newsletter Volume 4, Number 2 June 1979
1980 annual meeting: call for papers and panelists
The 1980 CAA annual meeting will be held in New Orleans, the interpretation or the transmission of architectural, painting' or Wednesday, January 3D-Saturday, February 2. The Hyatt Regency sculpture programs in the Romanesque period. will serve as headquarters hotel. Art history sessions have been planned by Caecilia Davis-Weyer, London, Paris, Rome, Avignon, Prague: 1200-1350. Eleanor Newcomb College, Tulane University. Studio sessions have been Greenhill, Dept. of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tex. planned by Lin Emery, sculptor, New Orleans. Listed below are the 78712. topics they have selected, Those wishing to participate in any session The session is designed to explore international or inter-regional should write to the chairman of that session before October I, 1979. exchanges in art, architecture or urban planning particularly as the Reminder: In accordance with the Annual Meeting Program result of the movement of artists and patrons among the great centers Guidelines, no one may participate in more than one session. While or royal and papal power. Papers on monastic or communal projects it is perfectly good form to submit more than one paper or even to are also welcome if such projects can be shown to result from the submit the same paper to more than one chairman, it would avoid same international movement. considerable last-minute hassles if both chairmen were forewarned. In a further attempt to introduce new and different faces, session Art and Liturgy. L.D. Ettlinger, University of California, chairmen are encouraged not to accept a paper by anyone who has Berkeley. Send abstracts clo CAA, 16 East 52 Street, N. Y .C. 10022. given a paper in the previous year or to accept as a panelist anyone Papers should suggest ways in which demands of liturgy have in who has been a panelist during the previous year. fluenced architectural planning and pictorial decoration of religious structures. It is hoped that contributions will deal with European art ART HISTORY PROGRAM and architecture from ancient times to the present as well as with ex amples from non-European cultures. Papers should not be longer Papers for art history sessions must be proposed in the form of a one than 20 minutes. A brief discussion limited to 10 minutes will follow }age abstract. Accepted abstracts are duplicated for distribution at each paper. the annual meeting without retyping. Submit clean copy in original, typed on one, single-spaced, 8Y,ixll inch page, pica type, on bond St. Peter's. Frank R. DiFederico, Dept. of Art, University of paper. Do not fold, spindle, mutilate, or stain with coffee. Leave Y,i Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742. inch margin at top; no less than I inch margin at the left and %- inch The session will be devoted to the architecture and decoration of margins at the bottom and right. Type session title, chairperson and the old and new churches. Papers dealing with different media and a his or her institution in the upper right corner. Type title of your variety of historical and stylistic periods from the fourth century to paper, your name and your institutional affiliation in the upper left the present are invited. corner. If you wish confirmation that your abstract has been re ceived, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard. Proposals Art and Science in the Renaissance. Jack Wasserman, Temple for papers not conforming to the above specifications and those University. Abstracts should be addressed to 531 General Patterson received after October 1 cannot be considered. Drive, Glenside, Pa. 19038. The session on art and the emerging modern science and Ancient Art: Its Survival and Revival in the Middle Ages and technology of the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries aims at ex Renaissance. Phyllis Pray Bober, Bryn Mawr College. Send ploring the mutual influences between these disciplines. A wide abstracts clo CAA, 16 East 52 Street, N .Y.C. 10022. range of topics is sought to include artists such as Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Alberti, Piero. Leonardo. Among the subjects that may be Mediterranean Crosscurrents in Medieval Art. Jaroslav Folda, addressed are mechanics, mathematics, anatomy, optics, physiology Dept. of Art, Ackland Art Center, University of North Carolina, and psychology of vision, color theory, sociology of the artist Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514. scientist, scientific illustration, the state of research in this field. Papers are invited on specific cases or problems of artistic inter Papers should have a duration of between 15 and 20 minutes. change or influence in the Mediterranean region during the period from ca. 500 to 1453. The session will address the complex interplay Painting and Sculpture in Northern Europe, 1400-1550. Bar of Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Crusader, Islamic, Italian andlor bara G. Lane, Queens College, C.U.N.Y. Abstracts should be ad other Western elements in the development of the visual arts (in dressed to 180 East End Avenue, Apt. 5H, New York, N.Y. 10028. cluding painting, sculpture, architecture and the decorative arts) in and around the Mediterranean basin. Please make the a bstract as full and informative as possible. The Imperial Presence in Central Europe from the Accession of the Hapsburgs until the First World War. Thomas DaCosta Kauf ~ Romanesque Monumental Art: New Approaches to Un- mann, Dept. of Art and Archeology, Princeton University, McCor 1nswered Questions. Thomas W. Lyman" Dept. of the History of mick Hall, Princeton, N.]. 08540. ~rt, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. 30322. Papers dealing with any aspect of imperial patronage, collecting Your twenty-minute paper should demonstrate the application of and imagery from the late thirteenth to the early twentieth century a critical methodology to a question concerning either the genesis, Continued on p. 2, col. 1 11980 annual meeting: call for papers and panelists 11980 annual meeting: call for papers and panelists
are invited. Topics in the history of the period of Hapsburg Film/Video and Twentieth-Century Art. Diane Kirkpatrick, The panel will consider a wide range of sculpture, both historic The Museum as Innovator: Adventurous Exhibitions Chair: To hegemony 1486 to 1780 are especially welcome. Papers treating the Dept. of History of Art, 209 Tappan Hall, University of Michigan, and current, in which color is used as an intrinsic element that is be announced. relationship of the imperial court to other European ~ourts or centers Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109. essential to the full realization of the emotive and expressive values of A panel of curators and museum directors will report on recent or of artistic production will also be considered. Papers that examine the relationship between "modernism" in '~e work. projected exhibitions that are innovative or experimental, either in film or video and that in other visual arts are invited. content or installation. The Renaissance in Italy. Creighton E. Gilbert, Art Dept., Cor Crafts: Catalyst for the Arts. Introduction: Eudora Moore, Crafts nell University, Ithaca, N,Y. 14853. Scientific Approaches to Art History. Judson Emerick, Art Coordinator, National Endowment for the Arts. Chair: To be an Patterns and Forms in Nature: Studies in Morphology. Ben Dept., Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. 