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department of Art Archaeology & Newsletter fall 1 1 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Inside Welcome back! This year’s depart- will add another important dimension to Prince- ton’s efforts to provide an education in art history ment newsletter is being published within a globalized world. Made possible through Faculty News later than in previous years: it made generous grants by department alumni and the Program in Hellenic Studies, this program is sched- sense to us to include activities, uled to add more destinations across the continents 9 research, and travel projects that over the coming years. Graduate Student News For the first time in almost a century, the students and faculty undertook department is in a position to offer a University- during the summer months in this wide subsidy program for scholarly publications on 14 art-related topics from the Barr Ferree Fund. Sub- Undergraduate News issue and to start with a fresh news stantial amounts from the fund were disbursed last cycle at the beginning of the new year to support publications by our colleagues in the departments of German, architecture, history, 19 academic year. music, and English, as well as by former gradu- Lectures, Conferences, Symposiums That is not to say that there are ate students from our own department. not enough important news items to In addition to our year-long lec- report from the last academic year— ture series, organized in conjunction quite the contrary. I am delighted to with the Institute for Advanced Study, Seminar Study Trips announce that Rachael DeLue, our the department hosted the graduate specialist in American art, has been student conference “Drawing a Blank: granted tenure with the rank of Past and Present,” and an undergrad- Tang Center associate professor, and I would like uate conference in which many of to congratulate her sincerely, on our seniors presented their thesis behalf of the whole department. research to their peers and to our 4 colleagues. Gerhard Wolf of Rachael’s fabulous rapport with our Marquand Library undergraduate students will be put the Max Planck Institute in to good use, since she will serve as Florence gave this year’s our new department representative Weitzmann Lecture, and Pat 6 beginning this fall. Rachael takes over Brown’s former students Visual Resources Collection this position from Anne McCauley, who organized a major confer- provided departmental seniors of the ence on Venetian art and 8 classes of 2008–11 with principled and architecture in the time of Index of Christian Art thoughtful guidance through the thicket of Giorgione in her honor. junior paper and senior thesis regulations Much work, but also and course selections. Many thanks to her exciting prospects, lie ahead of us: The 3 for her excellent work during those years. department will conduct searches for Excavations Over the last few semesters, the two positions this year—one in Byz- department has embarked on establishing antine and the other in modern art a limited number of undergraduate seminars that history. We will also invite our former graduate 33 include a travel component. These courses, which students to return to their alma mater for a sympo- News from Alumni in recent years have taken students and their sium on teaching and curating modern art. instructors to places as diverse as Rome and Doha, Thomas Leisten, chair Qatar, to experience art objects and sites firsthand, Faculty News Bridget Alsdorf was a 2010–11 Chester Dale DeLue returns to teaching in the fall as a Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New tenured associate professor and begins a two-year York, where she conducted research for a new book appointment as a Behrman Faculty Fellow in the on fin-de-siècle French art, focusing on the repre- Humanities. She will also serve as the department sentation of theatrical audiences and urban crowds. representative, advising undergraduate majors. This Her research also took her to Paris, Amsterdam, and fall, her teaching will include the methodology Geneva. She presented her work on Félix Vallotton seminar for junior majors, as well as an undergrad- at the Met’s fellowship colloquia in the spring. uate seminar on intersections between art-making Other talks included a presentation at the Yale and the science of natural history. She has been Center for British Art for a conference on 19th- named reviews editor for The Art Bulletin and will century images of artistic display; a paper on the art serve as editor-designate until 2012 and as the The Getty Research Journal historian Alois Riegl for a panel on “Theories and editor until 2015. This summer, DeLue partici- features Bridget Alsdorf’s article Methods” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies pated in the Freshman Scholars Institute at “Fantin’s Failed Toast to Truth” Conference at Yale University; and a talk on Henri Princeton, a program for incoming freshmen, and Fantin-Latour for the Rutgers University Depart- was a featured presenter at a professional develop- ment of Art History Distinguished Speaker Series. ment workshop for New Jersey school teachers, Alsdorf devoted much of the year to completing her sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the book on the fraught dynamic between individual Humanities, on the topic of race in American and group in 19th-century French painting (forth- history and culture. coming from Princeton University Press). She also Hal Foster was inducted into the American published three articles: “Interior Landscapes: Academy of Arts and Sciences in the fall of 2010. Metaphor and Meaning in Cézanne’s Late Still He also received the 2010 Clark Prize for Excellence Lifes” in Word & Image (October–December 2010); in Arts Writing, which honors individuals whose “La fraternité des individus: les portraits de groupe critical or art-historical writing has had a significant de Degas” in 48/14: La revue du Musée d’Orsay impact on public understanding and appreciation (autumn 2010); and “Fantin’s Failed Toast to Truth” of the visual arts. During the spring 2011 semester, in the Getty Research Journal (January 2011). At he was Siemens Fellow at the American Academy Princeton, she was awarded the Arthur H. Scribner in Berlin. His 2002 book Design and Crime was Bicentennial Preceptorship for 2011–14, and this reissued by Verso Press in spring 2011, and The fall she joins the Department of French and Italian Art-Architecture Complex, a volume on the rapport as associated faculty. between art and architecture over the last 50 years, Rachael Z. DeLue spent the final year of her will be released by Verso Press this September. The Rachael Z. DeLue et al., Arthur H. Scribner Bicentennial Preceptorship First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Idol Anxiety completing the manuscript of her book Arthur Dove Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha, and the Art of Translation, which will be published a book that reveals how these five artists reflect on by the University of Chicago Press. A preview of her the profound changes in image and personhood analysis of Dove and the sonic appeared in the jour- that occur with pop culture, will be published by nal History and Technology in March, and her essay Princeton University Press in December. “Dreadful Beauty and the Undoing of Adulation Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann was awarded the in the Work of Kara Walker and Michael Ray degree of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa by the Charles” was published in Idol Anxiety, edited by Technische Universität, Dresden. The diploma pre- Josh Ellenbogen and Aaron Tugendhaft (Stanford sented to him at a ceremony held in Dresden in University Press, 2011). She presented portions of May 2011 cited his scholarship, especially on her research at Tulane University, the University of Central Europe, its contribution to the establish- North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and the Center for ment of a more global history of art, and his services Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National to international collaboration and understanding. Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Other lectures At the ceremony, Kaufmann lectured on natural included a talk at the Philadelphia Museum of Art history and art in Dresden. on the Italy-themed landscapes of George Inness During the summer of 2010, he gave lectures and a presentation on landscape and history at Har- on the possibilities of world art history at the vard’s Graduate School of Design. Her other works “Visual Culture and National Identity” symposium in progress include a book-length primer on the at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, at the Hal Foster, The Art-Architecture concept of visuality, as well as a study of representa- symposium “Sur le terrain: Geographies of Art” at Complex tions of the prehistoric and ancient past in the Terran Foundation in Paris, and at the Univer- American art and visual culture. sity of Coimbra, Portugal. He also spoke on the 2 fall 1 1 geography of art at the University of San Marino. During the 2010–11 academic year, he co-organized and chaired the session “Voices from around the World” for the National Committee of the History John Blazejewski of Art and the International Committee of the College Art Association at CAA’s annual meeting; he was also invited by CAA to chair an extraordi- nary centennial session on globalization. The Historians of Netherlandish Art invited him to co-chair and organize a session on the global aspects of Netherlandish art at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Montreal. He gave the summary lecture at a symposium in Prague related to the exhibition devoted to Hans von Aachen that he helped organize. Kaufmann served on the fellowship committee of the European Research Council and as a reader for the Fellowship Committee of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and worked on Department faculty 2010–11.