• '" Datebook Information Wanted Miscellany '";!:i .~ ----~~~--- -~--- -N Po. ~< April 3 Aaron Boluod (1907-1992): For a Attention CAA Exhibit Attendees: "5 Deadline for submissions to May /June dissertation on this American realist I anyone placing an order at the AAUP "ffJ CAANews would like to hear from the artist's (Association of American University :E friends, colleagues, students, and Presses) booth should immediately mail April 15 collectors. Joseph Futtner, 945 Brentnal or fax a copy of the order to, or contact, N '"(jJ Deadline for nominations to CAA Rd., Pasadena, CA 91105. AAUP, 584 Broadway, New York, NY Committees (see January IFebruary CAA 10012; 2l2/941~6610; fax 212/941-6618. News, page 4). Peruzzi: Trying to locate present AAUP does not have the original 1z location (and owners) of 2 drawings of orders. 0 May 29 Virtues by Baldassare Peruzzi: Temper­ '"OJ Deadline for submissions to July / ance and Fortitude. I need photographs S August CAA News and permission to publish. J. Caldwellr 5 ::l 920 Robert St., New Orleans, LA 70115. -~ February 21-24, 1996 CAA Annual Conference, Boston ~ --._- .~ program at UTSA. Located in a former iii'" M.F.A. industrial complex anchored by Blue .~u <:> Star Art Space, which presented an "' installation by Fort Worth artist Vernon <'" Exhibition in Fisher, the Satellite Space was visited by about 4,500 people during the confer­ <- ence. A handbill with artists' statements <l.I OIl San Antonio and a checklist was compiled and <lJ designed by students in the Master of - Arts in Art History program at UTSA to -U'" OJ accompany the show. The tendency ..<: here was toward the more pared down ~- and direct, from sensibilities that appear he annual Regional MFA somewhat less accumulative or narra­ <lI"'" '. Exhibition was held at the Art Nonprofit Organization tive than those of their counterparts -OJ U.s. Postage T Gallery of the University of statewide. Both exhibitions showed --"' Texas at San Antonio. Consisting of Texas graduate students to be a sophis­ ~ Paid work by outstanding graduate students Z s ticated and diverse group, with surpris­ New York, N.Y. from around the state, Art Tex was ingly nonregional approaches to the Permit No. 4683 organized by UTSA professors making of art. Reception for Regional M.F.A. Constance Lowe, Dennis Olsen, and Exhibition MarchiApril 1995 -Frances ColpW, University oj Texas at PHOTO: KIRK R. TUCK, SAN ANTONIO Steve Reynolds. Thirty-six works by San Antonio College Art Association graduate students representing Stephen 275 Seventh Avenue F. Austin State University, Texas Tech New York, New York 10001 University, University of Dallas, University of Texas at Austin, East Texas State University, Southern Board of Directors Methodist University, University of Judith K. Brodsky, President North Texas, Texas Christian Univer­ Leslie King-Hammond, Vice-Presidellt sity, University of Houston, Texas John R. Clarke, Secretary Women's University, Sam Houston John W. Hyland, Jr., Treasurer State University, and the University of Barbara Hoffman, Esq., COl/liSe! Susan Ball, Exec1Itive Director Texas at San Antonio were included. Although there were some straight Diane Burko Victor Margolin painting, sculpture, and ceramics, most Bradford R. Collins Clarence Morgan of the work was less medium-specific Whitney Davis Beatrice Rehl than inclusive, ranging from elaborate Vishaka Desai Jock Reynolds assemblages to computer-generated Jonathan Fineberg Rita J. Robillard prints. Following a well-attended Shifra Goldman Moira Roth Susan L. Huntington Norie Sato ~ception on Wednesday evening Michi Hami Lowery Stokes Sims .uring the CAA conference, more than Irving Lavin Judith E. Stein one thousand visitors saw the exhibition Joe Lewis Nancy J. Troy during its month-long run. Margo Machida Deborah Willis The UTSA Satellite Space hosted a Nancy Macko companion exhibition of works by Opening reception for Regional M.F.A. Exhibition, University twenty-eight students in the M.F.A. of Texas at San Antonio PHOTO: KIRK R. TUCK, SAN ANTONIO stylistic analysis and textual documenta­ Awards for tion, the authors have reconstructed Sessions in Studio Art major artistic traditions and individual personalities for a corpus of paintings Volume 20, Number 2 Excellence which had for centuries been attributed March/April 1995 San Antonio: to artists of earlier dynasties. Their study draws well-deserved attention to a M.F.A. Exhibition ill Art History e would like to express our significant but neglected period in 1 San Antonio heartfelt thanks to the Chinese art. session chairs, panelists, W Committee: Joaneath Spicer, chair; Judi Sessions in Sal1 Antonio: workshop organizers, and special guests Freeman; Ann Gunter; Peter Selz; Sidra 2 Art History and Studio Art who worked so diligently on the 1995 annual conference in San Antonio. Stich Special thanks go to Eduardo Diaz and ollege Ar.t Association's annual convocation ceremony was Charlie Jarrell of San Antonio's Depart­ 3 Awards for Excellence held at the San Antonio ment of Arts and Cultural Affairs for C n organizing the 1995 art history recruiting volunteers and for funding Marriott Rivercenter Hotel, January 