s CUNY's Graduate Center. From 1969 to gela's Last Paintings (Oxford University CONFERENCE 1971, he was a CAA Board member, and Press, 1975); Borromini's Sari Carlo aIle was appo:inted Benjamin Frankl~ Quattro Fontane: A Study in Multiple Form SESSION Professor of the History of Art at the and Architectural Symbolism (Garland, University of Pennsylvania in Philadel­ 1977); The Sexuality of Christ in Renais­ HONORS phia in 1975. He retired in 1991, after sance Art and in Modern Oblivion (Univer­ teaching a semester as the Meyer sity of Chicago Press, 1983; the second Schapiro Chair at Columbia University :in edition:in 1996 was revised and doubled LEO New York. :in size by a "Retrospect" that responds to Steinberg has published and lectured critics); Ei1counters with Rauschenberg STEINBERG widely on Renaissance, Baroque, and (University of Chicago Press, 1999); and, most recently, Leonardo's Incessant Last he CAA Distinguished Scholar's Supper (Zone, 2001). Other writings Session was inaugurated in 2001 include studies of Filippo Lippi, T to engage senior scholars in the Mantegna, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Annual Conference and celebrate their Guercino, Rembrandt, Steen, VeHtzquez, contributions to art history. But its aim is and Picasso. Nonprofit Organization greater: At a time of great methodologi­ In addition to a prolific writing u.s. Postage cal shifts in the field, this session will career, Steinberg'S academic life has also foster dialogue within and among the been a full one. In 1982, he delivered the Paid different generations of art historians. s A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at NewYork,N.Y. Like last year's honoree, James the National Gallery of Art in Washing­ Permit No. 4683 Ackerman, Leo Steinberg stands out:in January 2002 ton, DC. In 1985, he gave the Gauss the field of art history for his eloquent Lectures at Princeton University in New College Art Association capacity to engage other scholars, artists, Jersey. He is a fellow of the American 275 Seventh Avenue and critics of all ages and approaches. Academy of Arts and Sciences and New York, New York 10001 The Distinguished Scholar's Session will University College, London. He has take place Thursday, February 21, 2:30~ received honorary doctorates from the 5:00p.M. Massachusetts College of Art in Boston; Board of Directors Born in Moscow :in 1920, Ste:inberg the Philadelphia College of Art in Ellen T. Baird, President spent his childhood :in Berlin before Pennsylvania; Parsons School of Design Michael Aurbach, Vice President, Committees moving to London, where he studied art Vanalyne Green, Vice President, External Affairs :in New York; and Bowdo:in College in Bruce Robertson, Vice President, Annual Conference at the Slade School, University of Brunswick, ME. Steinberg has been a Joe Deal, Secretary London, from 1936 to 1940. After World resident scholar at the American Acad­ John W. Hyland, Jr., Treasurer War II, he settled in New York, working emy in Rome and the Getty Center for Jeffrey P. Cunard, Counsel as a freelance writer and translator, and the History of Art and the Humanities in Susan Ball, Executive Director as a li£e-draw:ing instructor at Parsons Leo Steinberg, CAA's Distinguished Los Angeles. School of Design. He studied art history Scholar's Session 2002 Honoree In 1983, Steinberg became the first Catherine Asher John W. Hyland, Jr. at the Institute of F:ine Arts, New York PHOTO CREDIT: PAMELA BLACKWELL Michael Aurbach Dorothy Johnson art historian to receive an Award :in Ellen T. Baird Ellen K. Levy University, taking his doctorate:in 1960; Literature from the American Academy Holly Block Virgffiia M. Mecklenburg his dissertation examined the Roman and institute of Arts and Letters. The Josely Carvalho Valerie Mercer Baroque architect Francesco Borromini. twentieth-century art. His writings on following year he won the College Art Irina D. Costache Nicholas Mirzoeff From 1962 to 1975, Steinberg taught modern art were published as Other Association's Frank Jewett Mather Nicola Courtright Andrea S. Norris at Hunter College, City University of Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth­ Award for Distinction in Criticism. In Jeffrey P. Cunard Ferris Olin New York (CUNY), and in 1972 was co­ Century Art (Oxford University Press, Joe Deal Thomas F. Reese 1986, he became a MacArthur Founda- founder of the art history department of 1972). Subsequent books are Michelan- Nancy Friese Bruce Robertson CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Joanna Frueh Gregory G. Sholette Vanalyne Green Joyce Hill Stoner Alison Hilton Edward Sullivan Michael Ann Holly Tran T. Kim-Trang Conference Session Honors Leo Steinberg of Venice (1988-89), both at the National twentieth-century art, she has been Believing that the history of modern Other publications include "Liberal CONTENTS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. active as a writer, editor, educator, and art could not be pursued apart from its Art and Reformist Critique: Competing Samuel Edgerton began his