PrincetonUniversity d e p a r t m e n t o f Art Archaeology & Newsletter Dear Friends and Colleagues: s p r i n g    7 We have entered a period of transfor- Yet the most important change concerns the Inside faculty. In the next five years no fewer than eight mation. Our self-study in 2006–07 distinguished senior colleagues, in fields that extend  from ancient and Byzantine to Italian Renaissance resulted in several changes in the cur- Faculty News and American, will retire or depart. This year alone riculum; for example, Art 101 is now we bid farewell to two important figures, John two courses, and the junior seminar Wilmerding and Carol Armstrong. Hence rebuild- 8 ing and extending the faculty is much on our Visual Arts Faculty for majors is now a regular course in minds. Indeed, our season of new hires has already methodology. begun: as I write, we are concluding two searches, 1 a senior position in Japanese art, to replace our Last fall, a distinguished committee of external Lectures, Symposiums, esteemed colleague Yoshiaki Shimizu, and a junior reviewers supported these initiatives and suggested Colloquiums position in Northern European art of circa 1400– more—including a more integrative proseminar 1800. Next year we will undertake at least two and a more rigorous requirement in a minor field more searches: a broadly defined senior position in 4 for our graduate students—which we have ancient art and/or archaeology and a junior hire in Graduate Student News adopted. African art, a field we have long wished to represent The review also urged us to highlight our at Princeton. As we search in these areas—and in “cross-cutting” strengths in architectural history 18 others in the years and archaeology, Undergraduate News ahead—we will col- and we have since laborate with other moved to collabo- departments and 23 rate more effectively programs, both Excavations with the School of new and old, such Architecture and as classics and the have extended our 5 Center for African Program 3 from Index of Christian Art American Studies. classical archaeol- Finally, intel- ogy to archaeology lectual life in the 27 at large, thus con- department has Marquand Library necting experts been lively this within the depart- year. Among other ment and without. 29 activities, John Bel- Other changes Visual Resources Collection don Scott, our Janson-La Palme Visiting Professor, applauded by the review include a more extensive taught a seminar and organized a conference on the suite of freshman and sophomore seminars, more theme of “Architecture and Ritual in Early Modern 31 outreach to potential majors, and more activities Europe”; Rachael DeLue arranged the symposium Tang Center for current majors, which are led by our energetic “American Views” in honor of John Wilmerding; departmental representative, Anne McCauley. An and, along with Yve-Alain Bois of the Institute for especially welcome piece of news is that Nassau 33 Advanced Study, I organized a series of lectures on Hall has awarded us a fifth year of funding for News from Alumni “The Sensuous in Art” involving such luminaries as graduate students in the Western program. Jeffrey Hamburger, Irene Winter, and T. J. Clark. Hal Foster, chair Faculty News

Carol Armstrong contributed to and, with Cath- Slobodan Ćurčić continued preparing his book erine de Zegher, coedited Women Artists at the “Architecture in the Balkans from Diocletian to Sül- Millennium (MIT Press, 2006), which examines eyman the Magnificent” (forthcoming, 2008) for the impact that feminist art practice and criti- publication. The 1,500-page manuscript has been cal theory have made in late-20th-century art and copy-edited and the 900 illustrations digitized and the discourses surrounding it. The volume also prepared for layout. He also continued work on the includes artist pages by Ellen Gallagher, Ann Ham- exhibition “Architecture and Icon,” co-organized by ilton, Mary Kelly, Yvonne Rainer, and Martha the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, Rosler. This book is the result of a 2001 Princeton Greece, and the Princeton University Art Museum, conference sponsored by the Department of Art and the related catalogue. In June 2006, ur was Carol Armstrong et al., Women Ć čić Artists at the Millennium and Archaeology and the Program in the Study appointed director of Princeton’s Program in Hel- of Women and Gender. In January and Febru- lenic Studies, with which he has long had a fruitful ary, Armstrong’s photographs appeared in a group affiliation. exhibition, “Where the Water Meets the Land,” in In January he delivered a lecture at the Univer- Dickinson Hall. sity of Pennsylvania in honor of the retirement of Patricia Fortini Brown returned from a one-year Professor Cecil Striker. At Princeton, Ćurčić and sabbatical last fall to resume full-time teaching after Shari Kenfield organized an exhibition of photo- six years as chair. Travel during her sabbatical laid graphs of the Monastery of Saint Catherine on the groundwork for two new courses taught this Mount Sinai drawn from the archives of the late year. A trip to Spain inspired a graduate seminar Princeton Professor Kurt Weitzmann; the exhi- in the fall, “Italy and Spain: Artistic Encounters.” bition coincided with Ćurčić’s seminar on the Likewise, a month-long tour of Greece for her book Monastery of Saint Catherine. In June, he took project on the artistic and cultural geography of the part in a seminar organized by the Society for the Venetian Empire provided the basis for a seminar Study of Medieval Architecture in the Balkans and on Venice and the Mediterranean taught this spring. Its Preservation (AIMOS) in Thessaloniki, and he The course featured a class trip to Crete, sponsored participated in a workshop organized by Prince- by the Program in Hellenic Studies, during spring ton’s Program in Hellenic Studies at the Monastery recess for 12 undergraduate and graduate students of St. John Prodromos, near Serres in northern Patricia Fortini Brown et al., At (see the photo on page 18). The students also par- Greece. In August he presented two papers at the Home in Renaissance Italy: Art and ticipated in the construction of an interactive 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Life in the Italian House, 1400–1600 website recording Venetian monuments in Crete. London: “‘Secular’ Architecture: Pitfalls of Catego- The past year was also punctuated by a number rization” and “Sacred Space in Byzantine Church of speaking engagements. Brown chaired a ses- Architecture: An Hierotopical Approach.” sion at the Renaissance Society of America in San Ćurčić spent the month of February in Athens as an AI Special Fellow of the Alexander Onassis Slobodan Ćurčić et al., Hierotopy: Francisco in March; gave a lecture at the Techni- The Creation of Sacred Spaces in cal University in Chania, Crete, in May; spoke at Foundation. While in Athens, he gave two lec- Byzantium and Medieval Russia the presentation of Tracy Cooper *90’s new book, tures. The first, given at the Gennadius Library, was Palladio’s Venice, at the Archivio di Stato, Venice, in titled “Divine Light: Symbol and Matter in Byzan- June; was a panelist at a conference on the history tine Art and Architecture,” and the second, titled of Venice at the Italian Embassy in Washington, “Belfries in Byzantine Church Architecture and in D.C., in September; and gave a plenary lecture Modern Historiography,” took place at the Byzan- titled “From the Studio to the Study: An Implau- tine Museum, under the auspices of the Society for sible Journey in Art History” at the Sixteenth Christian Archaeology, of which Ćurčić is an hon- Century Studies Conference in Salt Lake City in orary member. October. His recent publications include “Cave and Brown also published three essays in At Home Church: An Eastern Christian Hierotopical Syn- in Renaissance Italy: Art and Life in the Italian thesis,” in Hierotopy: The Creation of Sacred Spaces House, 1400–1600, a volume accompanying an in Byzantium and Medieval Russia, edited by Alexei exhibition that opened at the Victoria & Albert Lidov (Moscow: Indrik, 2006), and “Monastic Museum in London in October 2006. During Cells in Medieval Serbian Church Towers: Sur- the same month, her book Private Lives in Renais‑ vival of an Early Byzantine Monastic Concept and sance Venice: Art, Architecture and the Family (Yale Its Meaning,” in Sofia: Sbornik statei po iskusstvu University Press, 2004) was awarded an honorable Vizantii i Drevnei Rusi v chest A. I. Komecha (Mos- mention for the Premio Salimbeni per La Storia e cow, 2006). His long chapter, titled “Heritage,” la Critica d’Arte. appeared in the book Kosovo: Christian Orthodox

 s p r i n g    7 Heritage and Contemporary Catastrophe, edited by Alexei Lidov (Moscow: Indrik, 2007), reflecting Ćurčić’s continuing concern for the fate of histori-

cal monuments in that region. John Blazejewski Rachael Z. DeLue, in conjunction with her spring semester undergraduate course on the history of African American art, organized an exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum titled “His- tory, Identity, or None of the Above: Regarding African American Art,” which drew from the muse- um’s permanent collection. Henry Ossawa Tanner, Romare Bearden, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Glenn Ligon, Lorna Simpson, and Kara Walker were among the artists featured. Other classes taught this year included a graduate seminar on art and science in America from the colonial period through the 19th century and a freshman seminar, also on art and science, that ranged from anatomical illustra- tion in the Renaissance to contemporary artistic engagements with the science of genetics. DeLue was invited to lecture at Stanford, Department faculty. Seated, left to right: Yoshiaki Harvard, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Shimizu, Anne McCauley, Patricia Fortini Brown, to present a paper at the symposium “Between Rachael DeLue, Nino Zchomelidse, Hal Foster; Barbizon and Giverny: Territories of Modern standing, left to right: John Wilmerding, Jerome Sil- Landscape,” co-organized by the Musée d’Orsay bergeld, John Pinto, Alastair Wright, Robert Bagley and the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny and (not pictured: Carol Armstrong, William Childs, held jointly in Paris and Giverny. Her article, Slobodan Ćurčić, Esther da Costa Meyer, Brigid “Diagnosing Pictures and the Science of See- Doherty, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Thomas ing in America circa 1900,” which considers the Leisten, Hugo Meyer, T. Leslie Shear Jr.) art-critical appropriation of a model of diagno- sis from turn-of-the-century medical science for Her 2006 publications include articles on use in the description and explanation of paint- Dada and on filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder ings, will appear in the July issue of American Art. in The Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe Since In addition, DeLue organized a major symposium, 1914—Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Recon‑ “American Views,” held on the occasion of Profes- struction (Scribner’s, 2006); essays on contemporary sor John Wilmerding’s retirement. art in the journal MLN (spring 2006) and in the Brigid Doherty, on leave for academic year 2006– book Women Artists at the Millennium, edited by 07, is the David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher (MIT Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard Press, 2006); an Italian translation of an essay on University and is studying psychoanalysis as an affil- Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Rosemarie Trockel published in the catalogue of a (Ost‑)Mitteleuropa als Kunst- iate scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society retrospective exhibition of the contemporary artist’s geschichtsregion? and Institute and as a postgraduate fellow at the work at the MAXXI–Museo nazionale delle arti del Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. XXI secolo in Rome; and an essay on the philoso- Her research this year is focused on a book pher Walter Benjamin published in two versions, project called “Homesickness for Things,” an inter- first inGermanic Review (winter 2006) and then in disciplinary study of modern and contemporary Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, edited by German culture that situates the work of writers Beatrice Hanssen (Continuum, 2006). and artists, including the early-20th-century poet Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann published a book- Rainer Maria Rilke and the contemporary artist let, (Ost‑)Mitteleuropa als Kunstgeschichtsregion? Hanne Darboven, in relation to theories of “pro- (Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2007) this academic jective identification” and other phenomena of year, as well as “Maulbertsch et la querelle du col- thinking, feeling, and intersubjectivity in psycho- oris en Europe Centrale à la fin du 18e siècle,” in analysis. Le Rubénisme en Europe au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles In connection with this new research, Doherty (Brepols, 2006); “Ways of Transfer of Nether- has given lectures at Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger landish Art,” in Netherlandish Artists in Gdańsk in Museum, the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in the Time of Hans Vredeman de Vries (Weserrenais- Mainz, Germany, and the Psychoanalytic Practices sance-Museum, 2006); “Kunst und Architektur,” in Seminar at the Harvard Humanities Center. Lesebuch: Das Alte Reich (Oldenbourg, 2006); “Cul- s p r i n g    7  John Beldon Scott, tural Transfer and Arts in the Americas,” in The Thomas Leistenis spending the academic year in Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings, Berlin, where he is the academic director of the 2006–07 Robert 1600–1825, from the Thoma Collection (Stanford, Berlin Consortium for German Studies and is teach- Janson-La Palme 2006); “The Baltic Area as an Artistic Region: His- ing courses on Germany in the Middle East and Visiting Professor toriography, State of Research, Perspectives for on Prussian art. He also travels regularly to Qatar, Further Study,” in Po obu stronach Bałtyku/On the where he serves on the board of trustees for the John Beldon Scott, the Elizabeth Opposite Sides of the Baltic Sea; “Spranger before Qatar Museum Authority of the state of Qatar M. Stanley Professor of the Arts in Prague: Additions and Reconsiderations,” in Pictura and is participating in planning for the new Qatar the School of Art and Art History Verba Cupit: Sborník příspěvků Lubomíra Konečného/ Museum of Islamic Art, which is scheduled to open at the University of Iowa, was Essays for Lubbomír Konečný (Artefactum, 2006); in Doha later this year. the Janson-La Palme Visiting “Adam Miłobędzki, Mapping, and the Geogra- Professor during the spring term. Anne McCauley, who served as departmental rep- phy of Art,” in Rocznik Historii Sztuki 31 (2006) Scott earned his B.A. at Indiana resentative this year, introduced a number of new “Arcimboldo and the Elector of Saxony,” in University and his M.A. and Ph.D. Scam‑ initiatives for department majors. In the fall she degrees at Rutgers University, bio culturale con il nemico religioso: Italia e Sassonia led a field trip for all majors to P.S.1 Contem- and has held fellowships at the attorno al 1600 (Bibliotheca Hertziana, 2007); and porary Art Center in Brooklyn and a number of American Academy in Rome, the “Is Art History Global?” in Is Art History Global? Brooklyn galleries, including Southfirst, which is University of Pennsylvania, the (Routledge, 2007). He also completed the manu- run by department graduate student Maika Pol- Institute for Advanced Study, the script of a book on Arcimboldo as well as several lack. McCauley also oversaw the production of National Humanities Center, and other essays. the first comprehensive handbook for department the Stanford Humanities Center. Kaufmann was the keynote speaker at a con- majors. In February she hosted a dinner at Mathey He joined the faculty at the ference on the Holy Roman Empire, at the College for potential art and archaeology majors, University of Iowa in 1982. University of Oxford; at a conference on art and and this spring she organized the first senior the- Scott’s books include the Church in the Baltic Region, in Talinn, sis conference. She also published a chapter, “The Images of Nepotism: The Estonia; at a conference on reframing Trouble with Photography,” in Photography The‑ Painted Ceilings of the Danish renaissance, in Copen- ory, edited by James Elkins (Routledge, 2007), and Palazzo Barberini hagen; and at a conference on presented the papers “Fawning over Marbles: Rob- (Princeton Silesian and the Bohemian ert and Gerardine Macpherson’s University Vatican Sculptures crown, in Prague, Czech Repub- Album,” at a conference organized by CASVA at Press, 1991); lic. He also gave lectures at the Architecture the National Gallery of Art in March, and “Alfred National Museum, Stockholm, Stiegltiz and the Nude,” for the Program in the for the and the University of Uppsala. Shroud: Relic Study of Women and Gender, and for the fellows of Kaufmann was also the com- and Ritual in Rockefeller College. mentator at a session on Asia, Turin (Chicago Iberia, and the Americas at the John Pinto is serving as director of graduate stud- University Press, annual meeting of the College Art ies. In this capacity he has overseen a review of the 2003), which won Association of America. In June he will graduate curriculum stimulated by the fact that all the 2004 Charles Rufus students now receive five years of University funding John Beldon Scott speak on four different subjects in Berlin, Morey Prize of the College and by the recommendations of the department’s Art Association; and Jena, Munich, and Erlangen, Germany. external review committee. Guidebook to the University of Iowa He continued to serve on the board of direc- Campus Architecture (Iowa City, tors of the College Art Association, for which he Yoshiaki Shimizu was the keynote speaker at 2006), which he coauthored with served on the Annual Conference Committee, the 15th Annual Meeting of the Association for Rodney P. Lehnertz, A.I.A. the Nominating Committee, and the Meiss Pub- Japanese Literary Studies at Josai International His interests embrace early lications Fund; on the board of directors of the University in Tokyo last July. The theme of the modern European secular ritual Historians of German; and the Central European conference was travel, and Shimizu spoke on “A and social history. He is currently Art board of directors. He is also a member of the Journey’s Tale and a Tale’s Journey.” He also gave the researching a book, titled National Committee of the History of Art, and— lecture “Copies and Copying in Japanese Art: Paint- “Totalitarian Rituals,” on the urban in conjunction with the International Congress of ing, Calligraphy, and Architecture” at the University rituals of the Italian Fascist, Nazi the History of Art to be held in Melbourne, Aus- of Pennsylvania in October, and he reported on the German, and Stalinist regimes tralia, in January 2008—he is the co-chair and current state of research on Zen figure and narrative of the first half of the 20th organizer of a session on the possibilities of a world painting at the colloquium “Art of the Momoyama century. The study will examine art history. He was a selector of fellowships for the Period,” held at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer architecture, urbanism, and linear American Council of Learned Societies, and for the Gallery of Art and Arthur Sackler Gallery in Wash- ritual. Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. ington, D.C., in December. continued on page 6 The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Repub- Shimizu was the senior consulting curator for lic has awarded Kaufmann the F. Palacky Honorary the exhibition “Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medal for Merit in Social Sciences, in recognition Medieval Japan,” which opened at the Japan Soci- of his research and his long-term cooperation with ety in New York in March. With Gregory Levine Czech scholars. *97 of Berkeley and Yukio Lippit *03 of Harvard, he coauthored the accompanying exhibition cat- alogue. This spring Shimizu is teaching a new

 s p r i n g    7 seminar, “Zen Painting for Novices,” organized Art Museum, two initiatives have been under- around some 50 works shown in the Japan Society taken to mark the occasion. Professors Hal Foster exhibition. He also served as chair of the Advisory and Rachael Z. DeLue organized a symposium held Committee for Arts at the Asia Society, New York, May 5 on 19th-century as well as contemporary and chaired the Visiting Committee for Arts at the American topics. Meanwhile, Princeton University Japan Society. Art Museum Director Susan Taylor invited many As director of the Tang Center for East Asian Art, friends and former students to contribute toward Jerome Silbergeld continued editorial work this the purchase of a major American work for the col- year, together with associate director Dora Ching, lection. Close to 100 donors participated in this on two volumes from two symposia hosted by the generous effort. Tang Center: Bridges to Heaven: A Symposium on Wilmerding’s teaching this last year brought East Asian Art in Honor of Wen C. Fong, now com- his courses full circle from subjects he offered in posed of 40 papers, and The Family Model in his first terms at Princeton: a freshman seminar on Chinese Art and Culture. Both volumes are expected “Cultural Revolutions of the Sixties” and an Amer- ican studies seminar on “Defining Moments in to be published in the coming year. In addition to Yoshiaki Shimizu et al., Awak‑ American Culture.” During the year, he gave lec- completing essays for each of these volumes (“The enings: Zen Figure Painting in tures at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, Photograph in the Movie: On the Boundaries of Medieval Japan Chinese Cinematography, Photography, and Vid- India House in New York, the National Gallery, eography” and “The Ghosts of Patriarchy Past: Harvard University Art Museums, the College of Family Dynamics, Psychodynamics, and Psycho- the Atlantic in Maine, and the American Philo- politics in Recent Chinese-Language Cinema”), he sophical Society. also put the final touches on his third book on Chi- Wilmerding’s monograph on the photorealist nese cinema, expected to be published by Princeton painter Richard Estes was published last spring by University Press next year, Body Visible: Image and Rizzoli. Also in 2006, he was presented the inau- Illusion, the Party and the People, in Two Chinese gural Maine in America Award by the Farnsworth Films by Director Jiang Wen and Cinematographer Museum and was elected to the American Philo- Gu Changwei. He completed book chapters and sophical Society in Philadelphia. articles for a number of journals, including “Chang- In emeritus status, Wilmerding will continue ing Views of Change: The Song-Yuan Transition to serve on the board of trustees of the National in Chinese Painting Histories,” “Re-reading Zong Gallery of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and Bing’s Fifth-Century Essay on Landscape Painting: the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, as well A Few Critical Notes,” and “A Faulknerian View of as a commissioner of the National Portrait Gal- the Chinese Avant-Garde.” lery. He also remains active as curatorial adviser to This year Silbergeld lectured at Columbia Alice Walton and her planned new Crystal Bridges John Wilmerding, Richard Estes University, the China Institute in New York, and Museum, due to open in Bentonville, Arkansas, in Harvard University’s Sackler Museum, and he gave fall 2009. the keynote address at the University of Penn- Although he is giving up his active professorial sylvania’s symposium “New Directions in Yuan title, Wilmerding has learned that his presidential Dynasty Painting.” At the annual Association for appointment to the White House Preservation Asian Studies conference in Boston, he served Committee entitles him to be addressed as as discussant for the panel “Transculturalism vs. “Honorable.” Nationalism: Revitalizing the Literati Traditions in Japan and China, the 1870s–1930s.” He began Emeritus Faculty work as guest curator for an exhibition, “Outside Peter Bunnell published a book of his collected In: Chinese Traditions in Contemporary American essays, titled Inside the Photograph (Aperture, 2006). Art,” scheduled to open at the Princeton Univer- The volume contains 34 texts written between sity Art Museum in February 2009, and he also 1970 and 2003, most of which are devoted to began organizing the first American exhibit ever individual—predominantly American—photogra- on Chinese documentary photography, currently phers, with additional essays on three key galleries scheduled to open at the China Institute in the that played a crucial role in the recognition and summer of 2009. During the year, he served on the marketing of modern photography. He also con- editorial board of Archives of Asian Art, on the gal- tributed an essay titled “Remembering L.A.” to a lery committee of the China Institute, and on the catalogue of the Norton Simon Museum of Art’s advisory board of the Asia Society. exhibition “The Collectible Moment: Photographs John Wilmerding retires this spring from the in the Norton Simon Museum,” which was on dis- Peter Bunnell, Inside the Photograph Department of Art and Archaeology and the play from October 2006 through March 2007. Program in American Studies after teaching at Bunnell contributed a text on Minor White’s pho- Princeton for 19 years. Thanks to colleagues in tograph Root and Frost to the Folio Society of both the department and the Princeton University London’s recent book 100 Greatest Photographs s p r i n g    7  John Beldon Scott (2006), and, for the Smithsonian Institution’s mag- continued from page 4 azine American Art, he wrote a reminiscence of his meetings with Georgia O’Keeffe, titled “Talking Scott’s seminar at Princeton about Stieglitz.” He was a participant in an inter- focused on the relationship Denise Applewhite view piece, “The Past, Present, and Future of the between architecture and ritual in History of Photography,” edited by department Europe during the early modern alumnus Andrew Hershberger *01 and published era. The seminar examined the relationship between ritual in the journal History of Photography. Bunnell behavior and the architectural/ continues on a consulting basis in the Princeton urban contexts designed to University Art Museum and is also supervising the facilitate modes of communal dissertations of two graduate students. One of his activity. The question posed students, Peter Barberie *07, received his degree to the seminar was “how do earlier this year. architecture and urban design function in tandem with human John Wilmerding Retires activity of a ceremonial nature?” Many students enrolled in the At the close of the spring semester, Professor John course used rare festival books of Wilmerding retires after 19 years at Princeton, the period held in the collections where his teaching, scholarship, advising, and in Firestone Library. Scott also museum work brought the field of American art organized the Janson-La Palme into new prominence as a major component of the Colloquium on the topic of department’s scholarly focus. architecture and ritual in early Wilmerding arrived in Princeton in 1988 as modern Europe (see page 12). the inaugural Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Pro- The Janson-La Palme Visiting fessor in American Art, bringing with him a wealth Professorship, established in 2001 of experience and accomplishment in both aca- by Robert Janson-La Palme *76, demia—he had previously taught at Dartmouth, brings distinguished scholars Harvard, and Yale—and the museum world, hav- John Wilmerding to campus to teach a seminar ing been both curator of American art and deputy in the field of European art director of the National Gallery of Art. He contin- between 1200 and 1800, give a ued in that dual role throughout his tenure in the the undergraduates frequently filling the 101 lec- public lecture, and organize a department, holding an appointment as visiting ture hall for his lectures and describing him in their colloquium. curator in the Department of American Art at the course evaluation booklet as a “true art god.” Metropolitan Museum of Art. Apart from his scholarly activities, Wilmerd- From 1992 to 1999 Wilmerding served as ing has been a devoted collector of 19th-century chair of the Department of Art and Archaeol- American art for 40 years, assembling a superb col- ogy, guiding it through a period of expanding lection that was exhibited at the National Gallery programs and new faculty, as well as overseeing of Art in 2004. At the opening of the exhibition, a major renovation of McCormick Hall. He also he announced the donation of his collection to the gave generously of his time to other institutions, gallery, giving the National Gallery its first work acting as trustee or serving on the boards of the by George Caleb Bingham, its first watercolor by Guggenheim Museum, the National Portrait Gal- Thomas Eakins, and its first oil study by Frederic lery, Monticello, the Smithsonian, the Center for Edwin Church, among other significant pieces. Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Terra Foun- To mark the occasion of Wilmerding’s retire- dation for American Art, and many others. ment, the department hosted a major symposium, His many publications had helped shape the “American Views,” which was organized by Profes- field of American art well before his arrival in sor Rachael Z. DeLue. For more about this event, Princeton, and he continued to publish widely see page 13 of this newsletter. At a banquet preced- throughout his tenure in the department. His ing the symposium, the museum announced two recent books include Compass and Clock: Defining major acquisitions in American art in Wilmerding’s Moments in American Culture (1999), Signs of the honor. The first, purchased with funds contributed Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American by nearly 100 of Wilmerding’s students, friends, Painting (2003), and Richard Estes (2006). and colleagues, is Rubens Peale’s 1865 painting Still Wilmerding has also been an untiring ambas- Life with Watermelon, which appears on the first sador for the field of American art, traveling page of this newsletter. The second work, repre- extensively each year to speak to a wide vari- senting the period that was the other focal point of American Masters from Bingham ety of audiences. At Princeton, his courses in the Wilmerding’s teaching and scholarship, is Robert to Eakins: The John Wilmerding department and for the Program in American Rauschenberg’s technically brilliant large-scale 1967 Collection Studies were consistently popular offerings, with lithograph Booster.

