September-October 1994 CAA News
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Cyborgs: slides are sought from artists, 2- or 3- Information Wanted D, who are working with representations of Datebook cyborg bodies. Loosely defined, a cyborg is a human-machine amalgamation. The work is being considered for a curatorial project. Include SASE for return of slides. Cyborgs, 38 Grove St., Artworks. For a forthcoming book, information #4, Boston, MA 02114. September 30 about the followingworks of art is sought: Deadline for submitting material to November/ ( Henry Bebie, Family Group at Breakfast, ca. 1856- Feminism: information is sought on the impact December CAA News 65, sold at June 1944 Parke Bernet auction; A. D. of feminism on art and culture. Why is feminism O. Browere, Wash Day, 1833, sold as "American unappealing to today's young woman? Are October 7 school" by Kennedy Galleries after 1985; being sexy in a feminine way and being political Deadline for submissions for November William M. Paxton, The Breakfast, 1910; cast iron mutually exclusive? Do you feel you have been Careers, to be published November 1 candelabra with Lily Martin Spencer's Young victimized because of sexual inequities? Does feminism offer wide enough range of points of Wife: First Stew in bas relief; pictured in Antiques, November 28 Feb. 1975. Elizabeth O'Leary, 2700 Reynolda Rd., identification? All genders are invited to Deadline for submitting material to January / 5 #1303, Winston-Salem, NC 27106; 910/748-0689 respond. Cassandra Langer, 32-22 89th St., #605, February CAA News or 910/725-5325. Jackson Heights, NY 11369. January 26-28, 1995 Dorothy E. Brett (English/American 1883-1977): Charles D. Hubbard, American Impressionist Annual conference, San Antonio information is sought on the whereabouts of her painter, 1876--1951, who worked primarily in articles being published in the Art paintings in private collections for a catalogue, Connecticut and Maine. Documentary material Bulletin and Pamassus, the predecessor in particular her Pueblo Ceremonials and her and works of art are sought for a planned Mildred to Art Journal. The Art Bulletin published portraits of writers and musicians, such as the museum exhibition. Marius B. Peladeau, RR 1, both scholarly artides, inducting many Stokowski Symphony of 1934. Luba Rhodes, c/o Box 599A, Readfield, ME 04355. by Cook's refugee-scholars, and Greenwood, PO Box 221, Bolinas, CA 94924. Constantine dissertations, such as Meyer Schapiro's, which was published in two long Contemporary lesbian visual artists: call for slides and information of work by contemporary articles in 1931, Constantine attributes self-identified lesbian artists in the U.s. To be her interest in medieval art to Charles used as research for contracted book and Rufus Morey-"an enormous influence" ongoing lectures on lesbian subjectivity in visual in her life----who involved her in art (object-making) by lesbian artist, writer, and preparing the abstracts of current teacher. Diverse work and responses are periodicals that appeared in both welcome. Include SASE for return of slides. Harmony Hammond, Art Dept., University of n this newsletter we introduce a Pamassus and the Art Bulletin. For Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. new occasional column, in which McMahon she compiled listings of I we will feature a member of the current exhibitions, thereby not only CAA Fifty-Year Clu_members for seeing the exhibitions but also meeting cty years or more. For the first column the dealers. de are featuring Mildred Constantine, Constantine preferred Parnassus to an Honorary Life Member since 1938 the Art Bulletin: "Pamassus was, I felt, a s and a CAA employee for nine years much more important publication, before that, starting in 1929. Recently because the Art Bulletin had very good Mildred Constantine Martica Sawin, Art Joumal Reviews PHOTO: NED HARRIS serious articles and dissertations and all September/October 1994 Editor, conducted an interview with of that, but Parnassus covered the art College Art Association Constantine, in which they discussed ton Square College and also president of world. , .. I think this publication gives 275 Seventh Avenue the events of those nine years when, as CAA, offered part of a house he owned you, without any doubt, the best cross New York, New York 10001 Constantine points out, CAA was a on West 58th Street, across from the section that you can possibly find at that very important component in the fer Plaza Hotel. The first floor was used for time." She adds that there is "nothing, ment of the 1930s, involved in scholar exhibitions, the second floor for CAA absolutely nothing" comparable today Board of Directors ship, exhibitions, and political activism. offices, and the third for a research in terms of the breadth of coverage. Judith K. Brodsky, President A victim of the Depression, institute, a joint effort begun and run by Thanks to a scholarship arranged Leslie King-Hammond, Vice-President