newsletter Volume 7, Number 2 Summer 1982

1983 annual meeting: call for papers and panelists

The 1983 annual meeting will be held in Philadelphia, Thursday, discuss the interaction of other centers of artistic production (for ex­ February 17 through Saturday, February 19. The Franklin Plaza will ample, the British Isles, Spain, Byzantium) with Carolingian . serve as headquarters hotel. sessions have been planned by Marcia B. Hall, Temple Art in Byzantine Society. AnthonyCutler, Pennsylvania State Uni­ University. Studio sessions have been planned by David Pease, Tyler versity. Abstracts to Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd Street N.W., Wash­ School of Art. Listed below are the topics they have selected. Those ington, D. C. 20007. wishing to participate in any session should write to the chair of that Short monographic papers or longer overviews that address the vari­ session before October 1, 1982. ous function of works of art in Byzantine society are invited, These Reminders: (1) No one may participate in more than one art history might concern, for example, professions of particular devotion, session. (2) Participation in sessions in two successive years, while not regional styles, or aspects of technique, But emphasis should be on prohibited, is discouraged. (3) Abstracts may be submitted to more datable works about whose patronage something concrete is known. It than one specific topic session provided that the respective chairs are is hoped that papers will cluster about particular problems or periods; informed of the multiple submission. (4) No abstract may be submit­ the selection will aim at this rather than attempting to cover all Byzan­ ted for a paper that has previously been published or that has previous­ tine art. If warranted, discussants will be invited. J-,engthy abstracts ly been presented at another scholarly conference. (5) Unless your are encouraged. name is a household word, it is useful to include a curriculum vitae. Stained Glass: Medieval, , and Modern. Michael W. Telephone numbers are helpful, too. (6) There will be a widespread Cothren. Send an abstract to each of following addresses: (I) Stained effort to include discussion in the sessions. (7) AU papers must be sub­ Glass Session, Dept. Art, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Penn. mitted infinalform to chairs byJanuary 1 O. In addition to insuring the 19081; (2) Chez Chatelin, 126 Blvd. du Montpamasse, 75014 Paris, quality and designated length of papers, this will pennit their circula­ France. tion to discussants, when appropriate. The recent proliferation of monographic and documentary studies ART HISTORY PROGRAM on stained giass- some devoted to individual artists and others to indi­ vidual glazing programs-can provide the basis for broader specula­ Papers for art history sessions must be proposed in the form of a one­ tions on the history of painted windows. This session seeks papers that page abstract. Submit clean copy in original, typed on one, single­ explore questions concerning the internal development of this spaced, 8y'!xll inch page, on bond paper. Do not fold, spindle, muti­ medium or its relationship to other mediums and that direct attention late, or stain with coffee. Leave ¥.! inch margin at top; no less than 1 to the way glass painters accommodated contemporary pictorial trad~­ inch at the left and % inch margins at the bottom and right. Type ses­ tions to the special demands of an architectural context. sion title, chairperson, and his or her institution in the upper right cor­ ner. Type title of your paper, your name, and your institutional affilia­ Sienese Art and Culture: The State of Research. Nicholas Adams, tion in the upper left corner. For confirmation that your abstract has Dept. Art and Architecture (#17), Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. been received, enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard. To assist 18015. chairmen, longer abstracts (or the complete paper) may be submitted Speakers are encouraged to address funda~ental issues or problem in addition to the one-page abstract needed for publication. Proposals areas in the history of Sienese painting, , architecture, or ur­ for papers not conforming to the above specifications and those re­ banism. Topics that deal with the development of an individual art­ ceived after October 1 cannot be considered. (Note: For sessions hav­ ist/ architect or questions of connoisseurship, the relation of material ing co-chairs, abstracts should be sent to each chairperson.) culture to the city and its dominio, or that deal broadly with Sienese culture and its social and political history are welcome. Papers need Architectural Decoration and Program in . Irene J. not be limited by the traditional twenty-minute format; shorter or Winter, University of Pennsylvania. Abstracts to 962 Centre Street, (even) longer papers are invited (thirty-minute maximum). Please in­ Newton Centre, Mass. 02159, dicate the length of time you believe you need. Some form of discussion Papers are solicited that investigate the relationship between archi­ is planned. Although no chronological limit is imposed on this session, tectural decoration, program, and meaning in the ancient world. Em­ it is expected that papers will run from medieval to . phasis should be placed on aspects of and cultural con­ text. It is intended that a broad range of areas be covered, from Meso~ The Interaction of Italian and Northern European Art, potamia and Egypt to Greece and , the better to prompt discus­ 1300-1600_ Barbara G. Lane, Queens College, C.U.N.Y. Abstracts sion and cross-cultural comparison. to 180 East End Avenue Apt 5H, N.Y.C. 10028. The purpose of this session is to consider the constant interchange of Carolingian Art. Lawrence Nees, Dept. Art History, University of ideas between Italy and northern Europe during the Renaissance. It Delaware, Newark, Del. 19711. will ignore the traditional bias in favor of the superiority of Papers are invited on any topic treating the art and architecture of in this period and will attempt to demonstrate that the influences Carolingian Europe. The field is considered in the broadest sense as in­ travelled in both directions. It will examine such connections as per­ cluding the art of all the Frankish territories from the middle of the sonal contacts between artists, journeys to foreign art centers, and eighth to the end of the ninth centuries, and no limitation to works direct knowledge of specific works of art. Preference will be given to produced for the Carolingian court is envisaged. Indeed, papers deal­ papers that present objective evidence of stylistic and/ or-iconographic ing with the art of "provincial" centers are welcome, as are papers that influences in either direction. Continued on p. 2, col. 1 11983 annual meeting: call for papers and panelists 11983 annual meeting: call for papers and panelists

style. But what of their content? Were these artists as in~entiv:e in find­ enced both artistic composition and iconography. Papers need not be nard Buffet. While the burgeoning interest in has in a large Jan van Eyck and The Stigmatization of St. Francis in the ing new images as they were in finding new formal solutiOns? Are there limited to twenty minutes. Longer papers (up to forty-five minutes) measure emphasized figure composition, invented figures, and land­ Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Kenneth M. iconographical concerns in the works of modern masters that have may be selected if the importance of the arguments warrants. There scape, the work of a number of contemporary still life artists continues Craig, Fine Arts Dept., College, 885 Centre Street, Newton been overlooked because they were unsuspected? To what extent has will be at least one-half hour of commentary and discussion. both the complex allusive and structural traditions which come from Centre, Mass. 02159. traditional iconography survived in , and in what forms? the past. This session will be devoted to a renewed examination of one of the Fifteen minutes followed by five-minute discussion periods for each The Art Historian and the Laboratory. Gridley McKim-Smith, best yet one of the in mos~ controver~ial ~arly Netherlan~ish picture~ Dept. , Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 19010; and Pluralism of the Seventies and the Art of the Eighties. Carrie America. Papers to be mcluded will dISCUSS the ~omp~lcated p~ysl~al paper. Elizabeth Packard, Walters Art Gallery, 600 North Charles Street, Rickey, 523 Broadway, N.Y.C. 10012. history of the picture, its provenance and ~elatlonsh~p t~ copIes, Its Twentieth-Century Art. Lawrence Alloway, 330 West 20th Street, Baltimore, Md. 21201. Several young artists currently the rage of the New York art world iconography and style, and the touchy questIOn of attnbutlon. Papers This session invites papers presenting truly significant discoveries (David Salle, Judy Pfaff, etc.) were involved with Black art, feminist dealing with the history of the Franciscan order in the Netherlands are N.Y.C.IOOll. Proposals are invited for papers dealing with Eurorea~ and Ameri­ about such traditional problems as attribution, dating, iconography, art, ethnic art, and similar art movements which made their appear­ also invited. can art from the end of World War I to 1950. The penod mcludes real­ or historical significance. At the same time, we would like to empha­ ance during the seventies. This panel will examine whether and/ or the ist styles (such as the and the Neue Sachlichkeit size that new techniques (or sometimes a creative application of old ways in which their involvement in those movements affected their Secular Art of the Renaissance and Baroque in Italy: The Rela­ grou~s), the mixing of abstract styles (such as the and AbstractIOn techniques) may invite new approaches to the field of art history itself: style and content. tionship of Style, Meaning, and Purpose. Mark S. Weil, ~ept. Art Creation), and