91711. nounced. jamin de Brie Taylor, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of The Seventeenth Century. Marcel Roethlisberger, University of The session will focus on scientific methods used in dating and A panel of artists who have chosen crafts techniques as their mode Technology, 3300 S. Federal St., Chicago, Ill. 60616. Geneva; Guest Curator, New Orleans Museum of Art. Abstracts analysing art objects. Papers that describe such methods and/or of expression will discuss the iInpact of craft materials- fiber, glass, The panel will explore the visual phenomena of design and struc should be addressed c/o New Orleans Museum of Art, P.O. Box specific cases of their application are solicited. day - on the development of new art forms. They will also discuss the ture that are found in nature, following the tradition of D'Arcy 19123, New Orleans, La. 70179. acceptance of these craft media in galleries and museums, architec Thompson, who first analyzed morphological form. Flake, Pop, Crackle and Peel: Problems of Preservation in tural projects, and art school curricula. European Landscape and Garden Design: 1650-1800. Judith America. Shirley Blum, Division of Humanities, College at Pur The Art Critic as Juror. Lucy Lippard, 138 Prince Street, New Colton, Dept. of the History of Art, Yale University, Box 2009, 56 chase, State University of New York, Purchase, N.Y. 10522. Sculpture: State of the Art. Jeffrey Bayer, Art Dept., University York, N.Y. 10012. High Street, New Haven, Conn. 06520. Among topics to be considered for this session are case studies of of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, Ala, 35801. Critics who have curated exhibitions or who have acted as jurors The session will be organized around two main topics: the in the preservation of paintings and sculptures of national interest, The session will excerpt main issues and highlights from the N a for competitive shows will discuss the values that animated their fluence of specific topographies on the development of landscape technical problems in conservation, political and grassroots tional Sculpture Conference, New York City, October 31-November choices. and garden design and the garden as a vehicle for contemporary organization for preservation, problems of protection of works of art 3, 1979, and preview the International Sculpture Conference, Wash philosophical and political ideas. Papers that explore the relation in public collections. ington, D.C. June 4-6, 1980. CAAI ARLIS JOINT SESSION ship between garden design and landscape painting will also be considered. Master Painters as Teachers: The Transmission of Ideas. Chair: Sources for Research in Iconography. Lois Swan Jones, Dept. of STUDIO PROGRAMS To be announced. Art, North Texas State University, Denton, Tex. 76203. Renaissance and Baroque Art in Colonial Latin America. Prominent artists will discuss the principles and aesthetic goals Because the 1978 joint CAA/ ARLIS session encompassed the Donald Robertson, Art Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans, La. of the work of the master-artists who were their teachers; then theme of Christian and Jewish in iconography, this session will con· 70118. How the Chosen Get Chosen, or The Nuts and Bolts of Success. Benny Andrews, 130 West 26 Street, New York, N.Y, 10001. demonstrate with slides of their own work how these ideas affected centrate on the references that are used in the iconograph of Classi The panel will talk about ways and means of surviving and them, and further, show how these artistic concepts were again cal, Renaissance-Baroque, Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century, European Art 1750-1890. James H. Rubin, Dept. of Art, State transmuted in the work of their own students. and Non-Western art. II University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N. Y. 11794. succeeding as a working artist. Speakers will include a curator or gallery director, a magazine editor, a collector, a grants officer from N.E.A., a legal person, and an artist. Photography: The Art of Choice. E.John Bullard, New Orleans Women as Patrons and Critics. Rosemarie Bergmann, McGill Museum of Art, P.O. Box 19123, New Orleans, La. 70179. University. Send abstracts c/o CAA, 16 East 52 Street N.Y.C. 10022. The panel will explore the collector's and curator's art of selection The session will seek to determine and evaluate a specific contribu M.F.A. Forum/Roundtable. John Clemmer, Art Dept., :;~,:~,~~:'~":i'~,~o>' p,~eHril~,ai-Y':"'~,r,ri,gI-a~, :'" ',~+~t'a,l~~~~~:,':~~~~:~,~~i,; Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, La. 70118. and the photographer's art of selectivity in composing and processing ,a,n'd',' :' tion of women to developments in the visual arts. Women of all a picture. " ~~,~:Jtl$< ~~J,nple~~,\J~f,o,~:,
Russian Art from the Middle of the Nineteenth Century to the Prints: Workshops and the Artist. Donald Saff, Dept. of Art, Second World War. Frederick S. Starr, Kennan Institute for University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla. 33620. information A reader on the social functions of museums Images of the White Mountains of New Advanced Russian Studies, Smithsonian Institution Building, The panel, composed of artists and workshop members, will ex is being assembled by Kenneth L. Ames, Hampshire (paintings, photographs, prints, Washington D.C. 20560. plore the print as a product of the collaborative process. In conjunction with a project to conserve the Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Del. etc.) created before 1900 are sought for an murals painted for the Public Works of Art 19735. He is looking for critiques of the cur exhibition and catalogue. Contact Donald D. Myth and Mysticism in Modern Art: 1880-1980, Frederick S. Works on Paper and Paper Works. Howardena Pindell, Project and the WPA Federal Art Project be rent forms of museums, analyses of who Keyes, Art Dept., Smith College, Northamp Levine, Dept. of Art History, College of Arts and Sciences, North Museum of Modern Art, II W. 53 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. tween 1934 and 1938, the New York County benefits from them, and suggestions for ton, Mass. 01063. western University, Evanston, Ill. 6020l. A panel of artists who work on paper or with paper will discuss the Courthouse at 60 Foley Square would like to future alternatives. This session will welcome papers directed towards the application wide range of art that uses paper as a vehicle or as a medium: collage, contact the following artists, their heirs, or Information about artists and art historians of established mythologies or the creation of new mythological con cast-paper, paper-making, embossment, monotype, watercolor, assistants: Attilio Pusterla, Andrew T, Anyone having information about the of Yugoslav origin living and working in the cepts that add to our understanding of the role of myth and pastel. :Schwartz, Winthrop Tumey, Nino Polimeni, American artist Bernice Boeschenstein United States is sought by the Yugoslav mysticism in the iconography of modern art. Jules Ruppert, Robert K. Ryland, and John (1906-1951) and the St, Louis "Group 15" Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters. Sculpture in Color-Color in Sculpture. Ann Sperry, Palo Alto, EdwinJackson. Write to Marlene Park, John please contact Mrs. Paul Ward, Dept. of Art Contact Vladimir R. Gross, University of Twentieth-Century Art. Jim M. Jordan, Institute of Fine Arts, Calif. and Barbara Zucker, Philadelphia College of Art, Broad & Jay College of Criminal Justice, 444 W. 56 St., History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Michigan, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, N.Y.U., 1 East 78 Street, New York, N.Y. 10021. Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19102. N.Y.C. 10019. Kans, 66045. Mich. 48128. III
2 CAA newsletter June 1979 • grants and awards preservation news