27, Anne Burkus-Chasson, Arthur Kingsley conference program, we were Porter Prize scholarships for area artists. We would 1995. CAA secretary John R. Clarke primarily concerned with bringing 8 Reflections from the Forest I also like to thank the Board of Directors introduced Linda D. Schele, who together scholars and artists to explore and staff of CAA, especially Suzanne delivered an inspiring keynote address. how artistic exchange across borders past models and varied in response to CAANews Schanzer for her brilliant coordination. President Judith K. Brodsky presided shapes our lUlderstanding of works of the changing circumstances of his life. Annual Conference Update We would also like to thank the over the presentation of awards for 12 art. In order to achieve our goal, we In her attention to issues of patronage Rockefeller Foundation for their grant, excellence in teaching, scholarship, deliberately avoided narrowly focused and collecting, social interaction and which allowed CAA to bring a diverse creativity, criticism, and conservation. sessions. Instead, we encouraged our class distinctions, Burkus-Chasson group of established and younger artists The following are the award recipients 13 From the President colleagues to organize panels bringing illuminates a significant aspect of late and scholars from across the U.s., and their citations. together a wide spectrum of art histori­ Ming culture. Her article is also exem­ Mexico, and Latin America. Special cal methodologies, political ideologies, plary in showing how a current historio­ thanks also to the U.s.-Mexico Fund for Letter to the Editor as well as racial, gender, and culhlral graphical idea, that of an artist's self­ Culture and its sponsors: Bancomer Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize 14 Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members perspectives. WIllie emphasizing current fashioning, may fruitfully be applied to Cultural Foundation, Rockefeller Presented by Walter S. Gibson revisions of the interdisciplinary a study of the past. Foundation, and Mexico's Fund for Awarded to Anne Burkus-Chasson boundaries of the discipline, we also Culture and the Arts, whose support People in the News tried to be inclusive in our attention to Committee: Walter S. Gibson, chair; 16 made possible the valuable panel on The Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize was "standard" art historical research and Fram;oise Forster-Hahn; Judith Oliver; contemporary Mexican art criticism. established in memory of a fotmding practice, thereby serving the important Joseph Siry Grants, Awards, & Honors It was our intent with this year's member of CAA and one of the first goal of representing nearly all fields 18 Conferences & Symposia Shidio art sessions to examine regional American scholars of the discipline. It is studied by the members of the College methods of expression with all their awarded for a distinguished article Art Association. We take the high complexities. For San Antonio, a published in the Art Bulletin during the Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award attendance at the conference by col­ Richard Barnhart, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Opportunities previous calendar year. Presented by Joaneath Spicer 19 leagues from allover the United States, regional aesthetic meant considering not Award for Museum Scholarship only Texas and multiculturalism within Anne Burkus-Chasson's "Elegant or Awarded to Richard Barnhart for Painters as well as Latin America and Europe, as the U.s. but our geographic and culhlral Common? Chen Hongshou's Birthday of the Great Ming: The Imperial Court an indication of the success of our 22 Classified Ads proximity to Mexico and Latin America. Presentation Pictures and His Profes­ and the Zhe School efforts. It is our hope that future Regional issues concerning gender, sional Status" (Art Bulletin, June 1994) conferences will retain the same spirit of CAAINational Institute for Datebook sexual preference, and censorship were presents a fascinating and instructive The Alfred I-I. Barr, Jr., Award was openness, inclusiveness, international Conservation Joint Award for Information Wal1ted also very important elements in this mix. study of artistic self-fashioning by the established in 1980 in honor of a former dialogue, and collaboration Distinction in Scholarship So it was very heartening to have these seventeenth-century Chinese painter director of the Museum of Modern Art 24 Miscellany We would like to thank members of and Conservation issues addressed by participants Chen Hongshou (1598-1652). Departing and scholar of early twentieth-century CAA who attended the conference for Prese11ted by Arthur K. Wheelock, representing a broad range of ages and from the traditional Chinese distinction painting. It is presented to the author or Jr. CAA News, a publication of the their enthusiastic support of the San abundant diversity of affiliations: between elite and popular artists, authors of an especially distinguished Awarded to Molly An11 Faries ColJege Art Association, is published Antonio program, and in particular the six times a year.