the diffusion of (essential to American art in papers presenting an innovative point of view on the uses of conserva­ and Archaeology, Washington University, Forsythe & Skinker, St. the 1940s). The iconography on one hand and the synthetic potential tion science are especially welcome, Papers are invited from art histor­ Public and Private Images: Recent Trends in Photography. Louis, Mo. 63130. . of art as opposed to its stylistic purity on the other are rich areas for dis­ ians, from conservators and conservation scientists, or from collabor­ Martha Madigan, Tyler School of Art, Beech and Penrose Avenues, The object of the session is to explore painting, ~culptur:, and archI­ ative teams including both disciplines. The material must have clear Elkins Park, Philadelphia, Pa. 19126. tecture commissioned by patrons for the decoration of pnvate palaces cussion. relevance to the field of art history and must be intelligible to a non­ This panel will explore the work of contemporary artists who use and villas. Participants should analyze specific works and explain the Images of Rulership and Authority in Pre-Columbian Art. Jeff scientific audience. Brief reports of less than twenty minutes will be personal or autobiographical imagery in relation to found images, way the style of the work, or th~ mode ~~osen by the artist p;oducing it, Karl Kowalski, abstracts before July 31 to Dept. Art History, Temple considered. Although discussions of works from the Renaissance media images, or other images containing references to contemporary reflects its meaning. Prospective partiCIpants should consIder the fol­ University, Beech and Penrose Avenues, Elkins Park, Pa. 19126; after through the twentieth century are preferred, important developments culture. A wide variety of media will be considered, including single lowing questions: To what extent were private commissions intended August 1 to Dept. Art, Northern Illinois University, De K~lb, .Ill. in other areas may be submitted. images, collage, montage, video, installation pieces, film, books, nar­ as didactic glorifications of the patron? To what extent do they reflect 60115; and Mary Ellen Miller, Dept. History of Art, Yale UmversIty, rative formats, and other alternatives to single image "fine art" presen­ literary attitudes of their period? To what extent were they meant to Box 2009, New Haven, Conn. 06520. Art Historial Theory and Methodology. Donald Preziosi, tations. A brief historical background will introduce the panel and provide entertainment to their hosts and visitors? The art of Pre-Columbian civilizations often sought to legitimate abstracts before August 31 to Center for Advanced Study in the Visual provide a framework for the presentations by contemporary artists. the authority of the reigning elite. Architects created palaces or tem­ Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565; afterSeptem­ Art and the Reformation in Northern Europe. Jeffrey Chipps ples dedicated to state religions. depi~ted historical ~pi­ ber 1 to Art History Dept., State University of New York, Binghamton, The Poster-An Expression of Its Time. Joseph Ansell andJames Smith, Dept. Art, University of Texas, A~stin, Tex. 78?l~. , sodes in cosmological settings or presented portraIts of rulers. Pamt­ N.Y.1390l. Thorpe, Dept. Housing and Applied Design, University of Maryland, Nineteen eighty-three is the 500th anmversary of Martm Luther s ings pictured the nobility's daily lives or outlined their dynastic Papers are solicited that deal explicitly and concretely with theoreti­ College Park, Md. 20742. birth. Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and other Protestant reformers greatly h~sto;­ ies. Papers should stress the relationship between art and authonty III cal and methodological issues in the analysis of painting in the realist The poster is the graphic form most strongly associated with aesthe­ influenced the development of art and patronage in Northern Europe tradition in nineteenth -century France. The session is intended to jux­ tic and personal concerns. The JXlster is an art of the streets, accessible in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Papers are invited that Pre-Columbian America. tapose formal, stylistic, iconographic, structuralist/ semiotic, Marxist, to everyone, and gives the artist/ designer a vast audience not available focus upon the following areas: Protestant attitudes towards. art, in­ The Status of Writing in Asia. Yoshiaki Shimizu, Freer Gallery of psychoanalytic, and post-structuralist approaches to art. Papers will through the museums. Although its main function is a temporary one conoclasm, the rise of new Protestant artistic themes, popularlmag~ry Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560; and Marian­ be limited in number so as to allow substantive and extended discus­ (promoting an event, a product, or championing a cause), poster im­ in the service of religious propaganda, and the Counter-ReformatiOn na S. Simpson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Nation­ sion among panel members and audience on the comparative benefits ages often enter our visual vocabulary and become important cultural in Northern Europe. Papers dealing with methodological issues and al Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565. and pertinence of various art historical perspectives on a common icons. new theoretical approaches to Reformation studies are esp~cially ,,:el­ The act of writing and the written sign may have a privileged status theme. Part I; The History of Posters. Presentations should focus on the come. A brief discussion will follow each paper. SubmIt detatled within society and a privileging function within the visual arts. This relationship of an artist's poster designs to the period and/ or the abstracts. panel invites papers addressed to the issue of ~riting's varied .functions Changing My Mind. H.W.Janson, New York University. Thisses­ artist's oeuvre. and meanings in west, east, anp. southeast ASIa. Papers may mtroduce sion is open by invz'tatz'on only to senior scholars. Part II: Contemporary Posters. Poster designers will discuss the European Art 1750-1900. John McCoubrey, Dept. His~ory of A~t, synthetic strategies (either synchronic or diachronic) or take an a~aly­ place of their work and images in the contemporary world. University of Pennsylvania, 34th and Walnut -Streets, PhIladelphia, tic approach to a series of monuments. The number of papers wIll be Open Sessions I and II. William Loerke, Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 Penn. 19104. 32nd Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007. Drawing: A Mainstream Activity of the Eighties. Diane Burko, Preference will be given to papers on the major works of majo; art­ limited to allow time for discussion. The purpose of the open sessions is to accommodate papers on topics Dept. Fine Arts, Philadelphia Community College, 34 South 11 th ists. Papers may be-selected to give session a particular focus. DISCUS­ Prints as Polemic 1400-1983. Christiane Andersson, Dept. Art not appropriate to other sessions in the meeting program. Abstracts Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. sion will be arranged, as appropriate. History and Archaeology, 815 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia Univer­ may be submitted for the open sessions only if they are not appropriate A panel of artists reflecting a broad range of attitudes and materials for another scheduled session. In no event should the same paper be will examine their primary involvement with the activity of drawing. Thomas Eakins: New Approaches. Elizabeth Johns, Dept. Art, sity, N.Y.C. 10027. . . . The reproductive nature of the printed image and itS relattvely effI­ submt'tted to a specific topic sessz'on and an open sessz'on. Ten- and They will explore their reasons for choosing this mode, in an attempt University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742. cient dissemination resulted in its employment for polemical purposes twenty-minute papers will be considered. Opportunity for discussion to discover if there are any common principles, values, or impulses Much of the received literature on Eakins focuses narrowly on the throughout the history of the medium. are that will be provided as appropriate. among them. The place of drawing in the larger context of contempo­ artist and discusses his scientific realism, interest in anatomy, and re­ Pap~rs in~ted e~~m­ ine the role of prints as mediators and reflectIOns of SOCIal and poht.I~al rary art-making and i~s history will also be considered. jection by the Academy and some of th~ Philadelphia ~ommu~ity. issues. All printed media are eligible (broadsheets, .Cons~rUCtlVlst STUDIO PROGRAM This session invites papers that study Eakms from new pomts of VIew. posters, etc.). Preference will be parers that .the Printmakers as Artists. Ofelia Garcia, The Print Club, 1614 Lati­ The chair encourages proposals that emphasize the context of Eakins' acc?rde~ !llu~mate circumstances of production and dissemmatlOn of polemIcal pnnts Contemporary American Still Life Painting. Gabriel Laderman, mer Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103. work both artistic and cultural: his iconography, painting tech­ and that define the nature and sources of their imagery and the Dept. Art, Queens College, C.U.N,Y., Flushing, N.Y. 11367. Printmakers are commonly perceived as being confined by their niqu~s attention to sculpture, photography, years as a student and/ or mechanisms of expression of and transposition into the polemical The panel will discuss still life painting as a continuing viable genre. chosen medium. The dominant view holds that more interesting, ex­ teache~, relationships with his sitters, critical reception (i~ his lifetime mode. Flexibility in length and number of papers and time for discus­ The tradition of still life painting has at the same time emphasized perimental, or significant work is done by artists who develop as paint­ and later), and portraiture in relationship to that of e~rher an~ con­ abstract relationship and also-through both subject and pictorial ers and who later or incidentally also make prints than by those who temporary Philadelphia portraitists. The session will mclude dISCUS­ sion are assured. construction - a complex of symbolic references of great richness. One work primarily in the print medium. This panel will discuss, historical­ sion. Scientific Theory and Artistic Practice: From Plato and Praxi­ could say that before abstraction the most abstract of all genres was ly and critically, questions of the development of a conceptual individ­ teles to Einstein and Ernst. Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr., Williams Col­ still life painting, which dealt most directly with relationship, picture ual image in relation to choice of medium; problems of attitudes and Investigations of Referential Subject Matter in Modern Ar~: I~­ lege Graduate Program in the History of Art, Box 8, Williamstown, plane development, and the perceptual process. The late work of definitions among historians, curators, critics, dealers; and influ­ pressionism to the Present. Irma Jaffe, Dept. Art, Fordham Umversl- Mass. 01267. Chardin is a model for perceptual richness which is not reached again ences, differences, or similarities between publishers' prints and print­ ty, Bronx, N.Y. 10458. .... This session will deal with issues of art and science in all periods of in painting in general until the developed work of Cezanne. On the makers' prints. This session is meant to explore an alternatIve to the sull prevalhng Western civilization. Papers addressing the earlier periods (even Egyp· other hand, the rich associational overtones of seventeenth-century one-sided, formalist interpretation of modern art history so as to tian and Mesopotamian!) are especially encouraged. However, the still life painting are picked up in the twentieth century in the work of Sculpture and Technology. Nathan Knobler, Philadelphia Col­ enrich our understanding of the modernist enterprise. Artists from emphasis should be upon matters where at a Picasso after Analytic , in the still lifes of Balthus and the lege of Art, Broad and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 19102. Manet on have been principally valued in the measure of their contri­ gener~l th~or-ies of.scien~e given moment (as differing from technolOgIcal mnovauons) mflu- Scuola Metafisica painters, and, indeed, even in the early workofBer- bution to the solution of formal problems that advanced the history of Contt'nued on p. 4, col. 1 CAA newsletter Summer 1982 3 2 11983 annual meeting: call for papers and panelists people and programs

Large-scale ~ontemporary sculpture and sculpture that utilizes The art dialogue originating in painting and sculpture has raised Material for inclusion in People and Pro­ been appointed academic dean of the Atlanta complex technological systems share many characteristics with the issues which many artists are now confronting with the use of new grams should be sent to College Art Associa­ College of Art. He succeeds Anthony Greco, products of civil, electrical, and electronic engineering. Given the media. This turn to such fonus as performance, electronic presenta­ tion, 16 East 52 Street, N. Y. C. 10022. Dead­ who has served as academic dean since 1976 resources of the engineers and given their often powerful and beautiful tions, and light-generated images (projection/installation) has pro­ line for next issue: 31 August. and has decided to return to full-time teach­ products, are the sculptors in a losing battle if they seek to create im­ vided a new temporal and spatial context in which to make and view ing and to his own painting. ages dependent on monumental scale or complex electronic works and has created new demands on artists, art institutions, and IN MEMORIAM for their expressive and aesthetic content? critics. The panel will be composed of individuals involved in the use of film, video, sound, performance, and related areas. Alice R_ Merrill Hyland (Ph.D. Univ. The Philadelphia- Connection. Judith Stein, Pennsyl­ Raymond Jonson, one of thiS country's Michigan) has been appointed assistant pro­ vania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadel­ earliest abstract painters and professor The American Kunsthalle: Museums without Collections. Janet fessor in the art department at Southwestern phia, Pa. 19102. emeritus at the University of New Mexico, Cardin, Institute of , University of Pennsylvania, at Memphis. For the past four. yea:s she In the early seventies, an influential group of artists and curators died in May at the age of ninety. An incred­ taught Oriental art at the UniverSIty of 34th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104. ibly prolific artist, he completed more than shuttled between Chicago and Philadelphia, cross-pollinating polite Missouri-Kansas City. Eastern with a heady mid-Western raspberry. This panel Several major institutions in the now organize and 2256 major works now in public and private will discuss the nature of the connection between the two metropolitan present changing exhibitions on recent and contemporary art. Like collections throughout the United States. centerS, addressing the affinites-sociological, cultural, aesthetic­ the European Kunsthalle, they neither maintain nor seek permanent From Case Western Reserve University comes collections. Like artist-run spaces, they have been the loci for perfor­ between the two important and non-New York art centers. news that Ellen Landau (Ph.D. 1981 Univ. mances, installation pieces, and other experimental works, as well as Delaware) joins the department as assistant Studio Production/Studio Teaching: A Relationship Exam­ for one-person mid-career summaries, or retrospectives, and thematic professor in American and modern ~rt. A:sso­ ined. Bill Russell, Education Dept., Philadelphia College of Art, exhibitions, Sited midway between the museum and the artists' space, ciate professor Edward J. Olszewskl receIved Broad and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 19102. such institutions as The New Museum, New York; ICA in Boston and a grant from the university's developmen~ of­ The relationship of an artist's production to his/her teaching has Philadelphia; the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; and the fice and a grant-in-aid from the Amencan manifested itself historically in various ways: philosophically, techni­ Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, interpret and document the art Philosophical Society in support of summer cally, and socially. The pendulum has swung in a wide arc from the of the present. Papers are invited on topics that will trace their history, research on the drawings of Federico Zuccaro. teacher instructing students in the adoption and continuance of his/ clarify their responsibility, and discuss their future. her approach or style to the teacher acting as a guide to help the stu­ dent develop independently and individually. This panel will give in­ Regional Criticism. Chair to be announced. Gabriel P. Weisberg, currently Mellon pro­ dividual artist/ teachers the opportunity to present their views on this fessor at the University of Pittsburgh, has topic from a personal and historical standpoint. Among the issues to Expanding the Artist's Audience: Artworks that Involve Other­ received a Guggenheim fellowship for 1982- Angela Giral Photo: Lilian Kemp be examined are: how are changes in one's studio work reflected in than-Art Communities_ Virginia Maksymowicz, Dept. Art and Art 83 for completion of a book onS. Bing and the teaching; when or how do student concerns affect the teacher's studio History, Wayne State University, 450 South Reuther Mall, Detroit, evolution of . He will spend six Angela Giral has been named to succeed production; and the value/problem of students adopting the teacher's Mich. 48202. months in Paris completing his research, after Adolph K. Placzek as chief librarian of Col­ style or concerns. This panel will discuss art works that not only exist outside tradi­ which he will be at the Center for Advanced umbia University's Avery Architectural and Learning in the Field: Apprenticeships and Internships in the tional or alternative gallery structures, but that directly include a Study in the Visual Arts as Samuel H.Kress Fine Arts Library. She will be the eighth chief Visual Arts. Jerry Clapsaddle, Art Dept., George Mason University, larger community in their creation or presentation. The focus will be Senior Fellow for the spring 1983 term. librarian of Avery. Giral (MLS, Univ. Michi­ 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Va. 22030. on the artists' attempts at integrating their work into a wider spectrum gan) has been chief librarian of the Frances Artists and representatives from institutions, business, and industry of society. The panel will include artists ranging from those whose The San Antonio Art Institute has named Loeb Library at Harvard's Graduate School will examine the history, advantages, and disadvantages of the ap­ work deals almost exclusively with political and social issues to those George Parrino director of its fine arts of Design since 1975; before that she was prenticeship model of learning. Participants may discuss: (1) Student whose work, although not specifically political in content, is socially school. Parrino first joined the Institute in librarian at Princeton's School of Architec­ access to professional role models, exploring potential career dppor­ oriented in its production and use within a non-art community. The 1978 as academic dean. Prior to that he was a ture and Urban Planning. tunities, and the transition to employment or professional indepen­ work of individual artists as well as work produced through various art­ Raymond Jonson visiting artist at North Texas State University, dence which a field experience may