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center 30 National Gallery of Art, Washington Center 30 National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Center 30 National Gallery of Art center for advanced study in the visual arts Center 30 Record of Activities and Research Reports June 2009 – May 2010 Washington, 2010 National Gallery of Art center for advanced study in the visual arts Washington, dc Mailing address: 2000B South Club Drive, Landover, Maryland 20785 Telephone: (202) 842-6480 Fax: (202) 842-6733 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.nga.gov/casva Copyright © 2010 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law, and except by reviewers from the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Produced by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the Publishing Office, National Gallery of Art, Washington issn 1557-198X (print) issn 1557-1998 (online) Editor in Chief, Judy Metro Deputy Publisher and Production Manager, Chris Vogel Managing Editor, Cynthia Ware Design Manager, Wendy Schleicher casva Project Manager for Center Reports, Mattie M. Schloetzer Assistant Production Manager, John Long Assistant Editor, Magda Nakassis Designed by Patricia Inglis, typeset in Monotype Sabon and Ellington display by Duke & Company, Devon, Pennsylvania, and printed on McCoy Silk by the Whitmore Group, Baltimore, Maryland Cover: Design study for the East Building (detail), I. M. Pei & Partners, National Gallery of Art East Building Design Team, c. 1968. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gallery Archives Half-title page: I. M. Pei, early conceptual sketch for the East Building profile, with the Capitol, fall 1968. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gallery Archives Frontispiece: Fellows’ tour of the National Mall Contents 6 Preface 7 Report on the Academic Year June 2009 – May 2010 8 Board of Advisors and Special Selection Committees 9 Staff 11 Report of the Dean 15 Members 24 Meetings 35 Lectures 38 Publications 39 Research 45 Research Reports of Members 163 About the Center 165 Fields of Inquiry 165 Board of Advisors and Special Selection Committees 165 Professors in Residence 166 Fellowships 172 Meetings, Research, and Publications 179 Index of Members’ Research Reports Preface The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, a research institute that fosters study of the production, use, and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, urbanism, photography, and film, from prehistoric times to the present, was founded in 1979. The Center encourages a variety of approaches by historians, critics, and theorists of art, as well as by scholars in related disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. The resident community of scholars consists of the Samuel H. Kress Professor, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor, the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, the A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, and approximately twenty fellows at any one time, including senior fellows, visiting senior fellows, guest scholars, research associates, postdoctoral fellows, and predoctoral fellows. In addition, the Center supports approximately fif- teen predoctoral fellows who are conducting research both in the United States and abroad. The programs of the Center include fellowships, meetings, research, and publications. 6 Report on the Academic Year June 2009 – May 2010 Board of Advisors C. Jean Campbell Pamela Lee September 2008 – August 2011 September 2009 – August 2012 Emory University Stanford University Whitney Davis, chair Jeanette Favrot Peterson September 2007 – August 2010 September 2008 – August 2011 University of California – Berkeley University of California – Santa Barbara Hal Foster Carl Strehlke September 2007 – August 2010 September 2008 – August 2011 Princeton University Philadelphia Museum of Art Marsha Haufler September 2009 – August 2012 Curatorial Liaison University of Kansas Sarah Greenough Michael Koortbojian September 2009 – August 2011 Senior Curator of Photographs September 2007 – August 2010 Princeton University National Gallery of Art Special Selection Committees Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for Historians of Fellow ship American Art to Travel Abroad Michael Cole Michael J. Lewis University of Pennsylvania Williams College Michael Fried James Meyer The Johns Hopkins University Emory University Patricia Rubin Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw New York University, Institute of University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts 8 Staff Elizabeth Cropper, Dean Therese O’Malley, Associate Dean Peter M. Lukehart, Associate Dean Helen Tangires, Center Administrator Kenneth Baksys, Assistant Administrator for Budget and Accounting Research Associates Program Assistants Janna Israel Susan Cohn, Fellowships Jill Pederson Elizabeth Kielpinski, Regular Jessica N. Richardson Meetings Sara M. Taylor (to July 2009) Emma Millon, Research Laura Plaisted, Regular Meetings and Publications Research Assistant Jessica Ruse, Research Joyce Tsai Mattie M. Schloetzer, Research Bailey Skiles, Special Meetings and Publications 9 Report of the Dean June 2009 – May 2010 The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts welcomed scholars from Israel, France, Italy, the Republic of Georgia, Spain, Canada, Tur- key, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The topics of their research ranged from the women warriors of Dahomey, a kingdom today in the Republic of Benin, to women and modernity in print culture in nineteenth-century France, from the Plaza de las Tres Culturas and the adjacent Tlatelolco public housing complex in Mexico City to the development of Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage culture in the holy mountain range of Wutai Shan in northern China, and from the art of Anglo-Swiss painter Henry Fuseli to the iconography of Saint Francis of Assisi as developed in Andean painting and sculpture. This year also witnessed the continuing growth of interest in the historiography of art history, and in broader questions of style, especially the baroque. In the program of publications, one new volume was published in the series Studies in the History of Art. Volume 75, The Woodcut in Fifteenth- Century Europe, gathers twelve papers delivered at the 2005 symposium of the same name held on the occasion of the exhibition Origins of Eu- ropean Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public. Peter Parshall served both as curator of the exhibition and as scholarly editor of the Studies volume. The publication was supported with funds that East facade of were provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in memory of Franklin the East Building, 2010. Photograph: D. Murphy and specifically dedicated to symposia and publications in Roger Taylor the area of early books and manuscripts that so interested him. Studies 11 in the History of Art, volume 69, The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400 – 1850, edited by Therese O’Malley and Amy R. W. Meyers, also published in memory of Franklin D. Murphy, was reprinted in softcover to meet demand from readers. The Accademia Seminars: The Accademia di San Luca in Rome, c. 1590 – 1635, edited by Peter M. Lukehart, is the second volume in the new Seminar Papers series. It includes eleven essays resulting from several meetings of a group of scholars under the auspices of the Acca demia di San Luca project, and was supported by a grant from Robert H. Smith. This was an outstanding year for the program of research at the Center, with two major projects coming to fruition, and these were celebrated in several special events. The launching of the Web site “The History of the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590 – 1635: Documents from the Archivio di Stato di Roma” (www.nga.gov/casva/accademia), which occurred in tandem with the publication of the Seminar Papers vol- ume, was celebrated in a two-part program at the Gallery and at the Archivio di Stato in Rome (see the detailed listings of participants on pages 24 – 27). Support for these events was provided by the International Exhibitions Fund and the Getty Foundation. The results of a second long-term research project, directed by Ther- ese O’Malley, appeared this year as Keywords in American Landscape Design, a richly illustrated reference work published jointly by Yale Uni- versity Press and the National Gallery of Art. This project was supported in part by grants from the Getty Foundation, the Terra Foundation for the Arts, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The launch of Therese O’Malley’s volume was marked by a lecture presented by Laurie Olin, principal of olin Partnership and practice professor of landscape architecture and regional planning at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania (see page 36). This program was also supported by the International Exhibitions Fund. In the program of special meetings, the Center sponsored a two-day Robert H. Smith Colloquy, Tullio Lombardo and the High Renaissance in Venice, in conjunction with the National Gallery’s exhibition An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renais- sance Sculpture. The Center also cosponsored, with University of Maryland, the for- tieth Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, with papers 12 delivered by graduate students from eight participating departments, in keeping with the new policy of rotating departments every other year. This year’s biennial Wyeth Lecture in American Art, supported