ART BULL Spring 2009
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ART BULL The Newsletter of Boston University’s Art History Graduate Students Spring Semester, May 2009 Welcome to the Spring 2009 publication of the Art Bull! I want to thank everyone who contributed to our department’s newsletter this semester and congratulate everyone on their personal and professional achievements. I had a wonderful time editing the Art Bull this year, and I hope you enjoy this semester’s edition. Have a wonderful summer break! Dorothy Nieciecki [email protected] FACULTY Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence,” to be published in October 2009 by the University Jodi Cranston has been busy with of California Press. She will curate an several projects this year; the most satisfying exhibition, “Jacob Lawrence: The Toussaint has been the arrival of her daughter, L'Ouverture Series” for the Rudenstine Camille. In October, Professor Cranston Gallery at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for organized a symposium at Columbia African and African American Research, University in honor of her former doctoral Harvard University, that will open to the advisor, David Rosand. She also delivered a public on September 1, 2009. Professor Hills paper there on her recent work on Titian's also participated as a commentator in the later paintings and is editing an anthology of recent symposium, "Clement Greenberg at essays on Venetian Renaissance painting in 100," held at Harvard University on April 3 honor of Rosand. Her book, "The Muddied and 4, 2009. Patricia Hills is also Field Mirror: Materiality and Figuration in Titian's Editor for caa.reviews, the on-line journal of Later Paintings," will be published with the College Art Association. As the Field Penn State University Press in late 2009. Editor, she commissions reviews of Jodi Cranston has also been working on a exhibitions, and sometimes conferences, that review of the terrific current MFA occur in the Northeast. exhibition of Venetian painting entitled “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Keith Morgan served as the editor and Renaissance Venice,” which is on view until one of the principal authors, along with August 16, 2009. former Boston University colleagues Naomi Miller and Richard Candee, for Buildings of Patricia Hills is putting the finishing Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, touches on her book, “Painting Harlem published by the University of Virginia Press on April 1, 2009. A number of former 1 and current Boston University graduate Measure of a Century, 1909–2009” at students also contributed to the guidebook, Harvard University. On leave from teaching which is part of the 62-volume series, during the 2009 fall term thanks to a Boston Buildings of the United States, being University Humanities Foundation Junior sponsored by the Society of Architectural Fellowship, Professor Scrivano will work on Historians. Keith Morgan is continuing his the completion of the manuscript of his next work on “Community by Design: The book, currently titled “Architecture and Frederick Law Olmsted office and the Planning Between Italy and the United Making of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1880– States, 1945–1965.” 1936,” supported by a grant from the National Park Service and the Organization of American Historians. Jonathan Ribner has given public lectures at the Museum of Fine Arts in association with the exhibition “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice.” He presented four lectures in the series Italy from the Renaissance to Today: Artists and Ideas on March 11, April 8, 15, and 29, 2009. Jonathan Ribner also presented “Venetian Traits and Treasures” in the series Viewing Venice on March 12, 2009, and “Stagecraft and Passion in Italian Art” in Italy on Stage, a Sunday program of lectures and musical performance on March 15, 2009. Paolo Scrivano co-edited a monographic issue of the journal Architecture and Ideas The cover of “Experimental Modernism,” a monographic issue of Architecture and Ideas (VIII/I (VIII/1 2009, “Experimental Modernism”) 2009) co-edited by Paolo Scrivano dedicated to the architecture of the 1960s and 1970s in Canada (the volume also contains his co-authored article on the case Alice Tseng will be traveling to Japan this of University of Toronto’s Scarborough summer to continue her current book project College). He also wrote the entry on artistic and architectural expressions of “Architecture” that was published in The modern Kyoto. She has already published a Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational portion of this research in an Art Bulletin History. Paolo Scrivano co-chaired the article (September 2008 issue); last month, session “Photography and Architecture: th Alice Tseng presented her latest findings at Shaping a New Dialogue” at the 97 Annual the annual meeting of the Society of Conference of the College Art Association Architectural Historians. in Los Angeles and acted as respondent at the workshop “What Site?” