SHOWING OFF: DESIGN & OSTENTATION
The Twenty-Fifth Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Design
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 East 91st Street, New York, NY
April 7 and 8, 2016
The symposium is free and open to the public
Program:
Thursday, April 7, 5:30 p.m.
The Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote Address:
Ulysses Grant Dietz, Chief Curator and Curator of Decorative Arts at the Newark Museum, “Meaning and Materiality: Making Jewelry with Gems and Junk.”
Reception to follow.
Friday, April 8, 10:30 a.m.
Session One
Kat Buckley, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Modern and Contemporary Art History, “Lavinia Fontana: Immortalizing Morality.”
Catherine Powell, Parsons School of Design, History of Design and Curatorial Studies, “Charles Le Brun’s The Story of Alexander: Splendor, Ostentation, and Propaganda.”
Agnieszka Anna Ficek, Hunter College, Art History, “The Politics of Porcelain: Collecting Meissen in Poland and the Creation of National Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century.”
Friday, April 8, 2:30 p.m.
Session Two
Christianna S. Bonin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art, “Fragile Exchange: Porcelain and the Function of Luxury in Interwar Soviet Russia.”
Sarah Marie Horne, University of Missouri-Columbia, American Art, Art History & Archaeology, “Marketing Modernism in the Automobile Industry during the Great Depression: Studebaker’s Survival Strategy.”
Danielle O’Steen, University of Maryland, College Park, Art History & Archaeology, “Presenting Plexiglas: Alexander Calder, Gilbert Rohde, and the Museum of Modern Art at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.”
Reception to follow.
“Showing Off” is sponsored by the MA Program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies offered jointly by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and Parsons School of Design
This symposium would not have been possible without the support of donors to the Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Memorial Fund, whom we thank for their continued generosity.
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