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Insight Fall 2019
Mobility, Objects on the Move
The newsletter of the University of Delaware
Department of Art History
Credits
Fall 2019
Editor: Kelsey Underwood
Design: Kelsey Underwood
Visual Resources: Derek Churchill
Business Administrator: Linda Magner
Insight is produced by the Department of Art
History as a service to alumni and friends of the
department.
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From the Chair 4 Commencement 28
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From the Chair our department and continues to keep us dynamic, inquiring, sharing and always on the move.
Please enjoy this issue of Insight and let us hear from you soon!
Art—including everything from jewelry to buildings, as well Best wishes,
as painting and sculpture—is everywhere, which is why students
and faculty in the Department of Art History are always going Sandy Isenstadt
places, to speak and to see, to listen and to learn. This issue of Professor and Chair, Art History
Insight showcases a few of these moments from our colleagues’
travels around the country and overseas, where they have
been diving into archives, presenting their research, engaging
in conversations, and making new connections to bolster their
From the Editor
professional network and enrich their lives. Six graduate students
went to New York, for example, for an intensive whirlwind tour of I immediately felt—and caught—the Blue Hen spirit when I
museums, galleries, auction houses and an antiques show, while began the role of Communications Coordinator for the Department
Adrianna Nelson, an undergraduate student, went to Rome for a of Art History in August 2019. Responsible for connecting our
semester abroad. department with the UD community and beyond, I am proud to
At the same time, scholars have traveled internationally to the report the exceptional work and extraordinary opportunities of
University of Delaware to meet with our department. Jo Applin, our students, faculty and alumni. Excited to learn new things from
from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, spoke with students our scholars, I often find myself eagerly checking my inbox for
about feminist art history today, while two distinguished professors from the University of California, media requests. I am grateful to the department for its support of
Berkeley, Catherine Gallagher and Martin Jay, discussed counterfactual history and photography as communications and warm welcome.
a trigger for sublime historical experience, respectively. At no point was our department more of a Insight is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate
destination than with “In Search of the Global Impact of Asian Aesthetics on American Art and Material accomplishments from the past year and plan for the year ahead.
Culture,” a wildly ambitious multi-day conference planned and organized largely by Professor Vimalin Over the 2018-19 academic year students, faculty and alumni
Rujivacharakul, a specialist in architectural history, and generously supported by the Terra Foundation have researched and spoken around the globe; published highly
for American Art and nearly a dozen other institutions. For four days in October 2018, dozens of reviewed articles and books; organized and attended exhibitions
scholars from around the world came together to discuss the ways in which Asian aesthetic insights, and conferences; and earned well-deserved awards, degrees and
whether transmitted by objects, texts or individuals, were translated and transplanted to create positions. Over the spring 2020 semester, the Graduate Student
new forms in new regions. The event, which included a graduate student workshop and symposium, Lecture Series will continue, beginning with “The Death of the Monument in the Dutch Republic” presented
a symposium of museum curators and other scholars, and a “living repository” web archive, was by Marisa Bass, Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University, on Feb. 26
staggering and, by all accounts, a great intellectual and social success. at 5:30 p.m. The Graduate Student Lecture Series Committee, led by co-chairs Michael Hartman and Erin
Sharing research discoveries and venturing novel interpretations have long been a hallmark Hein, works extremely hard at organizing the lectures and invites the community to attend. A full schedule
of our department. It is a predilection that continues today and has permeated our unit, such that of the lecture series can be found at www.arthistory.udel.edu/news-events/lecture-series. On Feb. 11,
students now routinely help other students. I call your attention to one particular article in this issue Mechanical Hall Gallery will open “Black with a Drop of Red: Contemporary Cuban Poster Work” and Old
of Insight regarding our Graduate Mentoring Program, which was launched some four years ago by College Gallery will reopen “Beat Visions and the Counterculture.” Visit library.udel.edu/special/exhibits for
Alba Campo Rosillo. With this initiative, art history graduate students set aside their time to speak and more information about these exhibits. On May 30, we will celebrate the class of 2020 at commencement.
work with undergraduates on a range of topics, from developing research and writing skills to the To remain up-to-date on department news and events, follow @UDArtHistory on Instagram, Facebook
branching career paths possible with an art history background. Our graduate students’ dedication and Twitter.
to the program not only requires time, but also demands careful planning and, most important, a I extend a special thank you to the students, faculty members and alumni who contributed content
generous spirit. This open-handed approach to higher education is something we can all be proud of, to this issue of Insight. The fall semester is a whirlwind of responsibilities and deadlines; thus, I appreciate
especially as our undergraduates themselves become graduate students, and our graduates move the time they dedicated to writing submissions and gathering photos. The fall 2019 Insight is a success
on to positions in the museum world and academia. due to their outstanding achievements and dedication! To the UD community and beyond, I hope you
It is only natural, then, in the context of cycles of professional change, that I address you as enjoy the following pages as much as I enjoyed creating them.
