er Volume 5, Number 2 June 1980
1981 annual meeting: call for papers and panelists
The 1981 CAA annual meeting will be held in San Francisco and, £n been identified as slaves, concubines, or dancing girls. While it is true accordance with the new shortened and later schedule, will take place that women were engaged in those occupations, it is true that women Thursday, February 26 through Saturday, February 28. The San were also politically powerful, wealthy, and patrons of the arts. Papers Francisco Hilton will serve as headquarters hotel. are invited dealing with the iconography of female images in Asian Art history sessions have been planned by Wanda Corn, Mills Col and Islamic art as well as discussing the role of women as patrons. lege. Studio sessions have been planned by George Neubert, Oakland Museum. Listed below are the topics they have selected. Those Alexander the Great: His Impact on Classical and Post-Classical wishing to participate in any session should write to the chairman of Art. H.A. Shapiro, Dept. of Art, Newcomb College, Tulane Universi that session before October I, 1980. ty, New Orleans, La. 70118. Reminders: (1) No one may participate in more than one session. (2) Participation in sessions in two successive years, while not prohib The Court Style in Thirteenth-Century France. Harvey Stahl, ited, is discouraged. (3) Abstracts may be submitted to more than one Art History Dept., Manhattanville College, Purchase, N.Y. 10577. specific topic session provided that the respective chairmen are in Papers should pertain to the definition, sources, or dissemination of formed of the multiple submission. (4) No abstract may be submitted the so-called "court style" in thirteenth-century French art or architec for a paper that has previously been published or that has previously ture; related artistic ties between Paris, the provinces. and other Euro been presented at another scholarly conference. (5) It is not un pean capitals; the elaboration of characteristic pictorial, narrative, or common for chainnen to request to see final papers several weeks in iconographic forms; and problems of patronage and methodology. advance of the annual meeting; speakers should be prepared to com ply with that request. (6) Unless your name is a household word, it is useful to include a curriculum vitae. Telephone numbers are helpful, Artistic Relations between Tuscany and Venice, 1300-1700. too. Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, Dept. of Art. Box 3572, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, N.M. 88003. ART HISTORY PROGRAM Papers concerning this general topic will be welcome from the point of view of all aspects of the history of art including the relationship be Papers for art history sessions must be proposed in the form of a one tween literature and art. page abstract. Accepted abstracts are duplicated for distribution at the annual meeting without retyping. Submit clean copy in original, Renaissance Funerary Art. JoAnne Gitlin Bernstein, Art Dept., typed on one, single-spaced, 812xll inch page, pica type, on bond Mills College, Oakland, Calif. 94613. paper. Do not fold, spindle, mutilate, or stain with coffee. Leave 12 Papers on all aspects of European funerary art from the fourteenth inch margin at top; no less than I inch margin at the left and %- inch through the sixteenth centuries are invited. Especially welcome are margins at the bottom and right. Type session title, chairperson and studies that concern specific funerary objects within their original his or her institution in the upper right corner. Type title of your architectural or sacred environment. Preference will be given to inter paper, your name, and your institutional affiliation in the upper left disciplinary studies and to pap~ that focus on piety and patronage. corner. If you wish confirmation that your abstract has been received, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard. Proposals for papers not conforming to the above specifications and those received The Image in Northern Europe, 1200-1700. Svetlana Alpers, after October 1 cannot be considered. (Note: Some sessions have Dept. of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. earlier deadlines. These are indicated in the listing.) 94720. Papers should consider the circumstances (pictorial, textural, socie The Role of Patronage in the Art of India. Joanna Williams, tal) of the making and viewing of images in Northern Europe. Prints, Dept. of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. book illuminations, and stained glass can take their place here beside 94720. paintings and drawings. It is hoped that the participants will, in the Studies of patronage and its impact or lack of impact upon particu course of their papers, consider in what ways, or to what extent, it is lar cases of Indian art are invited. The panel as a whole will address the just and/ or useful to view these images as part of a visual culture question of how useful this approach is in India. Is the donor in such a distinctive to Northern Europe. How do we develop the appropriate society inevitably subordinate to the demands of a more generalized methods and modes of interpretation for such images? audience or religious requirements on the one hand and to the limited possibilities of workshop traditions on the other? Is it helpful to think City Views, Architectural Fantasies, and Civic Projects: generically of types of patronage? Or do individual clients determine 1600-1800. William Barcham, c/o Dept. of Social Sciences, B 634, the nature of works of art, and. if so, by what mechanism is form or Fashion Institute of Technology , 227 West 27 Street, New York, N.Y. content affected? Papers may focus on buildings, sculpture, or paint 10001. ings that in any way bear on these issues. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century painters and architects sought to capture the shape of and to give form to their urban environment Representation of Women in Asian and Islamic Art. Ellen S. during a time when the European city grew rapidly in size and scope. Smart, Museum of Art. Rhode Island School of Design. Send abstracts This session will focus on material that discusses the portraits and the to 100 Horizon Dr., Saunderstown, R.I. 02874. Deadlineforabstracts: plans- whether fantastical or real- for the burgeoning cityscape dur September 15. ing the Baroque period. The women represented in Asian and Islamic art have nearly always Continued on p. 2, col. 1 11981 annual meeting: call for papers and panelists 11981 annual meeting: call for papers and panelists
Art and Science, 1750-1850. Barbara M. Stafford, Dept. of Art mediums from all times and places are welcome. Events such as pro· selves. But "theory" has also been construed as a proper part of art recognized through exotic dress, and many contemporary pieces pla; History, University of Delaware, Newark, DeL 1971 L cessions, as well as objects, qualify for consideration. works, in the view that works are ontologically incomplete, or "in with the idea of the artist (and his! her clothes) as art. The rich source Critics have become increasingly aware of the impact of Newtonian choate," except in the context of their interpretations. This panel of perfonnance costumes and body props as well as the iconography of theories upon the poetic imagination, the concept of style, the Technique and Meaning in Painting. Charles S. Rhyne, Dept. of proposes to consider the thesis that the status of "art work" is not clothing in contemporary art yield a complexity of issues to be ad molding of literary themes, and the formation of an aesthetic of sensu An, Reed College, Portland, Ore. 97202. (Until August 10 abstracts ascribable to concrete objects as such, but rather that, in order for it to dressed by a panel of artists, curators, and critics. ous discovery. Undeniably, Newton's progeny-taken here in the should be sent c! 0 Yale Center for British Art, Box 2120 Yale Station, be art, an object must already be an interpreted and, therefore, a par broadest sense to include representatives from all the burgeoning New Haven, Conn. 06520.) tially linguistic entity, The panel will also consider whether this thesis American Calligraphy: New Directions. Anne Gregory, Creative sciences, whether in Western Europe or North America-contributed This session will explore the much understudied area of painting is applicable to only certain, perhaps peripheral, trends in the visual Arts Dept., CA#l, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. 47907. to a novel perception of the world. The purpose of this session is to ex technique as an essential aspect of the study of meaning in art. Papers arts or whether it indicates a more general change in the ways art works An important graphic influence on contemporary American art is plore the varieties and kinds of interactions existing between the fine should focus on a single artist and should demonstrate the ways in are being made and thought about. the work of the scribes, who still use their "beautiful writing" as the arts and the sciences from the Enlightenment to the Ruskinian era. which technique participates in the central meaning of selected paint foundation for commercial art and type design but now often render ings. High quality color slides are considered a necessary part of the The Problem of Art Now _Jonathan Fineberg, Dept. of History of their work as "fine art" which appears in exhibitions in museums and Sculpture in Europe and America from Romanticism through argument of each paper. Art, Yale University, Box 2009, 56 High Street, New Haven, Conn. galleries. The panel, through visual presentation and discussion, will Cubism. John M. Hunisak, Dept. of Art, Middlebury College, Mid 06520. focus on these new developments in American calligraphy. (One-hour dlebury, Vt. 05753. Semiotics and the History of Art. Oleg Grabar and Henri Zerner, Recently, many writers have put forth the idea that "modernism" session. ) Preference will be given to proposals that deal with a single work or a Dept. of Fine Arts, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 32 Quincy has come to an end and that contemporary art has either lost direction specific issue in sculpture during the period under consideration. Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02138. or taken the impulse for different directions from entirely new kinds of Drawing: Views of Teachers and Students. Richard Hamwi, The session will be h:andled as a panel discussion, endeavoring to ex premises and aspirations. The rapid genesis and simultaneous viability School of Visual Arts, 102 Visual Arts Bldg., Pennsylvania State Images of Public and Private Life in European Art, 1789-1900. plore the opportunities offered and problems posed for art history by of many different types of art and the degree to which these disparate University, University Park, Pa. 1680l. Eunice Lipton, S.U.N.Y., Binghamton. Send abstracts to 201 West 85 semiotic theories. Prepared statements should be short (not to exceed inventions have developed without the polemical need to propose the This panel, comprised of faculty members and students from insti Street, New York, N.Y. 10024. 