Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will host a graduate symposium in conjunction with the exhibition Anatomy/Academy: Nexus of Art and Science.
In tribute to Philadelphia’s historical importance as a center for the artistic and anatomical study of the human body, this symposium examines the body in relation to the material and visual culture of American art, focusing on how Philadelphia’s dynamic art and science communities fostered knowledge of the human body from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Students will present new research in twenty-minute papers and attendees will have an extended opportunity to view the exhibition with curators and educators. The program will conclude with a round-table discussion moderated by the Curators of Anatomy/Academy and faculty from each university, including Alan Braddock, Wendy Bellion, Tanya Sheehan, Michael Leja, Patrick Connors and Rachael DeLue.
9:30 a.m.
Doors Open
10:00 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:30 a.m.
Laura Turner Igoe, Temple University
Marble Cheeks and Breast Work: Charles Willson Peale’s Embodied Fireplace Designs
10:55 a.m.
Catherine Holochwost, University of Delaware
Durand’s Two 'Ariadnes': Pleasure and Anxiety in a Time of Cholera
11:20 a.m.
Nika Elder, Princeton University
Objectified: The Human Body in an Early Drawing by William Harnett
11:55 a.m.
Q & A, Moderated by Curator Anna Marley
12:15 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:00 p.m.
Curators and Educators available for conversation in PAFA’s Historic Cast Hall, the Permanent Collection, and the Anatomy/Academy exhibition
2:00 p.m.
Gianna Loscerbo, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Remembering the Civil War Body: Photographs of Dr. Addinell Hewson’s Earth Cure in Postbellum Philadelphia
2:25 p.m.
Ellery Foutch, University of Pennsylvania
Bodybuilder Eugen Sandow and ‘Artistic Anatomy’
2:50 p.m.
Ana María Gómez López and Anna Moblard Meier, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
David Lynch: The Body 'in Extremis'
3:15 p.m.
Q & A, moderated by Curator Anna Marley
3:45 p.m.
Faculty Roundtable Discussion with Alan Braddock (Temple), Wendy Bellion (UDel), Patrick Connors (PAFA), Michael Leja (UPenn), Rachael DeLue (Princeton), and Tanya Sheehan (Rutgers).
4:30 p.m.
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To reserve a seat, rsvp to mzimmerman@pafa.org or 215-972-2105.