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Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference

Saturday and Sunday, October 28th and 29th 2000
Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Fees: $20 full-time employed; $10 students, independent scholars
Conference Organizers: Laura Auricchio, Ioanna Theocharopoulou
Sponsored by: The Department of Women's Studies at Barnard College, The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, and The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservaton at Columbia University.

KEYNOTE PANEL WILL CLOSE THE CONFERENCE, SUNDAY OCTOBER 29 4:15-6 PM

Saturday, October 28th

Registration. 9AM - 10:30 AM. Macintosh Hall, Upper Level.
Registration will be held on the Barnard College campus throughout the conference. Please enter campus through the main gates, located on the west side of Broadway at 117th Street. Macintosh is a low, flat-roofed, modern building to your right. Signs posted at the main gates will direct you. Macintosh Upper Level will serve as our hospitality center. There, you will find the final conference schedule, complete with directions and room numbers for each session, as well as refreshments and displays organized by journals, publishers, and booksellers.

Session 1. Saturday 10:30 - 12 noon

Thoughts on Film
Part 1. Journeys
Virginia A. Bonner, Emory University, "Diffracted Geographies in Yvonne Rainer's Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1979)."
Rosemary Joly, Concordia University, "Reclaiming the Road for the Rest of Us Pilgrims: The Representation of Gender, Sexuality and Space in Cyndra MacDowall's Road Trip Diary."
Part 2. Art, Ambivalence, and Self-Destruction : Lesbians and Bisexual Women in Contemporary Art Films
Juliana Kubala, Clark University, "Lesbians and the 'Art' of Self-Destruction in I Shot Andy Warhol and High Art."
Maria Pramaggiore, North Carolina State University, "High and Low Art: Bisexual Women and Aesthetics in Chasing Amy and High Art."

Gendering the Spiritual
Peter Kloehn, School of Visual Arts, "The Virgin and the Whore at the Crossroads of Resistance in Afron-Brazilian Religion."
Susan Sinberg Landesman, Barnard College, Tara and the Tara-mula-kalpa: The Tara cult's Formative Period in India."
Jane Magon, Harvard University, "Shamanic Patterns in the Art of Frida Kahlo: Critiquing Feminism from a Religious Perspective."

Workshop: Delicate Balances: Creative Intersections in Art, Science, Gender and Technology
Judy Natal, Visual Artist;
Kati Toivanen, Visual Artist ;
Margaret Wagner, Visual Artist

Workshop: The Viability of the Artists' Book as a Vehicle for a Feminist Message
Rose Marie Prins, Visual Artist
Kathleen Walkup, Mills College

Workshop: In the Academy and on the Street: What Could a "Post-Feminism" Be?
Gianna Carotenuto, UCLA;
Beth Lauritis, UCLA;
Jennifer Marshall, UCLA;
Katie Mondloch, UCLA;
Carolyn Stuart, UCLA.

Session 2. Saturday 1 - 2:30 PM

Performing Autobiography: Writing Performatively Across Identities
Danielle Abrams, Performance Artist;
Jennie Klein, University of Southern California.

Forgotten Histories
Ewa Bobrowska-Jakubowska, Independent Scholar, "Olga Boznanska and Her Career in Three European Centers: Cracow-Munich-Paris."
Uesugi Kanako, Gakushuin University, Japan, "A Feminist Re-reading of Otagakii Rengetsu: Female Agency and Politics of Japenese Art History."
Ulrika Knagenhielm Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, "Corporate Architecture and Natalie De Blois."
Vita Susak, Lviv Art Gallery, Ukraine, "Marie Bashkirtseff (1860-1884). The Fate of Artistic Works. Facts, Availability, Opinions."
Katlijne van der Stighelen, Faculty of Letters, Leuven, Belgium, "Michaelina Woutiers: the rebirth of a 17th-century woman artist with ambition."

