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826 schermerhorn COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH FINE ARTS CENTER FALL 2016 from the chair’s office Dear Students, Colleagues, and Friends, 826 schermerhorn We proudly start the 2016–2017 academic year with a newly strengthened faculty in the Early COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Modern European fields. In addition to Meredith Gamer and Michael J. Waters, whose arrival was DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY announced a year ago but who both began teaching with us this fall, we are joined by Eleonora MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH FINE ARTS CENTER Pistis. A specialist in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture and urban planning, FALL 2016 Eleonora took her PhD at the Università Iuav in Venice, where she wrote a dissertation on Nicholas Hawksmoor, also the subject of her first book. One of her primary interests is in the education of 4 16 architects and the architectural education of amateurs, a topic that has led her to study a community New Faculty Introductions Diane Bodart named to the of letters that extended across Europe. Before moving to Columbia, she taught at Oxford University MEREDITH GAMER, ELEONORA PISTIS, David Rosand Professorship and at Grinnell College. MICHAEL J. WATERS 17 We are also delighted to report that our 5 Professor Kellie Jones named colleague Ioannis Mylonopoulos has been Renowned Barnard Professor MacArthur Fellow awarded tenure. Ioannis anchors a curriculum Keith Moxey Retires ANNE HIGONNET ALEXANDER ALBERRO in architectural history that now stretches 18/19 from antiquity through the middle ages to the 6 Biennale Cultures in Africa The Mary Griggs Burke Center Z. S. STROTHER modern world, though his expertise in ancient for Japanese Art Greek religious history has made him a leading Immersed: A Mellon Postdoctoral MATTHEW McKELWAY Fellows Symposium thinker on a wide range of other topics as well, 7 JOSEPH SALVATORE ACKLEY including sacred landscape, the ritual use of Kyoto-Nara Painting and Disrupting Unity and Discerning objects, the practice of human sacrifice, and Architecture Field Seminar 2016 Ruptures: Focus Aleppo MATTHEW McKELWAY the changing identities of a wide variety of DARE ANNE S. BRAWLEY deities. Not least, Ioannis carries on Columbia’s 8 Global Latin America Interview with Rosalind E. Krauss great tradition as a center for archaeology; NICHOLAS MORGAN the excavation he leads at Onchestos is the NOAM M. ELCOTT Cambridge-Columbia Symposium university’s first ever in Greece. 10 MARGOT BERNSTEIN From left: Holger A. Klein, Ioannis We are sad only to see the retirement of our dear Barnard colleague Keith Moxey, who leaves Travels to a “City of Knowledge” Mylonopoulos, Michael J. Waters, 20 us at the height of his powers: his most recent book, Visual Time: The Image in History, appeared in MATTHEW GILLMAN Meredith Gamer, Francesco de Co-Curating Van Dyck: The Anatomy Angelis, Vidya Dehejia, Michael Cole, English just three years ago, and already it has been translated into French and Spanish. Students 11 of Portraiture Branden W. Joseph, Kellie Jones, Virtual Reality Tours will miss his famous courses on Brueghel and on the Reformation, as well as his recent proseminar ADAM EAKER Stephen Murray, Eleonora Pistis, STEFAAN VAN LIEFFERINGE Rosalind E. Krauss, Barry Bergdoll, on the methods of art history. 21 Anne Higonnet, Alexander Alberro, The 2015–2016 academic year saw the most successful fundraising in the department’s history. 12/13 Faculty Highlights Stefaan Van Liefferinge. Photograph Lines of Flight – MODA Curates by Gabriel Rodriguez. Not included A $13 million gift from the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation has allowed KATHERINE COHN, DAVID CRANE, LEAH HARTMAN 22 in the picture are: Zainab Bahrani, us to establish the new Burke Center for Japanese Art, to be led by Matthew McKelway. We also Book Excerpt: Artificial Darkness Frédérique Baumgartner, Diane The Expanded Subject Bodart, Jonathan Crary, Noam M. completed fundraising for the David Rosand Professorship of Italian Renaissance Art History, NOAM M. ELCOTT JOSHUA I. COHEN, SANDRINE COLARD, Elcott, David Freedberg, Robert E. naming Diane Bodart as the incumbent chairholder. 24 Harrist, Jr., Elizabeth W. Hutchinson, GIULIA PAOLETTI Among the faculty and students accorded honors this past year, two stand out: in February, Fellowships, Dissertation Defenses, Janet Kraynak, Matthew McKelway, Finesse Jonathan Reynolds, Simon Schama, Rosalind E. Krauss received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award Undergraduate Awards and Prizes Avinoam Shalem, Z. S. Strother. LEAH PIRES for Writing on Art. And this September, Kellie Jones won a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. This is the 27 14/15 second MacArthur in the department’s history: the first went to its founder, Meyer Schapiro. Alumni News Classical Studies Graduate Program The past year was as busy as ever in the department, with a conference on “Global Latin FRANCESCO DE ANGELIS 30 America,” sponsored by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art; a conference on “Biennale Advisory