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PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICAN ART: SOURCES, IDEAS, AND INFLUENCES 1890S TO THE PRESENT
Participants



Robert Rosenblum - Key Note Speaker
Rosenblum will present "How Painting Became Photography and Vice Versa."

"Painting and photography used to be considered very different media, separated not only by the difference between the handmade and the machine-made, but also by hierarchies of higher and lower art," says Rosenblum. "But in the later 20th century these two separate visual worlds began to fuse, creating new hybrids and completely blurring the distinctions between these once separate categories." His lecture will discuss this evolution, with references to such artists as Warhol, Estes, Close, Lawler, and Sherman.

Rosenblum is Professor of Fine Arts, New York University, and Curator of 20th-Century art, Guggenheim Museum. He is an eminent art historian and critic and has written many award-winning books, including "1900: Art at the Crossroads"; "The Dog in Art: From Rococo to Post-Modernism"; "Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko"; "Frank Stella"; and "Cubism & Twentieth-Century Art."

He has also organized numerous exhibitions at leading institutions, such as: "French Painting, 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution" (Paris, Detroit, NY, 1974-75); "Sol LeWitt" (NY, MOMA, 1978); "Andy Warhol: Portraits of the ’70s" (NY, Whitney, 1979); "The Natural Paradise: Painting in America, 1800-1950" (NY, MOMA, 1976); "Picasso from the Musée Picasso, Paris" (Minneapolis, Walker, 1980); "Edvard Munch: Symbolism and Images" (Washington, National Gallery, 1978); "Andy Warhol: A Retrospective" (NY, MOMA, 1980); "Picasso and the War Years, 1937-1945" (NY, Guggenheim, 1999); and "1900: Art at the Crossroads" (London, NY, Guggenheim, 2000).

Symposium Speakers

Dan Cameron
Curator, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

C. Ondine Chavoya
Assistant Professor, Art History, Williams College, 2005-06 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center Scholar

Bonnie Clearwater
Director and Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida

Wanda Corn
Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History, Stanford University

Kellie Jones
Assitant Professor, History of Art and African American Studies, Yale University

Michael Leja
Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania

Gail Levin
Professor of Art History, The City University of New York

David Lubin
Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art, Art History, Wake Forest University

Nancy Mathews
Eugen Prendergast Senior Curator of 19th and 20th Century

Kathleen Pyne
Director, Program in Gender Studies, Professor, Art History, University of Notre Dame

Brian Wallis
Chief Curator, International Center for Photography, New York

Jonathan Weinberg
Independent Scholar and Vera List Senior Fellow, New School University, New York