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Notes from the Chair Faculty News Matthew Baigell won the Graduate School Teaching Award in the Humanities from Rutgers University in 2001. His recent publications include: Jewish Artists in New York: The Holocaust Years (Rutgers University Press, 2002 [in press]); “Hyman Bloom's Jewish Paintings," Hyman Bloom (National Academy of Design [in press]) and Yefim Ladyzhenski (Rutgers Zimmerli Art Museum, 2002). In December 2001, he presented the lecture "Rothko's Paintings of the Early 1940s," at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton. His other 2001 lectures include "Mark Rothko's Art of the 1940s," Thirty First Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Philadlephia, "Jewish Artists in New York During the 1940s," Weinmann Annual Lecture at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, and "Mark Rothko's Art of the 1940s," Thirteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem. In addition, Dr. Baigell published these books and articles in 2001: Artist and Identity in Twentieth Century American Art, Cambridge Univ. Press; Co-editor of Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness and Modern Art, Rutgers Univ. Press; Co-Author of Peeling Potatoes, Painting Pictures: Women's Art in Post Soviet Russia, Estonia, and Latvia, Rutgers Univ. Press; "Jewish American Artists and the Holocaust: The Responses of Two Generations" in Omer Bartov and Phylis Mack, eds., In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century, Berghahn Books; "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. Sarah Brett-Smith has forthcoming, "When is an object Finished? The Creation of the Invisible among the Bamana of Mali," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 39 (2002), African Works, 99-132. Dr. Brett-Smith also has in press a review of the show, Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali at the Museum for African Art in NYC in American Anthropologist. Martin Eidelberg's recent publications include: "'Dans ses lieux uniquement consacrés à l'art,' Watteau and the Bonds of Friendship," in Mélanges en hommage à Pierre Rosenberg (2001), 163-68; "The Case of the Vanishing Watteau," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 138 (2001), 15-40; Behind the Scenes of Tiffany Glassmaking: The Nash Notebooks (with Nancy A. McClelland) (New York and London: St. Martin's Press, 2001); Design 1935-1965, What Modern Was; Selections from the Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection, Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Montréal 1991. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991; 3rd rev. ed. 2001); and "Watteau and Audran at the Hôtel de Nointel" Apollo (January 2002). Dr. Eidelberg presented the following papers: "The Art Nouveau Movement and the United States," at the American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California on March 13, 2001; "Through Rose-Colored Glasses, The Leaded Glass Windows of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Frank Lloyd Wright," at the American Craft Museum in New York on August 9, 2001; "Tiffany's Vision of Nature," at the Queens Museum of Art, Queens in New York on October 7, 2001; "The Czech Avant-Garde," at Cooper Hewitt, National Museum of Design at the Smithsonian Institution on October 25, 2001; "Louis C. Tiffany as a Glass Artist," at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois on January 19, 2002. He was curator of an exhibition for the Smithsonian Institution entitled Glass of the Avant-Garde. From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus, The Torsten Bröhan Collection from the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid (catalogue: co-edited with Torsten Bröhan, Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2001). The exhibition is currently on view at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York (August 2001-March 2002), after which it will travel nationally. Rona Goffen published "Signatures: Inscribing Identity in Italian Renaissance Art," Viator 32 (2001): 303-70; and "La pala feriale di Paolo Veneziano," in La Basilica di San Marco, ed. Ettore Vio (Florence, 2001). In May 2001, Professor Goffen presented the Annual Hammer Foundation Lecture at UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, where she was Visiting Professor during the spring semester. This spring, Professor Goffen will be visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where she will present three lectures. Her new book, Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian, (Yale University Press), will appear this October. Angela Howard marked 2001 by several scholarly achievements. Her publication of Summit of Treasures, Buddhist Cave Art of Dazu, China (Weatherhill) was the result of fifteen years of fieldwork. She was the recipient of the Asian Council-Luce Foundation grant for the "China-on site Graduate Seminar." In November, Dr. Howard participated in two international symposia in New York: "The Dynamics of Transmission, Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan, 6th-9th Century, Japan Society," in which she spoke on "The Shandong School of Buddhist Sculpture: Confluence of South and North," and "China's Silk Road: People, Places and Luxuries,” Asia Society, for which she presented, "The Central Asian Connection: Construction and Decor of the Fourth Century Buddhist Caves of Jintasi, Zhangye." From January 6-23, 2002, she traveled