NEWSLETTER Fall 2007 Volume 1, Issue 2

Taking on the World The tendency to focus on the material World Arts. With Michael Carrasco, Talinn production of the “West,” and the dichotomy of Grigor, and Susan Lee as faculty teaching center and periphery that such privileging in such diverse areas as Pre-Columbian art engenders, has been an issue of art historical and architecture, Middle Eastern modern debate since the 1970s. How do we expand architecture and (post) Colonial discourse, the canon to reflect the history of art and the and the Arts of Asia, this is an exciting time changing demographic of the classroom? for art history at FSU. What methodologies best elucidate the unique issues of divergent cultures? The spring course offerings in World Arts will include: Arts of Asia, Islamic Art and In our efforts to accurately reflect trends in art Architecture, World Arts: Representations historical scholarship, we have expanded our and Reality, Methods and Theories of World course offerings to include a concentration in Arts, and Japanese Prints. Go International! Earn art history credit this summer with any of and the Uffizi Gallery. Ph.D. candidate these exciting study abroad opportunities Frank Nero leads 6- and 12- week offered through International Programs programs. The recently expanded itinerary www.international.fsu.edu: now includes an extended visit to Giotto's Arena Chapel in Padua; an outing to the The Study Centre: located in the “ideal” renaissance city of Pienza, planned historic Thanet House in the Bloomsbury in the mid-fifteenth century by Pope Pius II District, a block from the British Museum. and architect Bernardo Rossellino; and a Prof. Robert Neuman offers two 6-week tour of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in courses at both the undergraduate and Venice that gives students the opportunity to graduate levels. “Museums of London” explore the art of the Italian Futurists. considers a range of institutions, from big national collections, like the British Museum The Grand Tour: a multi-country excursion and the National Gallery, to small personal that takes students from London to Paris, gems like Sir John Soane’s Museum. Berlin, Venice, Florence, and Rome. “Buildings of London” surveys two thousand Included are day-trips to Versailles, years of architecture from ancient Roman Auschwitz, and Pompeii. Ph.D. candidate, Londinium to recent postmodern designs. Ceil Bare, leads this brand-new 4-week program. The Artistic Avant-Garde: this 6-week program addresses the rise and fall of the European avant-garde. Asst. Prof. Adam Jolles uses Paris’s unparalleled cultural resources to demonstrate how and why art changed so dramatically in the years between the French Revolution and the First World War.

The Florence Study Center: located within the Palazzo Alessandri—a fifteenth-century urban palace—the study center is a short stroll from the marbled Duomo, the Ponte Vecchio, Fall 2007 Newsletter Page 2 of 6

The Museum Object Class: an Example of Participatory Pedagogy

Developed by Ph.D. candidate Lana Burgess, the Over the past two years students have curated exhibitions undergraduate Museum Object course is an interactive that explored diverse topics. Kapow! A Cultural Overview experience that provides students with the opportunity to of Comic Book Heroes and Icons (December 2, 2005 to curate an exhibition in Strozier Library. January 20, 2006) was selected from the Robert M. Ervin, Jr., Collection, which includes some of the most enduring Scheduled as a 3-hour seminar that meets once a week, names in comic book history. Featuring , the first half of the semester is devoted to discussions and Spiderman, Superman, and , the display presentations, while the last 8 weeks are organized as a explored the role of heroes, anti-heroes, sidekicks, and workshop, where students interact directly with objects in villains. Fetishizing Horror for the Silver Screen: Selling Strozier Library’s Special Collections. Slashers and Sex (April 14 to May 26, 2006), drawn from the Cinema Promotional Materials Collection, focused on Students explore the diverse elements of museum horror film advertisements containing provocative sexual exhibitions, including accessibility, creativity, design, imagery. More Than Words: The Historical Significance of evaluation, interpretation, and problem solving. Working Text and Image (December 1, 2006 to January 26, 2007) together to conceptualize a project, participants define the considered the evolution of books, from how they exhibition goals and target audience, develop the exhibit’s functioned to how they were manufactured. Got Herb? A main message, and research its themes. Additional “Special Collection” of Botanicals and Herbals (April 16 to responsibilities include drafting interpretative materials, July 16, 2007) included objects from the Louise producing didactic panels, displaying the objects, installing Richardson Herbal Collection. This show explored the and lighting the cases, and evaluating the show. various ways in which humans use plants.

