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| Visiting Lecturer: Susan Rather |
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| Start Date: | 11/16/2012 | Start Time: | 3:30 PM |
| End Date: | 11/16/2012 | End Time: | 5:00 PM |
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Event Description
Friday, November 16 at 3:30 pm in room 213 of FNAR
The next meeting of the Arkansas Seminar in Early American History will convene on Friday November 16, 2012 at 3:30PM in Fine Arts 213. With us this month is Susan Rather, Senior Tyson Fellow at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art. Dr. Rather is an Associate Professor and a former Graduate Advisor/Assistant Chair of Department of Art & Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her BA from Denison University and her MA and PhD from the University of Delaware. Her first book, Archaism, Modernism and the Art of Paul Manship (1993), addressed issues of modernism in European and American sculpture between 1900 and the 1930s. Rather has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Winterthur Museum, American Council of Learned Societies, Yale Center for British Art, Massachusetts Historical Society, and the University of Texas. She has published articles on John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Gilbert Stuart, and others in such scholarly journals as Art Bulletin, American Art, William and Mary Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Metropolitan Museum Journal.
At this month’s seminar, we will read and discuss the introduction from Dr. Rather’s current project, which she is currently close to finishing. This book, The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era, asks what it meant to be an American artist in Revolutionary America. Rather’s study interweaves nuanced analysis of well-known artists, paintings, and texts with accounts of non-elite painters, ephemeral texts and images (such as sign painting and advertisements), and overlooked contemporaneous popular writings about artists in newspapers and magazines. Recurring themes across the book include artisanry and professionalism; practice and theory; regional, colonial, and national identities; the democratization of art and portrait painting as a political metaphor; artistic nationalism and naturalism as a presumed American idiom; and the nascent history of American art.
This month’s seminar is jointly sponsored by the Arkansas Seminar in Early American History, the Department of History, and the Department of Art.
The reading has been posted on the history department's sharepoint site. To access the site, go to https://sharepoint.uark.edu/sites/HIST/GRAD/default.aspx. Your User name is your full uark email address and your password is the same one you use for email. Click on 'Early American Seminar' (it is on the left hand side) and it will show you a set of folders. Click on the folder marked “November 16, 2012” to find the readings. |
Location Information:
Main Campus - FNAR - Fine Arts
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Contact Information:
Name: Cynthia Nourse Thompson
Phone: 479-575-7987
Email: cynthiat@uark.edu |
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