Please join us for a weekend cele
brating Wanda Corn\, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art
History. During her nearly thirty-year tenure at Stanford\, Professor Cor
n not only reshaped the field of American art history but served a term as
Director of the Stanford Humanities Center and another as Acting Director
of the Stanford Museum (now called the Cantor Arts Center). This free\, t
wo-day symposium\, led by friends and the many art historians she trained\
, honors her scholarship\, her pedagogy and her countless contributions to
both art history and the university.
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\nSpon sored by the Department of Art &\; Art History
\nAll events are free and ope n to the public.
\nNo registration or tickets are required.
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\nSYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
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\nFriday\, Nove
mber 13\, 2009
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\n3 pm \; \; \; \;&
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;Arrival / Coffee &\; Tea
\n4 pm \; \; \; \;
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come by Richard Vinograd\, Department Chair \; \; \; \;&n
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\n4:10 - 6:10 pm \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;
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p\; \; Session 1
\n6:10 - 7:10 pm \; \; \; \;&n
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; \; \; \; \; Reception (Art Lobby)
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\n8:45 am \;
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\; \; \; \; \; Coffee &\; Tea
\n9:30 - 11 am
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; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Session 2
\n11 - 11:15 am \; \; \; \; \; \; \;
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eak
\n11:15 am - 12:45 pm \; \; \; \; \; \;&
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\n12:45 - 1:45 pm \
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nbsp\; \; \; \; \; Lunch Break
\n1:45 - 3:15 pm
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\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Session 4
\n3:15 -
3:30 pm \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&
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k
\n3:30 - 5:10 pm \; \; \; \; \; \; \
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ession 5
\n5:15 - 6:30 pm \; \; \; \; \; \;
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CHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS \; (subject to change without notice
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\nNovember 13
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\nModerated by Professor Br
yan Wolf\, Department of Art &\; Art History
\n
\nKeith Egg
ener\, University of Missouri
\n"\;Seeing\, Selling and Sanctify
ing the Mark Twain Birthplace (1835/1959)"\;
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\nElizabet
h Hutchinson\, Barnard College\, Columbia University
\n"\;Five V
iews of Sequoyah's Turban\,"\; Charles Bird King\, 1844"\;
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\nAnnelise Madsen\, Stanford University
\n"\;Edwin Blash
field's Evolution of Civilization (1896) and the Lessons of Mural
Painting"\;
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\nMary Campbell\, Stanford University
\n"\;The Sultan's Favorite: Charles Ellis Johnson and the M
ormon Harem"\; (1903-4)
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\nKristin Schwain\, University
of Missouri-Columbia
\n"\;Learning to Look and Decorating the Pa
rlor: Art and Display at Wanamaker&rsquo\;s Department Stores"\; (earl
y 20th century)
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\nQ and A
\nNovember 14
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\nSession 2: \; 9:30-11 am
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\nModerated
by Professor Michael Marrinan\, Department of Art &\; Art History
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\nEllen Wiley Todd\, George Mason University
\n"\;Can
Anyone See? John Sloan's In Memoriam: Here is the Real Triangle\
, 1911"\;
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\nPatti Junker\, Seattle Art Museum
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quot\;Childe Hassam\, Flags on the Waldorf\, 1916"\;
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\nDavid Lubin\, Wake Forest University
\n"\;Flushed Out:
Duchamp's Fountain (1917) Goes to War"\;
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\nQ a
nd A
\nSession 3: \
; 11:15 am-12:45 pm
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Moderated by Professor Pamela M. Lee\, Department of Art &\; Art Histor
y
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\nJason Weems\, University of California\, Riverside
\n"\;At Play in the Cornfields: Grant Wood's Spring Turning
\, 1936"\;
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\nGwendolyn DuBois Shaw\, University of Penn
sylvania
\n"\;To Know to Know to Love Her So: Sargent J
ohnson\, Getrude Stein and Motherless Moderns"\; (1940)
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\nCaroline Jones\, MIT
\n"\;Opening Haacke's Box\, 1963"\;<
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\nQ and A
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\ nSession 4: \; 1:45-3:15 pm
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\nModerated by Professor P
amela M. Lee\, Department of Art &\; Art History
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\nCecil
e Whiting\, University of California\, Irvine
\n"\;David Hockey'
s American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)\, 1968"\;
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\nTirza Latimer\, California College of the Arts\, San Francis
co
\n"\;A Reverent Look: The Endpaper from Gertrude's Follies (T
om Hachtman\, 1979)"\;
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\nCarolyn Kastner\, Georgia O'Ke
effe Museum\, Santa Fe
\n"\;Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: Petrog
lyph Park and Court House Steps\, 1987"\;
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\nQ and
A
\nSession 5: \; 3
:30-5:10 pm
\nModerate
d by Shelley Fisher Fishkin\, Professor of English and Director of America
