utopianism and Dystopianism in Soviet and Eastern European Art” (Society of Historians of East European Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture SHERA)
Room 501A
“Viral Media and South Asia”
Room 407
10:30am
“Alternative Visions: The Photograph, Self-Representation, and Fact in Contemporary Art of the United States”
Room 505
“Ambivalences and Appropriations: Some American Artists”
Room 501C
“Art and Power: Methodological Case Studies”
Room 409B
“Art/Data”
Room 402B
“Changing Interactions: Japanese Artists and the West Coast, Part II”
Room 503
“Disability Aesthetics and Choreopolitics”
Room 404B
“LA/LX: Queer and Latinx in Los Angeles” (Queer Caucus for Art QCA)
Room 403B
“Localizing History through Donor Portraits: Images of Donors and Ritual Scenes in Early Medieval South Asia”
Room 407
“No Experiments: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–89”
Room 410
“Regionalism in the Global Era”
Room 405
“Shifting Sands: New Trends in Visual Resource Services” (Visual Resources Association VRA)
Room 406B
“Socialist Realism Reconsidered: New Readings of Russian Cultural Policy 1920–1930s”
Room 501A
“State of the Art (History): Re-Examining the Exam” (Art Historians Interested in Pedagogy and Technology AHPT)
Room 402A
“The Elements and Elementality in Art of the Premodern World”
Room 408A
“The French Fragment: Revolution to Fin-de-Siècle Part I”
Room 501B
“Travel, Diplomacy, and Networks of Global Exchange in the Early Modern Period, Part I”
Room 404A
2:00PM
“‘Processi Italiani’: Examining Process in Postwar Italian Art, 1945–80” (Italian Art Society IAS)
Room 410
“Alternative Animation: Inscriptions, Pedestals, and Object Caches in Premodern Japanese Buddhist Images” (Japan Art History Forum JAHF)
Room 407
“Archives, Documents, Evidence”
Room 409B
“Art, Agency, and the Making of Identities at a Global Level, 1600–2000, Part I”
Room 405
“Avant-Gardes and Varieties of Fascism, Part I”
Room 501A
“Circumventing Censorship in Global Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture”
Room 501B
“Dissent and Resistance: Responses to Authoritarianism in Ancient Art”
Room 408A
“Keeping Up Appearances: Historicizing Trans and Gender Variance in and across Art History”
Room 501C
“Locating LeWitt: Issues of Site, Space, and Movement”
Room 409A
“Performance, Voice, and Embodiment: Ventriloquism in Contemporary Art”
Room 505
“Reconsidering Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA”
Room 403B
“The Call to the Virtual: Virtual Reality as Artform, Discourse, Intervention”
Room 402B
“The Tool: Cultural Expressions, Histories, Rhetoric, and Agency”
Room 406B
“The Virtual Asian American Art Museum: Postwar Japanese American Art in Chicago” (Diasporic Asian Art Network DAAN)
Room 503
“Unruly Women in Early Modern Art and Material Culture” (Society for the Study of Early Modern Women SSEMW)
Room 404A
“Visualizing Genocide: Retelling Native American Survival through Art”
Room 506
4:00PM
“All in the Family: Northern European Artistic Dynasties, ca. 1350–1750” (Historians of Netherlandish Art HNA)
Room 404A
“Breaking Down Barriers: The Visual Culture of the Border in Late Antiquity”
Room 408A
“Championing the Relevancy of Studio Art and Art History in the Twenty-First Century: Stories of Success and Advocacy” (Community College Professors of Art and Art History CCPAAH)
Room 402A
“Cripping the Curriculum: Pedagogical Practices and Strategies when Teaching Disability in the Arts”
Room 404B
“Exhibition as Evidence and Postwar International Avant-Gardes”
Room 501C
“Faithful Copies: On Replication and Creative Agency in Buddhist Art, Part I”
Room 407
“From the Globe to the Cosmos: Entangled Perspectives on the Question of Global Art and World Art”
Room 405
“Group Encounters: Rethinking the Social in and through Performance”
Room 505
“Icons of the Midwest: Cavaliere d’Arpino’s ‘Perseus Rescuing Andromeda’ at the Saint Louis Art Museum” (Midwest Art History Society MAHS)
Room 406B
“Imagining Constructivism’s Constellations: Alternative Histories of Cold War Cultural Production”
Room 501A
