ART BULL The Newsletter of Boston University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture 2013-2014 Welcome to the 2013-2014 publication of Art BUll! It was another exciting year in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Congratulations to all on the many the personal and professional achievements this year and thank you to everyone for contributing to this newsletter and to the success of our department! Thank you as well to Professor Alice Tseng who served as the advisor for Art BUll. Best, Tessa Hite [email protected] FACULTY Professor Cynthia Becker has been awarded Professor Qianshen Bai published an article a Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research entitled “Antiquarianism in a Time of Crisis: Fellowship from the BU Humanities On the Collecting Practices of Late Qing Center. The fellowship releases her from Government Officials, 1861-1911,” in Traces, teaching in fall 2014 to complete her Collections, and Ruins: Towards a book, Gnawa: Visual Art and the Performance Comparative History of Antiquarianism: of Blackness in Morocco. During the summer Comparative Perspective, ed. by Alain months, she will travel to Senegal to attend Schnapp with Lothar von Falkenhausen, Peter Dak'Art: the 11th Biennial of Contemporary N. Miller, and Tim Murray, and a review of African Art. She will also present a paper in Shana Brown’s “Pastimes: From Art and Algeria at the conference "Saharan Antiquarianism to Modern Chinese Crossroads: Views from the Desert Edge." Historiography” in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. In February, Qianshen gave a talk This year, Professor Jodi Cranston has been entitled “Wu Dacheng and the Modern Fate of on research leave with partial support from a Chinese Literati Culture” at the Institute of Henderson Senior Fellowship from the BU Fine Art, New York University. Invited by the Center for the Humanities. In addition to Australian National University, Canberra, he writing some chapters of her next book, co-led the workshop “Research Training in tentatively entitled The Green Worlds of Chinese Paleography” from to Dec. 16 to Dec. Renaissance Venice, she has written several 22, 2013. In August, he co-led a one-week essays for various publications. These include workshop on Chinese calligraphy at the an exhibition catalogue for a previously Metropolitan Museum of Art, sponsored by unknown self-portrait drawing by Titian now the Mellon Foundation. on view at the Museo Correr in Venice, an 1 introduction to an anthology on portraiture, an current research about the nineteenth-century essay on the steady departure of paintings Anglo-American origins of architectural and from 17th-century Venice, and an essay on the landscape preservation came out: “Plunder or performativity of beauty in Renaissance Preservation? Contesting the Anglo-American painting, among others. She received a major Heritage in the Later Nineteenth Century,” in grant from the Kress Foundation to develop a From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and web application for mapping and visualizing the Heritage of Empire c.1800-1940, edited by the movement of artworks. Her work on a Peter Mandler and Astrid Swenson, and specific section of the application, "Mapping “American Tourists in Wordsworthshire: Titian," will be discussed this summer at the From ‘National Property’ to ‘National Park’”, Getty Research Institute. She hopes to in The Making of a Cultural Landscape: the develop a more extensive version that will be English Lake District as Tourist Destination, called “Mapping Artworks,” which will allow 1750-2010, edited by John K. Walton and scholars a template from which they can map Jason Wood. Melanie reviewed three the “lives” of any set of artworks—whether interesting books on preservation delimited by artist, material, etc. “Mapping themes: Heritage in the Context of Titian” is not officially up and running (there Globalization. Europe and the are still some bugs and holes in the data), but Americas edited by Peter F. Biehl and can be accessed at this address: Christopher Prescott for the Journal of www.mappingtitian.org. This summer, Jodi Anthropological Research; The Fragile will be participating in a conference in Venice Monument: On Conservation and on portraiture (someone has to do it!), as well Modernity by Thordis Arrhenius, and Materan as wrapping up some research and writing Contradictions: Architecture, Preservation before returning to teaching this fall. and Politics by Anne Parmly Toxey for the Journal of the Society of Architectural Professor Emine Fetvaci was on leave in the Historians. She also reviewed essays for fall. In the spring she taught AH 220: publication for the International Journal of Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture, Heritage Studies. Summer 2013 was spent and AH 541: Ottoman Art and Architecture. enjoyably visiting museums, exhibitions and She gave a number of talks this year, at the archives in London and elsewhere in the UK, University of Washington, The Seattle Asian and