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Notes from the Chair Faculty News Matthew Baigell (retired ’01) and his wife Renee were featured in the Rutgers Focus (October 5, 2001) for their scholarly contributions to the Zimmerli Art Museum and last year’s release of Peeling Potatoes, Painting Pictures: Women’s Art in Post-Soviet Russia, Estonia, and Latvia (Rutgers Univ. Press), a book on post-Soviet women artists. Dr. Baigell’s 2001 publication Artist and Identity in Twentieth Century American Art (Cambridge) was praised in the Art Bulletin for its contribution to defining and shaping the field of American art. His publication of books and articles in 2002 include: Jewish Artists in New York: The Holocaust Years (Rutgers Univ. Press); Yefim Ladyzhenski (catalogue: Zimmerli Art Museum); Residue of Silence: Francisca de Beurges Rosenthal, Joyce Lyon, and Howard Oransky, traveling exhibition (catalogue: Univ. of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls); and “Hyman Bloom’s Jewish Paintings,” in Color & Ecstasy: The Art of Hyman Bloom (National Academy of Design, New York). In November 2002, in a response to “The Last Expression (Art and Auschwitz),” Dr. Baigell participated in the symposium at the Bloch Museum, Northwestern University. Wendy Bellion was a contributing author to the exhibition catalogue, Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil in Europe and America, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, (October 13, 2002-March 2, 2003), where she was also a Research Associate for the Department of American and British Painting. Carl Hartman (Associate Press) interviewed Dr. Bellion about the exhibition for an article that ran in newspapers nationwide. Her recent publications include: “Pleasing Deceptions: The Material Culture of Optical Illusion,” Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 3, an on-line journal at www.common-place.org (October 2002); “Illusion and Allusion: Charles Willson Peale's Staircase Group at the Columbianum Exhibition,” American Art (Summer 2003, forthcoming); and a review of Alexander Nemerov’s book, “The Body of Raphaelle Peale,” CAA Reviews online (forthcoming). In November 2002, Dr. Bellion delivered a paper, “Hooking the Eye: Meat and Markets in William Birch's Views of Philadelphia,” at the American Studies Association annual conference, Houston. In April 2003, she will chair a panel on “New Approaches to Visual Culture,” at the Society of Early Americanists, Third Biennial Conference, in Providence. Martin Eidelberg’s (retired ’01) recent and forthcoming publications include: Behind the Scenes of Tiffany Glassmaking: The Nash Notebooks, with Nancy A. McClelland (New York and London: St. Martin’s Press, 2001); “Watteau and Audran at the Hôtel de Nointel,” Apollo 155 (January 2002); “Watteau’s Rêve de l’artiste Unveiled,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts (October, 2002); The Ceramic Forms of Leza McVey (New York: Philmark Publishers, to appear March 2003); and, “More About Old Nollekens,” Apollo (to appear March 2003). Projects currently underway are: Les fêtes galantes de Watteau; rêve et realité – an exhibition and catalogue at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Valenciennes (Watteau’s hometown in France), to open in 2004; and Louis C. Tiffany, The Artful Enterprise -- an exhibition and catalogue, in collaboration with Janet Zapata, to open in 2005 at the Museum of Art and Design, New York; touring to the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, the Seattle Museum of Art, and Dallas Museum of Art. Rona Goffen marked 2002 with the publication of Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian (Yale Univ. Press), named one of the best art history books of the year by two English papers, the London Times and the Evening Standard. Published this past fall, it is already going into a second printing. Dr. Goffen’s forthcoming articles include: “Raphael’s Designer Labels,” Artibus et Historiae, and “Leonardo vs. Michelangelo,” BBC History, both to appear in Spring 2003. She will also give the following presentations: “Adam and Eve, or Sex and Gender in the Beginning,” at University College of the University of London, February 2003; “Titian and His Rivals” and “Renaissance Rivals,” both presentations at the National Gallery, London, May 2003; “Adam and Eve in the Brancacci Chapel” at Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, June 2003; and “Seeing Things” in a plenary session of the Fiftieth-Anniversary meetings of the Renaissance Society of America in New York, February 2004. This spring, Professor Goffen will appear in a BBC/Discovery Channel series on Leonardo da Vinci, to be aired in April or May. Angela F. Howard conducted a graduate seminar in collaboration with Professor Li Chongfeng of the Archaeology Department, Beijing University, in Xinjiang, the Autonomous Uighur Republic, during Summer 2002. The seminar studied, in situ, the caves of Kizil, Kumtura, Subashi, Simsim, Kizilgaha, Mazabaha, Tuhulakeaiken, Taitai’er. For the first time, foreign scholars and students were welcomed to reside for an extended period at Kizil, and permitted to undertake in-depth study of the grottoes that represent Buddhist art of the ancient Kingdom of Kucha, on the northern Silk Route. Topics addressed in this unprecedented seminar included: the chronology of the sites, the structure of the caves and their mutual relationship, changes of the natural surroundings affecting the distribution of the caves, and the doctrinal importance of the earliest phase of Indian Buddhism (Hinayana) in the decoration of the caves. This seminarwas funded by the Luce Foundation and administered by the Asian Cultural Council, New York. Additionally, Dr. Howard’s recent lectures include: “Early Buddhist Cave Temples of India and Kucha on the Northern Silk Route, Xinjiang,” Haverford Distinguished Visitor Program, Haverford, PA, November 2002; “Visions and Miracles Among the Monastic Communities of Kucha in Central Asia,” Museum of Fine Arts Houston, in conjunction with the exhibition “Afghanistan: A Timeless History," January 2003. John Kenfield co-organized a major international conference entitled "Deliciae