ART HISTORY PROGRAM Newsletter Spring 2009 NumberNumber 3 6 Spring 2012

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT CONTENTS but we have time to work on it. Art History’s biggest achievement in Ming Dynasty originalist and art The search for a museum director Features 2-5 2011-12 is the recruitment of UC theorist Dong Qichang. is in progress. Dean Owens report- Davis’s first American Council of ed that a 2016 opening date is en- Learned Societies New Faculty Fel- The endowment gift from Alan tirely realistic. Many of our gradu- low. Seth Adam Hindin will become Templeton ’82 sponsored a highly ate and undergraduate students are Faculty News 6-9 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art successful symposium in the fall interested in museum careers. As a History (see p. 7 for his biography). (see p. 2). It supported research laboratory for art history study, the This fall quarter he’ll teach a seminar, travel for two of this year’s M.A. Shrem Museum will transform what “The Medieval and Early Modern graduates, Sheena Campbell and the campus can offer them. Undergraduate News 10 City, 300 -1600,” and an upper divi- Kamal Zargar, and on top of that sion course on Gothic art and archi- paid the registration fees for nearly Four undergraduate majors, Megan tecture. Next winter, he will teach all the graduate students to attend Friel, Elizabeth Mathews, Mariana the Medieval to Renaissance art the College Art Association annual Moscoso, and Brittany Royer, com- Graduate News 11-14 survey. Our Art History faculty, grad meeting in Los Angeles. The Tem- pleted senior honors theses. Hon- students and medievalist colleagues pleton fund will continue to sup- ors theses are very demanding and showed off our vibrant scholarly port student research travel and it a great credit to those who take community (I’m boasting) and we will contribute to our October 5th them on. Mariana won a highly Alumni News 14-15 owe ourselves congratulations. colloquium on Japanese art (see p. competitive President’s Undergrad- 16). uate Research Fellowship to visit an We are also extremely happy to host exhibition in Italy as part of her a Research Associate for 2012-13. Early this year Dean Jessie Ann thesis research. The entire faculty Events and Lectures 16 Dr. Ma Linfei is Professor of Art Owens announced the naming gift congratulates them and the impres- History at Renmin University of for UC Davis’s planned art muse- sively large group of graduating China, Beijing. Her visit is sponsored um: the Jan Shrem and Maria seniors who received Certificates by the China Scholarship Council. Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. The of Distinguished Performance in the

She will conduct research on the late news was almost too big to take in, major (see p. 10).

I can’t end without a heartfelt thanks to Leah Theis and Lisa Zdyb- The AHI Program wishes el in the Visual Resources Facility. to extend a welcome to a They are mainstays to our course class of seven incoming preparation and to student re- graduate students: search projects. This year they have worked intensively to help digitize courses in Japanese art, British art, and Impressionism. They have con- tinued to adapt the VRF itself to the Nicole Budrovich students’ evolving needs as we Erin Dorn learn to use Everson Hall. Alicia Guerra Finally, an administrative note: this is my last message as Director of Megan Kuehn Art History—because beginning July 1, I will be Vice Chair for Art Histo- Margaret Larimer The Arts and Humanities at UC Davis increasingly depend on ry in the Department of Art and Mariana Moscoso support from alumni and friends. Help create a buoyant future Art History. Our operations will be for Art History and all that it offers to cultural education, the same. Our name, however, will Amanda Roth professional development, and the spirit of inquiry agree with what the Academic so necessary to meaningful life. Senate calls us, and the Dean’s administrative structure will look more compact. To make online donations to the Art History Program go to: —Jeffrey Ruda giving.ucdavis.edu/DeptArtandArtHistory/ArtHistory

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FEATURES When Globalization of Art Began

“Global art” is not only a different priced commodities such as pepper, silk, pearls, term, it offers a different concept of and diamonds. The Dutch East India Company how art develops, because it implies became an important presence; its warehouses contact across the world. Globaliza- appear in Vermeer’s View of Delft of 1658-60. tion of art began very early, Kauf- mann noted. For example, Sumerian Not only did the Dutch acclimate quickly to im- cylinder seals of the late 3rd millenni- ports from China, the presence of those goods um B.C.E. made use of lapis lazuli, a changed Dutch society. By the later seventeenth distant import, as did ancient Egyptian century, porcelain’s desirability was reflected in royal jewelry. Ivory tusks from Africa paintings that featured the gamut of luxury goods. appeared in ancient China, and silk Images such as Wilhelm Kalf’s Still Life with Nautilus from Asia was used in making the Cup suggest that desire itself became a subject of coronation mantle of the Holy Ro- man Emperor in 1133.

European print culture after 1500 exemplified how objects and ideas were being disseminated through Tim Brook (left) and Tom Kaufmann (center) with Alan Templeton global exchange. Albrecht Dürer’s famous 1515 Rhinoceros not only illustrates evidence of German trade with India, Thanks to income from a major gift last year by the print itself became an object of international Alan Templeton (B.A. 1982), the Art History trade, for it was exported as far away as Latin Program was able to mount an important collo- America. Conversely, German decorative forms quium, Art between Europe and East Asia in the First migrated to India. And Europeans even facilitated Age of Global Trade on September 30, 2011. The the circulation of nonwestern goods through venue, the large lecture room in the Art Building Asia. The Portuguese, for example, transported (Room 217), barely held the standing-room-only Japanese lacquer boxes to India. audience of ninety-five, which included faculty and students from UC Berkeley and CSU Sacramento as well as students, faculty, and alumni from across UC Davis. The gathering featured two noted scholars who considered the effects of world trade on art from two different points of view. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Frederick art. Brook also proposed that porcelains and oth- Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, er objects of trans-Pacific trade gave a new status Princeton University, offered “Reflections on to their owners—that of worldliness, and that the World Art History.” Timothy Brook, Professor, prevalence of porcelain in homes redefined the Institute of Asian Research, University of British domestic environment. Homes as well as their Columbia, spoke on “China on Vermeer’s Table: inhabitants came to be associated with decora- The Cultural Impact of Early Global Trade.” The tiveness, even as the demand for porcelain stimu- speakers were introduced by Professors Jeffrey lated industrial processes that strove to bring local Ruda and Katharine Burnett, the Art History ceramics manufacture up to the Chinese standard. faculty who organized the event. An engaging It is specious to claim that the art of the world question-and-answer period kept a significant was ever homogenous, warned Kaufmann. Nor During the question and answer period, the portion of the audience well past the posted would it ever be useful to define “global art” speakers agreed that trade, which inevitably leads ending time, a tribute to the timeliness of the solely according to qualities that all regions of the to borrowing, appropriation, and adaptation, colloquium’s topic. world have in common. Instead, networks are the counters any notion that art anywhere can be way to think of globalization. And in any period, “pure.” Nothing is “quintessentially” anything, not Professor Kaufmann described compellingly how networks of trade result in dialogue, appreciation, even Chinese porcelain, since the cobalt to color historians should treat globalization. He began by personal and cultural enrichment. it was itself an import to China. Yet Chinese explaining how the European “master narrative” porcelain in Holland was not like that in China of art history (that artistic development began in Professor Timothy Brook’s remarks focused on itself. Professor Patricia Berger from UC Berkeley the classical world and continued through the the effect of trade with China in Holland in the cautioned that the Chinese should not be pre- Middle Ages to the Renaissance and modern era) 1600s, when regular circuits of exchange devel- sumed to have exported what they valued: “No established a way of thinking about all artistic oped. Chinese goods were valued by the Dutch Chinese of any taste would be caught dead using development. Many histories of “world art” have as signs of luxury and wealth. What is surprising any of the porcelains that were exported to Eu- only reinforced the Eurocentric approach by is their proliferation. During the seventeenth rope. What Europeans wanted from China was treating art’s development in other parts of the century, 300 million pieces of porcelain came to based on an idea that was created by the Chinese world as similarly self-contained and dependent the Netherlands. Porcelain was brought to Dutch as to what Europeans would like to buy.” DS on “centers of influence.” cities in the same ships that carried other high-

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FEATURES Taking a Measure of Thrace

What most surprised the students? For Laura, it was “the density of the forest and the scale of the rock-faces where we were working.” Ann-Catrin hardly expected “to encounter such a wealth of interesting and diverse sites in the area. Anyone interested in art history has a rich smorgasbord to choose from: Thracian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman. The surprising aspect of this ‘embarrassment of riches’ is how relatively unknown many of the sites are outside of Bulgaria.”

