The Anxiety of Influence and Appropriation
The Seventh Biennial Bryn Mawr College
Graduate Group Symposium
December 4-5, 2009
Featured Respondent: Robert
Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor, History
of Art, Yale University
Sponsored by the Graduate Group, the Center for Visual Culture, and the Departments of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, and History of Art
GRADUATE GROUP SYMPOSIUMThis symposium offers an interdisciplinary engagement of thievery, appropriation, and influence as creative strategies. Selected graduate students will deliver papers from a variety of disciplines and Professor Robert Nelson, Yale University, will offer remarks and response. Professor Nelson has written widely within his own field of medieval art, but his concerns extend to a broader discourse on the history and methods of art history. His books include Hagia Sophia 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument (2004) and Later Byzantine Painting: Art, Agency, and Appreciation (2007). As co-editor of Critical Terms for Art History (2003), Professor Nelson authored the entry on appropriation.