Reception of the Fantastic in Modern and Contemporary Visual Art
09:30-11:00 – Session 1: Mythical Hybridity
Chair: Jochai Rosen – University of Haifa
Sharon Khalifa-Gueta – University of Haifa:
The Anguipedian.
Anat Moberman – College of Management and Holon
Institute of Technology:
The Development of the Sphinx Imagery in 19th
Century Art.
Ludmila Piters-Hofmann – Jacobs University Bremen:
Birds of a Feather? The Fusion of Birds and Women in
Modern Russian and British Art.
Friederike Vosskamp – Max Ernst Museum:
Between Two Worlds. Fantastic Creatures in
Surrealist Art.
11:00-11:30 – Recess
11:30-13:00 – Session 2: Animation and Comix
Chair: Emma Maayan-Fanar – University of Haifa
Raz Greenberg – Tel-Aviv University:
The Re-Animation of the Dead in Ray Harryhausen’s
“The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” and “Jason and the
Argonauts”.
Heiko Schmid – Zurich University:
Self-Referential Monsters. Uncanny Fantastic
Constructions of Reality in the Contemporary Comic
Genre.
Iris Haist – Erich Ohser – e.o.plauen art trust in Plauen:
The Mythology of Gorge Pérez in Wonder Woman’s
First Comics Relaunch.
13:00-14:00 – Recess
14:00-15:00 – Keynote Lecture
Chair: Diana Angoso de Guzmán – Universidad Nebrija of Madrid
Lisa Maurice – Bar-Ilan University:
Better the Devil You Know? God, Lucifer and the Olympians in
Lucifer (2016-2021).
15:00-15:30 – Recess
15:30-17:00 – Session 3: Gendering the Fantastic
Chair: Daniel Ogden – University of Exeter
Diana Angoso de Guzmán – Universidad Nebrija of Madrid:
Revitalizing Hekate: Mythic Hybridity, Science Fiction and
Cyborgs in Contemporary Culture.
Alba Soto – Universidad Nebrija, and Marina Grau – Independent Researcher:
BAUBO and the Gesture of Lifting the Skirt. Artistic Processes.
Nava Sevilla Sadeh – Tel-Aviv University:
The Great Dionysia: Mythological, Artistic and Cultural Hybridity
in Jossef Krispel’s Artwork.
17:00-17:30 – Recess
17:30-19:00 – Session 4: The Development and Concept of Fantasy in Art
Chair: Rikke Schubart – University of Southern Denmark
Jennifer Bates Ehlert – Salve Regina University:
What Lies Beneath: Reflection, Transformation, and the Human
Psyche in John William Waterhouse’s Paintings.
Natia Ebanoidze – Independent Researcher:
Visualizing the Transcendental: Irakli Parjiani’s Metaphysical
Landscapes.
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