Spring 2020, no. 1 ICMA NEWS...AND MORE Spring 2020, no. 1 Melanie Hanan, Editor Contents: FROM THE PRESIDENT, NINA ROWE ICMA News 1 Dear ICMA Members, From the President, Nina Rowe 1 I am honored to write to you as the newly elected President of the International Center of Member News 3 Medieval Art. We are at an exciting moment for the study of medieval art history and I am opti- Awards mistic about the direction of the field. Our community is engaged in initiatives both academic Books Appointments and public-facing, launching projects aimed at broadening the scope of our inquiry and wel- coming a range of voices to the conversation. This issue of ICMA News chronicles the strength Commemorations: 7 of our history as well as the promise of our work going forward—with a suite of memorials David Jacoby, 1928 – 2018 for long-time friends of the organization and notices about innovative projects undertaken by Danielle Valin Johnson, a crop of rising scholars. 1938 – 2019 Martin Warnke, 1937 – 2019 But this is also a time of uncertainties. As I write, concern over the spread of the COVID-19 Georgia Wright, virus has led many colleges and universities to shift away from face-to-face instruction, tran- 1937 – 2019 sitioning to online teaching. Conferences and lectures around the world are being canceled or Member Events: 12 postponed. And many of us are preoccupied with caring for loved ones who are vulnerable. At Special Features 20 the ICMA we will do what we can to offer resources and guidance to help you through this dif- Reflection:HBK ficult period. Keep an eye out for email announcements. We have already created a “Resources Symposium and Doha Museum Review, by for Online Teaching” page on our website; it is updated regularly. We will get through this and Tracy Chapman I am confident that our community will come out strong and invigorated as we head into the Hamilton 20 future. Resources: Creation of Gothic Architecture, the site, by John James 24 At this moment of transition, I pay tribute to my predecessor and others who worked in the Exhibition Review: Van leadership of the ICMA over the past three years, colleagues whose energy and open-minded- Eyck: An Optical ness set us on a promising course. Helen Evans (Mary & Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Revolution, by Joseph R. Kopta 28 Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) served as President of the organization from 2017 to 2020. During her term, Helen successfully launched the revision and orchestrated the confir- Events and Opportunities 31 mation of the ICMA Mission Statement, crafting one that recognizes how we foster the study Contributors 37 of art and architecture from “every corner of the medieval world.” In her commitment to expanding participation in the organization, moreover, Helen worked hard to encourage those beyond the ranks of our Board of Directors to become actively engaged in our eleven com- mittees, issuing open calls for volunteers each year in January. It is wonderful that so many colleagues have responded actively to lend their smarts and talents to our cause. I tip my hat to Helen for handing-off such a strong and dynamic ICMA. I also recognize the hard work of Anne Stanton, who served as Secretary for the ICMA, masterfully transforming the lively, sometimes free-wheeling debates and discussions of Board meetings and other colloquies into beautiful minutes recording our deliberations. I thank Heidi Gearhart for an industrious three years as Editor of ICMA News, developing this publication into an essential resource rich with reports, reviews and notices of events pertinent to our community. Three committee Chairs also are stepping down: Laura Hollengreen, of the Nominating Committee; Alexa Sand, of Publications; and Beth Williamson, of Programs and Lectures. All three did first-rate work advancing our traditions of showcasing rigorous and innovative scholarship, managing their committees, and collaborating in the interests of the organization. I am grateful to these women for modeling leadership for us all. I also recognize the Board members rotating off after their Continued on page 2 Melanie Hanan, Editor terms: Elizabeth Bolman, Tom Dale, Christopher Lakey, Amanda Luyster, Christina Maranci, Alison Perchuk and Sarah Thompson. Thanks to all of them for their service. And I have the pleasure of welcoming a new cluster of colleagues to the team, voted in by the membership in an election with an impressive 46% participation rate. (The voter turn-out for most scholarly organizations hovers around 20%.) Joining Warren Woodfin(Treasurer) and myself on the ICMA Executive Committee are Stephen Perkinson, who will serve a three-year term as Vice President of the ICMA, and Richard Leson, who will take up the quill as Secretary. New members of the Board of Directors are: Andrea Achi, Kirk Ambrose, Shirin Fozi, Heidi Gearhart, Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Joan Holladay and Bryan Keene. The committee assignments of these and others who have volunteered to help govern our organization are viewable in the “About” section of the ICMA website. Our new overseas Associates are Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh), Martina Bagnoli (Gallerie Estense, Modena), Ioanna Christoforaki (Academy of Athens) and Jitske Jasperse (Humboldt Universität, Berlin). Our new Chair of the Nominating Committee is Ellen Shortell and her committee members are: Eva Hoffman, Sonja Drimmer, Joseph Ackley and Elina Gertsman. I am also happy to introduce our new editor for ICMA News, Melanie Hanan; please contact Melanie with ideas for short essays, reports, or other announcements you would like included in the newsletter ([email protected]). The College Art Association meeting in February is the moment when our leadership rotates, and I was delighted that we convened events at the conference that represent so well where we are and where we are headed as a field. Meg Bernstein and Emogene Cataldo organized the ICMA-sponsored session at CAA, “Buildings in Bloom: Foliage and Architecture in the Global Middle Ages,” and Helen Evans, with the help of a presidential fund given by Marilyn Stokstad, put together a thought-provoking and ambitious panel at our Annual Meeting, “ICMA and Expanding the Medieval World.” Reports on both of these sessions are in the “Member News; Events” section below in the newsletter. We were also able to recognize the outstanding scholarship of our members, with Margaret Graves winning our annual book prize for Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam (Oxford UP, 2018) and Christopher Lakey earning Finalist status for Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy (Yale UP, 2018). Helen’s panel was held at the Arts Club of Chicago and, after the discussion, the event seamlessly transitioned to a lively reception where members long-standing and new socialized and brainstormed. I am also delighted to direct your attention to a revamped ICMA website (medievalart.org). I am deeply grateful to Greg Bryda, Chair of Digital Resources, and his committee for the boldness and professionalism they brought to this important undertaking. In closing, I wish to underscore that we aim to make the organization responsive to your needs. Please feel free to contact me or our Executive Director, Ryan Frisinger ([email protected]) with your thoughts about how we might best serve the medi- eval community. I am excited about the work ahead and hope to steer the ICMA in a way that is receptive to and supportive of all of our members. Sincerely, Nina Rowe President, ICMA Associate Professor of Art History Fordham University [email protected] 2 Spring 2020, no. 1 MEMBER NEWS (If you have a project that is public-facing, please consider submitting an application for Whiting Public Engagement funding. The dead- line for the current cycle is April 1, 2020. Details are under the Member Awards “Events and Opportunities” section of this Newsletter and on the ICMA website under “Grants & Awards.”) If you are a member and your work has garnered a national or inter- national award in the twelve months prior to June 2020, please send Holly Flora (Department of the History of Art, your information to Melanie Hanan, [email protected], by Tulane University) was recently awarded the Premio June 15, 2020 for publication in the July issue. San Francesco from the Pontifical University of Saint Anthony (Antonianum) in Rome for her book Cimabue (Department of the History of Art Benjamin Anderson and the Franciscans (Turnhout: Brepols/Harvey Miller, and Visual Studies, Cornell University) has been awarded 2018). The prize is given to the best book published in the Karen Gould Prize in Art History from the Medieval Franciscan studies between 2017-19, and carries a 6000- Academy of America for his book, Cosmos and Community euro award. http://www.antonianum.eu/it/avvisi/3814/ in Early Medieval Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, Premio-San-Francesco 2017). Jennifer Feltman (Department of Art and Art History, Elina Gertsman (Department of Art History and Art, University of Alabama) has been awarded a Whiting Public Case Western Reserve University) received a grant from the Engagement Seed Grant for her project “Experiencing CAA’s Millard Meiss Publication Fund for her forthcoming Gothic: A VR Cathedral for Middle School Students.” The book, Nothing is the Matter: Spaces of Absence in Late Medieval official announcement of the award is available online. Art (Penn State Press). Jennifer Feltman is partnering with an international team of Anne Lester (Department of History, Johns Hopkins colleagues and digital media experts to build a virtual reality University) was awarded an NEH Fellowship for the experience of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame at Reims, and 2020/2021 year to pursue a project entitled “Fragments coordinating with local teachers to incorporate the pro- of Devotion: Relics, Remembrance and Material History ject into seventh- and eighth-grade media arts and social in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade.” Drawing on an studies classes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.