career, curator. Her many publications include theory and criticism, Krauss joined the Discourses of the Gift in Early Modem tion Fellow. During 1995-96, he deliv­ like Steinberg, as an artist and private Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of editorial board of Artforum in the 1960s. Painting," in Negotiating the Gift (forth­ Volume 27, Number 1 ered the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at lamlal}' 2002 high-school teacher. He served for David Smith (MIT Press, 1971), Passages In 1975, she left the magazine to coming, 2002) and "Christ in Ecstasy: Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. several years as an art instructor and in Modern Sculpture (Viking, 1977), David participate in the launch of October, a The Passion According to Michelan­ More recently, he has spoken on Monet wrestling coach, participating in a Smith: A Catalogue Raisonne (Garland, new journal about art, film, and critical gelo," in Coming About: Festschrift for at the Musemn of Fine Arts, Boston; on Conference Session Honors Fulbright exchange teachership in a 1977), The Originality of the Avant-Garde theory. She understood that the task of John Sheannan (Cambridge University Matisse and Picasso at the Kimbell Art 1 Leo Steinberg German high school shortly after World and Other Modernist Myths (MIT Press, writing and publishing forges a relation­ Press, 2001), one of his many distin­ Museum in Fort Worth, TX; and on War II. After a stint as a studio artist, he 1985), Le Photographique (Editions ship among contemporary politics, guished studies on Michelangelo contemporary art from Jasper Johns to pursued a postgraduate degree in art Macula, 1990), Cindy Sherman (Rizzoli, thought, and scholarship. Since its published in the last decade. Nagel also Follow-a-Fellow: Art's Power for Jeff Koons at the Los Angeles County Social Change history and obtained his Ph.D. from the 1993), The Optical Unconscious (MIT inception, October has conceived of wrote the entry II Altarpiece (Definition 4 Museum of Art. Task Force on Publications Convenes University of Pennsylvania in 1965. Press, 1993), Formless: A User's Guide criticism as the act of opening the and History)" in The Dictionary of Art Steinberg will be joined on the dais Drawing on a side interest:in the history (Zone, 1997), The Picasso Papers (Farrar, history of modernism to theory-that is, (MacMillan, 1996), and an article on by a distinguished panel, some of whom From the Executive Director: The of science, particularly ancient and Straus, and Giroux, 1998), and Bachelors subjecting it to an examination of its "Leonardo and Sfumato" in the journal are deeply engaged in contemporary art Active Member: A Key Part of medieval optics, he wrote his disserta­ (MIT Press, 1999). fundamental premises. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics in 1993. 5 Professional Service theory, criticism, and practice, but who tion on the inception of geometric linear Krauss helped organize the Alexander Nagel is Associate Nagel has received an award from also have a primary specialty in Renais­ perspective during the early Italian exhibitions Joan Mir6: Magnetic Fields Professor at the University of Toronto in the Social Sciences and Humanities sance and Baroque art. VRA and ARLIS/NA Celebrate Renaissance. His thesis became ills first (1971) at the Guggenheim Museum in Ontario, Canada. He was educated at Research Council of Canada. He was The chair of this year's Distin­ Anniversaries book, The Renaissance Rediscovery of New York; L'Amour jou: Surrealism and the Universite de Montpellier in also a research fellow at the Max Planck 6 guished Scholar's Session, David Amtrak Provides Conference Travel Linear Perspective (Harper & Row, 1975). Photography (1985) at the Corcoran Montpellier, France, received his B.A. Institut fUr Geschichte in Gottingen, Grants Rosand, is the Meyer Schapiro Professor A Guggenheim fellowship helped Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; from the University of California, Germany, a Getty postdoctoral fellow, of Art History at Columbia University. Edgerton publish The Heritage ofGiotto's Richard Serra: Sculpture (1986) at the Berkeley, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from and a Mellon Foundation grant recipi­ Annual Conference Update He has made his university career at the 7 Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Harvard University. His primary areas ent. school, earnillg his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Scientic Revolution (Cornell University and Robert Morris: The Mind/Body of teaching are Renaissance and contem­ CAA is grateful for the generous degrees there. Rosand received his doc­ Advocacy Update Press, 1991), an elaboration of his idea Problem (1994), also at the Guggenheim. porary art, and his recent research on art support of the Distinguished Scholar's 10 torate in 1965 (his dissertation examined that linear perspective in Renaissance art With Yve-Alain Bois she organized and reform in sixteenth-century Italy is Session provided by the Samuel H.