Politics and Culture in American Art
Kate Culkin, New York University, "Upsetting the Balance: Explaining the Career of Harriet Hosmer."
Cristina B. Klee, University of Delaware, "Emotional Politics in The Young Wife's Stew: The Domestic Drama of Lilly Martin Spencer."
Jessica May, University of California, Berkeley, "Elizabeth McCausland and American Art Criticism of the 1930s-40s."
Cynthia Wiedemann Empen, Indiana University, "'Gas, Twaddle, Nonsense' and 'Wimmin's Rights:' 'Strong-minded' Women and Other 'Fe'he Males' Characterized and Caricatured in American Visual Culture, 1848-1860."

Fragmented Bodies
Marcella Hackbardt, Kenyon College, "Part and Parcel: The Breast as Subject, Experience, and Metaphor in Contemporary Art."
Timothy Heck, Graduate Center, The City University of New York, "Traumatic Vision and Imploded Being: Andy Warhol's Sex Parts and Torso Series."
Barbara L. Miller, Western Washington University, and Carol Prusa, Florida Atlantic University, "Electronic Media Theory and The New Flesh."
Michelle Mohabeer, Filmmaker, "Bodies in Trouble: Becoming Through Bodily Forms and Movements in Beloved and Matrix."

Beyond the Gaze: Historicizing the Female Nude
Moderators: Pamela Fletcher, The Ohio State University; Maria Ruvoldt, Independent Scholar.
Christiane Andersson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, "Suicidal Nudes and Lecherous Fools: The Sexualized Body and the Erotic Gaze in the Renaissance."
Michelle Greet, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Titillation or Subjugation: Race and Sexual Deviance in Orientalist Paintings."
Pamela Gerrish Nunn, School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, "Looking Askance: Lesbian Painters of the Female Nude, 1900-1935."
Daniella Gandolfo, Columbia University, "Taboo, the Mother's Body, and the 'Meaning' of Nudity."
Marcy Freed, The Ohio State University, "Beauty and the Breast: The 'Neo-Nude' and Breast Cancer Imagery."

Session 3. Saturday 2:45 - 4:15

Workshop: Writing the Artist's Voice
Melanie Herzog, Edgewood College.
Jennifer Vigil, University of Iowa.

Workshop: Women in Academia: Past, Present, and Future
Michael Aurbach, Vanderbilt University.

Considering Consumption
Elisa Auther, University of Maryland, "A Reevaluation of the Feminist Critique of the Hierarchy of Art and Craft."
Esther Da Costa Meyer, Princeton University, "Pathologies of Consumption."
Karen Kurczynski, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Feminist Fetishes: Commodity Culture in the Work of Yayoi Kusama."

Slave Markets and Lynched Bodies; Hottentot Vessels and Aunt Jemima: The Black Female Body in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art
Adrienne Childs, University of Maryland, "Gérôme's A Vendre: The Black Female and Sexual Imperialism in French Academic Painting."
Renee Ater, "Meta Warrick Fuller's Mary Turner: A Protest Against Mob Violence."
Simone Leigh, Visual Artist, "The Hottentot Venus Series."
Jane Carpenter, University of Michigan, "Conjuring the Myth of Aunt Jemima: Betye Saar and the Art of Black Women's Protest."

Gendered Landscapes
Karen Hope Goodchild, Wofford College, "The Feminine Language of Renaissance Landscape."
Jeanne Laiacona, "The Grace of the Garden: Gardens as Aesthetic and Cultural Expressions in Contemporary African-American Art."
David C. Ogawa, Union College, "Faking It: Corot, Femininity, and the Art Market."
Carmen Vendelin, Rutgers University, "Modernity and Ambivalence: Photographic Images of Rodenbach's Bruges-La-Morte."

Session 4. Saturday 4:30 - 6 pm

Workshop: Maternal Metaphors : Artists/Mothers/Artwork
Monica Bock, University of Connecticut;
Myrel Chernic, Visual Artist, New York.

Workshop: Feminist Approaches to Art Education
Rikki Asher, Queens College, City University of New York, "The Sojourner Truth Mural: Investigating African American History Through Public Art."
Alica C. Pennisi, Teachers' College, Columbia Unversity, "Voices of Women - Creating New Narratives Through Art."

