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Notes from the Chair Faculty News Matthew Baigell. Professor emeritus Baigell has written several articles including "Newman's The Stations of the Cross: Lema Sabachthani: A Jewish Take," Art Criticism 19 (no. 1, 2004): 52-62, "Archie Rand: The Nineteen Diaspora Paintings," in Archie Rand: The Nineteen Diaspora Paintings (New York: Hebrew Union College, 2004), "Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg and Their Jewish Issues," Prospects (2005), in press and "George Inness' Images and Emanuel Swedenborg's Writings," Source (in press). He published a chapter in a book edited by Rutgers alumna Nancy Siegel "Getting a Grip on God: Painting the Christianized Landscape," Within the Landscape: Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century American Scenery (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press (2005), in press. And he gave the following talks: "Archie Rand," Hebrew Union College, New York, October 15, 2004. "Newman's The Stations of the Cross," Association of Jewish Studies, Chicago, December 19, 2004. "Jewish Artists: Complex Identities," Jewish Artists Initiative Lecture Series, Los Angeles, February 3, 2005. "Six Jewish American Artists and the Bible," College Art Association, Atlanta, February 17, 2005. Sarah Brett-Smith attended the meetings of the Association of African Studies in New Orleans in November. She was surprised and disturbed to see several stuffed domestic cats on sale near the meeting hotel. She has been enjoying Rutgers’ membership in the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium, since it has enabled several CUNY graduate students to study with her. She has been in touch with one graduate student who plans to work in Mali and has helped to provide contacts there for this student. Martin Eidelberg has been busier than ever in retirement. In March 2004, he curated an exhibition on the iconographical sources of the fête galante at the Museum of Fine Arts in Valenciennes (Antoine Watteau's natal city in northern France). This well-received exhibition included paintings and drawings from cities as far flung as Los Angeles, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, and Salzburg. Among the works were some ten paintings and even more drawings by Watteau himself. The lavish catalogue was published by the Réunion des musées nationaux, and he was proud to have been joined in this project by Dr. Barbara Anderman, a Rutgers graduate. In addition to authoring various articles on modern decorative arts and eighteenth-century painting, Dr. Eidelberg has written a book on Tiffany Studios’ lamps which will be published in September 2005. He continues to be quite active on the lecturer circuit with lectures extending from museums in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Winter Park, Florida, and points between. This past January, he was one of the main speakers at a conference on Siegfried Bing at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Archer St. Clair Harvey teaches the core seminar "Preserving Cultural Heritage," in the new Certificate in Historic Preservation Program, and serves on the Archaeological Institute of America's Program Committee, Professional Responsibilities Committee, and Cultural Heritage Legislation Committee. Her current projects include two publications: the ivory and bone remains from Morgantina, Princeton University's excavation in southeastern Sicily, and the archaeological finds from the Palatine East Excavation in Rome, Italy (Vol. II of the Final Excavation Report), where she is Associate Director. Her research in Art History is centered on Constantinian overpainting of frescoed walls in fourth century Rome and Ostia. Angela
F. Howard For Angela F. Howard the major event of the year was the opening
of the exhibition China, Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD, at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, October 12, 2004-January 23, 2005. As Special Consultant
of Chinese Buddhist Art, 1998-October 2004, she chose most of the Buddhist
sculpture in the exhibition. Howard was also active in the various activities
which accompanied the exhibition -- contributing to the catalogue by James
C. Y. Watt et al., China, Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD (New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 2004) with the essay “Buddhist Art in China,” and
writing twenty-seven entries. Besides giving several gallery talks, she participated
in the related symposium on November 13th, 2004 with the paper “The Acculturation
of Buddhist Images in China: An Astonishing Pluralism of Styles.” Lastly,
she wrote “From Han to Tang: The Acculturation of Buddhist Images in
China,” Orientations (October 2004), an article focusing on the Buddhist
sculpture in the exhibition. Tod
Marder continues as Chair of the Department. In addition, he saw the publication
of his article on Bernini’s Neptune and Triton statue, now in the Victoria
and Albert Museum in London, in the Acts of a conference held at the French Academy
in Rome, Villa Medici: “Bernini’s Neptune and Triton Fountain for
the Villa Montalto,” in Bernini dai Borghese ai Barberini. La cultura a
Roma intorno agli anni venti (Atti del Convegnno, Accademia di Francia a Roma,
Villa Medici), eds. Olivier Bonfait-Anna Coliva, Rome, 2004. As a fun project
he took the opportunity to collaborate with the authors of a
