VET NOV TES TAM PrincetonUniversity EN TVM DEPARTMENT OF Art Archaeology& Newsletter Dear Friends and Colleagues: SPRING In last year’s newsletter, Bob Mudd Library. The situation is not ideal, but also not as inconvenient as we had feared. With Inside Bagley, then acting chair, wrote the coming of spring, the trek across campus is that we were in the final design becoming less onerous than in the cold days of phase for the Marquand Library winter. Marquand Library in McCormick is now NEW FACULTY an empty shell, with asbestos removal underway. expansion and McCormick Hall The precept room opposite the Marquand en- FACULTY NEWS renovation. Fast forwarding to trance has become a construction site office, and work is underway outside room 106 for an eleva- the end of this academic year, we tor which will provide access to all three floors of EXPANSION AND RENOVATIONS find ourselves in the middle of a the building. The department has contributed a substantial amount of funds from its endowment, construction site. matched by the University, to get construction CONFERENCES In a campaign which required underway. We are actively engaged in a capital campaign to raise further funds to rebuild the logistics comparable to the invasion endowment and get the job done. EXCAVATIONS of Normandy, Marquand Librarian In September we were delighted to welcome Jan Powell oversaw the removal of two new regular faculty members. Alastair Wright, formerly at Richmond University in London, UNDERGRADUATE NEWS the library holdings during winter joined us as an assistant professor specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European recess to several locations. Some art; and Jerome Silbergeld, who comes to us GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS categories of rarely-used books from the University of Washington, is the first were moved into holder of the P. Y. and Kinmay Tang Professorship MARQUAND LIBRARY NEWS permanent off-site in Chinese Art. Jerome is also the first director of the storage. SLIDES AND PHOTOGRAPHS Tang Center for Chinese The bulk of the collec- and Japanese Art. You will tion was moved to space in read more about them below. the Engineering Quad INDEX OF CHRISTIAN ART We also benefited from known by some as a hire in another depart- “Marquand in Exile.” It is ment. Professor Leonard actually a very handsome, PUBLICATIONS Barkan, formerly at New light-filled space which York University, joined the engineering students, as Department of Compara- NEWS FROM ALUMNI well as art history majors, tive Literature and was are finding an attractive ‒ appointed as associated place to study. faculty in Art and Archaeol- ART MUSEUM NEWS Most of the remainder ogy. Winner of the Charles of the collection, including Rufus Morey Prize of the the rare books, is housed in continued on next page College Art Association for his book Unearthing in a book entitled From Drawings to Painting: the Past, he has broad interdisciplinary interests Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, and Ingres which encompass art, literature, and the classical (Princeton University Press, 2000). A member of tradition, and we look forward to his participa- the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and tion in department initiatives. a corresponding member of the Accademia Although T. Leslie “Bucky” Shear, Hugo nazionale di San Luca and the Accademia dei Meyer, and Esther da Costa Meyer were on full- Lincei in Italy, he was elected in 1995 to the year sabbatical leaves, there were no visiting Academie Française—one of the “Immortals,” faculty members in the department this year. A whose number is always kept at forty—the high- search to replace Peter Bunnell, who retires at est honor that can be given to a citizen of France. the end of the spring term, was held, and I am We were delighted that he found time in a very very pleased to announce that Anne McCauley, busy schedule to give the sixth Haley lecture. presently at the University of Massachusetts, The department also sponsored or cospon- Boston, will be joining us this fall as a full sored a number of conferences organized by both professor. She will offer a full range of courses faculty and graduate students. In October, Anne- in the history of photography. Marie Bouché was co-organizer, with Jeffrey We were also pleased to welcome Lisa Ball Hamburger (Harvard University), of a symposium to the office staff as assistant to the chair and to entitled “The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological the departmental representative. She came to us Argument in the Medieval West.” This was fol- from the Department of Molecular Biology, lowed in November by “Women Artists at the where she worked from 1997 as administrative Millennium,” a conference organized by Carol support to three faculty members. Previous to Armstrong, who also curated the accompanying that, Lisa worked at Temple University, the exhibition “Camera Women” at the art museum. University of South Carolina, and the Woodrow In December, Hal