the new Chair of Art History, still in the first few months of my tenure in this role. The learning curve is
steep, but the rewards are many as I come to know better and better the tireless research agendas— Warm regards,
and travel plans—of my colleagues, as well as their devotion to teaching, and as I learn more about
the interests and ambitions of our ardent students, for whom a life tied intimately to the arts looms Kelsey Underwood
invitingly, even, vitally. Please join me in celebrating the prevailing culture of camaraderie that infuses Communications Coordinator & Insight Editor
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Around the Department Exploring the Commerce of American Art
Graduate students attend field study in New York City
By Kristen Nassif, Ph.D. student
Discussing the Role of Feminist Art History
Professor Jo Applin leads “On Art and Feminism” workshop
By Wendy Bellion, Professor
What is the role of feminist art history in deliver a public lecture and lead seminars, and
the field today? This important question was the Professor David Peters Corbett, Director of the
subject of lively conversation for participants in Centre for American Art, will visit UD to speak
Professor Jo Applin’s October 2018 workshop about his research. This international partnership
entitled “On Art and Feminism.” Applin, a Reader enriches the Department of Art History’s global
and Head of the History of Art Department at engagements. In the future, the department hopes
London’s Courtauld Institute of Art, visited the to expand this collaboration to include graduate
University of Delaware as part of the Department student exchanges and joint research projects
of Art History’s faculty exchange program with with the Courtauld Institute of Art’s American art
the Courtauld’s Centre for American Art. Leading community.
a discussion of her newest book—“Lee Lozano:
Not Working” (Yale University Press, 2018)—Applin (L-R) Adam Grimes, Alba Campo Rosillo, Professor Wendy Bellion, Anna O. Marley (alumna), Katherine W. Baumgartner (Director of Godel & Co.), Kristen
discussed Lozano’s conceptual work in 1960-70s Nassif, Thomas Busciglio-Ritter, Meghan Angelos and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll. (Photo courtesy of Wendy Bellion)
New York and explored timely questions of art-
historical methodology. Applin, a distinguished This past January, I had the pleasure of Carol Nigro and Katherine Baumgartner. Learning
scholar of postwar American art, is the author of joining five graduate students on an inaugural, about how galleries function—something rarely
five additional books and co-editor of volumes, two-day intensive field study in New York covered in seminars—made me feel more
and she is currently working on a new project City. Organized by Professor Wendy Bellion confident in contacting private collectors and
about ageing, art and feminism. and themed “The Commerce of American gallerists moving forward. Overall, the field study
The Department of Art History looks Art,” the trip coincided with New York’s annual was a resounding success. I hope that this field
forward to two faculty exchanges with the “Americana Week.” While in the city, we visited study trip is able to grow and evolve in future
Courtauld Institute of Art during 2019-20. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christie’s, years. A special thank you to Professor Bellion.
Professor Wendy Bellion will travel to London to Jo Applin speaks to workshop attendees. (Photo by Cory Budden) Sotheby’s, Charles Isaacs Photographs, Godel
& Co. Inc. and the Winter Antiques Show. The
trip showcased the University of Delaware’s
strong alumni connections through meetings
with curators, gallery owners and art dealers.
Course Spotlight Immersing participants in the business of art, the
trip enabled students to study how the economic
Professor Julie McGee built the course aspect of the art industry intersects and collides
“Curating Hidden Collections and the Black with the works researched by art historians.
Archive” around a box of 53 late 19th- and I found the field study immensely beneficial.
early 20th-century photographs in need of The trip not only showcased career paths I never
conservation. McGee and 11 graduate students considered, but it also provided me with invaluable
studied the collection, which they named opportunities for professional development as
“The Baltimore Collection,” and developed a I advance work on my dissertation. After just
database using Artstor. To learn more about two—albeit, long—days, I quickly realized the
Graduate students Adam Grimes, Thomas Busciglio-Ritter and Alba
“The Baltimore Collection,” please visit sites. extent to which the art market and conceptions Campo Rosillo examine a mold for doll heads on display at Christie’s.
udel.edu/baltimorecollection/. of value influence all aspects of American art and (Photo courtesy of Wendy Bellion)
Bridget Killian, an art history master’s student, examines photographs
art history. In particular, I enjoyed our visits with
from “The Baltimore Collection.” (Photo courtesy of Julie McGee)
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Distinguished Lecturers in the Humanities Swerdlow were also part of the ThingStor Working
Group and provided crucial help for building the
database in monthly meetings or by attending
ThingStor “datathons.” During the datathons,
Catherine Gallagher and Martin Jay speak at the University of Delaware initial prototype as a proof of concept. students spend multiple days researching, editing
By Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Professor ThingStor began with a simple classroom and submitting data to the project.
question. Asking “what is a Bowie knife and what Looking forward, by using computational
On Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, 2018, the Department “sublime historical experiences.” Ankersmit is its significance in text, such as Harriet Beecher tools that can analyze large sets of textual
of Art History hosted two distinguished lectures in suggests that “sublime historical experiences” Stowe’s ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and Ambrose Bierce’s and visual data, ThingStor seeks to develop a
the humanities by Catherine Gallagher, Emerita provide unusually intense, emotionally laden ‘Civil War Stories,’” students were stumped by searchable digital archive that tracks mundane
Eggers Professor of English, and Martin Jay, Sidney encounters with the past that refuse to be results from generic online research tools; neither and symbolic objects as they appeared in English
Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, UC Berkeley, contained in conventional explanatory or Wikipedia nor literary databases could provide and American literature, paintings or sculptures
with support from and in collaboration with the hermeneutic frames. Seeking to examine the an answer. To provide answers and a sense of produced between the 17th and 20th centuries.