10 minutes) and as specific as possible so as to allow for discussion. annihilation of one another or of their predecessors (as was the case tutions that offer degrees with a concentration in drawing, will discuss This session will focus on how the French and industrial revolutions with pre-World War II vanguards) is the kind of traffic pattern that the qualities that characterize the most effective teachers of drawing changed the meaning of social, political, cultural, and emotional life The Social History of Art. Robert L. Herbert, Dept. of the History retires air controllers before their prime. This panel will attempt to and the qualities and characteristics found in the most effective in England and continental Europe. Papers that analyze these changes of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 06520. identify and examine some of the underlying changes in the definition departments of drawing. The reasons for the emergence of drawing as in the context of the history of art and examine the interrelationships This session will consist of four papers of 20 minutes each, followed of the art object and in the motives for art now. an area of concentration increasingly chosen by artists and students of between art and contemporary nineteenth-century ideologies are by a one-hour discussion. Papers should deal with nineteenth- or art will also be considered. (One-hour session.) invited. Possible topics for discussion are sexual roles and values, twentieth-century art in Europe or America and should offer cogent Printmaking. Garo Z. Antreasian, Dept. of Art, University of New domestic life, leisure and entertainment, the city and the country, examples of the application of methods o~ social history to specific Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. 87104. Foundation Courses, Form and Content. Arline Lederman, Dept. religion, politics, and labor. works of art. The purpose is to give four pragmatic demonstrations This panel will seek to examine some facets of printmaking that of Fine Arts, School of Fine & Perfonning Arts, Montclair State Col which can then be discussed in the hour that follows, at which time have received little or no attention, or for which there exists wide lege, Upper Montclair, N.]. 07043. German Expressionism. Peter W. Guenther, Art Dept., Central broader issues of method and social content will be debated. On the spread critical or aesthetic disagreement, or in which the issues have The structuring of a foundation course confronts questions of the Campus, University of Houston, Houston, Tx. 77004. basis of abstracts submitted by September 15, completed 10-page texts not yet been clearly stated. Topics might include the education of possibilities of educating people for aesthetic literacy and creativity as Papers dealing with individual artists or specific aspects of Expres will be asked for. Of these, five will be chosen, one of them eventually printmakers in America since 1900; comparisons between collabora well as questions of what skills are basic. Papers addressed to these sionism are invited. There will be two German Expressionist exhibits in to become an alternate. The author of the alternate, if her or his paper tive and non-collaborative printmaking; regional differences in con questions are invited. San Francisco at the time of the meeting. Papers related to exhibited is not given, will automatically become one of the discussants. Final temporary printmaking; a critical appraisal of prints today; problems works are welcome. choices will be based on the quality of completed essays, and these willi of originality and reproduction; contemporary criticism, scholarship, Standards: Materials and Practice_ Ann Goodfellow, Arts Study be circulated ahead of time among speakers and discussants in order to and connoisseurship of prints; or museums and the printmaker. To Collection, University of Illinois Chicago Campuses, Box 4348, Chi The 1920s: Europe and America. Peter Selz, Dept. of History of maximize preparation for discussion. allow time for discussion, the panel will be limited to four prepared cago, Ill. 60680. Art, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 94720. presentations of 30-minutes each. This panel will present an up-date of Safe Practices in the Arts & Papers dealing with any aspect of 1920s painting, sculpture, arch Teaching Introductory Art History. Susan Smith, 545 Jersey Crafts: A Studio Guide and will go on to ask-and possibly answer itecture, the graphic arts, photography, and fihn are welcome. Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94114. The Sensibility of Sculpture: Painters into Sculpture and Sculp some further questions: What's new in medical research? How can Primary consideration will be given to those proposals relating art and The introduction to art history is the most important of all the tors into Construction. Lila Katzen, Maryland Institute of Art. Send schools meet OSHA standards? Has the study of safe practices moved artists to the general cultural context. undergraduate courses we teach: not only does it provide the proposals to 345 West Broadway, New York, N.¥. 10013. into art curricula: who's teaching it, and how? How do we reach out to methodological foundation for advanced courses, but its success often This panel will focus on the differences and similarities in concep teach the teachers in primary and secondary school art programs? tual approach between two groups of sculptors: those who began as Grassroots and public action: how do we make it work? What's new in Meaning and Content in American Art. Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., detennines whether students will pursue further study in art history at painters and then transposed their images into three dimensions and labelling, not only re toxicity but also re stability of perfonnance? Dept. of Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. 8713l. all. In the face of mounting enrollment pressures, imagination and those who from the beginning worked with sculptural fonus in space. Have any new issues arisen since the 1978 publication? Papers are invited that consider issues of meaning and content in clarity of purpose will become increasingly essential to make students' Some of the issues considered could be attitudes and sources of inspira American painting, sculpture, and graphic arts during the period first exposure to our discipline engaging and meaningful. Papers are tion; means of developing a sculpture; the importance of technique; New Developments in Art Law. Gilbert S. Edelson, Honorary 1640-1940. Papers may range in scope from broad studies of themes invited on innovative approaches to teaching introductory art history audience participation; and the authenticity of the sculptural Counsel, CAA. Address proposals to Rosenman Colin Freund Lewis & and motifs to interpretations of single works of art. and on the question of what, we seek to communicate in this crucial forum. response. Cohen, 575 Madison Avenue, N.Y.C. 10022. This panel will consider recent legal developments that affect art Images of the American West, 1840-1939. Therese Heyman, Color as Metaphor. Herb Aach, Queens College, C.U.N.Y. Send ists, critics, scholars, curators, and other members of the art commu Oakland Museum, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, Calif. 94607. Open Session(s). Martha Kingsbury, School of Art DM-I0, Univer sity of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 98195. proposals to 523 East 14 Street, New York, N.Y. 10009. nity. Among topics that could be considered are print tax shelters, This session will explore the West as a special locale-a place of Color is most commonly thought of as a descriptive and ornamental resale royalties, and moral rights legislation. Prepared papers will be wonder and curiosity, with stories and genre of its own. Papers are in The purpose of the Open Session(s) is to provide time for papers on topics not included in the meeting program. Abstracts may be submit adjunct to a preconceived hierarchy of form. The function of this followed by a question-and-answer clinic. vited that treat specific artists as well as those that deal with panel is to explore the ways in which color becomes intrinsic to the ex iconography, particularly that of the western landscape. Proposals ted for the open sessions only if they are not appropriate to any of the specific topic sessions. We know we're repeating, but: the same pressive connote of the work, thus taking on a role similar to that of Figurative and Narrative Traditions in California Art. Whitney directed to painting, the graphic arts, photography, and film are metaphor in poetry: affecting, changing, or becoming the meaning. Chadwick, Art Dept., San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway especially welcome. abstract ~ay not be submitted to a specific topic session and to the open seSSIons. The intenfof this panel is to elucidate the role of color as metaphor Avenue, San Francisco, Calif. 94132. through analogies with historical, literary, architectural, and paint This panel will explore the historical, theoretical, and critical foun Vernacular Art and the History of Art. Kathleen Weil-Garris, In erly vehicles. It is hoped that both practicing artists and art historians dations of figurative and narrative traditions in the work of California stitute afFine Arts, 1 East 78 Street, New York, N.Y. 10021. will participate. artists. The persistence of these tendencies, their existence as alterna This session will explore how the vast, little known reservoir of STUDIO PROGRAM tives to pure abstraction, and their influence on regional, national. material lumped under the ambiguous title "Popular Arts" should af The Force of Habit: Artist's Clothes. Judith Stein, 2400 Waverly, and international modernism will be considered. fect traditional assumptions about what constitutes a work of art and The Role of Theory in Art-Making. Lucian Krukowski, School of Philadelphia, Pa. 19146. what are its functions. How should we define popular art, how did the Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. 63130. This panel will focus on the growing number of artists who utilize The Women's Building in Los Angeles. Chair to be announced. split between vernacular and high art come into being, what were its "Theory," in the visual arts, is typically understood as criticism or the substance and image of clothing in and as their work. The Send inquiries to CAA office. consequences, and what is its future? Papers discussing works in all historical analysis-something quite different from the works them- characteristic persona of the Bohemian artist has traditionally been ~'olltilllJed all p. 4, col.