presenting a conference paper, Art Museum, MFA Boston, and Yale “Preserving Thomas Carlyle’s House as an University. She also presented papers at CAA Anglo-American ‘Literary Embassy’” at the and the Renaissance Society of America Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Annual Conference. Her review of the new Conference, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. During Islamic Art galleries at the Met appeared in the fall semester, she spoke to Boston caa.reviews this year, and her edited University’s Graduate School of Painting and volume Writing History at the Ottoman Sculpture MFA program about “Artists, Art Court appeared last summer. She received and Museums” and, in the spring semester, to tenure and was promoted to associate the undergraduate Art History Association’s professor at the end of the spring semester. “Boston Arts Career Night” along with two She is looking forward to research in Florence alumni, Krista Dahl Kusuma, now Visitor and Istanbul this summer. Experience Manager at Boston’s ICA, and John Colasacco, now head of Fine Jewelry Professor Melanie Hall had a productive and Department at Skinner Inc. and a recent enjoyable 2013-14. Two chapters on her contributor to PBS’s Antiques Road Show. 2 Forward news – she is planning another with the 2013-2014 Faculty Award. Professor symposium with the Nichols House Museum Hills will continue guiding her doctoral on the use of technology in small house students and being engaged in her scholarship museums called “In the House and On the on the nineteenth-century American painter Web” to be held at Boston’s Athenaeum in Eastman Johnson and also 1930s artists. Fall 2014. During the fall 2013 semester, she gave talks at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Academy of Design Museum in New York, and Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, and she will continue lecturing as occasions arise. Professor Fred Kleiner is looking forward to returning to full-time teaching and having more time for his own research and writing after completing his fifth (and third consecutive) term as HAA Chair on June 30. This summer he will be putting the finishing touches on the 15th edition of Gardner's Art Bridget Hanson, Naomi Slipp, Professor Patricia Hills, through the Ages, a 1,200-page tome with a Jordan Karney and Emily Voelker manuscript many times longer and, between trips to Chichen Itza, Teotihuacan, Paris, Professor Patricia Hills is retiring at the end Rome, and San Francisco this summer, of the spring 2014 semester. She was deeply turning his attention to Art and Politics in gratified that there was a Symposium in her Imperial Rome for Cambridge University honor, "American Visual Culture in Context," Press. held at the University on Saturday, April 26, organized by Professor William Moore, Dr. In April, Professor Keith Morgan had the Charlotte Emans Moore, Professor Keith N. pleasure of reading the citation at the Society Morgan, and Professor Kim Sichel. The of Architectural Historians’ annual meeting in symposium was funded by the Dean of CAS, Austin, Texas, when Professor Emerita Naomi alumni and current students, the Boston Miller was honored as a Fellow of the Society. University Center for the Humanities, the With his research partners, Elizabeth Hope Department of History of Art & Architecture, Cushing and Roger Reed, he recently received the American & New England Studies the good news that their book published in Program, and the African American Studies 2013, Community by Design: The Olmsted Program. Eight of her former students gave Firm and the Development of Brookline, papers on their recent research, and ten other Massachusetts, had been selected to receive colleagues spoke. Professor Alice Tseng read the Ruth Emery Prize of the Victorian Society a statement by Professor Fred Kleiner. Pat is in America. He will appear as commentator in deeply grateful to her many colleagues in the “Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing Department and in the African American America,” a production of Florentine Films Studies Program and the American and New that will be aired on PBS nationally in June. England Studies Program with whom she has He lectured at the Boston Architectural shared the joys of teaching, mentoring, and College in January, at the annual meeting of developing new programs for students. On the Vernacular Architecture Forum/New April 23 GSHAAA presented Professor Hills 3 England Chapter in March, and will give papers this summer at the Shelburne Museum in June and the Museum of Fine Arts in July. He served as the chair of the America art search committee and was a member of the Preservation Studies Program director search committee this semester as well. Since the end of the 2012-13 academic year, Professor Paolo Scrivano had two essays included in collective publications in France and Italy: the first, “‘Comprendre’ l’architecture moderne: la position de Michel Ragon au sein de l’historiographie de l’architecture des années 1950 et 1960,” in the volume Michel Ragon.