offer; (2) current programs in ists' projects and organizations (e.g. CETA-funded projects; Political assistant professor of humanities at Saint Donald B. Kuspit, most recently on the schools, business, industry, and institutions, the integration with Art Documentation/Distribution) will be considered. John's University, N.Y.C., and a painting in­ faculty at S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook, has been studio and academic programs, the administrative, supervisory and ACADEME structor at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. appointed University Distinguished Visiting evaluative responsibilities; (3) the public relations aspects of an experi­ Professor at Rutgers University for tne The 1983 Preliminary "Pr~gr'hil'~ contain'jng" n'ecessary ential education program. The department of art history at E~ory Uni­ 1982-83 academic year. fonns and comf'lete'inf~rIl1ation on annual meetiIlg regi,s,~:,",\ versity has announced several appomtments New Media/New Issues. Bart Robbett, 315 East 84th Street, The Rhode Island School of Design has tration, hotel, fQOrn rates; group flights, etc;----,wilJ,,,be for the fall. Bonna Wescoat (Ph.D. 1982, N. Y.C. 10028 and Sara Hornbacher, 107 St. Mark's Place, Apt. 2D, announced two appointments. Judith Hoos Reflecting the interests of its faculty and a mailed in December.. .. • • ...... Oxford Univ.) will teach Roman and Greek N.Y.C.I0009. Fox has been named curator of painting and new emphasis in its curriculum, the depart­ art and architecture. She taught at Kenyon sculpture at the Museum of Art. Fox (MA, ment of art of the University of South Caro­ College, 1980-82, and has spent three sum­ Univ. Minnesota) comes to RISD from Wel­ lina has approved changing the name of its shows by artist members mers in Turkey working on the Temple of lesley College Museum, where she had been art history division to the Division of Art Athena at Assos. John Bandiera (Ph.D. assistant director since 1977. Joining RISD as History and Criticism. 1982, I.F.A.) will teach eighteenth- and nine­ head librarian for the College is James A. A listing of solo exhibitions by artists who are Donald Furst. Fanny Garver Gallery, Madi­ Ellen Lanyon. Susan Caldwell Gallery, teenth-century European art. He has taught Findlay, who most recently was assistant MUSEUMS members ofthe CAA. son, Wis., January 3D-February 28, recent N.Y.C., June 1982. Richard Gray Gallery, at the University of California, Riverside; librarian at the Museum of Modern Art oils and prints; Prairie State College, Chicago Chicago, June-July. Recent paintings. Hunter College, C.U.N.Y.; and most rece.nt~ Library. Findlay (MLS, Wayne State Univ.; Jean Sutherland Boggs will leave her I?ost as Heights, Ill., February 5-26; College ofWil­ ly at the University of Delaware. Becommg Alice Baber. Phoenix II West Gallery, Wash­ Ora Lerman. P.M. & Stein Gallery, N.Y.C., M. Latin American Studies, UCLA) is presi­ George D. Widener Director of the Philadel­ liam and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., March director of the new Emory University Museum ington' D.C., March 22-April 17. Paintings May II-June 19. "Doorway to Dreams," dent of the New York chapter of ARLIS/NA phia Museum of Art at the end ofJ.une to head I-April 2; Quincy College, Quincy, IlL, of Art and Archaeology, while continuing to and watercolors. paintings, sculptures, and photographs. and past president of the Southern California a Canadian government corporatIon charged October 6-31; all intaglio, silkscreen, and teach twentieth-century European art and chapter. with the siting, design, and construction of II Grace Bishko. Mezzanine Gallery, Antioch lithograph prints. Janet Miller and Patricia A. Russac. Slide contemporary American art, is Clark V. Pol­ new building for the National Gallery of University, Philadelphia, May 14-June 11. Library Staff Show. Eve Drewelowe Gallery, ing. In recent years he was guest curator for Carolyn Guerra. Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Canada, of which she was director from 1966 Paintings and works on paper. University of Iowa, Iowa City, May 2 -8. Philip C. Beam, prbfessor of art and archae­ Norris Center, Northwestern University, three exhibitions at the High Museum of Art to 1976. Between museum directorships, Evanston, Ill., May 11-22. Paintings and Ann Sperry. Lerner Heller, N.Y.C., April in Atlanta, and he is guest curator for a Kan­ ology at Bowdoin College, retired at the <:nd Robert Cronin. Gimpel Fils, London, March Boggs, who is a specialist in modern art, was prints. 20-May 15. Recent sculpture. dinsky exhibition which will open in 1983 at of the academic year. A leading authority on 30-May 8. Winslow Homer, Beam has been a member of on the faculty of Harvard University. Twice Burton Wasserman. Benjamin Mangel Gal­ the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Haro Kagemoto. University of California the Bowdoin faculty since 1936. He also elected to the CAA Board of Directors, she Raffaello Dvorak. Long Beach Museum of Extension Center, Main Gallery, San Fran­ lery, Philadelphia, April 23 - May 14. Recent served as director of Bowdoin Museum of Art completed her most recent term in February. Art Bookshop/Gallery, L.B., Calif., April cisco, June 21-July 30. "Takuhan Wall," paintings, constructions, and hand-screened James Striby. currently dean of faculty at the for twenty five years. Continued on p. 6, col. 1 4-May 9. Posters. drawings. monoprints. • Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, has 5 4 CAA newsletter Summer 1982 {people and programs {people and programs information

Catherine C. Glasgow has been promoted to J. Hennessey has been named director of the For a catalogue raisonne on Robert Mother­ the position of associate curator and' E. Jan University of Kentucky Museum/ Lexington, well's Elegies to the Spanish Republic, I Connell has been named assistant curator, succeeding Priscilla Colt, who retired earlier would appreciate hearing from anyone about both with responsibilities in exhibitions devel· this year. Hennessey (Ph.D. Columbia Univ.) paintings, drawings and related material in opment and collections research. comes to UK from Vassar College, where he private collections. ContactJoan Banach, 463 had been director of the Art Gallery and assis­ West Street, #A324, New York, N.Y. 10014. Several new staff appointments have been tant professor of art since 1979. made at the Winterthur Museum and Gar· For research on an American nineteenth· dens. In the education division, Cheryl Rob­ At Wellesley College Museum, Eleanor M. century landscape painter, E.W. Nichols ertson has been named coordinator of train­ Hight has been appointed assistant director. (1819-1871), infonnation on his work as well ing and Jerry Powell is coordinator for Hight (Ph.D. cando Harvard Univ.) served as as documentary material would be appreciat­ special audiences. Robertson (MFA Univ. assistant to the curator of the Busch-Reisinger ed. Contact Billie M. MacGregor, Research Delaware, Winterthur Program) comes from Museum in 1979-80. Associate, Historic Cherry Hill, 523~ South the Milwaukee Art Museum, where she was Pearl Street, Albany, N.Y. 11202. assistant curator of decorative arts. Powell Linda Bantel, author of numerous articles (Ph.D. English, Indiana Univ,) previously and catalogues, joined the staff of The Penn­ was a member of the guiding staff. The new sylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1981 as For an exhibition being organized by Yale Art paper conservationist is Jane Ellen Klinger curator for the exhibition William Rush, Gallery on innovative American decorative (MFA Rosary College, Villa Schifanoia). She American Sculptor. Bantel (MA I.F.A.) is arts, 1925-1934, we are seeking infonnation has worked at both the Pitti Palace and the also the curator for the first exhibition of regarding Donald Deskey, Paul Frankl, Gil­ Jewish Museum in Florence. Furniture selected masterpieces from the more than 300 bert Rohde, Ruth Reeves, Eliel Saarinen, designer Lucille W. Frederick has been ap­ sculptural works in the Academy's permanent Eugene Schoen, Walter Dorwin Teague, pointed gallery supervisor in charge of the sculpture collection, slated for 1985. Kern Weber, and other important designers Winterthur Gallery reproductions. Cather­ of the era. We are also seeking objects of ine H. Maxwell, who has been at the Winter­ With the aid of grants from a private founda­ exhibition quality, particularly items which thur for nine years editing major volumes and tion and the NEA, Klaus Kertess (MA Yale were shown in the New York department store Charles Parkhurst, assistant director and catalogues, is licensing coordinator of the Univ.) will join the staff of the Parrish Art and museum exhibitions of industrial and chief curator of the National Gallery of Art, reproductions, Museum in Southampton, N. Y. decorative arts during the late twenties and Washington, D.C., will leave that post inJan­ early thirties. Contact: Patricia Kane, Cura· uary 1983 to be co-director of the Williams At the Everson Museum of Art, Colleen Mc­ Guild Hall, the East Hampton museum and tor Of American Decorative Arts, Yale Uni­ College Museum. He has been with the Na­ Nulty Adour (MFA cando Syracuse Univ.) theater center, has appointed Annabelle versity Art Gallery, 2006 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520. tional Gallery since 1971 and before that was has been promoted to the position of public Hebert director. Hebert (Ph.D. Tulane director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. information manager, after having served for Univ.) leaves the directorship of the Province­ Besides other museum positions, he has held the past two and a half years as executive town Art Association and Museum, where she For an exhibition and biography/catalogue teaching appointments at several universities secretary. The new full-time position of had been since 1978. From 1974 to 1978 she raisonne, information