Category: Notes from the Chair
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Art History Senior Project Presentations 2015
Art History Senior Presentations Tuesday, May 19th: art history seniors presented their projects to their peers and faculty and then participated in a celebratory dinner. Here is the Program, please enjoy!
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Art History Senior Presentations
The Annual Art History Senior Project Presentations Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 5:00 pm in Olin 102. Come hear our graduating majors present their senior projects. All art history majors are encouraged to attend. Open to all.
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Welcome New Architectural Historian
Bard College and the Art History Program congratulate and welcome Olga Touloumi Assistant Professor of Art History ’15 Ph.D. Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2014 Dissertation title: “Architectures of Global Communication, 1913-‐1970”
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Graduate Art History Society at the City College of New York Symposium
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Chinese Religious Art
The Dean of the College hosted a celebration of Patricia Karetzky’s new book Chinese Religious Art at Finberg House, Monday, April 6th at 6:00 pm. Introduction by Susan Aberth.
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“Monumentality for the Masses”
The Dean of the College and the Art History Program present a lecture Ana Maria León Massachusetts institute of Technology This lecture examines a series of texts, images, and architectural projects produced in 1930s and 1940s Argentina, and how they participated in the intellectual, poetic, and spatial construction of the city of Buenos Aires as…
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Building the Case: Design and Media at the International Military Tribunal, c. 1945
The Dean of the College and the Art History Program present Olga Touloumi Harvard University During four short months in the summer of 1945, the Office of Strategic Services, IBM, and landscape architect Dan Kiley prepared Courtroom 600 for the Nuremberg Trials. Planned as a “world spectacle,” the project required a wide mobilization of resources and…
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Nic Violett ’15 Gave a Paper
Congratulations to Art History Major Nic Viollet! MEMORIA: CONSTRUCTIONS & INTERPRETATIONS The History of Art Students’ Association (HASA) at University of Toronto invited undergraduates to participate in its second annual History of Art conference March 6th-7th 2015. Through the conference, the University aspired to have undergraduate art historians engage and explore their fields of interest…
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“Producing the Prison: A Spatial History of Prisoners in Colonial India”
Mira Rai Waits University of California, Santa Barbara “Producing the Prison: A Spatial History of Prisoners in Colonial India” Nineteenth- and twentieth- century histories of prisons in British India have followed three narratives. British imperial history presented prisons as exceptional infrastructural improvements essential to governance. In Indian nationalist history, prisons became synonymous with British rule and…
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Leonora Carrington: Invitation, Invocation and Manifestation
Saturday, October 25, 2014 2pm – 3pm Leonora Carrington: Invitation, Invocation and Manifestation Prof. Susan Aberth (Bard College) From her first widely exhibited work, Inn of the Dawn Horse (Self Portrait), executed while only twenty-one in 1938, the artist Leonora Carrington used the act of painting to invoke and harness unseen forces. Through the depiction…