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2:15 p.m., Sept. 10, 2003--UD’s Department of Art History will host a symposium, “The Ends of Portrayal: 100 years of Modern Portraiture, 1850-1950,” from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 13, in the Trabant University Center Theatre.

The symposium will explore the development of portraiture in the visual arts during a period of rapid change when ideas of human subjectivity, identity and individuality were being redefined. It also was a time when new media, formats and uses challenged earlier traditions of portraiture.

Six speakers will present new research, and there will be time for questions and answers among the participants and the audience.

Speakers and topics include:

• Elizabeth Seigel, assistant curator of photography, Art Institute of Chicago, “Trading Faces: Rituals of Exchange and Display of American Carte de Visite Portraits”;
• Susan Sidlauskas, associate professor of art history, University of Pennsylvania, “`Nothing But Emotion’: Cezanne, Color, Portraiture”;
• Steven Z. Levine, Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities and professor of art history, Bryn Mawr College, “Face Painting and Mirror Images: Self-Representation and Self-Portraiture in France, 1850-1950”;
• Catherine Soussloff, professor of art history and visual culture, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Toward a Social History of the Subject: Viennese Art History and Portraiture”;
• Brigid Doherty, assistant professor of art history, Princeton University, “Marriage, Montage and the Production of Similarity in George Grosz’s Wedding Portrait `Daum’ marries her pedantic automaton `George’ in May 1920. John Heartfield is very glad of it”; and
• Leesa Rittlemann, assistant professor of art history, Hartwick College, “Constructing the `Face of the Time’: German National Identity in the Portrait Photobooks of August Sander, Helmar Lerski and Erna Lendvai-Dircksen.”

A reception will follow on the second floor of Old College, from 6-8 p.m. For more information, call 831-8415.

Article by Jerry Rhodes

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