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A Report from the Art History Graduate Student Association
The graduate students in the Department of Art History are busy this year with
the usual papers, presentations and grant proposals. Additionally, as part
of the Art History Graduate Student Organization, various committees have organized
and are presenting the Outside Speakers Lecture Series and the Faculty and
Graduate Symposia. Also, the graduate students continue to edit and publish
the Rutgers Art Review, the country’s oldest periodical of graduate scholarship
in art history, while many others sit on the publication's editorial board.
These events have become your legacy at Rutgers University.
The Outside Speakers Lecture Series is a graduate student initiated, planned
and executed event that brings prominent and diverse art historians and artists
from the tri-state region and further afield to the Zimmerli Art Museum to present
their most recent research to the Rutgers community. This year's series began
in October, 2004 with interdisciplinary artist, curator and writer Coco Fusco.
She addressed issues of cultural politics in her multimedia art and language
performances in her paper entitled "Visualizing Race in American Photography".
Upcoming speakers include Dr. Alexander Nagel who will present his paper entitled "Spatio-temporal
Disruptions: Byzantine Icons and Renaissance Art" on February 24, 2005.
Dr. Nagel is Research Chair and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto
and currently an Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study
in the Visual Arts (CASVA) in Washington D.C. Dr. Edward Sullivan, Professor
of Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, will present
his paper entitled "Perceived Realities: Art and the Object in the Americas" on
April 7, 2005. Dr. Sullivan specializes in the Art of Latin America and 19th
and 20th century art of the Iberian Peninsula. He recently curated the exhibition "Brazil:
Body and Soul" at the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, Spain and
edited the accompanying book. Currently, he is writing a book on the history
and theory of the representation of objects in Latin American art. Rounding out
the Series will be Dr. Keith Sciberras. He will present his paper entitled "Caravaggio,
Knight of Malta: Virtuosity honored, Chivalry disgraced" on April 28, 2005.
Dr. Sciberras is a prominent Caravaggio scholar and Professor at the University
of Malta. The Outside Speaker Lecture Series was begun in the early 1980s and
is open to the general public and we, the Art History graduate students, would
like to extend an invitation to all alumni and other interested parties to join
us at these lectures and engage in further discussion.
Four Rutgers art history faculty were invited by the graduate students to present
the fruits of their current research endeavors at the Faculty Symposium, which
took place on September 30, 2004. Dr. Sarah Brett-Smith, specialist in African
art, presented her paper "The Knowledge of Women". Dr. Angela Howard,
an Asian art specialist presented "Miracles and Visions Among the Monastic
Communities of Kucha, Xinjiang". Dr. Erik Thunø, a Medievalist and
new to the faculty in Fall 2004, presented his paper entitled "The Miraculous
Image and the Urban Space: Santa Maria della Consolazione in Todi". Dr.
Carla Yanni, whose specialty is 19th and 20th century architecture in Europe
and the United States, completed the program with her paper entitled “The
Development of the Cottage Plan for Insane Asylums in the United States.”
The Graduate Symposium was recently held on February 8, 2005. Three graduate
students presented twenty-minute papers focusing on their most recent research
to an audience of their peers, departmental faculty, and friends. Erin Benay,
a second-year graduate student specializing in Italian Baroque art presented
her paper entitled “Depicting Doubt, Invoking Belief: Franciscan Renewal
and the Doubting Thomas.” Heather Nolin, a third-year graduate student
who recently passed her qualifying examinations and specialized in Italian Renaissance
art, presented her paper entitled “Envisioning Sacrifice and Salvation:
Paolo Veronese's Martyrdom of St. George.” Kim Sels, a first-year graduate
student specializing in modern art presented her paper entitled “Brancusi
and Minimalism: Unified Objects.”
Rutgers Art Review is the scholarly journal of graduate research in the history
of art and related fields, edited and published annually by Rutgers art history
graduate students. Subscribers include many of the finest academic, museum and
public libraries in North America and Europe including the National Gallery of
London, the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and libraries at Harvard, Princeton,
and Yale. Now in its twenty-second year, Rutgers Art Review remains dedicated
to presenting the finest original research by current graduate students. Published
articles are selected from a large group of submissions to each issue, received
from students in graduate programs in the United States and abroad.
Articles published in Rutgers Art Review reflect the broad spectrum of inquiry
characteristic of art historical research. With topics as diverse as Greek vase
painting, contemporary photography, Mayan architectural sculpture, medieval manuscript
illumination, Islamic landscape architecture, patronage and collecting and the
AIDS discourse, papers published in Rutgers Art Review illuminate the production,
function and reception of art from five continents over nearly 2500 years. Additionally,
most issues contain an interview with an art historian whose work represents
a significant, often seminal, contribution to the field. In keeping with the
increasingly interdisciplinary nature of art historical scholarship, the most
recent Call for Papers was greatly expanded, inviting submissions from Classics,
Medieval Studies, Theological Studies and Gender Studies programs. Each of these
was represented among the nearly seventy papers received for Volume 22, submissions
reflecting the importance of visual culture to many fields of academic inquiry.
As one of the alumni/a of the Rutgers University Department of Art History, we
know you can appreciate the enormous amount of time and energy expended by the
graduate students to continue these traditions, events and publications. Over
the past year, our usual source of funding for these projects and events has
been radically reduced, leaving the Art History Graduate Student Association
and Rutgers Art Review editors scrambling for funding. The future of these initiatives
is in danger of being compromised. Rather than hanging our heads and settling
for a diminished product, the current graduate students are engaging in an aggressive
fund-raising campaign to ensure the continuing quality of the Outside Lecture
Series and the Rutgers Art Review. We hope you recognize their value to the Art
History department, the community, the current students and yourselves. They
are just as important to us as they were to you at Rutgers University.
With this in mind, we are making an appeal to all Rutgers University Art History
alumni. We hope you will help by giving a little something back. Please make
a donation to the Art History Graduate Student Fund and/or the Rutgers Art Review
and help keep the departmental lectures and publications at their current level
of excellence. By giving you are contributing to the life of the Department of
Art History; you are encouraging the graduate students in their academic pursuits
and making departmental events, the Outside Lecture Series and publication of
the Rutgers Art Review possible. Ultimately, you will be helping to augment the
Department of Art History's prestige in the Rutgers University, museum and art
historical communities. These events are a legacy and we are committed to their
continuation.
Thank you in advance for your generous contribution.
Best regards,
Heather R. Nolin
Tim McManus
Co-Presidents, Art History Graduate Student Organization
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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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