Department of English, Department of History, plausibility of his claim, his lecture examined the scope, the ThingStor team used online gravity When fully operational, ThingStor will cross-
Office of Graduate and Professional Studies, ways certain photographs may provide such forms, Google Sheets and AirTables to collect and connect object references with vetted object
European Studies Program and Winterthur experiences, with a focus on the four images cross-reference objects with material proxies as descriptions, historically appropriate illustrations,
Program in American Material Culture. taken clandestinely by the Sonderkommandos cited in literary and visual works published in and a host of other background information,
Catherine Gallagher’s lecture, “Why We in Auschwitz. Understood less as mechanical America between the 1840s and 1870s. Sample including historical context, critical analysis and
Tell It Like It Wasn’t: The Facts about Historical representations of what they recorded than objects connecting a variety of texts and critical sources. Ultimately, ThingStor hopes to
Counterfactuals,” captured her book, which defiant actions of the photographers themselves, paintings range from “watch paper” and “carpet supplement its database with teaching and
won the 2018 Jacques Barzun Prize from the the Sonderkommando photos unsettle received bags” to “Brussels carpets” and “astral lamps.” research tools in order to provide students and
American Philosophical Society. Her lecture wisdom about the passivity of Holocaust victims. Each object entry consists of over 60 scholars the means for exploring how objects and
pushed the public to consider counterfactual different data points detailing everything their material qualities—both representational
history beyond politically inspired fantasies or from literary source and textual example, to and thematic—shaped popular stories and
pop culture fodder, and pin it down as an object material make and image links, all defined by images over time.
of dispassionate study. By focusing on how the standards and protocols prescribed by the As the project grows, the participation of
counterfactual history has worked and to what Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), Virtual art history graduate students will be essential to
ends throughout modernity, her lecture described International Authority File (VIAF), GeoRef and the project’s ongoing success, shaping its unique
the counterfactual imagination, manifested the Getty Research Institute’s Art & Architecture lens for offering material culture readings of
through both visual and written materials, with Thesaurus, to name a few. Over the past two works of art. Launched in February, Thingstor’s
examples extended from an America ruled by years, several art history graduate students prototype website, sites.udel.edu/thingstor/,
Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off have worked as researchers, contributing to the currently holds approximately 100 objects.
Hitler, or a second term for JFK, among others.
Martin Jay’s lecture, “Sublime Historical
Experience, Real Presence and Photography,”
examined the argument about what Dutch
philosopher of history Frank Ankersmit called
Catherine Gallagher and Martin Jay. (Photos courtesy of Catherine
Gallagher and Martin Jay)
Out in the Field
Art history students conduct research in museums and beyond
Bringing Literature to Life
The ThingStor Working Group launches prototype website
By Victoria Sunnergren, Ph.D. student
University of Delaware art history students visual arts. Working with the project’s principal
participated in the launch of ThingStor.org, a investigator, Dr. Martin Brückner of the Department
web platform for an interactive material culture of English, librarians and fellow graduate students
database that enables students and scholars from across the college, Victoria Sunnergren has
to identify, study and interpret the form and managed the database since 2017. Over the past
function of everyday as well as symbolic objects two years, fellow students Alba Campo Rosillo, Thomas Busciglio-Ritter describes a Paul Weber Michael Hartman forges iron at the Old Salem Lea C. Stephenson and Jalena Jampolsky
painting to Professor Wendy Bellion at the Blacksmith in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. observe an object at the Pennsylvania
referenced in the works of literature and the Sarah Leonard, Adam Grimes and Rebeccah Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. (Photo (Photo courtesy of Michael Hartman) Academy of the Fine Arts. (Photo courtesy of
courtesy of Thomas Busciglio-Ritter) Wendy Bellion)
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Graduate Student Lecture Series | 2018-2019 Faculty News
Vimalin Rujivacharakul Graduate Student Research Symposium
From Student to Master
Associate Professor, Department of Art History Moderated by Vimalin Rujivacharakul Professor David Stone reflects on his journey to becoming an Italian Baroque expert
University of Delaware Associate Professor, Department of Art History By Kelsey Underwood, Staff
“Finding Hōryūji in Afghanistan” University of Delaware
Professor David M. Stone’s early-emerging
Norman Vorano Carol Armstrong passion for art history led him to pursue
Wayne Craven Lecture Professor, Department of the History of Art a rewarding career of international travel,
Assistant Professor and Queen’s National Yale University prominent research and collegiate education.
Scholar, Department of Art History and Art “Medium, Matrix, Materiality: A Feminist An expert in Italian Baroque art, especially the
Conservation Perspective” works of Caravaggio and Guercino, he travels to
Queen’s University distinguished institutions worldwide for research
“Between Chacmool and Gerard Sekoto: James Dorothy Moss and exposition. After over 32 years as a professor
Houston’s Inuit Modernism in the 1940s” Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Track in the Department of Art History at the University
Ph.D. Lecture of Delaware, Stone will retire this December.
