The Second Symposium of Research Students:

Research of Visual Art

In Memory of the late Robert H. Smith

May 11th 2011

The Hebrew University of JerusalemThe Department of the History of Art, The Faculty of Humanities

Greetings and Opening Remarks

Prof. Reuven AmitaiDean of the Faculty of Humanities

Dana Brostowsky GilboaInitiator and Organizer of the Symposium

Prof. Luba FreedmanHead of The Department of

the History of Art

Prof. Rachel MilsteinDirector of The Robert H. and Clarice Smith Center for Art History

Session I: Between Poles: Tradition and Modernity, Physical and Conceptual, Curator and Creator, Corporeal and its Representation

Chaired by Dr. Lola Kantor-Kazovsky

Ariadne KonstantinouDionysiac Landscape: The Imagery of the Maenadic Mountain in Greek Art and Literature

Sharon Khalifa-GuetaLeonardo da Vinci's Dragons

Osnat Zukerman Rechter: Concept, Action, Curator: On the Change in the Contemporary Art Curator's Role during the Late 60's and the Beginning of the 70's of the 20th Century

Yael LazarWhen God Looks Us in the Eyes: Darśan Theory in Indian Popular Culture

Session II: The Visual Image as an Expression of Identity and Gender

Chaired by Prof. Tamar El Or

Bat-ami ArtziThe Two-Dimensional Creator God in the Tradition of the Central Andean Cultures

Keren CohenGender Performance in Robert Wilson's Play, Shakespeares Sonette (2009) 

Shir Aloni YaariBearded Ladies: Identity and Travesty in the Work of Ana Mendieta, Eleanor Antin and Adrian Piper

Session III: New Interpretation of a Known Work

Chaired by Prof. Edwin Seroussi

Liat Naeh: The Road between a 3D Pottery Vessel and a 2D Image: The Visual Origins of the Seven-Cupped Bowl, a Southern Levantine Middle Bronze Age Cult Vessel

Sara BenningaBacchus in the Oeuvre of Peter Paul Rubens

Anastasia Glazanova: Love and Academy: The Judgment of Paris by Jean-Antoine Watteau

Sigal Galil: The Episode "Crows" in Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams" – a Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of the Vincent van Gogh Myth: An Intertextual Reading of Cinema, Art, Religion and Nature

Session IV: Visual Language as a Mirror to Man and Society

Chaired by Prof. Anna Belfer-Cohen

Dana Shaham'Reading Natufian Art': A Methodological Case Study

Alexander PozinThe Written Word in Russian Fine Art in the Modern Period: The Impact of the Artwork Titles

Miki JoelsonOld Age as a Message in Jewish Picture Postcards in Eastern Europe - an Interpretation

Shem ShemyThe Visual Space of Moral Sensitivity

Concluding Remarks

Dana Brostowsky GilboaInitiator and Organizer of the Symposium

Dr. Rina TalgamHead of The Department of the History of Art

" The course of human history is determined not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in the hearts of men and women. It is important to know not only how to make a living, but also how to make a life. We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. "

Robert H. Smith, 2006

We thank everyone for making this event possible