Annual Dahesh Museum of Art Prize
Support for Emerging Scholars Broadens the Field
The Graduate Student Symposium in 19th-Century Art, now in its 10th year, was launched at the Dahesh Museum of Art in 2004 and was held there until 2008. This much anticipated annual event presents the work of 10-12 young scholars from universities across the country and abroad, whose papers are distinguished by scholarly rigor. From this group, one outstanding paper is chosen to receive the Dahesh Museum of Art Prize.
The Museum is proud to be an early and continuing supporter of this Symposium as it broadens the field, identifies new scholars and encourages innovative approaches to art historical research. The Dahesh Museum of Art Prize is a gift in honor of Mrs. Mervat Zahid on behalf of the Museum’s Board of Trustees.
The Symposium is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA), and New York University.
Tenth Annual Graduate Student Symposium In
Nineteenth-century Art
Silver Center 301, New York University
10 AM – 12:00 PM: Morning Session
• Peter Trippi (President, Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art), Welcome
10 AM – 11:00 PM: First Morning Session & Discussion
• Marilyn Satin Kushner (New-York Historical Society), Moderator
• Jeff Richmond-Moll (University of Delaware), “Ideal Companions: Horatio Greenough’s Busts of Christ and Lucifer”
• Susan Schaefer (Columbia University), “‘With the Smallest Fragment’: The Archeology of the Doré Bible”
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM: Second Morning Session & Discussion
• James Rubin (Stony Brook University), Moderator
• Peggy Moorhead Seas (Graduate Center, City University of New York), “’On Your Head Delacroix!’: The Reception of Renoir”
• Heather Read (Washington University, St. Louis), “Gauguin’s Tupapa’u as ‘Primitive’ Phantasmagoria”
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: First Afternoon Session & Discussion
• Patricia Mainardi (New York University), Moderator
• Steven Lauritano (Yale University), “Schinkel, Spolia and Caryatids that Travel”
• Nina E. Harkrader (Institute of Fine Arts), New York University, “Building for ‘the Other’: The Spatial Embodiment of Poverty in Victorian England, 1850-1914”
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Second Afternoon Session & Discussion
• Nebahat Avcıoğlu (Hunter College, CUNY), Moderator
• Kelly C. Tang (University of Oxford), “Sex, Drugs, and Reclining Women in 19th -Century Chinese Photography”
• Rashmi Viswanatan (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), “Selling Science: Packaging the Art of Balthazar Solvyns”
• Beth Fadeley (University of Georgia), “Object Lessons: Francis Davis Millet and the Politics of Domestic Orientalism”