Andrés Zervigón Curator of Painting and Sculpture Entering his first museum before his first
Associate Professor, Department of Art History National Portrait Gallery year of primary school, Stone’s fascination with
Rutgers University “Active Absence, The Obama Portraits, art stemmed from the artistic interests of his
“The Camera Lens: Fully Visible Yet Transparent” and the National Portrait Gallery” father and uncle. His father, Daniel Stone, enjoyed
art, particularly impressionism, and hung painting
Chitra Ramalingam Christina Maranci reproductions around their home.
William I. Homer Lecture Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Professor “He subscribed to a lot of magazines,”
Assistant Curator of Photography of Armenian Art and Architecture, Stone said with fond laughter. “He would cut the
Yale Center for British Art Department of Art History photographs of paintings out of the magazines
“Fixing and Fading: Decay, Degeneration and Tufts University and put them into different file folders.”
Loss in the Archive of Early Photography” “Adventures in Armenian Art” The nephew of Julius Wasserstein, a well-
known abstract expressionist painter in San
Professor David M. Stone celebrates over 32 years of teaching in the
Francisco from 1953 to 1985, Stone visited his Department of Art History at the University of Delaware. (Photo courtesy
uncle at his studio and gallery openings. A career of David Stone)
in the arts, thus, seemed ordinary to him.
Stone also attributes a semester abroad As an undergraduate student, he studied 17th-
during his junior year of high school as an influential century Dutch and Flemish art, with a focus
period. In 1973, he attended school in Villeneuve- on Rubens, Van Dyck and Rembrandt. While
sur-Lot, a town located in southwestern France, studying abroad at the University of Padua in
as part of the Experiment in International Living Italy as a junior, Stone took courses on Dutch and
program. Stone, who began learning French in the Flemish painting and traveled to approximately
fifth grade, enjoyed touring and photographing 20 countries to examine the art firsthand. As a
churches and museums, such as the Toulouse- graduate student, however, he quickly realized
Lautrec Museum in Albi. that language was a barrier to conducting
“Already then in 1973, I was like ‘I’m doing primary research in Dutch and Flemish regions.
this for the rest of my life,’” he said. Fluent in French and Italian, he redirected his focus
(L-R) Rebeccah Swerdlow, Jordan Hillman, Danielle Canter, Natalie Giguere, (L-R) Natalie Giguere, Rebeccah Swerdlow, Dorothy Fisher, Dorothy Moss Stone received a Bachelor of Arts in art to 17th-century Italian art due to the captivating
Meghan Angelos, Gabriella Johnson, Professor Vimalin Rujivacharakul, (alumna), Meghan Angelos and Kristen Nassif. (Photo courtesy of Meghan history from the University of California, Berkeley, lectures of Professor Sydney J. Freedberg, who
Dorothy Fisher, Julia Katz and Zoë Colón. (Photo by Cory Budden) Angelos)
in 1978 and his master’s and doctorate from taught 16th- and 17th-century Italian painting.
Harvard University in 1981 and 1989, respectively. Stone later became interested in Guercino as a
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dissertation topic while studying for his general find it necessary to see the original object— studies on Caravaggio, Stone’s work
exams. holding it, touching it, looking at it, seeing how gained recognition rapidly. During a
“I realized that there were some much it weighs. You can’t pick it all up from digital visit to Malta in fall 1997, his friend
controversial things that had been written about photographs.” Keith Sciberras, who was then a
Guercino that I wanted to research,” Stone “Hearing of David’s retirement, I couldn’t graduate student at the University of
explained. “In particular, the cause of Guercino’s help but reflect on what are now years’ worth Malta, phoned a friend who served
change of style and the historiography of that of memorable conversations, hours inside of as an attaché to the president of
problem, because what was at stake was the exhibitions and miles that we walked together Malta to have some fun with Stone’s
relationship between theory and practice in 17th- in Naples, Rome and Bologna, as he guided international reputation.
century Italy.” me through these cities,” said Tiffany Racco, an “Keith said, ‘David Stone is
In 1987, Stone became a professor at the advisee of Stone and doctoral graduate in 2017. here.’” Stone recounted. “‘You don’t
University of Delaware under the leadership “A question I will likely always ask is whether I know who David Stone is? He
of Department of Art History founder William have really seen a painting until I’ve seen it with is the most famous professor of
Innes Homer. Teaching both undergraduate and David, which is both the gift and the curse of Caravaggio in the world. He should
graduate students, Stone’s instruction methods having a truly great mentor.” really meet the president. Is the
significantly reflect his research practices. Though “I remember watching him freak out in president in his office today?’”
he teaches a wide range of topics using multiple front of Correggio’s ‘Danaë’ in the (Galleria) The phone call ending
methodologies, he always instills the importance Borghese—he walked in the room, declared it successfully, Stone and Sciberras,
of firsthand observation in students and trains a ‘miracle’ and kept moving without missing a sporting tee shirts and shorts due
them on critical object analysis. single breath. It was classic Stone—scholarly, to the island’s intense heat, soon
“To learn about different objects is a but eyeballs deep in enjoyment,” said Adrian arrived at the president’s office,
whole procedure,” Stone said. “Even with great Duran, whom Stone advised from 1998 to 2000 located in the former office of the Stone and Cynthia de Giorgio, Curator of the Museum of St. John’s Co-Cathedral at Valletta,
monitors and digital cameras, in many cases, I for his master’s. “Working with Dr. Stone has Grand Master of the Knights of during his trip to Malta in 2007. (Photo courtesy of UDaily)
had an impact on my career that I am Malta at the Grand Master’s Palace.