Gender and Commerce
Jill A. Chmielewski, Duke University, "Commerce and Gender Roles in the Funerary Reliefs of the Northern Roman Provinces."
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Barnard College, "White Women's Wampum: Handicraft and Hard Currency in Gilded Age America."
Nancy Owen, Northwestern University, "Rookwood Pottery: Domesticity and Women's Labor."

Marketing Sexuality
Lynn Comella, "Marketing Desire: Sex, Gender, and the Good Vibrations model of Sex Retailing."
Kathy Santore, New York City Technical College, CUNY, "Eros and Commerce in Venetian Renaissance Painting."
Kathleen Spies, Birmingham-Southern College, "'Girls and Gags': Humor, Female Sexuality and the Consumption of Leisure in Reginald Marsh's Burlesque Images."

Crossing Cultures
Susan Kilgore, Washington State University, "Voice, Narrative, Image: Native American Women Artists and 20th Century America."
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Visual Artist, University of Rhode Island, "Bollywood Satirized."
Gretchen Sinnett, University of Pennsylvania, "'A 'Killing' [and Ambiguous] Exhibition Picture': Charles Sprague Pearce's Fantasie."
Midori Yoshimoto, Rutgers University, "Empowered Japanese Women Artists in 1960's New York: The Proto-feminist Performance Art of Ono, Kusama, and Kubota."

Sunday, October 29

Session 5. Sunday 9-10:30 AM

Workshop: A Collaborative Drawing Collage on the Theme of Girlhood (Evolving An Aesthetic of Play)
Elisabeth Condon, Artist in Residence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; New School University.
Adelheid Mers, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Workshop: Cross-Currents: Representing Religious and Spiritual Practice in Art
Moderator: Donna Thompson, American Social History Project/Center for New Media and Learning, City University of New York.
Participants:
Etsede Elegba, Photographer;
Laura James, Painter;
Vladimir Cybil, Visual Artist.

Women as Patrons
Sara L. French, Wells College, "Placing Women: The Case of Bess of Hardwick and Hardwick Hall, 1597."
Anna Russakoff, Institute of Fine Arts, "Devotional Object or Didactic Treatise? Les Miracles de Notre Dame, Paris B.N. Nou. Acq. Fr. 24541."
Christine Sciacca, Columbia University, "Holy Books and Holy Blood: Judith of Flanders' Patronage and Weingarten Manuscript Production."
Kim S. Sexton, University of Arkansas, "Venetian Femininity and Villa Design: Caterina Cornaro's Il Barco at Altivole."

Performing Differences
Sara J. Bailes, New York University, "Out of Place" The Comfort of Strangeness in Mona Hatoum's Performance."
Johanna Burton, New York University, "Joan Jonas' Syntactical Experiments." Natsuko Fujiu, Graduate Center, The City University of New York, "Sacred Kiss/Vulgar Kiss: Carolee Schneemann's Infinity Kisses (1982-98)."

Modern Visions of Domesticity
Deborah A. Goldberg, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "A Surveillance Device for Mothers: Noguchi's Radio Nurse."
Rebecca Houze, Washington University, St. Louis, "From 'Wiener Kunst im Hause' to the Wiener Werkstätte: Marketing Domesticity in Fashionable Interior Design."
Anne McLeer, George Washington University, "Practical Perfection and Personal
Politics: The Nanny and the Cultural Contradictions of 1960s Womanhood." Marjorie Weinstein, University of Minnesota, "Domesticating Architecture: Urban Planning and the 1939 World's Fair."

Session 6. Sunday 10:45 AM- 12:15 PM

The Business of Art
Barbara Anderman, Rutgers University, "From Coquettes to Connoisseuses: The Manipulation of Women in French Late-Baroque Art Criticism"
Catherine Caeser, Emory University, "The Role of Exhibitions in the Creation of Feminist Discourse: Two Early Feminist Exhibitions Curated by Lucy Lippard."
Elisabeth Langford, University of Victoria, "Guiding Opinion: Theoretical and Cultural Strategies in Anna Jameson's Early Victorian Art Gallery Guidebooks."
Valerie Mendelson Moylan, Graduate Center, City University of New York, "Valtesse de la Bigne and Méry Laurent: Two Women Collectors of Late Nineteenth Century France."
Caterina Y. Pierre, Graduate Center, City University of New York, "Not a Right but a Privilege: The Business of Women's Art Education in Nineteenth-Century Paris."

