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THE ASSOCIATION FOR LATIN AMERICAN ART VOLUME 14, NO. 3 NOVEMBER 2002

William Spratling. Tiara for the Silver Festival Queen in (c. 1960-65), displayed at the exhibition Maestros de Plata: William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance. Photo courtesy Museum of Art.

Exhibitions October 6, 2002. Curated by Penny C. Morrill, Ph.D., and organized by the San Antonio Museum of Art, this exhibition of Maestros de Plata: William Spratling and over 400 works will travel to venues in the Mexican Silver Renaissance San Diego, , Albuquerque, , and New York. The catalogue, published by Harry N. Abrams, The exhibition, "Maestros de Plata: includes 400 photographs and essays by William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Penny Morrill and other authorities on the Renaissance," made its national debut at economics of the silver industry; its the San Antonio Museum of Art on cultural and historical context; hallmarking

1 and silversmithing techniques; and the and featured collections of masks from envisioned future for Mexican silver. For Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, more information, please contact Penny , Nicaragua and elsewhere. Morrill at [email protected] .

Museum News

Emory University is pleased to announce the reopening of the ancient Americas galleries of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, with over 500 pieces on display from the Andes, Central America (especially Costa Rica), and . This is in conjunction with the publication of the catalogue Seeing with New Eyes: A Grave Affair: The Celebration of the Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos Día de los Muertos in , Mexico Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient Americas, 2002, edited by Rebecca Stone- This exhibition is shown from 19 Miller (distributed by the University of September- 4 November 2002 at the Weil Washington Press). For information on Gallery, A&M University, Corpus associated programs this fall and spring of Christi. It includes photographs by Barbara 2003 contact Elizabeth Hornor at 404-727- Riley, texts by Carey Rote, Pam Meyer 6118. and Paula Biedenharn, and tapete art by Juanito Cruz. For gallery information, please call 361-825-5752. University News

Mascaras: Traditional Masks from Latin America Thomas B.F. Cummins has been named the Dumbarton New Jersey City University, Jersey City, Oaks Professor of the NJ, exhibited "MASCARAS: Traditional History of Pre-Columbian Masks from Latin America" in the and Colonial Art at Harvard Lemmerman Gallery from September 9- University. He may be October 4, 2002. The show was curated by contacted via email (cummins@fas. Hugo Bastidas and Hugo Morales, with a harvard.edu) or via regular mail: Harvard catalogue by José Rodeiro, Coordinator of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Art History, NJCU. It was presented by Byerly Hall, 2nd floor, 8 Garden Street, the Council on Hispanic Affairs (CHA),

2 Cambridge, MA 02138, (tel.: 617-496- hieroglyphic manuscripts written during 1094). the Postclassic period (c. A.D. 1200-1500) of Maya culture. It contains a series of Laura Crary has been appointed Assistant almanacs that were intended to be used for ritual and divinatory purposes. In addition Professor of Art History at Presbyterian to their hieroglyphic texts, these almanacs College. She may be contacted via email contain iconographic and calendrical ([email protected]) or via regular mail: information. Together, these data provide Art Department, Presbyterian College, 503 a rich window on Maya rituals, astronomy, S. Broad St., Clinton, SC 29325, (tel.: and culture that complements what is 864-833-7027). available through the archaeological and

ethnohistoric record. The Madrid Codex

Database is being hosted through the

generosity of Dumbarton Oaks in Awards and Honors Washington, D.C. (visit http://www.doaks.

org/Pre-Columbian.html). The site was

originally conceived of as a research tool Virginia Miller, Associate Professor of for scholars interested in searching the Art History at the University of Illinois- contents of this Maya hieroglyphic book, , has accepted a fellowship at but it has since been expanded to also Dumbarton Oaks for the academic year serve as a resource about prehispanic 2002-2003. She will be working on a book Maya culture and writing for students, on Chichén Itzá. teachers, scholars in related fields, and others with an interest in the subject. Nancy Deffebach has been appointed an

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in http://madrid.doaks.org/codex/madcod.asp Latin American Visual Culture at Rice

University. She may be contacted via [email protected] .

New Web Resources

The Madrid Codex: A Maya Hieroglyphic Book

With funding from NEH (grant RZ-20724- 01), Gabrielle Vail and her project team have just completed an on-line database of the Madrid Codex, a hieroglyphic screenfold book attributed to the late 15th century Maya area. The Madrid Codex is one of three or four surviving Maya