The students’ learning experiences were cer- tainly diverse. Laura came to appreciate the vitality of ancient Thrace. “We found pottery shards representing many cultures and regions of origin. These furthered my understanding of modern-day Bulgaria as an ancient thoroughfare for trade.” Ann-Catrin became aware of how much more needs to be known about Thracian culture. “The experience brought home the need for further research, which is a good thing, since we have yet to fully understand the contributions of the Thracians and other groups in the area.” Nicoletta’s insights were of a different sort. “As a non-specialist—my own research concerns contemporary art in Eastern Four members of the research team seated near Dolno Chernovishte; from left to right, Ann-Catrin Titus, Maya Vassileva Europe—I was particularly interested in the of New Bulgarian University, Nicoletta Rousseva, and Laura Hutchison pedagogical approaches of Bulgarian and Ameri- can archeologists.” Exposure to their method- It is unusual when a faculty member in a human- natural rock of the terrain has been carved with ologies “allowed me to think through and re- ities field wins a major research grant that also symbols and shaped into distinctive formations fine my approach to the study of art history.” provides experiential education for students, yet such as niches, which were apparently related to such was the case with the generous funding religious activities. Although it was long assumed What will the group remember? People and Professor Lynn Roller was awarded from the that such features were made by the Thracians, it food were on everyone’s list. “Bulgarians take America for Bulgaria Foundation to engage in has been difficult to test that assumption. To learn great pride in their fruit and vegetables, and for pioneering field work on an ancient Thracian more, a joint Bulgarian-American team led by good reason!” said Ann-Catrin, “I never tasted site in southeastern Bulgaria. Three Art History Professor Roller and Dr. Georgi Nehrizov of the better tomatoes or grapes.” No one will forget graduate students accompanied Professor Roller National Archaeological Institute and Museum, the setting, “The sheer beauty of the landscape, to work at the site in August and September Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, began the task of the sublime quality of the Gloukhite Kamuni 2011. They were Nicoletta Rousseva and Ann- excavating, surveying, and measuring the site. site, the charm of Sozopol on the Black Sea,” as Catrin Titus, both M.A. students, and Laura Ann-Catrin put it. Then there are the personal Hutchison (M.A. 2010), who had just completed Professor Roller and her team, along with Dr. triumphs. Laura said, “I will obviously remem- UC Davis’s intensive post-Baccalaureate pro- Maya Vassileva, Associate Professor of Archaeolo- ber the first pottery shard that I found on an gram in Classics. gy at New Bulgarian University and several Bulgar- archaeological project. Still have the picture!” ian graduate students from the University of Sofia DS Gloukhite Kamuni is an isolated area in the and New Bulgarian University, set out to record eastern Rhodope Mountains, very near the as many of the rock-cut features in the area as point where the modern borders of Bulgaria, possible. A month later, they had located more Greece, and Turkey come together. Here the than three hundred examples.

What proved most difficult? Mapping and measur- ing proved no mean task, since the terrain was steep and many of the rock formations were obscured by the dense forest. According to Laura Hutchison, the most difficult aspect of the project was indexing in such a brief time the large amount of data collected. Yet Nicoletta described the labor involved as “an excellent experience. It was rewarding to work with a great team.” Ann- Catrin agreed, calling her colleagues “wonderful.”

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FEATURES An Art-Object Education: Anna Glaze, M.A. 2008 When Anna Glaze enrolled in the Art History amid gilding, porcelains, M.A. program at UC Davis (after graduating crystal, and paintings from Ohio State University), she was already hung on curtained walls. deeply interested in Asian art. After receiving The real picture of the her M.A., she took on three time-consuming auction business is a projects: teaching Arts of Asia at Diablo Valley dramatically different College, getting married, and buying a home in one, featuring long hours, the Bay area. A year ago, she also began work- a hectic pace, constant ing as a consulting specialist in the Asian Art interruptions, and relent- Department at Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers, less deadlines. It only San Francisco. She took a break from grading seems glamorous. final exams to explain her entry into the art- auction field. The art-auction field is filled with idiosyncrasies. To eventually work as an art appraiser had long It has its own vocabulary: been in the in back of Anna’s mind. “My mother “consignor,” not seller; is a jeweler and a certified appraiser who has “property,” not art or also done evaluations for auction houses, so artifacts; “reserve” and appraising is something I’ve always been aware “hammer price,” not sale of.” In 2008, just as the recession hit, Anna and purchase price. The spotted an advertisement for a job in the Asian varied backgrounds of auctioneers are also dis- tion, at least one property arrived through the Art Department at Bonhams. She interviewed, tinctive, as Anna’s colleagues exemplify: one is a appraisal clinic.” only to learn the search would be closed and Ph.D. with twenty years’ research experience, the position left unfilled. Last year, when the another is a fluent foreign-language speaker who Her own steep learning curve is one of the sur- position reopened, she got a phone call asking if is learning connoisseurship on the job. It is a prises to Anna about her job at Bonhams. She she was still interested. Saying yes wasn’t diffi- knowledge-based field but also a business, where can now identify, for example, a genuine Ming cult. Bonhams has been the world’s largest- negotiating talent and market savvy are as im- vase and a 1920s fake from the glazes used on volume auctioneer of art and antiques since portant as visual acumen. Accurate assessment of each. She says she often puts her art history consolidating with Phillips Son and Neale in the properties is crucial to both a consignor’s background to use. “It establishes the standard 2001 and purchasing Butterfields in 2002. It is profits and the company’s reputation. by which I judge the work I deal with.” Still, the principal fine-arts auction house on the there are huge differences between the art she West Coast and its San Francisco division is a That is where Anna’s skills come in. Her work deals with and the art history she’s learned. One premier venue for sales of Asian art. station is adjacent to shelves of property as- difference is driven home every time she thinks signed to her. She is responsible for identifying of her Arts of Asia course. She finds it unsettling Anna is eager to dispel any notion that the auc- each, assessing its condition, pricing it, and writ- to go from one environment, in which she is the tion business is all about glamour and luxury. ing the text that will appear in the catalogue. She authority figure in the room, to another where That stereotype lives on in the hyper-elegant art finds it a privilege to handle the objects. “I have a she still knows so little. auction featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller huge attraction to seeing this art without barri- North by Northwest, where Cary Grant, James ers,” she says. Handling a work “makes every- Certainly Anna has a front-row view of the Mason, and a very soignée Eva Marie Saint meet thing about it more real.” changes taking place in the art-auction field. Auctions ever more reflect the internationaliza- Anna’s responsibilities don’t end with identifica- tion of art. The volume of art at auction has tion and cataloguing. She attends auction pre- increased, with more auction sales now than views to answer questions from prospective ever. Fashions for certain types of work have bidders. She is present at the auctions them- changed as well. In Asian art, Ming and Qing selves, managing the phones, watching the audi- Dynasty ceramics now generate the greatest ence, and noting the paddle numbers of the bid- profit, as do Chinese paintings. Anna notices that ders for each lot, who will be contacted in case a many buyers in San Francisco are now from property fails to meet its reserve price. She is China, repatriating what collectors brought to also on hand for the free, once-a-month appraisal the U.S. in the early 1900s. An effect of the clinics, which attract crowds of non-collectors strong economic condition of China has meant who hope they’ve found treasure in their house- sometimes breathtaking run-ups in prices for hold castoffs. These chaotic affairs are nominally Chinese work. As an example of those trends, scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon but seldom finish Anna remembers the arrival at Bonhams of an before 2 p.m. It is typical to see three to four unusual Qianlong porcelain vase that had first to tables going at once, with about a hundred peo- be taken to experts in Hong Kong for help in ple in the room, and with most of the objects of authentication. In November it sold in San Fran- predictably little value. Yet the clinics are useful cisco for $17 million—to a Chinese collector. to Bonhams. As Anna points out, “At every auc- DS

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FEATURES Curatorship as the Act of Provoking Questions The venue for Force: The UC Policy was the “art no readily available source of background infor- lounge” on the second floor of the Memorial mation. Ashleigh Crocker, a senior Art History Union. The space was once a student art gallery major, recalled that writing the chronology of but it became a general-purpose room when it events for the exhibition labels proved surpris- lost its paid guard to budget cuts. That change ingly difficult. “And since the exhibition was so means that nothing of monetary value can be information-heavy,” said Maizy Enck, a junior exhibited there and any installation must coexist Art History major, “we had to find images that with students using the lounge to sit, work on would draw viewers into the lounge.” Finding their laptops, listen to music, or to eat and drink. compelling imagery became a priority, yet there was a catch. These had to be public-access imag- The theme of the show came from the students es of sufficiently high quality that they could be themselves. In January Professor Min announced enlarged for display. the objective—an exhibition that would demand the full range of curatorial skills. She also de- scribed the limitations—the exhibition would not be in a museum gallery and it could not make use of museum objects. She then asked for individual written proposals. That every student offered a theme having to do with either the Occupy Movement or the recent pepper-spraying of stu- dent protestors on campus indicated clearly what then weighed on students’ minds.