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Pacific Coast: A Regional Update. George W. Neubert, Oakland Alternative Careers for Art Historians. Tom L. Freudenheim, Museum, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, Calif. 94607. Director, Museum Program, National Endowment for the Arts, We always publish these annual meeting 70% to 75% of all applicants, art historians when we again meet in New York. Fortu The Pacific coast has consistently produced artists and trends that Washington, D.C. 20506. placement reports with the warning that they 20% to 25%. The missing percentages are nately or unfortunately, a great deal of the have influenced the development of contemporary art in America. are not particularly meaningful because (1) museum professionals, librarians, etc. "action" takes place atCAA annual meetings, Although there seems to be less emphasis on groups or "isms" in the Publishing in Art History. Richard Martin, Editor, Arts Maga-! the number of applicants has much more to For the second year running, the propor and significant sex differences in applicant 'eighties, the Pacific coast continues to be a haven for artists with zine, 23 East 26 Street, New York, N.Y. 10010. do with the city in which we meet (greatest on tion of female applicants is down. In New Or participation could be reflected in significant strongly individual modes of expression. This panel, comprised of the East coast, decreasing as we move west) leans, women constituted 39% of the appli sex differences in employment ratios to come. museum professionals in the region, will consider Pacific coast artists CAA-ARLIS/NA JOINT SESSION than it does with the number of people look cants in studio and 54% of the applicants in The increase of thirty-five positions is nice, and trends of national import as well as local institutions with an active ing for jobs, and (2) the positions listed mayor art history. The highest rate of female partici but not particularly significant until we can commitment to exhibiting and encouraging contemporary art. The Perceived Image. Katharine Ratzenberger, Library of the Na may not be repeats of positions listed at other pation occurred at the 1978 annual meeting determine how many are repeat listings. (An tional Collection of Fine Arts and the National Portrait Gallery, times during the year. The meaningful report in New York City, where women constituted nual meeting listings have been slowly in BOARD-SPONSORED SESSIONS Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560. (for the 1979-80 academic year) will be pub 51 % of the applicants in studio and 62 % of creasing while listings for the entire academic The session will be devoted to the role of reproductions as artifacts or lished in the next issue of the newsletter. But the applicants in art history. The drop could year have been more rapidly going down ever These are sessions that deal with topics of current concern to the documents and the way reproductions can condition the viewer's per we're impatient, and we assume everyone else be attributed to the fact that a greater pro· since we began keeping these records in 1976- Association or to the profession but that do not readily or "neatly" fit ception of the actual object. Topics might include changes occurring is, too. Ergo, the chart below. . and some portion of women now hold jobs and there 77.) Despite the overall increase, there were into the art history or studio program. Participation is generally by in art criticism and art history as a result of improvements in art re very brief comments: fore a smaller proportion are looking (and the seven fewer positions for artists in this year's invitation. production methods; illustrated books, journals, and newspapers; the Applicants are down 381, or 33%, from moon could be made of green cheese). We annual meeting listing. impact of photomechanical technology; multiplied images as vehicles last year, which pretty accurately reflects the suspect, however, that the drop reflects the Because it concerned us in the past, we of aesthetic, philosophical, or political ideas; and the expansion of an drop in attendance from Washington to New greater vulnerability of women (and minori want to note that the proportion or-art history artist's environment by media. Orleans. It does not mean that fewer people ties) to the recession in general and to the costs positions classified as "unspecified or broad" are lookingfor jobs. What is interesting is that involved in attending meetings not on the seems to have stopped its upward spiral. Such AFFILIATED SOCIETIES the proportion of artist applicants and art his East coast. It will be interesting to see whether openings constitute 37% of all art history po torian applicants remains fairly constant no the drop continues next year in San Francisco sitions in the present list; the proportion was ACSAA: The Origin of the Rudda Image: Again? Abstracts for matter where we meet, artists constituting and whether the trend is reversed in 1982 40% in 1979 and 52% in 1978 (which is when proposed papers may be sent to John C. Huntington, Dept. of Art we got worried). The proportion of "unspeci History, Ohio State University, 100 Hayes Hall, Columbus, Ohio fied or broad" listings in studio has been fairly 43210 before September 30. II stable: 28% this year, 29% in 1979, and 24% OVERVIEW: APPLICANTS AND OPENINGS (1979 and 1980 Annual Meetings) in 1978. R.R.W. III Applicants Openings Applicants Openings 1979 1979 1980 1980 preselVation news Artists Unspecified or Broad 219 77 169 74 Painting and Drawing 314 37 176 33 • FOR AND AGAINST NOGUCHI clude a clause retaining rights over their SUMMER WORKSHOPS Sculpture 115 23 98 30 Several months ago officials of the Bank of work. The need for such protection has been In the future the Spring "Preservation News" i Printmaking 68 20 50 16 Tokyo in New York had a large sculpture by repeatedly underscored by Volunteer Law column will carry a list of summer workshops' Design 15 47 16 52 Isamu Noguchi, which hung in its lobby. cut yers for the Arts; their model contract for art and seminars in conservation and preserva Photography 44 26 32 21 ~~tilln;ationf'~n~Il1',th~:~:e~~:~r~h1~"~~~;~~~~" 13 into sections and stored. The work had been ists protects these moral rights. tion of works of art. Deadline for this informa Ceramics 53 22 52 vit~~:, fo: "~,he-:, Djs!'ift'gliis'h(!d',',J~'~'~:lJJPS-,:' 9f installed during the course of a comprehen As to the bank's responsibility to the public: tion is February 1. Below, belatedly and in Jewelry/Metalwork 4 1 2 I ,,~~t ~,~dtheD}stin~,~,~~4~Te'ac~1p:?Af::~~~~:': 8 14 sive renovation of the structure several years whether a work acquired by a private patron some cases too late, is the result of our ad hoc Video/Film 6 6 l-;Iist6t,Y,;Aw~ifls,:<\>'\: ,::< ;';,:/'>, ',' :,:;-;:',:':>:::,:,':': :;':/'/'< ago. Bank officials had been unhappy with can be subject to the same rigorous require effort to gather this information this year. Commercial Art 2 , :f~)7:?Dvio~s,,~~~son~'; ::th,~se ,t~p: ~~~r4~,~: the piece from the outset, uncomfortable with ments as works in public or semi-public insti Weaving/Textile Design 19 8 6 6 May 27-29. Metropolitan Museum of Art, ~hich, ar~:'hbf ,~~se~f,tip<:ltl':~:,:bQ~Y':9fpu:h{" its ominous, weighty presence as a potential tutions is an issue that can be debated. But Woodworking 1 The Preservation and Use ofArtistic Cultural 'lishe'd'lnate,tiaC~re'rn()re,:d:ep~~deI}{:~~a~': hazard to those below, and there had been cultural properties are not mere commodi Glassblowing 3 I Heritage: Perspectives and Solutions. A Sym :'~,r~ t~e:?th~t:'A~~?ci~,do£!-',a~~rds,U'R~~;J,e:c::,?: some discussion about its removal. When ties; private patrons, be they individuals or Conceptual Art/Mixed Media 11 4 posium sponsored by the Direzione Generale '~tntn'e~d~,ti()n~<::fr~~",,:~h,~:,:,Ir!-ep~b,~n,~iR';'::' the piece was removed, however, Noguchi corporations, must be educated to recognize Studio Fundamentals I della Cooperazione Ministero degli Affari "',~et,tfr\-,()f<,t,eC0tn~,en~~~tJ()P~;', ~n,~:,:ap~~?~:, (reached at his home in Japan by Grace their responsibilities to the creator and to the Esteri, Rome and the Metropolitan. Contact: 868 270 615 263 , Jl~at~,:: ~~PPP5~~~:';'ill,ag:,~j~I~t::,~;~,?~:1,(t:
