Program
4:15 pm: Welcome and introduction: Kristin B. Aavitsland and Øystein Sjåstad
4:30 pm: Carolyn Yerkes: “Event Horizon: Early Modern Warfare and the Monumental Print”
5:15 pm: Break
5:45 pm: Bridget Alsdorf: “Love and Collaboration in Modern Scandinavian Art”
6:30 pm: Reception
On the lecturers:
Bridget Alsdorf is Professor of Art History, Princeton University. She specializes in European art of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with particular interest in art’s intersections with literature, philosophy, and social theory. Her current book project, Shadowed: Love and Collaboration in Modern Scandinavian Art, is informed by the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. Chapters explore painting, photography, and silent film during and after “the modern breakthrough,” centering on couples who made artworks together: Vilhelm and Ida Hammershøi, Anna and Michael Ancher, P.S. and Marie Krøyer, Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg, Asta Nielsen and Urban Gad.
Carolyn Yerkes is Associate Professor of Early Modern Architecture, Princeton University. Her research investigates relationships between the built world and techniques of representation, including drawings, prints, paintings, books, models, and texts. Her forthcoming book, Siegelands: Early Modern Warfare and the Monumental Print, explores artillery warfare as a form of social transformation. In a series of essays on conflict of attrition and its relationship to printmaking, Siegelands offers a new history of the emergence of the modern state in sixteenth-century northern European art.