Student Symposium on the Reception of Old Masters
March 17th, 2009Academic discussion on Old Masters has been echoing throughout the Pulitzer for the past two days. The student symposium Visual Cultures and the Reception of Old Masters concluded this afternoon, after four sessions of inquiry on the history of art viewing and the effect subjective experience has on art theory and history. Audrey Sands, the Pulitzer’s curatorial assistant and organizer of the symposium, may clarify things for you later.
The colloquy stemmed from the Old Masters’ material existence in the Ando building–the flow of natural light and the surrounding architectural elements–and moved to more abstract topics, as in Esther Chadwick’s segment, “The Fiction of ‘Pure Visual Experience.’” Maggie Taft, a graduate student from the University of Chicago, talks about her segment, “Guided by Ando: Architectural Space and the Specificity of Viewing Experiences,” in the following video:
http://www.vimeo.com/3724248