NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Department of Art History

Dear Friends and Colleagues: NEWSLETTER It is my pleasure to report on the Smithsonian Institution, the another stimulating year in Winterthur Foundation, and two the Department of Art History fellowships from the ACLS/ 2012-13 and invite you to enjoy a fuller Henry Luce Foundation. Six of our summation of activities in the pages undergraduate majors received CONTENTS that follow. It was a very busy honors from the Weinberg College year for David Van Zanten, who of Arts and Sciences for their published essays for two major senior theses. Of these honorees, 2 museum exhibitions in Paris, New Jasmine Jennings was awarded the FACULTY NEWS York, and Chicago, in addition department’s J. Carson Webster to a catalogue for the show he Prize for Distinguished Honors curated at the Block Museum of Thesis. The Best Junior Art History POSTDOCTORAL7 Art, “Drawing the Future.” Holly Major Prize was given to Hannah FELLOWS Clayson, who has received the great Kleinmann and the newly named distinction of being named the 2013- Warnock Prize in Art Historical 14 Kress Professor at the Center Writing went to sophomore Sinéad for Advanced Study in the Visual López. VISITING8 FACULTY Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, curated an As with any institution, change is exhibition at the Clark Art Institute. inevitable. In 2012-13, Professor 9 Huey Copeland, Christina Kiaer, Sarah Fraser left the department for SUMMER SEMINAR and Krista Thompson contributed a position at Heidelberg University. ABROAD essays to exhibition catalogs and This fall, the department will initiate Robert Linrothe undertook extensive a search for a new colleague in Asian planning for an exhibition that will art history, in addition to conducting GRADUATE10 open at the Block in 2015. searches for a Mary Jane Crowe STUDENT NEWS Chair and a Mellon Postdoctoral Among other faculty honors, Krista Fellowship in Islamic art history. Thompson was awarded a grant This past year, we toasted the from the Tremaine Foundation for retirement of art librarian and great UNDERGRADUATE14 a new curatorial project, Claudia friend of the department, Russ STUDENT NEWS Swan will be in residence at the Clement, who offers a reflection American Academy in Berlin next on his time at Northwestern in this year with a fellowship from the Max newsletter. With new initiatives 15 Planck Institute for the History of underway between the department NORTHWESTERN Science, and Huey Copeland was and the Art Institute of Chicago, as ART REVIEW awarded an ACLS Fellowship that well as departments and programs will allow him to undertake research across Northwestern, more changes for a new book project. are certainly to come. Please send LECTURES16 & Building on past successes, news of your activities and visit our EVENTS graduate students garnered many website for up-to-date departmental fine awards for research they news. will conduct away from campus next year. Sources of funding Jesús Escobar ALUMNI18 NEWS include the Kress Foundation, Chair “Why Serge Guilbaut’s Olympia FACULTY NEWS Collage Matters as Art as Never Before,” and “Charles Nègre’s Haunted Christine Bell serves as a College Market,” and a review in H-France. Adviser in Weinberg College of Arts Clayson was named a member of three and Sciences, while also teaching and organizations this year: the Courtauld continuing to research and write. This Research Forum International Advisory March she presented a paper at the Board, the College Art Association annual conference of the Midwest Publications Committee; and the Grant Art History Society titled “Substance Review Committee, PUF (Partner and Shadow in the Spectacular Civil University Fund) Program, Cultural War,” that analyzed the production of Services of the Embassy of France. a large-scale illuminated transparency Two of her doctoral students defended on the subject of emancipation that was their dissertations this year: Jacob displayed in Philadelphia in the fall of Lewis and Patrick Tomlin. She was 1864, considering its impact as a work involved in two more successful Serge Guilbaut: Retro-Perspective of public art on the streets of a city defenses: Min Lee’s and that of Hélène (University of British Columbia, divided by wartime politics. 2012). Valance (Paris 7), and directed Katie Cannady’s honors-winning senior A very intense and busy year, it was. thesis. She will teach the 2013 Summer Holly Clayson delivered the keynote Seminar Abroad, taking seven students lecture, “Thomas Edison’s surprising to Paris to investigate collections progeny in Paris: Mary Cassatt, John and spaces of various kinds. She Singer Sargent and Edvard Munch,” embarked on her last year at the helm at the University of Oslo conference, of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the “New Visions: Edvard Munch and Humanities where three achievements Modern Media Culture.” She lectured stand out in another banner year: the on “Bird Cages, Absorption and inauguration of the Undergraduate Confinement: Re-reading Renoir’s Affiliates Program, a deepening Terrible Year Interiors,” in Montreal support of the Digital Humanities, and at a conference on Renoir fils et père, the commencement of an endowed a lecture reprised for the University Day at Northwestern during the fall Club of Chicago. She co-chaired two Chicago Humanities Festival, now sessions at the CAA annual meeting in called the Morry and Dolores Kaplan New York, “The Interior as Space and Northwestern Day. Last point: Holly Image.” The exhibition she curated at has shined up her tiara to prepare the Clark Art Institute (Williamstown for a temporary move to DC. She has MA), ELECTRIC PARIS, opened on been appointed the Samuel H. Kress February 17. Her public lecture “Art Professor at CASVA for 2013-14. Come in the City of Light(s)” coincided and visit! with the opening. She lectured at the Buffalo Historical Museum on John During the 2012-13 academic year, Singer Sargent’s Paris twilights and Huey Copeland completed revisions organized the two-day conference, “N/ to forthcoming texts on the work of Huey Copeland, Bound to LIGHT: Cultural and Art Histories of contemporary artists Eleanor Antin, Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Light and the Night,” which brought Zoe Leonard, and Dave MacKenzie, Blackness in Multicultural America together eleven scholars from the US (University of Chicago Press, while continuing to present his forthcoming). and Europe representing four different scholarship at institutions across the disciplines. Her paper was “First country, including the Arts Club of Responders to the Arc Lights of Paris: Chicago, the Miami Art Museum, Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent.” New York University, the University She published two short catalog essays: of Southern California, and Vanderbilt