to India visiting major Buddhist sites. Joan Marter was appointed Chair of the Museum Committee for the College Art Association, 2002. Her recent publications include: American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. II (New York: MMA and Yale University Press, 2001) [as co-author]; "Feminist Art,” in Encyclopedia of American Studies (New York: Grolier, 2001); Ora Lerman's Language and Narratives," in The Art of Ora Lerman (New York, 2001); Roy Gussow Sculpture (New York, 2001). Dr. Marter will present a paper, "Rapprochement in a Changing Museum Culture: Curators and the Academy," at the College Art Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia, February 22, 2002. Professor Marter has been awarded a Getty Research Grant, 2002. Sarah Blake McHam held a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, as a Visiting Member in Spring 2001. She was also the recipient of an American Philosophical Society Fellowship in 2000-1. Dr. McHam's recent publications include a book chapter, “The Role of Pliny's Natural History in the Sixteenth-Century Redecoration of the Piazza of San Marco Venice, “Diverse Sixteenth-Century Redecoration of the Piazza of San Marco, Venice," Diverse Approaches to the Representation of Classical Mythology in Art, eds. Luba Freedman and Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich (Berlin, 2001), 89-105. Her article "Donatello's bronze David and Judith as Metaphors of Medici Rule in Florence," appeared in Art Bulletin 83 (2001), 32-47. During the past year, Dr. McHam presented the following papers: "Pliny's Natural History and Italian Renaissance Art," Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, October 2001; "La Bottega dei Lombardo e la Cappella dell'Arca di S. Antonio al Santo," Lombardo Convegno, Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, June 2001; "The Rise and Fall of Padua," International Conference on Medieval Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2001; "Why Giovanni Bellini at 80 Painted his First Nude," New York University, April 2001; "Reflections of Pliny in Giovanni Bellini's Woman with a Mirror," Renaissance Society of America Annual Meetings, Chicago, March 2001, and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., May 2001. She will be presenting "Ghiberti's Commentarii," at the February 2002 College Art Association Meetings in Philadelphia. In November 2001,Dr. McHam participated in a seminar at the Folger Library, Washington, D.C., on "Transactions of the Book." Elizabeth McLachlan ’s recently published, "Liturgical Vessels and Implements, their function, symbolism and materials," in a collection of essays entitled The Medieval Liturgy, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (2001). Catherine Puglisi was promoted to full professor in 2001, and she was reappointed as graduate director for another three years. She has two articles currently in press: a book chapter, "Caravaggio's Life and Lives over Four Centuries," in The Cambridge Companion to Caravaggio, ed. Genevieve Warwick, Cambridge University Press; and, in collaboration with her husband, William Barcham, "Paolo Veronese and Barberini Rome," Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell'Arte. Penny Small was promoted to Professor II in 2001. Her book on the relationship between art and text in Classical Antiquity was accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Small presented a paper, "Artists and Literacy: The Vatican Vergil," as part of the Medieval Latin Studies Group Panel, "Latinity and Literacy in Antiquity and the Middle Ages," on January 6, 2002, at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in Philadelphia. Recently she gave an invited lecture, "The Great Writing Experiment: Tablets, Rolls, and Codices," as part of the History of Material Texts, a faculty seminar at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, on January 28, 2002. Jack Spector's recent publications include: Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919 to 1939. The Gold of Time. Cambridge University Press, Spanish edition in preparation, vol.57 no.4, vol.58 no.1, Winter 2000, Spring 2001, with introductions, "Psychoanalytic Approaches to Art History by Frankfurt Art Historians; On the Limits of Understanding in Modern Art: Klee, Miro, Freud," American Imago 57, no.4 (2001), 479-96. He also presented "Frank Gehry's Spaces" at Mason Gross Graduate Department of Art, in February 2002. Mariët Westermann curated the exhibition "Art and Home: Dutch Interiors at the Age of Rembrandt," which opened on October 14, 2001 at the Newark Museum (reviewed in The New York Times, Dec 28, 2001; catalogue: Waanders, with The Newark Museum and Denver Art Museum). In November, Dr. Westermann gave a lecture at the University of Texas and another at the Tyler Museum of Art. Carla Yanni was promoted to Associate
Professor with tenure in 2001. Her article, "The Crystal Palace: A Legacy in Science" will appear shortly in the Journal of the Prince Albert Society. The publication, produced in collaboration with the Royal Society of Art, London, UK,
will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Great Exhibition. She has presented papers on the architecture of 19th-century American insane asylums to the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Policy and Aging Research and the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, where she
is currently a fellow.
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