In conjunction with the Vermeer\, Remb randt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery Organized by Bronwen Wil son\, Associate Professor.
The exciting exhibit of seventeen th-century art from the Rijksmuseum provides the point of departure for a s ymposium that brings together international scholars to explore new perspec tives in early modern Dutch visual culture. This was a context when religio us conflict\, globalization\, and scientific discoveries prompted new claim s for visual imagery and new pictorial strategies that solicited the engage ment of viewers in forceful and sometimes unpredictable ways. Speakers will consider how vision and modes of depicting the world became mobilized for new political\, religious and social ends and also how visual imagery media ted anxieties about vision and conflicting obligations\, such as consumptio n and restraint.
9:45-10am Introductory Comments
Bronwen
Wilson\, University of British Columbia
10am-12pm Session 1
Chair: Joan Boychuk (PhD candidate\, UBC AHVA)
Angel
a Vanhaelen\, McGill University
Boredom's Threshold: Dutch Realism
Bret Rothstein\, Indiana University
Ouwehoeren: Distraction\, Attent
ion\, and Visual Processing in the
Early Modern Low Countries
12 -1pm Lunch (not provided)
1-3pm Session 2 Chair: Carla Benzan
(PhD candidate\, UBC AHVA)
Joanna Woodall\, Courtauld Instit
ute of Art
Laying the Table: The Procedures of Still-Life
Rose Ma
rie San Juan\, University College London
The Skull in the Cabinet: Unt
hinking Death
3-3:30pm Coffee (provided)
3:30-5:30pm Session 3
Chair: Ivana Horacek (MA candidate\, UBC AHVA)
Celest
e Brusati\, University of Michigan
Perspectives in Flux: Viewing Dutch
Pictures in Real Time
Christopher Heuer\, Princeton University
E
ntropic Seghers
5:30-6:30pm Reception (provided)
With participa tion by Benjamin Schmidt (University of Washington)\, Lyle Massey (Universi ty of California\, Irvine)\, Larry Silver (University of Pennsylvania)\, Ri chard Unger (University of British Columbia).
This event is made poss ible through the generous support of the Faculty of Arts and the Netherland s Studies Endowment Fund\, Faculty of Arts\, at the University of British C olumbia\, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, a nd the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Vancouver Art Gallery
http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/events_an
d_programs/lectures_talks.html#symposium