It became the objective of the installation to For several years, Professor Susette Min, whose chronicle the confrontations of November 18, appointment is in the Asian American Studies 2011 against the immediately preceding student Program, has guided the cross-listed profession- protests at two other UC campuses, Santa Cruz al training seminar ART/AHI 401 Curatorial and Berkeley. By cataloguing both the images of Principles, which has attracted a full roster of the protest and the measures taken by police, the both undergraduate and graduate students. exhibition offered its own examination of the The installation that ultimately greeted visitors During the seminar Professor Min has her stu- protest and its immediate context. was inventive, compelling,, and at times quietly dents create an exhibition that has always used disturbing. In creating an environment of ques- spaces other than conventional gallery settings. The project required that students develop skills tioning, its tone recalled the precedent of insti- Frequently, the exhibited work is not even art in explanatory label-writing, installation, lighting, tutional critique, as practiced by Hans Haacke in the usual sense. This past winter quarter, the poster design, publicity, as well as programming, and other conceptual artists from the 1970s seminar’s work resulted in Force: The UC Policy, which included a panel discussion after the open- onward. The space of the exhibition significantly held on campus from March 12-23. In concept, ing reception with one of the protesters, Art affected the character of its presentation. The it bore the distinctive stamp of Min’s back- History M.A. student Geoff Wildanger. Plenty of images in the installation seemed to gain in pow- ground as a curator of exhibitions featuring technical issues challenged the seminar partici- er by intruding on students’ lives, much as had emerging photographers and multi-media artists. pants. In the months when the promised Kroll the events of November 18th themselves. and Reynoso reports were delayed, students had DS Salvaging Memory and Place On January 13, Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh villages of their grandparents prior to the Arme- moderated a workshop, Memory and Place, ex- nian genocide in Turkey. Her interest is in the ploring problems of cultural heritage in Anatolia. ritual that attended these trips and the identifica- The speakers were Carel Bertram (Professor, tion as “home” places where her subjects had San Francisco State University) and Patricia never lived. Dr. Blessing spoke about the histori- Blessing (Ph.D. Princeton). The workshop at- ography of Medieval architecture in Anatolia. tracted students and faculty from History, Reli- There she found a cross-cultural interaction not gious Studies, and Art History, and members of previously recognized: Mongol workmanship in the Armenian Students’ Association. Professor Armenian churches and Armenian architectural Jeff Ruda contributed examples of Ottoman-era forms in Islamic buildings. Yet the rich cross- Turkish ceramic tiles, which provided an inter- culturalism in these structures has only given esting counterpoint to the architecture shown these buildings a problematic status as sites of by the speakers. Turkish heritage. Professor Watenpaugh’s re- One insight from the workshop was that marks offered a provocative example of Armeni- memory and forgetting are often simultaneously Professor Bertram described her current book an church ruins in the ghost city of Ani, a Turkish at play—whether in architectural restorations in project documenting the present-day pilgrimag- “heritage” site presented as outside time and Anatolia or in the attempts of Armenian Ameri- es of Armenian-Americans to the towns and social context. cans to claim their ancestors’ lives. DS

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FACULTY NEWS the Royal Asiatic Society (China for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, Branch) and to Brill Publishers for she spoke on “New Art from a New their new series on Chinese visual China.” Then, in Shanghai in April, and performance art. At the Associ- Professor Burnett spoke at the ation for Asian Studies Annual Con- Royal Asiatic Society on her recent ference in Toronto, she served as co research, “Pang Yuanji and His Mod- -organizer of the panel, So How Bad ern Art World.” She conducted Was It? Comparative Decadence be- research on propaganda art at the tween the Jiajing and Wanli Eras, Shanghai Propaganda Art Center sponsored by the Society for Ming and site research in Shaoxing at the Studies (SMS). She organized the Orchid Pavilion (Lanting) estate of roundtable discussion, Perspectives the seminal 4th -century calligra- on Decadence in the Jiajing and Wanli pher, Wang Xizhi. As study leader Katharine Burnett Era for the SMS annual meeting in for the Smithsonian Institution Jour- Professor Burnett is excited that her conjunction with the conference and neys tour, Imperial China and the book, Dimensions of Originality: Essays spoke on “Decadence Disrupted: Yangzi River, she lectured on Chi- on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Arguing Against Decadence in Late nese art history and investigated Theory and Criticism (Chinese Univer- Ming Art History.” She also served potential speakers and sites for her sity Press, Hong Kong) is coming as discussant for the panel, Rhetorics UCD Summer Abroad Course in out this summer. She has been ap- of Eroticism in Chinese Art and Litera- China, 2013. pointed to the editorial boards of ture, Song to the Ming. At the Center

season of her new archaeological seeing many other interesting ar- project at the site of Gloukhite chaeological sites. After the excava- Kamuni (“Deaf Stones” in Bulgarian) tion seasoned, Professor Roller in the Rhodope Mountains in south- enjoyed a wonderful ten days in eastern Bulgaria, co-directed with Greece, visiting Thessaloniki, two Bulgarian colleagues. From mid- Thasos, and Athens. During the August to mid-September she and a current academic year Professor team that included UCD Art Histo- Roller has spent much energy on a ry graduate students conducted a new book project, The Archaeology of survey to identify Thracian cult Greek and Roman Cult, for Cam- installations (see p. 3), finding over bridge University Press. She has 400 examples of rock carvings from finished three articles and a book the early first millennium BCE. The chapter, and presented papers on data will help enlarge our knowledge her work at the Archaeological of this little known people who Institute of America annual meeting Lynn Roller were the northern neighbors of the in Philadelphia, at UC Santa Barbara, Greeks and had a profound influ- and at UCD. She returns to teaching On sabbatical leave for the year ence on Greek civilization. The full time next year and looks for- 2011-2012, Professor Roller appre- UCD team enjoyed its time in Bul- ward “to reconnecting with our ciated the opportunity to spend garia enormously, getting to know wonderful undergraduate and gradu- much of her time on research. The the people and the country and ate students.” year started off with a bang, the first

practice and metaphor’s political ture from the Sorbonne and has role in Islamic and Christian imag- published translations from medieval es. The panel is part of a larger Arabic into French as well as collec- event put on by Superamas, a per- tions of her own poems. The pro- formance art group, and Impulstanz, gram coordinator linked to Profes- a dance company, both of which are sor Ruda from his work on Fra European multinationals. There are Filippo Lippi, especially his fres- two other panelists: Olga Hazan, a co The Feast of Herod from the late native of Lebanon, teaches Art His- 1460s. “Thank goodness, I’ve kept tory at the Université du Quebec in learning since my book came out,” Montreal. Her core fields are Italian notes Professor Ruda. “It will be art 1300-1600, and art-historical great to address the material in a theory but she has a special interest new context.” In Fall 2011, Profes- in representations of the sacred sor Ruda completed his art history among Judaism, Islam, and Christiani- triple crown by teaching the ancient Jeffrey Ruda ty. The other panelist is Siham art survey while Lynn Roller was on Bouhlal, a poet and medievalist from leave, though he says he’s promised Professor Ruda has been invited to a Morocco who now works in Katharine Burnett not to teach panel discussion in Vienna at the end France. She has a doctorate in litera- Asian art. of July, its theme: perspective as