Art for the People-New Deal Murals on MILLARD MEISS FUND shire: Painting; Linda Connor, San Fran NEW DEAL IN NEW YORK taken to assure that the conditions would be cisco Art Institute: Photography; Barbara corrected. Long Island, The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University Nov.-Dec., 1978 (Hemp The Millard Meiss Publication Fund Com C;rane, Art Institute of Chicago: Photog Members of the Public Art Preservation The New York City Housing Authority stead, L.L, N.Y. 11550), ed. David Shapiro, mittee met on April 27 and announced award raphy; Donna Dennis, New York City: 'ommittee have been directly involved in or has hired Greta Berman as Special Consult with essays by Francis V. O'Connor, Helen of subventions to the following: Sculpture; Laddie John Dill, U.C.L.A.: .ave served in an advocacy position for a ant to make an inventory of all works of art Harrison, Greta Berman, Marlene Park, Robert P. Bergman, for The Salerno Painting; John Duff, New York City: Sculp number of projects in the Greater New York created by artists employed by the WPA/ Ivories and a School of Romanesque Ivory ture; Louis Faurer, New York City: Photog FAP for public housing projects. Upon com Gerald Markowitz. area. Greta Berman, The Lost Years: Mural Carcnng in A ma/f£, Harvard University Press. raphy; Laurence Fink, Cooper Union: Pho Restoration has begun on a number of pletion of the inventory, the Housing Author Painting in New York under the Work Pro~ R. Ward Bissell, for Orazio Gentileschi tography; Louise Fishman, Columbia Univ.: WPA/FAP murals done by black artists at ity will endeavor to restore key works, remove gress Admt'nistration's Federal Art Project, an~ t~e Poetic Tradition in Caravaggesque Painting; Charles Garabedian, Univ. Harlem Hospital: Pursut't of Happt'ness by them from inaccessible locations, and rein 1935-1943 (New York, 1978). Pamtmgs, The Pennsylvania State University California, Santa Barbara: Painting; Haile Vertis Hayes (completed Dec., 1937) and stall them in other public areas, such as Marlene Park and Gerald Markowitz, New Press. Gerima, Howard Univ.: Film making; Alex Magic Medicine by Charles Alston. Funds for Senior Citizens' Centers. Dealfor Art (Hamilton, N.Y. 1977). Franklin Hamilton Hazelhurst, for ander E. Harris; Duke Univ. and Univ. the restoration now being undertaken by This summer, eight students from the Gardens of Illusion: The Genius of AndreLe North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Photography; Alan Farancz (Painting Conservation Studio, Cooperstown Graduate Program will clean Nostre, Vanderbilt University Press. Stuart D. Klipper, Minneapolis: Photog 27 murals in the New York County Court Inc.) have been obtained from the City by the SUCCESSES AND STALEMATES The Millard Meiss Publication Fund Com raphy; Barbara Kopple, New York City: New York City Art Commission, with strong house on Foley Square (Jury Assembly Room mittee will next meet in the Fall. Application Film making; Michael Loew, School of 488/452 and Courtrooms 300 and 700). The support from the community. Romano Gabriel's Wooden Garden. Pat forms and guidelines may be obtained from Visual Arts: Painting; Larry E. McPherson, murals were painted between 1934 and 1938 James Brooks's Flt'ght (completed in 1942) ty Elsen informs us that the City Council of the CAA office. Deadline for submission: Memphis State Univ.: Photography; Ray K. Seymour Slive by seven artists employed on the Public Works at LaGuardia Airport's Marine Terminal is Eureka, Calif., has voted to protect Romano September 1. Metzker, Philadelphia College of Art: of Art project and WPA/FAB. Various mu also scheduled for restoration. The mural, Gabriel's Wooden Garden as an important Photography; Stefan R. Moore, New York seums and conservators were consulted by the ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION covering 2,820 square feet, was painted over piece of contemporary California folk art. City: Video; Manuel Neri, Univ. California, Office of the County Clerk and the commis when the Port Authority assumed responsi The Redevelopment Agency has donated a Davis: Sculpture; Maria Nordman, Santa bility' for the airport in 1954-55. Efforts by sion was put out to bid. The documentation GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS Th~ 1979 A~AA award for outstanding lot for the pavilion to house the work. The Monica: Sculpture; Hart Perry, Columbia will include photographs of the murals be achievement m the field of art history was Geoffrey Arend (Editor, Air World), Saul Humboldt Area Foundation has given Univ.: Holographic film making; Leland fore, during and after conservation, as well as presented to Seymour Slive, Gleason Profes Wenegrat (N.Y. Port Authority) and mem $25,000 outright and has set aside another The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Rice, Pomona College and Galleries of the a list of materials and methods used for the sor of Fine Arts and Director of the Fogg Art bers of the art world have been instrumental $25,000 to be matched by the public. Foundation awarded grants totaling Claremont Colleges: Photography; Jack cleaning and sealing of the murals. Museum at Harvard University. An authority in getting this project underway. Funds are $4,655,000 t0291 scholars, scientists, and art Roth, Ramapo College of New Jersey (Dept. on Dutch painting, Slive has written exten being provided by the Port Authority as well Hello Girls. Alexander Calder's sculpture ists in its fifty-fifth annual competition. The Mathematics): Painting; Angelo Savelli, sively on Rembrandt and Hals and, with as private sources. Hello Girls (see CAA newsletter, June 1978) Fellows were selected from among 2,974 ap Univ. Texas at Arlington: Painting; David New York/New Deal/Recent Publications Jakob Rosenberg and E.H, ter Kuile, is the Last year, Must'c, a mural by Louis Shanker will not go to the University of New Mexico as plicants. Schickele, San Francisco: Film making; For those keeping abreast of exhibitions and author of Dutch Art and Architecture 1600- (1938-39) painted for the WPA/FAP was earlier hoped, according to Van Deren Coke. Rosalind Solomon, Washington, D.C.: Pho restored at Radio Station WNYC by the publications concerning art under the New 1800. He was a director of the College Art Annabelle Simon Cahn III tography; Stan VanDerBeek, Uruv. Mary Public Art Council, but it continues to be Deal administration, here are a few recent Art History/Cognate Areas Association from 1958 to 1962 and from 1965 Public Information Officer land Baltimore County: Video, computer vandalized because proper measures were not additions to the New York bibliography: to 1969. Slive is the eighth recipient of th~ Phyllis Pray Bober, Bryn Mawr College: animation, and film making; Woody ADAA Annual Award, which consists ot Ulisse Aldrovandi and collections of antiq Vasulka S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo: Video. uities in 16th-century Rome; Peter C. Bun $5,000 and a bronze replica of a stabile by nell, Princeton Univ.: A study of the photo Alexander Calder. The award was presented graphs of Alfred Stieglitz; Frederick A. at a dinner held at the Metropolitan Museum committee on the status of women C