is sought regarding and colleges, among them Williams. Park­ educational coordinator/librarian has been had been associated with the New Orleans miniatures, pastels, watercolors, and oil hurst is a past president of the CAA, the assumed by Jeffrey York (MA Ohio Univ., Museum of Art. paintings by American artist Helen M. American Association of Museums, and the MLS Syracuse Univ,). He has been the muse­ Turner N.A. (1858~ 1958). Write L.H. Intermuseum Conservation Association, um's docent coordinator for the past year. Ann Van Zanten (Ph.D. Harvard Univ.) has Rabbage, 350 Bleecker Street, N.Y .C, 10014. which he co-founded. been appointed curator of the Architectural III The Indianapolis Museum of Art has made Collection of the Chicago Historical Society, Succeeding Parkhurst at the National Gallery five appointments to the staff of the museum's having previously served as project archivist will be John Wilmerding, who joined the education· division: Maria Magnabosco, of the Holabird and Root Drawings Inventory Gallery in 1977 as senior curator and curator director of the department of educational at the Society. of American art. In that capacity he organ­ programs; Nancy Carnes, education admin· ized several major exhibitions, most recently istrator; Rhonda DeLap, IMA art educa­ American Light in 1979. Before coming to tor/historian; Sue Ellen Paxson, educa­ ARTS ENDOWMENT the National Gallery, Wilmerding (Ph.D. tional programs facilitator; and Pam Zarvas, Harvard Univ.) taught at Dartmouth from information officer, Several key appointments have been made at Alan M. Fern Evan Hopkins Turner 1965 to 1977. the NEA. Benny Andrews, painter, lecturer, In California, the University Art Museum, and assistant professor of art at Queens Col­ The new director of the Smithsonian's Na­ will have been a 25·year stint as director of (a strong point of the Cleveland Collection), Berkeley, announces that Susan Teicholz lege, C,U.N. Y., is director of the Visual Arts tional Portrait Gallery is Alan M. Fern, who The Cleveland Museum of ~rt. Turner currently serving on the Joint Museum Com· (MAs U ,C, Berkeley and Stanford Univ.) has Program, which has a fiscal 1982 budget of leaves his position as director for Special Col­ (Ph.D. Harvard Univ.) has been director of mittee of the Indo-U.S. Subcommission of been named associate curator of exhibitions $6.56 million. Hugh Southern, formerlyex­ lections at the Library of Congress. Fern the Ackland Art Museum at the University of Education and Culture, as a member of the and Cathy Curtis (MA U .C. Berkeley) ecutive director of the Theatre Development (Ph.D. Univ. Chicago) joined LC in 1961 as North Carolina since 1978 and preceded Jean Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, and as assumes the dual position of publicist and Fund in is deputy chairman assistant curator in the Prints and Photo­ Boggs as director of the Philadelphia Muse· chairman of the Japan -United States Cultural managing editor of the UAM Calendar. The for programs. Serving under Southern are graphs Division. Since then he has been chief urn of Art from 1964 to 1977. He began his and Educational Cooperation Joint Commit­ Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has new associate deputy chairmen Ruth BerenM of that division (1973-76), director of the museum career as lecturer and research assis­ tee. named Cathryn M. Cootner associate cura­ son and Ana Steele. Berenson (Ph.D. Har· Research Department (1976-78), and, since tant at the Frick Collection and has also been tor for the rug collection. For the past eleven vard Univ.) was contributing arts editor for 1978, director of Special Collections. He associated with the Wadsworth Atheneum The Columbus Museum of Art has several years, Cootner has been a consultant, engag· National Review and American cultural cor­ taught at the University of Chicago from 1952 and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He announcements. Mary Harlan has· been ingin research and the organization of exhibi· respondent for Die Welt. Steele came to the to 1971. In 1979 he chaired the art history ses· was adjunct professor of art history at the named to head the new office of museum tions. Edward W. Earle leaves his post as Endowment in 1965. Kate L. Moore, who sion for the CAA annual meeting in Washing· University of Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1978 publications, made possible through a recent librarian/ archivist for the Photographic Re­ served as NEA chainnan Hodsoll's special ton, D.C. and now serves in that capacity at UNC. $100,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, source Center, Boston, to become the first assistant, has been named director of the Of­ While Turner's principal area of curatorial which enables the Museum to concentrate on full-time curator of the 350,000 images in the fice of Policy, Planning and Research. Re· Evan Hopkins Turner has been named to concern has been American and European the development and distribution of signifi. Keystone· Mast Collection of stereographic placing Moore as special assistant is Caroline succeed Sherman E. Lee in July 1983 when painting (specifically, Thomas Eakins), he is cant materials on its collections and on exhi· negatives and prints at the California Muse­ L. McMullen (BA art history, Smith Lee will step down from what, by that time, very much involved with the art of the Orient bitions related to the collections. um of Photography. College). III Benny Andrews, NEA Photo: Kathy Morris

6 CAA newsletter Summer 1982 7 announcements grants and awards

MILLARD MEISS GRANTS Art Journal Cinema Issue Art Journal Caricature Issue CASVA Fellowships The Millard Meiss Publication Fund Com­ An issue of the Art Journal is being planned An issue of the Art journal is being planned The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual on the theme of cinema. The issue will show­ on the theme of nineteenth-century French Arts grants Senior Fellowships (one, two, and mittee announced its spring award of a sub­ case a cross-section of current research apply­ caricature. During the course of the nine­ in exceptional cases, four academic terms), vention to Clifford M. Brown, Carleton ing art historical methodologies to the study teenth century, French caricature gained a Visiting Senior Fellowships (maximum sixty University, Canada, for Isabella d'Este and of the visual art of film. Our art historical new currency, appearing in the mass popular days) and Associate appointments (non-sti­ Lorenzo da Pavia, Librairie Droz S.A. is developing new insights into the press and daily in the newspapers. Who were pen diary) to scholars of any nationality who The Millard Meiss Publication Fund Com­ role of fihn in society and is furnishing a fresh the draughtsmen who responded to this mar­ have the Ph.D. or possess a record of profes­ mittee will meet next fall. Deadline for sub­ viewpoint for the analysis of cinema's unique ket and who were their audience? Caricature sional accomplishment at the time of applica­ mission of applications: September 1. Note: blend of sound and moving shapes with the developed in relationship to the figurative tion. The fellowships/ appointments require Recipients of Millard Meiss publication framed image and traditional artistic ele­ arts of its time and in turn opened up new ter­ residency in Washington, D.C. One award subventions are no longer required to forego royalties on their books, ments of two-dimensional visual composi­ ritory in painting and illustration, drawing period for sixty-day Visiting Senior Fellow­ tion. The Guest Editor will welcome for con­ the marginal elements into the main current. ships remains for the academic year 1982-83: sideration for this issue articles that deal with Topics that might be explored include: the 1 March-31 August 1983 (application dead­ the iconography, aesthetics, visual language, relationship of caricature to Realism and Im­ line 21 September 1982). The application GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS or total cinematic style of "movies," "experi­ pressionism; the relationship of caricature to " deadlines for the 1983-84 Senior Fellowship The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial mental film," or animation. Address manu­ illustration and photography; the tradition of program are as follows: 31 October 1982 for Foundation awa"rded grants to 277 scholars, scripts or proposals to Aj, College Art Asso­ physiognomic schemes and exaggerations; Senior Fellowships and Associate appoint­ scientists, and artists chosen from among ciation, 16 East 52nd Street, N.Y.C. 10022. the relationship of caption to image; editorial ments for the full academic year (19 Septem­ 3,200 applicants in its fifty-eighth annual policies and constraints; did caricature on the ber 1983-18 May 1984) or for a single aca­ competition. Grants totalled $5,070,000. For Right exist?; questions of style and reproduc­ demic term (fall term: 19 September 1983- and Directory of American Scholars mavens of statistics: the number of awards is tion; salient themes; and critical reception. 