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General News Faculty News Matthew Baigell published Artist and Identity in Twentieth Century American Art, a selection of published and unpublished essays (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and "The Persistence of Holocaust Imagery in American Art," in Bernard Schwartz, ed., The Holocaust's Ghost: Writings on Art, Politics, Law, and Education (University of Alberta Press, 2000). Dr. Baigell presented his paper, "Jewish Artists in New York during the 1940s," at the International Society for Political Psychology annual meeting, Seattle, WA, July 2000, and "Holocaust Imagery in American Art, 1970-1995," at Bowdoin College, October 2000. Martin Eidelberg published the following articles: “‘Landskips…Dark and Gloomy’: Reintroducing Henry Ferguson,” in Apollo 152 (September 2000); “Artus Van Briggle and Modern European Styles,” (October 2000) available online at www.antiquesamerica.com; and “Jean Jacques Spoede, Watteau’s ‘Special Friend,’” in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, s. 6, 136 (November 2000). He was the editor of David A. Hanks and Anne Hoy, Design for Living, Furniture and Lighting 1950-2000, The Lilliane and David M. Stewart Collection, also titled in French edition Design 1950-2000, La Collection Lilliane and David M. Stewart (Flammarion and Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, 2000). He also edited Kazimir Malevich: Suprematist Composition (Phillips, 2000). In October 2000, Dr. Eidelberg traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, to deliver a paper on “Watteau’s Italian Reveries” at the Academy of Fine Arts. Rona Goffen was a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study from September 1999-August 2000. She will also be a Visiting Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA in May 2001. Dr. Goffen co-curated and published an exhibition catalogue with Giovanna Nepi Scirè on Il colore ritrovato: Bellini a Venezia (Milan, 2000). Other recent publications include: "Lotto's Lucretia,” in Renaissance Quarterly 52 (1999); "Crossing the Alps: Portraiture in Renaissance Venice," in Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Dürer, Bellini and Titian, exh. cat., Palazzo Grassi (Milan, 1999), also published in Italian; and "Mary's Motherhood According to Leonardo and Michelangelo," in Artibus et Historiae 20 (1999). In 2000, Dr. Goffen presented the following papers: "The Renaissance Seen from Rialto," at the National Gallery of Art, in January; "Mary's Motherhood According to Leonardo and Michelangelo," at the Howard Hibbard Forum, Columbia University, and "Beautiful Women," at the NYU/Università La Sapienza telelecture in February. In May 2001, Dr. Goffen will present "Signatures: Inscribing Identity in Italian Renaissance Art," at the Annual Hammer Lecture, UCLA. In the fall of 2000, Dr. Goffen produced the on-line film "Bellini in Venice" which is available at www.kwart.com. Angela Howard acted as Special Consultant of Buddhist Art for The Metropolitan Museum of Art while travelling in China from January 8-21, 2001. Dr. Howard visited museums in the provinces of Shandong, Hebei, and Shanxi to gather sculpture for the New York exhibition “From Han to Tang” scheduled to open in 2004. Tod Marder is the present Department Chair. He was promoted to Professor II in April 2000. He published “Symmetry and Eurythmy at the Pantheon: The Fate of Bernini’s Perceptions from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day,” in Antiquity and Its Interpreters, ed. A. Payne, A. Kuttner, R. Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2000). His other publications include, “Borromini e Bernini a Piazza Navona,” in Francesco Borromini. Atti del convegno internazionale (Rome, 2000), and “The Synthesis of Design, Religion, and Politics in the Rome of Alexander VII,” in Struggle for Synthesis. The Total Work of Art in the 17th and 18th Centuries, ed. Luis de Moura Sobral, David W. Booth (Lisbon, 1999). In January 2000, he lectured on Borromini at the American Academy in Rome and at the International Conference on Borromini, held in Rome. In February 2000, he chaired the session entitled, “The Pantheon and Its Reception in the Post-Antique World,” at the College Art Association Annual Meeting in New York. In March 2000, he gave the Daniel H. Silberg Lecture at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Joan Marter was promoted to Professor II at Rutgers University
in April 2000. Her recent publications include American Sculpture
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, II, A Catalogue of Works
by Artists Born Between 1865 and 1885 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art
and Yale University Press, 2001).