Mater';al for inclusion in PEOPLE AND PRO Richard Ettinghausen, a leading authority New faces at the Pennsylvania Academy of the American Council of Learned Societies to Travel Accounts and the Rise of 'Singularity' GRAMS should be sent to College Art Assocta on Islamic Art, died in April at the age of Fine Arts include Janice Stanland, who conduct a workshop on "Artists and Patrons: as an Aesthetic Category," Art QuaTterly Non, 16 East 52 Street, N. Y. C. 10022. seventy-three. Consultative Chairman of the comes from Georgia Museum of Art at Athens Some Social and Economic Aspects of Chi (Autumn, 1977). Deadlt'ne for next issue: July 31. Metropolitan's Department of Islamic Art to serve as registrar; Melinda McGough, nese Painting" to be held in Fall 1980. and Hagop Kevorkian Profesor of Islamic Art previously at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion California State College in San Bernardino at the Institute of Fine Arts since 1969, Ett in Germantown, Pa., as assistant registrar; was the site of a major outdoor sculpture ex IN MEMORIAM inghausen supervised the stunning installa and Ann Friedman (Ph.D. candidate, Bryn Also from U.K., Lawrence: The Board of hibition, "10 Sculptures/15 Sculptures," tion of the new Islamic galleries at the Metro Mawr) as part-time coordinator for the Mor Regents of the State of Kansas has named from April through June. Organized by Pop Frances Gray Godwin, a specialist in politanin 1975. He earned his Ph.D. from the ris Gallery exhibitions. CAA President Marilyn Stokstad to a dis py Solomon, director of the CSCSB Art medieval art who taught at Queens College, University of Frankfurt in 1931 and, after tinguished professorship, called University Gallery, the exhibition opened with a C.U.N. Y., from 1945 to 1970, died in March coming to the United States in 1943, was The Cranbrook Academy of Art has an Professor. It's a life-time appointment and a sculpture symposium April 5. at the age of seventy. Born in Vienna, Godwin associated with the Freer Gallery of Art from nounced the appointment of Jun Kaneko as very high honor indeedl came to the United States in 1931 and earned 1944 to 1966. He also taught at Princeton, the new head of the ceramics department. Born her M.A. and Ph.D. at New York University, University of Michigan, and the University of in Japan, Kaneko studied at the California where she worked with Richard Offner on his Southern California. Institute of Art, the University of California NEW ACTIVITIES Corpus of Florentine Painting. Godwin was at Berkeley under Peter Voulkos, and Clare" known, above all, for her enormous impact mont Graduate School under Paul Soldner. Three art museum libraries-those of the on her students. among them Donald Posner, He has taught at the University of New Metropolitan, the Art Institute of Chicago, Lucy Sandler, Andree Hayum, Diane Kelder, and the Cleveland Museum of Art- have TEACHING Hampshire, R.I.S.D., and Scripps College. Robert Rosenblum, and Allen Rosenbaum. received grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to participate in the Research Faculty at S.M.U.'s Meadows School of Art More news on artist/teachers: Retiring Kent Library Information Network, a nation-wide Aaron Douglas, founder of the Fisk Universi have been busy as bees, fertilizing a wide vari State faculty Leroy Flint and Harold Kitner library automation and information program ty art department and its chairman from 1937 ety of conferences and symposia, both nation were honored with a retrospective exhibition, developed by and located at Stanford Univer until his retirement in 1966, died in February al and regional. Nancy Berry presented a A_ Richard Turner, IFA May 9 through 25. Clarence Morgan has sity. The three will be the first art museum at the age of seventy-nine. A painter, mural paper entitled "Peer Teaching in Museums," been awarded a Faculty Grant for Creative libraries in the RLIN computerized program, ist, and illustrator, Douglas was recognized as since published in MUseum News, at the Na Study by the University Research Committee which services more than 120 research, one of the leading artists of the Harlem Ren The new director of the Institute of Fine Arts tional Art Education convention in April. at East Carolina University. Bela Petheo, academic, public and special libraries aissance of the 1920s. He attended the Uni is A. Richard Turner, who left the post The paper reported on a project initiated at Saint John's University, had a traveling throughout the country. The Mellon grant versities of Kansas and Nebraska as well as S.M. U. in cooperation with the Dallas Muse president and professor of art at Grinnell show-mostly of recent work done while on a provides funds to cover the initial cost of in Columbia University, where he studied mural um of Fine Arts. At the same conference, College in Iowa to return full-time to the art faculty fellowship at Tamarind-in the Fall stalling the computer terminals, half the decoration under Winold Reiss. In 1930 he Dorothy Pierce chaired a panel on teacher historical fold. Turner earned his B.A., of 1978 and in the Spring of 1979 had a one operational costs for the first two years, and painted the well-known murals at Fisk Uni preparation in art and Jon Hardwick con M.F.A., and Ph.D. at Princeton, subse man show of his recent works at the St.John's an additional sum towards the costs of a third versity; other Douglas murals are at the quently teaching there for eight years and ris ducted a photography workshop. Two facul University Gallery. Aldo Casanova, chair of year. For reasons not at all clear to us and for Countee Cullen Branch of the N.Y. Public ty-Annemarie Carr and Gerald Carr ing to the rank of full professor before moving the department at Scripps College, had the the benefit of those who follow the historical Library at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago. An - and two graduate students - Katherine A. to Middlebury College, where he was ap maquette of his sculpture of "Flight" accept development of acronyms: the RILN system Aaron Douglas Scholarship Fund has been Schwab and Lisa Hall-were invited to pre pointed dean of faculty in 1970. The author ed by the Air and Space Museum. The ori was fonnerly known as BALLOTS. established at Fisk University; contributions sent papers at the Texas Conference of Art of The Vision of Landscape in Renaissance ginal, a 5,000-pound steel sculpture located Photo: Anne Hanson Bernard A_ Hanson are tax-deductible. Historians meeting in April. Italy (Princeton Univ. Press, 1966), Turner at Fulleton City Hall in California, was com has published articles on Renaissance art in missioned by that city after being chosen from The Walker Art Center has been awarded a The ATt Bulletin, Art QuaTterly, Renaissance among fourteen other designs in a bicenten Bernard A. Hanson, dean of the Hartford grant of $330,000 by the NEH to conduct a QuaTterly, etc. and has also written critical nial invitational competition. Art School since 1970, has resigned that posi three-year interdisciplinary education pro pieces on contemporary art. tion effective June 30 and plans to resume his gram titled "Meanings of Modernism." The From Bowdoin College comes the news that research and other scholarly interests in antic program will explore various manifestations Larry D. Lutchmansingh has been pro ipation of a return to teaching. During an in of contemporary art (performing as well as moted to associate professor, with tenure, ef novative deanship, Hanson introduced new visual) and relate them to the social changes, Also from the Institute comes the welcome fective Sept. 1980 and was named chainnan programs in ceramics, photography, film and scientific and technological discoveries, and announcement that the annual Walter W. S. of the art department for the past semester video and restructured a five-year fine arts historical events of this century. Cook Alumni Lecture, though somewhat and the 1979-80 academic year. Lutchman program to four years, introducing a Founda shorn of its former "glory" (back-tie formality singh (Ph.D Cornell) has been at Bowdoin tion Year curriculum for freshmen and fully and a subvention for publication), has been since 1974 and directed the art history pro elective Post-Foundation Year programs. The University of Chicago has announced reinstated after a lapse of several