Wölfflin’s Grundbegriffe @ 100: The North American Reception
A Clark Colloquium
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
June 21-23, 2012
Program
Friday, June 22
- 9:00-9:15
Introduction
Michael Holly, Starr Director, Research and Academic Program - 9:15-10:30
Wölfflin's Grundbegriffe @100 in North America and Beyond: Prospects for a History of Art History
Evonne Levy, Renaissance & Baroque Art & Architecture, University of Toronto - 10:45-11:45
The Grundbegriffe from a Perspective of Seventy Years
James Ackerman, Independent Scholar, Renaissance Architecture - 11:45-12:45
Arnheim's Chair and the Redemption of Modernism
Mark Jarzombek, Department of Architecture, MIT - 2:00-3:00
Painterly Formalism: Wölfflin and Greenberg
Daniel Adler, Department of Visual Arts, York University, Canada -
3:00-4:00
Thoughts on Wölfflin Then and Now
Svetlana Alpers, Independent Scholar, NY -
4:15-5:15
Undisciplined Reading
Marshall Brown, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Washington
Saturday, June 23
- 9:00-10:00
Compare and Contrast: The Afterlife of Wölfflin's Formalist Method
Carol Armstrong, History of Art Department, Yale University - 10:00-11:00
Formalism and Phenomenology
Robert Williams, History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara - 11:15-12:15
Formalisms, Kantian and not
Stephen Melville, Department of History of Art, Ohio State University - 1:30-2:30
What is 'Post-Formalism'?
Whitney Davis, History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley - 2:30-3:30
Wrap-Up
Peg Olin, Yale Divinity School, Yale University