IN MEMORIAM The new director of the American Academy Renaissance, has recently focused on the in Rome is Sophie Chandler Consagra, the interworkings of art and science and of art first woman to hold that position since the and politics. "What's fascinating about his re Academy was chartered by Congress in 1905. search," said search committee member l Consagra was formerly director of Visual Arts Whitney Stoddard, "is that he thinks notjust and Architecture at the New York State as an art historian, but in terms of broader Council on the Arts. Before that, from 1972 cultural q,uestions." We're tempted to com to 1977, she was executive director of the ment "doesn't everybody"?, but we guess Delaware State Arts Council, A resident of everybody doesn't. Rome for fifteen years, she holds degrees from Smith College and Cambridge University. Also from New England comes the announce ment that Alicia Craig Faxon has been ap Another "first" - this a IOO-plus-year prece pointed assistant professor in art history at dent - is the appointment of an artist, sculp Simmons College, Boston. tor Jason Seley, as dean of the College of Ar chitecture, Art & Planning at Cornell Univer Rodin specialist J. Kirk Varnedoe will move sity. Seley, who has been at Cornell since from Columbia to the Institute of Fine Arts, 1968, is currently having a twenty-year retro where he will teach nineteenth- and twen spective which opened at the Herbert F .John tieth-century European and American art. son Museum at Cornell'and will later be seen We're sure that many readers are familiar at the Albany Institute of History and Art and with Varnedoe's extensive writings on Monet, the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island. Caillebotte, Degas, etc., but how many know Charles Mitchell with that he was an assistant varsity football coach Bust of Homer (Wins Jakob Rosenberg, author of the definitive The San Francisco Art Institute has an at Stanford (where he also earned his doctor low, that is) two-volume Rembrandt (1948), died in April nounced the appointment of filmmaker and ate and began his teaching career)? at the age of eighty-six. Curator of prints at arts administrator George Manupelli as Jason Seley, Cornell University Photo: Jon Reis the Fogg for twenty-five years, he trained a dean of the College. Manupelli, who formerly generation of curators now active in print col taught at York University in Ontario, found lections throughout the country. Rosenberg ed the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1963 and NEW PROGRAMS for eighteen years senred as director of that Another twentieth-century specialist, John was not only a gifted connoisseur and a pro R. Lane, has been appointed director of found scholar, but also a popular undergrad prestigious showcase for independent film A new program in the history of design will makers. be initiated this fall at the University of Cin Carnegie Institute Museum of Art. He suc uate teacher able to communicate artistic ceeds Leon A. Arkus, who retired June I sensitivity to students who were not going on cinnati, with implementation of a master's CAA Board member Ellen Lanyon was dis degree program in the history of design after being associated with the Museum for to become art specialists. One of the many art more than twenty-six years, the last twelve as historians who emigrated to the United States tinguished visiting professor at the University planned for the fall of 1981. The new pro- I director. Lane, who holds a doctorate in art courtesy of Adolf Hitler, Rosenberg wrote ex of California in Davis this past spring. InJuly gram, which will be directed by Foster L. history from Harvard and an M.B.A. in fi tensively on various aspects of northern Ba her large-scale painting Notable Women of Wyngant, will involve the departments of nance from the University of Chicago, comes roque and Renaissance art and is the author Boston will be installed in the Workingmen's fashion, graphics, industrial and interior to Pittsburgh from The Brooklyn Museum, of the popular Great Draughtsmen from Pisa Cooperative Bank in celebration of that insti design, architecture, planning, and art where he was assistant director. The author of nella to Picasso. tution's centenniaL Lanyon returns to New history. A grant of $46,072 from NEH made York in the fall, to teach representational possible the initiation of this program. Stuart Davis: Art and Art Theory, he also curated the recent Stuart Davis exhibition Elizabeth P. Korn, professor emeritus and painting at the School of Visual Arts. shown at Brooklyn and at the Fogg. founder of the art department at Drew Uni More in our continuing campaign to publi versity, died in May at the age of seventy-nine. Another CAA Board member, Eleanor cize courses on health hazards in the arts: Jane G. Rice has been appointed assistantdi The widow of Alfred P. Korn, inventor of the Tufts, has been elected president of the fac Two courses will be offered during the Uni rector at the San Diego Museum of Art. Edu facsimile process of transmitting photographs ulty senate at Southern Methodist University. versity of Wisconsin's summer session: one a cated at Durham University in England, Rice by wire, she was well known in scientific One of the issues the senate will deal with is three-credit/four-week number beginning was fonnerly director of development for the circles for her portraits of Albert Einstein, the evaluation of teaching and scholarship for on July 14; the second a one-week workshop San Diego Symphony Orchestra. Previously Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Alfred Nobel, and merit increases. for one credit beginning on July 28. Both she held senior management positions at the other scientists sketched at pre-World War II courses will be taught by Monona Rossol, art Museum of Modern Art and at the Whitney professional meetings in Europe. Korn joined Charles Mitchell has been appointed Bow ist, chemist, and director of the Art Hazards Museum. Drew University in 1946, retiring in 1966 to doin College's first Edith Cleaves Barry Pro Information Center of the Center for Occu devote full time to painting. Early in May the fessor of the History and Criticism of Art. pational Hazards. For additional informa After serving ten months as acting director, Allen Rosenbaum, Princeton Art Museum J. Kirk Varnedoe, Institute of Fine Arts University's Art Gallery was renamed in her Mitchell, who was educated at Oxford, leaves tion: Art Dept., UW, 6241 Humanities Bldg., Allen Rosenbaum has been named director honor. Bryn Mawr College, where he served on the 455 N. Part St., Madison, Wis. 53706. (608) faculty since 1959 and was chairman of the 262-1660. of the Princeton University Art Museum. A of Asian Art at The Asia Society. Assistant department from 1963 to ]975. In 1975 he specialist in Italian art and architecture of the Patrick M. de Winter (Ph.D., LF.A.) has curator of Oriental art at the Fogg since 1977, was appointed Andrew W. Mellon Professor sixteenth century, Rosenbaum (MA, N. Y. U.) been named curator of Early Western Art at Mowry was registrar at the University of Kan TEACHING AND RESEARCH of the Humanities. The new chair at Bowdoin had been assistant director of the University the Cleveland Museum. De Winter, who has sas Museum of Art from ]966 to 1977. He also was made possible by a gift of $750,000 from MUSEUM PEOPLE Museum since 1974 and in 1976 took on the been engaged in research on the formation of taught courses in Asian and Chinese art at Louis Finkelstein, professor of art at Queens the Charles Dummer and Ida Morton Barry additional responsibilities of curator of paint the Burgundian ducal library, with particu Harvard, the University of Maryland, Soo College, C.U.N.Y., and recipient of the Foundation. I. Michael Danoff, currently associate direc ings. He wrote the catalogue for the exhibi lar emphasis on the patronage of Philip the chow University, Taiwan, and the University CAA's 1979 Distinguished Teaching of Art tor of the Milwaukee Art Center, will become tion Old Master Paintings from the Collection Bold and its impact upon manuscript illumi Award, will be director of