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The Art History Senior Symposium is the final requirement for the art history major at Hollins University and is the culmination of a yearlong research project. Senior art history majors will present their original research as formal papers in a public symposium on Friday, April 24, 2009. Click here for more information. This year's seniors include: Louise Bond, Peyton Brogan, Samantha Cole, Abbie Fisher, Emily Morris, Rhiannon Platt, Kara Scott, Whitney Stanton, Leah Twichell and Harmony Wolfe.
Art History Senior Symposium
Friday, April 24, 2009
Visual Arts Center, Lecture Room 119
I. Ancient and Medieval, 1:00–2:15 p.m.
"So Easy a Neolithic Man Can Do It: An Examination of Similarities Between Ancient and Modern Cultures" -
Peyton Brogan
"Barbarians Through Greek Eyes: the Dying Gauls" -
Louise Bond
"Framing the Pseudo-Sacred: Burgundian Devotional Texts and Political Agenda" -
Kara Scott
II. Early Modern and Modern, 2:30–4:15 p.m.
"Preserving Past and Present: Understanding Giorgio Vasari as Author, Artist, and Preservationist" -
Leah Twichell
"Creating a Career: The Papacy and Bernini’s Use of Theatricality" -
Abbie Fisher
"Modernity and La Mode: Manet’s Depictions of the Zeitgeist through Art and Fashion" -
Emily Morris
"Extended Family: Revisioning Elizabeth Macdowell Kenton and Daydreams: Portrait of Caroline Eakins" -
Samantha Cole
III. Twentieth- and Twenty-First Centuries, 4:30–6:15 p.m.
"Imagined Prosperity: Post Office Murals During the Great Depression" -
Whitney Stanton
"Libertad: Public Art, Politics, and Profit" -
Rhiannon Platt
"Trinh T. Minh-ha, Felix Gonzalez Torres, and Janet Cardiff: Disrupting Notions" -
Harmony Wolfe
The art history major offers students a knowledge of works of art in the context of the social, political, and intellectual cultures of which they are a part. Students learn to think, read, and write critically about art and to be astute interpreters of visual imagery. Art history majors progress through chronologically oriented survey courses into upper-level seminars and research projects. The art history major culminates in the senior seminar, an overview of the critical issues of the discipline, as well as the writing and the public presentation of each senior's research.
The curriculum is enriched through lectures and seminars by distinguished visiting art historians as well as by the the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum program. All majors are encouraged to travel. Art history majors are encouraged to pursue internships in fields such as museum work, art galleries and auction houses, arts administration, architecture, historic preservation, and interior design, fields in which many majors find employment after graduation. Students also pursue graduate study in these fields.
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"I remember how much I enjoyed debating issues and ideas in Professor Nolan's art history theory class. It was good preparation for graduate school in urban planning."
Christine Holt '97, received a master of planning degree from the University of Virginia, and is currently employed as an associate planner for the Richmond Regional Planning District Commission.
"It's neat to see how I compare to the other interns [at the Metropolitan Museum of Art], and their art historical backgrounds. I was a little nervous about what it was going to be like, working with people from bigger, more well-known universities, but it turns out that I had many more internships and much more interesting and creative classes."
Amy Torbert '05, summer intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Noted art historians lecture frequently at Hollins. The following artists have recently been discussed.
Artemesia Gentileschi
Clio, Muse of History
oil/canvas, 1.27x.975m (1652)
Private Collection, New York
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
Idylls of the King (1875) Albumen silver print
Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952
Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842)
Portrait of Madame Thérèse Vestris
oil/canvas, 35"x28", 1803
National Museum of Women in the Arts
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