Art History Colloquium
This is the 3rd Art History Senior Research Colloquium, under the guidance of Professor Xin Conan-Wu, where developed and refined in-depth research, on various topics, ranged from the historical to the contemporary.
The 12 art history majors in the Spring 2021 Capstone Seminar were:
Caitlin Blomo
Alejandro Algarra Gonzalez
June Hodge
Kristen Lauritzen
Hannah London
Charlie Parsons
Kristin Rheins
Sarah Roberts
Savannah Singleton
Finley Stewart
Katherine Welch
Isabel Williams
Their research papers were presented formally through a full-day virtual colloquium.
This year’s colloquium was launched by a Keynote Lecture
"The Future of Winckelmann's Classical Form: Walter Pater and Frederic Leighton"
by Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn, University of York, UK.
Elizabeth Prettejohn is Professor of History of Art and Head of Department, History of Art, at the University of York (UK). Her books on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement assessed the achievements of Victorian artists and placed them in relation to European Modernism. Her work on the critical fortunes of Victorian art has led to a more general interest in taste and aesthetics, explored in her books Beauty and Art 1750-2000 (2005) and The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso (2012). Her most recent book, Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War (2017), argues that Victorian artists were, paradoxically, at their most original when they imitated the Old Masters most faithfully. Liz is an active guest curator and has co-curated exhibitions on Lawrence Alma-Tadema, John William Waterhouse, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In 2011 she gave the Paul Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery, London, on ‘The National Gallery and the English Renaissance of Art’.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Liz studied American art and architecture at Harvard University, before moving to London to study British and French art at the Courtauld Institute.