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\, November 13\, 2009
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\n3 pm \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&n
bsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \
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sp\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Arrival / Coffee &\; Tea<
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\n4 pm \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \
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sp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;
\; \; \; \; \; \;Welcome by Richard Vinograd\, De
partment Chair
\n4:10 - 6:10 pm \; \; \; \; \;&n
bsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \
; \; \; \; \; Session I
\n6:10 - 7:10 pm \;&nbs
p\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&
nbsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Reception (Art Lob
by)
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\nSaturday\, November 14\, 2009
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\n8:45 am \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&nbs
p\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;
\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Coffee &\; Tea
\n9:30 - 11 am \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&
nbsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&nbs
p\; \; Session 2
\n11 - 11:15 am \; \; \; \;&n
bsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;
\; \; \; Break
\n11:15 am - 12:45 pm \; \; \;&n
bsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Session 3
\n1
2:45 - 1:45 pm \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&n
bsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Lunch Break
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n1:45 - 3:15 pm \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&
nbsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Sess
ion 4
\n3:15 - 3:30 pm \; \; \; \; \; \; &n
bsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \
; \; Coffee Break
\n3:30 - 5:10 pm \; \; \; \;&
nbsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&nb
sp\; \; \; Session 5
\n5:15 - 6:30 pm \; \; \; &
nbsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&nb
sp\; \; \; \; Wanda Corn&rsquo\;s Presentation
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\nSCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS \; (subject to change without notice)
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\nSession 1: \; 4:10-6:10 pm
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\nModerated by Professor Bryan Wolf\, Department of Art &\; A
rt History
\n
\nKeith Eggener\, University of Missouri
\
n"\;Seeing\, Selling and Sanctifying the Mark Twain Birthplace (1835/1
959)"\;
\n
\nElizabeth Hutchinson\, Barnard College\, Colu
mbia University
\n"\;Five Views of Sequoyah's Turban\,"\; Ch
arles Bird King\, 1844"\;
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\nAnnelise Madsen\, Stanford
University
\n"\;Edwin Blashfield's Evolution of Civilization
(1896) and the Lessons of Mural Painting"\;
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\nMar
y Campbell\, Stanford University
\n"\;The Sultan's Favorite<
/em>: Charles Ellis Johnson and the Mormon Harem"\; (1903-4)
\n<
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\nKristin Schwain\, University of Missouri-Columbia
\n"\;L
earning to Look and Decorating the Parlor: Art and Display at Wanamaker&rs
quo\;s Department Stores"\; (early 20th century)
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\nQ an
d A
\nNovember 14
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\nSession 2: \; 9:30-11 am
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\nModerated by Professor Michael Marrinan\, Depa
rtment of Art &\; Art History
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\nEllen Wiley Todd\, Georg
e Mason University
\n"\;Can Anyone See? John Sloan's In Memo
riam: Here is the Real Triangle\, 1911"\;
\n
\nPatti
Junker\, Seattle Art Museum
\n"\;Childe Hassam\, Flags on th
e Waldorf\, 1916"\;
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\nDavid Lubin\, Wake Forest Un
iversity
\n"\;Flushed Out: Duchamp's Fountain (1917) Go
es to War"\;
\n
\nQ and A
\nSession 3: \; 11:15 am-12:45 pm
\nModerated by Professor Pamela M. Lee\
, Department of Art &\; Art History
\n
\nJason Weems\, Univ
ersity of California\, Riverside
\n"\;At Play in the Cornfields:
Grant Wood's Spring Turning\, 1936"\;
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\nGwend
olyn DuBois Shaw\, University of Pennsylvania
\n"\;To Know t
o Know to Love Her So: Sargent Johnson\, 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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\nModerated by Professor Pamela M. Lee\, Department of Art &
\; Art History
\n
\nCecile Whiting\, University of California\
, Irvine
\n"\;David Hockey's American Collectors (Fred
and Marcia Weisman)\, 1968"\;
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\nTirza Latimer\, Califor
nia College of the Arts\, San Francisco
\n"\;A Reverent Look: Th
e Endpaper from Gertrude's Follies (Tom Hachtman\, 1979)"\;
\n
\nCarolyn Kastner\, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum\, Santa Fe
\n"\
;Jaune Quick-To-See Smith: Petroglyph Park and Court House Steps\
, 1987"\;
\n
\nQ and A
\nSession 5: \; 3:30-5:10 pm
\nModerated by Shelley Fisher Fishkin\, Profess
or of English and Director of American Studies Program
\n
\nPa
m McClusky\, Seattle Art Museum
\n"\;Letters to Laikom: How Wand
