May-June 1991 CAA News

5 solely on the basis of merit; however, if number of factors, including which 1993 Annual essentially the same proposal is received topics were not covered in recent CAA from two or more individuals, prefer conferences. All other things being ence may be given to the individual equal, preference may be given to Conference from the region in which the the artists/scholars from the region in conference will be held. Where propos which the conference will be held. als overlap, the program chairs reserve the right to select the most considered version or, in some cases, to suggest a fusion of two or more versions from Art History Program he 1993 CAA annual conference among the proposals submitted. The Co-Chairs will be held in Seattle, Washing program chairs may invite submissions Martha Kingsbury, professor of art T ton, at the Seattle Sheraton. Ses from people who have not submitted history at the University of Washington, sions will run Thursday, February 4, proposals but :whose experience, Seattle, received her B.A. from the through Saturday, February 6. expertise, and outreach would, in the Unlversity of Chicago (1962) and her chairs' opinion, be important to shaping M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from an interesting and balanced program. In Harvard Unlversity (1963, 1969). She Proposal Submission doing so, program chairs will consider a received a postdoctoral fellowship from Guidelines Proposals for sessions should be submitted to the program chairs in the form of a one-to-two page letter I essay framing the topic of the session and explaining any special or timely significance it may have for a particular field and/ or discipline. When possible, outline potential panelists and proce dures. Explanatory or supportive materials may be included. Send a c.v., biographical statement, mailing address, and work and horne telephone num bers. Please enclose a self-addressed stamped postcard so that the chairs can acknowledge receipt of your proposal, and a SASE if you wish any materials returned. To summarize CAA procedures: Only proposals from members will be considered. No one may chair a session more than once every three years (for example, session chairs in 1993 can not have served as chairs in 1991 or 1992). Program chairs will make their selec Seattle, site althe 1993 CAA annual conference tions from among eligible proposals PHOTO: JAMES BELL CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CAA Committee on Electronic 1993 Annual Conference New York University (1963, 1974). She Art History Co-Chairs Annual Information and ARLIS/NA Joint CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 worked in publishing prior to taking up Contents Session. Call for papers on the uses of art history. As an art historian, she Program Statement electronic databases for research and the American Council of Learned The 1993 CAA annual conference will be Volume 16. Number 3 taught at Sarah Lawrence College before Conference teaching purposes. Sought are papers on Societies for a year's work in Paris. She going to the University of British the first held in the Pacific Northwest. It May/June 1991 the purposes and uses of databases and/ has been at the University of Washing Columbia in 1975. She has received will be an appropriate time and place to or interactive video disks created by ton since 1968 and has also taught at fellowships from the National Endow examine the outer boundaries and inner Update scholars, and the challenges of the future Reed College (humanities), at the ment for the Humanities and the Social contours of the discipline of art history. Art history in America is at least an 1 1993 Annual Conference of electronic manipulation of art University of Chicago (art history), and Sciences and Humanities Research historical data. Send abstracts to: Vir at Hiroshima University as a Fulbright Council of Canada, and has been a octogenarian now (the Art Bulletin began publication in 1913, eighty years before ginia Kerrf 305 Central Park, Wilmette, lecturer for a year (art history and visiting member at the Institute for the Seattle meeting and CAA was IL 60091; 708/251-2945; fax c/o Deiss American studies). Kingsbury's contri Advanced Study, Princeton, N.L and a f Annual Conference Update 2 708/491-5685. Deadline: June 30,1991. butions to 19th-century scholarship have summer fellow in Byzantine studies at organized in 1911-12). At the edge of a new century, the field confronts issues Sessions Added to appeared in the Art Bulletin, Art Quar Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. Her terly, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Winterthur particular area of research is late and interrogates materials not originally CAANews 1992 CAA Program Portfolio, Artnews Annual, Art Journal, in its purview. Within a broad context, 5 Conference Position medieval and Renaissance sculpturef in Chicago the 1993 art history program seeks to Available and Artweek. Among her books and focusing on Venice, and she has pub "The Destruction