From 14 to 17 February 2007 the 95th Annual Conference of the College Art Association will be held in New York. As always, the conference has numerous talks in our field. Click here for the complete program. On Friday, 16 February, Historians of Netherlandish Art will hold its annual meeting between 5:30 and 7:00 p.m.Session: Art History Open Session: The Study of Drawings, Europe, 1300–1700, Part I
Susan Anderson, Cornelis Dusart’s Use of Copying Within His Own Corpus
Susan Maxwell (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh), From Design to Disegno: Drawing Modes in the Work of Friedrich Sustris
Session: The Thematization of the Senses in 16th-Century European Art
Shira Brisman (Yale University), A Touching Compassion: Dürer’s Haptic Theology
Charles Peterson (University of California, Santa Barbara), The Mechanics of Sight and Moral Choice in Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Blind Leading the Blind
Historians of Netherlandish Art
Session: The Presence of History, the Persistence of Time
Margaret D. Carroll (Wellesley College), Hieronymus Bosch’s Cosmogony
Stephanie Porras (Courtauld Institute of Art), Time Out of Joint: Pieter Bruegel’s Peasant History
Jürgen Müller (University of Dresden), The Paradox of Time in Pieter Bruegel’s Christ Carrying the Cross
Natasha Seaman (Berklee College of Music), History as Style in the Adriaen Ploos Family Epitaph and Hendrick ter Brugghen’s Crucifixion
Lisa J. De Boer (Westmont College), News and Good News: Kairos and Chronos at Work in Communion
Mary Wiseman (City University of New York), The Subjective Turns in Vermeer and Descartes
Paul Crenshaw (Washington University, St. Louis), Astrology and History in Rembrandt’s Faust and Vermeer’s Astronomer
David R. Smith (University of New Hampshire), Vermeer’s Allegory of Faith
Benjamin Binstock (Queens College), Family Secrets: The Apprenticeship of Maria Vermeer
Session: The Art and Business of Printmaking in Europe, 1400–1800
Alessandra Baroni (University of Siena), Preparatory Drawings for Prints by Stradanus: A Personal Creative Act or a Workshop’s Method of Work in Late Renaissance Printmaking?
Karen L. Bowen, Etchings vs. Engravings: A Publisher’s Choice for Book Illustrations
Eckhard Leuschner (Universität Passau), Italian Prints for the Dutch and Flemish Market: Antonio Tempesta’s Cooperation with Pieter de Jode
Mitchell B. Merback (DePauw University), Introduction: Norbert Elias, the Civilizing Process, and Art History
Jessica Buskirk (University of California, Berkeley), Rogier van der Weyden’s Portraits of the Civilized Individual
Yao-Fen You (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University); William Robinson (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University), Antwerp Mannerist Drawings and the Goal of Connoisseurship
Michael Price (independent artist, New York), The Myth of the Secret Juice of the Flemish Masters