still feeling to this day. Stone’s unchecked “The attaché goes to the president and the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at
excitement when talking about paintings says, ‘David Stone is here,’” Stone said with Indiana University, respectively.
and sculptures was endlessly contagious laughter. “And, what I hear is the same routine, “The innovative and uniquely rigorous
and a great example for keeping our love ‘You don’t know who David Stone is?’” nature of the CTPhD, and Professor Stone’s
for the game foremost. What I remember Following introductions with the president, leadership therein, have been of utmost
most is having huge, boisterous debates Stone presented an offprint of one of his articles. importance to the development of my career as
with my fellow students, discussions so In 2007, Stone returned to Malta as one of a young curator,” Frederick said.
good that we used to sit in the seminar four invited scholars to the 400th anniversary “At key moments in my graduate career,
room in the dark, after the slide carousels celebration of Caravaggio’s stay on Malta. He Professor Stone advocated for me to have the
had finished, still talking.” delivered a lecture at St. John’s Co-Cathedral in resources and support I needed to visit collections,
From 1994 to 2009, Stone made Valletta in front of Caravaggio’s “Beheading of to work closely with curators in my field and to
over 20 trips to Malta, an archipelago Saint John,” the president of Malta sitting in the study original works of art,” said Olmsted. “His
south of Sicily, to study Caravaggio’s front row. tireless advocacy for students and his objects-
Maltese Period. According to Stone, these “Presumably, he recognized me. The story focused approach to art history are at the heart
trips, without a doubt, were his greatest is legendary,” said Stone, who often shares the of the success of the CTPhD program.”
research experience, and the research, his anecdote with his graduate students at UD. “It’s a cliché to say it, but by far the most
greatest success. In 2011, Stone helped found the rewarding aspect of teaching has been working
“It was an extraordinary thing that Department of Art History’s Curatorial Track Ph.D. with graduate students in seminars and for their
changed my life, spending time in the (CTPhD) program and served as the program’s M.A. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation work,” Stone
archives and churches in Malta,” Stone first director until 2018. The most recent CTPhD said. “I certainly feel like whatever I gave the
said. “When I first got to Malta, it had not student successes include Michele Frederick and students, I got back double, in terms of having
yet been hit by the modern digital age. It Galina Olmsted. Frederick and Olmsted both rich intellectual exchanges.”
was a place where one could transport successfully defended their dissertations this Stone’s further achievements include
David Stone, invited by a team of conservation scientists, inspects the state of
oneself back to the 17th century.” year and received curatorial positions at the numerous publications, exhibitions, symposiums
preservation of Guercino’s “Aurora” fresco (c. 1622). (Photo courtesy of David Stone) At the forefront of an explosion of North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh and and administrative positions. Publishing dozens
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of articles, essays and catalogue entries— Membership to the Institute for Advanced Study now on record and available for viewing at sites.
he contributed the essay “Self and Myth in in Princeton, New Jersey from 2002 to 2003. Since udel.edu/globalaestheticasiaamerica/.
Caravaggio’s ‘David and Goliath’” to “Caravaggio: 2012, he has served as a Trustee of the American Prior to conference events, a selection
Realism, Rebellion, Reception” (Newark, Delaware: Academy in Rome and as a member of the AAR of doctoral students from around the world
University of Delaware Press) in 2006 and the Advisory Council to the Committee on the School participated in the two-day Graduate Student
article “Signature Killer: Caravaggio and the of Classical Studies. Stone is also Chief External Workshop and Symposium. Rujivacharakul and
Poetics of Blood” to The Art Bulletin in 2012. In Examiner in the Department of History of Art at Garrison recruited UD graduate students to form
addition to two catalogs on Guercino (1991), the University of Malta. In 2016, he was elected a Graduate Student Workshop Committee, which
he co-authored the book “Caravaggio: Art, to the Centro Studi Internazionale il Guercino in connected UD graduate students with visiting
Knighthood, and Malta” (Malta: Midsea Books) in Cento, Italy, Guercino’s hometown. graduate students. The committee proved to be
2006. Stone has organized several symposiums Following retirement, Stone will participate an invaluable asset. From four departments, the
and exhibitions at prominent museums, for in a Guercino-related exhibition at the Ringling committee members included Meghan Angelos,
instance, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Museum in Sarasota, Florida. He plans to continue Kate Burnett Budzyn, Nora Ellen Carleson, Anne
D.C., where he consulted on its 1992 Guercino working on various Caravaggio and Guercino Cross, Tiarna Doherty, Hee Eun (Helena) Kim
exhibition and chaired “Guercino: Nature and projects in the future. He also looks forward to and Zoë Colón. Together, the Graduate Student
Idea; A Quadricentennial Symposium.” Among traveling more with his wife Linda Pellecchia, Workshop Committee and faculty advisors
his many honors, Stone received the Andrew W. who retired as a professor of Italian Renaissance drafted a call for papers, distributed the call in
Mellon Postdoctoral Rome Prize from the American Art and Architecture in the Department of Art “Team Eco-Aesthetics,” Dorothy Ko and Ned Cooke, present on the second
May 2018 and selected the finalists to speak
Academy in Rome (AAR) from 1997 to 1998 and History at the University of Delaware in 2014. day of the conference. (Photo courtesy of Vimalin Rujivacharakul) at the symposium. In the end, the students and
faculty chose 10 finalists from the following
despite continuous rain, the conference moved universities: UC Berkeley, Yale (two students), UC
The Influence of Asian Aesthetics on American Art to the larger space of Copeland Hall for the
subsequent days.
