Graduate Program Calendar

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http://www.northwestern.edu/fellowships/info/grad/arthistory.html

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Past Events

2005-06

Minor Colloquium:  Tuesday, January, 24, 2006

Minor Field of Study Due: Friday, March 3, 2006 (Friday before WCAS
Reading Week starts)

2004-05

Ananda Shankar Chakrabarty
(Northwestern University PhD Candidate)
"Pierre Soulages' Recent Paintings and the Prehistoric Hypotext"

Departmental Graduate Minor Examination Colloquium
Department Event:
Participants limted to Faculty, Students, and their Guests
Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Minor Field of Study
Due Friday, March 4, 2005

16th Annual Graduate Student Symposium

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Thomas Crow

"The Unknown Conversation:
The Last Works of Mark Rothko and Eva Hesse"

When a collective moment in the history of art comes to an end through iconoclasm or some other external disturbance, one can trace certain of the dispersed elements of a previous synthesis to their new uses and locations in a culture.  Others, by contrast, seem broken and suppressed.  Can a parallel analysis apply to the decline and/or death of an artist who may have held together the threads of something larger than an individual project?  The occasion for asking these questions arises from an uncanny parallelism that emerged in the final works of Rothko and Hesse: the first an artist of advanced age and long accomplishment, the second still young and just discovering her individual voice, both facing death at nearly the same moment.  The further question arises as to how much the anticipated conclusion of one's work and life can find a place in the final productions of an artist.

Saturday, April 30, 2005

Dr. Thomas Crow is Director of the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center, Los Angeles and Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California. He was previously Robert Lehman Professor of Art History at Yale University and Chair of History of Art at the University of Sussex in the UK. His first book, Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris, appeared in 1985 and won a number of awards. He has since published on French painting of the Revolutionary period (Emulation, 1995) and on the art of the later twentieth century (The Rise of the Sixties, 1996, and Modern Art in the Common Culture, 1996). His book, The Intelligence of Art (1999) addressed the critical and historical understanding of art objects. His most recent publication was a survey on Gordon Matta-Clark (2003). His work has been translated into French, German, and Spanish. A contributing editor of Artforum, he writes frequently on contemporary art and cultural issues. He was educated in southern California, at Pomona College and UCLA.

Major Field of Study
Due Friday, June 3, 2005

Stephen Hill
(Northwestern University)

Grant Writing Workshop for Graduate Students

MA Exam
Passed out 9am Monday, June 6, 2005
Due 11am Wednesday, June 8, 2005

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