2 University, where he delivered the wrote articles and op-eds about the Norman and Rosalea J. Goldberg prison, lectured in Europe and the US Lecture in the Department of History about prison architecture and history, of Art. Back at Northwestern, Huey and met with legislators and prison had the pleasure of advising the officials in Illinois about conditions senior honors theses of Marni Barta in our correctional institutions. An and Jasmine Jennings; of continuing article he co-authored with Laurie Jo to direct the research of advanced Reynolds about Tamms Year Ten was PhD students Faye Gleisser and published in Creative Time Reports. Nicholas A. Miller; and of co-teaching Eisenman has also been reviewing the the undergraduate and graduate proofs of two new books. The first is seminar “Black Collectivities” with his The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of colleague Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn Animal Rights (Reaktion, forthcoming and Larry Fields Curator at the 2013), and the second is The Ghosts of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Our Meat, a book/exhibition catalog (MCA). This course was centered about the artist Sue Coe. He is also around a two-day conference held preparing lectures on animals and at the MCA, Northwestern’s Block art, Camille Pissarro, and other Stephen Eisenman, The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Museum of Art, and the University of subjects to be delivered this coming Animal Rights Chicago’s Arts Incubator. With a roster fall in Chicago, London, Dallas and (Reaktion, forthcoming). of renowned local and international elsewhere. participants, the conference attracted over 250 attendees and the proceedings In 2012-13, Jesús Escobar completed a are slated to appear as a special issue three-year term as Department Chair. of the Nka: Journal of Contemporary He taught an undergraduate lecture African Art. In addition to the “Black course on Baroque art in Italy and Collectivities” conference, Huey Spain, a graduate seminar on sixteenth- organized the panels “Effects” century architecture in Spain, and for the CAA annual meeting, and advised a senior thesis by Madeleine “AfriCOBRA Now” for the Black Art Amos on monumental staircases Initiative’s inaugural conference “Black in Baroque Rome. In May, Escobar Arts Chicago: Moves and Movements.” hosted six guest scholars, historians In the summer of 2013, he attended and art historians, who participated in the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory a symposium exploring Renaissance and Criticism with his colleague art and visual culture in Spain. The and frequent collaborator, Krista event took place at the Art Institute Thompson. This fall, he looks forward of Chicago and the Northwestern to the publication of his book Bound University Library. Beyond campus, to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of he delivered papers at the CAA annual Blackness in Multicultural America and meeting in New York, a symposium on to a year of leave, made possible by an Cities and Empire in the Early Modern American Council of Learned Societies Spanish Habsburg World at the Clark Fellowship, that will allow him to work Library at UCLA, and a symposium toward the completion of his second exploring Deeper History in the book In the Arms of the Negress: A Brief study of architecture and urbanism History of Modern Artistic Practice. at MIT. Additionally, he published a book review in the Art Bulletin, while Stephen Eisenman spent the spring continuing to edit book reviews for celebrating the closure of Tamms the Journal of the Society of Architectural Professor Escobar organized the supermax prison, the culmination of Historians and the series, Buildings, symporium The Renaissance in five years of work by his organization Landscapes, and Societies for Penn State Spain. Tamms Year Ten. During that time, he Press which published a volume on

3 eighteenth-century Naples. Escobar artistic interaction between the eastern continues to work on his forthcoming Mediterranean and Near East in the book, Baroque Madrid: Architecture, early first millennium BCE. Space, and the Spanish Habsburgs. Christina Kiaer returned to teaching Hannah Feldman enjoyed a busy after an energizing year of leave at but productive year in residence the Institute for Advanced Study at Northwestern and as Director in Princeton. In the fall, she co- of Undergraduate Studies in the taught a new interdisciplinary, joint department. Invitations to present her Northwestern/University of Chicago work on art and decolonization came graduate seminar on “The Aesthetics of from UCLA, Harvard, and McGill, Socialist Realism.” Partly in conjunction and she was pleased to have had time with this seminar, in November she to conduct new research about artists co-organized a Myers symposium on in the Algerian diaspora in both Paris “Scale Models” – also a joint effort Affiliate faculty member Professor Marco Ruffini received and Madrid over the winter break. with the University of Chicago – at the Howard R. Marraro Prize This year, Feldman especially enjoyed which she spoke on “The Scale of from the Modern Language the opportunity to teach in the Kaplan Socialist Realism.” This year Kiaer also Association of America for his book Art Without an Author: Scholars Program, where she joined taught a lecture course on the art of the Vasari’s Lives and Michelangelo’s Profs. Jessica Winegar (Anthropology Russian Revolution, and developed Death (Fordham University Press, and MENA) and Rebecca Johnson a new undergraduate seminar on the 2011). (English and MENA) in teaching a avant-garde exhibition, to mark the new freshman seminar-lecture called 100th anniversary of the Armory Show “Global Orients.” in New York and Chicago. She also very much enjoyed shepherding the Ann Gunter continued her three- dissertation proposals of the third year year term as Chair of the Classics students as leader of the Dissertation Department. She chaired a search Proposal Writing Seminar. Beyond committee for an assistant professor of Chicago, Kiaer gave the opening Classics, and continued to serve on the address at an event at the New School Humanities Council and the University for Social Research in New York in Library Committee. In Fall 2012 she September that was organized around enjoyed teaching a new art history her concept of “the comradely object” graduate seminar devoted to ornament – a term she introduced in her book in antiquity. She completed an article Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist on “Orientalism and Orientalization Objects of Russian Constructivism – in the Iron Age Mediterranean” for an which brought together contemporary edited volume, Critical Approaches to artists and scholars working with that Ancient Near Eastern Art, scheduled to concept. She also gave keynote lectures appear in November with DeGruyter. at international conferences on Soviet She also contributed an article on art at the University of Cambridge and Egyptian and Neo-Assyrian sources at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, as for Achaemenid Persian scenes of gift- well as lectures at Princeton University, giving to a festschrift honoring Margaret the CUNY Graduate Center, the Great Cool Root, professor of art history Britain - Russia Society, and DePauw at the University of Michigan. This University. Her feature essay on the summer she will continue editing the art of Aleksandr Deineka, “Collective contributions of twenty-eight authors Body,” appeared in Artforum, and her Professor Kiaer lectures at the to A Companion to the Art of the Ancient essay “Fairy Tales of the Proletariat, or, Moderna Museet. Near East, which Wiley-Blackwell Is Socialist Realism Kitsch?” appeared will publish in 2015, and begin work in the catalog Socialist Realisms. on a new book examining issues in Also this year, she began her second