Art Program of the Renaissance art historian Samuel Y. Edger director of the Akron Art Institute in July. of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, which is cur nations and painters' workshops, expects to of Kansas. Yale University Summer School of Music and ton will move from Boston University to Wil Danoff (Ph.D., Syracuse Univ.), a specialist rently touring the country. A Fulbright Fel publish his findings in 1981. Walter A. Liedtke is leaving Ohio State Uni Art at Norfolk, Conn. He was artist-in liams College, as professor of art and director in twentieth-century art, has held teaching' low in Rome 1962-63, Rosenbaum was a lec versity to become associate curator responsi residence at the Summer School in 1978 and of the Graduate Program in Art History. Ed and curatorial positions at North Carolina, turer in the education department of the Met Robert D. Mowry, (Ph.D. candidate, Univ. ble for Dutch and Flemish paintings at the taught painting there during 1962, 1964, gerton (Ph.D. Univ. Pennsylvania), whose Wesleyan College, Syracuse University, Dick ropolitan Museum for eight years before com Kansas) has been named curator of the Mr. 1975.1976. and 1977. initial interest was in linear perspective in the inson College, and the University of Texas. ing to Princeton. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection Continued on p. 11, col. 1 7 6 CAA newsletter June 1980 .. grants and awards conferences and symposia information MILLARD MEISS FUND York City: Sculpture; Douglas R. Hofstadt er, Indiana Univ.: Computer aesthetics in will be held at Temple University, September For a major retrospective on the work of The Millard Meiss Publication Fund Com 1981 SAR Annual Meeting Robert Smithson (opening at the Herbert F. typeface design; Tom Holland, College of 22 and 23. Participating art historians are mittee met on April 25 and announced award To be held in Victoria, British Columbia, Johnson Museum of Art, Fall 1980, and trav the San Francisc? Art Inst.: Painting; Joseph Moshe Barasch, Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem; of subventions to the following: April 1-5 with Damie Stillman, Univ, Dela elling to the Whitney Museum, Spring 1982), D. Jachna, Umv. Illinois, Chicago Circle: Charles Dempsey, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Sam Nicolai C. Cikovsky, Jr., for Lectures on ware, serving as general chairman. Sessions information is sought on the present where Photography; Len Jenshel, International uel Edgerton, Williams Coll.; Molly Faries, the Affinity oj Painting With the Other Fine arc being organized on the following topics: abouts of Enantiomorphic Chambers (1965). Center of :~otography, N.Y.C.: Photogra Indiana Univ.; Marcia Hall, Temple Univ.; Arts, by SamuelF. B. Morse (1826), New York General Session, Naomi Miller; Architecture The sculpture was last known to have been in phy; PatrlCla Johanson, Buskirk, N.Y.: Paul Hills, Univ. Warwick; Konrad Ober University Press. afthe Pacific Northwest, Marion Dean Ross, the Howard and Jean Lipman collection be Sculpture; Pamela Levy, Jerusalem: Paint huber, Harvard Univ.; Charles Parkhurst, Anthony C. Cutler, for The Aristocratic Univ. Oregon, Eugene; Architecture and fore it was sold in the late sixties at a charity ing; Michael Marton, Shushan, N. Y.: National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey Psalter in Byzantz"um, Editions A. &J. Picard. Preservation in Canada, Harold D. Kalman; auction. Information is also welcome about Video; Herbert Matter, emeritus, Yale Ruda, Univ. California, Davis; John Shear" The Millard Meiss Publication Fund Com Architecture oj the Inter-Mountain West, the present location of any other Smithson Univ.: Photography; Ana Mendieta, man, Princeton Univ.; and David Summers, mittee will next meet in the Fall. Deadline for J.M. Neil, Seattle Office of Urban Conser sculptures. Contact Robert C. Hobbs, Herb S.U.N.Y. College at Old Westbury: Sculp Univ. Pittsburgh. Participating conservators submission of applications: September 1. vation; Medieval Architecture, Walter C. ert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Uni ture; Edward C. Moses, Venice, Calif.: are Marigene Butler, Philadelphia Museum P~inting; . Douglas Nemanic, Minneapolis: Leedy, Cleveland State Univ.; Architectural versity, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853. Drawt'ngs and Models in the Seventeenth of Art; Hermann Kuhn, Deutsches Museum, GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS FIlmmakmg; Stephen Pace, American Century, Henry Millon, CASVA, National Munich; Lorenzo Lazzarini, Laboratorio S. Univ.: Painting; Donn Alan Pennebaker Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Recent Gregorio, Venice; Joyce Plesters, National For a catalogue raisonne of the Italian painter The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial City College, C.U.N.Y.: Filmmaking; Trends in Architecture: Theories and Prac Gallery, London; Leonetto Tintori, Palazzo Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, send infor Found~tion awarded grants totaling Eugene Richards, Dorchester, Mass.: Pitti, Florence; and R. van Asperen de .$4,605,000 to 276 scholars, scientists, and art tices, Warren Sanderson, Concordia Univ.; J. mation on unpublished works to Professor Photography; Susan Rothenberg, New York Boer, Amsterdam. For additional informa Housing, Eugenie L. Birch; Cemeteries, Dr. B. Kerber, Ruhr Universitat, Kunst ists chosen from among 3,066 applicants in its City: Painting; Donald Shields, American tion: Marcia Hall, Color Conference, Tyler Mausolea, and Funerary Art, Kenneth L. geschichtliches Institut, Universitatstrasse, fifty-sixth annual competition. Academy in Rome: Painting; Keith A. Ames, Winterthur Museum; Geomancy: School of Art, TU, Beech and Penrose Aves. Gebaude GA, 463 Bochum-Querenburg, Smith, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester: Philadelphia, Pa. 19126. Asian Architecture and Its Relation to the Germany. Art History/Cognate Areas P~otography; Hiroshi Sugimoto, New York Land, Nelson Wu, Washington Univ.; Ren CIty: Photography; William Tucker, School Julius S_ Held The Muses Flee Hitler aissance Urbanism, chair to be announced; Jonathan Brown, Inst. Fine Arts, N.Y.U.: El of the Arts, Columbia Univ.·: Sculpture; De For a proposed second colloquium on this Wain Valentine, Venice, Calif.: Sculpture; Nineteenth-Century Decorative Arts, Wil For a master's essay on the German-American Gr~co and Toledo; Andrew Forge, Yale topic tentatively scheduled for December 26- liam F..zelle Jones, Los Angeles County Muse landscape painter Johann Hermann Car Umv.: A re-examination of Monet; David B~rbara Wilk, Westport, Conn.: Filmmak 28, 1930, the organizers are eager to hear ADAAAWARD um of Art; Landscape Architecture on the miencke (1810-1867), any information re Gebhard, Univ. California, Santa Barbara: ing; Robert M. Wilson, New York City: A from or about scholars studying the impact of work for theatre; Frederick Wiseman, Bos The ninth annual award of the Art Dealers West Coast and Related Subjects, David garding either his biography or the present Georg~ Was?ington Smith and the Spanish refugees from Hitler's Europe .. - especially Ass~ciation .of Arr:erica for outstanding Streatfield, Univ. Washington, Seattle; Arch location of his works is sought. Contact Sally Colomal revlVal of the 1920s; William H. ton: Filmmaking; Ira Wohl, New York City: artists and intellectuals--on societies other achievement I.n the freld of art history was pre itectural History in Preservation Education, Gately Shafto, 884 West End Avenue, Apt. Gerdts, Brooklyn CoHo and Graduate Center Fihnmaking. than the United States; the first colloquium sented to Juhus S. Held, professor emeritus Chester Liebs, Univ. Vermont and Margaret 53, N.Y.C. 10025. (212) 866·5180. C.U.N.Y.: History painting in America: focused on the American experience. Con at Barnard Coll~ge, Columbia University. Supplee Smith, Wake Forest Univ. Paper pro Richard A. Goldthwaite, Johns tact: Carla Borden, Office of Smithsonian Hopkin~ Held began teachmg at Barnard in 1935 and posals should be sent directly to the chairmen Univ.: The social and economic history of art Symposia and Seminars, SI 507, Washington, was chairman of the department when he re (more detailed addresses can be obtained Information is sought on the life and paint in pre-industrial Europe; Murray Milne, DELMAS FOUNDATION GRANTS D.C. 20560. ings of Mollie (Mary Emma) Boyd, (1869- tired .in 1970. He has written extensively on from SAH, 1700 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Univ. California, Los Angeles: Architectural Fo~ r~search in Venice. Among the 1980-81 FlemIsh and baroque art, in particular on the Pa. 19103). Deadline: August 15. 