San Diego, Northwestern, Carleton (Canada), Bryn
Mawr, City College of New York, Bard Graduate
A three-day conference funded by the Terra Foundation Speakers and panelists consisted of Center and the University of Seville (Spain). The
By Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Professor prominent scholars and museum curators workshop occurred on Oct. 11 and 12, while the
including Partha Mitter (University of Sussex), symposium concluded the second workshop day.
In fall 2017, Professor Vimalin Rujivacharakul Material Cultures Studies; the Department of Art Michael Leja (University of Pennsylvania), The UD Graduate Student Workshop Committee
and Professor J. Ritchie Garrison were awarded History; Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library; Alexandra Munroe (Guggenheim Museum), deserves high praises for the success of the
a substantial conference grant from the Terra the Department of Art Conservation; the Islamic Nasser Rabbat (Massachusetts Institute of Graduate Student Workshop and Symposium.
Foundation for American Art in the amount Studies Program; and the Asian Studies Program. Technology), Darielle Mason (Philadelphia
of $25,000, with subsequent matching funds Focused on redefining the global influence of Museum of Art), Asma Naeem (Baltimore Museum
from the Office of Graduate and Professional Asian aesthetics on American art and material of Art), Edward “Ned” Cooke (Yale University),
Studies; the Unidel Foundation Inc.; the Center for culture, the professors argued that emerging Dorothy Ko (Barnard College), Jens Baumgarten
artistic forms in the American field relate less to (Universidade Federal de São Paulo), Dennis Carr
mobility of actual objects from Asia and more to (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Medill Harvey
translations of Asian aesthetics in the development (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Forrest McGill
of creative new forms. From Oct. 12 to Oct. 14, 2018, (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco), Marco
to test their thesis, the professors co-directed a Musillo (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz),
conference at the University of Delaware, inviting Karina Corrigan (Peabody Essex Museum), Femke
Asian art scholars and American art specialists Diercks (Rijksmuseum), Liu Chang (Tsinghua
to pair up and deliver jointly written papers in University and Palace Museum), Lee Glazer
12 different conference sessions, over a period of (Colby College) and Stacey Pierson (University
two and a half days, in addition to an opening of London), who joined the UD-Winterthur team
roundtable and a concluding panel. On the first including Linda Eaton, Greg Landrey, Catharine
day of the conference, entitled “In Search of the Dann Roeber, J. Ritchie Garrison and Vimalin
Global Impact of Asian Aesthetics on American Rujivacharakul. Rudi Matthee, Wendy Bellion,
Art and Material Culture,” attendees filled the Mónica Domínguez Torres, Stephanie Delamaire
Catharine Dann Roeber, part of “Team Screen,” presents on the third day
entire auditorium, including standing room only and Jessica Horton moderated the panels and “Team Fusion,” Medill Higgins Harvey and Forrest McGill, present on the
of the conference. (Photo courtesy of Vimalin Rujivacharakul) sections. Due to consistently high attendance sessions. All presentations and discussions are second day of the conference. (Photo courtesy of Vimalin Rujivacharakul)
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| Faculty Notes In 2018, her essay “Nel piu ricco paese del
Mondo: Cubagua Island as an Epicenter of the
the Eremitic Life.” In November of this year, she
will present a paper entitled “Morgan MS. M.626:
Early Atlantic Trade” appeared in the volume Focus, Attention, and the Eremitic Ideal” at the
During the 2018-19 academic year, to serve on editorial boards for Bloomsbury “Circulación: Movement of Ideas, Art and People Yale Medieval-Renaissance Forum. This paper is
Professor Zara Anishanslin served as the Material Academic, Winterthur Portfolio and the University in Spanish America,” published by the Frederick the subject of an article she is currently writing.
Culture Creative Consult for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s of Delaware Press. This year, Bellion looks forward & Jan Mayer Center at the Denver Art Museum.