Joan Marter Currently Professor Marter is on competitive fellowship leave. She was awarded a research fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Stony Brook University for 2004-05. Her residency at the Jackson Pollock-Lee Krasner Study Center in East Hampton, New York has offered an opportunity to work on a book on changing views of science and technology by sculptors working from the 1930s to the 1950s. In June 2004 Dr. Marter was inducted into the Alumni “Wall of Fame” for distinguished graduates of the University of Delaware. She continues as a member of the Board of Directors of the College Art Association. As chair of CAA’s Museum Committee, Dr. Marter was co-author of “Guidelines for Curatorial Studies Programs,” which has now been posted on the website of the CAA. At the upcoming annual conference of the CAA in Atlanta, February, 2005, Dr. Marter’s paper “Science Fiction and Technological Interface: Constructivist Sculpture of the 1940s and 1950s” will be presented in a session entitled “Mass Culture before Pop.” In March 2004, Dr. Marter presented “Reg Butler and the Competition for the Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner,” at the Tate Britain, London, in a symposium on British sculpture sponsored by the Henry Moore Institute. Forthcoming publications include an essay. “Arcadian Nightmares: David Smith and Dorothy Dehner at Bolton Landing,” in Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and Critique, edited by Ellen G. Landau (Yale University Press, 2005). Recent publications include “Joan Mitchell Paintings,” Woman’s Art Journal (Spring/Summer 2004) and Samuel Rothbort, A Modernist in America (New York, 2004). Dr. Marter worked with graduate students in her exhibition seminar last spring to organize Artists on the Edge: Douglass College and the Rutgers MFA, which will be exhibited at Douglass College beginning in March 2005. The exhibition catalogue, edited by Dr. Ferris Olin, will publish essays by graduate students on Rutgers MFA graduates Joan Snyder, Keith Sonnier, Jackie Winsor, Mimi Smith, Rita Myers, Alice Aycock, and others. Dr. Marter will chair a panel discussion on March 9, 2005 featuring many of these artists. She is also organizing and chairing a symposium entitled “All-over: Abstract Expressionism’s Global Context,” to be held at Stony Brook’s Manhattan campus on April 8 and 9, 2005. Speakers include David Craven, Ellen Landau, Ann Gibson, Jane Sharp and Lewis Kachur. Dr. Marter will also edit a book entitled Abstract Expressionism, An International Language to be published by Rutgers University Press. Sarah McHam. During the past year Dr. McHam continued work on her book about Pliny's influence on Italian Renaissance art and theory (about which two articles are in press). She presented a paper on "The Equestrian Monument to Cosimo I by Giambologna," at the Provo-Athens Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference at the Univ. of Georgia in November (where former students Victor Coonin and Amy Bloch also presented). She was co-chair and organizer of two sessions, The Rise and Fall of Memorial Sculpture, at CAA in Seattle in February 2004, and the Italian Art Society's four sessions on great monuments in Italy at Kalamazoo in May. Catherine Puglisi organized the interdisciplinary symposium, The Age of Galileo: Art and Science in Early Modern Italy,” that took place at Rutgers in October 2004 and was sponsored by the University Committee on Italian Studies, directed by Dr. Puglisi. The symposium was cosponsored by the NJ Council for the Humanities, the Center for Comparative European Studies, the NJ Italian and Italian American Heritage Commission, and the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Lisandra Estevez, a doctoral candidate in the program and assistant to the committee, was responsible for many of the logistics involved in planning the symposium, which was attended by 100 people. Tod Marder chaired the panel, Galileo and the Arts, in which John Beldon Scott (Rutgers PhD, 1982) presented a paper. In May 2004, on the occasion of "La Mostra Impossibile," Dr. Puglisi was invited by the Caravaggio Foundation to speak on the painter in front of the artist's Beheading of St John the Baptist in the Oratory of the Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta. In December, she traveled to Naples, Italy, to see the show and attend the symposium, "L'ultimo Caravaggio," and is reviewing the exhibition for Simiolus. At the upcoming CAA in Atlanta, she will be presenting a paper "Re-envisioning the Imago Pietatis: Two Altarpieces by Paolo Veronese." Her article, "The Pala Feriale and the Cristo passo in Early Venetian Art," coauthored with William Barcham, is now in press, and she continues to conduct research with her coauthor for a forthcoming book on Christ as Man of Sorrows in Venetian art. Jane Sharp curated "Identity and Resistance: Abstract Painting from the Dodge Collection" at the Zimmerli Art Museum, and published an article by the same title in the first number of the Zimmerli Journal. An essay entitled "Allusive Form: Painting as Idea," has just appeared in the second number of the Journal. She gave several lectures including "Malevich/Makarevich: Abstraction and Irony" at the Institute for Art History, Russian Ministry of Culture, Moscow; and "The Transposition of Modernism to Central Asia," for a panel on Russian Orientalism at the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. She served on a panel at the Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, Shostakovich Festival. In February 2004, Professor Sharp chaired a panel for the Society of Historians of East-European and Russian Art and Architecture at CAA. Her book on Natalia Goncharova is in production and will be out in 2005. She is also working on a new book on late 20th-century abstract painting in the former Soviet Union which will be linked to a large exhibition at the Zimmerli. Penny Small published a book review this past year in the New England Classical Journal and prepared two invited essays ("Memory and the Roman Orator" to appear in the Blackwell Companion to Roman Rhetoric and "Pictures of Tragedy?" to appear in the Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy). She currently has a one-term sabbatical in which she is working on her new book on optics and illusionism in classical art from the Archaic period through the Late Antique. Jack
Spector's recent lectures and publications touch on topics directly or indirectly
related to research for a book on the emergence and disintegration of the Cubist
avant-garde in pre- and post-World War I Paris: an associated issue concerns
the interplay between the visual and the verbal, hence the article “Some
Influences of Chinese Calligraphy on Western Modernism” to be published
in Chinese by the Chinese Society for Aesthetics in Beijing and in English in
World Sinology. A sustained interest in the postmodern implications of the Dada
and Surrealist avant-gardes led to “Duchamp’s Gendered Plumbing:
A Family Business?” published in Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies
Online Journal, available at marcelduchamp.net. A lecture for the Rutgers Center
for Historical Analysis seminar "The Gendering of Children" titled “Regression
as Transgression in the Parisian Avant-Garde: Gender Fusions in Cubist Collage” contains
material integral to the projected book. A  Erik Thunø. In August 2004 appeared Erik Thunø's co-edited book: The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2004). Dr. Thunø also spoke at the department's faculty symposium in September 2004. The title of his talk was “The Miraculous Image and the Urban Space: Santa Maria della Consolazione in Todi.” In December 2004, Dr. Thunø participated in the XXVIII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte: La imagen sagrada y sacralizada Campece, Mexico, with the paper "From Neglect to Sacred Space. The Discovery and Institutionalization of the Miracle-Working Image of the Early Modern Period." Carla Yanni Carla Yanni now serves the art history department as graduate chair. This past year she co-taught an honors class with prize-winning historian Alison Isenberg. The class, called “The Spaces Between,” explored the history of cities as defined not by buildings but by the spaces between buildings, such as parks, streets, and historic districts. She continues her research on the architecture of psychiatric hospitals; her first book, Nature’s Museums, will be released in paperback in March 2005. In spring 2004 she was asked to serve on Rutgers' Vice-Presidential Task Force on Undergraduate Education, where she is co-chairing the Subcommittee on Classrooms and Facilities. She has just begun a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians.  |
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book about the Dan
Brown best-seller, Angels and Demons, with contributions published as "A
Bernini Expert Reflects on Dan Brown's Use of the Baroque Master" and "A
Scholar Visits the Vatican Library" in Dan Burstein and Arne de Keizer,
Secrets of Angels and Demons: the Unauthorized Guide to the Bestselling Novel,
New York: CDS Books with Squibnocket Partners LLC, 2004. A pleasant and amusing
detour from serious scholarship, the project also provided the excuse for an
assignment to his undergraduate students on Bernini, who were asked to write
papers on the facts and inaccuracies of Dan Brown’s portrayal of the artist
and his art. In the Spring of 2004, he gave a paper entitled “The Literary
Myth of Bernini” at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America,
New York, April 2004, where Rona Goffen was a keynote speaker. A very busy Fall
term ensued, beginning with the Rutgers symposium entitled “Galileo and
the Arts, The Age of Galileo: Art and Science in Early Modern Italy,” held
in Alexander Library, October 2004, which was organized and led by Catherine
Puglisi. There followed a lecture for the symposium “From Raphael to the
Grand Tour, A Symposium in Celebration of Malcolm Campbell’s Seventieth
Birthday,” University of Pennsylvania, October 2004. And finally, Dr. Marder
gave the Josephine von Henneberg Lecture in Italian Art at Boston College, with
the title “Missionary Science-Hieroglyphic Art: Bernini, Kircher, and the
Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome,” in November 2004. This February 2005,
he will serve as the organizer of a session sponsored by the Italian Art Society
on St. Peter’s Basilica at the College Art Association meeting in Atlanta.
While presiding over the visit of our Dutch colleague, Xander van Eck, Dr. Marder
continued to press for an exchange with our colleagues in Utrecht, which will
now include an undergraduate summer program in Dutch and Flemish art taught on
site. The summer program in Paris, coordinated by Dean Seth Gopin, now includes
the formal cooperation of the Louvre Museum on an on-going basis, and we anticipate
expansions into at least two other European cities.