1928), who worked in Rome, Georgia; Bris aesthetics and energy conservation; Stanley reCIpIents: Charles E. Cohen, Univ. Chi Cultural Exchange during the Crusades art of Rubens and Rembrandt; scheduled for tol, Tennessee; Kansas City, Missouri; New Olson, London: A blOgraphy of John Singer cago: The art of Giovanni Antonio da Porde An international symposium to be held May publication this year are Rubens and His Cir Culture in the Provinces York City; Paris, France; and Germany. She Sargent; Ian Ousby, Univ. Maryland, Col none; Colin Eisler, Institute of Fine Arts 7-10,1981 at Western Michigan University, cle: A. Collection oj Essays and Catalogue oj British, that is. An interdisciplinary sympo studied with William Merritt Chase in 1894. lege Park: An edition of John Ruskin's corre N.Y.V.: The notebooks of Jacopo Bellini; Kalamazoo, and the University of Michigan, Flemtsh Seventeenth-Century Paintings in sium titled The Culture oj the British Prov Contact Temme Barkin-Leeds, Art Dept., spondence with Charles Eliot Norton; Robert Rona Goffen, Duke Univ.: The Frari in Ann Arbor. The objective of the symposium is the Detroit Institute oj Arts. Held is on the inces in the Eighteenth Century will be held at Georgia State University, University Plaza, L. Patten, Rice Univ.: A biography of Venice: Franciscanism in Italian art from the "to examine interrelationships between West· editorial boards of The Art Bulletin, Art the Yale Center for British Art October 4 in Atlanta, Ga. 30303. George Cruikshank; Paul Rabinow, Uuiv. fourteenth to the early sixteenth century ern, Eastern, Christian, Moslem, and Jewish Quarterly, and Master Drawings and has conjunction with the exhibition The Conver California, Berkeley: French colonial cities as (awarded last year but declined); Deborah sation Piece: Arthur Devis and His Contem cultures, and to contribute to the concept of a been an Honorary Director of the College Art For a biography of Paula Modersohn-Beck political and aesthetic experiments; Dickran S~ot~, U~iv. Texas, Dallas: Jacopo Sanso poraries, which will be on view October Medieval world from Morocco to the Volga Association since 1975. The ADAA award er, information is sought about the location L. Tashjian, Univ. California, hvin~: The VIllO s rehef sculpture and Venetian colorism. I-November 30. Among the speakers: Jules and from the Caucasus to Iceland." The sym which consists of $5,000 and a bronze replic~ of her paintings in American collections. cultural politics of surrealism and the Ameri Prown, Yale Univ., on "Who Is 'William posium is interdisciplinary; among the ses of a stabile by Alexander Calder, was pre Contact Diane Radycki, 25 West 95 Street, can avant-garde, 1925-1950. Copeley'?," and Ellen D'Oench, Wesleyan sions are East and West in Twelfth and Thir sented at a cocktail-reception at the Cooper teenth Century Art. Ilene Forsyth, Univ. N.Y.C. 10025. Univ., on "Arthur Devis and His Contem SAHAWARDS Hewitt Museum on May 7. poraries." For further information: Shirley Michigan; Crusades, Materia Orientalis and Artists European Art and Literature, Linda Seidel, The Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Johnson, YCBA, 1080 Chapel Street, New Information is sought on location of suitable Univ. Chicago; and Patterns and Ways of Robert H. Adams, Longmont, Colo.: Pho Davis Hitchcock Book Award for the most dis Haven, Conn. 06520. (203) 436-1162. works or related information to include in a Cultural Exchange (panel discussion), Hans tography; Vee Jan Bao, Univ. Cincinnati: tinguis~ed work of scholarship in the history special exhibition titled Long Island Art: ACLS TRAVEL GRANTS Maier. Kiel. Additional paper proposals Painting; Paul D. Brekke, Seattle: Filmmak of archItecture published in North America Visual Arts Patronage in America Part I (1865-1914) to be held July 26 -Sep (twenty minutes maximum) may be sent to V. ing; Beverly Buchanan, Macon, Ga.: Sculp was awarded jointly to Abbott Lowell Cum Travel grants to attend international con A symposium to be held at S.U.N.Y., Pots tember 20, 1981. Contact Ronald G. Pisano, Goss, CASL, Univ. Michigan, Dearborn, ture; Charles Burnett, Los Angeles: Film mings, exec~tive director of the Society for ferences abroad this coming summer were dam, October 30-November 1. Papers are Director, The Parrish Art Museum, 25 Job's the PreservatIOn of New England Antiquities, awarded by the American Council of Learned invited on historical or contemporary topics. Mich. 48128. Deadline: September 15. making; Deborah Butterfield, Montana Lane, Southampton, N.Y. 11968. III Societies to John E. Bowlt, Univ. Texas, The symposium will be held in conjunction Stat: Univ.· Sculpture; Vija Celmins, Cali for Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725 and to Norma Evenson, Univ. Austin; Charlotte E. Douglas, Ohio State with an exhibition in the College's Brainerd Sicilian Mosaics forma. Inst: Arts: Painting and sculpture; A symposium to be held at Dumbarton Oaks-, PhylhsChlnlund, New York City: Filmmak California, Berkeley, for Paris: A Century of Vniv.; a~d Alison Leslie Hilton, Wayne Art Gallery of selections drawn from major major exhibition, Turner in Yorkshire, at May 1 3, 1981, under the direction of Ernst ing; William Clift, Santa Fe: Photography; Change, 1878-1979. The 1978 Founders' State Unrv.; all to attend the Second World American private collections; in addition, York Art Gallery will coincide with the con Kitzinger. For further information: Symposi Robert Cumming, Hartford Art School Award for the best article published in the Congress 0': Soviet and East European Studies there will be a panel on current trends in ference and a review of the symposium will um, DO, 1703 32nd St., N.W., Washington, Vniv. Hartford: Photography; Jame~ Society'sJournal by a young scholar went to to be held III Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West patronage. Abstracts toJohn C. Riordan, Art appear in the first issue of Turner Studies, to D~ol~n, Univ. California, Los Angeles: Robert Bruegmann, Univ. Illinois at Chi Germany, .and to Edward J. Sullivan, Insti Dept., Potsdam College of Arts and Science, D.C. 20007. be published in the fall by the Tate Gallery. Par~tIllg; Susan June Felter, Emeryville, cago Circle, for "Central Heating and Forced tute of Fme Arts, N.Y.U., to attend the Potsdam, N.Y. 13676. For further information write promptly to the Turner Symposium Cahf.: ~hotography; Bill Gunn, Tappan, Ventilation: Origins and Effects on Architec Mediterranean Conference at Bar Ilan Uni organizer: Selby Whittingham, 43 Park The first symposium on Turner ever to be N.Y.: FIlmmaking; Jene Highstein, New tural Design." versity in Israel. III Renaissance Color Conference Road, Hale, Cheshire WAl5 9LS, England. A conference titled Color and Technique in held in the United Kingdom will take place at III 9 Renaissance Painting: Ital)l and the North Alcuin College, Univ. York, July 18- 20. A June 1980 CAA newsletter 8 announcements shows by professional publications
