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RECENT FACULTY
BOOKS
Matthew
Baigell published Jewish American Artists and the Holocaust (New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997). Martin
Eidelberg is the editor of Designed for Delight, Alternative Aspects
of Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts (Paris and New York: Flammarion
and Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, 1997); concurrently published as
Le plaisir de l'objet; nouveau regard sur les arts décoratifs du
xxe siècle (Paris: Flammarion and Montreal Museum of Decorative
Arts). Rona
Goffen's Titian's Women (Yale University Press) appeared in 1997.
She also edited for Cambridge University Press Titian's Venus of
Urbino(1997) and Masaccio's Trinity (1998). Angela
Falco Howard is co-author of.Chinese Sculpture (with Wu Hong and
Li Song), to be published jointly by Yale University Press, New Haven,
and the Foreign Press, Beijing, 1998.
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Tod
Marder's Bernini's Scala Regia at the Vatican Palace. Architecture,
Sculpture, and Ritual was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997;
his Bernini and the Art of Architecture (Abbeville Press) appeared
in August 1998 and was translated into Italian and French (the French edition
was awarded a prize by the Centre National des Lettres ). |
Joan
Marter's revision of Alexander Calder (original publication, Cambridge
University Press, 1991) was reprinted a third time in paperback.
She also edited and wrote the main essay of the catalogue of Women
and Abstract Expressionism; Painting and Sculpture 1945-1959 (New York:
Baruch College, City University of New York, 1997), to which many of
the department's graduate students contributed. The exhibition won
second place in the judging of the Best Gallery Show in the U.S.A. awarded
by the International Association of Art Critics.
She was the co-organizer and guest consulting scholar for the exhibition
"The Rutgers Years: Creating a New American Art," held at the Newark Museum
last Spring. She is also the editor of the accompanying publication,
Off Limits: Rutgers University And The Avant-garde, which is being published
by Rutgers University Press. Sarah
Blake McHam edited Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture
(Cambridge University Press, 1998). Elizabeth
Parker McLachlan was an associate editor of and contributor to
Medieval England: an Encyclopedia (New York: Garland, 1998). Catherine
Puglisi is the author of Caravaggio (Phaidon Press, Ltd.,
1998) and Francesco Albani to be published in late 1998 or early 1999 by
Yale University Press. Jocelyn
Penny Small's Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of Literacy
and Memory in Classical Antiquity (London and New York: Routledge) appeared
in 1997. James
Smalls's Esclave, Nègre, Noir: The Black Presence in French
Art from 1789 to 1870 is in production at the University of California
Press. Jack
Spector's Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919 to 1939, The Gold of
Time was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997. Mariët
Westermann's book, The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting
in the Seventeenth Century, was published in the US by the University of
Washington Press, and in Zwolle (Netherlands) by Waanders in 1997. Carla
Yanni is the author of Nature's Museums: Victorian Science and
the Architecture of Display, Athlone Press, due out in 1999.
FELLOWSHIPS
AND HONORS
Joan
Marter was honored for her distinguished graduate teaching at a
ceremony in May 1998.
Rona
Goffen was named a Board of Governors Professor during the fall
semester 1998.
Angela
Falco Howard was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship for University Professors (August 1998-January 1999) to conduct
a comparative study of the early Buddhist cave of Kizil in Central Asia
(Xinjiang) and the Liang caves of Gansu (Northwest China), which will allow
her to widen her expertise concerning the early phase of Buddhist development
in China during the fourth century A.D. Joan
Marter won grants from the NEA and from the Henry Luce Foundation
for the upcoming exhibition for which she is co-organizer, "The Rutgers
Years: Creating a New American Art." Jocelyn
Penny Small, now former Director of the Lexicon lconographicum
Mythologiae Classicae, received grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
to match the earlier NEH grant to the Lexicon. The NEH grant to the
Lexicon was also extended until the year 2000. Catherine
Puglisi, who was awarded an American Philosophical Society Grant
to work on attitudes toward the antique in Baroque Italy, is on sabbatical
in Rome this year. Mariët
Westermann received an American Philosophical Society Grant for
her project on "Dutch Interiors: The Art of Home and Privacy, 1610-1700,"
that she used during summer 1998. The Denver Art Museum obtained
an National Endowment for the Humanities Award for 1997-98 for the planning
stages of the exhibition on this subject that she is curating for them.
