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department of Art Archaeology & Newsletter fall 1 Dear students, colleagues, and friends: Inside Greetings, and welcome to the which she earned with her exciting work on the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica. We welcome her and 2012–13 academic year! her family most warmly to Princeton. Speaking of Last year’s schedule was densely packed with newcomers, Irene, Bridget Alsdorf, Rachael DeLue, Faculty News stimulating lectures and colloquia—the lecture and Lia Markey have recently welcomed new series jointly organized by the department and babies to their families, and we congratulate 9 the Institute for Advanced Study, two graduate all of them. Graduate Student News student conferences, and the Princeton-Rutgers In the spring semester, we will have the Senior Thesis Symposium continued to bring both privilege of hosting an eminent expert in the field advanced and younger scholars to campus and in of Renaissance art history, Martin Kemp, professor 14 front of interested audiences. In addition, all three emeritus at Trinity College, Oxford, who will be Undergraduate News major departmental lectures were given last year: the 2013 Janson La-Palme Visiting Professor. David Rosand of Columbia University gave the A very heartfelt and warm farewell goes to 19 Robert Janson-La Palme *60 lecture, on Leonardo, Lisa Ball, assistant to the chair, and Patty Lieb, Lectures, Conferences, Dürer, Michelangelo, and events coordinator, who have Symposiums their critics; Sible de Blaauw, assumed new positions in the from Radboud University Department of East Asian of Nijmegen, delivered the Studies. I thank them both for Kurt Weitzmann Lecture, on their excellent work and their Seminar Study Trips the court of Saint Peter’s as a dedication to the department place of memory; and Richard over the years. We hope that Brilliant, also of Columbia, they will prosper and enjoy Tang Center gave the James F. Haley ’50 their new responsibilities. Memorial Lecture, “At Death’s Finally, I would like to Door.” direct your attention to one 4 During the spring semester, of this fall’s highlights: the Marquand Library the department also hosted exhibition City of Gold at Tonio Hölscher, professor the Princeton University Art 6 emeritus at Heidelberg Museum, which opens on University, who was a Fellow in October 20. This exhibition Visual Resources the Council of the Humanities, explores the history and Collection and his wife, Fernande, both archaeology of Polis Classical art historians. Their Chrysochous on Cyprus, 8 seminars contributed greatly to the site of the ancient city of Index of Christian Art the widening curriculum in the ancient field. Marion and its successor Arsinoe. Featuring 110 Excellent news for the department came in the objects lent by the Department of Antiquities of final weeks of the academic year: Esther da Costa Cyprus, the British Museum, and the Louvre, it 3 Meyer has been promoted to full professor, and I celebrates a quarter century of excavations at Polis Excavations join my colleagues in congratulating her. by the department, under the direction of Professor Looking toward the coming academic year, Emeritus William Childs. 33 I am delighted to announce that Irene Small, a While I am on leave this academic year, the News from Alumni specialist in contemporary art and criticism, has department is in the experienced hands of acting joined the faculty. Irene, who comes to Princeton chair Hal Foster. I wish you all a stimulating and from the University of Illinois, is a graduate of successful year. Brown University and holds a Ph.D. from Yale, Thomas Leisten, chair Faculty News Bridget Alsdorf began her three-year appointment him one of the few permits for American archaeo- as the Arthur H. Scribner Bicentennial Precep- logical work in Greece; the request next moves to tor. In the fall, she taught the annual survey of the Greek government. Arrington spent this 19th-century European art, as well as a graduate summer planning and preparing for the anticipated seminar on fin-de-siècle France that examined the 2013–15 excavations. relationship between painting, print culture, and the Esther da Costa Meyer, on sabbatical this year, was beginnings of film. She completed the final proofs a fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute of her forthcoming book, Fellow Men: Fantin- in Williamstown, Massachusetts, during the spring Bridget Alsdorf’s forthcoming essay Latour and the Problem of the Group in 19th-Century term. The topic of her research was “Theories of focuses on Édouard Manet’s Young French Painting (Princeton University Press) and Objects: Paris, 1920s–1930s,” focusing on the Woman in a Round Hat (The Henry gave talks at various venues, including Pennsylva- decades when artists, architects, filmmakers, and and Rose Pearlman Foundation; nia State University and the Nineteenth-Century writers began to grapple with the role of the object on long-term loan to the Princeton French Studies Colloquium at the University of in a world increasingly characterized by mass