 s p r i n g    7 Wilmerding will continue to be very active She is currently working on two projects: a in emeritus status, giving a series of lectures at the revision of her book manuscript “Art and Ritual: Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall and continu- The Construction of Civic Identity in Medi- ing work on two substantial projects: a monograph eval Campania” and research on the notion of the on the Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, for Rizzoli, “authentic” and the processes of authentication in and an exhibition on Robert Indiana that will open medieval art, particularly of head-reliquaries, icons, at the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine, in and imprints on cloth or seals. During the spring the summer of 2009. He will also continue to serve term she gave a lecture on the latter topic at Yale as a commissioner of the National Portrait Gallery, University. as well as on the board of trustees of the National Her secondary field of interest is early-19th- Gallery of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the century landscape painting, and she has worked Wyeth Foundation for American Art. on aesthetics and science in the academic tradi- tion in Denmark, intellectual and artistic exchange New Faculty between Rome and Copenhagen, and the role of landscape painting for the construction of Nino Zchomelidse, who specializes in medieval “national” identity. Her recent publications in this art, joined the department last fall as assistant pro- area include an article on the impact of the Grand fessor. Her research and publications have focused Tour to Italy on Christen Købke’s landscape paint- on the theoretical, historiographical, and politi- ings, which was published in Fictions of Isolation: cal aspects of art in the Middle Ages, the role of the Artistic and Intellectual Exchange in Rome in the arts in the construction of civic identity, and repre- First Half of the Nineteenth Century (L’Erma di Nino Zchomelidse, Santa Maria sentation and mimesis. She is particularly interested Bretschneider, 2006), a volume she coedited with Immacolata in Ceri: Sakrale Malerei in the liturgical und secular use of monumen- Lorenz Enderlein. tal sculptured pulpits in Campania, im Zeitalter der Gregorianischen This spring Zchomelidse is Reform medieval lay patronage, and issues teaching a new course, “Topics of civic identity and ecclesias- in Medieval Art, Architecture, tical power in South Italy. In and Theory: Concepts for the the area of medieval painting Depiction of God,” which and image theory, she has investigates the institution- worked on the representa- alizing of Christianity in tion of the “invisible God,” Late Antiquity, the idea the Gregorian Reform and of authenticity for various the cult of Early Christian types of icons, Iconoclasm, popes and saints, and medi- the image of God in Scholas- eval exegesis and the revival ticism, and allegorical imagery. of Early Christian imagery in Next year, she and Professor 12th-century Italian monumen- Slobodan Ćurčić will team-teach a tal painting. Nino Zchomelidse new undergraduate seminar, “The Other Before coming to Princeton, Zcho- ‘Romanesque,’” which will reexamine melidse held academic positions at the University that term and some of its misleading implica- of Tübingen in Germany and the Royal Dan- tions, reassessing both the geography of the map ish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. She has of “Romanesque” Europe and the accepted chron- received fellowships and grants from the Gerda ological limits of the Romanesque. She will also Henkel Foundation (in connection with the Bib- teach a new graduate seminar, “The Medieval liotheca Hertziana, Rome) and the Carlsberg Image and Concepts of Authenticity.” Foundation (Copenhagen), and was offered a With Giovanni Freni of the department’s Index membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in of Christian Art, she is coorganizing three sessions Princeton. for the annual Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Zchomelidse earned her Ph.D. at the Univer- Michigan, this spring. Titled “Movement and sity of Berne, Switzerland, writing a dissertation on Meaning in Medieval Art and Architecture,” these the 12th-century frescoes of the church of Santa Nino Zchomelidse et al., Fictions sessions will focus on the moving art work, the of Isolation: Artistic and Intellectual Maria Immacolata at Ceri, near Rome. Her disser- moving viewer, and movement in the mind. She tation was published as Santa Maria Immacolata Exchange in Rome in the First Half will also present a paper, “Descending Word and of the Nineteenth Century in Ceri: Sakrale Malerei im Zeitalter der Gregori‑ Resurrecting Christ: The Exultet Rolls in Southern anischen Reform (Rome, 1996). She went on to earn Italy.” At the 2008 meeting of the College Art the higher degree of Habilitation in 2001 at the Association, she will co-chair, with Vernon Hyde University of Tübingen, where she wrote a thesis on Minor, a session on “Concepts of Authenticity in art and liturgy in medieval Campania. the Visual Arts.” s p r i n g    7  Program in Visual Arts Faculty

Ann Agee is a ceramic sculptor and lecturer in at Rossi and Rossi in London and “China” at the ceramics. In 2007 she participated in “The Bong Myers Gallery in Paris. She is currently working on Show,” curated by Beverly Semmes, at Leslie a book of her work, titled American Trees, with the Tonkonow Artworks and Projects (www.tonkonow. Yale University Art Gallery. com). An exhibition of her work, curated and with Kip Deeds is a printmaker, painter, and lecturer in an essay by Amy Hauft, opened at the Virginia printmaking. In 2006 he participated in 10 group Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, exhibitions, including the 5th Minnesota National in April. Print Biennial at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at Eve Aschheim, a painter who teaches painting the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, which and drawing, has been director of the Program traveled to the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth, in Visual Arts since 2003. In February she had a Minnesota. He also exhibited in “New Prints 2006/ drawing show, which was accompanied by a cat- Summer: Color,” which opened at the International alogue, at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York Print Center New York and traveled to the Maier City. The show will travel to the Schick Gallery at Museum at Randolph Macon College in Lynch- Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, burg, Virginia. His drawing Nat Turner was this fall. Aschheim’s drawings were included in purchased by the Newark Museum and was part of Ann Agee, Pulcinella, ceramic, the exhibition “Drawing, Thinking,” curated by the “Works on Paper” exhibition at Perkins Center 2005 Marco Breuer, at Von Lintel Gallery in New York for the Arts in Moorestown, New Jersey. Last fall City. In 2006 Aschheim’s work was selected for the Deeds taught advanced etching at Temple University exhibition “Some New” at Larry Becker Contem- and gave a lecture about his work to printmaking porary Art in Philadelphia. She was also included students at the Maryland Institute College of Art in “Twice Drawn,” at the Tang Museum at Skid- in Baltimore. more College, which will be accompanied by a Su Friedrich is a film- and videomaker who lives in catalogue. A drawing from the Bookstein show, Brooklyn, New York. In September 2006, her work “North, 90 Degrees,” was acquired by the Pier- was featured in a four-day mid-career retrospective pont Morgan Library for their new contemporary at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in drawings collection, and her work was also recently November the Bios Arts Center in Athens, Greece, added to the permanent col- held a six-day retrospective of lections of the Arkansas Art her work. Friedrich also held Center in Little Rock and various screenings and lectures the San Diego Museum of at universities and media art Art. In June 2007 she will centers around the United be artist-in-residence at the States. She spent last fall and Vermont Studio School. winter doing post-production Aschheim interviewed the work on “From the Ground painter Merrill Wagner for Up,” a feature-length video Eve Aschheim, Plural Blur, mixed the October 2006 issue of about coffee, which is slated media on mylar, 2006 The Brooklyn Rail: “Mer- Philip Haas, The Situation, 2007 for release this summer. rill Wagner with John Yau Reviews of Friedrich’s work and Eve Aschheim,” and her appeared in the New York drawing Lurker is reproduced in a new drawing Times, Film Quarterly, Film Comment, and the textbook titled Drawing: A Contemporary Approach Village Voice this year, as well as in articles in several (Thomson Wadsworth, 2007). recent books, including Women and Experimental Dawn Clements is an artist and lecturer in draw- Filmmaking, edited by Jean Petrolle and Virginia ing. In the fall of 2006 she had a solo exhibition at Wright Wexman (University of Illinois Press, 2005), the Middlebury College Museum of Art in Mid- and Contemporary American Independent Film: From dlebury, Vermont. Her work was also exhibited in the Margins to the Mainstream, edited by Chris Hol- “Storylines” at the Newhouse Galleries at the Snug mlund and Justin Wyatt (Taylor & Francis, 2005). Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, New An entry about her art and activism on behalf of Su Friedrich, Seeing Red, 2005 York, from November 2006 through March 2007, women and lesbians was included in Feminists Who and in “Cosmologies” at the James Cohan Gallery Changed America, 1963–1975, edited by Barbara J. in New York City. This spring she is doing an artist Love (University of Illinois Press, 2006). Her DVD project for Esopus Magazine. collection is distributed by Outcast Films (www. Lois Conner, a photographer, will have several outcast-films.com). exhibitions in 2007, including “Twirling the Lotus”  s p r i n g    7 Philip Haas is a director who Texas. He will also exhibit in taught screenwriting and doc- the 2007 Portland Museum umentary filmmaking. His of Art Biennial from April 12 new filmThe Situation, the through June 11, 2007. first American feature film to Andrew Moore, a photogra- deal with the occupation of pher, was artist-in-residence Iraq, is currently playing in at Dartmouth College dur- theaters throughout the U.S. ing the fall of 2006. He also Set exclusively in Iraq, The had four solo shows during Situation combines elements the year in Atlanta; Munich; of thriller, romance, and war Hanover, New Hampshire; movies, dramatizing one of the and New York City. His Julia Jacquette, Swimming Pool with Deck countless human stories that exhibition at Yancey Rich- Chairs, oil on wood panel, 2006 lie behind the headlines of the ardson in New York City was Jocelyn Lee, Boys Hunting, 2001 current war. reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Julia Jacquette is a painter whose work was and the New York Sun. He was also commissioned included in the exhibition “New History” at to make images for the catalogue and three-part Hunter College’s Leubsdorf Gallery (www.hunter. exhibition on the legacy of Robert Moses at the cuny.edu/art/galleries.html). Her work was also Queens Museum, the Museum of the City of included in the exhibition “The Hungry Eye” at New York, and the Wallach Gallery at Columbia the Chelsea Museum (chelseaartmuseum.org). University. Her work was recently acquired by the National Abelardo Morell, professor of photography at Museum of Women in the Arts. Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, is a visiting Brian Jermusyk, a painter, exhibited a series of professor in the Council of the Humanities and narrative drawings at The ‘temporary Museum of Class of 1932 Fellow in Visual Arts this spring. Painting, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, from April Morell’s solo exhibition “Camera Obscuras” opened through June this year. The drawings were made in in March at Danzinger Projects in New York City. response to the 2001 publication of the diaries of A traveling solo exhibition, “Vision Revealed: Selec- Kenneth Tynan, the late theater critic, and represent tions from the Work of Abelardo Morell,” will open the artist’s exploration of a comic-narrative form in Mexico City this summer, and a show at the provoked by material that is equally explicit and Galleria Valentina Moncada in Rome, Italy, will Abelardo Morell, Flashlight and confessional. The exhibition features the work of open in February 2008. Morell has recently been Salt, photogram on film, 2006 other artists who work in series. Last fall, Jermusyk awarded the 2006 Rappaport Prize by the DeCor- participated in “The Means Justified,” an exhibi- dova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, tion of drawings held at Central Connecticut State Massachusetts. University. Barry Nemett, chair of the painting department at Steve Keister is a sculptor and ceramicist. His the Maryland Institute College of Art, taught draw- work was recently included in “Two Friends and ing at Princeton this spring. Last fall Nemett was So On,” a group exhibition at the Andrew Kreps artist-in-residence at Haverford College and had a Gallery in New York City. Last fall he exhibited one-person show there. In the summer of 2006, he work at the New York Design Room in Williams- had a one-person exhibition at the ISA Gallery in burg, Brooklyn. In February 2007, Keister Florence, Italy, and he was also recently a resident launched a project with the SVA Online Journal artist at Rochefort-en-Terre in Brittany, France, and titled “Visiting El Tajin.” lectured at SACI in Florence, Italy. This summer he Jocelyn Lee will have a solo show of recent color will teach at the International School for Painting, photographs at Pace MacGill Gallery, in New York Drawing, and Sculpture in Montecastello, Italy. His City, in May and June 2007. The exhibition will be novel Crooked Tracks will be published in August of accompanied by a catalogue produced by the gal- this year by Barnhardt & Ashe Publishers, Inc. lery. She will also have a one-person show of earlier John O’Connor taught a new advanced drawing black-and-white photographs, titled “Children’s course this fall. His drawings were included in the John O’Connor, Leisure Riots, Games,” at the Center for Maine Contemporary exhibition “Mixed Signals” at the Ronald Feldman colored pencil, graphite, and Art in October. Her work was recently acquired Gallery in New York City and in the group show acrylic ink on paper, 2006 by the List Visual Arts Center at MIT and by Ute “Factitious” at the Pierogi Gallery in Leipzig, Ger- Eskildsen of Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. many. He was recently awarded a Pollock-Krasner Allan MacIntyre, a photographer who taught dig- grant and was invited to be a resident artist at the ital photography in the fall, will exhibit his work in Farpath Foundation in Dijon, France. “Volcanic Landscapes” from May 17 through Sep- Jackie Saccoccio is a painter whose exhibition of tember 22, 2007, at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin paintings and site-specific wall drawing, “In Trans- Center for the Visual Arts at the University of parency,” was shown at Black and White Gallery s p r i n g    7  in New York City from November 2006 through January 2007. A review of the work, “Maxi- mum Voracity: Jackie Saccoccio’s Retinal Thought Storm,” by Jerry Saltz appeared in the Village Voice. Keith Sanborn served as a juror for the Tiger Film Awards for Short Film at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2007. He also showed a new video installation, Clear to Engage, at the festival and presented his latest book project, Vertov from Z to A. The book, a collection of essays on a film still from Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera, is a collab- oration with Peggy Ahwesh for their press Ediciones La Calavera. It will be released later this year. Jim Seawright, a sculptor, will be featured in Anthony Smith Jr., Gamers Sistah the inaugural exhibition of the new Mississippi and Mommas, mixed media, 2006 Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi, this June. The museum has acquired two of his sculptures Tommy White, Homesick, oil on canvas, 2006 from the Constellation series: Carina (2005) and Taurus (2003). The museum already owns HexFlec‑ by Jasper Sharp, at the Engholm Engelhorn Gallery tor (1997), which will also be in the exhibition. in Vienna, Austria. In 2006 his work was included Accra Shepp, a photographer, had a solo exhibition in “New Trajectories I: Recent Painting, Drawing, at Estudiotres in Chicago in 2006. He participated and Multimedia Work from the Ovitz Collection in the show “Saturday Night/Sunday Morning,” Los Angeles” at the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art which originated at the African American Museum Gallery at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, which in Philadelphia and traveled to the City Gallery was accompanied by a catalogue, and “Palpable East in Atlanta in 2005 and the Chattanooga Afri- Painting” at the Pascal Gallery in the Berrie Center can American Museum in 2006. His work appeared for Performing and Visual Arts at Ramapo College in the exhibition “Artificial Afrika” in Mahwah, New Jersey. He is a recipient of a 2007 at Gigantic Artspace in New York Guggenheim Fellowship in the Visual Arts. City in 2006. Shepp also had work Hilary Wilder is a painter/installation artist. She in the exhibition “Echoes of Com- was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship plicity,” an exhibition marking the in the Creative Arts. Her solo exhibition, “The Voy- 10th anniversary of the atrocities age South to Patience Camp,” was on view at the in the former Yugoslavia at LIPA Atlanta Contemporary Art Center from April Gallery in Chicago in 2005. through June of 2006. An essay on her recent work Anthony Smith Jr. is a painter by Michelle White was published in Artpapers in who teaches drawing. He exhib- November. Her paintings have recently been ited paintings and drawings in two included in group exhibitions at sixspace in Culver shows in January and February City, California, and at Arthouse in Austin, Texas. Stephanie Snider, Untitled 2007: “Identity and Expression” at the Gallery Proj- (table theater), 2007 ect in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and “Loud” at the Arts + Literature Laboratory Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. His work was also featured in the March 2007 issue of The Artist’s Magazine. Smith is also an instructor at the National Academy of Arts and Design in New York City. Stephanie Snider, a sculptor and painter, is teach- ing advanced sculpture this spring. She is currently working on paintings and small-scale sculptures for a solo exhibition at Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin, Germany, in the fall of 2007. Snider also teaches sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Tommy White is a painter who taught interme- diate painting in the fall. Earlier this year he had a solo show at Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York Hilary Wilder, Bandera: Sundown with Rectangles, City and was included in “Salon Nouveau,” curated acrylic on canvases, panels, and wall, 2006