a Corn's Art History Opened Doors into the Palace of the King of Kom&rdquo
\;
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\nCherise Smith\, University of Texas at Austin
\n
"\;Rethinking Carrie Mae Weems' Historic Appropriations"\;
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n
\nDavid Cateforis\, University of Kansas
\n"\;Cultural T
ransference and Creative Misunderstanding in Wenda Gu's Poem of the Un
iversity of Pittsburgh (2004)"\;
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\nLouise Siddons\
, Oklahoma State University
\n"\;Robert Turney\, Untitled Self-P
ortrait\, 2009"\;
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\nQ and A
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\nIntrodu ction by Ellen Wiley Todd and Cecile Whiting
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\n"\;Mary and Me: Modern Woman\, Modern Women"\;
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\nSPECIAL HOTEL RATES FOR THE SYMPOSIUM<
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\nStanford Terrace Inn
\n53
1 Stanford 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
occupancy
\nReference: Wanda Corn Symposium or Group #1302
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nAmenities: complimentary breakfast\, shuttle to and from campus
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\nStanford Guest House
\n2575 Sand Hill Road
\, Menlo Park\, CA 94025
\n(650) 926-2800
\nhttp://guesthouse.stanford.edu
\n
\nRate: $109 for November 13 / $99 for November 14
\nReference: Wand
a Corn Symposium
\nAmenities: complimentary morning beverages and we
ekend pastries\, shuttle to and from campus
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\nAnnenberg Auditorium is
located in the basement level of the Nathan Cummings Art Building\, 435 La
suen Mall\, Stanford\, CA 94305. The Department of Art &\; Art History
main telephone line is (650) 723-3404.
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\nDirections
\nCampus Map
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\nPar
king &ndash\; Free from 4 PM on Monday to Friday\, and all day on weekends
. More information
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\nABOUT WA
NDA CORN
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\nHaving earned a BA (l963)\, MA (l965) a
nd Ph.D. (l974) from New York University\, Professor Wanda Corn taught at
Washington Square College\, the University of California\, Berkeley\, and
Mills College before moving to Stanford University in Palo Alto\, Californ
ia in 1980. At Stanford she held the university's first permanent appointm
ent in the history of American art and served as chair of the Department o
f Art and Art History and Acting Director of the Stanford Museum. From l99
2 to 1995 she was the Anthony P. Meier Family Professor and Director of th
e Stanford Humanities Center. In 2000\, she became the Robert and Ruth Hal
perin Professor in Art History. She retired from teaching at Stanford in 2
008. In 2009\, she was the John Rewald DistinguishedVisiting Lecturer\, at
the CUNY Graduate Center.
\nA
scholar of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art and p
hotography\, Professor Corn has received fellowships from the American Cou
ncil of Learned Societies\, the Smithsonian of American Art Museum\, the W
oodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, the Smithsonian Regents\
, the Stanford Humanities Center\, and the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced
Study. In 2006-07\, she was the Samuel H. Kress Professor at the Center f
or Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. She h
as won numerous teaching awards: in 2007 The Distinguished Teaching of Art
History Award from the College Art Association\; in 2002 the Phi Beta Kap
pa Undergraduate Teaching Award\; and in 1974 the Graves Award for outstan
ding teaching in the humanities. \; In 2006\, the Archives of American
Art awarded 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 sh
e was the Clark Distinguished Visiting Professor at Williams College. She
has served two terms on the Board of Directors of the College Art Associat
ion and two on the Commission for the Smithsonian American Art Museum.&nbs
p\; She served on the Advisory Board of the Georgia O&rsquo\;Keeffe Catalo
gue Raisonné\;\, two terms on the Board of the Terra Foundation in A
merican 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 ha
d produced various books and exhibitions\, including The Color of Mood
: American Tonalism 1990-1910 (1972)\; The Art of Andrew Wyeth (l973)\; and Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision (1983). \;
Her historiographic article for Art Bulletin\, "\;Coming of
Age: Historical Scholarship in American Art"\; (June l988)\, became a&
nbsp\; significant point of reference in the field as has her work on cult
ural nationalism in early American modernism. Her study of avant-garde mod
ernist culture along the Atlantic rim\, The Great American Thing: Mode
rn Art and American Identity\, 1915-35\, was published by the Univers
ity of California Press in the fall of 1999. She has just completed a book
&mdash\;Women Building History&mdash\;about Mary Cassatt and the
decorative program of murals and sculptures for the Woman&rsquo\;s Buildin
g at the Chicago World&rsquo\;s Columbian Exposition of 1893. \; She i
s now preparing an exhibition and book--Seeing Gertrude Stein\, Five S
tories--to be launched in San Francisco and Washington D.C. in 2011.
She continues to research\, write\, and lecture on high\, middle\, and low
culture interpretations of Grant Wood&rsquo\;s American Gothic.&
nbsp\;