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FACULTY NEWS the 1830s” at the annual conference artistic expectations between 1865 of the Nineteenth Century Studies and 1910. She served on the organ- Association. Participants were treat- izing committee for the Undergrad- ed to a tour of Biltmore, grandest of uate Research Conference and gave Richard Morris Hunt’s Beaux-Arts two talks to prospective partici- era mansions. Professor Strazdes pants, “How to Write an Abstract” squeezed in a side trip to Winston- and “How to Give a Professional Salem, visiting the Museum of Early Talk.” She also sponsored three Southern Decorative Arts and Reyn- conference participants and served olda House Museum of American. as a session moderator. Having Back on campus, she advised two completed a three-years term as M.A. theses and two senior honors both member of Undergraduate theses. Her teaching featured two Council and Chair of Committee on Diana Strazdes topical seminars: “Art and Its Re- Special Academic Programs, she ception” dealt with the art-historical looks forward to sabbatical in 2012- This March, Professor Strazdes was issues of reception and illusion and 13, which will allow her to complete in Asheville, N.C. to present a pa- “Art and Changing Professional a number of research projects in per, “Communicating the Unseen: Identity” focused on James McNeill American art of the nineteenth Washington Allston’s Paintings of Whistler and the transformation in century.

for her Spring 2012 graduate semi- spent time with old and new friends nar on Art and Trauma, which ex- “in the industry.” Her final expedi- amined the destruction, theft, and tion was to Walla Walla, WA, to rescue of art by various parties attend the meeting of the Western during the second world war and Ottomanist Workshop at Whitman the Holocaust, as well as other College. Professor Watenpaugh instances of heritage in danger. She took her first turn at teaching the organized a related workshop on graduate theory course, AHI 200A, Memory and Space in January 2012 to the first-year M.A. cohort and at UCD (see p. 5). She presented Ph.D. students in related programs. some of her research on the subject In June, she was in Philadelphia, to the Society of Architectural His- engaging debates in transcultural, torians in Detroit, where she was world art history as the co-leader of also able to study urban decay, in- a workshop for International Disser- Heghnar Watenpaugh dustrial wastelands, and the vibrant tation Research Fellows sponsored Arab-American National Museum in by the Social Science Research Council. She may have somewhat Professor Watenpaugh continues nearby Dearborn. At the College Art Association meeting in Los An- neglected her garden (a Certified her research into heritage and con- Wildlife Habitat), but her pomegran- flict. A grant from the Jewish Studies geles, she met up with the Art His- tory contingent from UCD, and ate tree is in full bloom nonetheless! Program at UCD provided support

Art History’s New Medievalist

and Art History. The New Faculty At UC Davis he will be completing a Fellows Program is a cooperative book on art and ethnicity in late venture funded by the American medieval Central Europe, beginning Council of Learned Societies to new research projects, and teaching bring noteworthy recent Ph.D.s to undergraduate and graduate courses campus for the next step in their on medieval art, architecture, and academic careers. Hindin will be the urbanism, including the Medieval first ACLS New Faculty Fellow to and Renaissance survey, AHI 1B. teach at UC Davis. Hindin earned Seth Hindin represents the new his B.A. at Oberlin College and breed of Medievalists who are received his Ph.D. from Harvard strongly interdisciplinary and see University in 2011. As a native of the European Middle Ages through Seth Adam Hindin the Midwest who has spent the past the lens of issues (economic compe- decade in New England, Europe, tition, global trade, shaping of audi- On July 1, Seth Hindin begins a two- and most recently, Virginia, he is ence perceptions, shifting power of year appointment as ACLS New looking forward to exploring elites), issues as compelling today as Faculty Fellow and Visiting Assistant Northern California. they were then. Professor in the Department of Art

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ate school to study methods in of Learned Societies (Charles contemporary architecture and Ryskamp Fellowship, 2010-11), the nonlinear dynamics of complex Canadian Centre for Architecture in systems science as advanced training Montreal (2009), the Penn Humani- for her current research into the ties Forum at the University of popular scientific theory of self- Pennsylvania (2008-9), the Wolfsoni- organization and its influence on an Design Museum at Florida Inter- design. As part of her Mellon Foun- national University (2005), the dation New Directions Fellowship, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research she studied the nonlinear dynamics Center for the Study of American of passionflower tendril curvature Modernism in Santa Fe (2003), and (photo, right). Her study continues a the American Philosophical Society Christina Cogdell project begun in London last fall at in Philadelphia (1999). Her col- the Architectural Association where leagues look forward to her return During academic year 2011-2012, she worked on tendril coiling for to teaching and advising in 2012-13. Professor Cogdell has been on her Biomimetics seminar. Professor leave with a Mellon Foundation Cogdell’s Mellon fellowship adds to New Directions Fellowship, which her already impressive roster of has allowed her to return to gradu- funding from the American Council

script, Playing with Earth and Sky: museums that fascinated Duchamp. Astronomy and Geography in the Art of Additionally, he co-chaired a session Marcel Duchamp. This study analyzes on Contemporary Design in Califor- how Duchamp's engagement with nia for the College Art Association popular science, science museums, annual conference. He began a small and the modern planetarium al- research project investigating the lowed him to create immersive history and impact of WET, The spaces and narrative environments. Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, pub- Housefield traveled to Paris to lished in southern California from interview Duchamp's heirs, worked 1976-81. He gave public lectures, in their family archives, and met including a talk for the Fine Arts with other scholars of Duchamp, Museums of San Francisco on artist James Housefield dada, and surrealism, and conducted Camille Pissarro and his engagement archival research in various loca- with radical geographies. During 2011-12 Professor House- tions, including the Palais de la Dé- field focused his attention on re- couverte and the Conservatoire des search and writing his book manu- Arts et Métiers, two of the science

California, and for his chapter in the new book West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California. Also, Professor Sad- ler investigated the ways in which design tries to adjust and fix the world in two keynotes in Stock- holm (for the Moderna Museet and the Royal Institute of Architecture), in a presentation at Harvard, and in the lecture he gave at the UC Davis “Dissent” series. This was perhaps the strangest venue he’d ever ap- peared in—a geodesic dome on the occupied quad of our university— Simon Sadler Californian architecture and design and surely one of the most rele- provided themes for his graduate vant. Similarly when he joined col- seminar, for the symposia he co- leagues with the Society of Archi- The state of California, and the state convened at UC Davis and UC San- tectural Historians to explore the of the world at large, were two ta Barbara, for his keynote talk for abandoned neighborhoods topics dominating Professor Sadler’s the Architectural Humanities Re- of Detroit, it felt appropriate for his work over the last year, just as they search Association in Cardiff, for his work to leave the seminar room. dominated the news generally. From public lecture at SFMoMA, his paper the Bay Region Style to countercul- at the College Art Association in tural domes to Apple computers, LA, his article for Boom: A Journal of

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AFFILIATED FACULTY NEWS says: “Photography’s Method” (for “Technology and Affect” and

More American Photographs, ed. “Erotic Love, Platonic Love, Chris- Mirjana Blankenship), Detail (for tian Love, Political Love,” worked Art Bulletin), “Taste Matters” (for with a number of students on inde- Oxford Art Journal), and pendent studies, and made progress "Institutionality as Enlightenment” towards an undergraduate survey for Institutional Attitudes, ed. Pascal course on the history of aesthetic Gielen). He delivered keynote lec- theory. Professor Stimson accepted tures for the Coloquio Internacional an invitation to join the Cinema and de la Bienal de Fotografía de Lima Technocultural Studies program this in Peru and for the UC San Die- year but has continued to teach Blake Stimson go Visual Art Graduate Student his core upper-division art history Conference. He also gave invited courses, Art After Modernism and talks at USC, UIC, SFMoMA, the Photography in History, and to This year Professor Stimson com- Crocker, Berkeley, and UCD. He serve as an active member of pleted a book, Citizen Warhol taught graduate seminars on the Art History graduate faculty. (for Reaktion Books) and four es-

join the graduate faculty in Art His- five years to complete,” she says, tory last year. Her research inter- will be on the Catholic defense of ests include Dante, Chaucer, the art, specifically issues around the Bible, iconoclasm, and the artistic status of art and poetry in the cul- heritage of the European Middle turally tumultuous years of the Ages. The author of Heritage or European Reformation. She is look- Heresy: Destruction and Preservation ing forward to examining (and shar- of Art and Architecture in Europe ing with students) the discourse on (2008), she reports that her newest art and poetry from Dante to Saint book “will be out any day.” Divine Ignatius of Loyola, with Savonarola Providence: A History (Continuum, the spur to overturning interpretive Brenda Deen Schildgen London) looks at the religious and and pictorial principles that had

