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Matthew Baigell Dr. Baigell’s recent publications include American Artists, Jewish Images(Syracuse University Press, 2006); Jewish Art in America: An Introduction (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007); "Shifting the Center of Gravity in Jewish American Art," in Jean Rosensaft, The L.A. Story. New York: Hebrew Union College, 2007: 4-6. and "The Scroll in Context," Ruth Weisberg Unfurled. Los Angeles: Skirball Cultural Center, 2007: 15-25. Dr. Baigell also presented talks on contemporary Jewish-American art subjects at the University of Wisconsin, Wayne State University, Michigan State University, the Graduate Center of CUNY, Hebrew Union College, and the Jewish Museum. Sarah Brett-Smith gave a paper at the 50th annual African Studies Association Meetings in New York city on October 18-21, 2007, on the panel, “Art, Islam, and Cultural Practices in the Mande Senufo Hinterlands.” The paper was titled, "The Iguana's tongue and the Iguana's tail."article, “Mud Cloth as Amulet,” appeared in Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art, eds. Christine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, and Allyson Purpura published by Five Continents Press in September of 2007. Tatiana Flores was named Cisneros Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University for 2007-2008. In the fall, she presented two papers as invited speaker: “Art and Visual Culture under Chávez,” for the History Workshop, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University and “Kahlo’s Contemporaries: Women Artists in 1920s Mexico” for the Frida Kahlo Centennial Celebration at SUNY Old Westbury.She also curated the exhibition "More is More: Maximalist Tendencies in Recent American Painting" at the Florida State University Museum of Art. Angela Howard During 2007, Dr. Howard continued researching the Buddhist art of the Central Asian Kingdom of Kucha (ca. 200-650). In February, she presented aspects of her investigation at the CAA Annual Conference, New York, in the panel Living Rock Caves. How monastic communities practiced their calling and used their caves was again the subject of her participation in the International Seminar on the Art of Central Asia and the Indian Sub-Continent, which took place in March, at the National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India. Dr. Howard took advantage of her stay in India to visit some of the sites where Buddha lived and preached; she incorporated her experience in her fall semester course on Buddhist art. In May 2007, the book Chinese Sculpture -- of which Dr. Howard was the senior Western editor and co-author with Wu Hung, Yang Hong, and Li Song -- was named one of the AAUP “Best of the Best” of University Press books (one of 28 nationally). The book was a joint US-China collaboration for the series The Culture and Civilization of China, Yale University Press, New Haven and Beijing, 2006 John Kenfield expanded and refined a talk first presented
at the Faculty Symposium in November of 2006 as an article entitled “Heaven’s
Exarchs: Early Byzantine Archangels and Delegation of Imperial Power.” It
will appear as a contribution to a festschrift entitled KOINE in honor of Professor
R. Ross Holloway, and was also presented as a public lecture sponsored by the
Classics Department at Princeton University and the Princeton Society of the
Archaeological Institute of America on
Over the past several years Tod Marder has given several lectures abroad and in the US on topics related to his interest in Bernini and in the ancient Roman Pantheon. For Bernini, he delivered a lecture in Bonn, Germany (2006) at a conference on the centenary of the founding of St. Peter's Basilica, and the paper is due to be published in 2008. He was guest lecturer at the University of Rome II (Tor Vergata) in June 2007 and gave two presentations, on the Four Rivers Fountain and on Bernini's Centrally Planned Churches -- the latter to be published under the auspices of the French National Institute for Art History (INHA, Paris) and the former to be developed in collaboration with colleagues at TorVergata. In October 2007, Dr. Marder attended the opening of an exhibition called "Bernini Pittore" at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, to which he contributed one of three