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DEPARTMENT OF Art Archaeology & Newsletter SPRING 9 Dear Friends and Colleagues: This year was again one of arrivals architecture to Virginia last fall to examine the Inside work of Thomas Jefferson, and Esther will lead her and departures. We welcomed three seminar on global cities to New Orleans this spring new colleagues—Andy Watsky in to investigate post-Katrina reconstruction. In FACULTY NEWS addition, we continue to support a few majors each Japanese, Bridget Alsdorf in 19th- year in museum internships abroad. 8 century European, and Chika Intellectual life in the department also VISUAL ARTS FACULTY Okeke-Agulu in African. remained vibrant. With Yve-Alain Bois, our colleague at the Institute for Advanced Study, We also concluded the hire of the distinguished Christopher Heuer designed a scintillating lecture GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS Romanist Michael Koortbojian, who will join series titled “Art as Knowledge” that brought to us in the fall, and we are in pursuit of another Princeton such luminaries as Joseph Leo Koerner 5 senior colleague in early modern art. Economy of Harvard, Michael Fried of Johns Hopkins, THESIS PRIZES , DISSERTATIONS willing, more searches are in the offing, probably in and Zainab Bahrani of Columbia. The Index of classical archaeology, Byzantine, and contemporary. Christian Art was active, too, with international 6 At the same time, we bid farewell to two conferences on Byzantine art in the fall and UNDERGRADUATE NEWS cherished colleagues, T. Leslie Shear on Gothic this spring. Not to be Jr. in classical art and archaeology outdone, the ever-busy Tang Center and Yoshiaki Shimizu in Japanese. hosted a large conference on SEMINAR STUDY TRIPS With enormous dedication, Bucky contemporary Chinese American has served the department for 42 art to complement a show on the years, Yoshi for 26 years, and they same subject, “Outside In,” curated LECTURES , CONFERENCES , will be greatly missed. Sadly, more by Jerome Silbergeld at the Princeton SYMPOSIUMS retirements are on the horizon. University Art Museum, Next spring is the final term and the Tang Center for three mainstays of the feted Yoshi Shimizu 4 department—Pat Brown, with a scholarly TANG CENTER Willy Childs, and Danny gathering in honor Ćurčić. of his work in April. 6 A primary initiative of Finally, our graduate MARQUAND LIBRARY President Tilghman is to offer Princeton students organized no students international experience, and fewer than two scholarly gatherings 8 the department has contributed this spring: a small colloquium VISUAL RESOURCES COLLECTION significantly to this goal. With support on postwar sculpture, keynoted from such programs as Hellenic studies by Anne Wagner of Berkeley, and a 3 and Latin American studies, we sent seminars to large conference of graduate students from across INDEX OF CHRISTIAN ART Corfu last fall, to study early modern art with Pat the land, titled “Copy That! Reproduction and Brown and Christopher Heuer, and to Mexico this Pedagogy.” 3 spring, to study Pre-Columbian art with Bryan After four years of many changes in the EXCA V ATIONS Just. Further trips to Rhodes, Sicily, and Rome are department, I am stepping down as chair, to be planned for our students next year. We also moved succeeded, I am delighted to report, by Thomas 34 around this country: John Pinto and Esther da Leisten. Thank you for your interest and support. NEWS FROM ALUMNI Costa Meyer took their seminar on 18th-century Hal Foster, chair Faculty News Robert Bagley has just finished an article on the “Venice outside Venice: Toward a Cultural Geogra- methods used to execute the decoration of Chi- phy of the Venetian Republic.” nese bronzes that should be published in the 2009 Her recent publications include “The Exem- volume of Artibus Asiae. His new book Max Loehr plary Life of Giulia Bembo Della Torre,” in and the Study of Chinese Bronzes: Style and Classifi- Philanagnostes: Studi in onore di Marino Zorzi cation in the History of Art (Cornell East Asia Series, (Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini, Venice, and 2008) uses Chinese bronzes as a vehicle for examin- Universität zu Köln, 2008); “Veronese’s Patrons,” ing more general questions of art-historical method. in Paolo Veronese and San Sebastiano, Save Venice, His article “Interpreting Prehistoric Designs,” a cri- 2008 supplement; and “Where the Money Flows: tique of Ernst Gombrich’s Sense of Order, appeared Art Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Venice,” in Tit- Robert Bagley, Max Loehr and the last year in the Warburg Institute Colloquium vol- ian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, Study of Chinese Bronzes: Style and ume titled Iconography without Texts. edited by Frederick Ilchman ’90 (Museum of Fine Classification in the History of Art In June of 2009 Bagley will deliver a paper Arts, Boston, 2009). Brown serves on the executive titled “Gombrich among the Egyptians” at