From the Gates of Paradise

  • From the “Gates of Paradise”

The 23rd annual Arkansas College Art History Symposium, to be held Thursday and Friday this week at UALR, has much to recommend it. A talk on Turner, Italian art, Mayan art, editorial cartoons and, of special interest to those interested in the feminine, “Ambiguity in the Portrayal of Maids in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting,” by Jeanne Vockroth of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

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Try to make some of this free symposium, all in the Fine Arts Building room 161. Dr. Floyd Martin, 569-3182, is the contact person. Here’s the schedule:

THURSDAY, March 7

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Keynote lecture, 7:30 p.m.: “Purposeful Choices and Clever Surprises: Conflict, Resolution, and Contemporary Relevance in Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise,” by Dr. William R. Levin, Centre College, Danville, Ky.

FRIDAY, March 8

09:10-09:30: “The ‘Awe’ in Turner’s Work,” Mariah Morris, UCA
09:30-09:50: “Gustave Moreau and the Development of Symbolism,” Hannah Mosby, UCA
09:50-10:10: “Tea in the Afternoon: John White Alexander and ‘The Gossip,’” Jeanne-Marie Meyer, UALR
10:10-10:30: “The Rising Sun Never Sets: ‘Japonisme’ Found in Japan’s Contemporary Print Culture,” Nick Langley, HSU
10:50-11:10: “The Hours of Engelbert of Nassau: A Discussion of Two Narrative Sequences,” Natalie Pickle, UALR
11:10-11:30: “The Quiet Reformation: Evangelicalism and Church Architecture in Early Modern Italy,” Michael Hartman, UAF
11:30-11:50: “Ambiguity in the Portrayal of Maids in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting,” Jeanne Vockroth, UAF
11:50-12:10: “Class Identity and Ornamentation in Twentieth-Century Trinidad,” Leniqueca Welcome, UAF
1:25-1:4: “An Iconographical Analysis of the Façade of the Tomb of Ukit Kan Le’k Tok’ at Ek’ Balam, Yucatán,” Meredith Bagby Fettes, UALR
1:45-2:15: “Art of Negotiation: Pre-Columbian Motifs within the Monastic Space of Sixteenth-Century Ixmiquilpan,” Elizabeth Owen, UAF
2:15-2:25: Fragmented Memory: The Church of San Francisco, Mexico City, as a Lieu de mémoire,” Laurence McMahon, UAF
2:25-02:45: “Rafael Pineda (Rapé): Online Editorial Cartoons and Caricature as Activist Art Form in Mexico Today,” Héctor R. Garcia, UCA
2:45-03:45: Comments on Papers and Additional Remarks, Dr. Levin.

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