newsletter Volume I, Number 1 May 1976 why we're here 1977 annual meeting sessions

We like standing forests and empty waste­ Art history and studio sessions of the 1977 annual meeting will be held Thursday through paper baskets as well as the next one. And Saturday, Feb. 3 through Feb. 5, at the Los Angeles Hilton Hotel. Registration will begin another publication for the sake of another one day earlier, on Feb. 2. Placement will start two days before regular sessions, on Tuesday, publication isn't the point. Feb. 1, and will run through Thursday, Feb. 3 (see story, page 2). We will be meeting It's just that we've grown: in membership jointly with the Society of Architectural Historians, which will be headquartered in the (up 28% over the past two years), in the nearby Biltmore Hotel. Those registered for the CAA annual meeting may attend SAH professions we embrace (two years ago we sessions, and vice versa. didn't even know what a museologist was; Program coordinator for art history sessions is Beatrice Farwell, University of California, we're not sure we do yet), in the number of Santa Barbara 93106. Program coordinator for studio sessions is Moira Roth, University of things we're doing and the number of things Califomia, San Diego (La Jolla 92093). Below are the topics planned for these sessions. If you want us to do, (We know, we know, but you wish to participate in any of the programs, write directly to the person chairing the we can't just create jObs.) appropriate session be/Me Oct. I, 1976. Art historical papers must be proposed in the form One of aUf members put it much better of a one-page abstract described at the end of the listing of art history sessions. than we can: In response to the recent letter from CAA President George Sadek, Mary ART HISTORY SESSIONS Lee Thompson of Manhattanville College sen, Stanford Univ., 94305; Meaning in Ab­ wrote: "Thank you for your letter. As a Ancient Art, Blanche R. Brown, New York stract and Non-Objective Art, 1910 to the New laborer in the fields I very much appreciate Univ., 10003; Far Eastem Art, Harry Van­ York School, Alan Birnholz, S.U.N.Y., Buf­ the insight into the operations of my organi­ derstappen, Univ. Chicago, 60637; Westem falo, 14222; Hollywood and the Visual Arts, zation ... from the perspective of a mem­ and Central Asian A1·t from Seleucid to Bernard Hanson, Hartford Art School, Univ. ber, the directors always seemed a remote Early Islamic Times, Guiuy Azarpay, Near Hartford, 065II; Tmdition and Innovation inner club. I hope that your proposal for a Eastern Studies, Univ. California, Berkeley, in the Work of Women Artists, Eleanor newsletter meets with approval." 94704; Mosaics: Roman, Early Christian and Tufts, Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas It did; so here we are. Quarterly to begin Byzantine, Caecelia Davis-Weyer, Tulane 75275; Marxism and Art History, Otto Karl with, on a somewhat irregular basis (the Univ., New Orleans, 70118; Medieval Art, Werckmeister, Univ. California, Los Angeles next issue will appear in September, and Kathleen Morand, Queens Univ., Ontario 90024; Homosexuality and Art: Classical to we'll play it by ear from there); and open K7L 3N6; Early Gothic Painting, , Modern Times, Alessandra Comini, Southern to most reasonable (and not too costly) sug­ MetalwQt"k: Interrelationships in Media, Car­ Methodist Univ., Dallas 75275. gestions. men Gomez-Moreno, Metropolitan Museum Rose Weil • of Art, 10028; Renaissance in Italy, two joint Informal Sessions. Editor, CAA newsletter sessions with the Society of Architectural A limited number of rooms will be reserved Executive Secretary, CAA Historians, one session chaired for CAA by for individuals or groups wishing to discuss Chief, Compiaint Department Marilyn Aronbcrg Lavin, 56 Maxwell Lane, a topic in a more informal manner. The Princeton, N.J. 08540 and the other chaired rooms, large enough to accommodate 50 for SAH by Carol H. Krinsky, New York people, will be equipped with two projectors Univ., 10003; Art in North