4 three-year term as field editor for East, Facing Up: Paintings in Karma twentieth-century art for caa.reviews. Gardri Styles in Ladakh and Zangskar,” She is pleased to report that her advisee in The Place of Provenance: Regional Styles Jill Bugajski will spend next year in Tibetan Painting, edited by David P. completing her dissertation on a Luce/ Jackson (New York: Rubin Museum ACLS Fellowship in American art. of Art), and “Keys to Victory: Letters, Liaisons and Chaise Longues in Tipu Rob Linrothe taught the Theories and Sultan’s Murals,” in Orientations. Methods Proseminar for incoming graduate students in the fall quarter, While on leave this year, Christina along with an undergraduate course in Normore was the A.W. Mellon Buddhist Art and Ritual. In the winter, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Medieval he taught a lecture survey on Asian Institute of the University of Notre art, and a graduate seminar on Chinese Dame (a fellowship she highly A photograph by Professor Imperial Patronage of Tibetan Art in the recommends to all junior medievalists). Linrothe graced the cover of the Ming and Qing. Between winter and There, she completed the manuscript of Fall issue of CenterPiece. spring quarters, he drove three current her first book, A Feast for the Eyes: Art graduate students (Yang Xiao, Zhang and Performance in the Late Middle Ages, Lu, and Guo Xinran) plus an incoming which is now under contract at the graduate student (Rachel Levy) to University of Chicago Press. Her article, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in “Navigating the World of Meaning,” Kansas City. They had two days at the appeared in Gesta. museum to look at Chinese painting and Tibetan art, and spent a good deal 2012-13 opened in September with of time looking at art in storage. It the Summer Seminar Abroad; it was was an intensive but informal on-site an honor and a privilege for Claudia seminar, very useful for familiarizing Swan to travel with first-year graduate them with the materiality of Tibetan students to collections and sites in painting in particular. Additionally, the Netherlands and Belgium [see p. Linrothe had a relatively active year 9]. Back on campus, Professor Swan giving presentations: in Beijing at co-taught an inaugural the Chinese Tibetology conference in freshman seminar for October, at the Art Institute of Chicago WCAS/Bienen School in December, at CAA annual meeting in of Music dual-degree New York in February, at the University students with Dean Mary of Michigan Museum of Art and the Finn in the fall, alongside Yale Himalayan Workshop in March, a survey course in and the International Association for Renaissance and Baroque Ladakh Studies in Heidelberg in April. Art. She also taught He agreed to co-edit the Archaeology, a graduate seminar Art History and Architecture volume on Transculturalism of the IALS conference papers, and and Exoticism and while he was in Heidelberg, also two sections of the gave a paper in the seminar of former undergraduate Methods Professor Normore with graduate department colleague, Sarah Fraser. seminar. In 2013-14 Professor Swan will students at the department’s end of Finally, Linrothe has been working be a Senior Fellow at the Max Planck year social. with the Block Museum in planning Institute for the History of Science for the “Collecting Kashmir: Buddhist in Berlin, working on “Knowledge Art in the Western Himalayas and the Networks in Early Modern Holland.” West” exhibition in the winter of 2015. While in Berlin, she will complete her His publications this year are “Looking book Transcultural Wonders. Encounters

5 with the Exotic in the contemporary art of John Beadle for an Dutch Republic, and exhibition at the National Art Gallery will spearhead a of the Bahamas and on Glenn Ligon’s major digital project neon work for the Black Is, Black Ain’t in conjunction with exhibit at the Renaissance Society. A the Huygens Institute part of her first book, An Eye for the in The Hague on Tropics, was reprinted in the volume the Dutchman Ernst Empires of Vision. Thompson was Brinck (1582-1649) that awarded, along with Claire Tancons, focuses on preserving an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition and activating the Award for the exhibition En’ Mas, exceptional annotations, which explores the intersections of Professor Swan lecturing at inscriptions, lists, public performance art and carnival [sic! 2013] in Cologne. and commentaries contained in his practices. The project commissions Adversaria (nearly fifty notebooks, artists to create an international, multi- never previously published or studied site performance series; invites other in detail) and three alba amicorum. artists to capture these works through This year, Swan co-organized an film, video, and photography; and will international conference in the result in a major exhibition based on Netherlands on “Image, Imagination, the materials. Thompson delivered Cognition,” the proceedings of lectures at the Studio Museum in which will be published by Brill Harlem, Northwestern University, Press; published an article on Brinck at the Institute of Fine Arts at New (“Memory’s Garden”) in Kritische York University, and participated in Berichte; an article on the first Dutch a public conversation with Ebony diplomatic gift to the Ottoman Sultan Patterson at the Studio Museum. She Ahmed I (“Birds of Paradise for the also was selected to participate in the Sultan”) in De zeventiende eeuw; and an Johannesburg Workshop for Theory essay on Dutch Orientalism (“Lost in and Criticism, where she staged a Translation”) forthcoming in Europe video-based installation related to her and Persia (Museum Rietberg, Zürich). Bling and Bixels project. In summer 2013 Swan greatly enjoyed co-teaching in the inaugural University This was a busy year for David of Cologne-Northwestern University Van Zanten, contributing to three Summer Institute [sic!] in Cologne, major international exhibitions Germany, the theme of which was and organizing an international “Imagination.” symposium and an exhibition at the Block Museum, “Drawing the Future.” Krista Thompson was on leave This included a catalog essay and during the academic year as a fellow video interview for the exhibition, of the American Council of Learned “Henri Labrouste” at the Paris Cité Societies. She worked on her book de l’Architecture and the Museum project, Bling and Bixels: Photography, of Modern Art, an essay for the Screen, and Spectacle in Contemporary exhibition “Impressionism, Fashion African Diasporic Cultures (forthcoming and Modernity” at the Musée d’Orsay, with Duke University Press) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on a new manuscript on light in and the Art Institute of Chicago, an contemporary African American art. inaugural lecture for the exhibition A part of this project, focusing on the “Victor Baltard,” again at the Musée artist Tom Lloyd, was presented at d’Orsay, and organizing, presiding Empires of Vision: A Reader (Duke the CAA anual meeting in New York. and lecturing in the symposium University Press, forthcoming). She published catalog essays on the “William Le Baron Jenney” at the Ecole

