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The University of Delaware Symposium on American Art:
The American Photograph as Social and Cultural Document
Friday, March 31, 1995
John M. Clayton Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
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The 1995 Delaware Symposium on American Art will focus on
the ways American photographers have used the camera as
a means of social engagement and cultural comment.
The speakers will interpret photographic images from
a variety of methodological perspectives, will situate
photography in its social and cultural contexts, and will
explore historical patterns in American photography from
the medium's nineteenth-century origins to the present.
 
This one-day event will be held at John M. Clayton Hall on the
North Campus of the University of Delaware in Newark.  The
registration fee, which includes luncheon and gallery reception,
is $35 per person ($15 for students).
 
In conjunction with the symposium, a traveling exhibition,
"Appeal to this Age: Photography of the Civil Rights Movement,
1954-1968," organized by the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York
City, will be shown on campus at the University Gallery in Old
College from March 8 to April 10, 1995.  A reception for the
exhibition will follow the symposium.
 
-------MORNING SESSION------
Introduction - Miles Orvell, Professor of English and American
Studies, Temple University
 
Freedom Framed: Picturing the Abolitionists in American
Daguerreotypy - Merry Foresta, Senior Curator, National Museum
of American Art
 
Understanding Photographs of the American Civil War -
Keith Davis, Fine Art Programs Director, Hallmark Cards
 
John Hillers's Photographs of Native Americans - Thomas
Southall, Curator of Photographs, Amon Carter Museum
 
Edward Steichen and Socialism - Melinda Parsons, Associate
Professor of Art History, Memphis State University
 
-------AFTERNOON SESSION-------
Walker Evans's Cuban Photographs - Judith Keller, Associate
Curator, Department of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum
 
The Invisibility of African Americans in Walker Evans's
_American Photographs_ - William Williams, Professor of Fine
Arts, Haverford College
 
Paul Strand's Imagery and the Cold War - David Peeler, Associate
Professor of American History, United States Naval Academy
 
Bodies and Soul: A Human Form in Contemporary Photography -
Carol Squiers, Senior Editor, _American Photography_
 
Concluding Remarks - James Curtis, Professor of History and Director
of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, University
of Delaware
 
---------REGISTRATION------
To receive a brochure with a registration form, send your name and
postal address to Carole Seifred, the Clayton Hall registrar.
Please specify that you wish to receive a brochure for the
American Art Symposium on March 31, 1995.
 
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Phone: (302) 831-2216
Fax: (302) 831-2998
Address: Delaware Symposium on American Art, University of
Delaware, Conferences, Newark, DE 19716-7430
 
Brochure and registration form also available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.udel.edu/jeffers/ArtHistory/Photo95Symp/AHSymp.Winter95.HTML
 
Registration deadline is March 21, 1995.  $5.00 additional late
fee thereafter.  All registrations will be confirmed by mail,
time permitting.  A map of the Newark area showing the location of
Clayton Hall will be sent with the confirmation.
 
--------ADDITIONAL INFORMATION-------
For additional program information and inquiries not related to
registration, please contact the Art History Department at
(302) 831-8415; fax (302) 831-8243.
 
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Announcement posted by Jane E. Boyd, Symposium Publicity -
Art History graduate student, University of Delaware
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