FRIDAY, MARCH 23
University of Pennsylvania, Carolyn Hoff Lynch Room,
Chemistry Building, Cret Wing

3:30 PM REGISTRATION

4:00-7:00 PM SESSION ONE: LONG DISTANCE MODERNISM

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw University of Pennsylvania
Welcome and Introductions

Joan Saab University of Rochester
“Mexico in Manhattan: MoMA, Macy’s, and the Muralistas”

Sarah Wilson Courtauld Institute of Art, London
“Avant-Garde and Kitsch?  Realism, Socialist Realism, and the Paris-New York Axis, 1930-1939”

Sarah Greenough National Gallery of Art, Washington
“The Kiss That Is My Life: Thoughts on the Correspondence Between Georgia O’Keeffe
and Alfred Stieglitz, 1915-1946”

Christine Poggi University of Pennsylvania
Questions and Discussion

7:00-8:00 PM RECEPTION

SATURDAY, MARCH 24
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Van Pelt Auditorium

9:30 AM COFFEE & REGISTRATION

10:00 AM -12:30 PM SESSION TWO: ENGINEERING AESTHETICS

Kathleen Foster Philadelphia Museum of Art
Welcome and Introductions

Andrew Hemingway University College London
“Precisionism as Critique: Stefan Hirsch”

Christina Cogdell College of Santa Fe
“Designer-Breeder: Norman Bel Geddes, Streamline Design, and Eugenics”

Marcia Brennan Rice University
“Unsaying the Ideal: Duchamp’s Fractured Androgynes, or The Nude Descending a Flowchart”

Michael Taylor Philadelphia Museum of Art
Questions and Discussion

12:30-2:00 PM LUNCH

2:00-4:00 PM SESSION THREE: THE ARTIST INSIDE AND OUT

Michael Leja University of Pennsylvania
Introductions

Kathleen Pyne University of Notre Dame
“Breakdown at 291: Freud and Self-Performance in the Stieglitz Circle”

Tirza True Latimer Yale University
“Romaine Brooks and the Future of Sapphic Modernity”

Jacqueline Francis University of Michigan
“Type/Face/Mask: Portraiture and the Modern Project of ‘Racial Art’”

Richard Meyer University of Pennsylvania
Questions and Discussion

4:00-4:15 PM BREAK

4:15-5:00 PM PLENARY PANEL AND CONCLUSION

Sponsored by the History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania, with the collaboration of the Center for American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art. With assistance from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Hyde Foundation, the Center for Africana Studies, English Department, and the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.