6 Centrale in Paris. Most interesting, his American Sculpture seminar to the however, was shaping, mounting, Smart Museum at the University of and contributing (with Northwestern Chicago to see the remarkable collection graduate student Ashley Dunn and of works by H. C. Westermann there, UIC graduate student Leslie Coburn) and, in the spring, a viewing with to the catalog for the Block Museum American Art II of the Block Museum’s exhibition “Drawing the Future,” which excellent holdings of works on paper presented architects’ visions of the by Monster Roster and Hairy Who city of the future from Burnham’s idea artists. On spring break, he visited of the Columbian Exposition of 1893 collections in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, through Marion Mahony and Walter and Des Moines, with his wife Amanda. Burley Griffin’s plan for Canberra In October Jason delivered a paper, down to Ludwig Hilberseimer’s “The ‘Art of Walking’ according “Hochhausstadt” of 1924. Most of the to the Puritans,” at the biennial projects exhibited pivot, in one way or Wyeth Foundation for American Art another, on Chicago. The fascination of Conference at the Center for Advanced the project is to watch how architecture, Study in the Visual Arts. The fall saw as it bleeds into city planning becomes the publication of an essay, “Colorizing Impressionism, Fashion, and symbolic, ephemeral and hallucinatory. New England’s Burying Grounds,” in Modernity (Art Institute of Van Zanten also contributed the essay the edited volume, The Materiality of Chicago, 2012). “Architecture, Museums and the Color: The Production, Circulation, and Mediation of Drawing” to the volume Application of Dyes and Pigments, 1400- celebrating the twentieth anniversary 1800 (Ashgate), and the publication of the Musée d’Orsay, Histoire de l’art du of a review of literary historian Sarah XIXe siècle: Bilans et perspectives, XXIe Rivett’s book, The Science of the Soul Rencontres de l’Ecole du Louvre. in Colonial New England, in The New England Quarterly. And in early summer, two additional essays were published— POSTDOCTORAL “Happiness as Puritan Art Object,” in the conference proceedings, Happiness FELLOWS or Its Absence in Art (CSP); and “Inc.: Shirin Fozi completed the third the Art of Living, Print Media, and the and final year of her A. W. Mellon Puritans,” in a group of commentaries Postdoctoral Fellowship, and looks regarding American art and the mass forward to starting a new position as media in the journal American Art. He Assistant Professor at the University of also continued to make progress on A Pittsburgh in Fall 2013. Highlights of Companion to American Art, a volume of her last year at Northwestern included essays he is co-editing with John Davis three weeks of field work in France and Jennifer Greenhill, which is due out and England, generously funded by a from Wiley-Blackwell in 2014. Faculty Research Grant, participation in a Medieval Studies alumni roundtable at Harvard University, and new papers presented at the annual Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo and the Mellon Symposium on “The Middle Ages in Translation” at Northwestern.

Jason LaFountain greatly enjoyed his Jason LaFountain sitting in an year as Terra Foundation Postdoctoral environment by Scott Burton in Fellow in American Art. Highlights Des Moines. included, during the winter, a visit with

7 VISITING FACULTY Jaime Lara enjoyed teaching winter quarter. Also at the Art Institute Introduction to Latin American Art at of Chicago, Wolff worked on the Northwestern during the spring quarter. planning and development aspects He leaves Chicago to become a research of the forthcoming re-installation of professor at Arizona State University Medieval and Renaissance works of (Tempe) where he will hold a joint art. The installation, which will fill a position in the Center for Medieval & large suite of galleries in the museum’s Renaissance Studies and the Hispanic Morton wing, will suggest the texture of Research Center. During the first half of life in this period by bringing together Professor Jaime Lara. 2013 he published “Temples of the Sun/ sculpture, treasury objects, paintings, Son: Franciscan Missionary Architecture textiles, ceramics, glass, jewelry, and in New Spain and New Mexico,” in arms and armor. Most of these objects are From La Florida to La California: Franciscan currently in storage and many will need Evangelization in the Spanish Borderlands conservation work before being put on (Academy of American Franciscan display. She also took part in the study History); “Francis Alive and Aloft: A day following the exhibition The Road to Franciscan Apocalyptic in Peru” in The Van Eyck at the Museum Boijmans Van Americas; and “The Artistic Posterity Beuningen in Rotterdam. of Joachim of Fiore in Latin America” in Religion and the Arts. He also found time to complete the manuscript of his new book Flying Francis: Art and Apocalypticism in the Colonial Andes. Professor Martha Wolff. Martha Wolff taught the on-site seminar “Renaissance Painting: The Artist and the Object” during the DEPARTMENT STAFF Luke Fidler enjoyed his first year working as the department’s Program Assistant. During 2012-13 he continued to work on his undergraduate degree, and to pursue his research in art history. Highlights of the year included presentations at the Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference, the Medieval and Renaissance Center at NYU, and the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. He looks forward to presenting his work on medieval light at the CAA annual meeting in Chicago in 2014.

Anthony Opal is glad to be part of the Art History staff Jason LaFountain (left) with Luke and looks forward to the upcoming school year, both Fidler (center) and Anthony Opal as Department Assistant and as a graduating MFA student. Highlights from the (right). year include publications in Poetry, Notre Dame Review, Letters, and The Greensboro Review, among others, as well as being featured in Newcity, which ran an article on the literary journal that Opal edits, The Economy. A conversation between Fidler and Opal was published in the June issue of The Conversant.

8 2012 SUMMER SEMINAR ABROAD: AMSTERDAM

Students analyze a painting by Frans Hals.

This year’s summer seminar for first- In Haarlem they visited the oldest year graduate students took place in the museum in the Netherlands, the Netherlands and in Belgium. Organized Teylersmuseum, where the Head of and taught by Claudia Swan, the the Art Collection Michiel Plomp gave subject was the long Golden Age, and an exceptional tour of the home of the the seminar’s working theme was the founder, Pieter Teyler, an unrestored reanimation of the past. 18th-century residence, before opening up portfolios of Old Master drawings— Professor Swan and first-year Starting in Amsterdam, the group Michelangelo and Hendrick Goltzius in graduate student Henry examined local Dutch collections and particular. Hamilton. archives. A visit to Rembrandt van Rijn’s seminal painting The Nightwatch was a In Leiden, they toured the country’s highlight. The painting was illuminated oldest public library, founded in by a visit from S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 1653—the Bibliotheca Thysiana—with Amsterdam archivist and Rembrandt Professor Paul Hoftijzer, a specialist in scholar. In Amsterdam, students book history; and visited the Leiden particularly enjoyed a visit to Ons’ Lieve University Print Collection, where Heer op Solder (Our Dear Lord in the the curator Jef Schaeps gave a tour of Attic), a secret church built in the later highlights of the collection and of the 17th century inside two adjoining canal history of printmaking. They also visited houses. At the Rijksmuseum, Curator the Hague. of Old Master Prints Huigen Leeflang welcomed them in to the storerooms and The seminar concluded with a two-day showed a range of highlights, including visit to Antwerp, where we saw every Rembrandt etchings and copperplates church and museum they possibly as well as a number of fascinating could. The department wishes to thank recent acquisitions. They then made the Weinberg College of Arts and excursions to the countryside, and to the Sciences, the Graduate School, and world-famous museum of modern and individuals—including alumni—whose contemporary art in Hoenderloo, the contributions have made and continue Museum Kröller-Müller. to make these trips possible. Seminar participants explore a seventeenth century church.

