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Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Fine Arts Center Fall 2012 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH FINE ARTS CENTER 826 FALL 2012 schermerhorn from the chairman’s office AFTER TWO YEARS OF WORKING closely with our graduate students as Director of Graduate Studies, I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as Chairman of our distinguished Department. During the past academic year our faculty and students received an outstanding number of awards and honors. A few must be singled out. Vidya Dehejia received the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India; Rosalind Krauss was elected to the American Philosophical Society; and Barry Bergdoll was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Furthermore, our faculty members have been engaged in many new and exciting projects, which you will get a glimpse of in the following pages. Unfortunately, the year ended with a sad loss for our community. Professor Natalie Boymel Kampen passed away in Rhode Island on August 12. A short tribute in this newsletter highlights aspects of Tally’s distinguished career as a teacher, beloved mentor, and leading scholar of Roman art. Her warmth, intellectual generosity, and delightful presence will be deeply missed in and around Schermerhorn Hall. Generous donations from many alumni and friends continued to benefit our students throughout the year. A gift from Gregory Wyatt (’71 CC) enabled us to offer several summer research opportunities to our graduate students including the Cathedral Fund Fellowship LEFT: Professors de Angelis and Klein with the Travel Seminar at the Roman at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Thanks to the generous Colosseum. ABOVE: The Roman Forum at Night. Photographs by Jasper Clyatt. support of Dr. John Weber we were also able to continue our exchange 2012 Travel Seminar Visits COVER: View of Wells Cathedral, Wells, Somerset, England. Photograph by Professor Stephen Murray Gift from the Institute for Studies program with Cambridge University. An endowment established by Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Riggio, allowed Professor Francesco de Angelis Rome on Latin American Art and myself to take our undergraduate seminars to Rome during Spring The destination of the 2012 The common identity of the gave all participants a vivid 12-hour walk through the city—, On May 7, 2012, the Break to study the city’s ancient and medieval monuments. These Travel Seminar was Rome, seminar was cemented by the idea of the continuities and but also to the remarkable assis- Institute for Studies funds also supported undergraduate interns from the Media Center specifically the city’s ancient trip to Rome that took place over changes that had occurred over tance of Anne Chen, Alessandra on Latin American who documented the sites and monuments we explored for future and medieval monuments. Spring Break. Blessed by splendid more than a thousand years Di Croce, and Monica Art (ISLAA) research and teaching in the department. Accordingly, the seminar had weather and mild temperatures, and connect Antiquity via the Hellstrom, PhD candidates in pledged $60,000 Among the many other contributions that benefited our students was a twofold structure, consisting participants spent nine days Middle Ages to the present. The art history and Classical Studies to be distributed a series of mentoring events organized by Annette Blaugrund (’87 PhD) of two distinct courses, run by visiting all the main ancient and culmination of the trip was by at Columbia. Staff members of to the Department for students interested in alternative career paths. Looking ahead, the Professors Francesco de Angelis medieval monuments of the city, common consent the visit to the the Media Center for Art History of Art History and department is grateful for a generous gift from Ray Lifchez, husband and Holger A. Klein respectively, from the Forum to the Lateran catacomb of Via Latina, a site directed by Caleb Smith, took Archaeology over the of the late Judith Lee Stronach (’69 MA), to complete the furnishing but taught jointly during the and from the Pantheon to Santa closed to the public and rarely advantage of the occasion and, next three years. The of the Judith Lee Stronach Center. A major gift from the Institute for first half of the semester. This Maria Maggiore. Each visit accessible even to scholars: the assisted by two Riggio interns, funds will be used to support numerous programs for graduate Studies on Latin American Art will provide funding for graduate stu- innovative format allowed for a entailed intensive observation fascinating coexistence of pagan Gina Ciancone and Catherine students in the field of Modern Latin American Art, includ- dent programming in the field of modern Latin American art for years comparative approach of ancient and extended