extended essays in the catalogue. In 2007 he submitted final copy of an article about the post-antique history of the Pantheon to the Karmen Center for the Humanities at the University of Bern, in Switzerland, which had promoted an extensive conference on the ancient building. The Karman Center was responsible for a new laser scan of the entire structure using five-hundred and forty-thousand sites, which revealed deformations, changes in design and structure, and new information regarding the building's chronology. (The proceedings should appear in 2008.) In 2007 Marder also published an essay on the history of the Pantheon to the volume Rom, Meisterwerke der Baukunst von der antike bis Heute edited by Christina Strunck, Imhof Verlag, Petersberg. At present, Dr. Marder is completing the editing of a book of essays in collaboration with the English archaeologist Mark Wilson Jones on the history, construction, and reception of the Pantheon for Cambridge UP. The contributors are American, English, German, and Italian. In February Dr. Marder and his students will be attending the conference Preserving New York, which is co-sponsored by the Certificate Program in Historic Preservation, Rutgers University. For spring, 2008 Dr. Marder has organized two sessions devoted to 17th-century portraiture -- one on Dutch painters and the other on Bernini -- for the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society in America. In addition, with Archer St. Clair Harvey and the students in the Certificate Program in Historic Preservation, in association with the cultural heritage organization SAFE, he is organizing a candlelight vigil in April to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. In early June, in connection with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) in Trenton, Dr. Marder is helping to host the state-wide conference on preservation, here at Rutgers University. And later in June he will again be returning to Rome to teach the University's third annual art history summer course (with Prof. John Kenfield) and form another twenty student converts to the city. Joan Marter was appointed editor-in-chief of the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, to be published by Oxford University Press. A $150,000 grant was awarded by the Luce Foundation for this five-volume print edition. In 2007 Dr. Marter edited Abstract Expressionism, The International Context (Rutgers University Press), a volume with essays by David Anfam, Serge Guilbaut, Stephen Polcari, Ann Gibson, and other scholars. Other publications include “Negotiating Abstraction: Lee Krasner, Mercedes Carles Matter and the Hofmann Years,” Woman’s Art Journal (Fall/Winter 2007), “Dorothy Dehner” in Quaderni di Scultura Contemporanea, and a review of Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Great Plains Quarterly (Fall 2007). Professor Marter continues as editor of Woman’s Art Journal, which has been published for 28 years, and has been sponsored by Rutgers for the past two. She participated in a symposium on Abstract Expressionism organized by Stony Brook University in April, and spoke at the Southampton campus in July 2007. Professor Marter also serves as chair of the Exhibitions Committee of the College Art Association. Sarah Blake McHam published three essays reflecting her interests
in Renaissance sculpture and painting. The first was a general essay on art
and architecture for the volume Venice and the Veneto, edited by Peter Humfrey.
The second was a reconsideration of Tullio Lombardo's tomb of Doge Giovanni
Mocenigo, published in Tullio Lombardo, scultore e archtetto nella Venezia
del rinascimento, the acts of the conference on Tullio Lombardo held at the
Cini Foundation in Venice in 2006. The third concerned early fifteenth-century
relief sculpture in Tuscany and was published in Depth of Field, The Place
of Relief in the Time of Donatello. In November she presented a paper at the
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence on the Piazza della Signoria as part
of a workshop that is organizing a conference there next fall and a volume
of essays concerning the theme "Piazza e Monumento." For the upcoming
annual meetings of the Renaissance Society of America she organized six sessions
about Renaissance rulers' constructing their identities through artistic commissions.
