AAH ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS BULLETIN For information on advertising, membership and distribution contact: AAH Administrator, Claire Da vies, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ 94 Tel: 020 7490 3211; Fax: 020 7490 3277; <[email protected]> Editor: Jannet King, 48 Stafford Road, Brighton BN1 5PF <[email protected]> FEB 07 CHAIR'S ANNUAL REPORT Colin Cruise he recent policy announcement, released by the T Victoria and Albert Museum, London, authorising the free reproduction in scholarly publications of images available via its download system, is the best news art historians have had for years. It will be welcomed, in particular, by authors, who have groaned under the financial burden of reproduction costs. Under the new policy, images available through the museum's 'Search the Collections' service will be available for download in hi-resolution format, and used free of charge, at up to A5 size, in scholarly journals, student theses, private study and research, critical editorial use, charity, society and trust newsletters, and for print runs of up to 4,000 in academic or educational books. The new policy, including the terms and conditions and other information, is outlined in full on page 39 of this issue of Bulletin, and there will be updates on the V&A website in due course. My thanks go to Andrea Stern, m Head of V&A Images, for clarification of the Museum's new policy. ^^^^^^^^^ ^J^^^^ Following the highly successful forum on the subject of copyright and reproduction costs held at the Courtauld Institute in June 2005, the AAH and the Courtauld Institute have jointly campaigned for freer access to reproduction of museum-held material. Professor Pat Rubin, Head of Research at the Courtauld, has been 16th-century German stained-gloss panel, The Mocking of Job particularly active in forwarding the aims of the (Museum no. C.216-1928). This is one of 26,000 images soon to be campaign and I would like to take this opportunity of avai'/ab/e for free reproduction under certain circumstances via the V&A's Search the Collections service. ©V&A Images/Victoria thanking her for her help and guidance. Brian Allen, and Albert Museum, London. (See page 39 for further details.) Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, has been of great assistance in this matter, too, and I thank him for his help. Several other interested parties have joined us in this campaign and in CONTESTATIONS one of its most recent stages the AAH was a joint- signatory of a letter to the Director of the National 33rd AAH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Gallery, Charles Saumarez Smith, requesting a review of their policy in this matter. Among the other institutions 12-14 APRIL 2007 approached has been the British Museum. It is to be hoped that the recent example of the V&A will University of Ulster, Belfast encourage other major institutions to review their policy See pp 24-35 for about fair use of images of works in their collections. further details ANNUAL REPORTS CONFERENCES Ireland, looks set to be such a success. This is a really 32nd Annual Conference, Leeds: great opportunity for members to experience Belfast, 'Contents, Discontents, Malcontents' that most lively cultural centre. Early booking is The Leeds conference in April 2006 was a resounding recommended! success, thanks chiefly to the organisational skills of Fred Orton and Josine Opmeer, who planned three days 34th Annual Conference, Tate, London: locations' This issue of the Bulletin contains the Call for Sessions of sessions interlaced with lively plenaries and information from the organisers at Tate (see page 37). receptions. The conference lived up to its intellectual The AAH is particularly pleased that one of Britain's promise and will be remembered by all who attended it. foremost cultural institutions will act as host in 2008, 33rd Annual Conference, Belfast: 'Confrontations' and we are acutely aware that museums promote the Following the success of Leeds will be a difficult job for activities of art historians in innumerable ways. We all the organisers at the University of Ulster but it will be look forward to working with them in this central seen from the information on pages 24-35 that the range activity of the Association's work. of sessions alone will attract large numbers of the art history community. Many of the sessions will take place AAH PUBLICATIONS in brand-new accommodation built at the university's It would only be fair to observe that 2006 was not campus in central Belfast. In addition, the Belfast entirely stress-free for the editorial teams of both our organisers have set up a great range of receptions and journals - delays, new production procedures and visits, including a chance for delegates to extend their demanding schedules made life uncomfortable from time to time - but this would be to focus