literary influences on Dante’s view earlier linked the classical world Brenda Schildgen is a Professor of of providence. Professor Schildgen’s with Christianity. Comparative Literature at UC Da- next book, “which will take at least vis, and accepted an invitation to

whose students curated FORCE: the the CAA meetings in Los Angeles UC Policy, a timely and fascinating on Asian American art and the role exhibition that raised questions of feminism. She also gave talks on about police brutality and the role Allan de Souza and the Otolith of the campus police (see more on Group. She recently contributed to p. 5). The exhibition attracted much the Oxford Encyclopedia of American attention and received widespread Cultural and Intellectual History and is mention leading to the re- currently working on an essay on installment of the exhibition for the aesthetics for an anthology on key Queer (In)Security conference last words in Asian American culture. May. The students will have another She still serves as Arts Editor for the Susette Min opportunity to present FORCE: the journal Social Text. She’s received UC Policy this summer for OccuPo- an NEH grant and will be spending This past year Professor Min taught etry, in a special issue dedicated to part of the summer in NYC, attend- courses in Asian American Studies the Occupy Movement at UC Davis. ing a symposium on Asian American and AHI 401, Curatorial Methods, In February, Professor Min spoke at art at NYU.

EMERITI FACULTY NEWS Dianne Sachko Macleod saw she continues to referee manu- Seymour Howard has visited her “Enchanted Lives, Enchanted scripts for publishers and journals. campus on a number of occasions Objects: How Art Empowered She was invited to participate in a to attend lectures and events. He American Women Collectors,” panel on “New Directions in British attended Art between Europe and published in Histoire de l'art du Studies” at Loyola Marymount Uni- East Asia in the First Age of Global XIXe siècle (1848-1914): bilans et versity in Los Angeles. She is serving Trade and found time to help enter- perspectives, Actes des Colloques on the boards of directors of the tain the speakers afterward. (Paris, Musée d’Orsay, 2011). She Historians of British Art, University has written reviews for caa.reviews Section Club (Berkeley), and the and the Henry James Review and Bay Area Children’s Theatre.

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UNDERGRADUATE NEWS

Showcasing Undergraduate Research The arts were much in evidence at UCD’s which was held April 27-28. Among the 430 twenty-third annual Undergraduate Research, participating students (a record) were five ma- Scholarship, and Creative Activities Conference, jors from Art Studio, eight from Design, and five from Art History.

The art history speakers were divided among three sessions. Brittany Royer explained her senior hon- ors thesis in “Andrew Wyeth’s Traditional Perso- na: The American Artist or the American Man?” So did Mariana Moscoso in “Multitude in Arte Povera: Space Movement.” Erin Vong, in her talk, Tensions of Immaterial “Waiting for Technology, Futurism’s Plans Exam- Labor.” Cristina Urrutia ined against Its Products,” centered on a conun- presented “Caravaggio’s drum that she hopes to examine further as a Break from Tradition in senior next year: In their embrace of the future, His Imagery of John the how were technologies that did not exist yet Baptist,” which connected visualized? the artist’s unconventional presentations of St. John Professor Diana Strazdes, who moderated one to specific attitudes to- of the orals sessions, was impressed by the quali- ward worship and salva- ty of all five presentations. “These were superb tion. Megan Friel spoke talks, professionally delivered and thought- On the morning of the Conference, the presenters from Art History gathered in on her own honors thesis, provoking—a tribute to the dedication and intel- front of Wellman Hall, where the orals sessions took place. Left to right: Erin Vong, “Sublime Void: Experienc- lectual seriousness of our majors.” Mariana Moscoso, Megan Friel, Brittany Royer, and Cristina Urrutia. ing the Art of the Light and

Art History Majors Honored

The annual Art History end-of-year reception from the turbulence of the 1960s and whose was held on Tuesday, June 5 to recognize the Mariana Moscoso, who received a President’s use of “poor” materials obliquely criticized the achievements of Art History majors. Professor University Fellowship to pursue her research, postwar Italian economic “miracle.” Mariana Jeff Ruda awarded Departmental Citations for wrote her thesis under the guidance of Profes- focused on Giuseppe Penone and Michelangelo Distinguished Performance to Cleo Mann and sor Blake Stimson. In it, she investigated the Pistoletto, who comment on the tensions pro- Elspeth Wengren, who graduated earlier this Italian art movement, Arte Povera, which arose duced by the massive migration of agricultural academic year, and ten to majors graduating workers from the South to the North. in June: Jessie Adams, Ashleigh Crocker, Megan Friel, Jennifer Lapid, Kylie Lewis, Megan Friel, who likewise wrote her thesis Elizabeth Mathews, Mariana Moscoso, under Professor Stimson, investigated the Brittany Royer, Cristina Urrutia, and philosophical concept of the sublime and Alissa van Erp. how it was invoked by a group of Southern California artists who helped pioneer instal- Four of the citation recipients earned the lation art during the late 1960s. added distinction of completing honors the- ses. Elizabeth Mathews’s thesis, advised by Brittany Royer’s thesis, also advised by Professor Diana Strazdes, focused on the Professor Strazdes, centered on a conun- question of how Cubism became understood drum of American art during the late and established in the United States. Elizabeth 1940s. How could two seemingly opposite found that the 1930s was the pivotal decade artistic personalities simultaneously come for the development of widespread under- to the public’s attention —Jackson Pollock standing of Cubism, and that the Museum of as the avatar of Abstract Expressionism and Modern Art had a key role as teacher. By Andrew Wyeth as the embodiment of the the 1930s, Americans—critics and public— “American” tradition of Realism? Despite either admired or disliked Cubism, but in their presentation as opposites, Brittany stark contrast to the Armory Show of 1913, Left to right, top row: Jessie Adams, Alissa van Erp, Kylie Lewis, found Pollock and Wyeth similar in im- they were no longer misinformed about it. Elspeth Wengren. Bottom row: Jennifer Lapid, Elizabeth Mathews, portant respects. and Ashleigh Crocker

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GRADUATE NEWS SECOND YEARS

imagery and the professional identi- re-acquainted with the craft will no After graduation, Sheena will con- ty of pictorialist photographers in doubt be both challenging and hum- tinue coursework at the University the United States at the turn of the bling. She adds, “I can't wait!” of British Columbia’s School of century. She has also enjoyed serv- Library, Information and Archival ing again as a teaching assistant for Studies, working towards a degree

the arts of Asia and Medieval and in Library Science. Ultimately she Renaissance art courses, learning hopes to pursue a career in special from last year’s mistakes and engag- collections after finishing the pro- ing with another group of excellent gram at UBC in 2015. undergraduates. Monica’s paper “Between Tradition and Modernity: The Composite Photographs of Geoffrey Wildanger Lang Jingshan,” which provided the foundation for her thesis research, Geoffrey Wildanger finished his will be included in this summer’s masters with a thesis about the edition of the Stanford Journal of contemporary art movement Insti- East Asian Affairs. In the fall she will tutional Critique. Next year he will be teaching a course on Asian art be moving to New York in order to for Sacramento City College. In the Kamal Zargar participate in the Whitney Inde- meantime, she looks forward to a pendent Study Program. An article, summer of relaxation, gardening, Kamal is glad to see the timely and based on his thesis, is forthcoming and traveling in California and New quality completion of his M.A. thesis in the British journal Transmission Mexico. “Art as Power: Exhibitions of the Annual, he also has several book Tehran Museum of Contemporary reviews and translations forthcom- Art 1999-2005/2009-2012.” He Nicoletta Rousseva ing in scholarly journals. While in would like to thank his committee,