years. The gram in 1977-78. Hanson (M.A. art history, Univ, Iowa) has the inauguration of a full academic program first lecture in the revived series was delivered lectured widely on the history and aesthetics in the study of film (in the Department of by Walter Cahn, on "The Idea of Master of film and contributes a regular weekly col English and the Humanities) and the estab piece: Medieval and Northern Renaissance Burton L. Dunbar, chair of the department umn on art for local newspapers. Edwin lishment of a Film Archive and Study Center, Origins." About 150 persons attended. of art and art history at the University of Mis Stein, who has served for the past year as arts which, over the next three years, will acquire souri -Kansas City, has been named project di consultant to the University of Hartford and 1500 films, The Archive, with 500 films at rector of a $50,000 NEH pilot project entitled executive director of Lincoln Theater, has present, is strongest in silent feature films. "Integrated Studies in the Humanities." The been named interim dean. From Winthrop College comes the announce grant will make possible a series of interdis ment that art department chair Edmund D. ciplinary courses for undergraduates combin Lewandowski has been named the school's The Williams College Museum has in ing studies in art history, literature, philoso Distinguished Professor for 1979. The cita Barbara Maria Stafford, University of augurated an occasional journal, Studies in phy, history, and the history of science. Aaron Douglas hanging a tion carries a $500 cash award and released Delaware, has been awarded the James L. the History ofArt, consisting of single articles painting in a collection of time from teaching for research; selection is Clifford Prize of the ASECS for the best essay on one object in or one aspect of the perma his work displayed at Fisk made by a student-faculty committee. Earlier Nearby (at least to us Easterners), at the published between July 1977 and June 1978 nent collection. The first handsome issue is a University. this year, Lewandowski received a commis University of Kansas-Lawrence, Chu-tsing on an interdisciplinary and eighteenth study of Eakins' Portrait ofJohn N. Fort by sion to execute two mosaic murals for a new Li, Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art century topic. It was presented for "Toward John Wilmerding. addition to St. Luke's Hospital in Milwaukee. History, has received a $15,300 grant from Romantic Landscape Perception: Illustrated Continued on p. 8, col. 1
6 CAA newsletter June 1979 7 lpeople and programs announcements
PAST ACTIVITIES A lecture series entitled Approaches to textbook Key Monuments of the History of APEX Fares to Bologna Printmaking Fellowships 1980 SAH Annual Meeting Criticism 1979 was held in the Spring at the Architecture. Most readers probably know about APEX This year's Western States Art Foundation To be held in Madison, Wisc., April 23-27, Being an Artist, Being a Woman, Being Ohio State University Gallery. Speakers were fares, considerably cheaper than standard fellowships will be in the area of printmaking. with David Gebnard, Univ. California, Santa Black, a symposium held in conjunction with Leo Steinberg (,'Historian as Critic"), Donald l economy rates provided that one books at Ten fellowships of $2,500 each will be Barbara, serving as general chainnan. Ses an exhibition of the work of Ellen Banks Kuspit ("Philosopher as ... "), Marcia The Corcoran's new position of Associate least 21 days in advance. From New York to awarded. Applicants must be U.S. citizens sions are being organized on the following Marda Lloyd, and Nefeniti at Wellesley Col: Tucker ("Curator as , .. "), Jeremy Gilbert Curator of Contemporary Art for the Wash Bologna, during the period of the Interna" and must have maintained primary residence topics; General Session, William H. Pierson, lege in April. Organized by faculty member ~olfe. (" Artist ~s. . "), and Peter Frank ington Region has been filled by Clair Z. tional Congress, round-trip APEX fare is for at least six months prior to July 27, 1979 in Jr.; Transportation and Architecture on the William Travis and Julie Butler, a student. ( Wnter as . , , ). List, (M.A. Univ, Pennsylvania; M.A. can $551, compared with $890 standard economy one of the following: Ariz., Colo., Idaho, Central Plains, Buffalo to Denver, P. Reyner didate, I.F.A.), fonnerly curatorial coor rate. Since APEX reservations are sometimes Mont., Nevada, N.M., Ore., Utah, Wash., Banham; Islamic Architecture, Dogan Points of View in Support of Foundation dinator for the Guggenheim Museum. The hard to get, the CAA has tentatively reserved or Wyo. For guidelines and applications: Kuban, Istanbul Technical University; Frank Art Studies, a symposium held at the Moore A two-day symposium on The Greek Vase position, intended to help the gallery to con 50 seats from New York City, dates of depar Visual Arts Fellowship Program, WSAF, 428 Lloyd Wright, Eileen M. Michels; Non College of Art in March. Speakers were held at the Hudson Valley Community Col tinue and expand its presentation of quality ture and return flexible. It may also be possi East 11th Ave" Denver, Colo. 80203. American Urban History, Dora P. Crouch, painter Wayne Thiebauld; Mario Prisco, lege in April brought together a varied group art by local artists, is underwritten by the ble to arrange for departures from Philadel Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.; Classical Archi dean of the College of Ceramics at Alfred of art historians, classicists, and scientists for Friends ofthe Corcoran. We think it's a lovely phia, Boston, or Washington. Call or write Abstract Expressionism Conference tecture, Fikret K. Yegul, Univ. California, University; and Bobbye Burke, Community a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary discussion. idea! Barbara Weinman, Conferences & Conven A conference on "Abstract Expressionism: Santa Barbara; Native Architecture and College of Philadelpha. Among the topics: ''The Death ofSarpedon tions Co., 500 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C. 10036 Idea and Symbol" will be held at the Universi Planning in the Americas, Cecelia F. Klein, The Use of Myth in Vase Painting," Dietrich (212-840-7722). ty of Virginia, Oct. 12 and 13. The themes of UCLA; The Use of Images to Communicate von Bothmer; "Modem Technology in the New chainnan of the Metropolitan's Depart the conference are the intellectual and Architectural History/Theory, Marc Treib, The Neuberger Museum's 1979 Yaseen Lec Study of the Greek Vase," Lambertus van ment of Medieval Art and The Cloisters is cultural context in which AE was created as Univ, California, Berkeley; Architecture in tures/On Sculpture, held in conjunction Zeist, and "Th,e Image of Woman - A Social CAA Board member William D. Wixom. Address Changes well as more specific iconographic interpre the Midwest, 1920-1941, Paul Sprague; The with an exhibition of works by Christo, Mark History," Christine Mitchell Havelock. Coor Wixom comes to the Met after a twenty-year The American Council of Learned Societies tation of major works; papers on Pollock, Beaux Arts in the Midwest, the Other Side of di Suvera, Robert Irwin, and ('~orge Segal, dinator: Harry F_ Gaugh, Skidmore College. stint at the Cleveland Museum, where he was has moved to 800 Third Avenue, N.Y.C, Rothko, Newman and Still particularly the Coin, 1890-1920, Leland Martin Roth; featured Barbara Rose, Irwin, Jan van def chief curator of early Western art. 10022. The International Research & Ex welcome. Contact Elizabeth Langhorne, The Decorative Arts, chair to be announced; Marek, Christo, and Segal plus two evenings change Board has moved to 655 Third Mcintire Dept. of Art, UV, Charlottesville, and Landscape Architecture, chair to be an of film. For infonnation on future series: Bar Avenue, N.Y.C. 10017. Va. 22903. Deadline for abstracts: July 16. nounced. Paper proposals should be sent bara Schofield, Neuberger Museum. Baroque scholar Franklin W. Robinson has directly to the chainnen (optain addresses MUSEUM STAFF NOTES been named new director of the Museum at from SAB, 1700 Walnut St., Philadelphia, An all-day symposium entitled Tiffany in R.I.S.D. Robinson (Ph.D. Harvard) had ------1.