Art History Lectures
Every semester, the art history program brings in distinguished scholars to present his or her own work to our community. We are also fortunate to be able to draw upon the expertise of our own faculty members as part of the Fine Arts Meet-the-Faculty program.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
2:30 p.m. / REGIS
“Superfaciality: The Ethics of Taking Photographs in a Mirror”
Elizabeth Legge, PhD
Associate Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art, University of Toronto
This lecture will attend to Michael Snow's Authorization (1969), a series of five Polaroid photographs taken in a mirror and mounted on the mirror in which they were taken. It is a specimen and test case for a number of claims being made for conceptual photography, and for the nature of the artist, at the time.
Monday, October 3, 2011
12 p.m. / REGIS
“Magic in the Social Sphere: The Amuletic Image in Early Byzantium”
Matthew Isner; Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, Canisius College
Aside from fulfilling their purported magico-medicinal purposes, the images found on amulets in Early Byzantium also functioned in the realms of social politics and reputation building, and it is this social function of the amuletic image that may have had even greater impact on early Christian communities.
Monday, October 24, 2011
12 p.m. / REGIS
“Performative Resistance: Women, Performance Art and Discourses of Violence”
Angelique Szymanek; Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts, Canisius College
This talk engages with the practice of performance art and its use by women artists as an effective means through which issues of violence may be instigated and/or propelled within the contemporary art world and beyond.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
2:30 p.m. / REGIS
“Counterviolence and the Shooting Works of Niki de Saint-Phalle”
Beth Hinderliter, PhD; Fine Arts Department, SUNY College at Buffalo
This talk addresses the relation of artistic violence in the Tir paintings of Niki de Saint Phalle to 1960s Cold War rhetoric of imminent global violence.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Postponed until Thursday, April 19, 2012 4 p.m. / LYONS 303
Art History Lecture
“Photographic Agency in Wilhelmine Berlin”
Miriam Paeslack, PhD; Department of Visual Studies and Arts Management Program, University at Buffalo
This talk discusses the pictorial generation of images of the newly inaugurated German capital (1871-1914), as it remains indebted to both the history of the Holy Roman Empire and to the city’s claim to being a modern, international metropolis.