Sarah McHam held a residential fellowship at the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton, during the fall of 2000 and is a visiting fellow
during Spring semester 2001. Throughout the academic year 2000-2001,
Dr. McHam holds an American Philosophical Society Fellowship. The
paperback edition of her Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture
(Cambridge University Press) appeared in 2000. In addition, Dr. McHam
has received a Delmas Foundation grant to support a research trip to Venice
where she worked with Pliny manuscripts and incunables. During the
year 2000, Dr. McHam presented lectures at the following conferences: SECAC
Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, in October; the New College Medieval-Renaissance
Conference at Sarasota in March; and, a conference on Italian Renaissance
Sculpture at the University of Georgia in November. She also delivered
a paper at the International Medieval and Renaissance Conference at the
University of Florida. An article on Donatello's bronze David and
Judith
will appear in the Art Bulletin in March.
Jane Sharp has recently published “Natalia Goncharova: Lives of the Artist” in Natalia Goncharova: Pioneer of the Russian Avant-Garde (Tel Aviv Art Museum, 2000) and Realities and Utopias: Abstract Painting in the Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, (Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 2000). In March 2000, Dr. Sharp presented her paper entitled, "Modernism as Orientalism: Natalia Goncharova and Nikos Pirosmanishvili," at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Center for Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She also presented this paper in August at the Seminar on Contemporary Art Criticism, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan. In September, Dr. Sharp traveled to London to present "Neoprimitivism and Vsechestvo: Russia's Other Modernism” at the Congrés internationale de l'histoire de l'art (CIHA). Penny Small was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the current academic year, 2000-2001. She is working on a book on the subject of narrative in classical art. It is entitled There is no original! Artists and Texts in Classical Antiquity. Jack Spector edited two issues of American Imago: “Psychoanalytic Approaches to Art History by Frankfurt Art Historians” and was the author of the introduction to both issues (in press, scheduled for Spring and Summer 2001). Dr. Spector published online a book review of Jody Blake, Le tumulte noir. Modern Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900-30 (Penn State University Press, 1999) in CAA Reviews, September 2000. In February 2000, he chaired the CAA session, An ABC for Art History: Childhood Education and Modernism, and in March he delivered the paper “Delacroix’s Dream of a Hand” at the 19th Century Studies Conference in Arlington, VA. In December 2000, he presented “The Emergence of Collage in the context of Late 19th Century Paris,” at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His article “On the Limits of Understanding in Modern Art: Klee, Miro, Freud” is forthcoming in American Imago. He is invited to present a lecture in June for a symposium celebrating the establishment of the art history department at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Mariët Westermann was granted tenure in our Art History
Department and awarded a Board of Trustees Fellowship for Excellence in
Scholarship from Rutgers (May 2000). From January-June 2001, Dr. Westermann
is a fellow at the Clark Art Institute. She is the author of Rembrandt:
Art and Ideas (Phaidon Press, 2000). Other recent publications include:
“Making a Mark in Rembrandt’s Leiden,” in Hilliard Goldfarb, ed., Rembrandt
Creates Rembrandt: Ambition and Vision in Leiden 1629–1631, Exh. cat.
Boston, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2000; “Local Color: Painting
and Proto-National Awareness in the Dutch Republic,” in Akira Kofuku, ed.,
Dutch
Art from the Rijksmuseum, Exh. cat. Tokyo, National Museum of Western
Art and Nagoya, Prefectural Museum of Art, 2000; and reviews of Elizabeth
Alice Honig, Painting and the Market in Early Modern Antwerp, 1998,
in CAA Reviews (September 2000), and Albert Blankert et al.,
Dutch
Classicism in Seventeenth-Century Painting, Exh cat. Museum Boijmans
Van Beuningen, 1999, in The Burlington Magazine 142 (March 2000).
In Fall 2000, Dr. Westermann presented the following papers: “Houbraken,
Steen, and the Praise of Folly,” Farewell Symposium for Lyckle de Vries,
University of Groningen (October), and “‘Costly and Curious, Full of Pleasure
and Home Contentment’: Dutch Interiors in the Seventeenth Century,” Stieren
Lecture, at Trinity University, San Antonio (November). Along with Perry
Chapman, she co-chaired the session, Early Modern Biography as Art Criticism,
at the College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York, February 2000.
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