University Art Museum) Pennsylvania. The research she presented at Penn production and consumption. These figures was drawn from her current book project on theat- included Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Jean rical audiences and crowds in fin-de-siècle French Epstein, André Breton, and Salvador Dalí, all over- art. She contributed an essay on Édouard Manet’s shadowed by the critical role played by Marcel Young Woman in a Round Hat, in the Princeton Duchamp and his readymades. Da Costa Meyer’s University Art Museum, to the forthcoming cata- project explores the ways different concepts empow- logue Manet to Modigliani: Masterpieces of European ered the object in their attempt to reach the subject. Art from the Pearlman Collection. Alsdorf’s spring semester was joyfully consumed by the arrival in Hal Foster published The First Pop Age: Painting February of her baby boy, Nicholas. She spent and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, the summer working on a translation of Philippe Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha (Princeton University Lacoue-Labarthe’s Écrits sur l’art, finishing an essay Press, 2011). The book reveals how these five on Félix Vallotton, and traveling to Munich for an seminal artists held on to old forms of art while exhibition of paintings by Vilhelm Hammershøi, a drawing on new subjects of media; how they 19th-century Danish artist who is the subject of an struck an ambiguous attitude toward both high article in progress. art and mass culture; and how they suggest that a heightened confusion between images and people Nathan Arrington was the field supervisor of exca- is definitive of Pop culture at large. Foster’s current Hal Foster, The First Pop Age: vations in the sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea, Greece, project concerns modernist art at times of political Painting and Subjectivity in the Art in summer 2011 (see pages 30–31). During the emergency. of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, academic year, he enjoyed teaching “Ancient to Christopher P. Heuer, on leave in 2011–12, thanks Richter, and Ruscha Medieval Art” and “Archaeological Methodology and Theory,” and introduced two new courses: to a Class of 1931 Bicentennial Preceptorship, spent “Classical Greek Art,” an undergraduate lecture the bulk of the year working on a new book, Renais- course, and the “The Divine Image in Ancient sance and Kinesis. He cocurated an exhibition at the Greece,” a graduate seminar he cotaught with University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art and Fernande Hölscher. He published an article on the coauthored the related book Vision and Commu- visual rhetoric and commemorative dynamics of nism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Athenian casualty lists in Classical Antiquity (Octo- Culture (The New Press, 2011), a volume of essays ber 2011), and offered a reanalysis of an important devoted to Viktor Koretsky’s art and the social but disputed Classical war monument in Zeitschrift worlds that it hoped to transform during the last 30 für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (2012). His book years of the Soviet Communist project. His 2009 review on sanctuaries and memory appeared in the book, The City Rehearsed, was reissued in paperback Bryn Mawr Classical Review (March 2012). Brown this year. Heuer published an article on Albrecht University and Princeton’s Mathey College provided Dürer’s fold studies, in Res (2012); a book chapter stimulating settings for his invited lectures. At the on Dutch urban design in Early Modern Urbanism annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of and the Grid: Town Planning in the Low Countries in America, Arrington presented his research on the International Context; Exchanges in Theory and Prac- origins of the sanctuary at Nemea. He spent much tice 1550–1800 (Brepols, 2011); and a translation of the year preparing an application for a permit to of a 1902 Alois Riegl essay on Jacob van Ruisdael, Christopher P. Heuer et al., Vision excavate at Stryme, a 7th- to 4th-century b.c.e. in Art in Translation (June 2012). He also lectured and Communism: Viktor Koretsky marketplace on the Thracian coast. The American at Harvard, New York University, and the universi- and Dissident Public Visual Culture School of Classical Studies in Athens has granted ties of Auckland, Antwerp, and Hong Kong. Along 2 fall 1 with collaborators at the University of Chicago and the Getty Research Institute, Heuer won a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann gave the Robert Kann Memorial Lecture at the University of Minnesota and the Robert H. Smith Sculp- ture Lecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, subsequently published as “Representation, Repli- cation, Reproduction: The Legacy of Charles V in Sculpted Rulers’ Portraits of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century,” in Austrian History Yearbook 43 (2012). He lectured on world art history and Habsburg portraiture at the National Normal University of Taiwan and the Academia Sinica in Taipei.