Girodet: Romantic Rebel

In conjunction with the exhibition Girodet: Romantic Rebel, a panel of distinguished scholars offers fresh insights into the art of Girodet and his times. The speakers will explore issues of empire, imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism, gender, and homoeroticism that reflect the political and social developments in Girodet's art as well as our own contemporary interpretations.

Morning Session
Welcome: James Cuno, President and Eloise W. Martin Director
Introduction: Sylvain Bellenger, Chief Curator of the National Patrimony,
Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, and Jay A. Clarke, exhibition cocurator
Panelists:
Jill H. Casid, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Girodet in Pieces"
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, University of California-Berkeley, "Girodet,
Empire and Loss"
Thomas Crow, Getty Research Institute, "Composition and Decomposition
in Girodet's Revolt of Cairo"
Moderator: Larry Feinberg, exhibitoin cocurator

Afternoon Session
Panelists:
Richard J. Powell, Duke University, "Belley, Toussaint, and Others: A
Dandy Afterlife"
Mechthild Fend, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
"The Metamorphoses of Gender in Girodet's Loves of the Gods"
Dorothy Johnson, University of Iowa, "Girodet's Mythologies:
Eros and Aletheia"
James Smalls, University of Maryland, Baltimore, "Homoeroticism
and Masculinity in Girodet's Quest for Originality"
Moderator: Jay A. Clarke, exhibition cocurator

Reservations: Required

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. The Burial of Atala, 1813. Musee Girodet, Montargis.