Congratulations to the many Art History students presenting at the Graduate Center’s fifth annual Early Research and Scholarship Conference, which features recipients of fellowships funded by the Provost’s office: the Knickerbocker Award for Archival Research in American Studies, the Award for Archival Research in African American and African Diaspora Studies, and the Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Awards. In addition the to student presentations listed below, two panels will be moderated by Art History faculty: Claire Bishop will chair the panel “Art at the Crossroads,” and Rachel Kousser will chair “Art, Place, Corporeality.”
Dana Liljegren: L’art de la poubelle: Récupération and Politics of Trash in Senegalese Art, 1970–2010
Christopher Green: Masked Moderns: Native Art of the Pacific Northwest, 1960-1990
Rachel Valinsky: Performative Matter: The Object in Performance, 1960-1980
Maya Harakawa: After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem during the Urban Crisis
Jessica Larson: “Let Us Cross Over the River”: Franco-American Artistic Exchange and the Image of American Nationhood during Reconstruction
Ian Wallace: Conservation after Conceptualism, 1963–1988
Caroline Gillaspie: Fueling America: Images of 19th-Century Coffee Consumption
Joseph Henry: Astonishing Objectivity: Expressionism, Sachlichkeit, and the Figure in Wilhelmine Germany
Siwin Lo: From Abstraction to Appropriation: Authorial Maneuvers in
Geometric Painting, 1959–89
Remi Poindexter: Slavery and Daily Life in Marius-Pierre Le Masurier’s Paintings of Martinique
Maria Quinata: Black Reverberations: Black British Artists and the Frontlines of Resistance
Blair Brooks: Heinz Berggruen: Dealing and Collecting Modern Art in the
Shadow of World War II
Whitney Graham: Contested Modernisms: Print culture in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1940