“New Approaches to Contemporary Asian Art”
Room 410
“Travel, Diplomacy, and Networks of Global Exchange in the Early Modern Period, Part II”
Room 503
Thursday
02/22/2018
8:30am
“Activist Art Practices in Institutions”
Room 405
“Art Historical Ecology: Asian Perspectives”
Room 501B
“Borders and Breakthroughs: The Afterlife of PST LA/LA, Part I”
Room 403B
“British Abstraction after World War II”
Room 407
“Craft and Resistance”
Room 408B
“Envisioning Time in Early Modern China”
Room 501C
“Faithful Copies: On Replication and Creative Agency in Buddhist Art, Part II”
Room 402B
“Italian Renaissance Art in the Age of Leonardo, Part I”
Room 404A
“New Horizons: Contemporary Pacific Arts, Digital Archives, and Colonial Boundaries” (Pacific Arts Association PAA)
Room 406B
“Projecting the Body: Beyond the Ocular”
Room 501A
“Reflective Surfaces in Medieval and Early Modern Art”
Room 505
“Rethinking the Grand Narratives of Art History in the Museum Environment” (International Committee)
Room 408A
“The Image of the American Indian in Nineteenth-Century Britain: New Critical Perspectives” (Historians of British Art HBA)
Room 506
“Woven Spaces: Building with Textile in Islamic Architecture”
Room 503
10:30am
“(Un)Common Intent: Performance Scores as Contractual Exchange”
Room 501A
“Artistic Afterlives, or Rethinking Nachleben”
Room 404A
“Borders and Breakthroughs: The Afterlife of PST LA/LA, Part II”
Room 403B
“Calligraphy’s Visuality in China”
Room 501C
“Curating Difference: Race and Ethnicity in the US Museum” (Association for Critical Race Art History ACRAH)
Room 408A
“From Nirvana to Catastrophe: Matsuzawa Yutaka and his “Commune in Imaginary Space””
Room 501B
“International Art Exhibitions of the 1980s: The Festivals of India”
Room 402A
“International Image Interoperability Framework Use Cases for Enhanced Research and Collection Engagement”
Room 404B
“Materiality and Metaphor: The Uses of Gold in Asian Art”
Room 407
“Open Sessions for Emerging Scholars of Latin American Art” (Association for Latin American Art ALAA)
Room 402B
“Picturing Property: Real Estate in American Visual Culture, 1840–1920”
Room 506
“Pop Art and Class, Part I”
Room 409A
“The Aesthetics of Intervention: Federal Governments and Native Art across North America”
Room 409B
“The “Three Empires” Redux: Islamic Interregionality in the Age of Modernity” (Historians of Islamic Art Association HIAA)
Room 503
2:00PM
“’68 and After: Art and Political Engagement in Europe” (European Postwar and Contemporary Art Forum EPCAF)
Room 409A
“Alternative Beginnings: Towards an-Other History of Immersive Arts and Technologies” (New Media Caucus)
Room 406B
“Art of Haiti, 1940s to the Present, Part I”
Room 407
“Biennials of the Global South: Charting Transnational Networks of Exchange”
Room 402A
“Carlo Borromeo and the Arts”
Room 404A
“Changing Hands: When Art History Meets the Art Market” (The International Art Market Studies Association TIAMSA)
Room 404B
“Elements of an Artist’s Legacy”
Room 406A
“Energy and Photography, Part I”
Room 410
“Imperial Islands: Vision and Experience in the American Empire after 1898 “
Room 506
“Intercontinental: Indigenous Artists of the Americas on the Contemporary Art Stage”
Room 409B
“Islamic Art Circa 1900” (Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey AMCA)
Room 503
“Mural, Mural on the Wall: Successes and Setbacks among Community Mural Projects, ca. 2008–Today “
Room 405
“Naturally Hypernatural—Debates about Nature in Contemporary Art and Theory in the Age of Metamodernism”
Room 402B
“Object – Event – Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s”
Room 501A
“Restaging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures?, Part I: Curators in the Act of Restaging”
Room 408A
“Restoration and the Architecture of the Global Middle Ages”
Room 505
“Women Artists, 1800–1900” (Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art AHNCA)
Room 403B
4:00PM
“#Resistance: Performing Bodies and the State”
Room 501A
“Collecting, Cutting, and Collaging”
Room 406B
“Intimate Geographies”
Room 410
“New Developments in Museum Practices”
