The Lamar Dodd School of Art, located on UGA’s East Campus, brings us lectures on all things art history. The Visual Culture Colloquium was conceived in the fall of 2008 under the patronage of A.G.A.S. (Association of Graduate Art History Students) and will feature lectures by graduate students and scholars from UGA and around the country. “The program is meant to provide a forum for scholarly exchange among interested parties”, according to the Dodd web site. Presentations will cover a wide range of subject matters in the art history realm featuring celebrated artists like 16th-century painter Giuliano Bugiardini and surrealist Marcel Duchamp.
Tonight’s lecture, by Phd candidate Sandy McCain, covers Benjamin West (Raphael’s American successor in both Roman and London art circles) and the similarities between his work and that of Raphael’s. This lecture will examine the legitimacy of Benjamin West’s claim to his artistic identity as the “American Raphael” through an analysis of his potrait of his wife and son, in which West appropriated the Madonna della Sedia (1514), one of the most celebrated of Raphael’s works during the 18th-century. The presentations will take place at 5:00 pm in LDSOA Rm. S 150.
The Lamar Dodd website on the Visual Culture Colloquium
Upcoming VCC lectures include:
September 24, 2009
Jenny Beene, M.A.
“Les Celibataires Memes: Spectatorship and Identity in Marcel Duchamp's ‘Etant Donnes’”
Nathanael Roesch, M.A.
“Out of Bounds: Paul Pfeiffer's ‘Caryatid’ and the Borders of Representation”
October 1, 2009
Shannon Pritchard, Ph.D. candidate.
“Caravaggio's ‘Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and a Page’: An image of the exemplary Christian knight”
Mike Kemling, Ph.D. candidate.
“Il scultore fiorentino: Giuliano Bugiardini's portrait of Michelangelo”
October 20, 2009
Dr. Michael Fried
December 3, 2009,
Dr. Isabelle Wallace
N-O-W-H-E-R-E
January 28, 2010, 5:00 pm
Dr. John Decker
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