New York, he hopes to continue to Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh, As her second and final year in the research and publish on the inter- Professor Jeff Ruda, and Professor Art History Master’s program sections of contemporary art, polit- Keith Watenpaugh of Religious comes to a close, Nicoletta pre- ical movements, and political econ- Studies. Also, a sincere thank you to pares to do something she swore omy. UC Davis donor Alan Templeton for financial support that allowed she never would–cut back on cof- Kamal to travel to Iran and conduct fee. With a small paper cup in hand, research for his thesis. Even though she navigated images and texts that his time at UC Davis has been chal- have expanded her perspective on lenging and enlightening, Kamal is the relationship between art and Ann-Catrin Titus looking forward to broadening technology, patrimony, heritage, experiences and opportunities in his conflict, and even love. She found Two years go by all too quickly, yet near future. comfort in the afternoon cups of what an exciting and enriching time coffee that made towering piles of this has been! Anci’s immediate grading seem somehow doable or plans include spending a lot of time the last few pages of a term paper with her family, a trip to Europe, manageable. In May Nicoletta pre- and getting reacquainted with non- sented an excerpt from her Masters fiction. Her goals for the summer thesis “A Parallel Space, A Com- include bringing unfinished projects mon Space: Rethinking Sovereignty through the Work of Alban Muja” Monica Butler to conclusion, and finding gainful nd employment. While it will be nice to at the 32 Annual Slavic Forum at Monica has thoroughly enjoyed a take a break from the intense na- the University of Chicago. The whirlwind second year of research, ture of thesis writing, she will no project considers the work of con- writing, and teaching. She spent the doubt miss interesting seminar dis- temporary Kosovar artist Alban past summer mentoring high school cussions. While working on her Muja as a counter-narrative to educators and learning about com- thesis, Anci had to spend quite a bit Sheena Campbell dominant capitalist and nationalist munity arts education as part of the of time reading French literature, a currents in the region. Nicoletta de Young’s Museum Ambassador task which would have been During her terminal year in the plans to pursue a PhD in Art Histo- Program. Returning to Davis, she smoother if her French would have graduate art history program, ry and continue her work on con- completed her thesis “Chinese been better. “One of my priorities Sheena worked towards completing temporary art in Eastern Europe. Painting Translated: Lang Jingshan’s will be to improve my French and coursework in the Designated But first, she looks forward to step- Composite Photographs and the Italian during 2012.” Even though Emphasis program in Women and ping outside of the dark over- Creation of a Modern Chinese Art, her schedule for next year is rather Gender Studies. She also presented crowded coffee shops she’s called 1934-1949” under the guidance of full already, there will hopefully be a paper on American artist, Rock- home for the past nine months and Professor Burnett. In addition to time to paint—the blank canvases well Kent, to the Nelson Gallery exploring her new(ish) surround- her thesis, Monica researched Lang in the studio have been neglected Art Friends in May after receiving a ings in Berkeley. Jingshan’s use of Yellow Mountain for a couple of years now. Getting generous grant from the group.

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GRADUATE NEWS FIRST YEARS Ruda arranged a curatorial intern- museum's founder Russell Hartley, ship at the Crocker Art Museum, a queer artist, gallery owner, and where Mathew wrote the labels for ballet designer in post-war San the Mel Ramos retrospective open- Francisco. While gathering research ing in June. During the summer, on Hartley, he is also working at Matthew will continue with his the gallery archives of SFSU creat- internship, do background work on ing a digital catalogue of the work the life and art of Robert Colescott, of Leo Stillwell, a close companion and assist Professor Stimson with to Hartley who produced work his work. As an aspiring scholar of depicting an emerging gay sociality California Art, Matthew feels that in 1940's San Francisco. Joshua's Peter Basmarjian he is walking the same paths as the thesis next year will be a discussion luminaries of the Davis art faculty of Yanlin Pan of these two artist's work and their Peter thoroughly enjoyed his first years past, such as Roy de Forest, depictions of post-war San Francis- year back at UC Davis, challenges William Wiley, Robert Arneson and Yanlin received her B.A. in English co as an emerging queer and cultur- and all. He had the opportunity to David Gilhooly. The year has passed from Beihang University in 2009 in al capital. test the waters of teaching as a TA so quickly that Matthew is afraid Beijing, China. After receiving her for Professors Ruda and Strazdes’s that his Davis experience will be B.A., Yanlin worked in a business introductory courses as well as take over all too soon! institution for a while and then set- a number of wide ranging seminars tled her interest in art history. With on critical theory, late Ming China research experiences in early mod- and art and trauma. Professor Bur- ern Chinese art and Buddhist art, nett’s seminar on the late Ming Yanlin had interest in both Chinese sparked an interest in the spatial art and critical theories. This sum- practices of late Ming elite; a topic mer she will continue doing re- he hopes to pursue this summer to search on her thesis topic, which is get a leg up on his thesis. Aside about how the image of Ming paint- from trying to be studious (it’s hard er Tang Yin and other Ming paint- in all this Davis sunshine) Peter will ings of beauties secularized from an also be assisting the registrar at the immortal image to an erotic, courte- Unity Love Nelson Gallery and going on as many san-like image. hiking trips as possible. Unity is a Designer turned Art Historian. She graduated from UC Wan Kong Davis with a B.S. in Design and spent four years teaching Graphic Wan received her B.A. from China Design and Visual Communication Academy of Art in 2011, focusing on at a Sacramento area vocational Chinese art history. She has thor- school. In her first year as an Art oughly enjoyed her new life in the History M.A. student, she has en- United States, especially in Davis, joyed the return to academic study with its relaxed and comfortable and working as a Reader and TA in atmosphere. She also feels glad to the Art History and Design depart- be working with the entire faculty Joshua Saulpaw ments. She is increasingly interest- and her fellow grad students. Wan ed in the cross-sections between has developed her teaching skill as a Matthew Weseley Joshua Saulpaw received his BA in art, design, technology, and visual TA for Arts of Asia, Medieval to language, which binds them togeth- Renaissance, and Baroque to Mod- Art History and Theatre Scenic In his first year at UCD, Matthew Design from San Francisco State er. Unity’s M.A. thesis will focus on ern Art. When taking a seminar representations of women in the found his course work stimulating, with Professor Burnett about the University in 2010. As well as a engaging and meaningful. He enjoyed strong emphasis on queer art histo- multicultural and political environ- late Ming Dynasty, she developed ment of Shanghai in the 1930s. She exploring academic areas that were her M.A. thesis topic on Chen ry, Joshua has been exploring the new to him, including critical theory relationship between the traditional is excited to have the excellent Hongshou and his illustration for the guidance and support of the fabu- as a way of thinking about technolo- famous drama, Xixiang Ji, and will fine arts and the visual elements of gy, society and aesthetics, Modern the performing arts. A set designer lous Professor Burnett and looks examine the print culture in the late forward to working with her in the Architecture, theories of reception Ming period through this example. himself, he presented his own de- and audience response, issues relat- signs in 2011 as part of the Ameri- coming year. This summer, Unity This summer, Wan will do an in- will spend some time in New York ing to the expropriation of works of ternship at the Chinese Culture can delegation to the Prague Quad- art during times of conflict, California rennial, the international exhibition with her husband where they will Center in San Francisco, mainly visit as many museums as possible, architecture and the vernacular tra- helping the curator Abby Chen to and conference on theatre design dition, the craft of research, African- that takes place every four years. explore the city, and top off their organize a Chinese Feminist art trip by attending a rare U.S. perfor- American cinema, and the theory exhibition. Wan will also volunteer He has interned with the Museum and methods of the art historian. He of Performance and Design in San mance by Unity’s favorite musical at the Asian Art Museum. She will duo. is grateful to his professors for offer- move to Berkeley for the summer Francisco and is currently working ing such excellent classes! Professor to explore yet a different lifestyle. on a research project about the

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GRADUATE NEWS Field Trips that Make an Impact

Inside an installation at LACMA are, clockwise from left, Sheena Campbell, Joshua Saulpauw, Unity Love, Peter Basmarjian, Monica Butler, Ann-Catrin Titus, Matthew Wesley, Ni- coletta Rousseva, Wan Kong, and Yan-Lin Pan.