9 GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

During 2012-13, Elizabeth Benjamin and Cambridge, Emma Chubb spent was the Humanities Graduate Affiliate. the 2012-13 academic year in Paris In March, she traveled to where she conducted dissertation Paris for dissertation research with research as a fellow in the Northwestern support from AKIH, and continues University Paris Program in Critical to be in residence at Northwestern Theory. In October, she presented her while writing her paper “Electric/Oriental: La mosquée dissertation. She d’Occident and Le Palais de l’Electricité” presented material at the Carnegie Museum of Art as part from her dissertation of the University of Pittsburgh’s art at the CAA annual history graduate symposium. She looks meeting in New York, forward to returning to Morocco next the AKIH Dissertation fall to continue dissertation research in Forum, and at a Tangier, Rabat, Tetouan, and the Rif with graduate symposium the support of an American Institute in Urbana-Champaign. for Maghrib Studies long-term research grant. Jill Bugajski has received a 2013- During Fall 2012, Grace Deveney wrote Graduate students Jill Bugajski 14 ACLS/Henry Luce Foundation catalog entries for Color Rush: American and Kate Tahk with Professor Dissertation Fellowship in American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Christina Kiaer. Art. Sherman, (Aperture Foundation and the Milwaukee Art Museum). This afforded Alison Boyd spent 2012-13 as an her the opportunity to experience ACLS/Henry Luce Foundation Fellow Milwaukee’s winter, while assisting doing research in Philadelphia for her with the installation of the Milwaukee dissertation, “Ensemble Modernism: Art Museum’s Color Rush: 75 Years Orchestrating Art and People at the of Color Photography in America and Barnes Foundation.” With travel funds serving as an occasional tour guide for from the fellowship she conducted the exhibition. additional research in New York and Paris. She also presented two papers Ashley Dunn spent Summer 2012 on this work, “Close Encounters: studying German at the University of Intimate Aesthetic Experience at the Chicago and conducted pre-dissertation Barnes Foundation” at the Collecting research in the print departments at Impulse Graduate Symposium at the the the New York Public Library and University of Illinois and “Aesthetic National Gallery of Art in Washington Phases: Development of the Barnes with support from a Shanley Foundation Ensembles” at the (Re) Fellowship. During a fall internship Activating Objects: Social Theory & with the department of Prints & Material Culture conference at Western Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to University in London, Ontario. she worked on the exhibition Dreams Sherman and Echoes: Drawings and Sculpture in (Milwuakee Art Museum, 2013). After a summer of studying Spanish the David and Celia Hilliard Collection, at Northwestern and research trips to writing two entries for the catalog. In Beni Boufrah Morocco), San Francisco, the spring, her essay “The Musée des

10 Arts Décoratifs and the Presentation to the Netherlands, where she will of Modern Architecture in Paris” was continue her dissertation research as a published in David Van Zanten’s Kress Fellow, in affiliation with Leiden exhibition catalogue Drawing the Future: University, from 2013-15. Chicago Architecture on the International Stage, 1900-1925. After completing her Jacob Leveton enjoyed a productive qualifying exams in the winter, and academic year. In November, thanks to dissertation prospectus in the spring, generous support from the Department Dunn looks forward to conducting of Art History and The Graduate research at the Bibliothèque nationale School, he chaired a panel titled “Visual de France during Summer 2013. Catastrophe in (Post-)Romantic Art & Architecture: Politics, War, & Ecology” Faye Gleisser spent Summer 2012 and presented on the contemporary conducting pre-dissertation research in architect Alisa Andrasek’s biothing San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New project at the International Conference Drawing the Future: Chicago York. In October she presented a paper on Romanticism. After an exhilarating Architecture on the International Stage, 1900-1925 (Block Museum of Art, at the symposium, “In Sight/On View: time in Paris, as part of the Summer 2013). The Museum as Site of Inquiry” hosted Seminar, Jacob spent the rest of June in by the University of Illinois. During London, beginning new work on the the spring quarter she interned at the British printmaker, poet, and painter Chicago Video Data Bank, cataloging William Blake, conducting research a newly acquired Videofreex archive, at the British Museum and the Royal and writing web content to accompany Academy of Arts. In addition, this year a re-launch of the On Art and Artists Jacob was appointed to serve on the collection. This summer Gleisser board of the North American Society will participate in the Performance for the Study of Romanticism graduate Studies Summer Institute, and teach caucus. “Introduction to Contemporary Art” in the School of Continuing Studies. Nancy Lim served as curatorial Next year, she will continue working on assistant to the exhibition Tokyo 1955- her dissertation with a 2013-14 ACLS/ 1970: A New Avant- Henry Luce Foundation Dissertation Garde, which ran from Fellowship in American Art. November 18, 2012 to February 25, 2013 at the In 2012-13, Stephanie Glickman Museum of Modern Art. continued dissertation research on the subject of the Dutch visual culture Angelina Lucento of global trade, c. 1600-1650. She is returned to the United investigating the commissions and States in January, after collections of several leading officers two years of fruitful of the Dutch East India Company dissertation research, (VOC). Glickman studied a number funded by Fulbright and of early-seventeenth-century VOC Fulbright-Hays grants, Graduate students Jared Rich- letters and documents at the Dutch in Russia and the former Soviet Union. ardson, Scott Miller, and Henry Nationaal Archief in March 2013 She is now in the process of completing Hamilton at the department’s and, with generous support from her dissertation project, and preparing winter holiday party. The Graduate School, undertook an conference papers based on her third intensive course in early modern Dutch and fourth chapters. Angelina’s article and paleography in New York in June. on Sam Gilliam’s abstract paintings will She is happily preparing to move be published in a special issue of the

11 digital journal Critical Riot in the winter. the West Bank on a Shanley Fellowship. In addition to talking with artists and This year, Nicholas Miller was a Pre- visiting different institutions, she found doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian time to drink a beer and take a tour of American Art Museum in Washington, the only Palestinian brewery, Taybeh, DC. Along with completing a chapter near Ramallah. With her return, she of his dissertation and continuing served on the 2012 Chicago Palestine his research, he presented papers Film Festival Committee, co-leading at the University of California–Los film selection and curation for the two- Angeles, the Smithsonian American week long event held in April at the Art Museum, and the Chicago Cultural Gene Siskel Film Center and the School Center. In 2013-14 he will continue his of the Art Institute of Chicago. The fellowship at the Smithsonian. festival’s opening night featured the Chicago premier of Annemarie Jacir’s During 2012-13, Liza Oliver’s research When I Saw You, with the filmmaker and Angelina Lucento presents her was supported by the American her family in attendance. Within the research at the Museet Moderna. Institute of Indian Studies in New department, Rory served as Graduate Delhi, where she completed research Student Representative for 2012-13 with on her dissertation. She was also in Julia Oswald. residence at the Huntington Library for the month of August. She presented Maureen Warren spent the academic papers at the American Society for 18th- year in The Netherlands, completing Century Studies and an international her second of two years as a Kress symposium on textile translations at Institutional Fellow at Leiden the University of Zurich. In 2013-14, University. In January 2013 she co- her research will be funded by a Bourse organized a two-day international Chateaubriand. symposium on seventeenth-century Amsterdam printmaker and publisher Erin Reitz passed her qualifying Claes Jansz Visscher, for which she exams in March and will advance to won a Kress Foundation History of Art candidacy in July, after completing Grant, Leiden University Centre for her dissertation prospectus. This the Arts in Society Grant, and a past year she conducted research in Leiden University Fund Grant. Her collaboration with fellow graduate article, “Romanticizing the Uncanny: student Faye Gleisser on the key sites Ernst Ohlmer’s 1873 Photographs of black political radicalism in New of the European-Style Palaces in the York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles Yuanmingyuan” was published in between 1969 and 1975. The project was the Nineteenth-Century Photographs generously funded by Northwestern’s and Architecture: Documenting History, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Charting Progress, and Exploring the the Arts. This summer she will travel to World (Ashgate, 2013). New York and Montreal with the help of departmental funds to begin work on her dissertation. She looks forward to participating as a 2013-14 fellow of Northwestern’s Paris Program in Critical Theory.