Meeting Venus
Rachel Kousser, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, "Representing Female Desire: Portraits of Roman Couples as Mars and Venus."
Marianne Eileen Wardle, Duke University, "I'm Your Venus: The Domestication of Aphrodite."

Surrealist Women in Mexico
Susan Briante, University of Texas at Austin, "On Bare Ground: Alice Rahon and the Surrealist Gaze."
Gloria Orenstein, University of Southern California, "The Surrealist Paintings of Bridget Tichenor (1917-1990)."

Stereotyping and its Discontents
Bettina Berch, Belles Lettres magazine, "A Questioning Eye : The Documentary Photography of Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952)."
Betsie Gross, University of Southern California. "The Black Stereotype Reconsidered."
Ellen Handler Spitz, Stanford University, "'Look! He's a Girl!' Establishing, Reinforcing, and Challenging Gender Stereotypes: The Role of Picture Books."
Carolyn Ashley Straughan, Ithaca College, "Eccentricity and Images of Old Women."

Women Artists' Self-Representation at the Verbal-Visual Interface Sidonie Smith, University of Michigan, "'Bodies of evidence'": The Weight of Subjectivity at the Interface."
Jennifer Drake, Indiana State University, "Variations on Negation: Breaking the Frame with Adrian Piper and Lorna Simpson."
Julia Watson, Ohio State University, "Disappearance and Emergence at the Interface: Charlotte Salomon's Life or Theater?"
Francoise Lionnet, UCLA, "The Head Scarf and the Red Ribbon: Photographs and Maryse Conde's Autobiography."

The Kitchen, the Bedroom, and Beyond Helena Mattsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, "The Feminization of Material Culture and the 'House of the Future.'"
David Rifkind, Columbia University, "Hors de la cuisine."
Valerie Webb, Kingston University, School of Art and Design History, "The Representation of Women in the Work of the Camden Town Group: Questions of Space, Class and Place."

Session 7. Sunday 12:45 - 2:15 PM

In the Company of Men: Women in 19th-Century European Painting
Sarah Betzer, Northwestern University, "The Villa Medici hors des murs: Julie Mottez in the Ingriste Studio."
Issa Lampe, Harvard University, "Refiguring the Feminine in the Art of David's Exile."
Rachel Lindheim, University of Chicago, "The Underside of Idealism: Gustave Moreau's Sapphic Visions."
Kristin O'Rourke, Vanderbilt University, "'The Traffic in Women": Some Recurring Themes in the History of Western Art."
Tanya R. Sheehan, Brown University, "Photography, Pre-Raphaelitism, and the "Jane Morris" Portraits."

Women and Genocide: The Holocaust Revisited
Moderator: Laura Felleman Fattal, Ph.D. Director, New Jersey School of the Arts, State Department of Education, Trenton, NJ; Project Director, "Veiled Time: Contemporary Artists and the Holocaust" (5-site exhibition, January-July 1999), in conjunction with the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust/genocide Education.
Gabrielle Rossmer, Visual Artist, Boston, work included in "Veiled Time: Contemporary Artists and the Holocaust."
Debbie Teicholz, Visual Artist, New Jersey, work included in "Veiled Time: Contemporary Artists and the Holocaust."
Thelma Mathius, Visual Artist, New York, work included in "Veiled Time: Contemporary Artists and the Holocaust."
Melissa Gould, Visual Artist, New York, work included in "Veiled Time: Contemporary Artists and the Holocaust."


Troubling Bodies
Jennifer Borland, Stanford University, "The Ambiguous Vulva: Reclaiming the Archetype of the Medieval Sheela-na-gig."
Rebecca Faulkner, New York University, "Traveling Towards (Dis)appearance: Erasure, Identity and the Female Body in the Drawings of Emily Jacir."
Lillian Bridges Joyce, University of Alabama, Hunstville, "Beautry, Butchery, and the Bacchanalia."
Helen Stratford, University of Nottingham, "Collective Assemblages, Embodiment and Enunciations: Deleuze, Guattari and the Theory of Action."