the annual meetings. The students also visited second year, its aim is to bring international museums—both the Getty and the Los Angeles dealers and new work by established and County Museum of Art were on the itinerary— emerging artists to San Francisco. and for three days, made Los Angeles their own. The idea behind ArtMRKT is to build a broader A different sort of field trip was part of Professor audience for contemporary art and to encour- Sadler’s winter seminar (AHI 288, Designing the age collecting. Inspired by Noah Horowitz’s Good Life?). He asked his students to examine the book The Art of the Deal, the graduate students impact of personal experience on architectural descended on the art fair with anticipation and design, taking as the object of analysis Sea Ranch skepticism. As Nicoletta Rousseva put it, “We (Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull & Whitaker, architects, went as spectators and spies to look at contem- 1964-72). As Professor Sadler says, “Sea Ranch is porary art as a consumer object.” Funds provided by Alan Templeton (B.A. 1982) quite famous, but it is also tricky to assess, be- allowed Art History’s graduate students to travel cause it seems to avoid style and is preoccupied to the College Art Association meetings in Los with non-art historical concerns like ecology and Angeles in February. It was their first experience righteous living.” To understand Sea Ranch’s rela- at the largest annual art history conference. For tionship between nature and culture, students three of the group, it was also their first trip to travelled to its site on the Sonoma coast. Amid the big city of the west coast. roaring tide and bleached timber-framed houses, they explored the impact of the site as well as the The experience in professional development social ambitions that inspired its architecture. proved enlightening and energizing. Students Students found a link between Sea Ranch Style attended conference sessions and discussion and the modern desire to design “the good life,” a panels. “Great preparation for our grad symposi- component of the California Dream itself. um,” noted Monica Butler. They crossed paths with Professors Watenpaugh, Sadler, and House- In conjunction with Professor Stimson’s spring- field, perused new books and journals at the vast quarter group study on writing about today’s art, At ArtMRKT, from left to right, Matthew Weseley, Ni- publishers’ exhibit, and developed an under- several graduate students on May 18 visited San coletta Rousseva, Gowoon Noh (Anthropology), Yan-Lin Pan, May Ee Wong (Cultural Studies) and Ksenia Federova standing of the career opportunities on offer at Francisco’s ArtMRKT. A two-day event in its (Cultural Studies)

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break, Nicoletta Rousseva offered “Rethinking Sov- ereignty through the Work of Alban Muja,” followed by Geoff Wildanger on “Andrea Fraser and the Af- fects of Catastrophe” and Ann-Catrin Titus on “Paul Delaroche’s Execution of Lady Jane Grey: Restaging History.” As a panel, students then fielded questions on themes the papers shared, one of which invited comment on the concepts of crisis that that seem always to underpin art-historical change.

Later, attendees regrouped in Professor Ruda’s ver- dant garden to enjoy both a deliciously cool evening and the annual potluck dinner, which included bellin- is mixed by Professor Strazdes, home-made dolmas brought by Professor Watenpaugh, and Professor Roller’s signature leafy green salad, which comple- mented the Village Bakery’s pizza—best in Davis!

On Friday May 25, the soon-to-graduate M.A. Sheena Campbell’s “Little Venus in a Blue candidates in Art History participated in the Armchair: Reclaiming Mary Cassatt’s Avant- annual ritual of delivering symposium-style Garde Gambit” was followed by Monica But- papers on their respective theses. The ses- ler speaking on “Lan Jingsan’s Composite sion, “Aesthetics and Affects in Ages of Cri- Photographs and the Creation of a Modern sis,” attracted a number of students from Chinese Art, 1934-1949” and Kamal Zargar other departments. Professor Watenpaugh, as on “Art as Power: Exhibitions of the Tehran graduate advisor, served as moderator. Museum of Contemporary Art.” After a ALUMNI NEWS Kristin Koch months after concluding her intern- Kristina Schlosser-Marrone Museum in Residence program. She M.A. 2011 ship, Brittany was hired as a re- M.A. 2010 organizes and leads school tours, From August to October 2011, search assistant in Drawings and Kristina continues to enjoy her posi- gives lunchtime talks, and is pretty Kristin at last traveled to Europe, a Prints. She is part of a larger team tion in the Crocker Art Museum’s adept at what at the Phillips is fond- trip including London, Paris, Ver- working to photograph the perma- Membership Office. She looks for- ly called "docent wrangling.” In her sailles, Florence, Venice, and nent collection and make it available ward to eventually advancing her free time—scratch that—she has Rome. It was especially great to to the public via the web. She con- career at the Crocker and increasing no free time, because she’s now her see Venice because she wrote her stantly has to pinch herself to make her contribution to the Sacramento own wedding planner. While plan- senior honors thesis on John Sing- sure it’s not a dream. Brittany is Art Community. Meanwhile, she ning from 3000 miles away is a er Sargent's depictions of the city currently working with the depart- takes on a new position at the end challenge, she is thrilled to marry in the 1880s. It was a fantastic trip. ment’s William Hogarth prints, of July: Mommy. She and husband her fiancé, Kevin and to celebrate This spring, Kristin undertook followed by (you guessed it!) Gau- Jeff are anxiously awaiting the arrival with friends and family in July! Per- another adventure: teaching Intro- guin prints. She is also getting mar- of the newest art lover in their haps even more exciting are Natalie duction to Art at Folsom Lake Col- ried in late July and honeymooning household, baby Marrone. and Kevin's plans for a honeymoon lege to a class of fifty-five. in Paris. Brittany is always happy to in Turkey next spring! hear from AHI students; email brita- Natalie Mann Lindsay Riordan Brittany McKinney [email protected]. M.A. 2010 M.A. 2009 M.A. 2011 Just as her internship at the National Lindsay is nearly done with gradu- After graduating, Brittany moved Gallery of Art ended last summer, ate school course work! She is still to New York and spent the sum- Alexandra Hartline Natalie landed a job at the Phillips working on her final seminar paper, mer as a paid intern in the Depart- B.A. 2011 Collection. What was intended as an When she graduated last year, Alex- but not to worry—it isn't due until ment of Drawings and Prints at 11-month interlude in Washington, two weeks ago. Once that is com- The Metropolitan Museum of Art. andra wanted to travel before having DC has turned into a two-years plete she'll have an entire summer Her duties as were geared toward to decide what to do about the rest adventure with no end in sight. As of German and Russian study to cataloging the permanent collec- of her life. For someone bit fairly School, Outreach, and Family Pro- look forward to in the sweltering tion . She updated exhibition and hard by the bug of Chinese art in grams Coordinator she creates arts- pressure-jungle that is New Haven. publication histories for several Professor Burnett’s classes and sem- integrated classroom lessons and Her second year at Yale has been Gauguin drawings and discovered inars, Alexandra seems to have museum visits for public school found the perfect combination of both challenging and challenging. In an original woodblock of his in the students and teachers who partici- April she participated in a symposi- department’s collection. Several adventure and job: she’s tutoring pate in the Art Links to Learning: English in Taiwan. um that developed out of Professor