She also became a consultant to the project on Judith at the New York Public
Library, for a conference to be held in April. Our new assistant professor in Italian Renaissance art, Benjamin Paul, along with his colleague Giorgio Tagliaferro from the Ca’Foscari University (Venice), organized an interdisciplinary conference on the crisis in late sixteenth-century Venice, which was held on the lagoon on two days the weekend before Christmas. In March, Dr. Paul participated at the Tintoretto convention in Madrid and later delivered versions of this talk at the Rutgers Faculty Symposium and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton. Dr. Paul was also invited to be a respondent to Edward Grasman (Nijmegen) at a conference at the Kunsthistorische Institut in Florence. In the Spring, Paul enjoyed three months in Rome where he was a fellow at the Deutsches Historisches Institut. Bringing his bicycle to get to the Vatican proved the best idea he ever had! The three months in Rome prepared him for a seminar on Roman and Venetian tomb sculpture, co-taught in the summer with Arne Karsten at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. Dr. Paul published several articles last year, including a study on Jacopo Tintoretto’s works in San Benedetto in Venice, Jacopo Soranzo’s tomb in Santa Maria degli Angeli in Murano, and on the Roman photographer Tano d’Amico. In addition he published several reviews in Renaissance Quarterly and Springerin. He also contributed an article on Wolfgang Tillmans for Pixtura, a German internet portal designed to teach students how to write term papers and scholarly texts. The biggest event for Paul in 2007, however, was to start teaching at Rutgers in the fall and he is enthusiastic about the prospect to be here for many years to come. Catherine Puglisi returned to teaching in January 2007 after her FASP leave in the fall, when she continued research for her ongoing collaborative book project on the image of Christ as Man of Sorrows in Venetian art. She will guest curate, along with her co-author, an exhibition focused on this theme to be held at the Museum of Biblical Art (MoBia) in 2011. Among her publications, Dr. Puglisi contributed short essays on Francesco Albani for the volume of the scholarly catalogue of the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna on the 17th century. Her “Bernardino da Feltre, the Monte di Pietà, and the Man of Sorrows: Activist, Microcredit and Logo,” co-authored with W. Barcham, is now in press at Artibus et Historiae, and her monograph on Caravaggio was just issued in the French paperback edition. In February 2007, she was invited by Curator of European Art, Tom Loughman (Rutgers PhD, 2003) to present a public lecture, “The Legacies of Caravaggio and Rembrandt” at the Phoenix Art Museum. Continuing her involvement in the Italian Studies Program she developed at Rutgers, Dr. Puglisi moderated the Italian Studies session, at the first annual “Showcase Italian” on Pedagogical Approaches to Italian Language, Italian Studies and Italian American Studies, held at Rutgers in March. In October, she traveled to Loches, France to serve as an outside expert in the critical evaluation of two canvases attributed to Caravaggio discovered in a local church; the discovery formed the premise of a televised documentary, “L’enigme de Caravage," aired on France 3 in December, for which she was interviewed. Dr. Puglisi has joined the Committee of Experts for the Caravaggio Studies Programme at the University of Malta. Jane Sharp was in Amsterdam on sabbatical in the fall 2006, following which she taught at University College, University of Utrecht (for the spring semester 2007). The course on modernism she offered there was a great challenge and pleasure, as it involved frequent teaching in museum collections, including a class on de Stijl at the Rietveldt-Schroder house, which is across the street from the University (in Utrecht). Among the several publications that went to press last year was a chapter on the impact of Abstract Expressionism on Russian unofficial artists of the 1960s, in the book edited by Professor Joan Marter. Dr. Sharp was extremely fortunate to have been awarded the Robert Motherwell prize for a book on modernism by the Dedalus Foundation in May 2007 for "Russian Modernism between East and West: Natal'ia Goncharova and the Moscow Avant-Garde, 1905-1914" (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Tanya Sheehan. In June 2007, Dr. Sheehan completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Dept. of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia. Since then she has published two book reviews and completed the manuscript of her own book, "Doctor Photo: Portrait Photography as Medicine in American Culture." In the fall Dr. Sheehan was in residence at the Leslie Humanities Center of Dartmouth College where she participated in a research institute titled "No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity." The topic that Dr. Sheehan pursued in this institute was that of her second book, now in development and tentatively titled Blacks and Whites: Race and American Photographic Humor. A selection from this project will appear in a forthcoming volume organized by the Leslie Center. Dr. Sheehan also presented another selection from her second book project at a session devoted to American visual humor at the 2007 College Art Association Conference in New York. In October 2007, Dr. Sheehan took a brief break from rural New Hampshire to chair a session at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting titled "Seeing in Color: Racial Politics and Visual Culture in Philadelphia." At that meeting she was voted Chair of the Visual Culture / Art History Caucus Programming Committee, which sponsors and organizes future sessions for the ASA. She is now living in Providence, RI with her husband and year-old son. In her second year at Rutgers, Susan Sidlauskas took a