------1 Pa. 19103). Deadline for submissions: Perspective was held at N,Y.U.'s Grey Art been associate professor of art and director of September 1. Gallery in April. The symposium was held in the graduate art history program at Williams conjuction with an exhibition of Tiffany College and the coordinate program at Clark Art Institute since 1975. Before that he lpeople and programs paintings for which there is a catalog. Curatorial Fellowships in West Germany taught at Darmouth and at Wellesley, where The John 1- McCloy Fellowships in Art, ad he introduced the first museum studies The Houston Museum of Fine, Arts has named ministered by the Metropolitan Museum of course. The CUNY Graduate Center held a four , J. Patrice Marandel curator of painting and Art and the Staatliche Museen Preussischer evening interdisciplinary Forum on Ameri sculpture, effective July 2. Educated in Kulturbesitz, will provide travel and living ex can Women in the Arts: A Dialectic be France, Marandel has been curator of classi penses for American museum curators, who tween Public and Private Spaces in April. The Chrysler Museum, too, has a new direc cal art and curator of early European paint will spend up to six weeks in West Gennany. Among participants were Rosalyn Drexler tor. He is Richard J. Wattenmaker, who ing at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1974. The purposes of the fellowships are study, (does anyone else remember that she was a comes to Norfolk from the Art Gallery of On Before that he held positions at the Louvre, research, travel, and cultural exchange with painter before she became a novelist/ tario, where he served as chief curator from the Musee des Beaux Arts in Rouen, Yale, the colleagues in Gennan museums. For detailed dramatist?), Carolee Schneemann, Louise 1972 thwugh 1978. MeniI Foundation, the R.I.S.D. Museum, information: Secretary of the Grants Com Bourgeois, and Dore Ashton. and Brown University. mittee, MMA, Fifth Avenue and 82 Street, N.Y.C.10028. A symposium on Craft Aesthetics: An Inter New acting directors are Ron Tyler at the Other curatorial changes: Marcia Cohn national Perspective was held at the Amon Carter Museum and Ronald G. Pis Growdon (Ph.D. Stanford) has been added Rochester Institute of Technology in April. ano at the Parrish Art Museum. Tyler (Ph.D. to the permanent staff of the Sierra Nevada Anthony M. Clark Fund Participants were Cyril Stanley Smith, metal Texas Christian), who will continue his duties Museum of Art as curator; she had been tem A fund dedicated to the memory of the late lurgist; Yusuke Aida, ceramicist; Edward as curator of history and director of publica porarily appointed as acting curator last Fall. Anthony M. Clark has been established by the Esther de Vecsey(M.A. Univ. California, Los Lucie-Smith, critic; and Charles E. (Sean) Henry A. Millon, CASVA tions, has been at the Carter Museum since American Academy in Rome with the two Licka, art historian. 1969. Pisano has been at the Parrish for the Angeles), who was kind enough to tell us that fold aim of completing and publishing the past seven years, beginning as guest curator she got her position through the CAA Clark papers and endowing a fellowship for for the exhibition "The Students of William Listings, has been named curator of the col A symposium on Cultural and Religious In young people engaged in Roman studies, Architectural historian Henry Armand Merritt Chase." His book on Chase will be lections at the Art Center Museum of the Col teraction in the Development of Asian Art preferably in 18th-century art and architec Millon has been appointed the first head of published by Waston-Guptill this Fall. lege of Wooster. Danielle Rice, a new Yale ture, at the Academy. A capital sum based on was held at the University of Wisconsin the National Gallery of Art's Center for Ad Katharine Keefe, Ackland Art Museum Ph.D., has been appointed curator of educa the sale of the Clark paintings has been Milwaukee in May in conjunction with the ex vanced Studies in the Visual Arts, located in tion at the Wadsworth Athenaeum. While a hibition "The Divine Presence: Asian Sculp developed; additional contributions are in Gallery's new East Building. His official title is student, Rice worked at the Yale Center for tures from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. vited. Make donations payable to the AMC Professor-in-charge. Millon (Ph.D. Harvard) Two Canadian musemns report new curato We are in receipt of two press releases - a British Art. Bruce Weber (Ph.D. candidate, Harry Lenart." Coordinator: Jane Langley Fund, c/o AAR, at 41 East 65 Street, N.Y.C. was a member of the Institute for Advanced happy one from Chapel Hill and a regretful C.U.N.Y.), who was a Smithsonian pre-doc Corrigan, rial appointments: Dennis Richard Reid 10021. Contributions are tax-deductible. Study in Princeton this year, director of the (M.A. Univ. Toronto) has been named one from Chicago-reporting that Kath toral fellow at the National Collection of Fine American Academy in Rome from 1974 to curator of Canadian historical art at the Art arine Lee Keefe h as left the David and Alfred Arts this past academic year, has been ap In April Dartmouth College featured a two 1977, and has been professor of history and Gallery of Ontario and Karyn Allen has been Smart Gallery to become curator at the pointed curator at the University of Kentucky day public lecture series entitled After Im architecture at M.I.T, since 1970. He has also appointed associate curator at the Winnipeg Ackland Art Museum. While at Chicago Art Museum. Evelyn Mitchell, previously Erratum pressionirm. Kirk Varnedoe, Linda Nochlin, taught and lectured at Harvard, Brown Uni Art Gallery. Other staff changes at Winnipeg Keefe (M,A. Harvard), who was in charge of guest curator of the African gallery, has been The announcement about the Rutgers Art Allen Staley, and Robert Rosenblum were the versity, Pennsylvania State University and include the promotions of Shirley Rosche to both the permanent collection and the ex appointed coordinator of community pro Review in the last newsletter incorrectly speakers, John Jacobus, chair of the Dart Oberlin College. His books include Baroque registrar and of David Wagar and Cathy hibition program, organized an average of grams at the High Museum of Art. stated the publication date of the first annual mouth department, coordinated the series. and Rococo Architecture and the widely used Steward to assistant curators. four major exhibitions a year. R. R. W. III issue. The correct date is Fall, 1979. II1II
8 9 CAA newsletter June 1979 1979 annual meeting placement: Washington D.C. shows by artist members letters