13 January 1984; spring term: 16 January- down from last year's 288; the number of ap­ . (left) and Stephen Hahn (center)_ Invites Submissions Address manuscript or proposals to Aj, Col­ 18 May 1984). Visiting Senior Fellowships will The Eighth edition of the Directory ofAmeri­ plicants up from last year's 3,017. And for lege Art Association, 16 East 52nd Street, be accepted on 21 March 1983 for sixty day those without handy access to a pocket calcu­ ADAAAWARDS ate. Three fellowships funded by the Andrew can Scholars will be published in Nov. 1982. N.Y.C.10022. fellowships during the period 19 September lator: the ratio of awards to applicants has The Art Dealers Association of America W. Mellon Foundation were awarded to Eric Former biographees will be sent copy proofs 1983-29 February 1984 and on 21 Septem­ marked its twentieth anniversary with the Hostetter, Indiana Univ., Bloomington; of their entries during the spring and summer gone down from last year's one to 10.5 to this ber 1983 for sixty day fellowships during the year's one to 11.6. establishment of a $20,000 fellowship to sup­ David Marsh, Univ. MiChigan, Ann Arbor; of this year; they are asked to notify the ed­ period 1 March-31 August 1984. These port a doctoral dissertation in the field of and Glenn Most, Princeton Univ. Edward itors of changes in address since the last edi­ deadlines also apply to candidates for Art History / Cognate Areas European or American art, "the largest grant Schmidt and Warren Tanner, both of New tion. Nomination of qualified scholars who AAR Mellon Fellowship Associate appointments for less than one aca­ available to a student in the field of art his­ York City, were awarded fellowships in paint­ are not currently profiled in the directory is The American Academy in Rome announces demic term. For further information and ap­ Janet Cox-Rearick, Hunter College, tory," according to ADAA Administrative ing. Sculpture awards went to Pat Lasch, requested. Acceptance for inclusion is based a four-year program of post-doctoral fel­ plication forms: CASV A, National Gallery of C.U.N.Y.: Italian art at the court of France, Vice President Ralph F. Colin. The first reci­ New York City and George Herms, Orange, on the following criteria, and involves no obli­ lowships in the humanities, funded by The Art, Washington, D.C. 20565. 1515-1547; Patricia Hills, Boston Univ.: pient of the- fellowship is Mary Huneycutt Calif. gation other than submission of information: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Beginning Painting and social concern in America in the Askew, a doctoral candidate at Stanford Uni­ (1) Achievement, by reason of experience in September 1983, one fellowship a year will 1930s; Richard L. Kagan, Johns Hopkins versity, for the preparation of her dissertation ACLS TRAVEL GRANTS and training, of a stature in scholarly work Univ.: The Toledo of El Greco; Lily Litvak, be available in each of the following fields: on Goya's Caprichos. Recipients in the most recent competition are equivalent to that associated with the doctor­ Univ. Texas at Austin: Exoticism in Spanish Classical Studies, Art History, and Medieval 'Rome Prize Fellowships At its twentieth anniversary dinner held at Elizabeth Hill Boone, Dumbarton Oaks, to al degree, coupled with current activity in art and literature, 1888-1910; Robert Mark, or Renaissance Studies. Applicants must have Fields of award include classical studies and the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, attend the 44th International Congress of such work; or (2) Achievement as evidenced Princeton Univ.: A reinterpretation of an­ the Ph.D. and, at the time of appointment, archaeology, post-classical humanistic stud­ ADAA also presented its eleventh annual Amer£canists in Manchester, England, this by publication of scholarly works; or (3) At­ cient Roman structure; Edith Porada, Co­ must hold the position of assistant professor or ies, and the history of art. The fellowships, of­ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art September; Charles R. Mack. Univ. South tainment of a position of substantial responsi­ fered to citizens of the United States, carry a lumbia Univ.: A catalogue of certain Western have been appointed associate professor with­ History, a grant of $5,000 and a stabile by Carolina, to attend the Conference on New bility by reason of achievement as outlined in in the previous two years. Terms: round-trip monthly stipend, travel allowance, one or two Asiatic cylinder seals of the second millen­ Alexander Calder, to Sherman E. Lee, direc­ Towns and Urban Transformation in the Fif­ (1) and (2). Information or requests should be years (depending on the fellowship) of resi­ nium B.C. in the ; Wendy transportation to Rome, room, study and tor of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Its first teenth Century in Pienza, Italy, in July; addressed to the Editors, DAS, Jacques Cat­ Steiner, Univ. Pennsylvania: Connections partial board, and an annual stipend of dence at the American Academy in Rome Special Award, a grant of $2,500, was pre­ Charles M. Rosenberg, Univ. Notre Dame, tell Press, Box 25001, Tempe, Ariz. 85282. with living quarters and a study and partial between modern literature and painting; $15,000. For application forms: AAR, 41 sented to Dorothy C. Miller for her "immea­ to attend Celebrazione del V centenario della board. Pre-doctoral fellowships are awarded Gabriel P. Weisberg, Univ. Pittsburgh: East 65th Street, N.Y.C. 10021. Application surable contribution to the appreciation, morte di Federico da Montefeltro, Convegno for a term of one year. Fellows have access to Samuel Bing and the evolution of Art deadline: November 15. understanding, and acceptance of Modern di studi, in Urbino in October; and Therese Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships the Academy's 90,000 volume library and Nouveau. Art." D. Stamm, Temple Univ., to attend a collo­ A residential program for advanced scholarly participate in all Academy programs (lec­ quium on Theophile Gautier: l'art et les artis­ research. Most proposals have a high "social tures, symposia, concerts, and exhibitions). Artists tes in Montpellier, France. impact" component, but art history is possi­ For further information: AAR, 41 East 65th ROME PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS Robert Ackerman, Los Angeles: painting; ble-honestl Term flexible, but usually nine Rockefeller Foundation Humanities The American Academy in Rome has an­ Street, N.Y.C. 10021. Application deadline: Laurie Anderson, N.Y.C.: art and film; months. Fellows' projects are expected to Fellowships November 15. nounced several fellowship awards. AAR's COMMENCEMENT HONORS Houston Conwill, S.U.N.Y. College at Old result in publication. Applicants must be on For scholarship in the humanities intended to one"year Fellowship in History of Art went to 'Tis the season of honorary degrees and other Westbury: sculpture; Tom Doyle, Queens post-doctoral or equivalent level; stipend (less illuminate and assess contemporary social Maria Phillips, M.A., U.C.L.A. Recipients commencement honors. Among them: John College, C.U.N.Y.: sculpture: Martin sabbatical salary, other funding, etc.) is gen­ and cultural issues. Forty grants will be made of the Kress Triangulation Fellowships (sup­ Rewald, C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, recipi­ Facey, Santa Monica College: painting; erally equal to previous_year's income. For ad­ in 1983-84, approximately haJf to scholars Fiber Artists Association ported equally by the Samuel H. Kress Foun­ ent of an honorary degree from The Universi­ and writers in the early stages of their careers. The National Association of Artists in Fiber Richard Fishman, Brown Univ.: sculpture; dation, the Academy, and the Fellow's Uni­ ty of Michigan; art historian Perry T. Rath­ ditional information and application materi­ George Herms, Orange, Calif.: sculpture; als: The Wilson Center, Room 321, Smithso­ Awards cannot be made for the completion of Media was established this year with the goal versity) were Nicola Courtright, Susan bone, fabric designer Jack Lenor Larsen, Terence La Noue, LaGuardia Community Hunt, and Derek Moore, all Ph.D. candi­ nian Institution Building. Washington, D.C. graduate professional studies. Grants may of upgrading the status of artists who work in and historic preservationist Antoinette F. cover the cost of salary, benefits, travel, secre­ the field. Among the benefits of membership College, C.U.N.Y.: painting; Leo Manso, dates at N.Y.U./I.F.A. In Classical Studies, Downing received honorary degrees from 20560. Application deadline October 1. Art Students League of New York: print­ tarial or research support, or research mater­ is a listing in an annual directory distributed a one-year fellowship was awarded to Ann Rhode Island School of Design; Artist Robert ials and will normally be of one year's dura­ free to members as well as to interior design­ making; Catherine Murphy, Poughkeepsie, VasaIy, Ph.D. cand., Indiana Univ., Bloom­ Motherwell was honored by The University N. Y.: painting; Martin Puryear, Univ. Illi­ NHC Deadline Change tion. The ordinary grant will be in the range ers, galleries, etc. For charter membership ington; the two-year fellowship in Classical of Connecticut. Honored by Parsons School nois, Chicago Circle: sculpture; Joan Snyder, The application deadline for fellowships at of $15,000-$20,000, and will not exceed fees and additional infonnation: Lucille Cut­ Art and Archaeology supported by the Sam­ of Design/The New School were sculptor N.Y.C.: painting; Pat Steir, N.Y.C.: paint­ the National Humanities Center (September $25,000. For additional information: RFHF, tler, Executive Director, NAAIFM, P.O. Box uel H. Kress Foundation went to Laetitia La­ Louise NeveIson, designers LeIla and Mas­ ing; George Trakas, N.Y.C.: sculpture: 1981 Newsletter) has been changed to De­ The Rockefeller Foundation, 1133 Avenue of 451, Glen Cove, N.Y. 11542. (To be included Follette, Ph.D. cand., Princeton Univ.; and simo VigneIli, and interior and industrial Hannah Wilke, School of Visual Arts: sculp­ cember 10, 1982; it was previously given as the Americas, N.Y.C. 10036. Deadline for in the first directory, dues must be received by John Bodel, Ph.D. cand., Univ. Michigan, designer Melanie Kahane. ture; Susan Wilmarth, N.Y.C.: painting. January 10, 1983. first-stage proposals: October 1. Augu" 15.) • Ann Arbor, was named the Michigan Associ- Continued on p. 12, col. 1 Summer 1982 8 eAA newsletter 9 conferences and symposia notes from the preservation news women's caucus The World as Mirror William Blake: His Art and Times 1983 SAH Meeting: Phoenix, Arizona Saint Bartholomew's: The Second Massacre has incurred most of the legal costs-as well as A conference focusing on the issue of narciss­ A symposium to be held September 11 