NEW PROGRAM
INITIATIVES
The department is digitizing the collection's more than 300,000 slides
and photographs for their eventual convenient access via the internet.
Sarah
Blake McHam, Chair of Art History, and Donald Beetham, Curator,
Visual Resources Collection, Art History -NB, met throughout the year with
faculty representatives of the Art History Departments in Newark and Camden,
the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Zimmerli Art Museum, and the Department
of Landscape Architecture at Cook College to establish a common database
system and standards of digitization so that the smaller collections of
visual resources in these other departments could be digitalized along
with the collection of the Department of Art History-NB and made available
to all interested faculty on all campuses of Rutgers for classroom use.
Several grant proposals to fund the project have been submitted to various
university funding committees.
Access to digitized visual images will facilitate the work of
students and faculty, and could be used in the future to make the
unique resources of the department's visual image collections -- and those
of other departments at Rutgers University -- available to faculty and
students not taking courses, for their own research, general education
needs, or for non-classroom electronic teaching.
Mr. Beetham continues to develop the department's Web site to
offer more complete and attractively presented information about all the
department's programs, public events, permanent and visiting faculty, and
graduate students. More and more of the undergraduate courses taught each
semester have their own individual Web sites.
John
Kenfield, Associate Professor, Art History Department and alum
Jeffrey
Wechsler, Senior Curator of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum,
have been awarded a grant by the Museum Loan Network, a joint initiative
funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The Pew Charitable
Trusts and administered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Office of the Arts. The grant is intended to enhance the breadth
of the museum's range of works of art and to improve the quality of teaching
in the department by incorporating appropriate works of art from the museum,
or borrowed on long-term loan from other museums, into the department's
courses. Professor Kenfield is also instrumental in identifying the
objects to be borrowed from under-utilized collections around the country.
The incorporation of works of art in the museum into the department's survey
course, which will begin with the first paper assignment in Fall 1998,
will make students more aware of the museum's collections and allow them
easy access to the direct experience of works of art. Because images
of these objects are also being put on the Art History Department's Web
site, the museum's collections will become better-known worldwide.
Another collaborative initiative was devised by Phillip
Dennis Cate, Director of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
and an adjunct faculty member of the department. The exchange program
between the Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Art History
Department-NB allows faculty members at both institutions to travel to
the other country to give lectures, to visit museum collections, and to
meet with faculty and students. It is funded by the Mellon Foundation.
In summer 1998 Matthew
Baigell traveled to St. Petersburg. In fall semester 1998
Prof. Elena Vladimirovna Nesterova visited Rutgers and gave a public
lecture at the museum on socialist realism. . The exchange will allow
approximately twelve more such exchange visits during 1998-2000.
Another significant program, conceived by Phillip
Dennis Cate and funded by the A. W. Mellon Foundation, supports
faculty members developing new courses that exploit the works of art in
the museum's collection. Such courses give undergraduates an extraordinary
opportunity to study directly from works of art. During 1997-98 Professor
Mariët
Westermann developed a new undergraduate seminar based on
the prints in the museum's collection. Professor Angela
Falco Howard taught an undergraduate seminar with Professor Paul
Schalow of the Asian Studies Department on the relationship between
text and image in Japanese art. Professor James
Smalls is working on a similar type of undergraduate seminar involving
the museum's French nineteenth- and twentieth-century graphic arts.
Others on the graduate level are being given during 1998-99, and still
more undergraduate and graduate seminars are being planned.
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 Department of Art History
Voorhees Hall
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 732-932-7041
Fax: 732-932-1261
Catherine Puglisi, Chairperson
Erik Thunø , Undergraduate Director
Susan Sidlauskas, Graduate Program Director
Cathy Pizzi, Department Administrator
Geralyn Colvil, Student Coordinator
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