artist members An Annotated Bibliography oj Slide Library and government agencies that offer funds, ex· Charles K. Steiner. 47 pp., 9 ills. Dept. of Harvard Mellon Faculty Fellowships like to hear about them. These (two) are for Literature, by Stanley W. Hess. Covers nearly hibition possibilities, or other forms of assist Community Education, MMA, Fifth Avenue non-tenured faculty with at least one signifi For non-tenured, experienced junior scholars 250 titles. 47 pp. Code Number IST-ll #3. ance to filmmakers and! or those who use at 82 Street N.Y.C. 10028. Free. cant publication who have held the doctorate who have completed, at the time of appoint A listing ojsolo exh£b£t£ons by artist members Syracuse University Printing Services, 125 films. Also included is a list of New York State and have been teaching full time for at least ment, at least two years of post-doctoral oj the CAA. List£ngs should include name oj ( College Place, Syracuse, N.Y. 13210. Price: museums that show and! or collect films, as The National Endowments Jor the Arts and five years. Stipend $21,000 plus regular fac,:l teaching on the college or university level. For artist, gallery or museum, city, dates oj ex $5.00 plus 50 r postage and handling. well as listings of community arts councils and ty benefits. Additional support fun?s avaIl the Human£ties .... And Equal Opportunity July 1981 appointment, Ph.D. must have hibition, and medium. Since th£S service is public library systems within the state. 68 pp. able. Senior Fellows will teach half tune; ap Jor Women. Covers present status of women been earned prior to July 1979. One-year available only to CAA members and since we Cultural Directory ll: Federal Funds and Center for Arts Information, 625 Broadway, as grantees and panelists, implementation of appointment, with limited teaching duties, pointments will normally be ren:wed for ~ Services for the Arts and Humanities, pub New York, N.V. 10012. Price: $5.00. Dis· second year, with possibility of a thud. Candz can't possibly check all the exh£bition not£ces Title IX, and effect of equal opportunity laws departmental affiliation, opportunity to de we receive, please include copy oj current lished in" cooperation with the Federal Coun· counts on bulk orders can be arranged. dates must be nom£nated by the cha£rmen oj on grant processes. WEAL Fund, 805 15th velop scholarly research. Salary $17,000. For cil on the Arts and the Humanities. An ex Street N.W., Suite 822, Washington, D.C. their departments or oj an appropT£at~ £nt.er membersh£p card. additional information: Richard M. Hunt, pansion and update of the volume published Funding Sources and Techn£cal Assistance 20005. Prie", $4.00. departmental committee. For nomm~tlOn Program Director, HMFF, Lamont ~ibr~ry in 1975 by the American Council for the Arts, for Museums and Historical Agendes, by details: Director, Room 1509, InternatIOnal 202, Cambridge, Mass. 02138. ApplIcation CD II describes more than 300 programs of 38 Hedy A. Hartman. Describes purposes and Affairs Building, CU, New York, NY 10027. Diane Burko. Pennsylvania Academy of ProJlle oj a Museum Registrar, by Marjorie deadline: November 3. agencies and for the first time covers pro· objectives of 103 public programs in 22 dif Fine Arts, Philadelphia, September 10-0cto E. Hoachlander. A research project of The Deadline: November 1. grams that provide support for the humani· ferent agencies. 144 pp. American Associa ber 26. Bucknell University, Center Gallery, Center for Advanced Study in Education ties as well as for the arts. Included are not tion for State and Local History, 1400 Eighth Lewisburg, Pa., September 8-29. Stefanotti Graduate School and University Center of only agencies whose programs are directly ori Avenue South, Nashville, Tenn. 37230. Gallery, N.Y.C., November 5-29. Paintings. C.U.N.Y. in collaboration with the Cooper Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Columbia ented towards assisting cultural activities - Price: $10.00. Hewitt Museum. 120 pp. Academy for Edu The Columbia Society of Fellows in the Fellowships in British Art Jacqueline Ann Clipsham. Atlantic Gal NEA, NEH, the Smithsonian, etc .. but also Humanities will appoint a number of post cational Development, 1414 22nd St., N. W. The Yale Center for British Art offers a num lery, N.Y.C. May 8-25. Ceramics and draw agencies seemingly unrelated to the arts and Guide to Women's Art Organization, edited doctoral fellows in the humanities for the Washington, D.C. 20036. Price: $3.00. ber of post-graduate fel10wships for research ings. humanities which are in fact potential sources by Cynthia Navaretta. Includes information academic year 1981-82. New fellows must related to its collections. Grants include travel Eleanor Dickinson. The Interart Gallery, of assistance under certain circumstances. on organizations, performance groups, ar have received the Ph.D. betweenJan. 1,1979 expenses and living allowance and are nor Resource Guide to Black American Art, by N.Y.C., May 13-June 16. "Revivall-That (Did you know, for example, about the travel chives, registries, festivals and resources (legal andJuly 1, 1981. Stipend $16,250, half~ori~ mally for periods of two to fourteen weeks, al Oakley N. Holmes, Jr. Descriptions and loca Old Time Religion," paintings on black vel ling exhibits of the Armed Forces Art Collec and funding, facilities, distributors, etc.). dependent research and half .for teachmg m though grants for a full academic year ';llay .be tions?) 259 pp. Smithsonian Institution Press, 84 pp., 16 ills. Midmarch Associates! tions of books and doctoral dissertations, the undergraduate program m general edu vet, video tapes, drawings, and artifacts. awarded in exceptional cases. For detailed m P.O. Box 1579, Washington, D.C. 20013. Women Artists News, Box 3304 Grand Cen· major survey, group and historical exhibition cation. Additional funds available for re formation: Director, YCBA, Box 2120 Yale Peter Fingesten. Bodley II, N. Y. C. March Single copies $7.75 plus 851 postage. Quantity tral Station, N.Y.C. 10017. Price: $4.50 for catalogs, 513 periodicals, 13,200 slides, plus search materials and typing. Application Station, New Haven, Conn. 06520. Applica 15-ApriI5. "Fantastic Works on Paper." discounts available. individuals, $5.00 for institutions. motion pictures, fihn strips, galleries and from: Director, Room 1509, International tion deadline: November 1. museums. Oakley N. Holmers, Jr., 1104 Affairs Building, CU, N.Y.C. 10027. Dead Jennifer Gottdiener. Edward-Dean ~u Ninth Avenue, Jacksonville, Ala. 36265. seum of Decorative Arts, Beaumont, Cahf., Curatorial Care oj Works ojArt on Paper, by Learning Materials in the Visual Arts at the line: November 1. Price: $9.95. May 6-25. Installation: "Thread as Volume." Anne F. Clapp. Third edition, revised and College Level: A Survey, by James Nestor. A enlarged to reflect current attitudes and prac· juicier-than· most doctoral dissertation that Marianna Hamilton. Falkirk Cultural tices. Intermuseum Laboratory, Allen Art covers, among other things, number of visit The Tax Reliever: A Guide for the Artist, by Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships Center, San Rafael, Calif., July 11-August Building, Oberlin, Ohio 44074. Price: $5.00. ing artists at 28 institutions, their average fcc, Richard Helleloid. Another helpful effort to Artweek Boston 1980 Residential program for advanced scholarly 29. Watercolors. and who were considered the most interesting keep artists from paying money they don't Billed as the largest open studio event in the research. Most proposals have a high "social Fear oj Filing: 1979 Revision. We've men and the least interesting speakers for the year owe. The cover photo is a prize. Drum Books, United States, AB 1980 will be held for nine impact" component, but art history is pos Ellen Lanyon. Richard L. Nelson Gallery, tioned earlier versions of this useful guide to surveyed. Xerox University Microfilms, 300 2163 Ford Parkway, St. Paul, Minn. 55116. days, October 18-26. More than 500 arti.sts sible __ honestl (Wanda Corn, WWC's first art University of California, Davis, May I-June the Federal tax system. Volunteer Lawyers for North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106. Price: $4.95. are expected to participate, and an actIve historian, is about to complete her tenure.) 