discussions, and Christian imagery —e.g., Slowik, documented the sites ing guest lectures, travel seminars, and individual graduate to come. and medieval monuments both often triggered by individual the stories of Hercules, Samson, photographically for future use student travel to conduct field research. Attendance at the sign- We are also happy to welcome Deborah Cullen as the new director of in class and on site. Participants presentations. “What do you Moses, and Jonah depicted only in lecture courses and seminars ing ceremony, held in the department’s Judith Lee Stronach the Wallach Art Gallery. She comes to us from New York’s El Museo had the opportunity not only to see?” was the main question a few meters apart from each taught on Rome and its monu- Center, included the President of ISLAA, Mauro Herlitzka, del Barrio, where she worked as Director of Curatorial Programs for focus on the time period that was and leitmotif of the trip that other—made all of us realize that ments in the Department of Art Kaira Cabañas, Zainab Bahrani, and Alex Alberro, who will be many years. We are looking forward to working with Deborah as she of particular interest to them, made everybody—including the art produced in Rome during History and Archaeology. in charge of approving the various proposals developed by the starts shaping the future of the Wallach Art Gallery in advance of its but also, and especially, to study the professors—look at the the Late Antique period defies department’s faculty and students. move to the Lenfest Center for the Arts in Manhattanville. the historical development of monuments and their decorative any simple categorization and Funds from the first distribution have already been set aside I would like to thank all, who have so generously supported the the Eternal City’s monuments programs with fresh eyes. led us to question the artificial for Carmen Ferreyra, an MA student in the MODA program, department and its students over the past year, and look forward to and topography with a long-term Historically multilayered sites, disciplinary boundaries drawn to do field research on the performance artist Regina José seeing you either at our annual CAA reception in February or on a perspective. such as the early 12th-century between the study of ancient and Galindo in Guatemala. A second allocation has been set aside future visit to Schermerhorn Hall. The two groups—the basilica of San Clemente with its medieval art and culture. to support a graduate student symposium, entitled “Homeland “Ancients” and the “Medievals” monumental apse mosaic, built The success of the experience Security,” which will take place in spring 2013. Organized holger a. klein professor and department chair —rapidly coalesced into one. The atop a (now excavated) Early was due not only to each partici- by MODA students Carmen Falcioni, Carmen Ferreyra and difference of interests, far from Christian church with impressive pant’s extraordinary enthusiasm, Cecelia Thornton-Alson, this symposium will bring students Dr. Holger A. Klein is a 2012 recipient of the Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award being an obstacle, turned out early medieval frescoes, itself commitment, and stamina—a and scholars from Latin America to Columbia to examine the and the 2011 Mark Van Doren Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research focuses on to be one of the most enriching built atop a Roman imperial typical day started with breakfast professors francesco de ways in which concepts of safety and security affect and influ- Late Antique, Western Medieval, and Byzantine art and architecture. factors of everybody’s experience. sanctuary of the god Mithras, before 7 am and ended after a angelis and holger a. klein ence the work of various contemporary Latin American artists. 2 3 MAPPING GOTHIC ENGLAND LEFT: Peterborough Cathedral, Retrochoir. ABOVE (Clockwise from above left): Crossing Tower, Canterbury Cathedral; Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey; Ruins of Fountains Abbey. (Photographs by Professor Stephen Murray) NEW FIELD PROJECT: Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments Zainab Bahrani, the Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, and Caleb Smith, Director of the Media Center for Art History, have begun work on a new or three weeks in early June I returned to ries, culminating in the beautiful fan vaults of was, we hope, the first of four intended to field project to document the standing monuments, rock-cut reliefs, and historical architec- myf native England and revisited and pho- King’s College Chapel Cambridge. allow the user to explore Gothic as a ture of Iraq. Their aim is to map, photograph, and assess damage and conservation needs of tographed monuments long familiar to me. Over a period of four years, and with the pan-European phenomenon.
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