at the The 1983 annual meeting of the Society of Ar­ St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church on Park Save St. Bartholomew's: The Landmark ism in the fine arts and literature, to be held Yale Center for British Art, in conjunction chitectural Historians will be held April 6- The 1983 Annual Conference of the WeA, to Avenue in New York City is an Italo-Byzan­ Sanctuary, Community House, Terrace and at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, June 4- with an exhibition of the same title (Septem­ 10. Abstracts should be sent to the appropri­ be held. in Philadelphia, February 15 -18, tine edifice begun in 1915 by Bertram Garden, a consortium of organizations which 6, 1983. The conference selection committee ber 15-November 14; then at the Art Gal­ ate session chair listed below by September 1. will feature a National Exh£bition oj Prints Goodhue. He incorporated a 1903 triumphal includes the Municipai Art Society, the New welcomes papers approximately thirty min­ lery of Ontario, December 3-February 6, All speakers must be members of SAH when and Photographs. a combined juried and in­ portal by McKim Mead and White (a family York Landmarks Conservancy, and others. utes in length of an archetypal or psychoana­ 1983). Topics comprise: Thoughts on "Wil· their papers are submitted and when they vitational show, consisting of the work of memorial to Cornelius Vanderbilt taken from At stake is the entire Landmarks Preserva­ lytical nature that treat not only the concept liam Blake: His Art and Times, "David Bind­ present their papers. WCA members nationwide. The exhibition is the earlier Lombardy-style church by james tion Law, which requires that approval be of narcissism in the arts and literature but also man, Westfield College, Univ. of London; General Sesston, Stanford Anderson (Dept. being organized by Ofelia Garcia, Director Renwick and Stanford White) styled after the sought before changes are made to a desig­ other psychological issues raised by a text or "What immortal hand and eye": Seeing Architecture, Room 3-305, Massachusetts of The Print Club in Philadelphia, and will be twelfth·century church of St. Gilles du Gard nated city landmark. If St. Bartholomew's is work of art from any period or culture. Ab­ through Blake's Media, Robert Essick, Univ. Inst. Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139); open to work representing all approaches to in Southern France. The Indiana limestone, allowed to be decertified, any site that a real stracts of approximately 500 words to: Donald California, Riverside; Blake's Lamb-Tiger, Decorative Arts and Interior Design in the photography, silver and non-silver, as well as Cippolino marble, Egyptian prophyry, and estate developer finds attractive is vulnerable. W. Fritz, Dept. English, MU, Oxford, Ohio Ronald Paulson, Yale University; Canterbury Americas, Lonn Taylor (Route 1, Box 203, all printmaking media, both traditional and cast bronze facade with sculpture by Daniel Since late 1981, there have been a series of 45056. Deadline: january 1, 1983. Revisited: The Blake-Cromek Controversy, Pojoaque, N.M. 87501); in non-traditional (including monoprints, expe­ Chester French and others was enhanced by decisions and counter decisions. justice Aileen Ward, New York University; Reading North America, Pierre duPrey (Dept. Art rimental prints, xerography, and others). the salmon-colored brick used by Goodhue to Greenfield's decision of Nov. 13, 1981 con­ Goya and the Art of His Time the Designs of 'Jerusalem," Morton Paley, History, Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ontario, The show will be held at the Penn's Landing convey the warmth of the exteriors of early cluded, "When it comes to temporal affairs, A symposium to be held on December 7, in Univ. of California, Berkeley; "Converst"ng Canada); Renaissance Architecture, Henry Museum and will be accompanied by a cata­ Medieval churches-as in -which the church is obliged to render unto Caesar conjunction with a major exhibition of the with the Man, "Geoffrey Hartman, Yale Uni­ Millon (8051 Parkside Lane, N.W., Wash­ logue; it is being partially funded by a grant he felt "worked well with the sunny skies of the things that are Caesar's. Nothing could be same title at the Meadows Museum, Southern versity; and Blake and Fuselt", Gert Schiff, ington, D.C. 20012); Commercial Architec­ fromARCO. New York which were often as blue as those of more temporal than a proposed multi-million Methodist University (December 6, 1982- Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y .U. For additional ture before 1914, Sarah Bradford Landau (50 Also on view at sites around the city will be Italy." The dome (completed after Goodhue's dollar sale of a valuable parcel of New York February 4, 1983). Speakers include Edward information: Constance Clement, YCBA, West 96th Street. N.Y.C. 10025); Modern work in a variety of media by artists who are death), uses restrained marble realty." On March 22,1982, the Community Sullivan, Robert Rosenblum, Fred Licht, Box 2120 Yale Station, New Haven, Conn. Tendencies in the Southwest, Peter Goss members of many of the local WCA chapters. decoration. The sanctuary, community house house received a reprieve: the Court of Ap­ Eleanor Sayre, and Nigel Glen Dinning. For 06520 (203) 436-1162. (Graduate School of Architecture, Univ. Confirmed to date are exhibitions to be (1927), terrace, and garden represent a visual peals issued a stay blocking the.tower, which additional information: Pat Porter, MM, Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112); French organized by the members of the Philadel­ clearing in a forest of high-rise, curtain-wall will remain in effect until the court can decide SMU, Dallas, Tex. 75275. (214) 692-3510. Architects i"n North America, Alan K. La­ phia, Houston, and Florida chapters, and the matter. On March 18, the Court of Ap­ office buildings on a street once noted for its Baroque Connections throp (2614 Lincoln Street, N.E., Minneapo­ several others are currently being arranged_ peals decided the church vote was valid, but Beaux Arts diversity. On March 16, 1967, the Preservation of Photographic Materials An international conference to be held at lis, Minn. 55418); Preservati"on in the South­ Papers are being invited for Questioning there are other issues still to be settled. It is church and community house were designat­ A conference to be held at the University of Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mich., April west and Mexico, Robert Giebner (College of the Litany III, an art history session that is now clear that there will be a long and compli­ ed a landmark by the New Ybrk Landmarks Texas at Austin, October 28-30. Topics in­ 7 _. 9, 1983. The overall purpose of the con­ Architecture, Univ. Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. becoming a WCA tradition. This session wel­ cated battle and that this cause may be to Preservation Committee (No. 1 LP 0275). clude contemporary and historical black­ ference is to relate Baroque forms, concepts, 85721); The Strip, David Gebhard (895 East comes new feminist scholarship which chal­ New York preservation issues of the 1980s The Landmarks Preservation Law, enacted and-white photographic chemistry, in-house ideas, and patterns to the aesthetic, philo­ Mountain Drive, Santa Barbara, Calif. lenges our current understanding of the disci­ what the Grand Central Terminal building only two years earlier, requires that any alter­ preservation methods, collections policy, and sophical and theological, and scientifidheo­ 93103); Baroque Architecture, Joseph Con­ pline of art history. Papers mayor may not was in the 1970s. Financial and other support ation to a designated New York City land­ collection organization. For additional infor­ ries of the period. Two- or three-page ab­ nors (560 Riverside Drive, Apt.l0-D, N.Y.C. deal with the work of women artists, but are sorely needed. Write to The Committee to mark must first be approved by the Commit· mation: Division of Continuing Education, stracts for 20-minute papers and relevant bib­ 10027); Buildi"ngs Erected for Scientific Pur­ should in either case be stimulated by a fem­ Oppose the Sale of St. Bartholomew's tee. UT Austin, Thompson Conference Center, liographic information should be sent to poses, Marian C. Donnelly (2175 Olive Street, inist point of view to offer a new interpreta­ Church, Inc., address above. In September, 1980, the rector, church Austin, Tex. 78712. (512) 471-3121. Chris Stoffel Overvoorde, Art Dept., CC, Eugene, Oreg. 97405); Architect and Client, tion of, or new way oflooking at, a particular wardens, and vestry announced (via the New Grand Rapids, Mich. 49506. Deadline: janann Strand (Box 252, Sea Ranch, Calif. work of art, an artist, or a broader historical Towards a National Conservation Institute York Tz'mes) plans to demolish the entire Artistes, Artisans et Production Artistique December I. 95467); Urban History, Stephen Tobriner period. Abstracts, conforming to CAA guide­ The National Conservation Advisory Coun­ complex, making known an offer by an au Moyen Age (Dept. Architecture, Univ. California, Berke­ lines, should be sent by September 30 to the cil, Inc., at the request of its Board, prepared unidentified corporation of $100 million for A symposium planned for early May, 1983, to ley, Calif. 