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"Exposed: The Victorian Nude" (NY, Brooklyn Mus, 14.12.02)
Dear Colleagues,
The Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art and the Brooklyn Museum of Art invite you to a seminar they are co-sponsoring at the Brooklyn Museum of Art on Saturday, December 14. Please review the following summary of activities.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP affirmatively to AHNCA's headquarters at sofi822@hotmail.com .
If you have questions about the event, please send them to the same address and they will be answered promptly.
Exposed: The Victorian Nude SEMINAR
On Saturday, December 14, 2002, the Brooklyn Museum of Art will host a seminar in conjunction with the exhibition Exposed: The Victorian Nude (Sept. 6 - Jan. 5). This event is co-sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA). It is free with Museum
admission, and entirely free to members of AHNCA, who are to check in at the AHNCA table in the Grand Lobby.
1.00 - 1.30 p.m. Exposed: The Victorian Nude, Fifth Floor
Art historian Peter Trippi presents a gallery talk entitled "Pure as Snow?
J.W. Waterhouse's Saint Eulalia and the Implications of Martyrdom." Mr.
Trippi's biography of the Victorian painter J.W. Waterhouse (1849-1917) was published in October 2002.
1.30 p.m. Cantor Auditorium, Third Floor
Barbara Dayer Gallati, Curator of American Art at the BMA and coordinating curator of the Brooklyn Museum of Art's showing of Exposed: The Victorian Nude, discusses the American reception of the exhibition.
1.50 p.m. Cantor Auditorium, Third Floor
Laurie Dahlberg, Assistant Professor of Photography at Bard College, gives a talk entitled "Of Nudity and Nationality: The Photographed Nude in France and England, 1850-1900." Laurie Dahlberg has published widely on nineteenth-century photography and is completing The Picture of Privacy:
Early Domestic Photography and the Framing of Private Life.
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3.00 p.m. Cantor Auditorium, Third Floor
Introduction by Elizabeth Easton, Curator and Chair of the Department of European Painting and Sculpture, BMA
Linda Nochlin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, gives a talk entitled "Nude but not Naughty: Victorian Artists Confront the Body." Linda Nochlin is the author of numerous books including Women, Art, Power, and Other Essays; The Body in Pieces; and The Politics of Vision.
Exposed: The Victorian Nude was conceived by Dr. Alison Smith, Senior Programme Curator, Tate Britain, and was co-curated with Dr. Martin Myrone, Programme Curator for Pre-1900 British Art at Tate Britain, and Robert Upstone, Tate Collections Curator specializing in nineteenth-century art.
Barbara Dayer Gallati, Curator of American Art, has coordinated the
exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Support for the BMA presentation is provided by the Brooklyn Museum of Art's Barbara and Richard Debs Exhibition Fund. Additional support is provided by Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Forbes.
Thank you, Sura Levine
Associate Professor of Art History Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002 Secretary, AHNCA
Reference:
CONF: "Exposed: The Victorian Nude" (NY, Brooklyn Mus, 14.12.02). In: ArtHist.net, Nov 23, 2002 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/25350>.
