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Getty Research Institute hosts the fourth annual Getty Graduate Symposium, showcasing the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions over the course of one day, the symposium includes nine individual presentations and panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors.
Welcome and Introductions
Mary E. Miller, Getty Research Institute
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute
Session III
- Claudia Grego March, University of California,
Santa Barbara, "Your Fight, My Fight, Our Fight: The Spanish Exiled
Avant-Garde and The Cuban Revolution During the
Francoist Dictatorship"
Introduced by: Laurie Monahan, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Isabel Frampton Wade, University of Southern California, “Harry Drinkwater, the Watts Uprising, and the Limits of Architectural Photography"
Introduced by: Vanessa Schwartz, University of Southern California
- Shoghig Halajian, University of California, San Diego, "Destroying the Form: On the Performative Politics of rafa esparza’s bust. a meditation on freedom"
Introduced by: Alena Williams, University of California, San Diego
Session III Discussion
Moderated by Laurie Monahan, University of California, Santa Barbara
This event took place over Zoom on February 5, 2022.
View the full program: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/2022_grad_symp.pdf
Learn more about this event:
https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3394.html
Getty Research Institute hosts the fourth annual Getty Graduate Symposium, showcasing the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions over the course of one day, the symposium includes nine individual presentations and panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors.
Welcome and Introductions
Mary E. Miller, Getty Research Institute
Rebecca Peabody, Getty Research Institute
Session III
- Claudia Grego March, University of California,
Santa Barbara, "Your Fight, My Fight, Our Fight: The Spanish Exiled
Avant-Garde and The Cuban Revolution During the
Francoist Dictatorship"
Introduced by: Laurie Monahan, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Isabel Frampton Wade, University of Southern California, “Harry Drinkwater, the Watts Uprising, and the Limits of Architectural Photography"
Introduced by: Vanessa Schwartz, University of Southern California
- Shoghig Halajian, University of California, San Diego, "Destroying the Form: On the Performative Politics of rafa esparza’s bust. a meditation on freedom"
Introduced by: Alena Williams, University of California, San Diego
Session III Discussion
Moderated by Laurie Monahan, University of California, Santa Barbara
This event took place over Zoom on February 5, 2022.
View the full program: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/2022_grad_symp.pdf
Learn more about this event:
https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3394.html


![Barbara T. Smith, With Love from A to B (1977)
Created with Nancy Buchanan, With Love from A to B was initially a video performance for the 1977 College Art Association convention. Smith had the idea of using the framing edge [of the screen] to initiate all action, with the center field more or less empty. In the video, Smiths hands act as a suitor courting buchanans hands, who do not return the suitors love. The original piece ended with Smith controversially cutting her own finger a choice she later regretted and re-shot so that the violence was only implied.
This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smiths archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551
Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html Barbara T. Smith, With Love from A to B (1977)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I9AFdRDKLGk/mqdefault.jpg)