Kate Tahk presenting at the Scale Rory Sykes spent the first two weeks in Models conference. September traveling around Jordan and

12 GRADUATES The department congratulates the following students who received their doctorates this year:

Min Kyung Lee defended her dissertation “The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping and Constructing Paris, 1791-1889.” David Van Zanten served as her primary advisor.

Jacob Lewis defended his dissertation “Charles Nègre in Pursuit of the Photohgraphic.” Holly Clayson served as his primary advisor.

Patrick Tomlin defended his dissertation “Arthur Dove, 1910-1930: Modernist Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Abstraction for the United States.” Holly Clayson served as his primary advisor. Architecture: Documenting History, Charting Progress, and Exploring the World (Ashgate, 2013).

SHANLEY RESEARCH PROJECTS

The Barbara Smith Shanley Graduate Travel Fellowship was created to fund graduate student travel, and allows students to conduct research, visit collections, and carry out other pre-dissertation scholarly activities.

Antawan Byrd will travel to London to explore archives related to the use of sound technologies in Africa during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Ashley Dunn will travel to Paris to examine works by the etchers Maxime Lalanne and A.P. Martial. Dr. Min Kyung Lee. Guo Xinran will travel to Hong Kong and Beijing to explore personal and institutional archives related to the New Measurement Group.

Henry Hamilton will travel to London to research the work of Isaac Julien in collections including the British Film Institute.

Catherine Olien will travel to London and Paris to visit collections of Greek pottery.

Julia Oswald will travel to Belgium to study fifteenth-century Flemish panel paintings.

Erin Reitz will travel to archives and libraries in the United States and Canada to conduct research on activist urban practices.

Rory Sykes will travel to a variety of sites in the Middle East to conduct research on the Palestinian cinematographic and photographic production. Dr. Jacob Lewis.

13 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

Professor Jesús Escobar presents Sinéad López with the 2013 Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing.

Art History majors Michelle Brooks, Maddie Amos, Sophie Jenkins, Jasmine Jennings, Adeze Wilford, and Rachel Lin at the 2013 Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Convocation.

Undergradate art history majors excelled in 2012-13. Kate Wollman and Claire Dillon received Warnock Travel Grants to conduct summer research in Spain and Cuba, respectively. Sinéad Lopez was awarded the 2013 Warnock Prize in Art Historical Writing for her essay “The Nature of the Contemporary Beast.” Hannah Kleinman was recognized with the Outstanding Junior Art History Major award. Majors garnered Undergraduate Research Grants from the Office of the Provost and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and Michelle Brooks received the J.G. Nolan Scholarship.

Seniors wrote theses on topics ranging from the vernacular architecture of California to the contemporary art of Xu Bing. The department awarded honors to Marni Barta, Katie Cannady, Sophie Jenkins, Jasmine Jennings, Rachel Lin, and Catherine Merlo. Jasmine Jennings won the J. Carson Webster Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis for her project entitled “The Problem in Room 24: Racial Constructions and the Making of National Identity in the National Museum of Fine Arts of Argentina.” She also served as the department’s marshall at Convocation. Undergraduate students at the department winter holiday party. The department also mourned the untimely loss of undergraduate major Alyssa Weaver. 14 NORTHWESTERN ART REVIEW This year marks the fifth anniversary up gallery in an off-campus apartment. of the Northwestern Art Review We picked the finest works of art from (NAR). This is an exciting milestone a large pool of student submissions for many reasons, not the least of and displayed the works of five which is the transformation we have Northwestern artists. In particular, the undergone in such a short amount apartment gallery featured NAR’s first of time. In addition to our academic performance piece by Molly Cruz. The journal, our namesake the Northwestern spring also saw the publication of our Art Review, we now host numerous bi-annual issue of the Northwestern NAR, Issue 10 (Spring 2013), “Haunted.” events throughout the year. Art Review. Under the guidance and direction of new Editor-in-Chief Under the leadership of President Hannah Lee, the journal proudly Maddie Amos, NAR hosted a range published its tenth issue. of events. Professor Huey Copeland was the guest of honor at “Coffee The 2012-13 academic year was with a Professor,” where he discussed transformative for the Northwestern his time in graduate school, his Art Review. After a long round of educational philosophy, his academic applications and interviews, NAR’s passions and his extracurricular staff grew from eighteen to twenty projects. Students were grateful for the three. Our new executive board advice he offered about continuing art- includes students from Economics, related studies after college as well as English, Biology, and American his remarks about the relevance of an Studies. We have increased our web art history degree outside the academic presence and engagement with realm. Northwestern students via social media. We were excited to host our third NAR, Issue 9 (Fall 2012), annual Art Jobs Career Panel and the In my time as President, I have been “Reexamining the Familiar.” second annual Abandoned Art Market. excited to engage Northwestern in The panel featured professionals new ways while maintaining NAR’s in the art world who emphasized commitment to promoting the the multitude of opportunities that incorporation of art in everyday life. In await Art History and Art Theory & the upcoming academic year we will Practice majors after college. The art redesign the NAR website and expand market has become our most popular our blog content. We look forward to and well-attended event in only two hearing from you. short years. We invite students across campus to purchase art that had been Nancy DaSilva left behind by previous students and to participate in a silent auction for For more information, visit: works donated by MFA students. This www.northwesternartreview.org event allows us to engage with a wide variety of students on campus as well as increase the appreciation of student art at Northwestern. Performance by Molly Cruz at the Annual Spring Exhibition, Spring 2013. This spring we held our annual pop

