Guillaume Lethière Symposium
Friday, September 27, 2024
10:00 AM–6:30 PM
Auditorium
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Join us for a symposium in celebration of Guillaume Lethière. The exhibition, organized in partnership with the Musée du Louvre, is the first to investigate Lethière's extraordinary career. This one-day conference invites renowned scholars and the public to examine Lethière’s considerable body of work, as well as the presence and reception of Caribbean artists in France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
9:30–10:00 am, Reading Room
COFFEE RECEPTION
10:00–10:05 am, Auditorium
DIRECTOR'S WELCOME
Presented by Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director, Clark Art Institute
10:05–10:20 am, Auditorium
OPENING REMARKS
Presented by Esther Bell, Deputy Director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator, Clark Art Institute
10:25 am–12:05 pm, Auditorium
SESSION ONE
"Guillaume Lethière, The Exceptional Trajectory of a Free Person of Color"
Frédéric Régent, Maître de Conférences and Directeur de Recherche, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne
"Lethière’s Allegorical Confines: Indemnity, Colonialism, and African Diasporic Fantasies"
C. C. McKee, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Director of the Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College
Discussion
Facilitated by Esther Bell
12:05–1:00 pm, Clark Center lower level
BREAK
1:05–2:45 pm, Auditorium
SESSION TWO
"Colonial Networks: Remapping the ‘Paris’ Art World in the French Antilles"
Meredith Martin, Professor of Art History, New York University and the Institute of Fine Arts
"Picturesque Plantations: Jenny Prinssay's Construction of a French Caribbean Idyll"
Remi Poindexter, PhD Candidate in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and University Fellow in Art History, UNC Asheville
Discussion
Facilitated by Sophie Kerwin, PhD Candidate at the Bard Graduate Center
2:45–3:00 pm, Reading Room
BREAK
3:05–4:45 pm, Auditorium
SESSION THREE
"Guillaume Lethière’s Roman Years"
Francesca Alberti, Director of the Department of Art History, French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici and Professor of Art History at the Université de Tours and the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance
"From Neoclassicism to Preromanticism, Lethière, the Missing Link?"
Richard-Viktor Sainsily-Cayol, Multimedia Visual Artist and Urban Scenographer, Guadeloupe
Discussion
Facilitated by Olivier Meslay
4:50–5:00 pm, Auditorium
CLOSING REMARKS
Presented by Esther Bell
5:00–6:00 pm, Clark Center lower level
EVENING RECEPTION
Free and open to the public; registration is not required. The proceedings will not be livestreamed or recorded. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.
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Support for this program is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition and its accompanying materials do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Image: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Guillaume Lethière (detail), 1815, graphite. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, bequest of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, 1977.56
9:30–10:00 am, Reading Room
COFFEE RECEPTION
10:00–10:05 am, Auditorium
DIRECTOR'S WELCOME
Presented by Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director, Clark Art Institute
10:05–10:20 am, Auditorium
OPENING REMARKS
Presented by Esther Bell, Deputy Director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator, Clark Art Institute
10:25 am–12:05 pm, Auditorium
SESSION ONE
"Guillaume Lethière, The Exceptional Trajectory of a Free Person of Color"
Frédéric Régent, Maître de Conférences and Directeur de Recherche, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne
"Lethière’s Allegorical Confines: Indemnity, Colonialism, and African Diasporic Fantasies"
C. C. McKee, Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Director of the Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College
Discussion
Facilitated by Esther Bell
12:05–1:00 pm, Clark Center lower level
BREAK
1:05–2:45 pm, Auditorium
SESSION TWO
"Colonial Networks: Remapping the ‘Paris’ Art World in the French Antilles"
Meredith Martin, Professor of Art History, New York University and the Institute of Fine Arts
"Picturesque Plantations: Jenny Prinssay's Construction of a French Caribbean Idyll"
Remi Poindexter, PhD Candidate in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and University Fellow in Art History, UNC Asheville
Discussion
Facilitated by Sophie Kerwin, PhD Candidate at the Bard Graduate Center
2:45–3:00 pm, Reading Room
BREAK
3:05–4:45 pm, Auditorium
SESSION THREE
"Guillaume Lethière’s Roman Years"
Francesca Alberti, Director of the Department of Art History, French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici and Professor of Art History at the Université de Tours and the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance
"From Neoclassicism to Preromanticism, Lethière, the Missing Link?"
Richard-Viktor Sainsily-Cayol, Multimedia Visual Artist and Urban Scenographer, Guadeloupe
Discussion
Facilitated by Olivier Meslay
4:50–5:00 pm, Auditorium
CLOSING REMARKS
Presented by Esther Bell
5:00–6:00 pm, Clark Center lower level
EVENING RECEPTION
Free and open to the public; registration is not required. The proceedings will not be livestreamed or recorded. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.
Support for this program is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition and its accompanying materials do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Image: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Guillaume Lethière (detail), 1815, graphite. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, bequest of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, 1977.56