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Gregory Williams is in the second at the conference “Futurism at 100: The semester of a leave of absence with the 2 support of a non-residential Postdoctoral Hannah Blunt was invited to give a Fellowship from the Getty Foundation. He is paper on March 27, 2009 at the CUNY hard at work on his book manuscript, which Graduate Center's Sixth Annual Graduate explores the relationship between humor, art Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century and politics in Germany from the 1960s to Art. Her paper, "William Bradford's The the present. The only minor detour this Arctic Regions," explores the 1869 semester has been the submission of a short Greenland expedition of marine painter essay for a forthcoming exhibition catalogue William Bradford and his subsequent on the artist Olav Westphalen. publication of a photographic travelogue as a product of the mid-century Great Picture Michael Zell has been awarded a Jeffrey tradition. Of the seven other readers, one Henderson Senior Research Fellowship from was a fellow graduate of her tiny alma the Boston University Humanities mater, Davidson College. Small world! Foundation. The fellowship allows him to devote the entire 2009–2010 academic year Katherine Carroll spent the fall to working on his next book, tentatively conducting archival research for her entitled "For the Love of Art: Gift dissertation, “Modernizing the American Exchange, Amateurs, and the Poetics of Medical School, 1893–1940: Architecture, Painting in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Pedagogy, Professionalization, and Culture." Professor Zell has also been Philanthropy.” This spring, she received a invited to participate in the conference scholarship funded by the Walter Read "Expanding the Field of Rembrandt Studies" Hovey Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh at Queen's University's International Study Foundation that will enable her to complete Center, Hertsmonceux Castle, England, in the archival portion of her dissertation June. research this summer. More recently, she was awarded a Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, which will GRADUATE STUDENTS allow her to work full-time on her dissertation beginning in the fall. Christina An has been reminded how much she appreciates being at Boston Keith Doherty is plodding along through University after wrapping up her first year what has become a rather exhausting final of courses. She is grateful for the stretch on his dissertation. It turns out that opportunities she has had over the past year scheduling a defense really can be almost as to learn and to be involved in the community difficult as writing the thing! In truth he here, from working at the Boston University cannot complain however. Keith Doherty Art Gallery to moderating a session for the and his wife are healthy and about to 2009 GSAHA symposium, “Chance”. This celebrate their second wedding anniversary summer Christina An will be preparing for with a trip to Crete and Santorini. the M.A. comprehensive exam, helping to organize study sessions as a Comprehensive Jenny Ernst has been enjoying her first Exam Preparation Coordinator together with year as a M.A. student at Boston University, Sarah Parrish, before returning in the fall to and is very pleased with her decision to serve as GSAHA Vice President/Treasurer. return to school after receiving her Bachelor She wishes everyone a happy summer! of Architecture and working in that field for the past six years. Jenny Ernst’s research 3 interests concern nineteenth-century Michelle Lamunière successfully architectural history. Interestingly, the defended her dissertation, “The Social research that she has been doing this Museum at Harvard: Francis Greenwood semester for a paper on the domestic Peabody and Early Twentieth-Century interiors depicted in the art of Danish painter Social Reform Photography in Context," at Vilhelm Hammershoi has led to her interest the end of March. After handing in her final in pursuing further studies on Scandinavian copies, Michelle is looking forward to the architecture of the nineteenth–early Hooding Ceremony in May and some lazy twentieth centuries. summer days. Yippee!!! Meghen Jones has been in Japan since Amber Ludwig remains at work on her January at the National Museum of Modern dissertation. In March, she traveled to Art Crafts Gallery doing research for her Richmond, VA to give a paper titled "The dissertation on Tomimoto Kenkichi and Effects of Matrimony on Lady Hamilton's modern Japanese ceramics. Her essay Attitudes” at the American Society of “Amerika ni okeru ‘nihon kindai tôgei’ no Eighteenth-Century Studies annual meeting. gainen keisei ~ Hamada to Rosanjin no The paper argued that images of Emma yûisei” [“The Concept Formation of Hamilton performing her famed Attitudes, a ‘Modern Japanese Ceramics’ in the United series of poses based on Classical myth and States: The Dominance of Hamada and ancient statuary, changed after her marriage Rosanjin”] was published in the April–May to Sir William Hamilton to emphasize her 2009 issue of Gendai no Me: Tokyo thoughtfulness and intelligence. Chapter two Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan News [Modern of Amber's dissertation builds upon this Eye: Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art argument and looks further at portraits of News].