Working with Strozier’s Special Collections allows students The undergraduate Museum Object course is an excellent to handle original artifacts and acquire the skills necessary interactive course that provides students with a base of to work in museums and libraries. Increasing the theoretical knowledge and the practical skills necessary to understanding of exhibitions enhances cultural and pursue a museum career. Ph.D. candidate Teri Yoo will perceptual awareness for undergraduates. teach this class in the spring.

Thesis Forum

Mark your calendars: Thesis Forum is November 7. Second year M.A. students Kristie Cox, Karlyn Griffith, and Jennifer Pride will present the state of their research. This is an excellent opportunity to support your colleagues and contribute to art historical discourse.

Kristie Cox is working with Profs. Lee and Jones on her topic, “Relics, Religious Imagery, and Warfare in Byzantium and Medieval Japan.” As part of her research, Ms. Cox visited New York to examine a painted image on a suit of Japanese armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

Karlyn Griffith is working with Prof. Emmerson on the 89 miniatures of the fourteenth-century play, Le Jour du Jugement, MS Besançon 579. As part of her research, Ms. Griffith traveled to France to examine the manuscript, which is in the collection of the Bibliothèque municipale, Besançon.

Jennifer Pride, directed by Prof. Weingarden, is writing about Manet's Masked Ball at the Opera and Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du mal.” Ms. Pride visited New York and Washington D.C. this summer to conduct part of her research. Page 3 of 6 Fall 2007 Newsletter

Professors and Graduate Students Present Papers Asst. Prof. Michael Carrasco will present “From Field to Prof. Robert Neuman presented “Disneyland's Main Hearth: An Earthly Interpretation of Maya Mythology” at the Street, U.S.A., and Its Sources in Hollywood, U.S.A.” at 40th Annual Chac Mool Conference at the University of the annual joint meeting of the American Culture Calgary in November. Association and the Popular Culture Association in Boston last March, and attended the annual conference of the Prof. Paula Gerson presented “Painted Romanesque Society of Architectural Historians in Pittsburgh last April. Monumental Sculpture: Essential or Skin-Deep?” at “Art as Historical Text,” a conference held at Ben Gurion Assoc. Prof. Lauren Weingarden presented “Benjamin’s University in Israel in May. Elective Affinities: Reassessing ‘The Paris of the Second Empire’ in Baudelaire” at the XVIIIth Congress of the Asst. Prof. Talinn Grigor presented “Tehran: A International Comparative Literature Association in Rio de Revolution in Making” at the Middle Eastern Cities Janeiro this past summer. Colloquium held at the University of Michigan, October 3-5. Karlyn Griffith (M.A. student) will present Performing While in Ann Arbor, she also presented “Of Heritage & “ Courtly Love and Ivory Composite Caskets” at the Inventions: a Lost Ferdawsi, his Modern Tomb, and the Southeastern College Art Association annual conference in Utopic Future in 1920 Iran” at a public lecture, and Charleston, West Virginia, October 17-20. “Imperialism of Ancient Heritage in the 1970s Iran” at a teaching workshop. She will present “Dolling-up Yerevan: Julianne Parse-Sandlin (Ph.D. candidate) will present Avant-garde Urbanism in Post-Soviet Politics” at the “Louis XIII and the Church of the Oratory: An Expression Central Eurasian Studies Society, 8th annual conference, of Sovereign Authority” at the Southeast Chapter of the at the University of Washington in Seattle on October 17. Society of Architectural Historian’s annual conference, which will be held October 24-27 in Nashville, Tennessee. Asst. Prof. Lynn Jones presented “When is a Coptic Textile not Coptic?” at the annual Byzantine Studies Nathan J. Timpano (Ph.D. candidate) presented “Der Conference at the University of Toronto October 11-14. Dr. Märchenkönig & the American Imagination: Understanding Jones, President of the BSC, will discuss the Coptic textile the Medieval and the Exotic in the Early Works of William fragment recently found in Special Collections at Strozier Merritt Chase” at the “Research on the Formation of Library. Artists” conference in Munich, October 9-11. Faculty Publications

Asst. Prof. Lynn Jones’s new book Between Islam and Byzantium: Aght’amar and the Visual Construction of Medieval Armenian Rulership is forthcoming in November from Ashgate Publishing. It provides the first complete analysis of the development of the visual expression of medieval Armenian rulership between 884-1045 CE. During this period, the Armenian rulers loosened their ties with the Arab caliphate, but by its end the Byzantine Empire had become dominant in the region. The influences exerted by these external, opposing powers are a major , theme of Dr. Jones’s book. S p Asst. Prof. Talinn Grigor has two new publications. “Orient oder Rom? Qajar ‘Aryan’ Architecture and Strzygowski’s rArt History,” was published in the September issue of Art Bulletin and “Transient Constructs: Soviet Monuments and Those of their Enemies" appears in Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and History published by Four Courts Press. Eóin Flannery and Angus Mitchell edited the volume.