10 s p r i n g    7 Department Lectures, Symposiums, Colloquiums Lecture Series

Fall 2006 “The Sensuous in Art” Saturday, October 14 Graduate Student Symposium: “The Lecture Series Making of Artists” he department joined with the Institute Keynote Speaker: Howard for Advanced Study to create an innovative Singerman lecture series for the 2006–07 academic University of Virginia T Cosponsored by the Department year. Organized by the department’s Professor Hal of Art and Archaeology and the Foster and Professor Yve-Alain Bois of the institute, Princeton University Graduate the series brought seven esteemed art historians School from around the country to Princeton to present Tuesday, October 24 provocative and engaging views of various aspects The Sensuous in Art Lecture Series of the “sensuous” in art. The lectures, which alter- Anne Wagner nated between McCormick Hall and the institute, University of California, Berkeley were supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Behaving Globally Mellon Foundation. Cosponsored by the Department Responding to the field’s “return to the object” of Art and Archaeology and the Institute for Advanced Study after two decades of intense theorization, Foster and Bois invited leading scholars in a broad range The sacrifice of Iphegenia, a fresco from the House Monday, November 6 of art-historical disciplines to reflect not only upon of the Tragic Poet at Pompeii, one of the images Jürgen Müller The Technical University, Dresden the different effects that works of art were meant analyzed by Natalie Kampen in her lecture in “The Sensuous in Art” series Shooting Without a Target: A to have on the human senses in different times and New Interpretation of Rembrandt’s places, but also upon the way that we respond to “Nightwatch” these summonses today. The speakers were invited The Making of Artists Wednesday, November 15 to investigate topics including: How is visual plea- The Sensuous in Art Lecture Series sure regulated by the context of an artwork’s October 14, 2006 Jeffrey Hamburger occurrence? Is there in fact such a thing as purely This year’s graduate student conference, organized Harvard University visual pleasure? Do artists in widely divergent cul- by Alex Kitnick and Maika Pollack, focused on “As it Were”: Mysticism, Visuality, tures have anything in common when it comes to questions of pedagogy and artistic formation. In and the Odor of Sanctity Cosponsored by the Department the production and reception of an art object? For choosing this topic, the students emphasized that in the modern period in particular there has been of Art and Archaeology and the the speakers and their topics, see the sidebars on Institute for Advanced Study this page and pages 12, 25, and 26. considerable anxiety around the question of what makes an artist. The criteria are still far from firmly Tuesday, November 28 Nancy Steinhardt established. Is art school or academy training a pre- Art, Liturgy, and Religious University of Pennsylvania requisite? Can one be self-taught? Is apprenticeship The Mosque in China Cult in Late Antiquity and necessary? Furthermore, what are the requisite skills Cosponsored by the Department the Middle Ages and qualities? Must one be dexterous, expressive, or of Art and Archaeology and the Tang Center for East Asian Art June 12–14, 2006 conceptually astute? How important are factors of race, class, and gender? This three-day conference was jointly organized Thursday, December 7 The papers, which addressed topics ranging The Sensuous in Art Lecture Series and sponsored by the Index of Christian Art from the art of medieval monastic women to the Stephen Campbell and Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer question of authenticity and Alaska Native artists, Johns Hopkins University Sheba, Israel, where it took place. Twenty-nine Invisible Nymphs Revisited: Materi‑ were presented in three sections—“Practicing Art,” scholars presented their current research on sub- alism, Sensation and Human “Community and Collectivity,” and “New Schools” jects that ranged geographically from the British Nature in Venetian Art, 1500–1520 —moderated by graduate students Annie Bour- Isles to the Near East and Arabia, and chronolog- Cosponsored by the Department neuf, Johanna Burton, and Nebošja Stankovi . of Art and Archaeology and the ically from Late Antiquity well into the Byzantine ć Though disparate in subject matter, the papers Institute for Advanced Study period. The speakers examined topics that addressed common themes, such as the relationship included the illustration of liturgical manuscripts, Wednesday, December 13 between tradition and innovation, and politics and Patty Gerstenblith the decoration and function of pulpits and ritual plastic form. Howard Singerman of the University DePaul University spaces in churches, and iconographical aspects of of Virginia, author of Art Subjects: Making Artists in The International Antiquities Mar‑ sculpture, painting, and ritual objects. The focus ket and the Destruction of the Past: , delivered the keynote on iconography, liturgy, ritual, and ceremony the American University Do Museums Make the Market? address, “On Mike Kelley’s Educational Complex.” highlighted intersecting themes and problems continued on page 12 The conference’s wide-ranging program gave in the various subfields in both the East and the its speakers and attendees much to discuss at the West, with papers on topics as diverse as “Illu- reception generously hosted by the Princeton minating the Liturgy” and “The Communion of University Art Museum. Mary in Byzantine Art and Liturgy.” s p r i n g    7 11 Fall Lecture Series Romanesque Art and Thought Architecture and Ritual continued from page 11 in the Twelfth Century in Early Modern Europe: Thursday, January 18 October 26–27, 2006 Interdisciplinary Strategies The Sensuous in Art Lecture Series The Index of Christian Art organized this two- of Interpretation David Roxburgh day international conference to refocus attention March 31, 2007 Harvard University on art of the 12th century, a period that has been “The eye is favored for seeing the relatively neglected in recent scholarship. Six- The 2007 Janson-La Palme colloquium brought writing’s form’’: On the Sensual and teen of the field’s preeminent scholars from the together seven scholars from history, art and archi- the Sensuous in Islamic Calligraphy tectural history, architectural design, and music Cosponsored by the Department United States, the United Kingdom, France, Ger- many, and Italy presented compelling case studies history to consider their different disciplines’ modes of Art and Archaeology and the of interpreting ritual activity in architectural and Institute for Advanced Study of Romanesque manuscripts, sculpture, portals, reliquaries, and stained glass, as well as synoptic urban settings. Speakers in the morning session—all continued on page 25 examinations that investigated questions of ico- historians of ritual—addressed methodological and nography, liturgy, patronage, and historiography. historiographical issues; in the afternoon, speakers The papers made strong cases for the interest, com- from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds presented plexity, and significance of 12th-century art, in case studies of specific rituals within architectural addition to reexamining critical approaches and contexts. Edward Muir (Northwestern University), refining terminology. the doyen of ritual studies, delivered the keynote The conference was also intended to address in the opening session. Other topics honor Walter Cahn, professor emeri- included ritual monuments in Renaissance France tus at Yale University and the doyen of (Lawrence Bryant), ritual festivals (Samuel Kinser), American Romanesque scholars. Cahn the ritual role of French queens (Nicola Courtright), presented reminiscences of his scholarly ritual in Bramante’s design for the Vatican complex career and an overview of the many (Henry Dietrich Fernández), etiquette in Roman changes in the field of Romanesque art Baroque architecture (Patricia Waddy), and the during the last 40 years. The conference, place of music in 17th-century Roman liturgy and which attracted more than 500 attend- architecture (Frederick Hammond). ees on both days, was supported by a grant The day-long event concluded with a panel from Princeton’s Council of the Humanities discussion moderated by Louise Rice (New York Walter Cahn was both honoree and by the Department of Art and Archaeology. University) that focused on the problem of inte- and speaker at the Index of The Index’s conference was arranged in coordi- grating the analysis of ritual with its architectural Christian Art’s conference on nation with the University of Pennsylvania, which and spatial frame. John Beldon Scott, the Robert 12th-century art hosted the related symposium “Representing His- Janson-La Palme Visiting Professor, organized the tory, 1000–1300: Art, Music, History” on the two colloquium, which was sponsored by the Janson-La days following the sessions in Princeton. Palme Fund. The Medieval Arts of North Re-presenting Emptiness: Zen Africa and the Near East and Art in Medieval Japan February 2, 2007 April 14–15, 2007 In recognition of the Index of Christian Art’s The Tang Center for East Asian Art organized this rapidly expanding documentation of medieval art major international symposium on Japanese art in the Near East and North Africa, three scholars and culture with the help of Yukio Lippit *03 and who work in those areas of the Christian East Gregory Levine *99. “Re-presenting Emptiness” came to Princeton in early February to present articulated new frames of reference for the artifacts their current research. The conference opened associated with Japanese Zen monastic com- with a paper by Mat Immerzeel of the Paul van munities and was presented in conjunction with Moorsel Centre for Christian Art and Culture in the Japan Society’s exhibition, “Awakenings: Zen the Middle East at Leiden University, who spoke Figure Painting in Medieval Japan,” for which both on “Monasteries of the Qalamun (Syria): Art and Lippit and Levine served as curators and Profes- Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages.” Marilyn Held- sor Yoshiaki Shimizu served as senior curatorial man, an independent scholar who specializes in adviser. For more details about this event, see the The dome interior of Tang Center’s news on pages 32–33. Guarino Guarini’s Chapel of the the study of Ethiopian art, gave a paper examining Holy Shroud in Turin, one of the the evidence for international exchange between sites of early modern ritual, which North Africa and the Near East. The afternoon Matters Iconographical was the subject of this year’s closed with a paper by Robin Jensen of Vanderbilt April 20, 2007 Janson-La Palme colloquium University, who spoke on “The Iconography of At this half-day conference, sponsored by the Index Christian Tomb Mosaics from Roman Africa.” For of Christian Art in celebration of its 90th more details about the Index’s recent activities in anniversary, three speakers gave papers focusing on this area, see pages 26–27. 12 s p r i n g    7 the kind of iconographic topics that have been at in Visual Arts included Christina McMil- the center of Index’s mission since its inception. lan ’07, who gave a presentation on the Jane Geddes of the University of Aberdeen spoke manipulation of digital images for the her on “Christina of Markyate and the St. Albans Psal- thesis project “(My) Illness as Metaphor,” ter”; Claudia Rabel of the Institut de recherche et and Michael Jorgensen ’07, who spoke about d’histoire des textes (CNRS) gave a paper on “The his video project “Young Americans,” a Virgin of Mercy in the Musée Crozatier at Puy-en- fictional narrative of three lives interwoven Velay”; and Michel Pastoureau of the École with documentary interviews. Prospective Pratique des Hautes Études at the University of art and archaeology majors were invited to Paris concluded by discussing “The Birth of the conference, which was moderated by Heraldry in the Twelfth Century.” department graduate students, to sample the richly varied research being done by seniors Retracing the Expanded Field in the department. of Art and Architecture American Views: April 20–21, 2007 Mary Miss’s Perimeters/Pavilions/ Moving away from the reconciliatory notions of A Symposium in Honor of Decoys (1977–78), one of the “synthesis,” “collaboration,” and “integration” Professor John Wilmerding works discussed at the conference of the arts espoused by modernists, a significant “Retracing the Expanded Field of May 5, 2007 Art and Architecture” number of artists and architects in the late 1960s Organized by the department and cosponsored by expanded the limits of their practices based on the Princeton University Art Museum a series of structural inversions. This conference and the Program in American Stud- retraced that process of expansion by mapping ies, this symposium honored Professor anew the theoretical terms and visual exam- John Wilmerding for his many con- ples offered in a seminal 1978 article by Rosalind tributions to the field of American art Krauss and testing its arguments against the trans- history—his 19 years of teaching at formations that have occurred during the three Princeton, his leadership at numerous ensuing decades. arts institutions, and his ground-break- The two-day conference began with Rosalind ing scholarship. Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin Buchloh Professors Rachael Z. DeLue and discussing the original context of the essay. Bois, Hal Foster assembled a roster of speak- Ed Eigen, Hal Foster, and Spyros Papapetros con- ers who addressed many of the topics Still from Michael Jorgensen ’07’s ducted a close reading of the original text, analyzing and themes of Wilmerding’s research and writing, senior thesis project, “Young specific passages and probing some of its main the- from 19th-century landscape painting to the art Americans,” which he discussed at oretical terms. Branden Joseph, Miwon Kwon, and and culture of the 1960s. this year’s senior thesis conference George Baker presented papers that drew on the The papers in the first session, which focused concepts of the 1978 essay but examined artists and on 19th-century landscape painting, were Michael artworks from the late 1960s to the contemporary Gaudio (University of Minnesota), “Bartram’s era that were not mentioned in the article. Botanical Imagination”; Franklin Kelly (National The conference, a collaboration between the Gallery of Art), “Asher B. Durand’s Imaginary the School of Architecture and the department, Landscapes”; and H. Daniel Peck (Vassar College), was organized in conjunction with a graduate sem- “‘Something Underneath’: The Uneasy Relationship inar “Art and Architecture” and an undergraduate between Concepts of Landscape and Environment course “Architecture and the Visual Arts” offered in American Artistic Culture.” jointly by the two departments. In the second session, the focus turned to Pop and other art of the 1960s, with the presentations Senior Thesis Conference “The Last Great Romantics: De Kooning, Dieben- April 28, 2007 korn, Mitchell, and American Landscape Painting” At this year’s inaugural senior thesis conference, by Mark Stevens (Pulitzer Prize–winning author), departmental majors from the Class of 2007 “Vija Celmins: New Frontiers of Space and Visual- presented the results of their senior thesis research ity” by Cécile Whiting (University of California, or, in the case of Program 2 majors, discussed their Irvine), and “Dreams of Transmission: Fred Toma- thesis projects. The conference featured lectures on selli’s Bird Collages and American Ornithological a wide range of thesis subjects, from the influence Illustration” by Jennifer Roberts (Harvard of sound on the watercolors of American artist University). Charles Burchfield, discussed by Leah Tharpe ’07, The keynote speaker was Michael Kammen to the interplay of abstraction and narrative in of Cornell University, whose topic was “The Eyes Holocaust memorials in Berlin, presented by Have It: Visual Culture and the American ‘Vision Lauren Racusin ’07. Speakers from the Program Thing.’ ” s p r i n g    7 13 Graduate Student News

Scott Allan has concentrated this year on complet- l’Art in Paris. Cabañas was the recipient of a 2006– ing his dissertation, “Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) 07 Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. and the Afterlife of French History Painting.” [[email protected]] He submitted a draft in December and hopes to Noam Elcott spent this academic year in Berlin, defend sometime this spring. Last July, he began completing research on his dissertation: “Into the working as the assistant curator in the paintings Dark Chamber: Avant-garde Photograms and the department of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Among Cinematic Imaginary.” Undwritten by a German his current exhibition projects are a focus installa- Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, tion of Edouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, his research currently focuses on Laszlo Moholy- which will be on loan to the Getty from the Cour- Nagy’s photograms, films, and installations in the tauld Institute of Art Gallery in London from June broader context of the first avant-garde encounter through September, and, in collaboration with with the space of cinema, which can be considered the Musée d’Orsay and Walters Art Museum, a to be the immediate ancestor to current “virtual” full-scale retrospective of the work of Jean-Léon spaces. He has worked in a number of libraries and Kaira M. Cabañas et al., Yves Klein: Gérôme. [[email protected]] archives this year, including the Bauhaus Archiv in Corps, couleur, immatérial Alexis Belis, a fifth-year graduate student in clas- Berlin, the Erwin Piscator Nachlass, the Akademie sical archaeology, took part in a new excavation der Künste, the Berlin Museumsbibliothek, and the and survey project in the ancient sanctuary of Zeus Kestner-Museum in Hannover. [nelcott@princeton. on Mount Lykaion in the southern Peloponnesos, edu] Greece, last summer. The description of this site by Kevin Hatch is currently completing his disserta- the 2nd-century a.d. traveler Pausanias mentions a tion, “Looking for Bruce Conner: Art and Films, stadium and hippodrome where athletic games for 1957–1967,” which he is writing under the direc- the Lykaion festival were held, a sanctuary of Pan tion of Professor Hal Foster and with the support on the south side of the mountain, and a teme- of a Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation nos and ash altar of Lykaion Zeus at the summit. Fellowship. His essay, “Roy Lichtenstein: Wit, Last summer, David Gilman Romano of the Uni- Invention, and the Afterlife of Pop,” appeared in versity of Pennsylvania and Mary Voyatzis of the Pop Art: Contemporary Perspectives (Princeton Uni- University of Arizona directed excavations in the versity Art Museum, 2007), a book of critical essays area of the hippodrome in an attempt to define its published in conjunction with the exhibition “Pop limits and to locate the stadium. This summer the Art at Princeton: Permanent and Promised” at the area of the ash altar will be excavated. Under the Princeton University Art Museum. He also gave sev- direction of her adviser, Professor William Childs, eral gallery talks at the museum in connection with Belis is currently preparing her dissertation pro- the exhibition. Hatch has been awarded a 2007–08 Kevin Hatch et al., Pop Art: Con‑ posal, a comparative study of ash altars in Greece, a Smithsonian American Art Museum dissertation temporary Perspectives topic inspired by her work at Mount Lykaion. Next fellowship. [[email protected]] year she will be a regular member at the Ameri- can School of Classical Studies in Athens. [abelis@ Emma Hurme, a first-year student in classical princeton.edu] archaeology, came to Princeton from the Los Ange- Sonja Kelley interviews the print- les County Museum of Art. She holds a master’s maker Lin Jun in the artist’s village Kaira M. Cabañas is completing her dissertation, degree in art history from Williams College. This at Chongqing, China “Toward a Performative Realism: Art in France, January Hurme participated in the Program in the 1957–1963.” This year she Ancient World conference in Oxford, England, contributed two essays to where she presented a paper on a late-2nd-cen- the catalogue Yves Klein: tury a.d. Bacchic sarcophagus. This summer, she Corps, couleur, immatérial will participate in the summer session of the Ameri- (Centre Pompidou, 2006), can School of Classical Studies at Athens. [hurme@ which accompanied the art- princeton.edu] ist’s retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Sonja Kelley spent this academic year doing disser- In November she presented tation research in China on a Fulbright grant. Her the paper “New Realism or dissertation, “Printmaking in Sichuan after 1949: a Fantastic Realism?” at the Regionalism and the Formation of a New National international symposium Art in China,” focuses on printmaking in Sichuan “Le demi-siècle de Pierre in the 1950s and ’60s, before the Cultural Revolu- Restany” hosted by the Insti- tion. She lived in Chongqing, where she is affiliated tut National d’Histoire de with the Sichuan Meishu Xueyuan (Sichuan Fine

14 s p r i n g    7 Arts Institute), located on the northern bank of attended the “Africa Remix” exhibition at the the Yangtze River. Her research involves locating Mori Art Center. In September, she traveled written materials from the ’50s and ’60s as well as to Shanghai to do dissertation research in con- interviewing printmakers who were active in Sich- junction with the Shanghai Biennale, themed uan at that time. She has been actively engaged in “Hyperdesign,” at the Shanghai Art Museum. interviewing artists who now live in Chongqing, She also attended two other major exhibitions Chengdu, and Shenzhen; studying prints in pri- that opened at the same time: “Entry Gate: vate collections and at the Shenzhou Printmaking Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity” at the Museum in Chengdu; and doing research at the Shanghai MoCA and “Yellow Box in Qingpu,” National Library in Beijing and the Chongqing which was installed in a specially designed tem- Library. [[email protected]] porary museum in the nearby town of Qingpu. Elizabeth Kessler, a third-year graduate student Lim then traveled to Singapore for the first in classical archaeology, passed her general exams Singapore Biennale, on the theme “Belief.” She in Greek history and Greek special author, Thucy- has recently been engaged in research for the dides, in January. During the fall semester, she was upcoming “Outside In” exhibition, curated by a preceptor for Professor William Childs’s under- Professor Jerome Silbergeld, which will open at graduate course “Greek Art: Ideal Realism,” and she the Princeton University Art Museum in 2009. presented a lecture on Greek vase painting. Each In January, she interviewed artists Zhang Hongtu in his studio-home in Queens, New York, Trench master Emma Ljung makes week she met with students in the seminar room a measured drawing of a newly and Liu Dan in his new Beijing studio. She also of the Princeton University Art Museum, where excavated wall at Polis Chryso- attended a Northern Song painting exhibition and they examined ancient objects from the museum’s chous, Cyprus collection. Kessler has been selected by a faculty conference at the National Palace Museum in Tai- committee to present her paper, “Kourotrophos: pei, courtesy of the department’s Tang Center for Hermes and Dionysos to the Virgin and Child,” at East Asian Art. [[email protected]] this spring’s symposium on the history of art spon- Emma Ljung is a fourth-year graduate student sored by the Frick Collection and the Institute of in classical archaeology who works with Professor Fine Arts of New York University. She continues William Childs. She completed her general exami- to give gallery talks at the Metropolitan Museum nations this year and is currently doing research for of Art in New York, as well as serving as a board her dissertation on Aitolia, in western Greece, dur- member of the Student Friends of the Princeton ing the period following the Roman wars. In March University Art Museum and as one of the depart- she presented the paper “Amazons and Athenians: ment’s graduate student representatives to the art On Women and Warfare in Classical Greece” at the museum. This summer she will travel in Italy, conference “Women and War” at Sarah Lawrence where she will investigate potential dissertation College. Last summer she took part in Princeton’s topics, concentrating on Late Antique monuments excavations at Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus, and con- around Ravenna and Greek vases in museums in tinued her work for the Danish-Greek excavations Tuscany. [[email protected]] at Kalydon in Greece. Ljung has been involved with Zoe Kwok is a fourth-year graduate student the Kalydon project since its inception and is now studying Chinese art with Professor Jerome Sil- finishing her publication of a Hellenistic kiln that bergeld. She is currently a Blakemore Fellow at the she excavated at Kalydon. This summer she will A 14th-century fresco of the Inter-University Program in Beijing, an intensive participate in the Roman pottery program at the prophet Zacharias at the Prodro- program for Chinese language study run jointly American Academy in Rome, as well as continue her mos monastery near Serres in by Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Univer- work with the Kalydon excavations. Next year she northern Greece, where Matthew sity of California–Berkeley. During breaks she has will undertake dissertation research at the Swedish Milliner and Nebojša Stanković taken research trips around China, including a trip Institute in Athens. In addition to her work in clas- participated in a survey project last summer to Dunhuang (Gansu Province), on the edge of sical archaeology, she has ventured into the field of the Gobi Desert, with fellow department gradu- literary criticism and is currently revising an essay ate student Kim Wishart. Together they visited the for the forthcoming publication Through the Ward‑ Buddhist caves outside of Dunhuang that date from robe: Essays on the Chronicles of Narnia. [eljung@ princeton.edu] the 4th century a.d. onward. These caves number in the hundreds and are spectacularly painted on Daniel McReynolds, with the support of a Kress the inside with both Buddhist and secular themes. Travel Fellowship, spent the academic year in Venice Next year Kwok will continue to research her dis- conducting research for his dissertation on 18th- sertation topic, which focuses on 10th-century century neo-Palladian architecture in the Veneto. paintings of court women. [[email protected]] In March he participated in the Getty Dissertation Michelle Lim spent last summer in Tokyo, where Workshop at the Getty Research Institute. He has she took a language class at the Naganuma School, been awarded a 2007–08 Rome Prize and will con- was invited to a special talk by Japanese art- tinue writing his dissertation next year as a fellow ist Yoshitomo Nara at the Hara Museum, and at the American Academy in Rome. [dmcreyno@ princeton.edu] s p r i n g    7 15 Marina Mihaljević is a Samuel H. Kress Fellow at Maika Pollack connects her interest in artistic ped- the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research agogy with her extracurricular life as the owner of a in Jerusalem, where she is writing her dissertation, contemporary art gallery. She opened Southfirst “Constantinopolitan Architecture of the Kom- Gallery in 2000, when she was a recent Harvard nenian Era (1080–1180) and Its Impact in the graduate looking for a way to hide the fact that she Balkans.” She has participated in a series of Albright and her partner, Florian Altenburg, were living in a Institute workshops, where she spoke on “Con- commercial storefront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. stantinopolitan Architects, Local Labor: Aspects of Their curated group and solo shows quickly gained Middle Byzantine Architecture in the Provinces.” favorable reviews in publications that included Her paper “Constantinopolitan Architectural Per- Time Out New York, Artforum, Flash Art, and the sona: Originality in Byzantine Architecture” will be New York Times, which called it “one of the best given at the First International Sevgi Gönül Byz- young galleries in Brooklyn.” Southfirst recently antine Studies Symposium organized by the Vehbi featured political cartoons from Nigeria, partici- Koç Foundation in Istanbul in June. [marmi@ pated in an international art fair in Miami, and was princeton.edu] invited to join the New Art Dealer’s Alliance, an The iconographer Father Loukas association of young galleries. Last fall, Pollack, at work in his studio on Mount Matthew Milliner participated in the Mount Men- along with graduate student Alex Kitnick, co-orga- Athos, where he was interviewed oikeion project as a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow last by Matthew Milliner summer, living at the Prodromos monastery in nized the department’s graduate conference on northern Greece for two weeks with a hospitable artistic pedagogy. This fall, her gallery will show group of nuns who hosted Princeton students and Jesse Chapman, a Yale M.F.A. graduate whose faculty. After the seminar he explored the Byzan- paintings have been exhibited in Chicago, St. tine churches of Thessaloniki and visited Mount Barths, and Liechtenstein. Pollack works with Athos, where he interviewed two iconographers. many artists who are graduates of M.F.A. programs, Back in Princeton, Milliner has continued giving and she is always fascinated by how the study of art tours of the Princeton University Chapel, including history fits into their training. She invites all mem- one for the 2007 Alumni Day. He has precepted bers of the Princeton community to visit Southfirst for both the introduction to art history and medi- Gallery. For more information, visit the website eval art classes with Professor Nino Zchomelidse. www.southfirst.org. [[email protected]] His lecture “Icon or Art?” was delivered twice at the Princeton University Art Museum, and he also gave a paper at the Byzantine Studies Confer- ence in November, titled “Theodore of Studios and the Transformation of the Holy Man.” In March he conducted research with Professor Patricia For- tini Brown’s class on the island of Crete. [milliner@ princeton.edu] Jessica Paga, a second-year student in classical archaeology, spent seven weeks last summer excavat- ing the ancient city at Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus, with the Princeton excavation directed by Pro- fessor William Childs. She was one of five trench The monument of the tyrant masters and worked to uncover large parts of a pre- slayers in the Athenian Agora viously unexcavated area adjacent to a large Roman was the subject of a lecture structure. This past year saw the publication of Jesse Chapman’s The Shot (2006), one of the works given by Jessica Paga at her article, “Bronze Age Fortifications: A Dualis- shown in an exhibition at Southfirst, Maika Pollack’s Columbia University tic Interpretation” in Montage, an online journal of gallery in Brooklyn the University of Iowa (www.uiowa.edu/montage/ Nebojša Stanković, a third-year graduate stu- issues/2006). As part of the annual Princeton/ dent, took part in the Mount Menoikeion project Oxford exchange, Paga presented a paper on “Man- near Serres, Greece, last June, working on an archi- ifest Belief and the Classical Panathenaia” in Oxford tectural survey of Byzantine and post-Byzantine this January. She also gave a paper titled “Articu- structures in the Monastery of Hagios Ioannis Pro- lating Democracy: The Tyrannicide Monument in dromos and its vicinity. One focus of his study was the Athenian Agora” at a conference organized by the monastery’s cemetery church, with a crypt that Columbia University on memory, landscape, and functioned as an ossuary, which was useful for his archaeology. This summer she will divide her time ongoing research on Byzantine monastic ossuaries. between Athens and Princeton, preparing for gen- In July, Stanković visited Mount Athos to continue eral exams and conducting preliminary dissertation his study of ossuaries. This material was included research. 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The department is pleased to announce the Alex Kitnick inauguration of the Jane Faggen Ph.D. Dissertation “New Monumentality and the Prize in Art and Archaeology. The new endowment, Restructuring of the Arts” established by a generous gift from Jane Faggen, (Hal Foster) will fund an annual award of $2,000 for the best Emma Ljung dissertation completed in that year or the previous “From Indemnity to Integration: two years. Recipients of the prize will be selected A Comprehensive Study of Aitolia by the department’s chair, in consultation with the in the 2nd and 1st Centuries b.c.” faculty. The Faggen Prize, which will be awarded (William Childs) for the first time this spring, provides a welcome opportunity for the department to formally recog- nize the scholarly accomplishments of its graduate Dissertations students. Recently Completed Fellowships for 2006–07 June 2006 Kaira M. Cabañas Suzanne Hudson Dedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship “Robert Ryman: Painting Noam Elcott Pragmatism” (Hal Foster) The outer narthex of the main church at Vatopedi German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) January 2007 Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, where Nebojša Fellowship Peter Barberie Stanković did research on ossuaries last summer Ludovico Geymonat “Conventional Pictures: Charles Jane and Morgan Whitney Art History Fellowship, Marville in the Bois de Boulogne” Ossuaries: Architecture, Liturgical Function, and Metropolitan Museum of Art (Peter Bunnell) Meaning,” that he presented at the 32nd annual Kevin Hatch Byzantine Studies Conference last November in March 2007 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation St. Louis, Missouri. At the national convention of Sarah Linford Fellowship in American Art the American Association for the Advancement “Symbolism and the Third Republic: Tradition as Avant- of Slavic Studies, in Washington, D.C., Stanković Denwood Holmes Garde, 1871–1915” (Todd gave another paper, “Remains of a Church near Donald and Mary Hyde Academic Year Fellowship Porterfield, Université de Svrljig, East Serbia: An Attempt in Reconstruction for Research Abroad in the Humanities Montréal) of Its Original Architectural Form.” He is currently Sonja Kelley developing his dissertation proposal, tentatively Fulbright Graduate Student Fellowship Kristoffer Neville titled “Framing Monastic Ritual: Athonite Church “Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and Daniel McReynolds German Artists in Sweden in Narthexes of the Byzantine Period—Liturgy, Samuel H. Kress Travel Fellowship Architecture, Program.” It will focus on church the Age of the Thirty Years’ War” architecture as a spatial setting for liturgical rites Marina Mihaljević (Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann) within a monastic context, taking into account Samuel H. Kress Fellowship at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem architecture, art, written documents, and centu- ries of unbroken liturgical tradition. [nstankov@ Susannah Rutherglen princeton.edu] Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship Marta Weiss’s essay “Staged Photography in the Victorian Album” was published by Merrell in the Fellowships for 2007–08 Canadian National Gallery exhibition catalogue Alexis Belis Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, edited by Lucy Shoe Meritt Fellowship, American School of Lori Pauli (Merrell, 2006). Her biographical entry Classical Studies at Athens “William Lake Price (1810–1896)” appeared in the Kevin Hatch Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford Smithsonian American Art Museum Dissertation University Press, 2006), and “‘Fading Away’ by Fellowship Henry Peach Robinson” was published in The Folio Society Book of 100 Greatest Photographs, edited by Daniel McReynolds Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome Mark Haworth-Booth (The Folio Society, 2006). She is completing work on her dissertation on Vic- Marta Weiss et al., Acting the Part: torian staged photographs and albums. [mweiss@ Photography as Theatre princeton.edu] s p r i n g    7 17 Undergraduate News