Room 408A
“Permanence/Impermanence: Materiality in the Precolumbian World”
Room 409B
“The Artist’s Resource: Building Documentation Systems for Artists”
Room 406A
“The Audience as Producer, 1750 – 1900”
Room 404B
“The Renaissance Contribution to the Formation of “Islamic Art” “
Room 503
6:00PM
“Medium Sensitivity and the Ingenuity of Translation”
Room 402A
“Movements in Art and Activism: Radical Practice in California and Beyond”
Room 405
“Teaching and Writing the Art Histories of Latin American Los Angeles” (Art Historians of Southern California AHSC)
Room 403B
“The Craft School Experience”
Room 408B
Friday
02/23/2018
8:30am
“Alt-Aesthetics: The Alt-Right and the New Turn in Appropriation”
Room 404B
“Autonomy and the 1960s”
Room 409B
“Casts: Plaster and Pedagogy”
Room 409A
“Circuits of Belonging: Rerouting Blackness in the Imaginary”
Room 408A
“Cold War Art Archives, Collections, and Exhibitions: Starting from Los Angeles”
Room 402B
“Design and Neoliberalism: The Economics and Politics of “Total Design” across the Disciplines” (Design Studies Forum DSF)
Room 402A
“Florence, Berlin, and Beyond: Social Network and the Late Nineteenth-Century Art Market, Part I”
Room 404A
“Global Conversations – Border Crossings: The Migration of Art, People, and Ideas” (CAA-Getty International Program and International Committee)
Room 403B
“Irrational Identities: Art, Science, and Selves”
Room 405
“Italian Renaissance Art in the Age of Leonardo, Part II “
Room 410
“Modern Architecture and the Middle East in the Twentieth Century”
Room 503
“Pop Art and Class, Part II”
Room 501B
“Re-staging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures?, Part II: Methodologies, Theories, Conceptual Practices”
Room 501A
“Reorganizing the Art World: Postwar and Contemporary Collectives in Asia”
Room 501C
“Speech Balloons and Thought Bubbles: Architecture and Cartoons”
Room 406A
10:30am
“America Is (Still) Hard to See: New Directions in American Art History”
Room 408A
“Art and Fiction Since the 60s”
Room 404B
“Art in Middle Eastern Diplomacy, Part I: Politics and Museums”
Room 503
“Climate Aesthetics in the Anthropocene”
Room 405
“Decolonizing Art Histories: The Intersections of Diaspora and World Studies”
Room 406B
“Digital Craft: A Historical Perspective”
Room 408B
“Energy and Photography, Part II”
Room 403B
“Methodologies for the Contemporary Art of Global Asias “
Room 501C
“Repair and Maintenance in Art, Architecture, and Design, Part I”
Room 406A
“Rethinking Regionalism: The Midwest in American Art History”
Room 506
“West Coast Artists and the Catalogue Raisonné” (Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association CRSA)
Room 402B
“Women’s Liberation and the Persistence of Painting”
Room 409B
2:00PM
“#classroomssowhite: Strategies for Inclusive Teaching in Arts-Based Higher Education”
Room 407
“A Critical Conversation on Affect Theory, Neuroscience, and Art-Science Collaborations”
Room 405
“Art and Criticism in the Anthropocene”
Room 506
“Art and the Cold War in East Asia: The Long 1970s”
Room 409B
“Art on the Nature of Data about Nature”
Room 501A
“Collaboration on Paper”
Room 406A
“Measuring College Learning in Art History”
Room 511A
“Mobilities: Brazil and Beyond” (National Committee for the History of Art NCHA)
Room 404A
“Race and Deleuze: Representation, Affect, Art”
Room 408A
“Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Address Controversies” (Public Art Dialogue PAD)
Room 402B
“The 1790s” (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies ASECS)
Room 503
“Voices to Be Heard: Art in the Face of Alienation”
Room 406B
“Working Out of Medium”
Room 409A
4:00PM
“‘Change the Joke, Slip the Yoke’ Twenty Years Later: African American Artists and ‘Negative’ Imagery”
Room 408A
“Agnotology of Contemporary Middle Eastern Art”
Room 409B
“Art in Middle Eastern Diplomacy Part II: Artists”
Room 503
“Local and Global Career Detours: Negotiating and Navigating the Arts through Precarious Times” (Northern California Art Historians NCAH)
Room 407
“Provenance Research as a Method of Connoisseurship?”
