5 Magazine, and the Art Bulletin. challenging and stimulating articles Newly elected to CAA's Board of assessing particular problems or fields, Troy Named Directors, Troy has been a CAA notes, letters, and exhibition reviews member since 1979 and has served on that will both encourage and directly Art Bulletin the nominating committee. As editor contribute to the debates that are designate of the Art Bulletin, she will currently reshaping the discipline and select and edit manuscripts for publica­ practices of art history. I would like to Editor tion. Submissions should be sent to: think that under my editorship, the Art Naney j. Troy, Getty Center for the Bulletin will contain articles readers History of Art and the Humanities, 4001 might not expect to find there, that its Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 400, Santa Monica, contents will elicit not only interest but CA 90401-1455. also surprise and provoke not simply reasoned response but also the kind of aney j. Troy, fonnerly profes- productive controversy that often ... sor of art history at Northwest- Editor Designate's signals growth and change. ;\J In the course of the eighty years II ern University and currently Statement research associate at the J. Paul Getty My goal is to make the Art Bulletin a since it was founded in 1913 (one year Center for the History of Art and the forum for discussion of the widest after the formation of the College Art Humanities, has been appointed editor possible range of art historical issues. To Association), the Art Bulletin has designate of the Art Bulletin. She will that end, I hope to publish intellectually established a solid reputation for succeed Richard Brilliant as editor-m­ promoting distinguished scholarship in chief, effective july 1, 1994. our field. However, that very reputa­ Troy received a B.A. from Wesleyan tion, and the sense of tradition it entails, University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in art should not be regarded as discouraging history from Yale. Her field of special­ the presentation of innovative points of ization is twentieth-century European view or the exploration of under­ art. She was at Northwestern from 1983 represented subjects in the pages of Art unti11993, prior to which she taught at Bulletin. Outstanding art historical work Johns Hopkins for three years. The of high quality is being accomplished at author of two book-length studies, what some may regard as the margins Modernism and the Decorative Arts in of our discipline as well as at its France: Art Nouveau to Le Corbusier (Yale, traditional center. One of my principal 1991) and The De Stijl Environment (MIT, tasks as editor will be actively to seek 1983), she has contributed to several out material that responds to these exhibition catalogues, including criteria. But no matter how broadly I try Mondrian and Neo-Plasticism in America to cast my net, my catch will necessarily (Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), De depend in large part on what rises to the Stijl, 1917-1931 (Walker Art Center, surface of its own accord. I therefore 1982), Oskar Schlemmer (Baltimore intend to be receptive to unsolicited Museum of Art, 1986), and The 1920s: submissions and also hope to inspire Age of the Metropolis (Montreal Museum those who read the Art Bulletin to Fine Art, 1991). In addition, she has encourage scholars whose work they published numerous articles in such admire to contribute to its pages. journals as Design Issues, October, Arts Nancy J. Troy -Nancy J. Troy Distinction in Scholarship and 10 years before acceptance of the article Phyllis jackson Heart as a spiritual icon and Baroque (!3ontents Award Conservation was created to recognize for publication. Patricia Leighten, chair; is a Ph.D. can­ religious symbol representing a an outstanding contribution by one or ( Valter S. Gibson, Case Western Reserve didate in the synchronic relationship between European and Aztec philosophy and Volume 18, Number 4 more persons who have enhanced university; joseph Shy, Wesleyan Department of Committees understanding of art through the University; Aimee Brown Price, New Art History at imagery. July/August 1993 application of knowledge and experi­ York. Northwestern ence in conservation, art history, and University. Her Tina Takemoto art. Marcia Hall, chair, Temple dissertation, is working University; Molly Faries, Indiana liRe-viewing toward an University; Arthur Wheelock, National and Re-vision­ M.F.A. at the AA's prestigious awards are Gallery of Art; for NIC: Barbara Heller, ingWomen of Mason Gross Troy Named Art Bulletin Editor 1 presented annually. Nomina­ Detroit Institute of Arts; joyce Hill­ African Descent School of the C tions for 1994 awards should be Stoner, University of Delaware. in the American Arts at Rutgers 2 Award Committees sent by September 15, 1993, to the awan:! Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award was Visual Tradition," questions the tradi­ University. She chairperson in care of CAA, 275 Seventh established in honor of the former Fellowship tion of race and gender in American art received a B.A. Ave., New York, NY 10001. For further director of the Museum of Modern Art. and art historical scholarship. A 1992-93 in Visual 3 Fellowship Recipients Named information regarding the requirements It is presented to the author or authors recipient of the Henry Luce Foundation/ Studies, an and qualifications for the awards, call of an especially distinguished cata­ Recipients ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in interdiscipli­ Melinda Klayman in the CAA office. logue in the history of art, published American Art, Jackson has received a nary major in 4 CAANews Minority Scholar-in-Residence fellow­ Distinguished Teaching of Art during the penultimate calendar year Named the College of Environmental Design at Award is presented to an artist of under the auspices of a museum, ship at Pomona College for the 1993-94 the University of California, Berkeley. distinction who has made a significant academic year. Much of her work focuses on the self­ Annual Conference Update library, or collection. Kevin Consey, 5 contribution to the visual arts based on chair, Museum of Contemporary Art, portrait, exploring issues of identity and his /her experience in the visual arts and Chicago; Judi Freeman, Los Angeles Deane Miner is self-representation through painting and 6 Irving Sandler has encouraged his/her students to County Museum of Art; joaneath working to­ performance. Next year Takemoto will develop their own individual abilities. Spicer, Walters Art Gallery; Sidra Stich, he first recipients of CAA's ward an M.F.A. attend the University of Rochester (See also p. 5.) Murry DePillars, chair, Berkeley, Calif. Profesional Development in photography Visual and Cuitural Studies program. 7 Directory of Affiliated Societies Fellowships have been selected. Virginia Comonwealth University; Joan Frank Jewett Mather Award for T at the Univer­ Backes, South Dartmouth, Mass.; Diane art journalism is awarded for pub­ They are Laylah Ali, Phyllis jackson, sity of lllinois Six alternate fellowship recipients 9 Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members Burko, Community College of Philadel­ lished art criticism that has appeared in Deane Miner, Delilah Montoya, and at Urbana­ were named: Cheyenne Harris (M.F A.), phia; Carolyn Manosevitz, Austin whole or in part in North American ( ~ina Takemoto. The aim of the fellow­ Champaign. He University of Massachusetts, People in the News Community College. publications during the preceding year ship program is to assist emerging received a Dartmouth; Charles P. juhasz (M.F.A.), 11 Grants, Awards, & Honors Distinguished Teaching of Art beginning September 1 and ending artists and art historians in bridging the B.F.A. from Yale University; Cathleen Lewis History Award is awarded to an indi­ August 31. Victor Margolin, chair, transition between graduate school and Alfred Uni­ (M.F.A.), School of Visual Arts; Susan vidual who has been actively engaged in University of illinois, Chicago; David the professional world, to encourage versity's School Otto (M.F.A.), University of Southern 12 Conferences & Symposia the teaching of art history for most of his I Carrier, Carnegie Mellon University; artists and scholars from culturally of Art and California; Maritza Perez (M.F.A.), San her career. Susan Barnes, chair, Dallas Frances Colpitt, University of Texas, diverse communities to pursue graduate Design, concen­ Francisco State University; and Carol Museum of Art; Linda Stone-Ferrier, degrees and professional careers in art 13 Opportunities San Antonio; Joan Hugo, California trating in media arts and photography. Sun (M.F.A.), Vermont College. University of Kansas; David Wilkins, institute of the Arts. and art history, and to promote those Miner uses photography, video, and Members of the committee to select Information Wanted University of Pittsburgh. Charles Rufus Morey Book whose work may have been digitized imagery to play the role of a the first group of fellowship recipients 15 Datebook Artist Award for a Distinguished Award, named in honor of one of the marginalized by their cultural diversity storyteller. He is teaching photography were Vishakha Desai, director, Asia Body of Work, Exhibition, Presentation founding members of CAA and first (see CAA News, May Ijune 1993). and video at the University of Illinois, Society Galleries; Lloyd E. Oxendine, or Performance is a peer award given to teachers of art history in the United which he plans to continue after curator, American Indian Community 16 Classified Ads an artist for work mounted in the penul­ States, is pre-sented for an especially Laylah Ali is completing his graduate studies. House, New York; Grace Stanislaus, timate year preceding the award. Beau­ distinguished book in the history of art, director, Bronx Museum of Art; Martha vais Lyons, chair, University of Tennes­ published in any language in the an M.F.A. candidate in Delilah Wilson, founder and director, Franklin see; Tom Barrow, University of New penultimate calendar year.