NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Department of Art History Dear Friends and Colleagues: NEWSLETTER It is my pleasure to highlight some pilot new initiatives including a of the recent accomplishments in the publication fund for faculty and Department of Art History and invite recent Ph.D. alumni, a dissertation 2013-14 you to enjoy a fuller summation in completion fellowship, and an the pages that follow. Our faculty undergraduate travel seminar. If you CONTENTS published articles and essays in an are interested in supporting any of array of venues. Special congratulations these initiatives or have ideas about are owed to Huey Copeland and others, please see the guidelines 2 Hannah Feldman, who published their about giving on the last page of this FACULTY NEWS first books, and to Stephen Eisenman, newsletter. who published his sixth and seventh. Among many faculty honors, one in The department received another 7 particular stands out: Ann Gunter substantial gift from the Andrew W. NEW FACULTY was named Bertha and Max Dressler Mellon Foundation to launch the Professor in the Humanities. Chicago Objects Study Initiative, a project envisioned in concert with 9 Graduate students garnered many fine the Art Institute of Chicago and the SUMMER SEMINAR awards for research, which they will University of Chicago. This project ABROAD conduct away from campus next year. will benefit graduate students Funding sources include the Kress and the department as a whole in Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, innovative ways as you can read 10 and the Henry Luce Foundation/ about on page 8. GRADUATE ACLS. Among our outstanding STUDENT NEWS undergraduate majors, six received In 2014-15, we will welcome Jun honors from the Weinberg College Hu as assistant professor in Asian of Arts and Sciences for their senior art history and Bilha Moor as a 14 theses. As a wonderful example postdoctoral fellow in Islamic art UNDERGRADUATE of the magic that can happen at and architecture. This past year, STUDENT NEWS Northwestern, two doctoral students— we welcomed two new affiliate Jill Bugajski and John Murphy—and faculty members: Kathleen Elliot Reichert, an undergraduate Bickford Berzock, Associate 15 alumnus, curated exhibitions at the Director for Curatorial Affairs at NORTHWESTERN Block Museum of Art. For these the Block Museum of Art, and ART REVIEW projects, they worked under the Lane Relyea, Associate Professor inspired mentorship of Lisa Corrin, in the Department of Art Theory & director of the Block and affiliate Practice. 16 faculty member in Art History. LECTURES & Please send news of your activities, EVENTS On behalf of the department, I want to and visit our website for up-to-date express sincere gratitude to Elizabeth departmental information. and Todd Warnock whose continued support for our programming was 16 augmented by a gift of $500,000 this Jesús Escobar ALUMNI NEWS spring. We will use these funds to Chair FACULTY NEWS Hollis Clayson spent an invigorat- book with the University of Chicago ing academic year in Washington Press, Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, D.C. as the Samuel H. Kress Pro- and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural fessor in the Center for Advanced America, which has already garnered Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) positive press from the likes of Artforum at the National Gallery of Art. Her and Choice. With an eye toward future membership in the CASVA com- projects examining black expressive munity pushed her scholarship cultures in the Lusophone world, into new territory and nudged her Copeland began studying Portuguese onto new social terrain. Mentoring and planning an exploratory trip to Professor Clayson lectured at the CASVA predoctoral fellows in Brazil. Over the course of the academic Vanderbuilt University. Pictured residence, an aspect of the Kress Profes- year, he also completed shorter pieces with Kevin Murphy (Ph.D. 1992). sorship portfolio, was also a pleasure. on Gardar Eide Einarsson, Theaster At the same time, it was a busy year for Gates, Adler Guerrier, African American travel away from D.C. She keynoted art in the 1990s, and transnational the Nineteenth-Century French Studies African diasporic collaborative practice; Conference in Richmond VA, presented this last essay appeared in “Black work at NU-Q in Doha, keynoted the Collectivities,” a special issue of Nka: Boston University Graduate Student Journal of Contemporary African Art, Conference, “See the Light,” lectured in co-edited with Naomi Beckwith, the the Art History Department at Vander- Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at bilt University, delivered the Wayne the Museum of Contemporary Art Craven Lecture at the University of Chicago. Copeland shared his work at Delaware, and presented a paper in the venues across the country, including “Impressionism and Politics” confer- the Hammer Museum; the Institute ence in Giverny, France. At the National of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Gallery, she lectured three times: “Epi- Princeton University; the