newsletter Volume 9, Number 4 Winter 1984 special support for 1985 meeting annual members This year both the National Endowment for cated to organize and because they make business meeting the Humanities and the J. Paul Getty Trust unusual demands upon the participants. have supported the planning and special costs These sessions attempt to address some of the The 73rd Annual Members Business Meeting related to several of the exceptional art histo­ central concerns in our field, concerns of rele­ will be held on Thursday, February 14,1985 ry sessions to be held during the CAA Annual vance to all sub-fields of art history, and to do at 1:00 P. M. in the Gold Room (Galeria Meeting this February 14-16 in Los Angeles. so meaningfully and in a way that still reserves Level) of The Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles. Their financial support supplements annual a significant block of time for discussion from meeting expenditures traditionally allocated the floor. Also, individuals are expected to by the CAA Board of Directors. give exemplary presentations in which their Elections The NEH's Division of Education Pro­ own research interests often have to take sec­ The rnajar item on the agenda of the Annual grams awarded the CAA a grant to partially ond place to the larger goals of the sessions. Members Business Meeting is elections. fund Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt's session, Although participants in anyone session may OFFICERS. The Board of Directors proposes Conservation and Restoration of Italian specialize in very different periods or even the following to serve as officers for 1985: Renaissance Art: Masaccio, Fra Angelico, disciplines, they nonetheless had to reach a President: John Rupert Martin, Princeton Leonardo, and Michelangelo. The session consensus on what the fundamental issues University; Vice President: Paul B. Arnold, arises from the extraordinary coincidence really are and a strategy for presenting them Oberlin College; Secretary: Phyllis Pray that several of the most important Italian that best creates a context for discussion. This Bober, Bryn Mawr College. Renaissance works are currently undergoing opportunity for a high level of advance plan­ BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Candidates to serve as cleaning and treatment. The NEH grant ning was therefore essential. In the final directors are nominated by the Nominating principally provides for four Italian specialists analysis, the Getty conference itself became a Committee, which is guided by the returns on to come to Los Angeles to report on the works: symposium on our discipline, and developing the preferential ballot. This year, 1808 ballots Giorgio Bosanti (Fra Angelico's San Marco this type of session was an expected and happy were received, one of the highest returns ever. frescos and Michelangelo's Don£ Tondo), by-product. The slate reported by the Nominating Com~ Umberto Baldini (Masaccio's Brancacci Cha­ The conference was the first to be spon­ mittee for election to the Board of Directors in pel), Carlo Bertelli (Leonardo's Last Supper), sored by the Getty Center. Kurt Forster, its 1985 (to serve until 1989) is: Sam Gilliam, and Fabrizio Mancinelli (Michelangelo's Sis­ Director, welcomed the participants and ex­ Washington, D.C.; Egbert Haverkamp­ tine Ceiling). The session, which is specially pressed his support for the general goals of the Begemann, Institute of Fine Arts, N. Y. U.; scheduled for Friday evening, February 15, symposia sessions. He explained that al­ Joyce Kozloff, New York City; IrvingSand­ after Convocation, will consist of reports on though he had formally taken office only a ler, S.U.N.Y., College at Purchase; Barbara the sometimes dramatic results of the restora­ month earlier, the topics under discussion Maria Stafford, University of Chicago; and tions and a discussion of their historical impli­ that weekend were such as to make it an Ruth Weisberg, University of Southern Cal­ cations. Discussants are John Shearman and appropriate first project of the Center and ifornia. Craig Hugh Smyth. that in the future he expected the Getty Cen­ NOMINATINGCOMMITrEE: Those nominated The J. Paul Getty Trust has contributed to ter to sponsor important conferences of its to serve on the 1985 Nominating Committee the meeting in a number of ways. The Trust own. (which selects those directors who will be itself awarded the CAA funds to help meet the The program for the weekend conference elected in 1986) are: Jules Prown, Yale Uni­ unusually high demand for travel subsidies was planned with the six symposia chairs and versity, Chair; Clinton Adams, University of this year. This demand arises from there be­ all arrangements were handled by the Getty New Mexico; Nicolai Cikovsky. Jr., Nation­ ing more sessions and more speakers sche­ Center staff under the supervision of Herbert al Gallery of Art; Thalia Gouma-Peterson, duled, the west coast location of the meeting, H. Hymans, Assistant Director, Visiting College of Wooster; and Philip Pearlstein, and the relatively large number of parti­ Scholars and