The 70s and the 90s in Feminist Performance: Bridging the Generations
Moderators: Debra Wacks, Graduate Center, City University of New York;
Kathleen Wentrack, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Elizabeth Adan, University of California, Berkeley, "Video/Performance/Feminism/Narcissism: Refusing Resolution in Lynn Hershman's Electronic Diary."
Joanna Roche, University of Colorado, "Performing Memory in Moon in a Tree, Carolee Schneemann Recollects Joesph Cornell."
Rosa Mastri, Independent Scholar, "Janieta Eyre: Private Masquerades."
Meiling Cheng, University of Southern California, "My Skin, My Tongue, My Gender, My Country: Elia Arce's Feminist Performance."

Women's Spaces
Lucy Creagh, Columbia University, "The Swedish Women's Movement of the 1930s and Experiments in Collective Architectural Form."
Helene Erlichson-Kloehn, Graduate Center, City University of New York, "Christine de Pisan and Metis."
Lena Georas, Independent Scholar, "Architecture and Infidelity: A Woman's Metis."

Session 8. Sunday 2:30 - 4 PM

Workshop: Why Are There No Great Women Architects?
Marcia Feuerstein, Virginia Polytechnic and State University;
Loretta Lorance, Graduate Center, City University of New York;
Meike Schalk, SLU Alnarp, Sweden. Theories of Modernism
Marcia Brennan, College of the Holy Cross, "Still Lifes and Centerfolds: Greenberg's Strategic Depictions of Matisse's Female Figures."
Paul Paret, Princeton University, "The Explusion of Eve: Misogyny and Modernism at the Bauhaus."
Julia Scalzo, University of Toronto, "Street Architecture."
Siona Wilson, Columbia University, "The Woman Primitivist on Trial: Peasants and 'Pornography.'"

Representing Power in Twentieth-Century European Art
Rachel Epp Buller, University of Kansas, "Alice Lex-Nerlinger's Seamstress and Other Works: Commentaries on the Status of Women in Weimar."
Siobhán M. Conaty, Case Western Reserve University, "Futurism: Gender, Culture and Power."
Eleanor M. Hight, University of New Hampshire, Durham, "Lotte Jacobi's Photographs of Women in Soviet Turkestan: The Politics of Travel Photography in Nazi Germany."
Ute Tellini, Rutgers University, "The 'New Woman' in Weimar Culture: Anxious Subject or Commercial Object?"

Transgressive Beauties and Other Advertising Gambits
Lori Don Levan, Teachers College, Columbia University, "Bella, Bijan and Me: A Search for Fat Beauty."
Selena Liss. Concordia University, Montreal, "Gender and Commerce: Capitalism and Queer Lifestyle Advertising."
Leena-Maija Rossi, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, "Masculine Women - A Viable Form of Media Representation? Options for Gender Transitivity in Finnish Television Commercials."
C. T. Walters, Bloomsburg University, "The Studebaker Corporate Periodical: From Girls to Women - Myth, Reality and the Feminine Vision."

Bodies: Inside and Out
Sharona Adamowicz, York University, "The Body of Abjection in Art: The Abject as/Manifesting itself through the Feminine Body in the Work of Kiki Smith."
Allison Levy, Newcomb College, Tulane University, "Re-membering Capponi: Early Modern Masculinity at the Frick."
Ann Starr, Visual Artist, "The Body Inside Me."
Kristin Swenson, SUNY, Stony Brook, "Revising the Textbook: Eva Hesse's Machine Drawings."

GENDER/ART/COMMERCE KEYNOTE PANEL
Sunday 4:15 - 6 PM Barnard Hall 304
Moderator:
Ann Pellegrini, Barnard College; Speakers: Keller Easterling, Yale University, "A Spinster Is a Bachelor's Wife";
Sylvia Kolbowski, Visual Artist, New York, "These Goods Are Available at _________";
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University, "Pompadour's Touch: Patronage and Difference";
Penny Sparke, Kingston University, UK, "Elsie de Wolfe: Gender, Class and Taste in the Domestic Interior in Early 20th-Century USA."