another committee of the Program in Hellenic Studies and Warburg colloquium, this one in honor of Gom- on the board of trustees of Save Venice. brich’s centenary. Later in the year he will give a Rachael Z. DeLue taught an undergraduate survey keynote lecture on the origin of the chromatic of African American art and a graduate/undergradu- scale at an international conference on East Asian ate seminar on the idea of race in American art and music at the University of Hong Kong. On the visual culture this spring. Her most recent publica- back burner, and likely to stay there for a while, tion, the essay titled “Envisioning Race in Spike is a paper on the archaeology of the mandate of Lee’s Bamboozled,” appeared in Fight the Power! The heaven. In the 2009–10 academic year, in addi- Spike Lee Reader (Peter Lang, 2009). With Allison tion to his usual courses on Chinese archaeology, Morehead of Queens University, she co-chaired a Bagley will offer a freshman seminar on metals session at the 2009 meeting of the College Art in art and a 400-level seminar on ornament. Last Association on “The Uses of Pathology.” In addi- spring he spoke at and greatly enjoyed a conference tion, she presented a paper titled “Neither Here nor at Princeton on the Erligang civilization organized There: China, Global Culture, and the End of by graduate student Kyle Steinke and sponsored by American Art” at “ARTiculations,” a symposium the Tang Center. organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Patricia Fortini Brown continues to work on two in conjunction with the exhibition “Outside In: Patricia Fortini Brown et al., Paolo book projects: The Venetian Wife: The Marriage of Chinese American Contemporary Art” at the Veronese and San Sebastiano, Save × × Giulia Bembo and Count Girolamo Della Torre, a Princeton University Art Museum. She is currently Venice 2008 supplement microhistory of the marriage of a Friulian noble- preparing an essay on art and science in America for man and the daughter of a Venetian patrician, and a special issue of the journal American Art, which Venice outside Venice, a book on the artistic and cul- will appear this summer. Perhaps most importantly, tural geography of the Venetian empire. Last fall DeLue and her husband, Erik, celebrated the arrival she co-taught a seminar with Christopher Heuer, of their son, Asher Dylan DeLue, who was born on “The Island of Corfu,” which included a student June 5, 2008. trip to Athens and Corfu sponsored by the Program Christopher Heuer has published The City in Hellenic Studies (for more about this seminar, Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the see page 20). In fall 2009, she will co-teach a simi- Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries (Routledge, 2009), lar course with John Pinto on the islands of Rhodes the first sustained study of Vredeman in English, and Malta. which offers a new perspective on printed archi- During the past year, Brown gave a number tecture in early modern Europe. The book was of lectures on the Renaissance child: the Harvey supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation Buchanan Lecture in Art History and the Human- for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. In Novem- ities at Case Western Reserve University and the ber, Heuer lectured on “‘Mal’occhio’: Looking Cleveland Museum of Art, the Center for Medieval Awry at the Renaissance” at the Courtauld Institute and Renaissance Studies Lecture at Saint Louis of Art. In May, he will speak at “New Urbanism University, and the Devens Lecture at the Museum and the Grid: The Low Countries in International Rachael Z. DeLue et al., Fight the of Fine Arts, Boston. Invited to deliver the George Context. Exchanges in Theory and Practice, 1550– Power! The Spike Lee Reader Levitine Lecture in Art History at the Middle 1800” in Antwerp. Heuer will spend his sabbatical Atlantic Symposium in March 2009, she presented year 2009–10 in Berlin and Williamstown, Mas- her current research interests in a lecture titled sachusetts, part of it as a Fellow at the Sterling and 2 spring 9 Francine Clark Art Institute, where he will continue work on two new projects: a long essay on how art moved in early modern Europe and a book on per- formance and German art history. John Blazejewski In 2008, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann was elected vice president of the National Committee for the History of Art. He was awarded a Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship and a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin for fall 2009 and spring 2010. Because the department will be short-handed in the spring term, he will forego the spring fellowships and will return to Princeton to teach. Together with Thomas Gaehtgens of the Getty Research Institute, he organized sessions on art history as an emerging discipline at the Getty Research Institute and the 2009 College Art Asso- ciation annual meeting; these sessions involved Department faculty.