1, "Images," works on paper. Landfall Press, the Arts, 36 West 44 Street, N.Y.C. 10036. Price not available. program of related events will include an Art Applicants must be on post-doctoral. or Chicago, October, prints. Price: $4.00. What Every Artist Should Know about Cart Derby and an Artists Ball. A particularly equivalent level; stipend (less sabbatICal Howardena Pindell. Lerner Heller, Museum Education Jor Retarded Adults: Copyright. Describes recent changes in the interesting feature of AB is Art Money, spe salary, other funding, etc.) is gener.a~y eq~al N.Y.C., April 5··30. Paintings. Film Service ProJiles , compiled by Kay Salz. Reaching Out to a Neglected Audience. copyright law that affect artists. Volunteer cial scrip that will be available at a 20 percent to previous year's income. For addItIOnal m Includes comprehensive descriptions of 57 Detailed description of the program organ Lawyers for the Arts, 36 West 44 Street, discount prior to Artweek for use in the pur· formation and application materials: W~ Frieda Savitz. Bronx Museum, Bronx, nalionai and local nonprofit organizations ized at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by N.Y.C.10036. Peice: $2.50 III chase of original art. Art Money will be sold. in International Center for Scholars, FellowshIp N. Y., June 5-July 17. "People of the Stre~t," $25 and $50 denominations. A catalogue WIth Office!Room 321, Smithsonian Institution from "What is an American?" series, pamt reproductions of the works of 324 participa Building, Washington, D.C. 20560. ings. ting artists will be available at local museums, Jason Seley. Herbert F. Johnson M~seum, bookstores, etc. in June (price: $5.00). For Ipeople and programs Ithaca, April 27-June 15; Albany InstItute of additional information: Joyce Bernhard, c! 0 History and Art, August I-September 14; The Artist's Foundation, Inc., 100 Boylston Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hemp· Street, Boston, MaSS. 02116. Metropolitan Museum of Art effective Sep At the International Museum of Photogra· Indianapolis Museum of Art. Linda Merk Erratum stead, N.Y., October 15-January 4. Sculp Last issue's announcement of Fulbright and tember 1. He has been on leave from Ohio phy, George Eastman House, Marianne Ful (M.A.C., Queens Univ., Canada) comes related opportunities for university teaching ture retrospective. State since September 1979 as Mellon Fellow ton Margolis has been named assistant cura· from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, at the Metropolitan. and advanced research abroad mistakenly Patrie Shannon. William Jewell College tor of the twentieth·century department. She where she was special assistant conservator, Fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks listed IREX, rather than CIES, as the admin Student Union Lounge, Liberty, Mo. ApriL has been acting curator of the department working particularly with furniture and Dumbarton Oaks offers both predoctoral and The International Center of Photography, since July 1978 and has held research and con· sculpture. Harold Mailand (MA, Indiana istrative agency. As many of you may know Oil paintings. postdoctoral fellows~ips in Byza~tin.e studi~s, and as the Editor should know, lREX (Inter New York City, has announced the opening of sultant positions at the Museum since 1974. Univ.) will be the textiles conservator at the Pre-Columbian studIes, and studies m the hIS national Research and Exchanges Board) Dee Shapiro. Andre Zarre Gallery, N. Y.C. the Richard Alan Hillman Research Collec She earned her M.A. from Kent State. Lilly Pavilion of the Decorative Arts. His tory of landscape architecture. Summ:r fel· sponsors exchanges solely with the S?viet May 6-31. tions and the appointment of Miles Barth as booklet on textile conservation for the lowships (four to ten weeks) are also available. its first curator of collections. Barth, formerly The Toledo Museum of Art has appointed Union and Eastern Europe. CIES(CounClI for Peter West. Hansen Galleries, Art In layman, published by the IMA, is now in its For further information: Asst. Director, DO, with the Art Institute of Chicago, will oversee Gregory Allgire Smith to the newly created third printing. the International Exchange of Scholars) ad· vestors Center Inc., N.Y.C., June 5-July 5. 1702 32nd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. an archival program that will enlarge the position of assistant to the director. Smith ministers awards in more than 100 countries Paintings! sculpture. 20007. Application deadline: November 15. throughout the world. Honest, we weren't be Center's holdings dramatically over the next (MA, Williams College and Clark Art Inst.) PEOPLE AND PROGRAMS is compiled by Minerva Barbara Zucker. Robert Miller Gallery, ing subversive ... just careless! In any event, three years. Recent grants from the Andrew comes to Toledo from the Akron Art Insti· Navarrete and Rose R. Weil. MaterialJor in a detailed announcement of 1981-82 Ful· N.Y.C., February, sculpture. Pennsylvania W. Mellon Foundation for expanded curato tute, where he held a similar post. clusion in this section should be sent to Col· bright opportunities is available from CIES, Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, May rial activity and the Alex Hillman Family lege Art Assodation, 16 East 52 Street, Senior Fellowships at Columbia 9-June 29, "Animated Chairs," sculpture. II Suite 300, 11 Dupont Circle, Washingto. Foundation for a photographic study room Two appointments to the staff of its Conserva N. Y. C. 10022. Deadline for next issue: We don't know if there are any more of these have made this program possible. tion Laboratory have been announced by the August 15. III around, but if there are we would certainly D.C. 20036. CAA newsletter June 1980 II lO Ipreservation news classifieds
SUMMER WORKSHOPS (con't.) Sept. 22-26. Conservation of Library and Ar The CAA newsletter will accept classifieds of shop Series, A & I 2235, Washington, D.C. chival Materials and the Graphic Arts, Cam a professional or semi-professional nature 20560. bridge, England. Contact: Institute of Paper (sale of libraries, summer rental or exchange Conservators and the Society of Archivists, of homes, etc.). The charge is 50t per word, P.O. Box 17, London, WCl 2PE, England. July 7-12. International Symposium on the minimum charge $10.00, advance payment ConservaNon of Contemporary Art, National required. Make checks payable to CAA. Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Contact: Conser Annual Courses. (I)Arch£tectural Conserva ART ITALIA. 10 and 16 day in-depth tours vation Symposium, Restoration and Conser tion. (2) Conservation of Mural Paintings. of Italy, accompanied by art historian. Fea vatian Lab., NGC, Elgin St., Lorne Bldg., Contact: ICCROM, 13 Via di San Michele, turing deluxe hotels, meals "off the beaten Ottawa, Ont., KIA OMS. (613) 996·S274. Rome. Application must be made a year in track" treasures, inaccessible to the casual advance and received no later than Jan. 15. visitor. Departures Fall 1980, Spring 1981. For individuals or special interest groups. In July (exact date unknown). International Annabelle Simon Cahn II verness Travel, 380 Madison Ave., New York, Semt'nar on Restoration. Institute of Conser Public Information Officer vation and Methodology of Museums, Vesz N.Y. 10017. prem, Hungary. ITALY. Rome, Florence areas. A few apart ment and house rentals available summer / Aug. 20-22. Book Conservation, University fall 1980. Contact P. de Martino, Via S. Al of California , Santa Cruz. Contact: Extension berto Magno 5, 00153, Rome, Italy. Tel. Div., UCISC, Santa Crm, CA 95064. (40S) To', inSo.T,e." ret~ip( of ,all CAA-' PQblita 574.11.33. 429·4534. .qorts'". ~,n~~ :~n,no.~nc:me~ts;:- ',please,:: h.e American Committee for SOUTH ASIAN s.u~, tp,k~ep:.~)'\ .iTlfornle.d "of-yo,ur c~r~ ART welcomes new members. For inquiries Aug. 25-27. Preservation and Restoration of rencaddtess. on membership, slide sets for sale, microfiche
Photographic Images J Rochester Institute of archive, back issues of Newsletter, etc. con Technology. Contact: Betty Glasenapp, Col tact Susan Huntington, Art History Depart lege of Continuing Education, RIT, 1 Lomb ment, Ohio State University, Columbus, Memorial Drive, Rochester, N.Y. 14623. Ohi043210. III
DATEBOOK. 1 July deadline ACLS Travel Grant applications (conferences November-February) I August deadline September newsletter. . 1 September deadline Millard Meiss applications. . 26 September deadline submission of positions for October 7 Listing. 1 October deadline annual meeting abstracts.
Non-Profit Org. G44 newsletter U.s. Postag{'" PAID © 1980 New York. N. Y. College Art Association of America Permit No. 4683 16 East 52 Street. New York 10022 Editor: Rose R. Weil
June 1980