Picturing Nature and Naturalizing Pictures:
An Interdisciplinary Faculty-Graduate Student Symposium
April 10-11, 2014- Registration Form
Please fill out this form or send by fax, mail, or email to:
CENTER FOR EARLY MODERN HISTORY
University of Minnesota — 1030 Heller Hall
271 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel. (612) 625-6303 — Email: cemh@umn.edu
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Please note: By registering, you agree to attend every all events in the symposium program. Any absences will need
to be cleared in advance with Michael Gaudio and J.B. Shank. The schedule is attached to this application.
Picturing Nature and Naturalizing Pictures:
An Interdisciplinary Faculty-Graduate Student Symposium
University of Minnesota
April 10-11, 2014
Thursday, April 10
11:00 - 12:00:
Reception, 1210 Heller Hall
12:00 - 1:30:
Reading Group: Hans Belting, Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and
Arab Science (Belknap, 2011). 1210 Heller.
3:00-4:30:
Lab session led by J.B. Shank: “The Thingyness of Geometry and the
Fabrication of Renaissance Pictorial Space.” Meet in the print room at the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. (Please note that attendance may have to be
limited for this event due to space restrictions.)
6:30:
Dinner (location TBA)
Friday, April 11
10:00-11:30:
Morning session in the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota.
12:00-1:30:
University of Minnesota Center for Early Modern History lecture: Michael
Gaudio, “Frans Post’s Silent Landscapes.” 1210 Heller.
3:00-4:30:
Conversation on realism in the seventeenth-century Dutch painting
galleries at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Readings from will precirculate from the special issue of the journal Art History:
The Erotics of Looking: Materiality, Solicitation and Netherlandish Visual
Culture (November 2012):
• Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson, “The Erotics of Looking:
Materiality, Solicitation and Netherlandish Visual Culture,” pp. 874-885
• Angela Vanhaelen, “Boredom’s Threshold: Dutch Realism,” pp. 10041023
• Bronwen Wilson, “The Work of Realism,” pp. 1058-1073
6:30:
Dinner (location TBA)