(Historians of Hmeteenth-Century PLrt NEWSLETTER Vol. 6, No. 1 Spring 1999 ----------------——-————-----------------*——--------------——n Greetings from the President: An AHNCA Update he recent membership meeting at CAA in Los Angeles large. Therefore, we are including a ballot in this issue gave us an opportunity to get reacquainted with some and are asking the membership to respond by voting no Tof our members and to get caught up on a series of later than May 15, 1999. issues. As the membership of AHNCA has continued to Since this is the last time that I will be addressing the grow, we have responded by initiating a Web site and by membership of AHNCA as president, let me assure you expanding the content of our Newsletter. The response to that it has been a most beneficial three-year term. We these aspects of our organization has been overwhelm­ have seen AHNCA increase and prosper—its sessions at j ingly positive. Our get-togethers at CAA have become an CAA continue to be well attended—and I am looking integral part of the way AHNCA helps to foster contin­ forward to seeing the new president continue to steer ued interest in the nineteenth century. our organization in the right direction. Thank you for all At the membership meeting we also established a slate of your support over the years; it has been a rare oppor- j of officers who want to serve our constituency. These tunity to serve our field with enthusiasm. With all good potential officers are well versed in how the organization wishes for the future. runs but they still must be voted on by the members at —Gabriel P. Weisberg ; Election of Officers: It’s Time to Vote www.inform.umd.edu/arth/ahnca. The new officers will take office September 1,1999. t the business meeting during CAA, it was decided that Patricia Mainardi has been appointed as program chair. we should add several positions to the AHNCA board. With this issue, we also welcome Cynthia Mills as our new AThey are vice president, which is an elective position, and newsletter editor. In addition to producing the newsletter, program chair, an appointive post. We also still need to find she has posted the preliminary Web site, which we hope someone to serve as membership coordinator. will be linked soon with the CAA site's list of affiliated soci­ Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, professor of art history at eties. The site is maintained at the University of Maryland Seton Hall University, has agreed to be nominated for under the sponsorship of June E. Hargrove, who has president. Dr. Chu has been involved with AHNCA since agreed to be AHNCA's first webmaster. (See page 2.) its inception and was the founder and first editor of the We wish to extend our sincerest thanks to Lucy Oakley, Newsletter. Her field of scholarly interest is French retiring editor of the newsletter, for everything she has Realism, notably the work of Gustave Courbet. She also done for the organization over the last few years. Her keen has published on the still life paintings of Van Gogh and editorship is greatly appreciated as has been the care with on the artistic and collecting activities of Dominique which she chaired the "New Directions for Nineteenth- Vivant Denon. Century Art History" panels featuring papers by new and Current AHNCA president Gabriel P. Weisberg has been soon-to-be PhDs at the last two CAA conferences. nominated to serve as vice-president. Sura Levine and Sally Please remember that this organization wants to repre­ Webster have agreed to stand again for their respective sent your needs and interests. The only way we can do this positions as secretary and treasurer. No other nominations sufficiently is to have the membership's sustained involve­ were offered for elective offices, but you may write in other ment. We have responded to your wishes in expanding the candidates on the ballot included in this newsletter. newsletter. Please let us know how we might better serve Please nominate/self-nominate candidates also for the the needs of the historians of nineteenth-century art. position of membership coordinator. At the business —Sura Levine meeting, we discussed the essential need to create this position. It will not take too much time to perform once the initial cleaning up of the membership database is com­ Inside this issue pleted, but will necessitate periodic reminder letters to «> AHNCA Calls for Papers for CAA 2000 Page 2 "deadbeat" members. ♦J* The Year of Ensor Page 3 Please send your complete ballots by May 15th to: Sura *X» Courbet in Lausanne Page 4 Levine, CCS, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002. You ♦> Reinstallation at the Walters Gallery Page 5 also can vote via e-mail. Please address your message to: ♦> Plus exhibitions, new books, personalia, [email protected]. The results will be published in symposia and museum news