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Bulletin 87 3§ Association of For information on advertising, membership and distribution contact: October Art Historians A AH Administrator, Claire Davies, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ Tel: 020 7490 3211; Fax: 020 7490 3277; <[email protected]> 2004 Registered Charity No. 282579 Editor: Jannet King, 48 Stafford Road, Brighton BN1 5PF <[email protected]> www.aah.org.uk ART HISTORY IN CRISIS? Come and air your views ast April at the AAH AGM at the Nottingham • Is a different sort of teaching required for contextual Lconference several speakers from the floor voiced studies and service teaching from that used to teach concern at threats to art history as a discipline in some art and design students? universities; several degree courses have been closed or • What strategies can we use to halt further decline are under threat, and application numbers are low. The role of historical and critical studies on studio-based and raise the profile of the discipline? courses is being redefined - sometimes, it was felt, in Speakers will include Chris Breward (Chair, Design ways that threaten the distinctiveness of the discipline. History Society, Deputy Head of Research), Barbara Burman (Winchester School of Art, University of In response, the AAH has joined with the Design Southampton), and Fran Lloyd (Kingston University) History Society to discuss some of these pressing issues The forum will take place at Birmingham Institute of Art and to consider possible solutions at an institutional, and Design, University of Central England (Aston national and organisational level. Amongst the topics to Campus), 1.30 - 6.00 pm on 26 November 2004 . be addressed at a forum on The Challenges in Teaching and Research in the New Century will be: Members are invited to attend this important event. There is no fee for attendance. Full details appear on • What is the position of art and design history in the page 20.1 do hope you will be able to join us. school curriculum? COLIN CRUISE • What are the implications of course and curriculum AAH Chair changes for old and new universities and museum and gallery education and research staff? AAH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Conception: Reception Bristol 2005 c Call for Papers -Q see page 79 0 CO 1 < INDEPENDENTS' NEWS Independents t is now six months since I took A disappointment this summer was that a planned trip over from Marion Arnold as chair to the Ashmolean had to be cancelled for lack of support of the Independents' Group, so this from members: museum staff had offered to give us a is my 'interim report'. We could do special behind-the-scenes tour, but it was not viable for with two or three more members for the numbers we were able to gather. I would love the organising team, so if you are members to suggest ideas for things we could get interested in helping and would be groups together to do. Is there an interesting exhibition able to attend about three or four coming to a city near you? You can email me on <ch- meetings a year in central London (reasonable travel [email protected]> with your views - or share them on expenses paid) please get in touch with me. Art-line. One thing members might like to consider, now we have Art-line, is arranging small trips for people NETWORKING who live near a particular spot. So for example, if there Art-line, the newsgroup for Independent members of is a good exhibition in Birmingham and we have, say, the AAH, now has 67 members. Work has been five members living within a reasonable journey of that advertised on the line and members in the UK and well city, they may like to get together to see the show. If one beyond have been able to have some contact and of them happens to be an expert on the work displayed, interaction with their fellow art historians. Among our so much the better! On the other hand, five people who 67 'Art-liners' we have members in the Republic of each know a bit about the subject matter could all find Ireland, Canada, Italy, Greece and Australia. I have been they pick up a lot from each other. Art-line allows very touched by all the kind emails I have had from members in Australia and Huddersfield to contact each members who enjoy using Art-line. If you have not yet other - but it should also allow members in joined and would like to do so, please send an email Huddersfield, who would not otherwise have known of giving your full name and AAH membership number to each other's existence, to do some networking in the real <[email protected]>. world as well as the virtual one. Discussion on Art-line recently has centred on the need EMAIL NEWSLETTER for a new, online directory of independent members Many Independents have said that they like the email where we can advertise our skills and capabilities to newsletter edited by Barbara Goebels-Cattaneo - they potential clients, be they universities and colleges like reading it, that is: not so many are keen to needing freelance lecturers, museums and galleries contribute! Because of this, the newsletter will now be needing freelance curatorial staff, or individuals or produced just once a year - unless members produce institutions needing writers for art history projects. more material for it, of course. Another issue will be out There is strong support for such a directory and this is later this year, and anyone with an article that they something I intend to pursue during the Autumn. would like Barbara to consider for inclusion can email it to me at the email address above, and I will pass it on. Barbara is in America working on what sounds like a most interesting exhibition, and I hope she will tell us all Contents about it in the newsletter. I am sure that she is not alone Independents' News 2 in having had interesting projects to work on this year - CIHA 2004 report 3 please consider writing an article for the newsletter, whether about an interesting job you have had this year, Artists' Papers Register 3 your own experiences of the crisis in art history teaching Students' News 4 that was the subject of much concern at the last AAH Summer School report 6 AGM, or any other subject of art-historical interest. AAH Student Fund 8 Perhaps you have visited some little known but John Fleming Travel Award 9 fascinating collection this summer? Don't keep it all to Leeds New Voices report 10 yourself! Universities and Colleges: The RX Network 11 Remember, the newsletter is circulated by email, and Job, Grant and Fellowship adverts 10 & 12 some of the email addresses we have are 'duds'. Perhaps AAH Bristol Conference 2005: Call for Papers 13 you have changed yours in the last couple of years - or AAH Events: Schools Forum, Teaching Forum 20 perhaps you did not have one at all until recently. If you AAH Leeds Conference 2006: Call for Sessions 21 are in any doubt as to whether we have the right email Conference News 22 address for you please email me so that I can check and Accessions to Repositories 26 if necessary update our records. If you have not received Contact details 28 any email invitations to join Art-line, then we definitely don't have your current email address! CIHA & APR CIHA 2004 Artists' Papers Register he four-yearly congress of CIHA on 'Sites and ince my last report, prior to the AGM, published in T Territories of Art History' took place in Montreal S Bulletin 85, the Register has undergone several between 23 and 27 August 2004. Around 600 developments, most notably with the resignation of delegates, including around 180 who delivered one of the Project Officers, Dimitrios Fragkos, to take papers, attended the sessions at the down-town Palais up a longer-term post. des Congres. At this late stage in the project, the Register's There was universal agreement that the organisation managers felt that it would be more sensible not to re- of the extensive programme, which was largely in the advertise for a very short-term replacement, but to hands of Nicole Dubreuil, Johanne Lamoureux and continue work with the remaining project officer, Alex Eduardo Ralickas of the Universite de Montreal, Chanter, until he could be joined by Miranda Stead proceeded very smoothly. The themes of the 13 upon her return from maternity leave. This will provide separate sessions included 'Art History and the the continuity and consistency vital in a project such reproducible image', 'Site Specificity', 'Invading as this, but it will mean a delay in the Register's Territories' and 'Time is Man (Space is Woman) \ the completion. latter co-chaired by Deborah Cherry. Among the plenary lecturers were Mieke Bal and Michael Fried. APR WEBSITE There have also been some misunderstandings with At the General Assembly of CIHA members, Stephen The National Archives, who host the Register's website, Bann handed over the Presidency to the new which resulted in the Register going offline for a Canadian President, Ruth B. Phillips. Both of them couple of days in early July, for which I apologise. This spoke at the Closing Ceremonies, together with Jaynie has now been rectified, and the Register continues to Anderson, who is organising the 2008 congress in be available at its traditional address, Melbourne. <http://www.hmc.gov.uk/artists/> The international representation at the Montreal congress was much aided by a grant from the Getty, However, we hope to be moving to a new address which enabled delegates from South America, Eastern within the next few months, and are in the process of Europe and India (among other places) to attend.