Constantine, had to forego college in Walter Cook that played a significant by Audrey and Philip McMahon, John R. Clarke, Secretan) order to help support her family. She role in helping to bring over, support, Constantine began attending night John W. Hyland, Jr., Treasurer learned stenography and, at the age of and publish German and Spanish sessions at N.Y.U. and then classes at Barbara Hoffman, Esq., Counsel sixteen, "pinned up my hair, borrowed refugee-scholars. the Fine Arts Graduate Center. But the Susan Ball, Executive Director my sister's high heels, and went to an Although Constantine had to defer informal education also continued, with Diane Burko Jock Reynolds interview at the CAA" in its office at her formal education, her informal a component in curatorial training Bradford R. Collins Rita Robillard Washington Square College (N.Y.U.). education began in earnest at CAA added when Audrey McMahon Jonathan Fineberg Moira Roth Hired by director Audrey McMahon, under the auspices of McMahon, developed a traveling exhibitions Sarah Greenough Emily J. Sana she "slowly began to accumulate a little members of the board of directors, and program and appointed Constantine to Susan L. Huntington Larry Silver knowledge about what was going on in other scholars active in CAA publica run it. By this time, CAA had moved to MichiItami Lowery Stokes Sims this world, which was utterly and tions. She quickly absorbed the knowl 137 E. 57th Street, into the same Irving Lavin Jaune Quick-To-See completely strange." edge offered to her by scholars corning building as Hans Hofmann1s schooll and Margo Machida Smith CAA was soon able to expand through the doors to Cook's research Cook moved his research institute to Nancy Macko Judith E. Stein B. what became N.Y.U.'s Institute of Fine Patricia Mainardi Nancy J. Troy when James MUlli1, dean of Washing- institute and others who came to discuss Clarence Morgan Carlos Villa CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Keith Maxey Deborah Willis • Virginia M. da Eik Kahng is a criticism and architecture, with special :Eight alternate fellowship recipients (fJontents 1994 Costa is Ph. D. candi emphasis on postwar America. His were named: Maite Arango (M.F.A.), working date in art secondary area of study is Native University of Iowa; Lisa Ann Auanger toward a PhD. Volume 19, Number 5 history at the American art. Patin was visiting lecturer (Ph.D.), University of Missouri, Colum at the Univer University of September/October 1994 Fellowship at Western Washington University, in bia; Ken Gonzales Day (M.F.A.), sity of Califor California, Bellingham, where he taught several University of California, Irvine; Jeffrey nia, Santa Berkeley. aspects of theory and criticism. He has D. Grove (Ph.D.), Case Western Reserve Recipients Barbara, in the Eschewing the presented a paper to the national University; Heidi Kellner (M.F.A.), 1 Mildred Constantine Department of perhaps conference of the Society for Photo University of illinois; Soo Jin Kim Named the History of "obvious" graphic Education in Seattle and has (M.F.A.), California Institute of the Arts; Art and pursual of her most recently published a paper in the De-nin D. Lee (M.A.), Williams College; 2 1994 Fellowship Recipients Named Architecture. interest in Journal of Architectural Education. and Constance M. Shortlidge (PhD.), She has Asian art, she University of New Mexico. worked extensively in coin iconography, has chosen to specialize in 18th-century Leda G. Ramos Members of the selection committee including a one-year internship at French painting and aesthetics. Her is an M.F.A. From the Executive Director were Janet Berlo, University of Missouri; 4 Numismatic Fine Arts, Inc., in Los dissertation, "Diderot and the Sublimity candidate in Eduardo Casares, director, Center for Angeles and has participated in an of the Critic," seeks to describe a sculpture at the Latin American Arts; Floyd Coleman, archaeological excavation of a Roman fundamental but relatively unnoticed Mason Gross he recipients of CAA's Profes Howard University; Christopher Couch, Annual Conference Update circus in Carthage and a Roman aspect of early modernism-the devel School ofthe 5 sional Development Fellow Smith College; Emilio Cruz, Pratt necropolis in Sontheim an der Brenz. opment in the second half of the 18th Arts at Rutgers, ships for 1994 have been Institute, School of Art and Design; T This work led to her current dissertation century of a specialized type of writing State Univer Vidya Dehejia, Columbia University; selected. They are Tania Beasley, CAANews topic, "Class, Gender, and Politics in devoted to the visual arts. 7 Virginia M. da Costa, Trevor Holtham, sity of New Betti Sue Hertz, director, Longwood Funerary Portraiture: The Depiction of Jersey. She Eik Kahng, Bobby Martin, Thomas Patin, Bobby Martin Arts Project, Bronx Council on the Arts; Women in Roman Asia Minor, A.D. 117- Leda Ramos, and Trang Minh Vu. The is working received 'a B,A.