Room 506
“Roundtable: Digital Publishing, Dissent, and Socially Engaged Art History”
Room 501C
“Taking it to the Streets: The Visual and Material Culture of Women’s Marches” (Committee on Women in the Arts)
Room 501B
“The French Fragment: Revolution to Fin-de-Siècle Part II”
Room 505
“The Park Place Group: Another Minimalism”
Room 410
Molds as Cultural and Material Mediators
Room 409A
6:00PM
“African Americans and US Law in Visual Culture”
Room 408A
“Place and Agency in Ancient American Murals and Monuments, Part II “
Room 402B
Saturday
02/24/2018
8:30am
“Abstraction in Africa: Origins, Meaning, Function” (Arts Council of the African Studies Association ACASA)
Room 409A
“Art Nouveau: Symbolism of Beauty and Novelty” (Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History ATSAH)
Room 501A
“De-Centering the “Global Renaissance”: Encounters with Asia and the Pacific Rim” (Renaissance Society of America RSA)
Room 404A
“Decolonizing Art Museums? Part I”
Room 409B
“Eccentric Images in the Early Modern World, Part I’
Room 404B
“Ekphrastic Image-Making in Early Modern Europe”
Room 403B
“Inter-Arts Exchange as Modernist Method, circa 1900”
Room 501B
10:30am
“A Way/s from Home: Blackness Across Nations”
Room 409A
“Art: Creative Care”
Room 406B
“Critical Craft: Voice of the Object “
Room 408B
“Curating Experience as a Work of Art”
Room 407
“Decolonizing Art Museums? Part II”
Room 501C
“Eccentric Images in the Early Modern World, Part II”
Room 403B
“Interaction with Color Redux”
Room 402B
“Materials, Makers, and Commissions: Moving Objects between Asia, Europe, and the Americas during Early Modern Globalization”
Room 404A
“Nineteenth-Century Critical Rivalries” (Society for Paragone Studies)
Room 501A
“Palpable and Mute as a Globed Fruit and Dumb as Old Medallions to the Thumb “
Room 410
“Recuperation”
Room 406A
“The Art of Image Description” (The Art of Image Description)
Room 408A
2:00PM
“A Second Talent: Art Historians Making Art, Part I”
Room 410
“Critical Craft: Craft’s Evolving Relationship with Industry”
Room 408B
“Design Incubation Colloquium 4.2: CAA 2018 Los Angeles” (Design Incubation)
Room 402A
“Fashion, Costume, and Consumer Culture in Iberia and Latin America: A Sessions in Honor of Gridley McKim-Smith” (American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies ASHAHS)
Room 405
“Histories of Fake News”
Room 503
“Medieval Echo Chambers: Ideas in Space and Time” (International Center of Medieval Art ICMA)
Room 403B
“Mobilities: Italy and the New World”
Room 404A
“Pop América: Contesting Freedom, 1965–75”
Room 404B
“The Exhibition as Critical Practice” (Southeastern College Art Conference SECAC)
Room 407
4:00PM
“A Second Talent: Art Historians Making Art, Part II”
Room 410
“Art History as Anti-Oppression Work”
Room 405
“Chican@ Art History: Interdisciplinary Foundations and New Directions” (US Latinx Art Forum USLAF)
Room 404B
“Critical Craft: What Craft Archives?”
Room 408B
“Disappointment and Representation”
Room 406A
“Mobilizing the Collection” (Association of Art Museum Curators)
Room 407
“New Directions in Black-British Art History”
Room 409A
“No Discipline”
Room 408A
“Structure, Texture, Facture in Avant-Garde Art”
Room 501A
“Surrealism’s Subversive Taxonomies”
Room 501B
“Webs of Significance: Mapping Experience”
403B
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