3 Foundation for the Advancement of graduate student Symposium on the History of Art. This year's symposium Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI) carries the theme "The Unruly Object of http://www.famsi.org . Art History." The idea of the "unruly object" is meant to evoke both the material and methodological aspects of writing Art History. That is to say, the organizers want to foreground the critical centrality of the Explore Mesoamerica by browsing physical object to the discipline while through a set of nested folders. You can exploring the complex set of issues that read the latest field reports, download inevitably arise as one decides how to images or search a list of 60,000 engage it in the production of history. bibliographic entries about ancient cultures of Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Some questions the organizers would like Honduras and Mexico. Also available is a to consider include: How do art historians unique online Maya dictionary, with reconstruct the past when they interpret glyphic signs and Maya sounds accessible objects? How are understandings of to beginners and experts alike. society and social change constituted through interpretation of material culture? In what ways do contemporary needs mediate our approach to the past at any Conferences given moment? How might we rethink the writing of Art History and History and the traditional grounds of their separation? These are just a few of the possible ways he Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y T the theme might be approached. Humanidades at the Benemérita Imaginative responses that tie these Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, methodological concerns to analysis of a México, recently sponsored a conference specific object or group of objects are on "Puebla del renacimiento y el strongly encouraged. manierismo," (the city of Puebla before 1640). The conference, which was held The organizers welcome submissions from 17-19 October, was organized by Dr. fields other than Art History that Montserrat Gali Boadella and Dr. Rosario specifically address the relationship Farga Mullor. Contact Penny C. Morrill between visual culture and the writing of ([email protected]), conference parti- history. Students interested in participating cipant, for more information. should send a one-page abstract (250 words) and a cover letter, including your Call for papers: The University name, academic affiliation and address to: Symposium on the History of Art at the Mari Dumett, Boston University, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Saturday Department of Art History, 725 29 March 2003). Commonwealth Avenue, room 302, Boston, MA 02215. Questions may be Boston University, in conjunction with the directed to Mari at [email protected]. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is pleased deadline for submissions is December 9, to announce the nineteenth annual 2002.

4 Tenure-track Assistant Professor. Starts Travel August 2003. Competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Specialist in Pre-Columbian, colonial, or modern Latin American art. Candidate must be prepared to teach broad surveys in her/his area. Knowledge of critical theory desirable. 2/2 course load: an undergraduate survey and an MA seminar each semester. USF is a research university that actively supports faculty research. Ph.D. (or close to completion) required. Send letter of intent describing teaching philosophy and research interests, CV, sample of scholarly writing, and names, addresses, e-mails, and telephone Humberto Rodríguez-Camilloni will be numbers of three references to Chair, Latin leading a study tour to Peru for the Society American Search, School of Art and Art of Architectural Historians from 20 July - History, University of South Florida, FAH 2 August 2003. The tour, "The Majesty 110, Tampa FL 33620-7350. http://www. and Mystery of Peru" will include the arthistory.usf.edu Applications must be major cities of Lima, Arequipa and Cuzco, received by January 10, 2003. AA / EA / and special attractions such as the Colca EO employer. Women / minorities / Canyon (near Arequipa) and archaeo- Vietnam veterans / persons w/ disabilities logical sites around Cuzco, culminating in strongly encouraged to apply. In Machu Picchu. Extensions to Nazca and accordance with Florida law, all Lake Titicaca are also being considered. meetings/files available to public. Details and the final itinerary will be published in the next issues of the SAH Newsletter. For more information, please contact Professor Rodríguez-Camilloni, Association of Latin American Art Book Director, Henry H. Wiss Center for Theory Award 2003 and History of Art and Architecture, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech, 201 Cowgill Hall, Carolyn Tate, chair of the Association for Blacksburg, VA 24061-0205 (tel: 540- Latin American Art Book Award 231-5324). committee is pleased to announce the acceptance of twenty nominations for the annual book award. This award is sponsored by the Arvey Foundation, and is Opportunities now in its third year. This year’s nominations are:

Position in Pre-Columbian or Latin Abstract Art from the Río de la Plata: American Art, University of South Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1933-53. Florida, Tampa. (Exh. Cat., The Americas Society).

5 Borrell Miranda, Héctor Rivero et al. The Missions: Exploring Colonial Yucatan. Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico: Treasures (Rev. Ed., Espadaña Press). from the Museo Franz Mayer. (Exh. Cat., Museo Franz Mayer () and the Quirarte, Jacinto. The Art and Architecture Museum of Fine Arts, (Houston). of the Texas Missions. (University of University of Texas Press). Texas Press).

Christenson, Allen J. Art and Society in a Serrato-Combe, Antonio. The Aztec Highland Maya Community: The Templo Mayor: A Visualization. Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlán. (University (University of Utah Press). of Texas Press). Sims, Lowery Stokes. Wilfredo Lam and Craven, David. Art and Revolution in the International Avant-Garde, 1923- Latin America, 1910-1990. (Yale 1982. (University of Texas Press). University Press). Stone-Miller, Rebecca. Seeing with New Flores, Lauro. Alfredo Arreguín: Patterns Eyes: Highlights of the Michael C. Carlos of Dreams and Nature / Diseños, sueños y Museum Collection of Art of the Ancient naturaleza. (University of Washington Americas. (Exh. Cat., Michael C. Carlos Press). Museum, Emory University).

