Undergraduate Art History Symposium

Please join us this Friday April 25, in the Michelle Smith
Collaboratory (ASY 4213) from 12:15-2:30 for the Undergraduate Art
History Symposium! Sponsored by the Graduate Art History Association, and funded in part by the Graduate Student Activities Fee, this event is a short scholarly conference of papers in art history by undergraduates at the University. Accepted students workshop their papers intensively with advisory panels of graduate students throughout the spring semester. On the day of the event, each presenter delivers a 15-minute talk, followed by a response from a graduate student and discussion with undergraduates, graduates, and faculty. This event is open to all. Light refreshments will be served.

The accepted papers are as follows:

Richard McCauley will present his paper "From Caricature to Icon: Art's Role in the Rise of the Railway," which analyzes the ways artists in the 19th century engaged the public's fears and hopes about the steam locomotive, establishing this new technology as the paradigmatic image of human progress.

Sophie Huget's paper "Dual Didacticism: Reading Pierneef’s Karibib
S.W.A. through the Lenses of Economic and Cultural Development" will discuss the work of South African painter Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, specifically how his work treats the South African landscape in order to suggest shared modern South African identities.

Marcie Wiggins will present her paper "An Analysis of Burne-Jones’s The Council Chamber," which assesses how the themes of the Aesthetic movement and the idea of the escape from modern life are expressed in Burne-Jones' canvas.

Hiji Nam will examine the economic and political circumstances of 1920s Germany and reconsider the complicated significance of Christian Schad's painting in her paper "Christian Schad and a New View of New Objectivity."

Marina Broome will illuminate the relationship between exhibition
practices and state propaganda in Nazi Germany in her paper "Entartete Kunst: The Degenerate Art Exhibition," discussing how the show visually framed and categorized works considered to represent a political and moral danger to National Socialism.

With questions, please contact Raino Isto GAHA Guest Lecture Chair risto@umd.edu <mailto:risto@umd.edu>