Foster put on a conference Wilson School at Princeton. She has already entitled “The Dada Idea.” In March, “Posing endeared herself to faculty and students alike Models: The Question of Beauty and Its Status with her cheerfulness, quiet efficiency, and will- in the History of Art” was organized by graduate ingness to help. students Michelle Foa, Suzanne Hudson, and Julia The signal occasion of the fall term was the Robinson; and in April, Jenny King represented lecture by Pierre Rosenberg, director emeritus of the department in organizing a graduate student the Musée du Louvre, in the James F. Haley, conference in the School of Architecture entitled Class of 1950, lecture series. The series was “Room.” Danny Curcic´ ˇ put on a workshop on Pierre Rosenberg ´ endowed by William Haley, Class of 1945, in Byzantine domes, with department Ph.D.’s honor and memory of his late brother, James, Christina Maranci *98, Asen Kirin *00, and Ida and provides for a lecture by a distinguished Sinkevic´ *94, and present graduate students Kim scholar every other year. The inaugural lecture Bowes and Ludovico Geymonat participating. was given in 1991 by Professor James Ackerman. The previous issues of this newsletter are He was followed by Kathleen Weil Garris Brandt, now available on the department’s Web site at Marcia Pointon, Thomas Krens, and James Cahill www.princeton.edu/~artarch/newsletter. Please on a more or less every-other-year schedule. continue to stay in contact with us by e-mail at Monsieur Rosenberg’s lecture, entitled [email protected] or by mail: “Georges La Tour: An Exemplary Case of a Newsletter Painter Whose Reputation Was Revived Thanks Department of Art and Archaeology to Art Historians,” was enthusiastically received McCormick Hall by an audience that filled 101 McCormick. Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-1018 Author of numerous books and catalogues, he published his Mellon lectures, delivered at the We welcome your interest, your news, and National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1996, your suggestions. Patricia Fortini Brown, chair SPRING New Faculty Jerome Silbergeld joined the department last Alastair Wright, a specialist in the art of the fall as the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth Chinese Art History and director of the Tang centuries, joined the department this fall as Center for the Study of Chinese and Japanese assistant professor. A 1987 graduate of Cambridge hn Blazejewski Art. He was previously chair of the Department University, where he received a B.A. in art history, Jo of Art History and director of the School of Art he earned an M.A. at the University of Minnesota at the University of Washington in Seattle. (1989) and a Ph.D. (1997) in art history at Silbergeld received his B.A. (1966) and his M.A. Columbia. At Columbia, where he was a Whiting (1967) from Stanford University, both in his- Fellow, he studied with Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin tory. He did his graduate studies in art history at Buchloh, and Yves-Alain Bois, and wrote a dis- the University of Oregon, where he earned an sertation entitled “Identity Trouble: Matisse and Jerome Silbergeld M.A. (1972), and at Stanford, where he was the Failure of the Subject.” awarded a Ph.D. in 1974. Wright came to the department from the Well known for his publications on Chinese Getty Research Institute, where he was a Getty painting, including the book Chinese Painting Style Scholar and participated in the seminar “Repro- (University of Washington Press, 1982), which ductions and Originals.” Since arriving at has been a standard textbook in the field for Princeton, he has returned to the Getty to lecture twenty years, he has written on meaning, style, on Maximilien Luce’s Une rue de Paris en 1871. technique, politics, and patronage. He has also This April he lectured at Tate Britain on “The contributed entries on a wide range of subjects to Work of Imitation: Turkish Modernism and the encyclopedias and dictionaries, and coauthored ‘Generation of 1890.’” He previously held teach- the entry on Chinese art in the Encyclopaedia ing positions at Alfred University and Richmond Britannica. Spurred by his interest in contempo- University in London, and has been a curatorial rary Chinese society and art, Silbergeld has also assistant at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and become an authority on twentieth-century art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. China. His publications on contemporary Chinese His scholarly interests embrace theories of art include Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Social- modernism; European colonialism, orientalism, ist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng and primitivism; and British art. Matisse has (University of Washington Press, 1993), which been a particular focus of his research and publi- Alastair Wright was a New York Times Notable Book of 1993, as cations, which include an article on Matisse’s well as articles on censorship.