vania. Her thesis charted the transformation of the spectacular building from a political stunt to a sym- bol of national pride. This spring she codirected a stage adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s “Under Milk Wood” at Theatre Intime. After graduation, she plans to enroll in a masters of architecture program. [[email protected]] Heather Crane ’07 worked with Professor Hal Foster on a senior thesis that examined the phenom- enon of Psychedelic Art in the 1960s. In addition to art history, her interests include guitar, piano, and music in general, as well as science. After gradua- tion she plans to attend medical school. [hmcrane@ gmail.com] Christine Dobrosky ’07, under the guidance of Professor Rachael Z. DeLue, wrote her senior the- sis about the consequences of turning the human Professor Patricia Fortini Brown’s body into a visual image. Her thesis includes case class “Venice and the Mediter- Caroline Closmore ’07, from Hugo, Minne- studies of anatomical illustration; medical imag- ranean” traveled to Crete during sota, centered her senior thesis around the work ing technology like X-ray, MRI, and the Visible spring break to study Venetian, of Dick Bancroft, a Minnesota photographer who Human Project; as well as an analysis of the photo- Byzantine, and Ottoman sites. The has spent over three decades photographing Native graphs and publications of Alexander Tsiaras. She class consisted of both under- Americans in the Minneapolis area. Working with evaluated these images in terms of reality versus rep- graduates and graduate students. both Bancroft and her Princeton adviser John resentation, images as truth, and the use of images as Front, left to right: archaeologist Pohl, curator of art of the ancient Americas at the propaganda to influence health-related behavior. She Eleni Kanaki; Juhea Kim ’09; Giada Princeton University Art Museum, she examined also completed the pre-med undergraduate require- Damen; Chen Liu; Zoe Hoster the images of the American Indian Movement in ments and earned a certificate in Spanish language. ’09; Professor Brown; Leslie Ged- Minneapolis during the 1970s. Bancroft has cap- Outside the classroom she was a member of the var- des; Dimitri Gondicas, director of tured much of this history, documenting many of sity women’s lacrosse team for four years and served Princeton’s Program in Hellenic the demonstrations and protests organized by the one term as vice president of the Princeton Pre- Studies; Yueyuan Zheng; Cecilia American Indian Movement (AIM). His photo- Med Society. After graduation, she plans to work Ramos. Back, left to right: Matt graphs provide a vivid account of AIM’s struggles in healthcare marketing and consulting for Rosetta Prisco ’09; Omer Ziyal ’08; Jack for the civil rights of Native Americans, and his in New York City before going to medical school. O’Connor ’07; Matthew Milliner; personal relationships with many of the key leaders [[email protected]] Johanna Heinrichs; visitor of AIM add depth and an inside perspective to his Jamie Greenberg Caitlin Drumm ’07 concentrated on Islamic art work. Outside the classroom, Closmore is a mem- and wrote her senior thesis, under the guidance of ber of the women’s varsity crew, is an Outdoor Professor Mika Natif, on the comparable motifs in Action leader, and has served as vice president of medieval Hiberno-Saxon and Islamic religious man- her eating club, Cloister Inn. After graduation, she uscripts. Her work examined the motivating factors hopes to work in the museum world. [closmore@ behind these similarities and what such motifs gmail.com] revealed about underlying cultural attitudes toward Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum ’07 wrote her beauty. Drumm was also a residential college adviser senior thesis with Professor Jerome Silbergeld on in Mathey College and worked with the Com- the intersection of government, politics, religion, munity House Big Sibs, a tutoring and mentoring and architecture in Louis Kahn’s National Assem- program for middle school students. She plans to bly building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Supported by teach or to work for a nonprofit organization in a Macfarlane summer travel grant, she spent three New York City next year and will then apply to weeks in Dhaka last summer, conducting inter- medical school. [[email protected]] views, attending parliament sessions, interviewing Lauren Hooten ’07 wrote a senior thesis on the local architects and citizens, and traveling through military architecture of the Spanish and Portuguese The decorative end page of a the river delta landscape that surrounds the capital. empires from a comparative perspective. Advised Koran dating to around a.d. 1000, Since returning to the States, she has spent much by Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Hooten one of the key monuments in time sorting through countless telegrams from the focused primarily on the development of diver- Caitlin Drumm ’07’s senior thesis Pakistan Public Works Department to Kahn, now gent imperial and regional aesthetics in fortification housed in the archives of the University of Pennsyl- design, drawing on medieval and Italian Renaissance 18 s p r i n g    7 architectural precedents. Her interest in this subject versity for two years. She also volunteered in both was sparked by her study of Iberia and its colonial the Princeton and Trenton areas, serving as a mentor expansion, the sociopolitical history of imperial- and tutor through various organizations. Kratsios ism, and the literature that accompanied it. She is hopes to work in the museum world but plans to also earning certificates in Latin American Studies work or teach at a nonprofit before begin- and Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cul- ning graduate school. [akratsio@princeton. tures. After graduation, Hooten plans to continue edu] her study of Latin America by pursuing a master’s Scott Mardy ’07 is a Program 1 (history degree at Oxford University. [[email protected]] of art) major and is also pursuing a cer- Beth Ann Ingrassia ’07, advised by Professor tificate in American studies. He wrote his Alastair Wright, wrote a thesis on the ballet Parade, senior thesis about the JPMorgan Chase Art first performed in 1917 by the Ballets Russes in Collection and its influence in the field of Paris. The ballet was a collaboration of Jean corporate collecting; his adviser was Profes- Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, and Léonide sor Anne McCauley. Mardy is a member of Massine. With funding from the President’s Fund the men’s varsity heavyweight rowing team “The Big Three will tie the enemy and a departmental MacFarlane grant, she did the- and Cloister Inn. He spent the summer of 2005 in knots!,” one of the World War II sis research in the South of France. Ingrassia was a working for the art museum and the summer of editorial cartoons studied by member of Expressions Dance Company and last 2006 working for Christie’s Auction House in New Kathleen Miller ’07 year participated in the reconstruction of the Ballet York City. He hopes to pursue a career in sales and Russes’s L’Après-Midi d’un Faune with the Program marketing after graduation but would eventually in Theater and Dance. Last summer she was an like to work in the field of art wealth management. intern at the Princeton University Art Museum, [[email protected]] where she worked in the Department of Prints and Kelly McCormick ’07 has spent summers in the Drawings with curators Laura Giles and Calvin Hamptons on Long Island’s East End, and after Brown. [[email protected]] talking with a local artist friend, she decided to write Michael Jorgensen ’07, a Program 2 major, devel- her senior thesis, with adviser Jerome Silbergeld, on oped a thesis video that interweaves a fictional the changing landscape of the Hamptons as rep- narrative of the lives of young southern Californians resented in the local artwork over the last century. with documentary interviews of residents of his Having spent her junior spring semester abroad hometown, San Diego. Jorgensen wrote, directed, studying art in Florence, Italy, McCormick hopes and edited the video under the supervision of advis- to find an opportunity to reside in Europe. She also ers Hal Foster, Su Friedrich, and Keith Sanborn. hopes to continue her hobbies of painting and ski- The project was sponsored by the department, the ing. After graduation McCormick intends to work Program in Visual Arts, the Office of the Dean in New York City in the field of advertising or pub- of the College, and the Berl Senior Thesis Award. lic relations. [[email protected]] Anonymous 15th-century wood- cut of the Sacred Heart, one of the Jorgensen is also pursuing a certificate from the Pro- Kathleen Miller ’07 wrote a senior thesis that images of Christ’s wound studied gram in Creative Writing, for which he wrote a examined and compared the editorial cartoons of by Christine Murphy ’07 collection of short stories. He served as codirector the World War II era. Working with her adviser, of the University Film Organization’s “plus” series, Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, she stud- which hosts weekly screenings of classic, indepen- ied editorial cartoons from five Allied and Axis dent, and foreign films. He is also a disc jockey and countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, former board member at WPRB and has served as a the Soviet Union, Japan, and Germany. Miller is a volunteer Special Olympics swim coach for the past member of the varsity women’s lacrosse team, and three years. Following graduation, Jorgensen plans was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2004. This to pursue his interests in fiction, film, and video. year she is one of the team’s tri-captains. Her post- [[email protected]] graduation plans will probably include work in Kaity Kratsios ’07 wrote a senior thesis, advised by marketing, advertising, or finance in New York City. Professor Carol Armstrong, which examined politi- [[email protected]] cal commentary in the works of Jannis Psychopedis, Christine Murphy ’07, under the guidance of a contemporary Greek artist. She concentrated on Professor Nino Zchomelidse, wrote a senior the- his works painted between 1967 and 1974, when sis on late medieval depictions of the side wound Greece was ruled by a military dictatorship. A recip- of Christ, focusing specifically on the “gendered” ient of funding from the Office of the Dean of aspects of the wound in the context of the female the College, Kratsios traveled to Greece to inter- Christian devotional movement. Murphy was view Psychopedis and view many of his works. awarded funding from the Office of the Dean Her thesis allowed her to use her interest in art his- of the College, the Center for the Study of Reli- Eleanor G. Oakes ’07, Untitled, tory as a means of exploring her Greek heritage. gion, and the Department of Art and Archaeology 2006 At Princeton, Kratsios served as executive editor of to travel to London and Oxford to examine many Business Today magazine and cochaired Communi- of the objects discussed in her thesis. She is also s p r i n g    7 19 interested in German Expressionism and contem- particularly concerned with the dichotomy between porary Asian art, and worked as an intern in the narrative and abstraction in these monuments and Chinese department at Sotheby’s New York. Mur- how Holocaust memory within Berlin has helped to phy has performed in numerous productions with shape them. She was awarded funding to travel to Theatre Intime and Princeton University Players; Berlin, and she interviewed Eisenman, Libeskind, toured with the Triangle Club; worked as a stu- and W. Michael Blumenthal, director of the Jew- dent designer in the theater and dance program’s ish Museum. Racusin also was an intern at Fendi costume shop; and led campus tours as an Orange this spring. Last year, she organized a new event at Key guide. Following graduation, she hopes to Princeton: FAbulous: Fashion and Art Opposed spend two years in France, pursue a Ph.D., and to Sexual and Domestic Violence. FAbulous was a eventually teach art history at the university charity event for Womanspace, a local organization level. [[email protected], Christine. for victims of sexual and domestic violence. The Lauren A. Racusin ’07 interviews [email protected]] event featured the artwork of Princeton students, as architect Daniel Libeskind for Eleanor G. Oakes ’07 is a Program 2 major who well as clothes and accessories donated by various her senior thesis on Holocaust stores and designers. She is also a certificate candi- memorials in Berlin works in photography. Her Junior Project, “Aban- doned Spaces,” recently won her the position as date in the Program in Judaic Studies and European a featured artist in the prestigious publication 25 Cultural Studies. Following graduation, Racusin Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Pho‑ hopes to work abroad for a few years. [LRacusin@ tographers, to be published in 2008. Oakes’s alumni.princeton.edu; [email protected]] thesis, supervised by Jocelyn Lee and Lois Leah Tharpe ’07 wrote her thesis on sound in the Conner, consists of pictures taken in the watercolors of American artist Charles Burchfield. town of Cragsmoor, New York, a place She was advised by Professor Rachael Z. DeLue. At that has personal as well as artistic signifi- Princeton, Tharpe was a member of the Tigerlilies cance for her. Her images of this quiet town a capella group and sang in the Chapel Choir. Next demonstrate how careful observation can year she will pursue a master’s degree in art history discover beauty in the ordinary. Eleanor at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. [leah. intends to live in Manhattan next year and [email protected]] Charles Burchfield,Brookside to stay involved in the art scene. [eoakes@alumni. Laura Trimble ’07 explored her hometown, India- Music, one of the images studied princeton.edu] by Leah Tharpe ’07 napolis, Indiana, researching her senior thesis, “The Colleen O’Boyle ’07 wrote her senior thesis on Art of Land Marking: The Signs of the Cultural the representation of Near Eastern women by three Revitalization of Downtown Indianapolis through American artists in the late 19th and early 20th cen- the White River State Park.” Her thesis shows how turies, focusing on works by John Singer Sargent, the development of a new downtown park has trans- Frederick Arthur Bridgman, and Henry Ossawa formed the city, completing the early-20th-century Tanner. Her thesis discusses these paintings in the “City Beautiful” plans and serving as an anchor for context of Orientalism, focusing on how they dif- a 21st-century artistic movement through the gre- fer from French Orientalist paintings and how they enways, cultural districts, and public art that have were influenced by the artists’ American identi- followed. Working with her adviser, Professor ties, as well as how contemporary American society Jerome Silbergeld, she charted the development of viewed women, the Near East, immigrants, Native the city’s newest urban landmark, from the marks Americans, and others considered to be “different.” of land, water, and culture, to the resulting “signs.” O’Boyle, who was advised by Professor Rachael Z. Trimble is also pursuing a certificate in Spanish White River State Park in India- DeLue, conducted research funded by the depart- based on her junior paper, “Santiago Calatrava: napolis was the subject of Laura ment, the Office of Undergraduate Studies at the From Gothic Roots to the Contemporary ‘Ultimate Trimble ’07’s senior thesis Francine and Sterling Clark Institute in William- Gothic’ Expression.” She was on the varsity ten- stown, Massachusetts, and the Dallas Museum of nis team for four years and has also been a member Art. She is also pursuing a certificate in French and of Kappa Kappa Gamma and the Cap and Gown is a tri-captain and goal keeper for the club. Next year she will pursue a master’s degree in varsity women’s lacrosse team. O’Boyle contemporary design at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in has applied to law school and has also London. [[email protected]] interviewed with Teach for America. Merve Unsal ’07, from Istanbul, Turkey, is a Pro- [[email protected]] gram 2 major who works in photography. For her Lauren A. Racusin ’07 pursued her senior thesis project, she focused on the expressive long-standing interest in the Holocaust and human details of the city, from parking lots to through her senior thesis, supervised by graffiti to window displays. Supported by a Lucas Professor John Pinto, which traces the Summer Fellowship from the Program in Visual development of Holocaust memorials in Arts, she photographed in Athens as well as Istanbul Berlin, focusing on the Memorial to the and New York. Her thesis consists of black-and- Derek Whitworth ’07, Ice Field Murdered Jews of Europe by Peter Eisenman and white prints that are displayed on a grid to resemble the Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind. Racusin is a typological study of what is considered “the city.” 20 s p r i n g    7 Unsal worked with Emmet Gowin, Accra Shepp, entire neighborhoods modeled on those pilgrims and Abe Morell in the Program in Visual Arts, and would have encountered in Jerusalem. Jerome Silbergeld in the department. Outside the His work on this topic has already produced classroom, she worked as a darkroom technician for an article that is currently in press. “Hierusalem in Index of Christian Art photographer John Blaze- Laterano: The Translation of Sacred Space in Fifth- jewski and volunteered in the Princeton Young Century Rome” examines the growth of the papal Achievers Program. She hopes to work in the public borgo around St. John Lateran, and how churches interest field and to pursue her interest in photog- such as S. Croce in Gerusalemme, Sta. Maria Mag- raphy in the future by earning an M.F.A. degree. giore, and Santo Stefano Rotondo contributed to [[email protected]] the creation of a “proxy Holy Land” around the Derek Whitworth ’07 focused on photography cathedral. Sahner’s article sets this growth within during his two years in the department, culminat- the ideological framework of devotion to the city of ing with his senior thesis exhibition, “Stranger in a Jerusalem, as well as the pope’s burgeoning claims Strange Land,” which united unusual perspectives of apostolic primacy. Christian Sahner ’07 of uncommon landscapes and architecture. This Among numerous academic honors, Sahner ambitious project allowed Derek to travel through- twice received the Shapiro Prize for Academic out North America, as well as to Asia and South Excellence and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa after 2006 Senior Thesis America. While building this portfolio of photo- his junior year. He also earned fellowships to sup- Prizes graphs, he worked extensively with Jocelyn Lee, Abe port independent research in several European Morell, Eve Aschheim, and Anne McCauley. Under countries and is also pursuing certificates in Grace May Tilton Prize the guidance of Professor Jerome Silbergeld, he Hellenic studies and medieval studies. in the Fine Arts also completed a Chinese language certificate paper Sahner founded and coedits Scivias, an aca- First Place examining the problems inherent in defining the demic journal highlighting Princeton students’ Catherine Cambria ’06, modern photography of the People’s Republic of research in medieval studies. He is also an under- “Uncovering the Mother: The China. Next year, Whitworth hopes to pursue his graduate ministry coordinator for the Aquinas Work of Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse” other passion, aviation and travel, by taking a job in Institute, Princeton’s Roman Catholic chaplaincy, Desiree Fowler ’06, “The the airline industry. He intends to continue taking and a junior fellow of the James Madison Program Philosophical Foundations of pictures, with the goal of having another exhibition. in American Ideals and Institutions. the Brooklyn Bridge: Roebling and [[email protected]] He has been an active voice on campus in addressing political and social issues as a cofounder Hegel” of the Elizabeth Anscombe Society, a student orga- Second Place Sahner Awarded nization that promotes traditional conceptions of Merril Hermanson ’06, “What Lies Rhodes Scholarship marriage, family, and sexuality, and as editor-in- Beneath: The American Suburb Christian Sahner ’07 has been awarded a Rhodes chief of the Princeton Tory, a conservative magazine. in the Photography of William Garnett, Bill Owens, and Gregory Scholarship, which provides funding for two or Through his work at Princeton and future stud- Crewdson” three years of graduate study at the University of ies at Oxford, Sahner believes that learning more Jessica Siebel ’06, “From Print Oxford. He is one of 32 American students chosen about the ancient world will provide him with to Pop and Back to Realism: Two for the scholarship from among 896 applications greater insight into current debates. California Icons: Wayne Thiebaud from 340 colleges and universities nationwide. and Ed Ruscha” Sahner is the second department major to win a Undergraduates Select Prints Willard Thorp Thesis Prize in Rhodes Scholarship within the last three years: for Art Museum Willow Sainsbury ’04 won a Rhodes in 2004. American Studies At Oxford, Sahner will pursue a master’s Students in last spring’s Art 354 course, a sur- Jamie Adams ’06, “Interactions degree in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies vey of European and American prints from the between Art and Medicine: Public Opinion of American Medicine through the Faculty of History, which will allow Renaissance to the present, examined a wide range Evaluated through Art of the Late him to pursue an interdisciplinary approach to of prints from the stock of two New York deal- Nineteenth Century” the period. He plans to take advantage of Oxford’s ers and, after intensive study and debate, voted world-class language resources by adding Syriac on which one would be acquired by the Princeton Irma S. Seitz Prize in the and Arabic to a repertoire that already includes a University Art Museum. During the final weeks of Field of Modern Art command of Latin and Classical Greek, as well as the course, taught last year by Professor Al Acres, a Natasha Degen ’06, “Poet- to expand his familiarity with archaeological field variety of prints that would be welcome additions Reporter: The Dialectic of the methods. to the museum’s collection were selected by Acres Surreal and the Documentary in Sahner is working with Professor Slobodan and Laura Giles, the museum’s curator of prints the Work of Humphrey Jennings” and drawings. Merril Hermanson ’06, “What Lies Ćurčić on a senior thesis that focuses on the Beneath: The American Suburb development of cities in Late Antiquity as “New At that point, the students took over, question- in the Photography of William Jerusalems.” Taking Rome and Constantinople as ing the professor, the curator, and the dealers, and Garnett, Bill Owens, and Gregory case studies, he examines how perceptions of the researching and debating the merits of each print. Crewdson” Heavenly Jerusalem shaped urban growth in these Their preliminary discussions narrowed the orig- major episcopal sees, which featured churches and inal selection of 28 prints down to a short list of coninued on page 22 s p r i n g    7 21 Macfarlane Gift Funds Senior

