Ogawa gives paper at art history conference

David Ogawa, associate professor of visual arts, presented a paper, "Gustave Courbet's 'L'origine du monde' and Early Sex Photography" at a recent conference of the Association of Art Historians, Britain's leading group of scholars of the history of art, in Bristol, England. He participated in a panel, "Reconsidering the Artist-Model Transaction," and his paper considered the French Realist's provocative painting (now in the Musee d'Orsay, Paris) of 1866 in the context of the arrests of male and female models by the Parisian police.