n Studies Program
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\nPam McClusky\, Seattle Art Museum
\n"\;Letters to Laikom: How Wanda Corn's Art History Opened Doors int
o the Palace of the King of Kom&rdquo\;
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\nCherise Smith\, U
niversity of Texas at Austin
\n"\;Rethinking Carrie Mae Weems' H
istoric Appropriations"\;
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\nDavid Cateforis\, Universit
y of Kansas
\n"\;Cultural Transference and Creative Misunderstan
ding in Wenda Gu's Poem of the University of Pittsburgh (2004)&qu
ot\;
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\nLouise Siddons\, Oklahoma State University
\n&
quot\;Robert Turney\, Untitled Self-Portrait\, 2009"\;
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\nQ and A
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Wanda Corn's Presentation: \; 5:15-6:30 pm
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\nIntrod uction by Ellen Wiley Todd and Cecile Whiting
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\n"\;Mary and Me:
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\nSPECIAL HOTEL RATES FOR THE SYMPOSIUM
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\nStanford Terrace Inn
\n531 Stan
ford Ave.\, Stanford\, CA 94306
\n(800) 729-0332
\nhttp://stanfordterraceinn.com
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\nRate: $139/night for single occupancy | $149/night for double occupa
ncy
\nReference: Wanda Corn Symposium or Group #1302
\nAmenit
ies: complimentary breakfast\, shuttle to and from campus
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\
nStanford Guest House
\n2575 Sand Hill Road\, Menl
o Park\, CA 94025
\n(650) 926-2800
\nhttp://guesthouse.stanford.edu
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\nRate:
$109 for November 13 / $99 for November 14
\nReference: Wanda Corn S
ymposium
\nAmenities: complimentary morning beverages and weekend pa
stries\, shuttle to and from campus
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\nVISI
TOR INFORMATION
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\nAnnenberg Auditorium is located
in the basement level of the Nathan Cummings Art Building\, 435 Lasuen Mal
l\, Stanford\, CA 94305. The Department of Art &\; Art History main tel
ephone line is (650) 723-3404.
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\nDirections
\nCampus Map
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\nParking &nd
ash\; Free from 4 PM on Monday to Friday\, and all day on weekends. More information
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\nABOUT WANDA CORN
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\nHaving earned a BA (l963)\, MA (l965) and Ph.D.
(l974) from New York University\, Professor Wanda Corn taught at Washingt
on Square College\, the University of California\, Berkeley\, and Mills Co
llege before moving to Stanford University in Palo Alto\, California in 19
80. At Stanford she held the university's first permanent appointment in t
he history of American art and served as chair of the Department of Art an
d Art History and Acting Director of the Stanford Museum. From l992 to 199
5 she was the Anthony P. Meier Family Professor and Director of the Stanfo
rd Humanities Center. In 2000\, she became the Robert and Ruth Halperin Pr
ofessor in Art History. She retired from teaching at Stanford in 2008. In
2009\, she was the John Rewald DistinguishedVisiting Lecturer\, at the CUN
Y Graduate Center.
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\nA scholar
of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art and photograp
hy\, Professor Corn has received fellowships from the American Council of
Learned Societies\, the Smithsonian of American Art Museum\, the Woodrow W
ilson International Center for Scholars\, the Smithsonian Regents\, the St
anford Humanities Center\, and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study.
In 2006-07\, she was the Samuel H. Kress Professor at the Center for Advan
ced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. She has won n
umerous teaching awards: in 2007 The Distinguished Teaching of Art History
Award from the College Art Association\; in 2002 the Phi Beta Kappa Under
graduate Teaching Award\; and in 1974 the Graves Award for outstanding tea
ching in the humanities. \; In 2006\, the Archives of American Art awa
rded her The Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the
Field of American Art History and in 2007 she received the Women's Caucus
for Art Life Time Achievement Award in the Visual Arts. In 2003 she was th
e Clark Distinguished Visiting Professor at Williams College. She has serv
ed two terms on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association and
two on the Commission for the Smithsonian American Art Museum. \; She
served on the Advisory Board of the Georgia O&rsquo\;Keeffe Catalogue Rais
onné\;\, two terms on the Board of the Terra Foundation in American
Art and is presently a trustee of the Wyeth Foundation in American Art.
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\nActive as a curator of museum exhibitions\, she had produc
ed various books and exhibitions\, including The Color of Mood: Americ
an Tonalism 1990-1910 (1972)\; The Art of Andrew Wyeth (l973
)\; and Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision (1983). \; Her his
toriographic article for Art Bulletin\, "\;Coming of Age: His
torical Scholarship in American Art"\; (June l988)\, became a \; s
ignificant point of reference in the field as has her work on cultural nat
ionalism in early American modernism. Her study of avant-garde modernist c
ulture along the Atlantic rim\, The Great American Thing: Modern Art a
nd American Identity\, 1915-35\, was published by the University of C
alifornia Press in the fall of 1999. She has just completed a book&mdash\;
Women Building History&mdash\;about Mary Cassatt and the decorati
ve program of murals and sculptures for the Woman&rsquo\;s Building at the
Chicago World&rsquo\;s Columbian Exposition of 1893. \; She is now pr
eparing an exhibition and book--Seeing Gertrude Stein\, Five Stories--to be launched in San Francisco and Washington D.C. in 2011. She cont
inues to research\, write\, and lecture on high\, middle\, and low culture
interpretations of Grant Wood&rsquo\;s American Gothic. \;
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