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PrincetonUniversity DEPARTMENT OF Art Archaeology & Newsletter Dear Friends and Colleagues: SPRING 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, 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 8 others in the years and archaeology, UNDERGRADUATE NEWS ahead—we will col- and we have since laborate with other moved to collabo- departments and 3 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 7 at large, thus con- department has MARQUAND LIBRARY necting experts been lively this within the depart- year. Among other ment and without. 9 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 3 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 2 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.