We publish this annual meeting placement gie") and does not mean that fewer people are POSITIONS A listing of solo exhibitions by artists who are Marion Lerner Levine. Prince Street To the Editor: report with usual warning that it does not pre looking for jobs. The proportion of artist ap' members of the CAA. Listings should include Gallery, N.Y.C. May 11-30. Still life water It is my understanding that the CAA likes to sent a very accurate picture of the placement plicants was down slightly (70%, as compared An even 500, up 14 from last year. That's name ofartist, gallery or museum, city, dates colors, be notified that candidates for positions listed situation. Statistics on candidates are partic with 74% last year) and the proportion of art been about average for the past few annual ( of exhibition, and medium, Since this service with your placement office have, indeed, ob Arlene Love. Pennsylvania Academy of ularly skewed, since the number of applicants historian applicants up slightly (25 %, as com meetings. is available only to CAA members and since tained jobs, With that in mind, I am pleased the Fine Arts. March 8-22. Sculpture. varies considerably with the city in which we pared with 22% last year). The missing per we can't possibly check all the exhibition to relate that I have accepted a position with happen to meet. Statistics on positions are centages are art librarians, museum profes Rank. Open wins by a landslide and by a notices we receive, please include a copy of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa, and will Mel Pekarsky. Nancy Roth Gallery, Ka somewhat more meaningful, since location is sionals. etc. very significant increase from previous prac your current membershtp card. begin my teaching duties there this fall. tonah, N, y, March 10-31, "Romantic Paint not a significant variable; however, these too tice. In studio, 112 positions were listed as I am grateful to you for listing the jobs, ing." must be viewed in the context of positions Male/Female Ratios. The proportion of open (compared with 74 last year) and in art John Balsley. Bienville Gallery, New organizing the annual convention which listed for the entire academic year. That in female applicants was down, thus contradict history, there were 152 open listings (com Orleans. April 7-28, Mixed media paintings allows candidates and interviewers to get ing what we had begun to think of as a pre Paulette Jellinek Perloe. Artery Gallery, formation - along with information on all ap pared with 34 last year). The vast majority of and sculpture. together, and for your standards on accepting vailing pattern of increase. In studio, 41 % of ranked listings are at the instructor or assist Davis, Calif. June 1-22. Recent paintings and listings and governing proper interviewing. plicants registered with the CAA-will ap Bruce Bobick, University of Tennessee, the applicants were women, a drop of 10% ant professor level, Only 19 studio listings and drawings, oil and oil pastel. All these things are most helpful. I have been pear in the next issue. In the meantime, Chattanooga, April 16-May 6, "Biological from last year and the lowest percentage since only 13 art history listings were at associate looking actively for two years now, so I know because we assume everyone else is as impa Themes," Nancy Newman Rice, St. Louis Art Mu we began keeping records in 1976, In art professor or above. So what else is new? whereof I speak. tient and curious as we are and because we seum. May IO-July 1. Paintings, drawings, history, 58% of the applicants were women, Isabel Case Borgatta, Nardin Galleries, George S. Roland have to compile these statistics, anyway, on and pastels, compared with 62% last year. (Women con N,Y,C, May 20-June 20, Stone carvings, our way to compiling the review of the Short-Term Listings, About the same as Takoma Park, Md, stituted 56% of art historian applicants in Los academic year last year; 80 artist openings (73 last year) and Philipp Feh!. Colburn Gallery, Kenyon Joyce Cutler Shaw. Apropos Gallery, Angeles in 1977 and 60% in Chicago in 1976,) 35 art history openings (33 last year) specified College. Jan, 15-Feb. 4, "Capricci: Birds with Luzern, Switzerland. April6-May 11. Read To the Editor: Since, with all its faults, the annual meeting a duration of two years or less, Fourteen Titles." ing-performance. Cohen and Ziskin Gallery, The following job description, which was APPLICANTS job jamboree is one of the best means avail studio openings and one art history opening Beverly Hills. May 7-June 9, Name drawings printed in the Supplementary Positions List Alain Gavin. Rosenstone Gallery, Chi able for landing a position in the profession, were for part-time positions, (Eight each last and sculpture models, ing given out during the CAA meeting (p.. 7), Down 403, or25%, from last year. That'sjust the drop in female applicants, should it con year.) cago, May 9-June 6, Paintings. is an extreme example of the lack of realistic about the same as the drop in annual meeting tinue, is a tendency that could significantly Chris Griffin, Nancy Roth Gallery, Ka Barbara Shlevin, Cork Gallery, Lincoln qualifications which some colleges desire in attendence (New York City is always a "big- affect future employment ratios, Experience, It's somewhat easier to get a tonah, N,Y. March 10-31. "Romantic Paint Center, N,Y,C, May 17-June 1. Brooklyn their applicants. ~~~~~:"'-~~~~~~~~",-~~~J~~~~~~~:"'-"'-~~~~~~~~~-I job (or at least to apply for one) if you haven't ings." Museum Comm, Gallery. June lO-July 22. "Art Historian, Instructor, $9000-10000. OVERVIEW: APPLICANTS AND OPENINGS (1978 and 1979 Annual Meetings) already been employed, Forty-three percent Tenure-track. Sept. 1979. Capable of teach of studio listings (54% last year) and 36% of Richard Hamwi. Parsons-Dreyfuss Cynthia Stan, Muse Gallery, Philadel ing a wide range of electives in art history, Applicants Openings Applicants Openings art history listings (44% last year) required Gallery, N.Y,C, April 3-21. Drawings, phia. May 8-26. Prints. Should be well grounded enough to offer 1979 1978 1978 1979 previous teaching experience, Hera. Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, courses in Italian Renaissance, 19th c. paint Artists N,Y,C, March 29-April21, "Butcher Shop," Michelle Stuart. Droll/Kolbert, N,Y.C. ing and sculpture, history of design and art of Unspecified or Broad 18 67 219 77 Areas of Specialization. Unspecified or environmental sculpture, ApriI4-28. the Far East or Africa, resourceful enough to Painting and Drawing 574 48 314 37 broad descriptions still constitute a very sig invent a course which explores parallels be Ellen Lanyon. Richard Gray Gallery, Annette Weintraub. Soho Center for Vis Sculpture 206 18 115 23 nificant proportion of jobs listed, up slightly tween the history of art and history of science, Chicago. June. Paintings and watercolors, ual Arts, N,Y.C, May 10-June 2. Paintings, Printmaking 151 19 68 20 for studio (29%, compared with 24% last and tactful enough to maintain academic Design 19 56 15 47 year) and down somewhat more for art history standards even when circumstances require Photography 80 20 44 26 (40%, compared with 52% last year), an unconventional teaching strategy, PhD Ceramics 94 21 53 22 Iplacement in art history and masters in another of the 1 humanities," Jewelry/Metalwork 6 8 4 A PERSONAL VIEW Video/Film 25 11 6 8 taught as a graduate assistant and was cur What a rare privilege it would be to meet Commercial Art 1 7 So much for statistics, What are they like, the rently employed as artist-in-residence at the the remarkable scholar who fills this position Weaving/Textile Design 15 7 19 8 applicants who come seeking jobs at the an Maryland National-Capitol Park and Plan - a "Renaissance man," indeedl I'm sur Woodworking 1 nual meeting? During a lull, CAA Business ning Commission. The job is funded by a prised the desired qualifications do not Glassblowing 5 Manager Minerva Navarrete, who doubles as C.E.T,A. grant that expires this August, include a B.A. in fencingl Conceptual Art/ Mixed Media 18 11 staff photographer, and I set about trying to hence his first venture into the CAA place Anita Moskowitz II ment mill. New York City 1212 283 868 270 find out. We were primarily interested in ap plicants with earned M,F.A.s or Ph.D,s who Braumbart had five