José Juárez, recursos y discursos del arte Troy, Virginia Gardner. Anni Albers and de pintar. (Exh. Cat., Museo Nacional del Ancient American Textiles: From Bauhaus Arte, Mexico City). to Black Mountain. (Ashgate Publications). Malosetti Costa, Laura. Los primeros modernos: arte y sociedad en Buenos Verlichak, Victoria. Marta Traba: una Aires a fines del siglo XIX. (Fondo de terquedad furibunda. (Universidad de Tres Cultura Económica, Mexico City). de Febrero de Buenos Aires).

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs from Vrieze, John, Felipe Solís, Ted Leyenaar, the J. Paul Getty Museum. (Exh. Cat., J. Rudolf van Zantwijk, Beatriz de la Fuente, Paul Getty Museum). Ruben Morante López and Miguel León- Portilla. Mexico: Journey to the Land of Morrill, Penny C. et al. William Spratling the Gods: Art Treasures of Ancient and the Mexican Silver Renaissance: Mexico. (Exh. Cat., Ashgate Publications). Maestros de Plata. (Harry N. Abrams, with the San Antonio Museum of Art). Webster, Susan. Arquitectura y empresa en el Quito colonial: José Jaime Ortiz, Padilla, Carmella and Donna Pierce. Alarife Mayor. (Abya Yala). Conexiones: Connections in Spanish Colonial Art. (Exh. Cat., Museum of Whittington, Michael E. (ed.) The Sport of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe. University Life and Death: The Mesoamerican of New Mexico Press). Ballgame. (Exh. Cat., Mint Museum of Art. Thames and Hudson). Perry, Richard and Rosalind Perry. Maya

6 Fine Arts, New York University, will Call for Nominations deliver a paper on "Ecuador's First Art Journal and the Vanguard Roots of Indigenism," Kacey Harris Parlatore, The Association for Latin American Art Emory University, will present "Bird of Pray: The Ecstatic Shaman Figure of is seeking nominations for scholars to Paracas Necropolis Textiles," and Roberto serve on the book award committee in Tejada, State University of New York, 2003-2004. This is an excellent Buffalo, will speak on "Interdisciplinary opportunity to keep abreast of a wide Futures: Latino Studies and Visual range of scholarship in our fields. Please Culture." contact Joanne Pillsbury (pillsburyj@ doaks.org) for more information on the As previously announced, Andrea Giunta duties of the committee members, or to and Laura Malosetti Costa, both of the forward nominations (self-nominations are University of Buenos Aires, will chair the also accepted). Mailing address: two and one-half hour ALAA-sponsored Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd Street NW, session (part of the main program) Washington, DC 20007. entitled: Images of Power/Power of

Images in Latin American Art. This Nominations are also solicited for the chair session will focus a theoretical perspective of the Association for Latin American Art on the uses of images as strategies of open session at the College Art power (and resistance) in diverse historical Association meetings in Seattle in 2004. inscriptions in Latin America. A list of the As in previous years, this session is papers in this session, as well as details on designed as an opportunity for the times and places, will be circulated on the presentation of new research, particularly listserv in January. that of PhD candidates and recent graduates. As above, nominations should be forwarded to Joanne Pillsbury.

Important Membership Notice

College Art Association Meetings, New York, 19-22 February 2003 - Preview Membership forms and pre-addressed envelopes accompany this newsletter to facilitate payment of your annual dues to Among the many sessions of interest at the Association for Latin American Art. Should you have any questions regarding the upcoming College Art Association your membership, or if you would like to meetings in New York (19-22 February) submit a change of address, please contact are two Association-affiliated sessions. Jennifer Ahlfeldt, Secretary of the Laura Crary will chair the ALAA Open Association for Latin American Art, Session, the one and a half-hour session Department of Art History and usually held over the lunch hour on Archaeology, 826 Schermerhorn Hall, Saturday. As has been our practice in the Columbia University, New York, NY last few years, the session will include 10027. Her email address is: three papers, to allow ample time for [email protected] . discussion. Michele Greet, Institute of

7 Questions regarding ALAA sessions at the AZ 85721-0002, tel.: (520) 621-9705, fax: College Art Association meetings may be (520) 621-1202, email: staciew@u. addressed to Constance Cortez, Vice- .edu . President of the Association for Latin American Art, Department of Art and Art General inquiries, comments and History, Santa Clara University, 500 El suggestions regarding the Association Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053- should be directed to Joanne Pillsbury, 0264, email: [email protected] . President of the Association for Latin American Art, Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 For information regarding the Listserv or 32nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20007. ALAA’s website, please contact Stacie Her email address is: pillsburyj@doaks. Widdifield, Webmaster of the Association org . for Latin American Art, Department of Art History, University of Arizona, Tucson,

William Spratling. Arrows Buckle (c. 1960), displayed at the exhibition Maestros de Plata: William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance. Photo courtesy San Antonio Museum of Art.

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