Prof. Roald Nasgaard is included in the anthology, Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art, ed. John O'Brian and Peter White (McGill-Queens University Press), released this September. His exhibition, The Urge to Abstraction, opened Saturday, September 15, at The Varley Art Gallery, Unionville, Ontario. Fall 2007 Newsletter Page 4 of 6 Travels and Adventures

Prof. Paula Gerson, who is on sabbatical this year, will be Jennifer Naumann (Ph.D. candidate) is in Paris doing at the Sorbonne in Paris in November. She will then visit research for her dissertation “The Game of Princes: Santiago de Compostela, Spain, where she will present at Copies, Competition, and the Construction of Courtly Character.” Prof. Rick Emmerson chairs her committee. a conference on pilgrimage texts. Frank Nero (Ph.D. candidate) is living in Florence and Brandon Burrell (Ph.D. student) taught a 5-week course working on his dissertation. In July, Mr. Nero curated Time, on the art and architecture of Paris this summer and will Memory, Image, an exhibition by Angela Gould. Ms. Gould travel to Melbourne, Australia, in January to participate in is a recent FSU MFA graduate. The exhibition was the the International Congress for the History of Art. result of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant awarded to Ms. Gould. Tanja Jones (Ph.D. candidate) will be in Washington D.C. Nathan J. Timpano (Ph.D. candidate) is in Austria and on a Graduate Student Residency at Dumbarton-Oaks in Germany on a Fulbright and DAAD doing research on his November. She is working on her dissertation, “Pisanello’s dissertation “The Language of Gesture: Examining Medals for Ludovico Gonzaga of Mantua: Dynasty, the Theatrical Corporeal Form in Austrian Expressionist Relic of the Holy Blood, and Crusade.” Assoc. Prof. Jack Painting.” Asst. Prof. Adam Jolles chairs Mr. Timpano’s Freiberg directs Ms. Jones’s committee. committee.

I AM 1789—a New Graduate Student Association

Formed by Stassa Edwards (Ph.D. candidate) and Keri Fredericks (Ph.D. student), the Interdisciplinary Association of Modernists (I AM 1789) seeks to foster a relationship between graduate students across disciplines who are interested in modern art, literature, and culture. The group’s name, I AM 1789, refers to the beginning of the French Revolution—the death of the king and the germ of modernism. “Vive le revolution!”

Membership is open to all FSU graduate students interested in themes of modernism.

Join our listserv at [email protected] or visit us on Facebook. Alumnus Publishes I Was Cuba

Ramiro Fernandez, who graduated from FSU’s School of Visual Arts and Dance in 1974, has recently published a book of his photographs. I Was Cuba is an original look at Cuban history as seen through the Ramiro Fernandez Collection, arguably the world’s leading archive of Cuban photographs. With texts from famed Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (Before Night Falls), this captivating volume is an intimate view into a bygone era of glamour, political upheaval, and astounding visual culture. On October 23 Mr. Fernandez will give a presentation about his collection of rare, vernacular images from the nineteenth century through the revolutionary period. Mr. Fernandez recently retired after a thirty-year career as a photo-editor for Time-Life and People magazines. Fall 2007 Newsletter Page 5 of 6 Congratulations! Brandon Burrell (Ph.D. student) has been nominated by the College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance to be a featured student on FSU’s homepage. Mr. Burrell held the University Fellowship from 2005-07 and has been awarded a McKnight Doctoral Fellowship for 2007-10.

Jennifer Feltman (Ph.D. candidate) was invited to Ph.D. candidacy Aug. 22. Her committee includes Profs. Gerson, Emmerson, Lee, and Walters (French). Her dissertation will address the construction and representation of purgatory during the Middle Ages.

Segundo (Ph.D. student) and Bobbie (M.A. student) Fernandez welcomed their third child, Henry James, on August 27. He weighed 9 lbs. 2 oz.

Matt McCaskill (M.A. student) will defend his thesis, “The Frescoes of the Church Fathers in Santa Maria Antigua: Theological Proclamation through Visualization” this October. Profs. Jones and Gerson co-chair his committee.