interviews, but saw had held a job or had been looking for one at that as a mixed blessing. "You do a lot of pre ART HEALTH GUIDE Art Historians least since last June, Interestingly enough, we paration and working up to an interview," he Unspecified or Broad 15 52 54 57 This 72-page book, called "Safe Prac found only one such person, Everyone else we said. "The discouraging part is seeing people Primitive/ Pre-Columbian 9 3 9 4 tices in the Arts & Crafts: A Studio spoke to - and, granted, we spoke only to peo who have seen 300 people before you and try Ancient/ Classical 28 8 16 6 Guide," points out potential dangers ple "hanging around" the Candidate's Cen ing to make an impression." Early Christian/Byzantine/ /Medieval 70 5 39 4 in art processes, listed alphabetically ter-was a first-time job-seeker, usually a Frankly, we don't know the answer to that Renaissance-18th Century 77 22 79 22 from ceramics to woodworking, and graduate student expecting to receive a termi one. On the one hand, more careful advance Modern European 88 20 61 19 lists ways of minimizing the hazards. nal degree this June , Since most of the open screening and limiting interviews strictly to American 37 13 22 15 ings listed with the CAA are entry level posi extremely strong candidates would cut down r Oriental/Near Eastern 23 7 19 9 Single Copies: $3.00 plus 75 each for tions (see Rank, above), that's probably not the wear and tear on everyone's nerves, On Architectural History 7 7 6 6 postage and handling. too surprising, Further, we suspect that more the other, there is an openness to spreading a Prints and Drawings 9 experienced job-seekers rely on the interviews wide net that probably, in some cases, does History of Photography/Film 3 0 2 Prepackaged Cartons of 10 Copies: that have been set up in advance and there turn up a candidate who looks better in per $29.00 plus $3.50 per carton for 357 137 316 142 fore are not dependent upon the Supplemen son than on paper and who is, in fact, the ap postage and handling, tary Positions Listings distributed at the plicant most suitable for the job. In our Mitchell John Braumbart Art Educators 11 13 10 24 Candidates Center. further wanderings around the Candidates Prepayment required. Send orders to Museum Professionals 36 44 33 35 The one person who fit our bill was Mit Center we found as many applicants who were viewers were coming apart at the seams, CAA, 16 East 52 Street, N,Y.C, Art & Slide Librarians 12 4 4 9 chell John Braumbart, M.F ,A, University of "up" at having been granted x number of in Additional comments - from both inter 10022. N,Y. State residents add 15 5 9 20 terviews as we did those who were "down" viewers and interviewees-are welcome, Miscellaneous -- Maryland, 1976; concentration in painting, applicable sales tax. TOTALS 1643 486 1240 500 printmaking, and drawing, Braumbart had because they felt that both they and the inter- R.R.W. III
CAA newsletter 10 June 1979 11 art journal classifieds .
With regret we announce the resignation of Cecile Abish, Alain Kirili, Philip Pearlstein, The CAA newsletter will accept classift'eds of Diane Kelder as Editor of the Art Journal. and William Tucker. a professt'onal or semt'-professional nature The Fall 1979 issue will be her last. Another innovation introduced by Kelder (sale of It"braries, summer rental or exchange Kelder became Editor of the ArtJournal in was the concept of issues devoted to a single of homes, etc.). The charge 'is 50r per word, 1973, stepping into the shoes that had been theme. Printmaking, photography, art and minimum charge 110.00, advance payment filled solely (no pun intended) and so well by politics, women, modernist Russian art, art required. Make checks payable to CAA. Henry Hope since 1944. That she was willing ists rights, museums, sculpture, and land Keep in touch with California, Texas, the to follow in his footsteps is a mark of her scape were among the topics so treated. Northwest and Southwest. Subscribe to ART courage; that she did it so well is a mark of WEEK (now in Art Index). 44 issues a year her intelligence, her imagination, and her Future Plans only $14, individual subscriptions; $16 to boundless hard work. institutions. ARTWEEK, J,305 Franklin, Much has happened in art historical Despite devotion-way-beyond-the-call of Oakland, CA 94612. research and in the practice of art during duty by Diane Kelder and her predecessor, it Kelder's tenure as Editor. To these develop no longer seems reasonable or fair of us to WOMEN'S ART SLIDE COLLECTION: ments she has responded with a perceptive expect an Editor who is also a practicing For Sale. 1400 slides of women's paintings, awareness moderated by high standards of teacher, scholar, and writer and who pre sculpture, prints and photographs from 1200 scholarship and a sense of historical sources sumably also has some sort of personal life to A.D. through the present. Slides sold collec that lends perspective to taday's hottest undertake responsibility for the Art Journal tively or individually. Send $2.00 for inven trends. Photography, film, video, perfor on a long-term basis. Therefore certain tory to: Women's Slides, 8536 Aponi Road, mance and communication art have received organizational changes, as well as certain Vienna, Virginia 22180. due attention, as have sociological, feminist, changes in content, are planned. TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS FOR RENT. Marxist, literary, and cross-cultural ap Building upon the foundation created by Daumier lithographs, old master prints, five proaches to past and present-day art. At the Diane Kelder, future issues of the ArtJournal centuries of master prints. Western frontier same time, the Art Journal has kept readers will each be devoted to a single theme, and art (Catlin, etc.), Audubon animals and abreast of new developments in museums, each issue will have a Guest Editor. Themes birds, Eskimo carvings and prints, Spanish teaching, conservation, microform, and and Guest Editors will be selected by the Art American folk art from New Mexico, contem other technological and institutional areas Journal Editorial Board, presently comprised porary Native American prints and posters. that affect the profession. of Anne Coffin Hanson, Yale University; Write to: Dr. Donald G. Humphrey, 2125 One of Kelder's significant contributions Ellen Lanyon, artist, New York City; George Calle Tecolote, Santa Fe, N.M. 87501. has been her willingness and ability to reach Sadek, The Cooper Union; and Irving Sand (505-988-4370). II out beyond traditional academe for varied ler, S.U.N .Y" Purchase, At the discretion of voices and viewpoints. Leafing through re the Guest Editors, there will be an invitation cent issues of the Art Journal one encounters for unsolicited manuscripts on specific SURVEY OFM.F.A,PRQGRAlIl:S articles by critics Lucy Lippard, Barbara themes, Announcement will be made in both '. S'I'UIiENTsANPFAqUL'I'¥ ...... Rose, Max Kozloff, Susi Block, Douglas Davis the ArtJournal and the newsletter. J,\Y J~r-ic;e\\ I\:o,9nAg,J~,qss, ,'all~" L~'ld,<:L,,' 4·, and Robert Pincus-Witten; gallery director Plans for the future also call for redesign of , Tr~~t~'~Jll'.':: A: swdstkal ~n,:~.lysi$" ,'~'it~" John Bernard Meyers; and artists Dorothy the ArtJournal and for certain changes in the pirtic~la'~:: ~tt,e~,tiQ~" /0 ,w()~~'n, :~n
DATEBOOK. 1 July deadline ACLS Travel Grant applications (conferences November-February) . . 15 July deadline September newsletter I September deadline Millard Meiss applications ... 10-23 September, International Congress for the History of Art, Bologna. September 23 deadline submission of positions for October 3 Listing, .. I October deadline annual meeting abstracts.
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June 1979