15 LIBRARY ART COLLECTION: Department Keller, Maria Gough, Daniel Phillips, Kate Tahk, Juliet Koss, A REFLECTION Lectures and Zach Cahill, Matthew Jesse Events Jackson Russ Clement I became Head of the Library’s Art Collection in Winter 2013 2000. Rochelle Elstein, humanities bibliographer, Fall 2012 was previously responsible for collection January 24 management. While I had selected books, October 4 Medieval Colloquium: Graduate Student answered reference questions, and taught library Conrad Rudolph instruction for art and architecture in previous Lecture Series: Nana University of Adusei-Poku jobs, Northwestern was my first opportunity California-Riverside to concentrate entirely on these subjects. Early University of the Arts, “In It, You Will Look For Zurich Nothing That You Will Not years focused on meeting faculty, graduate iwishiwas Post-Black Find”: An Overview of Hugh students and curators, establishing Art as an Aesthetics - Postblack or of St-Victor’s Mystic Ark independent library department, developing Colonial public services, and learning and organizing the February 18 collection. October 15 Graduate Student Lecture Myers Symposium: Series: Amy Knight Powell Professors Clayson, Eisenman, Fraser, Swan, Plans for the Canberra University of California- Centenary Celebration and Van Zanten were staunch library advocates Irvine who made me feel part of the Department of Art David Headon, Advisor on A History of the Picture as Box the Centenary of Canberra History. Among others, Art Theory & Practice February 27-28 Professors Dunning, Ledgerwood and Relyea, October 18-19 Warnock Lecture Series: as well as Block Museum directors David Warnock Lecture Series: Annemarie Weyl Carr Mickenberg and David Robertson and curators Achille Mbembe Professor Emerita, Southern Deb Woods and Corinne Granoff, were equally Duke/University of the Methodist University welcoming. Colleagues in Special Collections, Witwatersrand St. Luke and the Kykkotissa: Music, Africana, and Transportation are Notes on Fetishim and An Icon in the Age of Animism lifelong friends. I’m grateful for such support, Enlightenment collaboration, friendship, and cooperation. October 29 March 14 Myers Symposium: Co-sponsored with the Initial tasks included removing discarded Plans for the Canberra Program in Latina/o furniture, card catalogues, and other unused Centenary Celebration Studies: Sarah López furnishings and clutter in the large reading Michaël Darin, ENSA University of Chicago room. An ancient copier caught fire the first Versailles The Remittance Landscape: A year and was replaced by new copiers and a Built Environment Perspective color printer. During my first two years, over November 2-3 on US-Mexico Migration Myers Symposium: The 5,000 books were treated in the Preservation Scale Model Department’s conservation lab. Collection Organized by Christina shifts and resizing capitalized on dwindling Kiaer and Robert Bird Spring 2013 shelf space, always at a premium. In 2006 the (University of Chicago) April 12-13 Art Collection expanded into the Architecture Myers Symposium: N/ Reading Room. Two years later the Art Research Speakers: Theo van den LIGHT Center opened for small group use and shelf Hout, Whitney Davis, Organized by Holly Clayson carrels. Parts of the collection were eventually Richard Neer, Lytle Shaw, opened for circulation. A fitting bookend is the Jimbo Blachly, Darcy Speakers: Elisabeth Bronfen, recent addition of material from the Art Institute Grimaldo Grigsby, Helmut William Sharpe, Matthew Puff, Matt Hauske, Sean of Chicago’s libraries to Northwestern’s Oak Beaumont, David E. Nye, Grove Facility.

161616 Ernest Freeberg, Laura Kalba, Krista Thompson, Hélène Valance, Sandy Isenstadt, Dietrich Neumann April 16 Alex Bremner University of Edinburgh Imperial Gothic: Architecture, Religion, and British Global Expansion in the Nineteenth Century April 24 Department Colloquium: Jason LaFountain The Puritan Art World May 3-4 Myers Symposium: Black Collectivities Organized by Huey Copeland and Naomi Beckwith (MCA Chicago) Building the library’s monographs 2008. Speakers: The Otolith Group, and serials was a high priority. With Rick Lowe, Elvira Dyangani increased Myers Foundations funding While Deering Library, dedicated Ose, Blake Stimson, George and other endowments (nearly 90% of in 1933, is an attractive and Lewis, John Corbett, Claire the Art Collection’s materials budget historically important campus Tancons, Cauleen Smith, comes from endowments), approval building, its age poses interesting Theaster Gates, Romi and exhibition catalog standing order challenges. Inadequate overhead Crawford plans were enhanced. The collection lighting (scheduled for an upgrade), focus included more contemporary deteriorated exterior uv window May 16-17 Myers Symposium: The art, photography, design, fashion, and film, falling ceiling plaster, and Renaissance in Spain: Art graphic arts. Hundreds of important temperature fluctuations from and Visual Culture catalogues raisonnés were acquired the 50s to 90s were problematic. during the Long along with other scholarly resources. Who can forget the large windows Sixteenth Century Thanks to faculty input, Art received rattling in thunder and windstorms, Organized by Jesús Escobar outstanding support from the Library’s and the cascades of water in a Board of Governors for purchases deluge? Reopening Deering’s Speakers: Felipe Pereda, of rare titles, microform and digital front doors is a milestone in Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, collections, art videos, and facsimiles. the building’s renovation and Guy Lazure, Ronda Kasl, restoration plans. In addition to Miguel Falomir, Catherine Wilkinson-Zerner, Richard Until 2004 Art’s staff consisted of working with the best colleagues Kagan myself and a dozen indispensable and academic departments on student assistants who covered evening campus, it was always a thrill May 22-23 and weekend shifts. Lindsay King, to open the reading rooms each Warnock Lecture Series: and later Jessica Thomson and Matt morning. I am grateful to have Tim Griffin Teti, were reliable and productive worked with exceptional colleagues The Kitchen staff members. Lindsay’s position was in a revered setting devoted to art Compression upgraded to Public Services Librarian and architecture research. after completing the MLIS degree in

