Symposium: "American Art in Global Context"
Friday, September 29, 2006
Session IV: Modernism and Anti-Modernism

Moderator: Joann Moser, Smithsonian American Art Museum senior curator

Presenters:
Takashi Sasaki, Doshisha University, Kyoto, "Winslow Homer: Modernization and the Archetype in the Late Nineteenth Century"
David Peters Corbett, University of York, "'Food for Starving Souls: John Sloan, the Ashcan School, and Walter Sickert"
Luciano Cheles, Université de Poitiers, "Piero della Francesca's Impact on American Painting in the 1930s and '40s"

This three-day symposium looked at American art in a global context—from circum-Atlantic migrations in the eighteenth century to European training and travel in the late nineteenth century; from the export of U.S. culture and media in the twentieth century to the impact of immigration and globalization on the nation's visual arts in the new millennium.

For more information: http://www.americanart.si.edu/research/symposia/2006/