Jeff Evans Jeff Thesis Research Travel Thanks to an ongoing gift from Robert S. Macfar- lane ’54, department majors are able to undertake ambitious travel and research for their senior the- ses during the summer between their junior and senior year. In the summer of 2004, a Macfarlane grant sponsored Jennifer Diorio ’05’s travel to Stock- holm, London, and Florence to study the works of Benozzo Gozzoli and Fra Angelico for her thesis on Gozzoli’s model book and the diffusion of images in Florentine workshops of the late 14th and 15th centuries. Catherine Pack ’05 traveled to New Mex- ico, where she studied the mosque Dar al-Islam at Abiquiu, a monument that played a crucial role in her thesis, “The American Mosque.” The following summer, a Macfarlane grant Title page of Enrique Chagoya’s nine, ranging in date from 1543 to 2004, which sent Álex Falcón Bueno ’06 to Spain to research UtopianCannibal.Org (2000), the were then sent to the museum for more detailed his thesis “Castles for Tourists: Paradores de Tur- work selected by students in Art study. After discussions in class, which included ismo de España.” Carolynn Crabtree ’06 traveled 354 for the permanent collec- lively lobbying, the students voted on three final- first to London and then around northern Europe tion of the Princeton University ists by e-mail. for firsthand study of the altarpieces of 15th-cen- Art Museum. Museum purchase, tury Flemish artist Rogier Van der Weyden and the Meginnity Fund (2006-50) The aim of this project is not to train collec- tors, but to convey to the class an understanding churches for which they were commissioned. of some of the dynamics of the art market, which This year Macfarlane grants sent two depart- is especially fluid in the realm of prints, partly ment majors in opposite directions around the globe 2006 Senior Thesis Prizes to study very different monuments. Susannah Cra- continued from page 21 because they exist in multiples, and partly because they are generally less expensive than most other mer-Greenbaum ’07 traveled to Dhaka, Bangaldesh, Kathleen Kilkenny ’06, “Beyond kinds of art. It is also an introduction to the work to study Louis Kahn’s parliament building and the Painting: Gauguin’s Multimedia of curators, scholars, and dealers, as well as a win- cultural and geographic context in which it was Dimension” dow on certain mechanisms and implications of art built. Beth Ann Ingrassia ’07 traveled through the Frederick Barnard White collecting itself, a practice that was crucially shaped south of France studying the work that Matisse and Prize in Architecture by the rise of prints and their market during the Chagall executed for churches. Álex Falcón Bueno ’06, “Castles for Renaissance. Juniors can apply for Macfarlane grants by Tourists: Paradores de Turismo de One new element of last year’s project was submitting a description of their thesis topic, an España” that the students were required to pitch their rec- itinerary, and an endorsement from a faculty mem- Amie Y. Shao ’06 (School of ommendation to the museum’s director, Susan M. ber who is willing to supervise their work. Architecture), “Club Med and Taylor, in person. After the students’ presentation, Urban Warfare” Taylor enthusiastically approved their proposal to Stella and Rensselaer W. Lee acquire Enrique Chagoya’s UtopianCannibal.Org Prize (2000), a technically complex, smart, and witty Desiree Fowler ’06, “The codex that muses on American policy and culture Philosophical Foundations of the in all kinds of dark ways. Fusing historically dispa- Brooklyn Bridge: Roebling and rate techniques, and often using cartoon or comic Hegel” elements alongside Aztec and Mayan religious White Prize in Art and imagery, the work presents a jumble of images that Archaeology reflect on the impact of one culture on another. Katie McCulloch ’06, “Goldhroden: After that discussion, Taylor asked the class Bracteates and the Women Who what their second choice would have been. Their response was Andrew Raftery’s Suit Shopping Wore Them” A Macfarlane grant sponsored Susannah Cramer- (2002), a multi-part engraving that makes various Department of Art and Greenbaum ’07’s research trip to Bangladesh, where art-historical allusions as it depicts goings-on in a Archaeology Senior she studied Louis Kahn’s National Assembly build- Brooks-Brothers-like suit department. The class Thesis Prize ing in Dhaka was delighted when Taylor decided to acquire that Catherine Cambria ’06, print for the museum as well. “Uncovering the Mother: The Work of Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse”

22 s p r i n g    7 Excavations

Excavations at Polis Continuous use of the area up to the present day had resulted Chrysochous, Cyprus in extensive disturbance. None- xcavations in the summer of 2006, theless, this year department directed by Professor William Childs, graduate students Emma Ljung Eextended and clarified two widely separated and Jessica Paga, working with areas of the early city of Marion: a building of the Justin Goering of Arizona State Archaic period—the so-called palace—located University and ably assisted by at the extreme northeastern end of the 6th-cen- Marya Grupsmith ’07 and Kassi tury b.c. city, and an area about 900 meters to the Jackson ’07 (classics), uncovered west, where a massive cut-stone wall with mud- sections of ashlar, mud-brick, and brick appendages was unearthed in 1997. At the rubble walls that stood to a height end of the season, the Cypriot police department of three meters on the west side. generously provided a helicopter to take aerial pho- This extensive building measures 22 meters Kassi Jackson ’07 (left) and gradu- tographs of the completed excavations. by 12 meters and has walls 1.9 meters thick. At ate student Emma Ljung (right) Nassos Papalexandrou *98 directed work in the the south end of the structure, reused ashlar blocks supervise the excavation of a large Roman building at Polis “palace” area, extending the excavated area to the enclose a rubble core, while on the north, approx- Chrysochous north and south of the extensive ashlar, imately 3-meter-long sections of ashlar wall rubble, and mud-brick build- alternate with sections of mud brick. About ing. Removal of the shallow soil half of the interior of the structure was exca- cover over the southern end vated to the base of the walls, and two tests revealed a further sequence were carried down to virgin soil, but no of rooms and a second jog in floor or obvious use surface was found. the exterior wall of the build- The area within the walls was filled (At left) All of the 430 medieval ing that conformed to the edge with 1.5 meters of mud, and above coins in a hoard found at Polis of the plateau. Unfortunately, this was a 1.5-meter-thick layer show a rampant lion (left) and modern disturbance meant that no of sand that contained only small a cross with pellets (right); the additional evidence for the function sherds of Late Classical Cypriot surrounding legend identifies the of the building was preserved. pottery, dating roughly to the 4th issuer as Peter, king of Cyprus The main effort of the season con- century b.c. centrated in the western area, on a ridge On both east and west this struc- overlooking the Mediterranean. Amy ture was flanked by thick rubble walls Papalexandrou *98, working with bioarchaeol- that were connected by mud-brick cross ogist Brenda Baker of Arizona State University, walls to the ashlar sections of the large structure. directed the excavation of burials in the narthex of The most economical interpretation is that the ash- Aerial view of the Roman building the Byzantine basilica that stood at the south edge lar and mud-brick structure served as the massive complex with concrete court; at of this sector. Most of the work, however, focused foundation of a large three-aisled, basilica-like room the top is the Byzantine basilica on a large building occupying the north side of the that opened onto the north area, the site of the former dig house, which was side of the colonnaded court. removed in 2002 The foundations of this Roman so that the ashlar building were cut into a thick and mud-brick layer of mud formed by the col- wall found in 1997 lapse of earlier buildings and could be explored. probably the city wall, which Excavation in must have run just to the north 2003 had revealed of the excavated area. that the Roman Princeton’s curator of building with a numismatics, Alan Stahl, trav- large colonnaded eled to Polis last summer to court in the cen- study a perplexing hoard of 430 ter of this sector medieval coins that was discov- An Egyptian relief, probably extended north- ered in the 1995 excavation. All dating to the 6th century b.c., wards above the of the coins are small and poorly discovered last summer in an ashlar and mud- struck, and they appear to be Archaic sanctuary at Polis brick structure. entirely copper. The legends s p r i n g    7 23 identify the issuer as a Peter, king uncovered the remaining corners, showing that of Cyprus, suggesting either Peter the entire basin measured 20 × 25 meters and was I (1359–69) or his son, Peter II four meters deep. Filling this reservoir would have (1369–83). However, neither of required something like 50 donkeys making the these kings is known to have four-mile trip to the Euphrates River twice a day issued coins of this size or metal. for 110 days. Analysis of the silt deposits recovered The coinage seems to be an emer- from underground channels in the industrial area gency issue, and preliminary of the qasr has now revealed why the estate needed research connects it with the civil such large amounts of water: for the large-scale disturbances following the assassi- washing of wool, probably used in the manufacture nation of Peter I in 1369 and of of felt. The Bālis complex, in addition to function- his brother John six years later. ing as an administrative center, thus seems to have This summer Childs and the been intended to produce revenue for the Syrian Princeton team will conduct the Umayyad rulers. first of several study seasons, ana- Leisten’s team also conducted an archaeological lyzing and interpreting the finds survey in the area of steppes to the south of the Excavations in the latrine of the of 20 years of excavation at Polis. palace, mapping a large number of sites, including mosque complex at Bālis small towns and outposts, in a region that had Excavations at Bālis, Syria suffered badly during the long series of wars between Byzantium and the Sasanians in the 4th After nine seasons of digging, Princeton’s exca- through the 7th century a.d. The Umayyads vations at the Byzantine/Islamic site of Bālis in devoted a major effort to reviving and repopulating northern Syria are now gradually drawing to a this devastated area, and the extensive settlements close. Last summer Professor Thomas Leisten, found by the Princeton team suggest another director of the B lis excavations, conducted a sea- ā function for the Bālis qasr. One of its primary son that included excavation at several sites, a field purposes may have been to support this hinterland survey of some of the outlying areas, and explora- by serving as a central collection point for wool and tion of a nearby medieval Shiite shrine. other products of low-intensity agriculture. This The most intensive digging took place in would explain the construction of a major wool- the qasr at Bālis, a large desert palace complex washing installation in a complex located high in constructed by an Umayyad prince in the early the steppe land, rather than closer to the banks of 8th century a.d. In 2006, the Princeton team Euphrates: its location may have been chosen to unearthed a fortified house that was erected within support the surrounding rural area and its semi- the palace at the very end of the Umayyad caliph- nomadic population. ate, when a new ruling dynasty, the Abassids, The excavators also continued their work at a moved to occupy the area around Bālis. Excava- small mosque complex built around the shrine of a Catherine Pack ’05 and Syrian tion of this area showed that the older qasr was not Shiite saint about a kilometer to the east of the pal- student Khalil Ismael excavating destroyed, and that some of its walls were simply ace site. Probably erected in a preexisting cemetery reused to construct a smaller unit within the fab- the mashhad at Bālis in the 10th or 11th century a.d., this mashhad, or ric of the palace. The construction and stuccoing commemorative structure, was apparently in active techniques were identical to those used in the qasr, use until the arrival of the Mongols in the 13th One of the Bālis workmen brews suggesting that the later structure was also built by century. It may have been constructed to honor a a pot of tea in the cool of the local workmen rather than by an imported work- member of the family of Mohammed: a number of early morning force. The occupation levels of this house, which stories relate that members of the prophet’s house measures nearly 15 × 25 stopped near Bālis during their travels through meters, date from around the area. 750 to the 770s. Agri- The overall plan of the complex resembles that cultural operations at the of medieval Shiite shrines in Egypt, with a col- complex appear to have umned courtyard leading into a prayer hall with ended at about the same three prayer niches. Flanking this core were various time, suggesting that, with side rooms and latrines. A highly unusual feature the construction of this of the Bālis complex was a bakery that was located new fortified building, within the mosque itself and which may have pro- the function of the pal- vided food for children or the poor. Material ace changed from that of retrieved from the cisterns allows us to reconstruct Umayyad country estate to certain aspects of the original appearance of this Abbasid military garrison. shrine: it was brilliantly decorated with brightly Further exploration painted polychrome stucco reliefs and furnished of the large open reser- with lamps and zoomorphic metalwork. voir that began in 2005

24 s p r i n g    7 Department Index of Christian Art Lecture Series

Spring 2007 his year the Index celebrates the 90th Wednesday, February 21 anniversary of its foundation. Like many Jonathan Crary institutions, however, it is in fact older Columbia University T On the Ends of Sleep: Shadows in than its official birthday, since its founder, Charles Rufus Morey, first mooted the idea for the Index the Glare of a 24/7 World five years earlier, in 1912. It is difficult to imagine Tuesday, February 27 the daunting task Morey faced when he embarked The Sensuous in Art Lecture Series on the project of creating an iconographical anal- Natalie Kampen Barnard College, Columbia ysis and photographic record of every work of University medieval art. Family Tragedy on the Walls The archive, now directed by Colum Houri- of Pompeii hane, has evolved enormously since those early Cosponsored by the Department days of index cards and manual typewriters, and of Art and Archaeology and the now consists of a database, available by subscrip- Institute for Advanced Study tion via the World Wide Web, of some 70,000 Tuesday, March 6 work-of-art records, 40,000 bibliographic records, The Sensuous in Art Lecture Series Irene Winter and more than 100,000 digital images. This year Harvard University marked another electronic milestone when the Activating the Senses: The Body annual delivery of images to the copies of the Royal and the Body Politic in a Index—located at Dumbarton Oaks in Washing- Mesopotamian Visual Aesthetics ton, D.C., the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and of Power Utrecht University in the Netherlands—was done Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the via the Internet. The labors of the month of April in the Da Costa Institute for Advanced Study The Index’s database, which is now the larg- Hours, Morgan Library M.399, one of the later est online resource for the medieval iconographer, Morgan manuscripts recently catalogued by coninued on page 26 was awarded five stars for content—the highest the Index accolade—in a review published in the January 2006 edition of the Charleston Advisor: Critical umentation of architecture and architectural Reviews of Web Products for Information Professionals sculpture. (www.charlestonco.com). The database contin- After six years of intensive work, the first ues to grow at a rapid pace: Index staff have now phase of cataloguing the collection of the electronically catalogued approximately one-third Pierpont Morgan Library in New York ended of the paper files that were created over the last 90 last year when the contents of over 600 man- years and have finished digitizing all of the images uscripts were made available on the Index’s in the Index. The collection of more than 260,000 website (http://ica.princeton.edu). The images, which took 90 years to assemble, has been Morgan’s unrivaled collection of manuscripts digitized in a period of just three years, marking a dating before 1400 has now been photo- significant step in migrating the Index’s holdings to graphed and iconographically catalogued a completely electronic format. Most of these older by the Index at a cost of nearly $2 million, images were photographs of illustrations in books which was generously provided by grants and journals, and their quality was not always satis- from the Getty Trust and the Homeland factory. In the course of digitization many of these Foundation. More than 500 later manu- images have been considerably improved, thanks to scripts still remain to be catalogued, and, Adobe Photoshop and the skills of David Schaller thanks to another grant of nearly $400,000, and his team of students. the next phase of the project has already The Index also recently completed digitizing begun. This additional funding will enable the important archive of photographs of Roman- the Index to extend the scope of the project King Dawit prays to Mary and esque and Gothic architecture and sculpture to include manuscripts dating between 1400 and the Christ child in an early-15th- taken by James Austin. A copy of this collection is 1550 as well as non-Western works. century Ethiopian manuscript at housed in the department’s Visual Resources Col- There have also been significant additions of the Monastery of Amba Geshen, lection, and the photographer has given the Index other media to the Index’s database. Index staff part of Diana Spencer’s archive permission to add these images to its database. The have continued to digitize the collection of slides that is being added to the Index’s Austin collection contains several thousand images built up over a period of 30 years by Catherine database of unsurpassed quality, and its addition to the Jolivet-Lévy, of the Université de Paris I. Her doc- Index is a notable enhancement of the Index’s doc- umentation of the art of Byzantine Cappadocia, in s p r i n g    7 25 Spring Lecture Series The Index and Firestone Library also had the continued from page 25 good fortune of acquiring the personal papers and memorabilia of its founder, Charles Rufus Morey, Thursday, March 8 from his granddaughter, Sally Floody of Greens- Darby English University of Chicago boro, Vermont. Sally’s son, Nathan Floody ’06, had Must We Mean What We See? worked in the Index as a work-study student for Wednesday, March 14 three years, sitting beneath a portrait of his great- Steven LeBlanc grandfather but never mentioning the relationship! Peabody Museum, Harvard It was only after Nathan graduated that Sally con- University tacted the Index to ask if it would be interested The Artist as Individual in in acquiring Morey’s papers. Morey, who died in Prehistoric Pottery of the Americas 1955, is widely acknowledged as one of the pio- Tuesday, April 3 neers in the field of Early Christian iconography. Susan Laxton It is very appropriate that the Index of Christian Barnard College and 2006–07 Florence Gould Fellow in the Art and Firestone Library will now be able to offer History of Photography greater insight into his life and career by making “Flou”—Rayographs and the Dada this material available to scholars. Automatic Roman soldiers sleep by the tomb of Christ on The Index’s active schedule of conferences a mid-12th-century capital in the church of St.- Tuesday, April 17 continued this year with symposiums on a variety Austremoine in Issoire, one of the David Austin The Sensuous in Art Lecture Series of topics. A three-day conference, “Art, Liturgy, and photographs that was added to the Index’s data- T. J. Clark Religious Cult in Late Antiquity and the Middle base this year University of California–Berkeley Ages,” was jointly organized by the Index and Ben Veronese’s “Allegories of Love” Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the central Asia Minor, and particularly its many fine Israel, and took place on the campus of Ben Gurion Institute for Advanced Study fresco cycles, has added enormously to the Index’s University last June. This collaboration continued a Tuesday, April 24 coverage of these important monuments. relationship between these two institutions that has Krista Thompson Diana Spencer, an independent scholar, has resulted in important additions of Christian art Northwestern University recently made her unparalleled collection of pho- from the Holy Land to the Index’s archive. In Bling!: Reflections on the Surface of tographs of medieval Ethiopian art available to October, the Index hosted a two-day conference the Image in Black Youth Culture the Index. One of the most remarkable research- honoring Walter Cahn, the eminent scholar of the Cosponsored by the Department ers in the field of Ethiopic art, Spencer spent more Romanesque. The program included leading schol- of Art and Archaeology and the ars from both sides of the Atlantic, who presented Center for African American than a decade living in Ethiopia in the 1960s and Studies ’70s, documenting manuscripts, icons, relics, and papers on many aspects of 12th-century art. The other objects. Journeying to remote monaster- third conference, held in February, focused on the ies and churches—some of which lay far up in the medieval arts of North Africa and the Near East. highlands, five days travel by mule from the nearest Finally, in April the Index hosted a half-day confer- paved road—she was able to study and photograph ence to celebrate its 90th. For more details about hundreds of little-known and unknown examples these Index conferences, see pages 11–13. of what has been called “Byzantine art in an Afri- Studies in Iconography, the premier journal for can setting.” Lois Drewer has been responsible for the study of iconography, continues to be based at

John Blazejewski adding this archive of photographs, which is one of the Index. With the departure this year of its two the most important resources for the study of Ethi- editors, Pamela Sheingorn and Richard Emmerson, opian art, to the Index’s holdings. it is now jointly owned by the Index and Medi- Robin Dunham eval Institute Publications, the publisher. The new editors are Michael Curschmann (Princeton Uni- versity, emeritus), Colum Hourihane (Index of Christian Art), and Lawrence Nees (University of Delaware). The Index lost a valued staff member at the end of the year, when administrator Barbara Shearn left to pursue a career in interior design. We are fortunate that her position was taken by Robin Dunham, who transferred to the Index from Firestone Library, where she had worked for almost two years. Dunham graduated from Douglass St. Francis of Assisi receives the stigmata in College in 2005 with a degree in sociology and has the Hours of Henry VIII, Morgan Library H.8, a a keen interest in medieval art. manuscript catalogued by the Index as part of its ongoing Morgan Library project

26 s p r i n g    7 Marquand Library

he search for a new Marquand librarian diverse audience. Librarians is nearing completion, and a new direc- work with faculty members to Ttor is expected to arrive this summer. In create presentations covering the meantime, Marquand has flourished this year online resources for a number under the direction of Mendel Music Librarian of department courses, from Paula Matthews and Graphic Arts Librarian Julie Renaissance to modern. These Mellby. Working with Marquand’s dedicated staff, tutorials are designed specifi- they have maintained the library’s robust develop- cally to keep undergraduates up ment and overseen several key new initiatives. to date with the rapidly chang- One of the most significant developments in ing world of virtual art-history Marquand this year has been the six-fold increase research. in the number of assigned course readings available As part of a University- online as digital texts—nearly 250 for the spring wide outreach program aimed semester alone. Under the supervision of library especially at freshmen and soph- assistant Margaret L’Huillier and with the help of omores, Marquand staff has a newly purchased high-end scanner, journal arti- also helped to develop several cles and chapters of books owned by the library are instructional Web pages for the scanned and converted to Adobe PDF files. The Princeton Writing Program. illustrations are optimized with Adobe PhotoShop, Representatives from ARTstor and the files are then posted on password-protected also use the digital classroom Blackboard websites, so that only students in each to give tutorials to library staff, class can access the assigned material. department faculty and stu- Only small sections of books and journals are dents, and staff members from digitized, and, for reasons of copyright, this online the Visual Resources Collection. material will never replace the books that still fill Marquand continues to View of a working-class alley acquire books at the rate of about 1,200 per month. in Thomas Annan’s Glasgow Readers who want to stay current with this influx of Improvements Act, 1866, a joint new arrivals can browse the new-book carts, which acquisition of Marquand and the are restocked roughly every other day, or con- Department of Rare Books and sult the online acquisitions list, which is updated Special Collections weekly. Two important acquisitions were made this year through a new cooperative effort of Marquand and Firestone’s Department of Rare Books and Spe- cial Collections. A toute épreuve (Geneva, 1958) is a collaboration between Miró and his favorite Library assistant Margaret L’Huillier scans material poet, Paul Éluard. Miró, who immersed himself in for online course readings work on these illustrations in 1948, created visual images that were strikingly equivalent to the words the reserve shelves. But this 21st-century technol- of the text, making this the most beautiful of all his ogy now allows students to access much of their illustrated works. The second joint acquisition is assigned course reading from anywhere on campus. Thomas Annan’s Glasgow Improvements Act, 1866: Another recent innovation is the Online Photographs of Streets, Closes, &c. (Glasgow?, 1872?). Reserve Request Service, which allows faculty This renowned collection of photographs of the members to request new reserve material via the working-class areas of old Glasgow helped doc- Internet. Even when faculty members are away ument the impoverished living conditions of the from campus—attending a conference in Chicago, working class and is now regarded as one of the fin- for example, or doing research in China—and find est photographic ensembles of the 19th century. publications that should be added to a class bibli- Among the many other rare volumes acquired ography, they can log into the system via the Web, by Marquand this year are two suites of garden and the new reserve material will be processed the views by the Dutch engraver Peter Schenk (1660– next morning. 1711). Praetorum Dieranum (Amsterdam, ca. Le coeur à barbe, one of the key As art-historical research moves increasingly 1700), views of the hunting lodge and gardens at Dada texts acquired this year into cyberspace, Marquand’s electronic class- Dieren belonging to William III (later king of Eng- room—one of only two in Princeton’s library land), is bound with a second suite showing the system—is used more frequently and by a more house and gardens of “De Voorst” near Zutphen. s p r i n g    7 27 The gardens at Dieren, which reveal the impact Another significant acquisition isHet Journaal of recent developments in landscape architecture, van den Nieuwen Kring (Amsterdam, 1916–17), The renowned formal gardens at including those at Versailles and in Italy, were dev- an important but short-lived Dutch Expressionist Dieren, The Netherlands, astated by a fire in 1795, making this suite an periodical that includes original wood- and linocuts as recorded in Peter Schenk’s especially valuable record of their former splendor. by artists of the Bergense School, along with the Praetorium Dieranum in about 1700 A particularly intrigu- texts of four lectures on “new art” by the editors, C. ing addition this year is A. Wijnschenk Dom and Pieter Talma. La maschera trionfante nel Other notable additions to periodicals include giudicio di Paride (Bolo- Art et décoration (Paris, 1897–1938), L’Élan (Paris, gna, 1643), which records 1915–16), MSA: mezinárodni soudobá architektura detailed views of an elaborate (Prague, 1929–31), Les quatre vents (Paris, 1945– musical, artistic, and theatri- 47), NEON (Paris, 1948–49), and Le fait accompli cal spectacle that took place (Brussels, 1968–75). in Bologna on February 17, Among the many facsimiles purchased this 1643. The double-page etch- year is The Bible of Federico da Montefeltro, which ings of the extraordinary reproduces the two massive volumes of the original, procession of performers and produced in Florence in 1477–78. The monumen- floats are a testament both tality of the Duke of Urbino’s Bible—552 folios to the sophistication of the with 70 unusually large-scale miniatures—was masque genre in that period intended to reflect the significance of his contribu- and to the lavish patronage tion to Renaissance culture. A number of artists, of the three Barberini neph- led by the celebrated miniaturist Francesco Antonio ews of Pope Urban VIII. This rare work is being del Chierico, cooperated in decorating these splen- digitized as part of the library’s digital initiative did volumes. (http://diglib.princeton.edu) and will soon be Marquand also acquired a facsimile of the available online. Menologium of Basil II, produced sometime after Important recent additions to the holdings a.d. 979 and the most lavishly illustrated of all Byz- of architectural history include Francesco Panini’s Vedute di Roma nel XVIII secolo (Rome, 1765), Johann Vogel’s Die Moderne Baukunst (Hamburg, 1708), and Plans, coupes et élévations de l’Église royale de Frederic V (Copenhagen?, 1769) by Nicolas-Henri Jardin. In the field of decorative arts, Giovanni Andrea Vavassore’s Esemplario di lavori, published in Venice in 1532, is an extremely early pattern book for the The Dutch Expressionist periodi- type of needlework that was a precursor to cal Het journaal van den Nieuwen true needle lace, which evolved later in the Kring, one of this year’s notable 16th century. The creation of such luxuri- periodical acquisitions La maschera trionfante nel giudicio di Paride documents ous ornamental textiles was regarded as an an elaborate spectacle that took place in Bologna on artistic accomplishment in fashionable and February 17, 1643 wealthy women, who were also the intended audience. antine liturgical manuscripts. Its 430 miniatures The library also acquired several key include prophets and saints in exquisite landscapes Dada texts this year, including Le coeur à and architectural settings but focus on scenes of barbe, the first and only issue of a “trans- violent torture and martyrdom. The violence of the parent newspaper” published by Tristan subject matter is counterbalanced by an extremely Tzara in April 1922 in response to André refined artistic technique. Breton’s attacks on him in an earlier pub- In view of these rich resources in a wide range lication. The issue includes contributions of media, which now include DVDs and stream- from Tzara, Paul Éluard, Eric Satie, and ing video, it comes as no surprise that Marquand other Dada luminaries. Other Dada continues to be one of the most popular campus items added this year include several locales for research and study. Striking confirma- issues of the periodical Dada, Picabia’s tion of that fact came last January 15, when 1,294 Depiction of Pentecost in The Bible provocative Cannibale: revue mensuelle (1920), and people came through the library’s turnstiles, setting of Federico da Montefeltro, one of a copy of the 1921 manifesto Dada soulève tout. an all-time single-day record. the facsimiles recently added to Marquand’s collections