Fictiles III, Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy: New Discoveries and Interpretations," held at the American Academy of Rome, November 7-8, 2002, and sponsored by the American Academy, the University of Texas at Austin, and Rutgers University. Dr. Kenfield presented the paper “Dipoinos, Skyllis and an Artefix in Houston.” The conference attracted more than 100 attendees from all regions of Italy as well as Germany, Sweden, Holland, France, Canada, Greece, and the United States. Co-organizers included Ingrid Edlund-Berry (U. of Texas-Austin), Giovanna Greco (U. of Naples-Frederick II), and Ingrid Rowland (American Academy in Rome). A publication of essays will follow, to be edited by the organizers and published by the American Academy as a volume of the institution’s Memoires. In February, Dr. Kenfield will present the lecture “From Crete to Magna Graecia: an Early Archaic Artistic Nexus” at a conference entitled “One Island, Many Languages: Art and Architecture in Ancient Sicily,” held at Columbia University. Tod
Marder contributed the chapter, “Sources and Inventions in
Joan Marter was awarded a Getty Research Grant for a residency in the summer of 2002 at the Getty Research Institute. The Andrew W. Mellon Grant from the Zimmerli Art Museum offered release time during the fall semester to examine American sculpture in preparation for an exhibition. Dr. Marter was appointed as Chair of the Museum Committee of the College Art Association in 2002, and recently she has been nominated for the Board of Directors of CAA. She will co-chair a session entitled “Re(de)fining Abstract Expressionism” at the annual meeting of the CAA in February 2003. In August 2002, Dr. Marter organized a panel of renowned feminist artists in connection with the exhibition Personal and Political, The Women’s Art Movement, 1969-1975 at Guild Hall Art Museum, East Hampton, NY. Participants included Marter as moderator, Miriam Schapiro, Joan Semmel, May Stevens, Harmony Hammond, and Carolee Schneeman. Dr. Marter was also a discussant at a session “Preparing Art Historians for Museum Work” at the annual meeting of the CAA in February 2002. In February she also spoke on women artists and narratives at the University of Scranton, and in September she was invited to give a presentation on contemporary sculpture at the Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY. Dr. Marter’s review of the exhibition and publication Amazons of the Avant-Garde appeared in Women’s Art Journal, Fall 2002/Winter2003. An essay on David Smith and Dorothy Dehner is forthcoming in an anthology of Abstract Expressionism, Yale Univ. Press. Sarah Blake McHam was awarded the Distinguished Graduate School Award for Teaching Excellence in 2002 from Rutgers University. Dr. McHam was also the Rutgers Nominee for the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools Mentoring Award in 2003. Her forthcoming publications for 2003 include: “La Bottega dei Lombardo alla Cappella di Sant’Antonio e la teoria di Pomponio Guarico,” in La Bottega dei Lombardo. Architettura e scultura a Venezia tra Quattro e Cinquecento, ed. Howard Burns et al. (Venice, in press); “Padua, Bassano, and Treviso,” in Venice and the Veneto, ed. Peter Humfrey (Cambridge Univ. Press); and a review of Charles Dempsey’s Inventing the Renaissance Putto in Studies in Iconography (in press). Her publications for 2002 include: “Establishing the Space and Imagery of the State – II: The Interior Decoration of the Palazzo della Signoria,” in Re-Visioning the Renaissance City: Art, Patronage, and the Dynamics of Space, eds. Roger Crum and John T. Paoletti (Cambridge Univ. Press, in press); “La Scultura esterna di Santa Maria dei Mircoli,” in Santa Maria dei Miracoli, eds. Mario Piana and Wolfgang Wolters (Venice: Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti); Review of Francesco Caglioti, Donatello e i Medici, CAA Reviews (December). Dr. McHam was the Chair and Organizer of “Artist’s Strategies for Elevating their Status,” at the Renaissance Society of America Meetings, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 2002. Catherine
Puglisi’s study of taste and collecting in Baroque Rome, “Paolo
Veronese e la Roma dei Barberini,” co-authored with William Barcham, has
Jane
Sharp recently published the article “The Cherkashinís
Museum
Penny
Small presented the following papers: “When is a Picture an
Jack Spector traveled to Beijing for a four-day international symposium on “Aesthetics and Culture: East and West.” He presented the paper entitled “Some Influences of Chinese Calligraphy on Western Modernism,” which has been accepted for publication (in 2003) in Chinese and English versions by the Chinese Society for Aesthetics in Beijing. In November 2002, he presented the lecture “Collage, Rebus and Early Education in Paris after 1871: A Source for the Cubist Avant-Garde?” in the Public Lecture Series of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia. His review of Louis Rose’s The Survival of Images: Art Historians, Psychoanalysis, and the Ancients (Wayne State, 2001) will be published in American Imago, Spring 2003. Carla Yanni is presently Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., for 2002-2003. She held a colloquium on "The Architecture of Insane Asylums in the United States: Victorian Psychiatry and the Environmental Cure" at the 178th Colloquium at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, in November 2002. She was invited to participate in the conference, "Space, Psyche and Psychiatry: Mental Health/Illness and the Construction and Experience of Space, ca. 1600-2000," at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, December 2002, where she gave a lecture titled “The Apex of Asylum Architecture: Three State Hospitals for the Insane in the United States.” She also spoke on a related subject to the Latrobe Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians in Washington, D.C. in January 2003. On February 19, 2003 she will be one of four speakers in a panel on the state of museum historio-graphy, at the inaugural meeting of the Association of Museum History, Maison Français, NYU, New York City.  |
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