Liza Smirnova (B.A. student) has won an Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award. This prestigious University fellowship will enable Ms. Smirnova to conduct research in Chicago at the Art Institute and in Russia. Asst. Prof. Adam Jolles directs her project, “The Impact and Influence of Soviet Propaganda of the Great Patriotic War.”

Lee Todd (M.A. student) defended her thesis, “The Quest of the Individual: Interpreting the Narrative Structure in the Miracle Windows at Canterbury Cathedral” on July 11. Prof. Gerson directs her committee.

SUMMER GRADUATES

Doctor of Philosophy Bachelor of Arts Barbara Johnston Carolyn Broadhead (Cum Laude), Ryan Campea, Katie Couture (Cum Laude), Ellen Howard (Magna Cum Laude), Master of Arts Jamie Lumpkin, Adrienne Meraz (Cum Laude), Jacqueline Jungwon Lee and Keith Wemm Mero, Lauren Skurow, and Ann Smith “College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance Presents” Lecture Series Made possible by a generous gift from the late Vincent and Mary Agnes Thursby, the Department of Art History will bring four distinguished art historians to FSU this year. Two speakers will join us in the Fall and two in the Spring. All lectures are in the Fine Arts Building, Room 249 at 7pm.

Helen Evans is the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She is the author of Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557) and Glory of Byzantium. She will present a lecture, “The Holy Mountain of St. Catherine at Sinai: Responses to a Sacred Space,” Thursday, Nov. 1.

Fred Bohrer is Associate Professor of Art at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. He is the author of Orientalism and Visual Culture: Exoticizing Assyria in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2003), as well as several essays and articles in leading critical anthologies and journals. He curated the currently traveling exhibition, Antoine Sevruguin and the Persian Image. He will present a lecture, “Photography, Worldliness, and the Middle East: Then and Now” on Tuesday, Nov. 13.

Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art in the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He is the author of Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography and Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History, in addition to numerous articles on the history and theory of photography. He is currently preparing an anthology of essays concerning Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida. He will speak on Thursday, Jan. 24.

Our fourth speaker will be announced later this month. We look forward to seeing you at the lectures! Page 6 of 6 Fall 2007 Newsletter

A Message from the Undergraduate Art History Association…

The Undergraduate Art History Association (UAHA) is dedicated to fostering a positive relationship between undergraduate majors, the department, faculty, and graduate students. A Message from the Undergraduate Art History Association… ART HISTORY President: Rachelle Hellams NEWSLETTER Vice President: Charlotte Waters Secretary: Ashley Hickman Treasurer: Janelle Hernandez Fall 2007 Volume 1, Issue 2 Bake Sales: Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month in the FAB Lobby Graduation Discussion—October 24 (Topic: What to do with your degree) First Fridays—UAHA officers will gather every First Friday at 7pm in front of 621 Gallery EDITORS: KERI FREDERICKS Stay in touch by joining the listserv: [email protected] SARAH ANDYSHAK

[email protected] A Message from the Art History Association… WWW.FSU.EDU/~ARH AHA is an organization designed specifically for Art History graduate students at FSU. We coordinate guest lectures, host social events, and act as liaison between graduate students and faculty members. As a student in the department, you are automatically a member, so please take advantage of all that our association has to offer. SAVE THE DATE President: Morgan McCormick ([email protected]) Vice President: Stephanie Dutcher ([email protected]) Thesis Forum Treasurer: Alison Moore ([email protected]) 11/7 Faculty Liaison: Lindsey Skelly ([email protected]) Thesis Prospectus Due Visit us on the web: www.fsu.edu/~arh/pages/people/aha/index.shtml 11/30

University Fellowship Where are they now? Applications Due Debra Murphy (M.A. 1979) completed her Ph.D. at Boston 12/7 University and is now an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Art and Design at the University of North Last Day of Classes Florida in Jacksonville. 12/7 Bill McKeown (Ph.D. 2005) is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor in the Department of Art at the University of Winter Break Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. 12/17 - 1/6

Keidra Daniels (M.A. 2007) is the new head of corporate relations for the Orlando Museum of Art. Last Day to Apply for Spring Graduation Kara Morrow (Ph.D. 2007) is an Assistant Professor in the Art 1/19 History Department at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. Spring Break 3/10 - 3/14 We love to hear from our alumni! Drop us a line and let us know how you are doing ... [email protected] …and remember the deadline for submissions to the Spring Newsletter is February 20.