Conferences, and Tim Whalen, Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y. Procedures for cipants from other disciplines and from Chief Administrative Officer. The thirty­ placing additional candidates in nomination Europe. eight participants met in lengthy planning are described in the Notice of Meeting, which In addition, the]. Paul Getty Center for the sessions, either by symposium or in general was mailed on December 14. History of Art and the Humanities, one of the assembly. The conference took place at the For those who will be unable to attend the activities of the Trust, hosted a planning Getty Center offices in Santa Monica except Annual Members Meeting, proxies have been meeting last September 21-23 for partici­ for a dinner Saturday night at the J. Paul included with the Notice of Meeting. pants in the six symposia. The Center will also Getty Museum in Malibu. All travel and local help offset travel expenses to the national expenses for the participants were reimbursed meeting for European participants in these by the Center. Win A Trip! sessions. Harvey Stahl. Chair • An innovation, perhaps the stellar attraction The planning meeting was necessary be­ 1985 Art History Sessions of this year's Annual Members Business Meet­ cause the symposia are particularly compli- ing, is the drawing for two free roundtrip air­ line tickets to anywhere in the Continental ANNUAL MEETlN"G DATEBOOK.' 12l'ebru.ry .Placement Orientation ... 13-15 United States for which anyone booking tick­ February Placement iRoperation .', ..' 14 February Annual Members Business Meeting ets through the CAA's official travel agent is eligible. For full details, see inside front cover ... ,}4-16 Februa,ry Session~ ,.' .. 15"February Conyocation., '- '. of the Preliminary Program. • conferences and symposia Iconferences and symposia preservation news U .C.L.A. Grad Students Symposium American Painting before 1900: Caravaggio Symposium Victorians at Home Restoration and Revolution role of museums in society as they carry out To be held April 20, 1985. Abstracts on both New Perspectives An international symposium with seven The topic of the ninth annual meeting of the The assassination of Indhira Gandhi reflected their obligations to preserve and interpret our non-western and western topics are invited The theme of a one-day symposium to be held speakers on The Age of Caravaggio will be Midwest Victorian Studies Association, to be issues of restoration and conservation as well cultural and natural heritage for an ever­ from graduate students in Canada and the at the University of Delaware on April 12. held on Sunday, March 31 and Monday, April held in Chicago, April 26-27, 1985. For in­ as political issues. India had been tough in its broadening audience in an uncertain future." United States. Papers will be selected by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Museum of Fine 1, 1985 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. fonnation: Kristine Ottesen Garrigan, Dept. dealings with the representative organizations The results of their findings have just been U. C. L. A. art history graduate students on the Arts, Boston, will be moderator. Topics and There will be a private viewing of the exhibi­ English & Communication, DePaul Univ., of the Sikhs in Punjab and had broken off published. To order: AAM, Box 33399, basis of an open discussion of all abstracts re­ speakers:John Clavin and the Rise ofthe Mid­ tion for those who attend. Ticket requests will 2323 N. Seminary Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60614. talks with the political party Akali Dal and the Washington, D.C. 20033. Non-AAM mem­ ceived. Abstracts should not exceed two type­ dle Class: Economics and ReHgion in the be processed in order received. Please state principal temple management committee of bers, $17.95, with substantial discounts for 10 written pages; presentations will be limited to Iconography of Colonial American Portraits, names and addresses of persons who wish to the Golden Temple of Amritsar. The Indian copies or more. twenty minutes. Transportation, food, and Wayne Craven, Univ. Delaware; Defining an attend. There is no charge for the tickets. International Symposium on government had elbowed them aside to start lodging will be provided for out-of-town American Art: The Contr£butions of John Fatehpur-Sikri work repairing damage to the Akal Takht Send SSAE to CS, Dept. Public Education, Conservation Training speakers. Submit abstracts or questions to Vanderlyn and Rembrandt Peale, William MMA, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, N.Y.C. To be held October 17-19, 1985 in Cam­ (the immortal throne of Sikh spiritual and Future training in conservation in North Emiko Terasaki and Holly Barnett, Dept. Oedel, Univ. Massachusetts at Amherst; The 10028. bridge, Mass. The symposium, which is being temporal power). The Sikhs were very much America was the theme of a meeting held at Art, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, Landscape in the Historiography of Amer­ held in conjunction with the exhibition Fa­ opposed to this.