Introductory Remarks - "Hide/Seek" Scholarly Symposium, National Portrait Gallery
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/10/18
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Introductory remarks by Marty Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, and David C. Ward, historian and co-curator of "Hide/Seek." The scholarly symposium "Addressing (and Redressing) the Silence: New Scholarship in Sexuality and American Art" presented papers from 11 scholars in the fields of art, art history, performance art, and social history. This symposium was presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture." It occurred on January 29, 2011.