quantum leap forward in learning about her new academic home by being acting chair of the department. Although it was difficult to take over during a budget crisis, she has amassed a humbling amount of knowledge about how things work--both within the department and at Rutgers more generally.She continues to be delighted at being part of the Rutgers community, which expanded as she was a faculty fellow at the Institute for Research on Women, for their seminar on "Bodies and Health."Dr. Sidlauskas spent the year with an exceptional group of historians, writers, sociologists, political scientists, legal scholars, and anthropologists -- a group composed of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior and senior faculty.She worked on her "Before and After" project, a group of 19th century photographs of anorexic women prior to and following their treatment, research she is expanding into a book project on the before and after structure in 19th century medicine and social science.She traveled to London to give a paper on the photographs at a Wellcome Institute conference on "Madness and Modernity," and spoke at Yale University at their Nineteenth-Century Studies Colloquium.Last April, she was the keynote speaker for the graduate colloquium at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, her undergraduate alma mater.She is doing the final organizing for her book Cezanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense, which will be published in 2009 by the University of California Press, and continues to work on Disturbing Beauty, a book on the portraits of John Singer Sargent, an excerpt of which she will present at CAA Dallas.This fall she will teach a new course with the department's new Americanist, Tanya Sheehan, called "The Art of the Body: Visual Culture and Medicine." In May, Erik Thuno presented the paper "The Implied Viewer. The Case of Ss. Cosmas and Damian in Rome" at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. In October, he spoke on "Looking past the Altar. The Apse Mosaic" at "Image and Altar: Interrelationships" organized by the National Museum and University of Copenhagen. In December, Dr. Thuno delivered the paper "The Early Medieval Apse Mosaic: Observations on Liturgy and Reception" at the Kunstgeschichtliches Institut at the University of Marburg, Germany. At the conference "The Interrelationship of Relics and Images in Christian and Buddhist Culture at the University of Tokyo, he presented "From Holy Fragment to Material Artifact and Back On Relic and Image in Early Medieval Visual Culture” Dr. Thuno reviewed the book Anne-Orange Poilpré, Maiestas Domini. Une image de l'Église en Occident Ve-IXe siècle for CAA Reviews On-line, and contributed a short article on the church of S. Prassede in "Meisterwerke der Baukunst," Festgabe für Elisabeth Kieven. On July 1 he went on a one-year competitive leave sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and became research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, Italy, as well as at the Kunstgeschichtliches Institut at the University of Marburg in Germany. Laura Weigert received a grant from the Humboldt Foundation to organize an interdisciplinary conference tentatively entitled “Landscapes-Cityscapes-Soundscapes.” She will be hosting her co-organizers, Tanja Michalsky (UDK Berlin) and Anno Mungen (Bayreuth U.), at Rutgers this spring and will travel to Berlin next year. The conference will explore how the visual and aural are linked in the constitution and experience of space. She will deliver a lecture in May in New York at the conference "Seeing the Medieval: Realms of Faith/Visions for Today." This summer she will be teaching the Paris program with Susan Sidlauskas. In April, the University of Minnesota Press published Carla Yanni’s second book, The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States. The book is included in a bold new series called Architecture, Landscape and American Culture, which combines vernacular architectural approaches and rigorous social history with the study of the built environment. In July 2008, Dr. Yanni joined the office of undergraduate education as assistant vice president for undergraduate academic affairs. She teaches one class each semester in art history, while in her administrative work her attention is drawn to Study Abroad, Career Services, the Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates, University Scheduling and Space Management, Fellowships, and First-year Seminars. Dr. Yanni is also the chair of the university-wide classroom renovation committee, which has allowed her to explore a type of architecture even less glamorous than lunatic asylums. Andres Zervigon spent the first half of the last year on leave in Berlin. There he completed the research for his book The Agitated Image: John Heartfield, Photomontage and the German Avant-Garde, 1917-1930. While plowing through archives, scribing chapters and gasping for breath in smoke-filled cafes, he also participated in various symposia and saw the exhibition that he curated at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles travel to a new venue in Miami. In January he presented a paper on Weimar-era worker photography at a conference covering methodologies of image analysis in Konstanz, Germany. In February he and Stephen Pinson (Curator of Photography, New York Public Library) co-chaired the session “Subject: Photography” at the College Art Association conference in New York. In September he presented a talk entitled “Doing Violence to Perception: John Heartfield and Political Photomontage” at the Wolfsonian Museum (Miami Beach) in conjunction with his exhibition, Agitated Images. John Heartfield and German Photomontage 1920-1938. Dr. Zervigon also stepped onto the airwaves in April, discussing the notorious 1937 “Degenerate Art Show” on Australia’s Radio National program Artworks.
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