“Hamilton: The Exhibition,” on display alongside to delivering the Sidney Leon Jacob Lecture She presented the papers “La Industria Perlífera Professor Jason Hill completed several
the musical in Chicago. She also worked as a at Rutgers University and to a week leading Americana y la Transformación del Conocimiento essays and articles this past year. His essay, “LIFE’s
consultant on the planned re-installation of the lectures and classes at the Courtauld Institute Europeo,” at the 56th International Congress of Time,” on the tricky race with the clock run by
Early American Wing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of the Department’s partnership Americanists in Salamanca, Spain (July 2018); photojournalists and their editors at the weekly
of Art (PMA). Her book “British Atlantic World” with the Courtauld’s Centre for American Art. “Pearls for the King: Philip II and the New World news magazine LIFE, will appear in the catalogue
won the Library Company of Philadelphia’s New publication projects include an article on Pearl Industry,” at the symposium “Picture Ecology: for the spring 2020 exhibition “The Power of
Biennial Best Book Award (inaugural winner, fall neoclassical sculpture and slavery in colonial Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective” at LIFE: LIFE Magazine and American Photography,
2018). She was also awarded a Barra Sabbatical Charleston (European Journal of American Studies), the Princeton University Art Museum (November 1936–1972,” co-organized by Katherine Bussard
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the McNeil Center an essay on learning to see art from deep within 2018); and “Between Redemption and Damnation: and Kristen Gresh of the Princeton University Art
for Early American Studies at the University of the archive (Elusive Archives, UD Press) and a new Philip II’s Pearls,” at the College Art Association Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Pennsylvania, where she is currently on research book project on the visual culture of theater in Annual Conference in New York City (February respectively. His essay, “Weegee, Standing By,”
leave. the early United States (“Pictures Onstage”). In 2019). She also conducted primary research was published in “Street Photography Reframed,”
Anishanslin was delighted to teach Colonial her free time, she attempts to hit tennis balls over at a number of Spanish archives, libraries and a special issue of the open-access online
American portraiture to upper-level art history pesky nets and indulge in quiet yoga studios. museums over the summer as the recipient of the journal Arts, edited by Stephanie Schwartz. This
majors and grad students for the Department Renaissance Society of America/Samuel H. Kress essay considers, among other infrastructural
of History. The class consisted of students from Mid-Career Fellowship. entanglements, the role of the then novel
art history, history and the Winterthur Program technology of police radio in Weegee’s work as
in American Material Culture (WPAMC). The a press photographer in New York in the 1940s.
students were able to visit colonial collections Another look at midcentury American news
at Winterthur, the Philadelphia Museum of Art photography, this time in its connection with
and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts the art world, “An Exact Instant in the History of
(PAFA). While at PAFA, Anna O. Marley, UD alumna the Modern,” is forthcoming in “Modern in the
and art history Ph.D., guided students through the Making: MoMA and the Modern Experiment,”
investigation of “mystery paintings.” Sandra Zalman and Austin Porter, eds. (London:
Bloomsbury, 2019). Hill presented new research
After a spring sabbatical working on new at a number of conferences. In June 2019, he
research in 2019, Professor Wendy Bellion is Professor Wendy Bellion attends the 2018 “HECAA at 25” conference of
presented “Paper Routes,” on the newspaper
happy to be back in the classroom this year. She the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture. (L-R) Alumna Dr. delivery truck and the newsstand as key modes
Amy Torbert (curator, St. Louis Art Museum), Ph.D. student Michael Hartman,
is delighted to announce the publication of her Professor Jennifer Van Horn, alumna Dr. Kristel Smentek (professor, MIT)
University of Salamanca. (Photo courtesy of Mónica Domínguez Torres) of photographic circulation, at “The Business
new book “Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to and Professor Wendy Bellion. (Photo courtesy of Wendy Bellion) of Photography” at De Montfort University’s
Reenactment” (Penn State University Press), which Professor Denva Gallant has given Photographic History Research Center in Leicester,
explores paintings, prints and civic performances Professor Mónica Domínguez Torres several invited lectures on her current book England. In March 2019, he presented a paper
that represented acts of destruction as origin continues to work hard on her book “Pearls for project, “Into the Desert: Illustrating the ‘Vitae entitled “Booked,” on a controversy involving
stories for the United States. Bellion has begun the Crown: European Courtly Art and the Atlantic patrum’ (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS. Leonard Freed’s 1980 photobook Police Work, at
an appointment as Co-Director of UD’s Center for Pearl Trade, 1498-1728” during sabbatical leave M.626),” a monographic study on one of the most “The British, American, and French Photobook:
Material Culture Studies, and she remains busy over the 2019-20 academic year. She received a extensively illuminated manuscripts of the Italian Commitment, Memory, Materiality, and the Art
beyond campus, too. Delaware Governor John six-month residential scholar grant from the Getty Trecento. In April, she was one of the Comini Market (1900-2019),” held at Maison Française,
Carney recently appointed Bellion to the Board Research Institute in Los Angeles to complete her lecturers at Southern Methodist University and Oxford. Hill continues laying the groundwork for
of Trustees of the Biggs Museum of American Art, manuscript during the 2019-20 Scholars Program delivered a lecture on her current book project at a new book project addressing the dynamics of
