September-October 1991 CAA News
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" :> N VI< 5 program, dedicated to the general discount add-on fares for travel to and Artistic theme of Artistic Exchange, what makes from New York. In short, every effort is this particular event noteworthy is its being made to make this occasion location: the new, unified Berlin. affordable and open to CAA members Exchange The organizers of the congress want who are interested in attending. to alert students that their participation The program will have a truly in this conference is particularly international flavor. The Berlin location encouraged. Special arrangements will will provide special emphasis on the art be made through a Student Welcome of Central and Eastern Europe and on ess than a year now remains Board for lodging with fellow students, the crossroads role of Berlin for modern until the next International Art as well as for private housing for any avant-garde movements. The program LHistory Congress, number other participants who cannot afford also includes Saturday excursions to XXVIII if you are counting (and art Berlin hotels. Group rates on air fares such sites as Dresden or Magdeburg. historians seem to like Roman numerals may also be available through CAA. Other sites of exchange-Islamic Spain, as much as Super Bowl planners). Save CAA hopes to offer reduced-rate travel the New World, modern Islam, 19th the dates, July 15-20,1992, for this arrangements, whereby groups will century Paris, or pre-Meiji Japan-will occasion promises to be particularly leave from New York on a specified receive attention as a major focus of the significant. In addition to an impressive date, with an open return, and with general theme. Modern movements and CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Vote t's that time of year again, time to make your voices heard and your Ivotes count in the annual election of new members to the College Art AssOCi ation's Board of Directors. Board mem bers are elected to represent you, your interests, your needs, your concerns. They will be making policy decisions on your behalf. Votes are binding, so every vote counts. Voting for candidates to the Board is one way you are able to partici pate in the governance of CAA. Mailed with this newsletter are the list of candidates for election to the Board for the term 1992-96 and a separate bal Nationalgalerie, Berlin, lot. Please cast your votes and return the designed by Mies van der Rohe PHOTO: REINHARD FRIEDRICH prepaid card. Deadline: November 1,1991. E-mail is not hard to use, nor is it Forum for Emerging CAA conference titled "Discovering Netherlandish Art in the Heartland," Electronic Bulletin Board expensive. Costs vary according to the Contents Annual Educators and Artists which will focus on works of art that work you do and the time of day you do The Forum for Emerging Educators and originated in Northern Europe, but that it. Get your node number (i.e., elec Volume 16. Number 5 Artists will hold its organizational are presently in the Midwest; the objects tronic-mail address) today. This column September/Octuber 199/ Conference meeting at the CAA conference: may be either recent discoveries or Hard won't be in hard copy forever. Its Sponge or Brick-What Are We Up works that have received little attention, purpose is to familiarize you with Update Against? in any medium of interest to the field. computer applications and communica What constitutes the cultural status Brief and informal presentations are Copy tions, and then go "on-line." You won't Artistic Exchange quo, and how can the newest generation sought that will inform the membership be seeing us in paper much longer-look 1 Vote of professional artists and art educators about recent research on works in the for us on your computer screen. be characterized? Current M.F.A. and region. Those wishing to participate Ph.D. degree candidates and those who should write to: Ann Roberts, School of 2 Annual Conference Update 1992 Session Added have received their degrees in the past Art and Art History, University of Iowa, Bibliography The following session will be presented three years are encouraged to attend this Iowa City, IA 52242. Deadline: November f course you exchange ideas The following publications provide by the Education Committee of the CAA forum. The forum has been conceived as 15,1991. with your colleagues, at important information on computeriza a framework to facilitate the debate and Electronic Bulletin Board Board of Directors: conventions, by phone, or by tion and databases: 3 discussion of topics too often repressed O Encounters in the Classroom: maiL You also read each other's re Beyond Word Processing I: A Directory Multicultural Issues in the Teaching of in the art discourse. Can generational Reception search, at least at publication time. Now of CAA Database Users will be published Art History. Chair: Joanne E. Sowell, politics exist? Will this generation effect the members of the CAA Committee on by CAA in February 1992. If you are From the Executive Director Reminder 4 Dept. of Art and Art History, University its own direction or simply extend the Electronic Information (CEI) invite you Institutional members of the College Art using a database, you can be included by of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE present trajectory of art discourse and to communicate rapidly and immedi Association are entitled to complimen requesting a eEl questionnaire from 68182. education? Can this generation become ately-with electronic mail and elec tary space to hold a reunion or reception Joanne Capozzelli at CAA. Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members The need for a multicultural leaders of a polyphonic culture? Are tronic bulletin boards. 7 at the annual conference. Please write to Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg, The Place viewpoint is a topic of current interest in mercenary educators replacing the If you are one of many art historians of Narrative: Mural Decoration in Italian Joanne Capozzelli at CAA. Deadline: all areas of education. This session will professor? Are special interest groups and artists who have resisted the Churches, 431-1600 A.D. (University of November 1, 1991. 8 People in the News explore innovative ways to introduce changing as they gain acceptance? Time computer, you may not know that you Chicago Press, 1990), is a history of cultural diversity to students in the art is allotted for presentations that focus on can use E-mail to send and receive conceptual planning of fresco cycles history classroom. Standard texts for the experiences of a generation schooled scholarly and technical information based on material discovered while on the cusp of the nineties-a reflection Grants, Awards, & Honors survey courses have responded to the without "waiting for the book" You can compiling a computer database. This 10 cry for cultural diversity by adding on the system from its most recent send private messages or public study demonstrates the "creative" chapters on Eastern, African, and pre products. This is an opportunity to announcements that circulate news or aspects of the computer, which made Columbian art to the traditional Western identify generational issues pertaining to query your colleagues on any issue possible observations that would Conferences & Symposia 11 history of art. Is this a satisfactory way both art world and art school systems. related to your field. otherwise have taken decades. to adopt a multicultural approach? Must Submit a 1-2 page summary of pro Thanks to E-mail systems, usually linked to Quarterman, John S., The Matrix: the entire curriculum be revised? How posed presentation to: Jeffrey London, Bitnet or Internet, are probably available Computer Networks and Conferencing 13 Opportunities can small institutions with limited Acting Chair, Forum for Emerging where you work. Computer-services Systems Worldwide (Bedford, Mass.: Educators and Artists, 2117 W. Concord Sustaining faculty include courses dealing with a personnel at most universities will help Digital Press, 1990), includes a theoreti Information Wanted multiplicity of cultures? Proposals will PI., Chicago, IL 60647. Deadline: December you get started. Universities provide cal discussion of Internet. 15 Datebook be considered that focus on curriculum 1, 1991. Members computer user rooms where you can issues or on changes to more traditional retrieve your messages, read open courses (both survey and advanced) that inquiries and announcements on the Announcements anow students to compare and contrast Affiliated Societies 16 Classified Ads electronic bulletin boards, and send or Look for a special "in-between" session the art of different cultures or of diverse Calls for Participation respond to messages. Or you can on making and using databases, groups within the same culture. Propos The Design Forum is seeking paper connect with a modem on your com sponsored by CEI at the CAA annual als might also consider problems proposals for its 1992 annual meeting to ustaining membership is a puter at home. conference in Chicago, February 1992. students encounter when faced with the be held in conjunction with the College voluntary category for individu With E-mail, you can participate in Send comments or inquiries on this art of other cultures and teaching Art Association annual conference in als who wish to contribute $100 such electronic bulletin boards as the column to Margaret Lazzari, CEI, c/o eAA News, a publication of the methods, which can enable students to Chicago, February 12-15, 1992. Abstracts Sannually to CAA in addition to scaled Consortium of Art and Architectural CAA. 275 Seventh Ave., New York, NY College Art Association, is published understand and accept different world Historians (CAAH) on a Listserv system six times a year. Material for of 250 to 350 words are invited for this dues. In addition to those people who 10001.