The Race Track, c. 1891Young Woman with Peonies, 1870The Cotters Saturday Night, c. 1815The Letter, 1890-1891The Public in the Salon of the Louvre, Viewing the Painting of the Large Fish Bowl, mid 19th centuryLa Pensée, 1877/1891 marbleOak Tree, mid 1840s salted paper print from a paper negativeRipening Pears, c. 1884/1885 oil on canvas
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On Friday, October 15, 2010, AHNCA sponsored a session at Nineteenth-Century French Studies on the theme of "Methods and Theory: Art Histories." This panel was chaired by Marni Kessler (University of Kansas).

Speakers included:

1.            Marni Kessler (University of Kansas), “Approaching the Condition of the Photographic:  Degas’ New Orleans Paintings”

2.            Susan Sidlauskas (Rutgers University), “A Theory of Practice:  Cézanne’s Drawings”

3.            Bridget Alsdorf (Princeton University), “Formalism and Social Structure:  The Uses and Misuses of Riegl”

4.            Marnin Young (Yeshiva University), “Realism in Theory:  the Case of Eugène Véron’s L’Esthétique (1878)”

 
 
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