the Fall Newsletter and on the AHNCA Web site. Patrons Phillip Dennis Cate Lee MacCormick Edwards Elizabeth Streicher Sally and Nick Webster Gabriel and Yvonne Weisberg David and Constance Yates Supporting Members Julie L. and Steven K. Cochran Therese Dolan Beatrice Farwell Linda Ferber June E. Hargrove Kristi Holden William R. Johnston Patricia Mainardi Marc and Fiona Simpson Arman and Jane Vein Nimmen Ruth Weidner Beth S. Wright AHNCA Panels at CAA 2000: Calls for Papers Out of the Academy and into the Arcades Susan M. Canning, College of New Rochelle, and Sum Levine, Hampshire College. Mail abstracts and a c.v. to both: Susan M. Caiming, RO. Box 20384, Nezu York, NY 10009; and Sura Taking the Past into the Future Levine, 28 Northern Avenue, Northampton, MA 01060. —AHNCA Goes Online Deadline: May 14,1999. AHNCA is going online on two fronts: a Web site and a This panel will explore the dynamic cultural exchanges scholarly listserv. that occurred in the nineteenth century when high art prac­ The Web site is: www.inform.umd.edu/arth/ahnca. tices met the politics and poetics of the arcade. As the The site will provide visitors with basic information department store, advertisements, fashion, illustrated jour­ about our scholarly association, including a mission state­ nals, and the marketing of novelty complemented and ment, our calls for CAA papers, how to join the society complicated the dialectic of seeing, official culture sought to and how to submit materials to the newsletter. We also find new ways to keep high art relevant and competitive. have the opportunity, however, to use it as a long-term Within the intersecting discourses of the street, with its repository for such scholarly resources as syllabi, reading stores, cafes, boulevards and strolling flaneurs, artists lists and image sources. Please let us know of resource increasingly found a more fluid view of the present and material that we may link to in order to serve our mem­ past, where investigations in psychology, science, and tech­ bers and support nineteenth-century research. The Web nology easily flowed into discussions of politics, colonial­ site is being hosted at the University of Maryland's ism, or social concerns. We invite papers of diverse Department of Art History and Archaeology by June E. methodologies, geographic locales, and periods within the Hargrove, who will be our first webmaster. Send ideas, nineteenth century that explore how the products and ref­ and urls for links to [email protected]. erents of mass culture interact or intervene with high art, The association also is taking steps to set up an that investigate the processes by which sociopolitical, and AHNCA listserv, an e-mail discussion list similar to those cultural elements converge find transform either the organized by other scholarly groups. Petra Chu is taking imagery or concerns of high art, or that examine the ways the initiative to launch this new listserv for scholarly dis­ that official culture appropriated, circumvented and co­ cussion of nineteenth-century art topics. If you would like opted the disruptive tactics of the street and the arcade. to be included, please send your e-mail address to Dr. Chu at [email protected]. *5* New Voices in Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Gabriel P. Weisberg, University of Minnesota. Mail abstract with Impressionism Is Still No. 1 covering letter and a brief c.v. to: Professor Gabriel P. Weisberg, The Art Newspaper, the London-based monthly, reports 338 Management-Econ Building, Department of Art History, that Monet in the 20th Century was the top-drawing exhibi­ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 55455. E-mail sub­ tion in the United States last year, pulling in 565,992 visi­ missions at: [email protected] Deadline: May 14,1999. tors during a three-month run at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas at the This panel will provide an opportunity for recent PhD or Metropolitan Museum of Art came in second, drawing PhD candidates to present doctoral dissertation research 528,267 people. Third was Van Gogh's van Goghs at the currently underway or completed within the last two years. National Gallery of Art, with an official count of 480,496 Papers in all areas, with all methodologies in evidence, are visitors. welcome. *X* 2 HNCA Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1999 ‘R&p arts from ContriButors Ensorjaar 1999-2000 shows, including two documentary exhibits in the Frank Edebauzaal: Tekeningen van Ensor bij teksten van Stephane By Susan M. Canning Mallarme (Ensor's Drawings on Texts by Stephane Associate Professor, College of New Rochelle Mallarme) from May 15-June 30,1999, and Michel de n January 23,1999, Ensorjaar or the year of James Ensor Ghelderode en Ensor (Michel de Ghelderode and Ensor) officially opened in Ostende, Belgium.