Bard College ART HISTORY and VISUAL CULTURE PROGRAM

Posted on February 2nd, 2016

Faculty News

Olga Touloumi to speak at CAA

Screen Shot 2016-02-02 at 12.47.29 PMOn the Visual Front: Revisiting World War II and American Art

Time: 02/05/2016, 9:30 AM—12:00 PM
Location: Virginia Suite, Lobby Level

Chairs: John W. Ott, James Madison University; Melissa Renn, Harvard Business School

War Rooms and the Question of Mediation
Olga Touloumi

Targeting Asianness in World War II: Military Manuals, Visual Markers, and Racial Fictions
Jason D. Weems, University of California, Riverside

Art and Race in Arizona: The 1943 Exhibition of Negro Art at Fort Huachuca
Betsy Fahlman, Arizona State University

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Black Place
Sascha T. Scott, Syracuse University

‘Operation Crossroads’: American Abstraction in the Atomic Age
Jody Patterson, Plymouth University

Discussant: Melissa Renn, Harvard Business School