5 the mall corridors between the Hynes Techno­ King­ Convention Center and the hotel com­ plexes. Certainly the CAA has, by the sheer logistics of location, established a Seduction Hammond: new relationship between scholarship, professionalism, and fitness. CAA is most appreciative of the outstanding hospital­ President ity offered by the Boston hotels and the Hynes Convention Center. In all, 4,500 people registered for the conference, and n response to the membership another 1,200 purchased session tickets. survey in which members expressed I would like to thank CAA confer­ a desire for more visual art at the hat a great pleasure it was ence coordinator Suzanne Schanzer and I to be in Boston and see so annual conference, the Visual Artists CAA deputy director Jeffrey Larris for many old friends and Committee of the CAA Board of W their unstinting support and attention to colleagues. It was even more exciting to Directors announces the exhibition detail in Boston. A special congratulations meet the rapidly growing numbers of theme for the 85th Annual Conference is in order for CAA executive director new members and make new acquain­ in New York in 1997. Techno-Seduction is Susan Ball, who celebrated her ten-year tances with long-standing members a national juded exhibition open to all anniversary with CAA in Boston (see from institutions all over the U.s. and CAA members, sponsored by the Visual "Board Honors Ball," page 9). Also, I abroad. More interesting, however, are Artists Committee and the Cooper extend hearty thanks to membership the swelling numbers of unaffiliated 5 Union for the Advancement of Science manager Theresa Smythe and her entire members I met who function as and Art. staff, Doreen Davis, Makeba Lucio, and independent artists, historians, curators, The exhibition will present the Lavinia Diggs-Richardson; fiscal coordi­ and art professionals from a myriad of MarchiApril 1996 relationship between identity, self­ nator Onofre Beltran; assistant to the heretofore underrepresented communi­ portrait, sensuality, sexuality, gender, executive director Cristin Tierney; College Art Association ties within the College Art Association. and seduction in the work of artists Elizabeth Nesbitt and Irene Look, who 275 Seventh Avenue This year's conference was marked New York, New York 10001 exploring technology and other new ran Placement Services; and manager of by high energy and long walks through media. It will be in the Arthur A publications Virginia Wageman, and Houghton Jr. Gallery at Cooper Union Craig Houser, for running the publica­ Board of Directors and will be curated by Robert Rindler, tions booth. It would not have been Dean of the School of Art. Jurors will be Leslie King-Hammond, President possible without all of you. John R. c:Iarke, Vice President announced. We are now in preparation for the Nancy Macko, Secretary Send SASE for prospectus to: Techno­ final phase of programming for the 1997 John W. Hyland,Jr., Treasurer Seduction Exhibition, Cooper-Union conference to be held in New York. Please Barbara Hoffman, Esq., Counsel School of Art, Cooper Sq., New York, be advised to pay attention to the recently Susan Ball, Executive Director NY 10003. Deadline: June 1, 1996. mailed program with the Call for Partici­ Ellen T. Baird Arturo Lindsay pation. The effectiveness of the confer­ Judith K Brodsky Victor Margolin ence panel sessions greatly depends upon Diane Burko John Hallmark Neff your response to the proposed sessions. It Bradford R. Collins Beatrice Rehl is an enormous task to plan and organize Whitney Davis Rita Robillard a conference on this scale in any location, Vishakha Desai Norie Sato Ou~~oing CAA president Judith Brodsky and even more so in New York given the Jonathan Fineberg Roger Shimomura offiCially welcomes new president Leslie Shifra M. Goldman Lowery Stokes Sims King~Hammond CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 Susan L. Huntington Jeffrey Chipps Smith PHOTO: JOAN BEARD Michi Itami Nancy J. Troy Christine Kondoleon Alan Wallach Irving Lavin Deborah Willis Joe Lewis J Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award Contents Sessions in Studio Art Awards for Presented by Joaneath Spicer Awarded to Henry A. Millon and Vittorio Volume 21, Number 2 Boston: Magnago Lampugnani for The MarchiAprill996 Excellence Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Techno-Seduction Art History Architecture 1 King-Hammond: President The College Art Association's Alfred H. Sessions in Boston: Art History Barr, Jr., Award for Museum Scholar­ 2 Studio Art ship in 1994 is awarded to Henry A. Millon and Vittorio Magnago eing program co-chairs turned his year's conference generated ollege Ar.t Association's annual Lampugnani for The Renaissance from us into the ultimate panel­ considerable positive response 3 Awards for