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he transition to digital teaching on cam- and selecting data for the identi- pus is moving rapidly on a number of fication of digital images. Tfronts. Trudy Jacoby, director of the Visual With so many digital image Resources Collection (VRC), reports that the digi- sources now accessible online, tal environment is rapidly becoming the norm and Visual Resources images can also that about half of the department’s lecture courses be searched from the University are now taught entirely with digital images. While library. The library’s Quick- VRC remains committed to supporting the use of Search page now offers the slides for teaching, much of the classroom teach- ability to find images in multiple ing, conference presentations, and other lectures by sources—including Almagest, department faculty members is now digital. ARTstor, and other image data- A number of factors, some of them recent bases—with a single search. developments, are driving the accelerating Uni- VRC also continues to versity-wide change to digital teaching. One focus on building its collec- result is that VRC now supports a variety of soft- tion of digital images using new ware, so that faculty members and preceptors can procedures and new vendors. Princeton’s Almagest software teach using the software of their choice. Almagest, Most museums and many other vendors no longer offers the ability to select a lecture a multimedia database developed entirely at sell transparencies, but few have moved to digi- and view it in various presentation Princeton, has been the standard tool on campus, tal images. Visual Resources now acquires digital and study modes but many faculty members now use PowerPoint. images from licensed aggregators such as CAMIO This spring, some department faculty mem- (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online), ART- bers are using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer stor, and Scholars Resource, which provides digital (OIV) software for the first time. ARTstor OIV images from several vendors. The vendors can send allows users to access the many thousands of high- newly purchased images as e-mail attachments, sig- quality images in the ARTstor database and to add nificantly reducing turnaround time. other images—personal photos and images from In a potentially revolutionary change in digital Almagest and a variety of other sources—and image acquisition, a small group of major muse- project them in a PowerPoint-like environment ums announced earlier this year that they would that allows zooming and panning. begin offering images Another recent advance in digital teaching is to scholars without that these software systems are now interoperable charge. The Metropoli- to some degree. A lecture created with Almagest, tan Museum of Art has for example, can be exported to a PowerPoint file begun a pilot program or vice versa, and PowerPoint or other images can that will provide dig- be imported into ARTstor OIV presentations. In ital images of objects addition, all of these systems allow users to inte- in their collections at grate their personal images with existing resources. no cost. Scholars will What’s more, VRC can now support faculty mem- be able to access these bers who are traveling or lecturing off campus by images through ART- acquiring and e-mailing digital images to them. stor, and the image files With Almagest, PowerPoint, and ARTstor will be of sufficient OIV in use, VRC staff members now devote signif- size and quality to be icant time and effort to keeping abreast of current printed in books and developments in all of these software systems and scholarly journals. The PowerPoint presentations can be providing support for campus users. The staff pro- Victoria & Albert Museum in London is also pre- uploaded to Almagest; this shows vides instruction in using various software for paring a new policy for image usage that will give a PowerPoint “slide” as viewed in image presentations, in technical aspects of creating additional support to educators and scholarly proj- Almagest and storing digital images—including file formats, ects and publications, as is the Getty Museum. scanning, and resolution—and in the use of digital The Visual Resources website, www.princeton. projection equipment. edu/~visres, provides links to a number of organi- Visual Resources has also revised and updated zations and individuals that offer images without its instructional sessions for graduate students. charge, including WorldImages Kiosk, Art Images These classes now cover an even broader range of for College Teaching, the Society of Architectural digital image sources, technical skills, and presen- Historians, and Catena (Digital Archive of Historic tation software options, as well as guidelines on Gardens and Landscapes). building and organizing personal image collections s p r i n g    7 29 Among VRC’s cur- five extended research expeditions to Sinai between rent projects is an ongoing 1956 and 1965, and the project’s photographic initiative to replace older archive is held jointly by the Research Photographs digital images with higher- Collection and the University of Michigan. resolution versions. The Situated in the barren wilderness of the Sinai PiCtor database has also Peninsula, the ancient monastery is dominated by been expanded this year by the mighty massif of Mount Sinai (Jebel Musa) the addition of classification where, according to biblical tradition, Moses systems for African art and received the Tablets of the Law from God. The Native American art, and, in monastery’s fame rests on several factors, primar- the next phase, a system for ily its location, which was thought to be the site of Pre-Columbian art will be the Burning Bush, where Moses first encountered added. Upgrades to the data- God. This has made the monastery a locus sanctus base cataloguing are now par excellence for the three great religions: Judaism, even more important, since Christianity, and Islam. Shari Kenfield, curator of the faculty members increasingly find their images by The exhibition presented images that docu- Research Photographs Collection, searching the database through Almagest or PUL mented various aspects of the monastery, including enters cataloging data in PiCtor, the Quicksearch, rather than visiting VRC in person. its environment, history, architecture, and depiction database developed by Princeton In staff news, photographer David Connelly and Cornell, and checks the digitized image against the original continues to work closely with faculty, assist- 19th-century albumen print ing them with scanning and digital photography needs. Marilyn Gazzillo provides projection for all department classes and lectures, and often assists the Tang Center, the Index of Christian Art, and the art museum. Trudy Jacoby was co-chair of the 2006 ARLIS/VRA Summer Educational Insti- tute for Visual Resources, chaired the CAA (Visual Resources Association) session “Practical Tips for the Classroom Instructor: Get What You Want from Digital Tools,” and was a presenter at the VRA workshop “Educating the Educator.” Lisa Detail of one of the 6th-century carved wooden Manganello will complete her M.L.I.S. degree at beams in the monastery church of St. Catherine Rutgers this May, and Martha Perry continues to showing a Nilotic landscape broaden her experience by working part time at the Princeton Public Library. by early travelers. Some of the photographs are over a century old and reveal how conditions within the Research Photographs monastery complex have changed significantly over time. A digital version of the exhibition is available The Monastery of St. Catherine at In the spring of 2006, curator of Research Pho- on the Research Photographs website, www. Mount Sinai in its dramatic setting tographs Shari Kenfield, in collaboration with princeton.edu/~visres/rp. in the Sinai Peninsula, one of the Professor Slobodan Ćurčić, assembled an exhibi- To improve access to the Research Photo- archival photos from the Research tion on the Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount graphs Collection, Kenfield and Julie Angarone, the Photographs collection that was Sinai. Conceived in conjunction with Ćurčić’s department’s computing support specialist, have shown in a recent exhibition graduate seminar redesigned and expanded its website. Recent addi- “Juncture of Heaven tions include an online catalogue of archaeological and Earth: The Mon- archives, www.princeton.edu/~visres/rp/archarch. astery of St. Catherine html, which provides Internet access to a complete on Mount Sinai,” the list of the photographs in the Antioch excavation exhibition also com- and Howard Crosby Butler collections. memorated the 50th The increased visibility of these noteworthy anniversary of the first collections has resulted in a growing number of expedition to Mount requests for material from the archives. Kenfield is Sinai led by the late currently collaborating on several projects, includ- Kurt Weitzmann, who ing the resumption of archaeological investigations taught in the depart- at Antioch-on-the-Orontes (modern Antakya in ment from 1945 to southern Turkey) by a German-Turkish team. 1972, and George Kenfield also assembled an exhibition of 19th- Forsyth ’23 *27 of the century travel photography that will be on display University of Michi- in McCormick Hall through October 2007 and gan. Weitzmann and will also be available online. Forsyth conducted 30 s p r i n g    7 Tang Center for East Asian Art Tang Center Events Panel Discussion September 27, 2006 ince the inauguration of the P. Y. and Kin- Studies, and the Princeton University Art Museum. Meiji Eyes: A Panel Discussion on may W. Tang Center for East Asian Art in In early April, Professor Emerita Anne Clapp Japanese Woodblock Prints at the S2001, Director Jerome Silbergeld and Asso- of Wellesley College came to campus as this year’s Turn of the 19th Century ciate Director Dora C. Y. Ching have organized speaker in the Tang Center Lecture Series. In her Organized by the Princeton five major symposiums, two graduate student first lecture, “Conspicuous Seclusion: Commemo- University Art Museum and symposiums, a regular program of lectures, two rative Landscape Painting in China,” she analyzed cosponsored with the Tang Center for East Asian Art special lecture series, workshops, films, and gradu- landscape paintings that were intended to cele- ate student trips. Last year the center published its brate a particular historical person, to make his Nicole Fabricand-Person ’76 *01 Lafayette College inaugural volume, achievements known, and to win social status and Persistence/Transformation: Text Another Other: Depiction of the as Image in the Art of Xu Bing, which is distributed recognition. Clapp argued that such paintings were Non-White Foreigner in Meiji Japan by Princeton University Press. The Tang Center disguised portraits in which the subject asserts Sheldon Garon continued to build on these past successes during himself, his ambition, and his tastes, openly seek- Princeton University the academic year, promoting the understanding ing acceptance and support from his peers through Samuel Smiles in Japan: Moral of East Asian art and culture through a variety of the medium of innocuous-looking landscapes. Education from Self-Help to Thrift scholarly activities that included a symposium, a Clapp’s second lecture, “What’s in a Name?: The Benjamin Elman variety of lectures, a special lecture series, an artist’s Biehao Painting in Chinese Landscape,” addressed Princeton University workshop, and a panel discussion. a subtype of commemorative landscape painting, Japanese Woodblock Prints in In April, the Tang Center organized an inter- the biehao or “name picture,” in which the iden- Cyberspace: The MIT Affair as an national symposium on Japanese art and religion tity of the subject was hidden within inscriptions Educational Lesson titled “Re-presenting Emptiness: Zen and Art in attached to the paintings. Through meticulous David Howell Medieval Japan.” Yukio Lippit *03 and Gregory Princeton University Levine *97 helped organize the symposium and The Girl in the Horse-dung Hairdo provided expertise in Japanese art. “Re-presenting Lectures Emptiness” articulated new frames of reference for November 28, 2006 the artifacts associated with Japanese Zen monas- Nancy Steinhardt tic communities in the medieval period, bringing University of Pennsylvania together leading scholars in the disciplines of his- The Mosque in China tory, literature, religious studies, and art history Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the from Japan, Europe, and the United States. Their Tang Center for East Asian Art presentations provided diverse and interregional perspectives on the little-understood objects that December 4, 2006 Marsha Haufler mediated relations between Chan/Zen monks and University of Kansas their dharma brethren. Robes, calligraphies, por- Thangkas for the Ming Court traits, landscape paintings, and poem-picture Graduate students (left to right) Zoe Kwok, Sonja Cosponsored by the East Asian scrolls were examined in terms of their rhetorical Kelley, Xiaojin Wu, and Kim Wishart in Beijing, Studies Program and the Tang and institutional functions. By offering new under- where they are pursuing research and language Center for East Asian Art standing of the formal and representational uses study February 20, 2007 of these objects, the speakers removed the “Zen” Vannessa Tran research, Clapp was able to reclassify ordinary land- of “Zen art” from the realm of the inscrutable and Artist, Seattle, Washington; Fellow scape paintings as works that commemorate specific in the Council of the Humanities placed it in the context of multiple social realities individuals, revealing new levels of meaning in and the Tang Center and historical conditions. landscape painting. The Nature of Painting “Re-presenting Emptiness” was the Tang The lecture series was inaugurated in 2003 as a Cosponsored by the Council Center’s first major scholarly event in Japanese art of the Humanities, the Tang forum for eminent scholars to present their current and its first close collaboration with the Japan Center for East Asian Art, the research, first in a lecture series and then in a pub- Society in New York. The symposium was pre- Program in Visual Arts in the lished volume. Professor Emeritus Wen C. Fong University Center for the Creative sented in conjunction with the exhibition was the first speaker, presenting three lectures on and Performing Arts, and the “Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Chinese art history. The next lecture series will take Princeton University Art Museum Japan” at the Japan Society, which hosted a special place in the fall of 2007, when Professor Jerome continued on page 32 viewing for symposium participants. More than Silbergeld will give a series of lectures on Chinese 250 people attended the two-day symposium cinema. which, in combination with the Japan Society’s The Tang Center’s regular lecture program exhibition, provided a forum for stimulating dis- featured three speakers this year. Nancy Steinhardt cussion. The symposium was cosponsored by the (University of Pennsylvania) presented a lecture on Department of Art and Archaeology, the Buddhist the mosque in China; Marsha Haufler (University Studies Workshop, the Program in East Asian of Kansas) spoke about Tibetan Thangkas for the s p r i n g    7 31 Tang Center Events continued from page 30

Artist-in-Residence Workshops February 19, 21, and 22, 2007 Vannessa Tran Artist, Seattle, Washington; Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and the Tang Center Cosponsored by the Council of the Humanities, the Tang Center for East Asian Art, the Program in Visual Arts of the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu, Professor Emerita Anne Clapp, art museum di- and the Princeton University Art rector Susan M. Taylor, and Professor Jerome Silbergeld at Clapp’s second Museum lecture in the Tang Center’s 2007 lecture series Lecture Series: Commemorative Landscape Ming dynasty court; and artist Vannessa Tran, a view an exhibition of rare artwork and to meet a Painting in China short-term fellow in the Council of the Humani- number of internationally renowned scholars. Anne Clapp ties and the Tang Center, gave a poetic account of In an ongoing collaboration with the Princeton Wellesley College, Emerita her painting practice and philosophy of art. Tran University Art Museum, the Tang Center funded April 2, 2007 also taught three studio workshops. Each lecture the acquisition of a work of art for long-term loan. Conspicuous Seclusion: Commemo‑ and workshop was cosponsored with other depart- This year’s acquisition was a photographic album rative Landscape Painting in China ments on campus, attracting audiences from a by Michael S. Cherney (b. 1969) titled Bounded April 5, 2007 variety of disciplines. by Mountains (Shanchongji): H3 (Dazu) and dated “What’s in a Name?”: The Biehao In September, the Tang Center cosponsored a 2006. A digital photograph printed on Chinese Painting in Chinese Landscape panel discussion on Japanese woodblock prints at xuan paper and bound in a traditional Chi- International Symposium the turn of the 19th century, titled “Meiji Eyes,” nese manner in an album of 11 leaves, Bounded organized by Sinead Kehoe *02 (M.A.), assistant by Mountains shows an extended section of Song April 14 and 15, 2007 curator of Japanese art at the Princeton University dynasty carved stone Buddhist images at Dazu in Re-presenting Emptiness: Zen and Art Museum. The panel was held in conjunction Sichuan province. Cherney’s work explores and Art in Medieval Japan Organized by the Tang Center for with an exhibition that Kehoe had organized at the extends into the modern medium of photogra- East Asian Art and cosponsored museum. phy the ramifications of a visual tradition that is with the Department of Art The Tang Center also sponsored two overseas based on canonical models and multiple layers of and Archaeology, the East Asian trips this academic year. In August 2006, Jerome reproduction and copywork. The results are both Studies Program, the Buddhist Silbergeld and Dora Ching traveled to Austra- thought-provoking and aesthetically exquisite. Studies Workshop, Princeton lia to present lectures at the Australian National The Tang Center is planning a number of University, and the Princeton University Art Museum University in Canberra and the University of Tech- programs for next year, including a cosponsored nology Sydney. Silbergeld gave two lectures on conference on Dunhuang manuscripts, organized Chinese cinema, and Ching presented two lectures by Professor Stephen F. Teiser of the Department on different aspects of Ming dynasty (1368–1644) of Religion, and the fourth biennial graduate stu- imperial portraiture. The Tang Center organized dent symposium in East Asian art. The center also a second trip in early February, sending gradu- has three book projects under way: papers from ate students in East Asian art and archaeology to the symposiums “The Family Model in Chinese Taipei to attend the four-day symposium “Grand Art and Culture” and “Bridges to Heaven: Essays View: Painting and Calligraphy of the North- on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. ern Song” and to study rarely exhibited Northern Fong,” and a book on film by Jerome Silbergeld, Song period paintings, calligraphy, rare books, and Body Visible: Image and Illusion in Two Chinese Michael S. Cherney, Bounded by ceramics at the newly renovated National Palace Films by Director Jiang Wen and Cinematographer Mountains (Shanchongji): H3 (Dazu) Museum. Seven graduate students participated in Gu Changwei. (detail), digital photograph, this trip: Michelle Lim, Greg Seiffert, Kim Wis- For more information about Tang Center pub- UltraChrome pigment inks on xuan hart, and Xiaojin Wu traveled from Princeton, lications, symposiums, and other events, visit the paper (2006), a long-term loan to the Princeton University Art joining Zoe Kwok, Sonja Kelley, and Kyle Steinke, website web.princeton.edu/sites/TangCenter. Museum by the Tang Center who were already in China doing research or lan- for East Asian Art guage study. This was an unusual opportunity to

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Undergraduate Alumni invention, it was being practiced in Latin Amer- ica and India, with case studies exploring practices William A. Camfield’57, who is professor emeri- of photography relating to sexual and gender sub- tus at Rice University, reports that he is contentedly cultures that employ the camera as a performative “failing” retirement, working full time on a cat- tool rather than a recording device. This spring Jill alogue raisonné of the work of Francis Picabia, is a fellow at the Center for Research in the Human- with occasional forays into other projects, includ- ities at the University of Wisconsin, where she is ing a chapter for a book on John and Dominique doing research on the experimental beginnings of de Menil and some essays for William Rubin’s book photography in the 18th century. In academic year on his years as the chief curator of painting at the 2007–08, she will become director of the universi- Museum of Modern Art. The Picabia project is sup- ty’s Program in Visual Culture Studies. [jhcasid@ ported by a second Andrew W. Mellon Foundation wisc.edu] Jill H. Casid ’88, Sowing Empire: Emeritus Fellowship and by a fellowship from the Hollis Cooper ’97’s work was selected by Tumelo Landscape and Colonization Dedalus Foundation, which is funding the project’s Mosaka, assistant curator of contemporary art at first-ever research associate. The team effort is cen- the Brooklyn Museum of Art, for publication in tered in Paris, requiring Bill to make two extended the December/January edition of New American trips there each year, happily accompanied by his Paintings magazine (www.newamericanpaint- wife, Ginny. [[email protected]] ings.com). Hollis also participated in a group show Patricia Canseco ’02 had a solo exhibition, titled called “Modular: New Art from “Vista,” in her hometown of Del Rio, Texas, in Los Angeles,” which was curated April. This was her first exhibition since she com- by Dana Turkovic at White Flag pleted her M.F.A. at the Pratt Institute in the Projects in St. Louis, Missouri. spring of 2006. The centerpiece of the show was a [[email protected]] sculpture/video installation examining the bound- Cathy Corcione ’74 has con- aries between man and nature. [paticanseco@ tinued to paint while raising her yahoo.com] family and serving as a swim- ming coach. Last November she had her first one-person show at the Church Street Garden in Lit- tle Silver, New Jersey. Her older Hollis Cooper ’97, Best Laid Plans daughter Jessica is an artist and teacher, her son (installation view), acrylic on PVC James teaches English and creative writing, and and panel, 2005 younger daughter Cristina is currently a senior at Yale. [[email protected]] Jamie Crapanzano *00 has been promoted to vice president at BlackRock Financial Management in Patricia Canseco ’02, 2/05/2007 New York City, where she has worked for a number Jill H. Casid ’88 was promoted to associate profes- of years. [[email protected]] sor with tenure in the Department of Art History Tara (Thompson) Dudley ’99 is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison last fall. in architectural history at the University of Texas– Her first book,Sowing Empire: Landscape and Col‑ Austin. After graduating from Princeton, Tara onization (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), interned at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and examines ways in which the cultivation and re- Shadows-on-Teche, a National Trust for Historic landscaping of colonies functioned as one of the Preservation site, where she produced an interpretive primary strategies used by imperial nations to jus- guidebook on the history of the house’s interiors. In tify their empires. Jill’s second book, Shadows of 2002, she was awarded the National Trust’s Mildred Enlightenment: Reason, Magic, and Technologies of Colodny Scholarship and named an Emerging Pres- Projection, forthcoming from the University of ervation Leader. She received a master’s degree in Cathy Corcione ’74, October in Minnesota Press, takes projection as both an object architectural studies (historic preservation) from Massachusetts, oil on paper, 2006 and a method by which to reconsider the role of UT-Austin in 2003. Tara received a full scholarship technologies for casting an image in the production to attend Winterthur Museum and Garden’s 2004 of “reason.” Her current book project, titled “The Fall Institute. Last April, she presented a paper, Volatile Image: Other Histories of Photography,” titled “The Influence of thegens de couleur libres on demonstrates that, within a decade of photography’s the Architecture of Antebellum Louisiana,” at the s p r i n g    7 33 annual meeting of the Society of Architectural His- version of the show. He is also working with the Jen torians. She is currently preparing her dissertation Bekman Gallery in New York on a new venture to proposal based on that paper, exploring issues of be released later this year. Raul’s photography can be entrepreneurship, ownership, and identity related to found online at http://mexicanpictures.com/proj- the architectural enterprises of black Creoles in ects, and he also maintains a personal blog about art antebellum New Orleans. Tara’s article “Seeking the and life at http://mexicanpictures.com/heading- Ideal African-American Interior: The Walker Resi- east. [[email protected]] dences and Salon in New York” was recently Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst ’49 *56 has news published in Studies in the Decorative Arts (2006– in the graduate alumni section. 07). She has served as a teaching assistant in the School of Architecture for the past four years and Hollie Powers Holt ’78 and Denise DeLaurentis also works part time as an architectural historian at have just published The Art of the Garden: Collect‑ the cultural resource management firm Hardy- ing Antique Botanical Prints (Schiffer, 2006). The Heck-Moore, Inc. Tara has been happily married to sumptuously illustrated book introduces readers to David Dudley (Louisiana-Lafayette ’97) for three the entire range of antique flower prints, recounts the lives of the artists who created them, and inves- Classical Antiquities at New York years. [[email protected]] tigates the cultural influences and various plant University, coedited and with con- Jennifer Elliott ’05 is working as registrar and collecting manias that shaped the depiction of tributions by Blair Fowlkes ’98 cataloguer at Doyle New York, auctioneers and plants. The book is a useful resource for knowledge- appraisers of fine art, jewelry, furniture, decorations, able as well as beginning collectors, with guidelines and a variety of other categories. She feels privi- on condition, values, framing, and storage. Hol- leged to work for another department alum, Elaine lie has been buying and selling antique prints and Banks Stainton *78, who is executive director of the maps since the day after she turned in her senior Paintings and Drawings Department at Doyle. [jen- thesis, and she is also an enthusiastic gardener. To [email protected]] learn more and to see her current offerings, visit Michelle Everidge ’04 graduated last May from the website www.fineantiqueprints.com. When- a master’s program in the history of decorative ever Hollie gives a talk on antique prints, maps, and arts and design offered jointly by Parsons, the globes, she wishes that she had been more aware of New School for Design, and the Cooper-Hewitt their existence when she was writing her interdisci- National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. plinary thesis for the department and the Program She majored in 20th-century American furniture, in European Cultural Studies. She loves the ways in minored in 20th-century popular culture, and stud- which they provide wonderful visual records of the ied a wide range of historical topics, from jewelry to intersection of many fields of study. [hollie.holt@ ceramics to television. Last summer she relocated to verizon.net] Atlanta, Georgia, and took a position in the visual William I. Homer ’51, the H. Rodney Sharp Pro- Hollie Powers Holt ’78 and Denise merchandising department at Havertys Furniture, fessor Emeritus at the University of Delaware, DeLaurentis, The Art of the Garden: a home furnishings retailer with stores in 17 states. continues to be active in research and writing. His Collecting Antique Botanical Prints [[email protected]] article “Homer’s Odyssey,” recollections of the early Blair Fowlkes ’98, with Larissa Bonfante, recently days of Princeton’s creative arts program, was pub- coedited and contributed catalogue entries to Clas‑ lished in the online edition of the Princeton Alumni sical Antiquities at New York University (L’Erma Weekly for May 19, 2006, and a record of his inter- di Bretschneider, 2006). The new publication is view with Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu, New an analytical catalogue of N.Y.U.’s collection of Mexico, was published by American Art in Novem- antiquities, which includes sculpture, pottery, met- ber 2006. He recently completed an edition of the alwork, terracottas, lamps, and other objects from letters written from Paris by Thomas Eakins in the Egypt, the Near East, Cyprus, Greece, and Italy. years 1866–70, the first volume of a planned two- The catalogue, which is fully illustrated, features volume set. He has also been organizing his archives extensive bibliographies as well as essays by a num- to be given to various institutions, and in the past ber of contributors. Blair is currently a graduate year he donated his Robert Henri papers to the student in classical archaeology at the Institute Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, home of of Fine Arts, New York University, where she is the John Sloan Papers. He also gave a collection of David Maisel ’84, Oblivion writing a dissertation of the cults of the Syrian- works of art on paper to the University of Delaware Phoenician gods in the city of Rome. [ibf201@ Gallery. He continues to be interested in making nyu.edu] photographs and is proud to announce that he has Raul Gutierrez ’89 had his first one-person exhi- learned, after some delay, the fine points of digi- bition, “Travels Without Maps,” last September at tal photography. His biography was included in the the Nelson Hancock Gallery in New York, and he 2007 edition of Who’s Who in the World. [whomer@ is now working on a book based on an expanded udel.edu]

