35th Annual Cleveland Symposium
Art History Graduate Student Symposium
February 20, 2009
Hosted by Case Western Reserve University, Department of Art History and Art
Presentations begin at 10:30am, Cleveland Museum of Art Recital Hall
Keynote Presentation: "Objects as Machines"
Dr. Gerald B. Guest, Associate Professor and Chair of Art History and Humanities, John Carroll University
The Cleveland Symposium is organized by students in the joint graduate program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Symposium provides a forum in which graduate students from art history programs across the United States come together to present topics on the history of art.
This year's 35th annual Cleveland Symposium, to be held on February 20th at the Cleveland Museum of Art, invites graduate students to present papers from any area or period of art history. In light of the Cleveland Museum of Art's recent re-opening of its collections of European and American paintings, sculpture and decorative arts from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, papers with an object-based focus were selected for presentation. A monetary prize will be awarded to the papers that present the most innovative research.
Image: Adriaen Coorte, Gooseberries on a Table, 1701 Oil on paper mounted on wood. Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1987.32