94703); Frank Lloyd Wright, Ed­ session chairs: Norma Broude and Mary D_ the documents to obtain a Federal charter the site. The church has since modified its take place at the Uni~ersjte de Rennes and gar Kaufmann,jr. (535 Park Avenue, N.Y.C. Garrard, Department of Art, The American and become a National Institute for the Con­ Baroque Symposium position and agreed to lease its undeveloped last five days. It will be interdisciplinary and 10021); and Multi-Image Presentations, University, Washington, D.C_ 20016. servation of Cultural Property, Inc. At its Washington University in St. Louis will hold air rights and sell the community house and crosscultural in character. Paper proposals William Allin Storrer (2925 Augusta Road, Other panels and sessions to be held at the April 23 meeting, the voting members of the an interdisciplinary symposium in conjunc­ garden. The developer plans to construct a are invited. For details: Prof. Xavier Barral i West Columbia, S.C. 29169). II 1983 Annual Conference will be announced NCAC unanimously approved the resolution tion with its Baroque Festival, February 23- 59-story building on the site of the community Altet, 53 rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris. in subsequent editions of this Newsletter. house, using the garden as the entranceway. transforming that organization into the above 27, 1983, Papers (20-30 minutes duration) The first edition of the WCA National Net­ The church has argued that it will be incorporated institute. Since the january 15 are invited on (1) Culture and Theatricality in NOMINATIONS INVITED FOR work Directory, a voluntary listing of WCA bankrupt in 1987, though it has not allowed draft of the NCAC proposal for a national Luther and the Development of Dissent Baroque Europe; (2) Baroque Opera in CAA TEACHING AWARDS members, classified by geographical region its books and records to be examined. Those institute, the Getty Museum Trust has pro­ The fourth annual pedagogy conference on Europe; (3) Ariosto's Orlando Fun·oso and Its and according to forty separate categories of church members opposed to the scheme duced a closely related document more nar­ Medieval and Renaissance Studies, to take Influence; and (4) Baroque Performance Nominations from the membership are professional specialization in art, art history, argue that if the church needed money it row in scope and limited to the fine arts. The place on November 6 on the Barnard cam­ Practice and Stagecraft. As part of the festi­ invited for the Distinguished Teaching and museum work, will be available in Au­ could have sold its air rights to the owners of two groups have expressed a desire to cooper­ pus. For further information: Catherine val, WU Gallery of Art will be showing Ba­ of Art and the Distinguished Teachingof gust. Non-members may obtain a copy of this the Rudin building on Lexington Avenue­ ate, with the possibility that a challenge grant McGee, 413 Lehman Hall, Barnard College, roque Theatre and Stage Dest"gn, curated by Art History Awards. resource directory by sending a check for which was tastefully built by the Eggers group may be offered by the Getty Museum Trust to N.Y.C.I0027. Mark S. WeiL Abstracts to William Mathe­ For obvious reasons, these two awards. $6.50, payable to the WCA, to the WCA Na­ to harmonize with the church in 1978. They encourage other organizations to participate son, Dept. Comparative Literature, Campus which are not based upon a body of pub­ tional Business Office, 1301 East Monte Vista in funding such an Institute. Box 1107, WU, St. Louis, Mo. 63130. Dead­ argue that the vote which approved the plan American Association for the Advancement lished material, ar,e more dependent Road, Phoenix, Ariz. 85006. line: September 15. (375 to 353) does not represent the entire of the Humanities than are the other Association awards Conservation Congress Norma Braude II membership, and many say they never re­ The AAAH will hold its third annual meeting upon recommendations from the mem­ The Ninth International Congress of the In­ WCA/CAA Correspondent ceived notices or ballots. In order to be in in Washington, D.C., on October 22-24. bership. Letters of recommendation, ternational Institute for Conservation of His­ compliance with the law, the church must Session topics include: The Frontiers of Victorian Health and Victorian Disease and appropriate supporting materials, toric and Artistic Works will be held in Wash­ show that the building is no longer suitable Knowledge: (1) Archeology, (2) Semiotics; The topic of the 1983 meeting of the Midwest should be sent to the Executive Secre­ ington, D.C., September 3-9, 1982. Its over­ for the purposes for which it was constructed. Design of Humanities Curricula in Schools Victorian Studies Association, to be held in tary, CAA. 16 East 52 Street, New York, all theme will be Sdence and Technology in In St. Bartholomew's case, with a growing and Community Colleges; The Preservation Chicago, April 29-30. The Association wel­ N.Y. 10022 by November 1_ The names the Service of Conservation. For additional congregation and an active community comes proposals treating this topic from all and letters of nomination for any candi­ '>.;. .<>«<\. information: IIC America Meeting, Ameri­ of Resources; Humanities Ph.D.s in Business, ,pi- house, such a claim is not possible. the Professions, and Public Service; and Cen­ perspectives. Papers or 500 -750 word ab­ dates who are strong contenders but not t~;, Ihs'\l~\iec,eiI?t~ 3Ji,,'9~~

ACLS FELLOWSHIPS ceramic and jade objects; Natasha Bartalina The CAA newsletter will accept classifieds of ThirtY·five fellowships were awarded to re­ for research in Siena, Florence, and Rome on a professional or semi-professional nature cent recipients ofthe Ph.D. for research in the paintings by Domenico Beccafumi; Laurel {sale of libraries, summer rental or exchange humanities and related social sciences. Colvin to attend the National Art Education of homes, etc.}. The charge is 50~ per word, Among them are Elizabeth G. Grossman, Association convention in New York and to minimum charge $10.00, advance payment R.I.S.D., for the civic architecture of Paul P. interview museum educators with regard to required. Make checks payable to CAA. Cret, and Joan Hart, Bloomington, Ind., for their educational offerings to elementary ClassiJieds will be accepted at the discretion an intellectual biography of Heinrich W5lf­ school children; and Stella de Sa Rego to at­ of the Editor. Deadlt"ne for next issue August flin. tend a workshop for slide curators at the Uni­ 31. versity of Missouri-Kansas City. SKOWHEGAN AWARDS RAGDALE: midwest artist colony on Illinois The Skowhegan School of Painting and prairie. Living and working space available Sculpture has awarded medals to Robert INDIVIDUAL AWARDS for up to two months. Studios for artists. Rauschenberg for painting; to George Segal Workrooms for writers in beautiful 19th cen­ for sculpture; and to Miriam Schapiro for The 1982 C.I.N.O.A. (International Confed­ tury buildings. All meals provided. Low fees. collage. The Skowhegan Governors Award eration of Art Dealers) Art History Prize of Applications are being accepted. Write to the went to Isabel Bishop. Art patron Seymour $5,000 was awarded to Marianne Roland Selection Committee. Ragdale Foundation, Knox received the Skowhegan Gertrude Van­ Michel, Paris, for her catalogue raisonneJac­ 1230 N. Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, lL derbilt Whitney Award. ques de Lajoue et l'Art , which will be 60045. published in France by Arthena. This year a TEXAS FACULTY AND STUDENT runner-up was also chosen. He is Karsten AWARDS Harries, Dept. of Philosophy, Yale Univ., for PATTERN -10/ 82 -" Tweed Callery, Plain­ At the University of Texas, Austin, awards for his The Bavarian Church: Between field, N.J. All media, 8/2/82 slide deadline, excellence in teaching were presented to Kel­ Faith and , which will be pub­ include SASE, resume to: A.K. Blackburn, ly Fearing, who teaches design and drawing, lished by Yale University Press. 107 Hughes La, Watchung, N.]. 07060. and to Brenda Preyer, who teaches art his­ tory. Prescott Fellowships (a new award in David Deitcher, Ph.D. cando C.U.N.Y. The fourth annual issue of RUTGERS ART honor of Kenneth W. Prescott, art depart­ Graduate Center, is the recipient of a doc­ REVIEW will appear in January 1983. Man­ ment chairman) have been made to nine toral fellowship from The Swann Foundation uscripts from graduate students are wel­ graduate students: Gloria Groom for re­ for Caricature and Cartoon for research on comed for consideration and should be ad· search in Paris on the decorative painting of Roy Lichtenstein. In his dissertation, Deit­ dressed to RAR, Art Department, Voorhees the Nabi group; Andrea Stone for research at cher will try to prove that it was specifically in Hall, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, museums in Boston, San Diego, and Santa Fe comic books that Lichtenstein found the N.J. 08903. Subscriptions to the RAR ($7.00) that have casts and photographs of Maya source of his images and style. should be mailed to the same address. monuments from the ceremonial Center of Quirigua; Carol McMichael for research at Cooper Union's Augustus St. Cauden's Medal ARTIST SHEILA ELIAS: Trade 2700-ft. the Library of Congress on architectural ar­ was presented to artist Audrey Flack. The live-in studio, Downtown Soho West. October chives in the U.S. and for photographing award is the highest honor that Cooper Union 7th-24th. New York Soho (comparable). 443 Denver architectural records; Amy Oakland Alumni Association bestows for outstanding South San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, 90013. for research on little-known collections of professional achievement in either art or (213) 689-9198. ancient textiles in Sucre, aruro and Potosi, architecture. Bolivia; Gertrude Prescott for research in England on nineteenth-century British celeb­ The Institute of International Education WEST COAST ARTIST Sheila Elias: avail­ rity portrait photography; Doris Reents for awarded a Lusk Memorial Fellowship to Jon able for lectures New York area Oct. 10-20th research on a Brookhaven National Labora­ Barlow Hudson (MFA, California lnst. Arts) on site-specific work, paintings. 443 South tories' project that is testing clays to deter­ for graduate study in Florence during the San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, 90013. (213) mine the date and locale of 900 years of Maya 1982 - 83 academic year. • 689-9198. III

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Summer 1982