only on stay to take in major cultural institutions in Dublin. The difficulties rather than successes. It is good to note that AAH is pleased that this, its first conference in Northern both journals have increased their readership and that this looks to be a continuing trend. In addition, both are handsomely designed and beautifully produced. My Contents thanks go to all involved in the editorial processes as well as design and production at all stages, and to those Annual Reports writers whose research is so important to the CIHA 3 advancement of the discipline. Our publisher, Blackwell, Senior Administrator 4 has been taken over by US-based publisher John Wiley Membership figures 4 & Sons, and will be in future known as Wiley Blackwell. Artists' Papers Register 5 We look forward to working with the new company. Museums and Galleries 5 It is noteworthy that Art History continues to attract new Students 6 subscribers making it among the most successful Schools 7 academic journals published in Britain and one of the Hon Secretary 8 most prestigious journals of international standing in AGM agenda 8 the discipline. In addition, the special book series that Universities & Colleges 8 has grown out of the journal has produced a series of The Art Book 9 titles of importance and note. Independents \ 10 David Peters Corbett, Professor of Art History at the Art History 11 University of York, has been appointed Editor, to take Bulletin 13 over from Deborah Cherry and Fintan Cullen in the Student News summer of 2007. My thanks, on behalf of all of us at the Letter from Chair 14 AAH, go to both Deborah and Fintan, who have made New Voices 15 the journal such a great success during their joint tenure. I wish them well in their new ventures. I welcome David Careers Day 16 and wish him every success. Summer Symposium 17 Work Experience 18 The Art Book manages to retain the intellectual poise and Art and the Senses 20 polish expected of a journal produced for AAH members, while appealing to general readers who might Reflected Glory - a story of plagiarism 22 discover it on the magazine rack in bookstores. A new Annual Conference - Belfast 2007 24 section on film studies will appear in forthcoming issues Conference News 36 and will be heralded at a reception at the AAH Annual Conference - Tate 2008 37 conference in Belfast. The editorial team, headed by Sue Exhibitions Diary 38 Ward and Marion Arnold, is to be congratulated on Announcements 38 producing a really attractive and readable journal, V&A Policy Statement 39 which attracts more readers and, importantly, advertisers from art history book publishers, with Contact details 40 each issue. 2 ANNUAL REPORTS PRIZES As I write, the entries for the new AAH Student Thesis CIHA Prize are being judged. The result will be announced at The next international congress of CIHA will take place the Belfast conference in April and published in the in Melbourne (13-18 January 2008). It will be the first to Bulletin in May. The judges are: Colin Cruise, AAH be held in the Southern hemisphere, and the theme will Chair, Evelyn Welch, AAH Chair-Elect and the Chair of be: Crossing Cultures - Conflict, Migration, the Student Members' Group, Sophie Bostock. The prize Convergence. You are strongly recommended to visit has been generously sponsored by Thames and Hudson. the CIHA website, which has further details of this Your attention is drawn to the details of the John exciting event. Registration is possible at a discounted Fleming Travel Prize awarded by Laurence King rate until 30 June. Publishing on page 16 of this Bulletin. The winner will The website also has full details of the history and also be announced at the Belfast Conference. current situation of CIHA. Founded as a European THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE association of art historians in the nineteenth century, it There will be three vacancies on the Executive is now the major international association of scholars Committee in April (see the Honorary Secretary's working in the discipline. For this reason, it plays a vital Report on page 8 for details). My thanks go to Christine role in establishing and maintaining links with countries Riding and Natalie Adamson for their valued which, for various reasons, have relatively small or contributions to the Executive Committee since 2004. recently emerging art historical communities. Tom Gretton steps down from the EC this year, having Greece set up a national committee and joined CIHA in extended his service for a year in order to continue in 2004, and South Africa joined in 2007. We hope that 2008 the role of Vice-Chair. Tom has been a great support will mark the accession of China, which was represented over the last three years and has undertaken much work by a number of individual delegates at the 2004 congress on behalf of the AAH Executive Committee and the in Montreal.