of Cultural Property." highlight sessions that address aspects A person is sought to serve as assistant catalogues on 20th-century American art lished articles and reviews in the Art Chair: D. Fairchild Ruggles, Center for of "what art history has come to be as a Legal Update to the projectionist/usher coordinator are: Art of the Thirties (Henry Art Gallery, Bulletin, Burlington Magazine, Arte 6 Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, cultural practice, and how." for CAA's 1992 annual conference in University of Washington, 1972), Art of Veneta, Journal of Modern History, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Art history continuously redefines Chicago, to assist in recruitment, the Pacific Northwest (National Collection Renaissance Quarterly, and RACAR. Her DC 20565. Sponsored by the CAA itself in relation to other academic fields. training, and on-site coordination of all of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, dissertation, The Area Fusari: The Building 7 Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members Committee for the Acquisition of But are there factors integral to art projectionists and ushers hired for 1974), Northwest Traditions (Seattle Art of a Triumphal Gateway in Fifteenth Cultural Properties. history that either subvert or aggrandize sessions. There will be 75 sessions, to be Museum, 1978), Art in Washington State: Century Venice, was published in the Art historians are accustomed to the impacts of various disciplines? Also, held at the Hilton Hotel and Towers, A History ofl00 Years (State of Washing Garland series of dissertations in the fine People in the News discussing the preservation of the past how have the goals and strategies of art 8 February 13-16, 1992. Three full days of ton, 1989), and George Tsutakawa arts (1976). Pincus is currently complet and the legacy of history. Often the history been affected by the technolo work are required during the confer (University of Washington, 1990). ing a study of the political and religious past's material relics survive by chance: gies-and economics-of, among other ence, plus a training session on the Debra Pincus is an associate imagery of the tombs of the doges of a textile used as a shroud in a sealed things, printing, photoreproductionf air 9 Programs, New & Revised evening of February 12, and the assistant professor at the University of British Venice during the late medieval and tomb, a collection of photographs travel, or computer databases? will be asked to provide local support Columbiaf Vancouver. She received her early Renaissance periods and will be preserved in an attic trunk, or a street Beyond the academic, how has art for the coordinator's recruitment B.A. from the University of Michigan, working next year on a study of the and all its bulldings preserved by a history structured itself in relation to Grants, Awards, & Honors activities during the four months Ann Arbor (1956), and her M.A. and patronage of the 14th-century Venetian 10 cascade of volcanic ash. However, for other cultural practices? Exactly how preceding the conference. Applicants Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, scholar-doge Andrea Dandolo. each monument, object, and cultural does it use, and servef the marketing of should have previous experience in artifact that survives, millions more art, the political and ethnic uses of art, projection and supervision and should Conferences & Symposia crumble and disintegrate. Unfortu the criticism of art, and, of course, the 11 be a Chicago area resident. Salary: $400 nately, some of those objects, though changing practices of art history-its plus a complimentary hotel room during treasured for their beauty or as historical authority and pronouncements, its the conference. Send a letter of interest Opportunities records, are destroyed as a result of training and accreditations, its rewards 12 to CAA's usher / projectionist coordina human violence. The political events of and stature-shaped either openly or tor: Vicki Toye, Program Assistant, Film, the past year have made us keenly covertly by pressures from those who Information Wanted National Gallery of Art, Washington, aware of the vulnerability of some of would own or make or simply see art? Datebook DC 20565. 14 humankind's most fragile and important We welcome the examination of works of art. Papers are encouraged that current issues of art history's practice address the issue of the destruction of and identity, and also of its evolution as 16 Classified Ads artifacts of the past not only in Iraq and Abstracts and a field. Kuwait during the present crisis, but in Cassette Tapes from The emphasis of the 1993 art history other times and places as well: Revolu program on "what art history has come CAA News, a publication of the 1990 Conference to be as a cultural practice, and how" College Art Association, is published tionary France, Iran, Europe and Japan Abstracts of papers presented at the 1991 six times a year.

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