34 s p r i n g    7 David Maisel ’84 recently published Oblivion collaborations with the controversial British film (Nazraeli Press, 2006), a collection of urban aer- director Peter Greenaway since 1990. Brody’s work ial images of Los Angeles and its periphery with a has included letterscapes for cinema, theater, and post-apocalyptic feeling enhanced by reversed-out architecture, as well as unconventional calligraphy tones. Solo exhibitions of “Oblivion” took place at executed on monumental walls, whitewashed layers the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles (Octo- of paper, and even naked skin. Working with Green- ber–November 2006), the Von Lintel Gallery in away has allowed him to stretch the boundaries of New York (November 2006–January 2007), and calligraphy, exploring text in motion and writing the Haines Gallery Project Space in San Francisco as a filmed performance. The AFP gallery in New (April–May 2007). David’s work was featured in York held an exhibition of Brody’s work from Jan- “Human Ash Reactions,” by Geoff Manaugh, in uary through March of this year. The show gave an the fall 2006 issue of Contemporary Magazine and overview of his recent paintings, drawings, collages, was shown in the group exhibitions “Ecotopia: The and some surprising sculptures. For more informa- Second ICP Triennial for Photography and Video” tion, visit his website, www.bnart.be. [brody.n@ at the International Center of Photography in skynet.be] New York; “Shifting Terrain: Contemporary Land- Talbot Payne ’84 worked for various commercial Brody Neuenschwander ’81 et al., scape Photography” at the Wadsworth Atheneum galleries and was ultimately a corporate art consul- Textasy: The Work of Brody Neuen‑ in Hartford, Connecticut; “Intrinsic Artifice” at the tant based in Washington, D.C. Since moving to schwander Light Factory in Charlotte, North Carolina; and Detroit in 2000, she has stayed involved with the “Re-SITE-ing the American West” at the Los Ange- arts by marketing the work of her husband, artist les County Museum of Art. For more details, visit Henry Payne ’84 (history). She coordinated a show his website, www.davidmaisel.com. [david@ of his work at West Virginia’s Cultural Arts Cen- davidmaisel.com] ter last summer, and, more recently, at a gallery in Meghan Thumm Mackey ’91 has recently opened Detroit. Talbot has also produced calendars and her own private art conservation studio with newly cards that feature Henry’s cartoons and has helped built studio space near Madison, Wisconsin. Her set up book signings. Henry’s recent work includes clients include private art owners, museums, and the illustrations for two children’s books published foundations. Recently she has worked on a great by Random House: Where Did Daddy’s Hair Go? deal of self-taught/outsider art, which she finds to was published in time for Father’s Day last year, and be both challenging and fun. [meghan@alumni. The Ear Book will be released this June. princeton.edu] [[email protected]] Dennis Martinez ’86 has been appointed direc- Douglas Pedersen ’50 *59 showed his paintings in tor of the art program at the Dixie State College the group exhibition “Mind’s Material: Sensation, Art Department in St. George, Utah, where he has Cognition, and Knowledge” at Shy Rabbit Contem- taught for 12 years. He also serves on the Utah Arts porary Arts in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, last fall. Council Visual Arts Committee and is currently Lisa Beth Podos ’86 was recently named exec- Lisa Saltzman ’88, Making Memory working on an installation, titled “Art and Heal- utive director of the San Francisco Fall Antiques Matter: Strategies of Remembrance ing,” for the Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. Show (www.sffas.org). Established in 1981, the in Contemporary Art George. [[email protected]] show is the oldest continuously operating interna- Pete Maruca ’87, who wrote his senior thesis tional antiques show on the West Coast and is the on the development of the half-timbered Tudor major fundraising event for Enterprise for High Revival house in America, renovates old houses on School Students. EHSS is a nonprofit organization the Main Line, in Philadelphia’s western suburbs. that works with high school students throughout Pete is the owner of Orion General Contractors San Francisco, helping them find and retain intern- in Haverford, Pennsylvania, which does remodel- ships or jobs with experiential learning that lets ing and construction of high-end homes, with an them explore their career interests. Lisa also sits on emphasis on historical renovations. Last year he numerous boards and committees, most recently moved a 150-year-old bank barn for fellow depart- joining San Francisco Architectural Heritage as vice ment alum Hollie Powers Holt ’78, and he is president and education committee chair. [lpodos@ currently moving another 150-year-old bank barn ehss.org] from the Oley Valley to Devon and converting it Jessica Davis Powers ’97 defended her dissertation, into a stunning guest house for his clients. Pete “Patrons, Houses and Viewers in Pompeii: Recon- would love to hear from any department alums who sidering the House of the Gilded Cupids,” and are in the area. [[email protected]] received her Ph.D. in classical archaeology from the Brody Neuenschwander ’81’s art is the subject University of Michigan last spring. In September she Mark Sheinkman ’85, 11.5.2006, of a new book, Textasy: The Work of Brody Neuen‑ was appointed associate curator of Western antiq- oil, alkyd, and graphite on paper schwander (Imschoot, 2006), which examines his uities at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Jessica is works on paper and canvas, his sculpture, and his currently planning a reinstallation of the museum’s s p r i n g    7 35 Greek and Roman collection, which is scheduled ing chair of the Department of History of Art and to open in early 2008. She would be very happy to director of the Center for Visual Culture at Bryn hear from alums who are visiting south Texas. [jes- Mawr College. [[email protected]] [email protected]] Mark Sheinkman ’85 will have a solo exhibition Gertrude (Trudy) Prescott ’77 has completed of paintings this October at the Von Lintel Gal- the third accredited module on art and law at the lery in New York City. A catalogue of the exhibition Institute of Art and Law in Leicester, U.K., and is will be available from the gallery. A solo exhibition now the program’s academic editor. She has also of his works on paper at Gallery Joe in Philadel- joined the Metropolitan Police as a special consta- phia ran through the end of February. His work ble serving with the Art and Antique Unit. Trudy was also included in a group exhibition of prints is currently finishing a book devoted to the U.K.’s at the International Print Center in New York ear- new Fraud Act and its implications for the art mar- lier this year. Other group exhibitions during the ket, collecting, dealing, and museums practice. past year have included shows at Pace Prints in New Joanna S. Smith ’87, Guide to The book project grew out of her work as a mem- York and the Sonoma Museum, as well as galler- Phlamoudhi ber of the Fraud Advisory Panel, an independent ies in Berlin, Atlanta, Philadelphia, New York, and think tank of volunteers from various sectors con- Miami. His work is now in the collections of the cerned with fraud and corporate governance. She Museum of Modern Art in New York; the National will soon begin work on a second Ph.D., this one Gallery of Art in Washington; the Museum of Fine in law, at King’s College London, focusing on the Arts, Houston; and many others. For further infor- trend toward joint private and public investigations mation, visit www.marksheinkman.com. [info@ and prosecutions. She has also accepted the posi- marksheinkman.com] tion of curator of an Arts and Crafts interior house, Joanna S. Smith ’87 was promoted to associate No. 7 Hammersmith Terrace (www.emerywalker. professor at Columbia University in the spring of org.uk). [[email protected]] 2006 and has served as director of the Columbia Adrian Randolph ’87 has been appointed the University Center for Archaeology (www.columbia. Leon E. Williams Professor of Art History at Dart- edu/cu/archaeology) since the fall of 2005. The mouth College, where he teaches Italian medieval center brings together faculty and students from the and Renaissance art. His forthcoming articles humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences, spon- include “Republican Florence, 1400–1434,” which soring lectures, a graduate student conference, a will appear in Renaissance Florence, edited by Fran- biweekly series of discussions, and a new workshop David Stuart ’89, The Inscriptions ces Ames-Lewis (Cambridge University Press), and series, and hosts the New York Archaeological Con- from Temple XIX at Palenque “Renaissance Genderscapes,” to be published in sortium. Joanna and her students have been Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and engaged in intensive study of the finds from the Subjectivities, edited by Joan Hartman and Adele Cypriot Bronze Age site at Phlamoudhi, excavated Seeff (University of Delaware Press and Associ- by Columbia in the early 1970s. In 2005 she ated University Presses). With Mark J. Williams, he curated an exhibition of finds from the excavations coedits the book series Interfaces: Studies in Visual at Columbia’s Wallach Gallery, which was accompa- Culture (Dartmouth College Press/University Press nied by an illustrated catalogue. The show will of New England), which focuses on the theoreti- reopen at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia in 2008. cal implications of new media on the study of visual Joanna’s book Settlement and Sanctuary: Views from culture. Adrian also serves on the international the Columbia University Excavations at Phlamoudhi, advisory board of the journal Art History. [adrian. Cyprus will be published later this year. For more [email protected]] about the Phlamoudhi Archaeological Project, Lisa Saltzman ’88 published two books in 2006. visit the website www.learn.columbia.edu/ Her monograph Making Memory Matter: Strategies phlamoudhi. [[email protected]] of Remembrance in Contemporary Art (University Kelly Sortino ’03 was recently awarded a Jack of Chicago Press) demonstrates how the working Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship. She methods of contemporary artists have now eclipsed was one of 77 recipients chosen after a nationwide painting and traditional sculpture as the preem- selection process that drew 1,100 nominees. The Richard Wright ’87, Shadow Tree inent forms of visual representation. With Eric scholarships, which are are among the most gen- Rosenberg, she coedited the anthology Trauma erous and competitive academic awards offered in and Visuality in Modernity (Dartmouth College/ the United States, provide each winner with a max- University Press of New England, 2006). This col- imum of $300,000 for up to six years of graduate lection is among the first to explore the relationship study. Kelly is currently using the scholarship to between the traumatic and the visual field in the pursue two master’s degrees, one in business admin- modern period, offering an account of the central- istration and a second in education, at Stanford ity of trauma’s visualization to an understanding University. Since graduating, she has worked as a of modernity. Lisa is associate professor and act- Princeton undergraduate admission officer, a leader

36 s p r i n g    7 of the University’s Ghana Cultural Immersion Archaeology with the University of North Carolina; Program, and a middle-school language arts teacher. this July she will become chair of the department at At Stanford, Kelly enjoys applying the creativity Duke. Carla continues to work at the excavations honed during her undergraduate career in Program of Morgantina, Sicily, with department alums Mal- 2 to business concepts and strategies both inside colm Bell ’63 *72, Jenifer Neils *80, and Shelley and outside of the classroom. She recently accepted Stone *81. Her recent publications include “Reli- a summer internship position with Google Inc. and gion, Basileis, and Heroes,” in Ancient Greece: From looks forward to staying on the West Coast, where the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer, edited the weather is conducive to year-round golf. by Irene Lemos and Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy (Edin- [[email protected]] burgh University Press, 2006); “Elite Mobility in David Stuart ’89 has been appointed the David the West,” in Pindar’s Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: and Linda Schele Professor in Mesoamerican Art From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, edited by and Writing in the Department of Art and Art Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan (Oxford History at the University of Texas–Austin. In the University Press, 2007); and “Colonization: Greece last several years he has been actively engaged in on the Move, 900–480,” in The Cambridge Com‑ Carla Antonaccio *87 et al., Ancient field projects at various ancient Maya sites, includ- panion to Archaic Greece, edited by H. Alan Shapiro Greece: From the Mycenaean ing Palenque in Mexico, Copan in the Honduras, *77 (Cambridge University Press, 2007). [canton@ Palaces to the Age of Homer and, most recently, San Bartolo, Guatemala, where duke.edu] he is a part of a team investigating and interpret- Virginia Bower *77 (M.A.) taught at Franklin and ing the earliest extant Maya wall paintings, which Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, this date to ca. 200–100 b.c. His research continues to academic year, replacing Richard Kent *95, who was focus on the study of ancient Maya texts pertain- on leave. In May and June of this year she will be ing to history and religion. Last year he published the study leader for a tour of China sponsored by The Inscriptions from Temple XIX at Palenque (Pre- the American Museum of Natural History in New Columbian Art Research Institute, 2006), which York. [[email protected]] discusses not only the decipherment of the Mayan Thea Burns *72 (M.A.), the Helen H. Glaser Con- glyphs, but Maya mythology, royal ritual, biogra- servator at the Weissman Preservation Center of phy, and the history of Palenque, one of the great Harvard University Library, was the Craig Hugh kingdoms of the Classic Mayans. [davidstuart@ Smyth Visiting Fellow at Villa I Tatti, Harvard mail.utexas.edu] University’s Italian Renaissance Study Center in Richard Wright ’87 was recently hired by Pan- Florence, Italy, from April through June of this asonic to conduct beginning through advanced year. Her project there was ongoing material, photography workshops in Philadelphia. He will historical, and cultural research into the phenom- also begin his fourth year of online photo classes via enon of Italian Renaissance metal point drawing. his website and will continue teaching an advanced A three-month Extended Professional Develop- Joseph Coleman Carter *71, seminar in Hopewell, New Jersey. Richard will also ment Opportunity from the Harvard University Discovering the Greek Countryside lecture on “The Camera as a Sculptural Tool” at Library allowed her to take up this fellowship. Her at Metaponto Hartwick College in Oneonta, at Princeton’s Photo forthcoming book, The Invention of Pastel Painting Club, and at the Photographic Society of Philadel- (Archetype, 2007), a technical exam- phia. He completed a second calendar for Hartwick ination of selected works from 1500 College this year, and his “Photo of the Week” to 1750 executed in dry color, has series is online again after a year’s hiatus. Richard been awarded a Millard Meiss Publi- was also awarded a place in Photolucida’s Criti- cation Subvention by the College Art cal Mass annual juried competition this spring, and Association. Thea’s husband, Vojtech he showcased two new series in Portland, Oregon. Jirat-Wasiutyński *75, died unexpect- Richard was recently invited to join a select group edly in July 2006. An obituary by Mark exhibiting at Perkin’s Center for the Arts fall exhibi- Antliff of Duke University appeared in tion, titled “Pink.” To see some of his work, the November 2006 CAA Newsletter. visit www.wrightartstudio.com. [rick@ [[email protected]] wrightartstudio.com] Joseph Coleman Carter *71, Centen- nial Professor of Classical Archaeology Josephine Hui-liang Chu *90, the Graduate Alumni and director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology new director of the Cultural Affairs at the University of Texas–Austin, recently published Bureau of Taipei County, Taiwan, Carla Antonaccio *87 was appointed professor of Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto (Uni- shows the traditional method classical studies at Duke University in 2005, after versity of Michigan Press, 2006). This new volume, 17 years at Wesleyan University, where she served as of making pickled plums in based on the Thomas Spencer Jerome lectures that pottery jars Dean of Arts and Humanities from 2001 to 2003. he delivered in Ann Arbor and Rome, presents an At Duke she is part of the steering committee for overview of his decades of work on the agricultural a new consortium for Classical and Mediterranean territory surrounding Metaponto, a Greek colony s p r i n g    7 37 in southern Italy. The Metaponto project is one of the interactive “Collection Icons” for the de Young the most comprehensive explorations of rural Greek Museum in San Francisco. The original installation settlement and has produced extensive documen- of “Collection Icons” won a MUSE award from the tation of the sizeable and closely linked agricultural American Association of Museums last year. Rob- territory that surrounded the polis, providing a ert’s next projects include a catalogue raisonné of valuable correction to the idea that the Greeks had the prints of Clinton Adams, to be published by a primarily urban culture. the University of New Mexico Press, and interactive Josephine Hui-liang Chu *90 was appointed exhibits for a municipal history museum and director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taipei a multicultural landscape exhibition. [bc54@ County Government, Taiwan, Republic of China, earthlink.net] in January. The Cultural Affairs Bureau manages, Tracy E. Cooper *90’s book, Palladio’s Venice: Robert Conway *82 (M.A.), June develops, and promotes visual arts, performing Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic Wayne: A Catalogue Raisonné, arts, and community cultural activities as well as a (Yale University Press, 2005), was presented at the 1936–2006, “The Art of Everything” wide range of historical and cultural sites, including Archivio di Stato di Venezia and was honored with art and archaeology museums, historic buildings, a “Menzione Speciale” in the Premio Salimbeni per la Storia e la Critica d’Arte 2006. It was reviewed in the New York Times Holiday Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Spectator, and listed as “The Critic’s Choice” by Architect’s Journal. The Renaissance Society of America awarded it the 2007 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for best book of the year in Renaissance studies. Tracy reports that the book has even achieved coffee table status, being featured in the current Thomasville furniture cata- logue. Her recent publications include “Singers and Setting: Choir and Furnishing in an Age of Reform. The Example of San Giorgio Maggiore,” in Architet‑ tura e musica nella Venezia del rinascimento (Bruno Mondadori, 2006). She continues������������������������ as a member of Venice International University and gave talks this year for Save Venice New York and Save Venice Bos- ton, as well as at Colgate University, Pratt Institute in Venice, and Roger Williams University. She also organized “After Lepanto: Martiality and Memory” at the Renaissance Society of America’s San Fran- Marcy B. Freedman *81 (M.A.)’s cisco meeting and spoke at the Centre for Acoustic libraries, ecology preserves and exhibits, and muse- “video vehicle” bringing her video and Musical Experiments in Renaissance Archi- ums devoted to traditional crafts, folk culture, and art to the public in Peekskill, tecture at the University of Cambridge. Tracy is industry. It also sponsors an active network of vol- New York associate professor and director of graduate stud- unteers, manages performance facilities, works to ies in the Department of Art History in the Tyler preserve historical sites, artifacts, and languages, School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. and trains cultural administrators. For more about [[email protected]] the bureau and its many activities, visit the website http://en.culture.tpc.gov.tw. [[email protected]. Jesús Escobar *96 delivered the paper “A Forum for gov.tw] the Court of Philip IV: Madrid, ca. 1650” at the conference “The Politics of Space: Courts in Europe Robert Conway *82 (M.A.) has just published and the Mediterranean, ca. 1500–1750,” held at the June Wayne: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1936–2006, Huntington Library in San Marino, California, this “The Art of Everything” (Rutgers University Press, January. In February he also gave a lecture, “His- 2006), on the work and influence of the founder tory-Writing and Myth-Making: The Case of of the renowned Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Spanish Baroque Architecture,” in the Daniel I. which became one of the most important focal Silberberg Lecture Series at the Institute of Fine points of the revival of printmaking in the United Arts, New York University. At this year’s College Art States. He also curated the exhibition “The Pow- Association meetings, he co-chaired and delivered erful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings from the introductory remarks for the session “The Court of Boston Public Library,” which will be on display Philip IV.” Other Princetonians involved in the ses- Meredith J. Gill *92, Augustine in at a variety of venues through March 2009. Rob- sion were co-chair Amanda Wunder *02 (history), the Italian Renaissance: Art and ert is also a co-creator of the innovative multimedia discussant Jonathan Brown *64, and speaker Laura Philosophy from Petrarch to website “Museum without Walls” (www.without- Bass *00 (Romance languages and literatures). Michelangelo walls.org), which, among other projects, produced [[email protected]]

