ART MUSEUMS PRESENTS SYMPOSIUM ON PRINTING MATTERS

Released: October 29, 1998

Contact: Kate McShea Ewen
(617) 495-2397

The Harvard University Art Museums has invited leading scholars to reflect on the materiality of printed objects in the symposium Printing Matters: The Materiality of Print in Early Modern Europe. The lectures will cover such issues as transitions between hand production and mechanical production, the ways in which typographic and layout conventions are invested with meaning, and the synthesis of visual and textual content. This material emphasis brings together text-based and image-based studies, challenging current disciplinary boundaries. The symposium will take place in the Christian Room of the Fogg Art Museum on Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15 and is free and open to the public. Complimentary parking is available between 8:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday and between 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Sunday, at the Broadway Garage. The Garage entrance is on Felton Street, which runs from Cambridge Street to Broadway.

Printing Matters is organized by Graham Larkin and Lisa Pon, doctoral candidates in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. The symposium is held in conjunction with two exhibitions taking place at Harvard: Lines of Inquiry: Ancien Régime Book Illustration from the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, curated by Larkin (on view at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, through December 11, 1998) and Prints and Privileges: Regulating the Image in Sixteenth-Century Italy, curated by Pon (on view at the Fogg Art Museum from through December 27, 1998).

Schedule
Saturday November 14, 1998

9:00 a.m. Director's welcome, introduction, James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard University Art Museums

9:30 a.m.The Wages of War: Battles, Prints and Entrepreneurs in Late Seventeenth-Century Venice, Brendan Dooley, associate professor of history and of social studies, Harvard University

10:00 a.m. On the Threshold of Print and Performance: How Prints Matter to Bodies of/at Work, Abby Zanger, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures, Harvard University

10:30 a.m. coffee

11:00 a.m. Curating the Renaissance Body, Evelyn Lincoln, assistant professor of history of art and architecture, Brown University

11:30 a.m. Response, Stephen Greenblatt, Harry Levin Professor of Literature, Harvard University

Break: Lines of Inquiry will be open for viewing in the Houghton Library until 1:00 p.m. Prints and Privileges will be open for viewing in the Fogg until 4:45 p.m.

2:00 p.m. Introduction

2:15 p.m.Benedetto Bordon and LucAntonio Giunta: Illustration of Early Sixteenth-Century Liturgical Books in Venice, Lilian Armstrong, Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Art, Wellesley College

2:45 p.m.The Materiality of the Earliest Archeological Publications, Christopher Wood, associate professor of history of art, Yale University

3:15 p.m.Benito Arias Montano, the Index Expurgatorius, and the Notion of Locus in Sixteenth-Century Books, Paul Saenger, George A. Poole III Curator of Rare Books, The Newberry Library

3:45 p.m. Response, Henri Zerner, professor of history of art and architecture, Harvard University

Sunday November 15, 1998

9:00 a.m. coffee

9:15 a.m. Introduction

9:30 a.m. Making Poets: The Printing of Herbert's Temple, Ramie Targoff, assistant professor of English, Yale University

10:00 a.m.Vivae dixisses virginis ora: The Discourse of Color in Hendrick Goltzius's Pygmalion and the Ivory Statue,Walter Melion, professor of history of art, The Johns Hopkins University

10:30 a.m. De la Satyre au Théâtre: Graphic Tensions in the Early Modern French Atlas,Tom Conley, professor of Romance languages and literatures, Harvard University

11:00 a.m. Response and closing remarks Joseph Koerner, professor of history of art and architecture, Harvard University

For more information on the symposium, including related events and exhibitions in the Boston area, lecture abstracts and related publications, see the symposium web site at: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/events/printmatters.html

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