171717 Board of the Sculpture Journal. He was ALUMNI NEWS a Fellow at the Clark Art Institute in 2012 working on his book on gender Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual assignments in abstract sculpture of Perception in Early National America the 1960s, which is contracted with by Wendy Bellion (PhD 2001) was Yale University Press for a 2014 release. published by the University of North In the coming months, he has peer- Carolina Press. Bellion is currently reviewed articles appearing in Criticism, Associate Professor and Director in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay of Undergraduate Studies at the Studies, and in TSQ: Transgender Studies University of Delaware. Quarterly, for which he is also editing a special issue on transgender art, film, Sarah Betzer (PhD 2003) published the literature, and performance for 2014. Ottonian Imperial Art and article “Ingres’s Shadows” in the March Portraiture: The Artistic Patronage 2013 issue of the Art Bulletin. She was Michael Golec (PhD 2003) received of Otto III and Henry II (Ashgate, a grant from the Graham Foundation 2012). also named to the journal’s editorial board. Betzer is currently Associate for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Professor at the University of Virginia. to support his research on posters produced by the Rural Electrification Zirwat Chowdhury (PhD 2012) Administration. Golec is currently will join Reed College as Visiting Associate Professor at the School of the Assistant Professor of Art History and Art Institute of Chicago. Humanities. Her review of The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London, 1850- Anne Helmreich (PhD 1994) serves 1939 (Manchester University Press, as the Senior Program Officer in the 2012) was published in caa.reviews. Getty Foundation. Her study “Local/ Global: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Sheila Crane (PhD 2001) received a London’s Art Market,” co-authored grant from the Graham Foundation for with Pamela Fletcher, was published by Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide in Fall her project “Inventing Informality.” Her 2012, and her co-edited book The Rise of book Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille the Modern Art Market in London, 1850- The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar 1939 was published by Manchester German Art and the Politics of the and Modern Architecture received the Right (University of Minnesota 2013 Spiro Kostof Book Award from University Press. In addition to her Press, 2012). the Society of Architectural Historians. position at the Getty, Helmreich is Crane is currently Associate Professor Associate Professor at Case Western at the University of Virginia School of Reserve University. Architecture. Sharon Irish (PhD 1985) has been Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture: The awarded a Colston Fellowship from Artistic Patronage of Otto III and Henry the Institute of Advanced Studies at II by Eliza Garrison (PhD 1995) was the University of Bristol. She will use published by Ashgate. She also received the award to continue her research tenure at Middlebury College. on the residents of Knowle West. She is currently Project Coordinator at David J. Getsy (PhD 2002) was named the Graduate School of Library and Chair of the Department of Art History, Information Service at the University of Theory, and Criticism at the School of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. the Art Institute of Chicago. He has Gutai: Splendid Playground ran also been selected as the Chair of the The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German from February 15-May 8, 2013 Art and the Politics of the Right by Paul at the Solomon R. Editorial Board of the Art Bulletin and Guggenheim Museum. appointed to the International Advisory Jaskot (PhD 1993) was published by the University of Minnesota Press. He was

18 an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Art Bulletin (2012). Rowe is currently Fellow at the Center for Advanced Associate Professor at Fordham Study in the Visual Arts during Fall University. 2012. Jaskot is currently Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at J. William Rudd (MA 1964) published DePaul University. a reflection on the memorial to H. H. Richardson’s Cincinnati Chamber of Jontahan David Katz (PhD 1996) Commerce building and organized a curated the exhibition Making History, celebration for the 40th anniversary of Making Art: The Work of Jonathan Ned the memorial’s completion. Rudd is Katz at the Leslie-Loohman Museum of Professor Emeritus and former dean Gay and Lesbian Art. Katz is currently of architecture at the University of Associate Professor in the Department Tennessee, Knoxville. of Visual Studies at the University of Buffalo. Ming Tiampo (PhD 2003) curated the Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arrière-garde: exhibition Gutai: Splendid Playground at Defining Modern and Traditional Jacob Lewis (PhD 2012) celebrated the the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. in France, 1900-1960 (Cambridge birth of his son Felix Dean Lewis on Tiampo is Associate Professor at Scholars Publishing, 2011). June 4th at Beth Israel Medical Center Carleton University. in Manhattan. Laura Veneskey (PhD 2012) completed Babara McCloskey (PhD 1992) is her term as Mellon Associate Professor at the University of Postdoctoral Pittsburgh. Her article “Marking Time: Fellow at Columbia Women and Nazi Propaganda Art University. In Fall During World War II” was published 2013, she will be in Contemporaneity, and her editorial Assistant Professor “Whither the Study of German Art?” at Wake Forest was published in German Studies Review. University.

Kevin Murphy (PhD 1992) has been Aron Vinegar (PhD appointed as the Andrew W. Mellon 2001) accepted a Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt new position as University. Senior Lecturer in Art History and Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists Visual Culture at and the Arrière-garde: Defining Modern the University of and Traditional in France, 1900-1960, Exeter. co-edited by Toby Norris (PhD 2005) was published by Cambridge Scholars. Norris is currently Associate Professor at Assumption College. We welcome any and all Nina Rowe (PhD 2002) edited a special news about the issue of Studies in Iconography titled, accomplishments Medieval Art History Today - Critical of our alumni. If Terms. The volume was comprised of you would like to 20 essays, including those by other reconnect, or to be included in future Zirwat Chowdhury (PhD 2012), Northwestern alums, David Areford, editions of the newsletter, please Professor Holly Clayson, and Anne Helmreich (PhD 1994) Sherry Lindquist, Stephen Perkinson, contact Luke Fidler at art-history@ at the Getty where Helmreich and Laura Weigert. She also published northwestern.edu. We look forward to serves as the Senior Program a short thought piece on “Detail” in the hearing from you. Officer in the Getty Foundation. “Notes from the Field” section of the

19 GIVING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY

As a department, we accomplish a great deal in may designate the Department of Art History as the partnership with campus friends such as the Block direct recipient of your gift; these funds will be used Museum of Art, Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, wholly for the benefit of our students. University Library, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and The Graduate School. Additionally, we At present, the department is investigating are grateful to alumni and friends of the department supplemental funding for advanced graduate who make individual contributions to support students who have exhausted regular stipends and our programming, from lectures and symposia to means of support. If you are interested in making undergraduate and graduate research travel. If you a substantial gift to the department to support the would like to make a gift to the department, the work of our graduate students, please feel free to be easiest way to do so is to give online at the following in touch directly with the Chair. Thank you for your URL: www.giving.northwestern.edu/nu/wcas. You continued support of the Department of Art History.

UPCOMING EVENTS 2013-14 Warnock Lecture Series Myers Foundations Funded Symposia October 9 The Date of the Alchi Sumtsek Murals: 11th Zainab Bahrani or 13th Century? Columbia University Organized by Robert Linrothe The Double: Difference and Repetition in Assyrian Art Defining ‘Foreignness’ in the Early Iron Age Mediterranean January 22 Organized by Ann Gunter Robert Bagley Princeton University Photography, Performance, and the Archive Styles, Periods, and the Life Cycle of the in the African Diaspora Goblin Organized by Krista A. Thompson April 30 Kerry James Marshall Chicago visual artist

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