38 s p r i n g    7 David Farmer *81 continues to teach art history at in Rome: Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance, the University College Thomaston (soon to become edited by Marcia B. Hall (Cambridge University the University College Rockland), a local center Press). That spring she presented a paper, “Speaking of the University of Maine at Augusta. Last sum- Books and Moving Images: Augustinian Con- mer he organized and led an art tour in Maine for version,” at the Renaissance Society of America’s friends of the American Museum in Bath, Eng- Annual Conference in Cambridge, U.K., which land. In addition to visiting the state’s prominent was the basis for her contribution to the anthol- museums, artists’ studios, and collectors’ homes, the ogy, The Renaissance World (Routledge, 2007). Her group was treated to a tour of Winslow Homer’s chapter, “Forgery, Faith, and Divine Hierarchy studio in Prouts Neck and a meeting with Homer’s after Lorenzo Valla,” is forthcoming in the pro- great nephew. This fall, David will lead a tour for ceedings of the 2005 conference “Revisioning the the National Trust for Historic Preservation to High Renaissance,” edited by Jill Burke (Univer- Warsaw, Krakow, and Gdańsk, Poland, and he sity of Edinburgh Press), as is her essay, “Guillaume hopes to pay a pre-tour visit to St. Petersburg. d’Estouteville’s Italian Journey,” in Possessions: [[email protected]] Renaissance Cardinals—Rights and Rituals, edited Ping Foong *06 has been appointed assistant pro- by Mary Hollingsworth and Carol M. Richard- fessor of Chinese art in the Department of Art son (Penn State University Press). Last spring, she Carol Lawton *84, Marbleworkers History at the University of Chicago. Last fall she chaired two sessions at the Renaissance Society of in the Athenian Agora participated in the conference “Reinventing the America’s Annual Conference in San Francisco: one Past: Antiquarianism in East Asian Art and Visual on Pliny and the history of the book, and the other Culture,” organized by the Center for the Art of on signorial rule in early modern Italy. She also gave East Asia at the University of Chicago. [pfoong@ a paper on “Augustine and the Dream of Solitude in uchicago.edu] the Early Modern Imagination,” at the annual Six- teenth Century Society Conference and spoke at a Marcy B. Freedman *81 (M.A.)’s video artworks conference on Augustine’s Confessions at the Uni- recently appeared in three gallery exhibitions in versity of Toronto. Among her recent reviews is a Beacon, New York, and one of her videos was long essay on David Hotchkiss Price’s Albrecht Dür‑ selected by Sheryl Mousley of the Walker Art Cen- er’s Renaissance Humanism, Reformation, and the Art ter for the Fourth Annual Women’s Caucus for of Faith in the Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Year‑ Art’s International Video Screening Event at Bar- book (2005). She is currently writing a study of the nard College. During the past year, Marcy began angelic in early modern art and theology. [mgill@ bringing her videos directly to the public of Peek- umd.edu] skill, New York, by driving a “video vehicle” equipped with three monitors through the town Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst ’49 *56 was and by projecting a two-channel video onto the awarded L’Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, an order Elizabeth Moodey *02 et al., facade of a landmark building. She also presented of France recognizing significant contributions to Tributes in Honor of James H. Mar‑ performance art pieces in Peekskill, Katonah, and the arts and literature, in a ceremony at the Amer- row: Studies in Late Medieval and Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Her newest per- ican Embassy in Paris last July. He was recognized Renaissance Painting and Manu‑ formance piece, “Bedtime Stories for Mom and for having “significantly contributed to the enrich- script Illumination Dad,” will make its debut this June at the Katonah ment of the French cultural inheritance” through Museum of Art. In February and March, her art his publications on the elaborate formal gardens of was included in an unusual Manhattan gallery show 17th-century France, particularly those designed by called “Marcy Freedman,” which actually featured Andre Le Nostre. His 1980 book Gardens of Illu‑ the work of two artists with the same name! Marcy sion: The Genius of Andre Le Nostre won the Alice also gave three lectures on the history of land- Davis Hitchcock Award given by the Society of scape in art at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve Architectural Historians. The first French-language and a series of lectures on Spanish portraiture at edition of Gardens of Illusion was published in Paris the Katonah Museum of Art. She served as a juror in December 2005. He is emeritus professor at Van- for exhibitions in Armonk, New York, and York, derbilt University. Pennsylvania, and as a panelist at the Beacon Art- Andrew Hershberger *01 has been promoted to ist Union and the Jacob Burns Film Center. [mbf@ associate professor with tenure at Bowling Green bestweb.net] State University, Ohio, where he is now the chair Meredith J. Gill *92 joined the Department of of art history. He received a 2007 Coleman Dow- Kevin Moore *02 and Michael Art History and Archaeology at the University of ell Fellowship at New York University, where he Lorenzini, New York Rises: Photo‑ Maryland, College Park, in the fall of 2005. Her will continue his research into negative prints. graphs by Eugene de Salignac book Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Andrew began the project in 2004 with an Ansel Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo (Cam- Adams Research Fellowship at the Center for Cre- bridge University Press) was published in 2005, ative Photography (CCP) at the University of as was “The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” Arizona and presented part of his research at the s p r i n g    7 39 College Art Association meetings in 2006. the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., He has been selected for 2006 and 2007 Ari- in 1998. Lothar is professor of East Asian art at the zona Senior Academy visiting scholarships, Kunsthistorisches Institut of Heidelberg Univer- a summer teaching position that allows him sity and dean of its Philosophical-Historical Faculty. to continue his project at the CCP. He pub- He is also the coeditor of journals such as Arts Asi‑ lished four peer-reviewed journal articles in atiques (Paris) and Meishushi yanjiu jikan (Taipei). 2006, including “Performing Excess/Signal- In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious Balzan Prize ing Anxiety: Towards a Psychoanalytic Theory by the International Balzan Foundation of Zurich. of Daguerre’s Diorama,” in Early Popular The Balzan Prize will fund continued work on his Visual Culture (July 2006). His recent con- project devoted to Buddhist inscriptions on stone in ference papers include “Framing Ohrdruf: China, including digitizing all of the known exam- Photographs and Memories of the First Nazi ples and presenting an exhibition and scholarly Concentration Camp Discovered by Ameri- catalogue. [[email protected]] can Forces,” coauthored with Ted Rippey of Greg Levine *97’s book Daitokuji: The Visual Cul‑ the German department at Bowling Green, tures of a Zen Monastery (University of Washington and presented at the Midwest Art History Press, 2005) was a finalist for the College Art Asso- Society in Indianapolis. Andrew also led a ciation’s Charles Rufus Morey Prize for an especially “capstone” class that curated a 2006–07 exhi- distinguished book in art history. He and Yukio bition of glass by the late Bowling Green Lippit *03 co-curated the exhibition and coedited professor Robert “Bud” Hurlstone. The cata- the catalogue for “Awakenings: Zen Figure Paint- logue is available at http://roberthurlstone. ing in Medieval Japan,” the centennial anniversary Poster for the exhibition com. [[email protected]] exhibition at the Japan Society in New York (March “Psychologists in Focus” organized R. Ross Holloway *60, the Elisha Benjamin 28–June 17, 2007). Greg and Kio also worked with by Joel Morgovsky *84 Andrews Professor Emeritus at Brown University, the department’s Tang Center to organize the April retired in June 2006. The Holloway Classics Library symposium “Representing Emptiness: Zen and Art at Amherst College has been named in his honor. in Medieval Japan.” Greg is associate professor in His second festschrift, titled Koinon, is scheduled the Department of the History of Art at the Univer- to be published by David Brown in 2007. His first sity of California–Berkeley. [[email protected]] festschrift, Interpretatio Rerum: Archaeological Essays Elizabeth Moodey *02 contributed an essay to on Objects and Meaning (Center for Old World Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow: Studies in Archaeology and Art, Brown University, 1999), was Late Medieval and Renaissance Painting and Man‑ published in honor of his 65th birthday in 1999. uscript Illumination (Brepols, 2006) and gave a [[email protected]] paper at the Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Carol Lawton *84, professor of art history and Studies, joining Gregory Clark *88 in a session on Ottilia Buerger Professor of Classical Studies at problems in “Flemish” historiography. She is an Julia K. Murray *81, Mirror of Lawrence University, is a Guggenheim Fellow this assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustra‑ year at the American School of Classical Studies [[email protected]] tion and Confucian Ideology in Athens, where she is completing a volume on Kevin Moore *02 left his position as photography the votive reliefs from the excavations of the Athe- specialist at Art Advisory Services last October and nian Agora. Last fall she published Marbleworkers is now working as an independent curator, advis- in the Athenian Agora (American School of Classi- ing private collectors and organizing exhibitions cal Studies at Athens and Oxbow, 2006), a guide to for various institutions. His new book, New York the marble industry in the center of ancient Athens, Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac, coauthored and she was a contributor to The Art of Antiquity: with Michael Lorenzini, was published this spring Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora, edited by John by Aperture Foundation in collaboration with the Papadopoulos (American School of Classical Stud- New York City Archives. De Salignac was the sole ies at Athens, 2007), a catalogue of an exhibition photographer for New York City’s Department of held at the Benaki Museum of the watercolors and Bridges/Plant and Structures from 1906 to 1934, a illustrations of one of the foremost archaeologi- period of explosive growth and change in the city. cal illustrators of the 20th century. [carol.l.lawton@ He shot more than 20,000 glass-plate negatives that lawrence.edu] document the creation of New York’s infrastructure Lothar Ledderose *71 (M.A.)’s book Ten Thou‑ and are often remarkably lyrical images. In con- sand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese junction with the publication of Kevin’s book, the Art, was translated into Chinese and published in Museum of the City of New York has organized Tina Najbjerg *97 et al., Formae mainland China by Sanlian Suju Press in Decem- an exhibition of de Salignac’s photos that will tour urbis Romae: nuovi frammenti di ber 2005. The English edition, published by under the auspices of the Aperture traveling exhibi- piante marmoree dallo scavo dei Princeton University Press in 2000, was based on tion program. [[email protected]] fori imperiali his A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at

40 s p r i n g    7 Joel Morgovsky *84, working with the Interna- lished “Fragments of the City: Stanford’s Digital tional Division of the American Psychological Forma Urbis Romae Project,” in Imaging Ancient Association and Uwe Geilen of St. Francis College Rome: Documentation–Visualization–Imagination in Brooklyn, organized a photographic exhibition (Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2006). Her review that combined photography and psychology. Titled article, written with Jen Trimble, of E. Rodríguez- “Psychologists in Focus: Seeing Global Diversity,” Almeida’s book Formae urbis antiquae: le mappe the show included the photographs of 10 psycholo- marmoree di Roma tra la Repubblica e Settimio Severo gist/photographers who shared their views of the (Rome, 2002), appeared in the Journal of Roman world and also revealed aspects of themselves. The Archaeology (2004). In addition, around 470 archae- exhibition will be shown in other venues in the ological database entries on the fragments of the coming year. For more about the project, see the Severan Marble Plan, written by Tina and Jen Trim- website www.readingpictures.net. Joel is currently ble, are now published on the website of the chairing a committee of the American Psychological Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project: Association (APA) on photography and psychology http://formaurbis.stanford.edu. Last summer she which will bring together psychologists who are continued her work as area supervisor at the committed to photography, assemble published Princeton excavation of ancient Marion/Arsinoe on work on the points of contact between the two Cyprus, supervising the ongoing excavation of a The Parthenon from Antiquity fields, and produce new articles on the topic. A large Roman structure. She continues work on her to the Present, edited by symposium on this subject is planned for the APA book on the so-called Basilica in Herculaneum, the Jenifer Neils *80 convention in San Francisco this summer. Joel is subject of her Princeton dissertation. [najbjerg@ professor of psychology at Brookdale Community yahoo.com] College in Lincroft, New Jersey, where he will Jenifer Neils *80’s most recent edited book is The teach a new course on “positive psychology,” a new Parthenon from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge subfield in psychology that focuses on the charac- University Press, 2005). She has been invited by the teristics of people who exhibit positive psychological British Museum to write A Concise Introduction to functioning. [[email protected]] Ancient Greece. Last summer she spent a month in Julia K. Murray *81 has just published Mirror of Italy working on imported Greek pottery at the Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confu‑ Sicilian site of Morgantina and Etruscan bucchero at cian Ideology (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007), the site of Poggio Colla in Tuscany. In 2006 she pre- which takes an interdisciplinary look at an impor- sented invited papers at the College Art Association tant form of pictorial art produced during two meeting in Boston, a Greek vase conference at the millennia of Chinese imperial rule, tracing the University of Kansas, a Parthenon symposium in evolution of its functions, conventions, and rhetor- Nashville, an international symposium on ancient ical strategies from the 2nd century b.c. through festivals in Bergen, Norway, and the “Colors of the 11th century a.d. Julia’s recent articles include Clay” symposium at the J. Paul Getty Museum of “Squaring Connoisseurship with History: Jiao Art in Malibu. This year she has presented two Hong’s Yangzheng tujie,” in The Art of the Book in papers at the Bard Graduate Center in New York in China, edited by Ming Wilson and Stacey Pierson conjunction with the James ‘Athenian’ Stuart exhibi- The Biography of the Object in Late (Percival David Foundation, 2006), and “Changing tion; the Hite Memorial Lecture in Art History at Medieval and Renaissance Italy, co- the Frame: Prefaces and Colophons in the Chinese the University of Louisville; a paper on the Parthe- edited by Roberta J. M. Olson *76 Illustrated Book, Dijian tushuo,” in the East Asian non frieze in Tokyo; and a lecture on Greek images Library Journal (spring 2006). Last spring, she par- of the corpse in Athens. Jenifer serves on the execu- ticipated in the Princeton conference in honor of tive committee of the American School of Classical Professor Wen Fong and is contributing an article Studies at Athens, is the Greek archaeology editor of to his festschrift. She will spend next academic year Bryn Mawr Classical Review, and was recently at Harvard working on a new book about a former elected vice president of publications for the Archae- shrine to Confucius outside Shanghai. Julia is pro- ological Institute of America. She is also the editor fessor of art history, East Asian studies, and religious for Greek and Roman art and archaeology for the studies at the University of Wisconsin. [jmurray@ forthcoming six-volume Encyclopedia of Ancient wisc.edu] Greece and Rome published by Oxford University Tina Najbjerg *97 published two articles related to Press. She is the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University Art History and Classics at Case Western Reserve in 2001–04. With Jen Trimble, she coauthored University. [[email protected]] “The Severan Marble Plan since 1960,” in Formae Roberta J. M. Olson *76, professor of art history urbis Romae: nuovi frammenti di piante marmoree emeritus at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, has dallo scavo dei fori imperiali (L’Erma di Bret- been curator of drawings at the New-York Histor- schneider, 2006); and, with coauthors D. Koller, ical Society since 2000. From 2003 to 2005, with Bernini’s Biographies: Critical J. Trimble, N. Gelfand, and M. Levoy, she pub- the sponsorship of a Getty Foundation grant, she Essays, coedited and with contri- bution by Steven F. Ostrow *87 s p r i n g    7 41 catalogued the society’s collection of over 8,000 nized an international symposium at the University drawings and watercolors, and wrote the catalogue of Minnesota titled “Design and Its Publics: Cura- for the exhibition “Drawn by New York: Six Centu- tors, Critics, and Historians,” which explored the ries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New-York significance of Minneapolis’s new public buildings Historical Society.” The Getty Foundation has in the context of a global architectural culture and awarded the society a publication grant for the final the state of architectural and design discourse as phase of the catalogue, which will appear in 2008. reflected in contemporary criticism and curatorial Roberta’s recent publications include the catalogue, practice. [[email protected]] coauthored with Margaret K. Hofer, of the 2002 Nassos Papalexandrou *98, who teaches classical exhibition “Seat of Empire: Napoleon’s Armchair archaeology in the Department of Art and Art His- from Malmaison to Manhattan.” With Patricia tory at the University of Texas–Austin, participated L. Reilly and Rupert Shepherd, she coedited The in numerous conferences in 2005–06 and contin- Biography of the Object in Late Medieval and Renais‑ ued work on his second book, on the subject of sance Italy (Blackwell Publishing, 2006). Her recent monsters in rituals. In July he joined the Princeton articles include “John Singer Sargent and James Cyprus Expedition at Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus, Carroll Beckwith, Americans in Paris: A Trove of along with his wife Amy Papalexandrou *97, who Their Unpublished Drawings,” in Master Drawings is also a member of the excavation team, and their Véronique Plesch *94, Painter (2005); “The Quest for Sophistication: A Selection 10-year old daughter. At the dig, he continued and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio’s of European Paintings and Objects,” in Antiques supervising the excavation of a large secular building Visual Rhetoric and the Passion (2005); and “One of the Best-Kept Secrets: The of the late 6th to early 5th century b.c., on which Cycle at La Brigue Drawings Collection of the New-York Histori- he published a detailed report in the 2006 issue of cal Society,” in Master Drawings (2004). She also the Report of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus. contributed an essay to the catalogue of the 2003 Nassos’s research interests have also expanded to exhibition Montagna: Arte, scienza, mito da Dürer a include a major Muslim monument on Cyprus and Warhol, at the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contem- the artistic physiognomy of General Makriyannis, poranea di Trento e Rovereto, and an entry in the a hero of the 19th-century Greek war of indepen- 2003 catalogue Playing with Fire: European Terra‑ dence, whose works Nassos studied in the library of cotta Models, 1740–1840 (Metropolitan Museum of Windsor Castle, England. Finally, in 2006 Nassos Art and Musée du Louvre). Among the exhibitions designed and oversaw the installation and display Roberta has curated in recent years are three highly of the ancient cast and Greek vase collection at the successful installments of “Audubon’s Aviary”; the newly opened Blanton Museum of Art at the Uni- five-part series will conclude in 2009. [rolson@ versity of Texas’s Austin campus. [papalex@mail. nyhistory.org] utexas.edu] Steven F. Ostrow *87 has been appointed professor Véronique Plesch *94 published Painter and Priest: and chair of the Department of Art History at the Giovanni Canavesio’s Visual Rhetoric and the Passion University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. In collabora- Cycle at La Brigue (University of Notre Dame Press, tion with Evonne Levy *93 and Maarten Delbeke 2006), based on her Princeton dissertation, and of the University of Ghent, he edited and contrib- the article “Sixteenth-Century Pictorial and Dra- uted to Bernini’s Biographies: Critical Essays (Penn matic Religious Cycles in the French Alps: Time for Cambridge Companion to Archaic State University Press, 2007), and he coauthored a the Renaissance Yet?” in James Marrow’s festschrift. Greece, edited by Alan Shapiro *77 new introduction to Filippo Baldinucci, The Life of Last October, she was a keynote speaker at the con- Bernini, translated by C. Enggass (Penn State Uni- ference “Theater and the Visual Arts in the Middle versity Press, 2007). His other recent publications Ages and Renaissance: Aspects of Representation” include “The Discourse of Failure in Seventeenth- organized by the Center for Medieval and Renais- Century Rome: Prospero Bresciano’s Moses,” in sance Studies at Binghamton University, New York. the Art Bulletin (2006); “Playing with the Para‑ Her lecture, “Words and Images in Late Medieval gone: The Reliefs of Pietro Bernini,” in Zeitschrift Drama and Art,” will be published in Mediaevalia. für Kunstgeschichte (2004); and “The Counter-Ref- Team-teaching with Olivia Holmes, a Dante spe- ormation and the End of the Century,” in Rome cialist, has led to two papers, one of which she will (Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance), edited present at this year’s Medieval Congress at Kalam- by Marcia Hall (Cambridge University Press, azoo in a session on “Word and Image in Dante’s 2005). Steven presented papers at a conference Divine Comedy.” With Catriona McLeod and on sculpture in Brussels and at the National Gal- Charlotte Schoell-Glass, she is coediting Elective lery of Art, Washington, D.C., in 2005 and at the Ida Sinkević *94, Knights in Affinities: Word & Image Interactions 6, a collection Renaissance Society of America’s annual conference Shining Armor: Myth and Reality, of essays from the 2005 International Conference 1450–1650 in 2006, and he will give papers this year at the on Word and Image Studies. Véronique continues Renaissance Society of America’s annual conference to serve on the executive board of the International in Miami and at a conference on Cesare Baronio Association of Word and Image Studies, is in charge and the arts in Sora, Italy. In April he co-orga- of publications, and is on the organizing commit-

42 s p r i n g    7 tee of the next triennial conference. She is one of beautiful young women presenting offerings to the three senior editors of the series Word & Image goddess Athena—stood on the Athenian Acropo- Interactions, published by Rodopi (Amsterdam/ lis from the 6th century b.c. until Persians sacked New York). This winter she wrote an article, “Mem- the citadel in 480/79 b.c. Subsequently buried ory and Intermediality in Maggie Libby’s Portraits as a group, they lay forgotten for nearly 24 cen- of Colby Women,” for Claus Clüver’s festschrift and turies until archaeologists excavated them in the will present a version of the paper at the 18th Con- 1880s. Mary’s book challenges the longstanding gress of the International Comparative Literature view that these sculptures are generic female images, Association this summer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. demonstrating that they are instead highly individu- [[email protected]] alized, mimetically realistic representations. She has Peter Rohowsky *75 (M.A.) was recently recently expanded the scope of her work to include appointed executive manager of the New York the male kouroi, and she presented a paper on the office of The Art Archive. He supervises all research, Anavysos kouros at the 2006 meeting of the Col- licensing, and content development for the U.S. lege Art Association. The manuscript of her second division of The Picture Desk, a London-based book, “Euripides and the Language of Craft,” is cur- image agency supplying photographs of fine and rently in prepublication review. Mary teaches at the decorative arts to text/trade/scholarly books and Cooper Union in New York. [[email protected]] publications. [[email protected]] Ulrike Meyer Stump *96 (M.A.) is continuing Alan Shapiro *77, the W. H. Collins Vickers Pro- work on her dissertation on Karl Blossfeldt’s pho- fessor of Archaeology in the Department of Classics tography book Urformen der Kunst (1928) and teaches the history of photography at the Univer- at Johns Hopkins University, is the editor of the Mary Stieber *92, The Poetics of sity of Art and Design in Zurich. As a member of recently published Cambridge Companion to Archaic Appearance in the Attic Korai Greece. The volume is a wide-ranging synthesis the National Photography Commission of Switzer- of history, society, and culture during the forma- land, she advises the government on the funding of tive period of ancient Greece, from the Age of photography exhibitions and publications. She has Homer in the late 8th century to the Persian Wars three children, �������������������������������ages 1, 4, and 7. [umeyerstump@������������� dplanet.ch] of 490–480 b.c. In March he spoke at the “Athe- nian Potters and Painters” conference in Athens. Mary Grace Weir *96 (M.A.) spent several weeks Working with his colleague Michael Koortbojian in the summer of 2006 at the study season of the of Johns Hopkins’s History of Art Department, Princeton Cyprus Expedition in Polis Chrysochous, Alan is launching a new interdepartmental Ph.D. Cyprus. She plans to return this June to continue in classical art and archaeology, modeled in part on her research. Last fall she coordinated being a wife the successful Princeton program. The first group and mother with continuing work on her disserta- of students will enter the program in September. tion. From January to April 2007, she also taught [[email protected]] Greek mythology at the University of Windsor, Ida Sinkević *94 has published Knights in Shining and she hopes that the teaching opportunity will be Armor: Myth and Reality, 1450–1650 (Allen- renewed in the fall of 2007. [[email protected]] town Art Museum and Bunker Hill Publishing, Robert Weir *98 was granted tenure and promoted 2006), which coincided with the exhibition that to associate professor of classics at the University of she curated for the Allentown Art Museum. The Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, where he has taught exhibition examines the role of arms and armor in since 2002. His recent research has been devoted to the daily life of the Renaissance and Baroque peri- publishing the coins found at the Canadian exca- ods and includes over 150 works of art and armor vations of Stymphalos in Arcadia, Greece, and last from major museums and private collections. In summer he also worked as the numismatist for the the field of Byzantine studies, she presented a paper, Greek excavations at Helike in Achaea. He also “Representing without Icon,” at the 21st Interna- established an archaeological practicum in Greece tional Congress of Byzantine Studies in London, for North American students. Last summer, the and her article “Formation of Sacred Space in Later Helike project hosted a very successful first run of Byzantine Five-Domed Churches: A Hierotopic the practicum, and Robert will return this summer Approach,” was published in Hierotopy: The Cre‑ with a mixed crew of Ontario and Quebec students. ation of Sacred Spaces in Byzantium and Medieval He will also be the numismatist for the Ameri- Russia, edited by Alexei Lidov (Moscow: Indrik, can dig at Kenchreai this summer. [rweir@ 2006). Ida is associate professor at Lafayette College uwindsor.ca] in Easton, Pennsylvania. [[email protected]] Mary Stieber *92 recently published The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai (University of Texas Press, 2004), a revised version of her Princeton dis- sertation. 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