Council Members MA in Modern and Contemporary Art Cultures in Africa”; a new installment of our Cambridge-Columbia Graduate Student Symposium; JANET KRAYNAK 31 a series of talks on moments of rupture in the historiography of Islamic art; and a memorable group With Thanks MA in Art History of Bettman Lectures among the highlights. We hope to see you at an event in the months to come. FRÉDÉRIQUE BAUMGARTNER With best wishes, Background: Amanohashidate, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Photograph by Valerie Zinner. Front and back covers: Detail of Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons, Japan, Momoyama Period (1573–1615), second half of the sixteenth century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Purchase, Mrs. Jackson Michael Cole Burke and Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation Gifts, 1987. Professor and Department Chair 3 new faculty MEREDITH GAMER ELEONORA PISTIS MICHAEL J. WATERS Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Renaissance Architecture, Prints, Renowned Barnard Professor European Art European Architecture and Drawings Keith Moxey Retires I am thrilled to As an architectural It is with much be joining the historian, the excitement and PROFESSOR KEITH MOXEY, the longstanding chair Department of opportunity to join delight that I of the Department of Art History at Barnard, retired in July. Art History and the Department am joining the Professor Moxey completed his primary and secondary educa- Archaeology at of Art History department as an tion in Buenos Aires and went on to receive degrees from the Columbia this fall and Archaeology assistant professor. University of Edinburgh (MA, 1965) and the University of as assistant profes- at Columbia is I am an architectur- Chicago (MA, 1968; PhD, 1974). Prior to joining the Barnard sor of European the fulfilment of al historian whose art, 1700–1900. a lifelong dream. work focuses on and Columbia art history departments in 1988, he taught at My research I grew up reading the Renaissance Tufts University and the University of Virginia. He has also centers on the visual and material culture publications by the great scholars who period. My current book project rethinks served as a visiting professor at Northwestern University, the of Britain and the British colonial world. have taught at Columbia over the years— architectural production in fifteenth- and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Folger Institute, My current book project, The Sheriff’s Hilary Ballon, Barry Bergdoll, Joseph early sixteenth-century Italy, focusing on Williams College, and various other institutions over the Picture Frame: Art and Execution in Connors, Robin Middleton, and Rudolf issues of materiality and exploring the sig- years. Eighteenth-Century Britain, draws together Wittkower, to name just a few. nificance of building materials, methods a wide range of sources— from simple The department is currently rebuild- of facture, processes of construction, and Professor Moxey began his career as a specialist in the art woodcuts and graphic satires to history ing Columbia’s traditional strength in the the development of building technology. of the Northern Renaissance, publishing his dissertation on paintings and human-cast anatomical history of architecture across all periods, It also investigates questions of architec- Pieter Aertsen and Joachim Beuckelaer, Antwerp painters of models—to trace the connections and I cannot express my own excitement tural mimesis, and how architecture was the sixteenth century, and a book on the role of popular prints between rituals of capital punishment and in joining the faculty at this point in its shaped by other modes of artistic produc- in the propaganda wars of the German Reformation. Later practices of art-making in Britain’s long history. I have been trained as both an tion. Furthermore, my project seeks to identified with what became known as the “new art history,” eighteenth century. I am also at work on architect and an architectural historian, resituate spolia within a broader dialogue a shorter study of the material history of and my approach to architecture is also of contemporary architectural practice he turned attention to issues of method and interpretation in William Hunter’s richly illustrated obstet- closely allied with cultural history. and the material revival of antiquity. volumes such as The Practice of Theory (1994) and The Practice rical atlas, The Anatomy of the Human My research projects and publications I have also worked extensively on of Persuasion (2000), both of which probed the symbiotic Gravid Uterus (1774). span European architecture and urbanism the study of antiquity as well as the use relationship between historical and theoretical approaches to My work has been published in edited of the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- and transmission of architectural prints, the study of art. volumes on the representation of slavery turies, with a focus on Britain, Italy, and drawings, and treatises. In 2011 I co-cu- With his partner, Michael Ann Holly, Professor Moxey in European art and on the sensory France.

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