Excellence convocation ceremony was Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Represen­ hoppers. As we roved the with many reporting that it was held at Boston's Hynes B theT best CAA conference they had ever C tation of Architecture (New York: Rizzoli, grandiose Hynes halls to witness the Convention Center, February 23, 1996. Board Honors Ball 1994), the catalogue for an exhibition at 8 consequences of what we had set in attended. Our efforts to address the CAA president-elect Leslie King­ the Palazzo Grassi, Venice. motion, we caught bits of almost every membership's diverse constituencies Hammond introduced Joyce Jane Scott, CAANews ~his exemplary exhibition catalogue panel, and quite a few entire talks. The and interests paid large dividends. We who delivered/performed the keynote CAA in the News proVIdes an outstanding exposition of 9 bits added up to an academic discipline made it a point to make sure that address. CAA outgoing president the central role of architecture in the able to question itself. In modes ranging sessions addressing issues in particular Judith K. Brodsky presided over the Italian Renaissance. While it stresses Annual Conference 1996 from scrupulous theoretical disciplines (painting, printmaking, presentation of awards for excellence in 10 architecture's importance among the arts deconstruction to eloquent formal and crafts, design) were prominently teaching, scholarship, creativity, Clay warriors unearthed from the tomb of the first Chinese emperor and the primacy of its practitioners such M.F.A. Exhibition a Success iconographic analysis, from generous represented, and these attracted large criticism, and conservation. The fro",1 "Likeness of No One" by , as Brunelleschi, Alberti, Leonardo, good humor to malicious attack, we audiences, as anticipated. Topical following are the award recipients and 11 Annual Conference Update Ladlslav Kesner, Arthur Kingsley Raphael, and Michelangelo, this heard real inquiry as well as the sessions dealing with identity, sexuality, their citations. Porter Prize publication's contribution is in demon­ products of serious research and and art politics tended to draw smaller Advocacy in the Classroom strating how the representation of 12 reflection. Graduate students were being crowds, but very dedicated and engaged architecture created a true intersection of brought up through the ranks, art ones. This differential (in terms of artistic production, documents, text, and the ~ts at a time when their congruity, historians from abroad and members of numbers) should be kept in mind when Alfred Kingsley secondary literature, he also takes into Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members both In process and conception, was 13 neighboring academic disciplines were room assignments are made. account the current theoretical debates Porter Prize most valued. truly integrated into panels. The One of the observations we heard regarding portraiture, resemblance, and Presented by Irving Lavin Rather than the exhibition format repeatedly was that it was no longer th~ construction of identity. However, concerns of museums, research, teach­ Awarded to Ladislav- Kesner for Likeness People in the News ing, and studio practice did not seem so easy to determine which sessions were this methodological approach-which is pro~ing a limitation for the exposition of 15 of No One: (Re)presenting the First archItecture, the challenges of exhibiting directed toward studio artists and which informe~ by current semiological theory radically different from each other; Emperor's Army Grants, Awards, & Honors many panels cast those concerns as if were intended primarily for art histori­ and aVOIds positioning the terra-cotta an unprecedented assembly of wooden 16 Conferences & Symposia they belonged together. Last (but not ans/critics. The program theme liThe . army as a vehicle for some predeter­ ar~hitectural ~cale models have inspired The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for Millon and hIS collaborators to examine least?) despite the usual small glitch Object and Its Limits" clearly addressed ~~ed belief of philosophical concept~ 1995 is awarded to Ladislav Kesner in depth a range of critical exchanges quotient-an impossibly enormous the interests of both groups and gave the IS fIrmly rooted in the specific historical Opportunities curator of Chinese art at the 18 ballroom, slide jams, panelists who just conference a cohesiveness that can be Nation~l and artistic traditions, mortuary between two-dimensional design and didn't show up, etc.-logistics unfurled seen as a model for how to integrate Gallery of Prague, for his article practices, and the authors perceptive "Likeness of No One: (Re)presenting smoothly. Not a single set of talks ran perspectives of direct practice and reading of the sculptures