Renaissance Professor Copeland co-edited sodes from the Visual Culture of the Society at the University of Chicago; “Black Collectivities,” a special issue of Nka: Journal of Contemporary City of Light,” “Marville’s Streetlamps,” and his alma mater, the University African Art. and “Mary Cassatt’s Radical Monstrosi- of California, Berkeley, where he ties.” She has four essays due during presented his work on jazz icon Sun the fall of 2014. Her advisee, Liza Oli- Ra and celebrated the release of Bound ver, defended her dissertation and will to Appear. Next fall, he looks forward be a 2014-15 Postdoctoral Fellow at the to returning to teaching full-time. His Metropolitan Museum of Art. new courses include the department’s Introduction to Contemporary Art During his 2013-14 sabbatical, survey, as well as the Summer Seminar sponsored by a fellowship from the Abroad, which he will co-teach in Cape American Council of Learned Societies, Town, South Africa with his colleague Huey Copeland made significant and frequent collaborator, Krista strides toward the completion of his Thompson. new manuscript, currently entitled In the Arms of the Negress: Race, Gender, In 2014, Stephen Eisenman published and the Undoing of Modern Art, while his new book, The Ghost of our Meat Professor Eisenman published his he continued to refine a companion (The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College/ new book, The Ghost of Our Meat (D.A.P, 2014) volume focused on figurations of black D.A.P). He has lectured on the topics masculinity in contemporary American of animal art and animal liberation aesthetic practice. In November, he at The University of Chicago, Oxford welcomed the publication of his first University, and Sheffield University. 2 In November, Eisenman spoke at the tentatively entitled Petite Planète: Siting Chicago Humanities Festival on the Revolution in the Postcolony and Beyond. subject of another recent book, The Cry Research from this and other projects of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal was also presented at the University Rights (University of Chicago Press, of Chicago and at the University of 2013). He also served as Chair of the Rochester. This spring-summer, she Faculty Senate. was awarded a fellowship as a Scholar in Residence at the Canadian Centre In 2013-14, Jesús Escobar began a for Architecture in Montreal, and was second term as Department Chair. He further honored by an invitation to taught the undergraduate Introduction serve on the Comité scientifique of an to European Art survey with a terrific international research project that aims team of five graduate student teaching to consider the contemporary artistic assistants and a graduate seminar exchange between France, Italy, and on art and architecture at the court the Maghreb. The project, spearheaded of Philip IV in Madrid, in addition by Dominique Jarrassé out of the Professor Escobar’s article, “Map as to advising Kate Wollman’s senior Louvre, will lead to a yearlong series of Tapestry: Science and Art in Pedro thesis on the Park Güell in Barcelona. seminars and invitational conferences Teixeira’s 1656 Representation of Madrid” appeared in The Art Beyond campus, Escobar delivered to be held in Paris, Rome, and Tunis. Bulletin, March 2014. papers at Harvard University, Penn Feldman was also invited to present her State University, and the annual work and lead a seminar at the Institut meeting of the Association for national d’histoire d’art in Paris. She Spanish and Portuguese Historical was extremely proud to see several Studies in Modena, Italy. This year, he students she met in her first years at published two articles for the Lexikon Northwestern defend their dissertations of the Hispanic Baroque: Technologies of this spring, and wishes to congratulate a Transatlantic Cultural Transfer, edited Angelina Lucento, David Calder (of by Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills Theatre), and Jill Bugajski. (University of Texas Press, 2013), and the article “Map as Tapestry: Science Ann Gunter completed her third and and Art in Pedro Teixeira’s 1656 final year as Chair of Classics and Representation of Madrid” in The continued to teach in Art History, Art Bulletin. Escobar will be on leave Classics, and Humanities. She taught next year and intends to complete the two new courses in Art History: an writing for his book project, Baroque undergraduate course titled “Art and Madrid: Architecture, Space, and the Empire in the Ancient Near East” and a Spanish Habsburgs. graduate seminar on “The Reception of Antiquity.” In November, she served as Hannah Feldman enjoyed a busy but respondent for the Melammu Project’s productive year that included serving Seventh Symposium, held in Ober- as Director of Undergraduate Studies gurgl, Austria, which was devoted to in the department as well as a WCAS the theme “Mesopotamia in the Ancient first year advisor. Feldman was also World: Impact, Continuity, Parallels.” elected to a Faculty Affiliate fellowship She contributed an essay to an exhibi- at the Humanities Institute for the tion catalogue for a major show that second time.