Spring 2012 Page 15 ALUMNI NEWS David Joselit's Fall 2012 seminar, Education Policy and Leadership the University of Delaware Muse- kitchen, working garden, play- Women Make Modern. The re- Center. In August, she begins the ums, and spoke at the Art History ground, and small cafe. Staffed by search meant spending many hours doctoral program in Art Education Graduate Student Symposium at Nicaraguan healthcare professionals, digging through the Gertrude Stein at the Pennsylvania State University. the University of St. Thomas in it partners with local volunteer papers at the Beinecke Library. Minnesota. He bade farewell to dentists, the Peace Corps, and com- Since she never misses an oppor- Allison Henley Washington, DC, where he and his munity-based NGOs. This summer tunity to go back to California, M.A. 2007 wife, Stephanie, have lived for the it launches HIGHER (Helping in Lindsay delivered a paper in May at After graduating, Allison worked at last five years. They are moving to Global Health and Education Re- Stanford's religious studies confer- the Crocker Art Museum for a year Minnesota, where Stephanie re- form), a summer program for teens ence entitled "Sanctified Indul- as a Curatorial Assistant before cently got a job. Colin anticipates interested in global health and/or gence." Stanford sanctified her beginning a teaching credential continuing research on his disserta- international development. "Who indulgences by paying the food and program in Art at CSU Sacramen- tion and is mentally preparing him- knew that Simon Sadler's classes bar tab! It was a great trip and she to. After completing the singlesub- self for a winter for which his Tex- would inspire me to bring to life a hopes to spend more time there in ject program in nine months, on an upbringing leaves him thoroughly building that honors the community July when she'll be the palest very little sleep, she taught middle unprepared. while respecting its environment? bridesmaid at fellow alum Natalie school Art in the new exurb of Well-designed buildings that ex- Mann's wedding! Lindsay's husband Plumas Lake, CA. This year she’s Anna Trent press their purpose can strengthen Mike finished his first year in a li- reaching Visual Art and Photog- M.A. 2007 communities." Clinica Verde was brary science Master's program at raphy at Pioneer High School in Anna has been teaching Art History designed by Bill Bylund of Valley Southern Connecticut State Univer- Woodland, California and, as Chair full time for four years now at Architects, St. Helena, CA and sity. Her daughter Tatum will start of California Art Education Associa- Cosumnes River College, Sacra- Alfredo Osorio Peters of Managua. kindergarten in the fall at a great tion Youth Art Month, organized an mento. In Fall 2011 she became the For more on Clinica Verde, see school called Worthington-Hooker. exhibition of student work at the chair of the Art Department in www.clinicaverde.org The best thing about this exciting Crocker. This summer she’ll atend May 2012 she achieved tenure. news is that Lindsay can finally put a the Art Institute of Chicago for Besides conducting the college’s Lindsay Martin "Proud Hooker Mom" bumper training in preparation in teaching three art-history survey courses, B.A. 2004 sticker on her car! (No joke.) As Advanced Placement Art Histo- ARTH 303, 309, and 311 (our 1A, In April, Lindsay arrived from New for little Elliot—to honest, we don't ry. Allison recently moved back to 1B, and 1C,) she has been teaching York as part of a team to help de- really know what she does all day. Davis with her husband and son. regularly Women in Art (on the art velop a master plan for the new art It’s a bit like living inside a Bill Ow- of women artists from Middle Ages museum at UC Davis. While at ens photograph, but in 21st-century to today), Introduction to Art, NYU’s Museum Studies program, Patrick Hector color. African Art. In Spring 2013 Anna Lindsay got an internship at the M.A. 2008 will also begin teaching Islamic Art. consulting firm Lord Cultural Re- After studying at the San Francisco Jayme Yahr sources, where she is now Senior Art Institute (B.F.A. 2003), Patrick M.A. 2007 Katherine Day Consultant. joined the Peace Corps. In Niger, After nearly five years at the Uni- M.A. 2005 Lisa Zdybel West Africa, he helped create a versity of Washington, Jayme Having relocated to Dallas in 2012, M.A. 2004 cultural museum and taught English earned her Ph.D. in American Art Katie is directing a capital campaign When not soliciting newsletter bios to artisans. He was also a health History. Her dissertation, The Art of for the "biggest private high school from Art History alums, Lisa is hard educator and photographer for Plan “The Century”: Richard Watson Gilder, in Texas." She continues to enjoy at work in the Visual Resource International. After his M.A. at UC the Gilder Circle, and the Rise of her job with CCS Fundraising, Facility at UC Davis providing facul- Davis (where he explored the apoc- American Modernism, examines an working with a variety of clients, ty and grad students with images, alyptic connections in American artistic circle in late 19th-century and hopes to continue building a technical support, and smiles. On 19th century landscape photog- America and the ways in which its career in development with empha- the days she does not work at the raphy) and after working as a Com- members were promoted. She’s sis on cultural institutions. VRF, you can find her disguised as munity Art Educator at the Crock- looking forward to wearing a purple an educator for the Crocker Art er Art Museum, he moved to New UW robe and “muffin” hat at grad- Alice (Dodge) Fellos Museum in Sacramento. Education York with his wife Stella and uation. Jayme spent last year as M.A. 2005 has always been in her blood, along worked as an intern at the Morgan Exhibitions Director at the Kirkland Alice is teaching Art and Photog- with an occasional vodka martini. Library. Now a Peace Corps Fellow Arts Center, planning and managing raphy at Del Campo high school, So she was delighted when Sierra at Columbia University Teachers its gallery and satellite spaces. She and Art History at Cosumnes River College offered her an Art History College, Patrick is in the throws of is teaching at Seattle Pacific Univer- College and the Art Institute of class to teach this fall ! summer intensive of training, clas- sity and University of Phoenix. She California, Sacramento.. She serves ses, and classroom observations. on the History and Arts Commis- is happy to announce that she’ll be Allison Arieff Come fall, he’ll teach art and art sion for the City of Citrus Heights. getting married in July (and hopes M.A. 1993 history (disguised as a Social Studies for a sunny Seattle ceremony). She’s expecting a baby in August. teacher) at a high-needs school in Allison joined the urban planning New York City. Colin Nelson-Dusek Susan Dix-Lyons and policy think tank SPUR, and M.A. 2007 M.A. 2004 writes regularly for the New York Jordan Crosby Colin just finished his second year Clinica Verde, which Susan founded Times, The Atlantic Cities, and M.A. 2008 of the Ph.D. program in Art History in 2007, is open and serving more Wired.com. Her family’s home in In June 2012, Jordan will be wrap- at the University of Delaware. He’s than 1,000 impoverished patients in San Francisco has an extensive ping up her work as Director of the completed his coursework, passed Boaco, Nicaragua. The health clinic backyard farm inspiring in her soon- Arts and Education Initiative (AEI- his comprehensive exam, served as takes a holistic approach, with a to-be-first grader a love of kale and pa.org) in Harrisburg, PA at the a curatorial research assistant for community room, demonstration arugula.

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2011-12 LECTURE/WORKSHOP SERIES On November 21, the Art History influential role in modernizing Chi- exotic and rare, implying direct and internships. On October 18, Program Lecture Series commenced nese art through his patronage of access to a wild land. Professors Strazdes and Burnett with Professor Lynn Roller reporting modern artists and his activities of demystified the various advanced on her ongoing study of Gloukhite political, social, and arts reform. On April 24, Professor Diana degrees in Art History and Museum Kamuni. The project presents an Strazdes spoke on “The Predica- Studies and explained how to pro- opportunity to study the directly the ment of the Living Presence: Rem- duce the best application. Thracians, who are still known large- brandt Peale’s National Portrait of ly through the eyes of the ancient George Washington.” In 1824, Peale Greeks. The Thracian cult site offers devised a depiction that placed him a host of questions. Why was it at the center of controversies over located here? How was it used? Stay how the nation’s first President tuned. should be remembered. His was a type of portrait that purported to offer a living image of its subject, yet whose power demanded to be re- pressed even as it was created.

Two workshops focused on under- graduates. On October 4, Professor Jeff Ruda, staff advisor Barbara Olivi- On February 16, Dr. Seth Hindin er, and the Internship and Career offered “From the Wilds of Russia: Center’s Marcie Kirk-Holland dis- Picturing the Far East in Hanseatic cussed curricular opportunities for Germany.” Wood carvings in the Art History majors, study abroad, Church of St. Nicholas, Straslund, Germany were commissioned by merchants of the Hanseatic League On November 28, Professor c. 1400. They depict the hunting of Adam Gopnik: On Drawing Katharine Burnett presented “The squirrels and gathering of beeswax, Missing Catalogue and Diaries of staples of trade with Russia. The Art History co-sponsored a visit to sons. Gopnik admitted that he never Pang Yuanji.” Burnett shed new light depictions, replete with false stereo- campus by essayist Adam Gopnik, became very good at drawing. Yet on the connoisseur, well known for types, Hindin sees as a form of ad- longtime contributor to The New he achieved two insights that, he his collections of traditional Chinese vertisement: the merchants wished Yorker, who is best known among art said, changed his life: “Hold the art, who played a less-known but to present the goods they traded as historians for having co-curated with pencil underhand. Accept the elo- Kirk Varnedoe the landmark exhibi- quence of the eraser.” Drawing, tion High/Low (Museum of Modern Gopnik discovered, is not about SAVE THE DATE! Art, 1990). On May 2, Gopnik spoke making the one right choice but the at the Nelson Gallery to a capacity best possible guess, a principle that A Colloquium audience of 150 on “Drawing Con- applies to everything we attempt. clusions: My Lessons Learned from Japanese Art and Its Contexts Drawing.” Friday afternoon, October 5, 2012 Spotting Wayne Thiebaud in the Room 217 Art Building audience, Gopnik began by admitting the audacity of his topic: the story of Guest speaker: Dr. Andreas Marks, Director and Curator, his own desire to draw. His teacher Clark Institute for Japanese Art and Culture, Hanford California was artist Jacob Collins, a staunch Featured speakers from the UC Davis faculty: advocate of pre-1855 academicism Jeffrey H. Ruda, Professor, Art History; Joseph Sorensen, Associate who immediately fascinated Gopnik Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures; David Gundry, Assistant when they met at a dinner party. Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures Believing that wisdom results from the confrontation of opposites, Go- Updated information posted on the Art History website: pnik asked Collins for drawing les- arthistory.ucdavis.edu

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