where she is chairing the museum’s Collections devoted to the theme Art and Ecology. In addition, the Index Workshops in Medieval Art at Princeton photography, policing and the definition of crime
Committee. She was also elected to the Executive she will also spend two months in residence University. In May 2019, she organized and spoke in the 20th-century United States. Lately, this
Board of Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City on a session titled “In Search of the Desert: New has led to a deep-dive into the photo “morgue”
and Architecture (HECAA), and she continues during spring 2020. Observations on the Late-Medieval Revival of of the defunct Philadelphia Bulletin, housed at
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Temple University. This research informed much co-edited with Martin Brückner and Sarah les Temps, les Espaces, les Hommes, Haut Moyen
of his teaching this past year, which included Wasserman. Each of these books has an essay- Âge” (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), Pages 385-407,
the graduate seminar “Photography and Crime,” length introduction co-authored by Isenstadt and Rolf Grosse and Michel Sot, eds.; “From Ancient
and the undergraduate seminar, “The Arts of Brückner. to Medieval Books: On Reading and Illuminating
Crime and Punishment in the United States.” In addition, Isenstadt presented three Manuscripts in the Seventh Century,” in “Books
Hill continues his service to the department as lectures: “Driving Through the American Night” at and Readers in the Pre-Modern World: Essays in
Associate Chair and to the discipline as Field Cornell University in October 2018, “Matriculated Honor of Harry Gamble” (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018),
Editor for Photography at caa.reviews. Modern: The Future Was Then” at the “Campus of Pages 69-98, Karl Shuve, ed.; “Design, Default or
the Future” symposium in February 2019 and “Glass Defect in Some Perplexing Represented Books,” in
Professor Jessica Horton was pleased to House Horror: Modernism’s Haunted Landscapes” “Imago Libri. Les Représentations Carolingiennes
direct the Curatorial Track Ph.D. program during at Bard College in April 2019. Within the 2019-20 du Livre” (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), Pages 71-78,
2018-19. In addition to her global contemporary academic year, he will present two more talks: Charlotte Denoël, Anne-Orange Poilpré, and Sumi
art and Native North American art undergraduate “Immaterial Effects: Windows and Light” at Shimahara, eds.; and “‘Merovingian’ Illuminated
surveys, she co-taught an experimental graduate George Washington University in November 2019 Manuscripts and their Links with the Eastern
seminar called “Diplomatic Things: Art and Professor Jessica Horton gets a rare glimpse of murals created by Diné and “The Switch to Modernity” at the University Mediterranean World,” in “The Merovingian
artist Gerald Nailor, 1942-43, which depict the history of the Navajo Nation
Architecture in Global Contexts” with Professor inside the Council Chambers in Window Rock, Arizona. (Photo courtesy of
of Hawaii in March 2020. Kingdoms and the Mediterranean in the Early
Ikem Okoye. Her essay “Performing Paint, Claiming Jessica Horton) Middle Ages” (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Space: The Santa Fe Indian School Posters on At the end of August 2019, Professor Press, 2019), Pages 297-317, Yitzhak Hen, Stefan
Paul Coze’s Stage in Paris, 1935,” published in a In August 2019, Professor Sandy Isenstadt Lawrence Nees completed his term as Interim Esders, Yaniv Fox and Laury Sarti, eds. He published
special issue of Transatlantica: Revue d’Études was honored to begin his term as the Department Chair and then Chair, leaving the honor and an exhibition review—“Pleasurable Perplexity.
Américaines devoted to “Dialoguing the American of Art History Chair. Isenstadt’s book “Electric Light: responsibility in the very capable hands of Reflecting the Holy City” [review of Jerusalem
West in France” (2019), was generously supported An Architectural History” was published by MIT Professor Sandy Isenstadt. His service challenging 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven, Exhibition
by a Center for Material Culture Studies Faculty Press in fall 2018. During 2018-19, he wrote three and often very satisfying, he is deeply grateful to at the Metropolitan Museum of Art], Jewish
Research Publication Subvention. She published reviews: “Desperately Seeking a Center, in the his faculty colleagues, the wonderful staff of the Quarterly Review, 108 (2018): 551-561—concerning
two additional essays, “Ecolonial Holism” in the Postwar American Suburb,” a review of “Shopping department—especially Business Administrator an exhibition he visited with his seminar. He
Bully Pulpit of the journal Panorama: Journal of Town” by Victor Gruen (2017) and “Banking on Linda Magner, without whom he would not have published two book reviews: “An Insular Odyssey.
the Association of Historians of American Art Beauty” by Adam Arenson (2018), in the Journal survived the experience—and the wonderful Manuscript Culture in early Christian Ireland
(summer 2019) and “An Ecolonial Reassessment of Urban History (summer 2019); “Modernism’s graduate and undergraduate students in the and Beyond” (Dublin, 2017), Rachel Moss, Felicity
of the Indian Craze: Elbridge Ayer Burbank and Visible Hand,” a review of Michael Osman, in the department. His chief regret during his time as O’Mahony and Jane Maxwell, eds., in Cambrian
Standing Bear” in the book “Ecocriticism and Winterthur Portfolio (winter 2019); and “Dieter Chair was a drastically curtailed opportunity to Medieval Celtic Studies, 76 (winter 2018): 114-117;
the Anthropocene in Nineteenth-Century Art Rams: Principled Design,” an exhibition review of teach. and “The Lindisfarne Gospels. New Perspectives”
and Visual Culture” (Routledge, 2019). A Chinese the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in W86th (April From 2019 to 2020, he will be on research (Brill, 2017), in Early Medieval Europe, 27 (2019):
translation of her 2017 essay in Art Journal, 2019). Additionally, Isenstadt authored two articles leave, but looks forward to returning to full- 307-310, Richard Gameson, ed.
“Indigenous Artists Against the Anthropocene,” in architectural journals. First, “Ornamental time teaching in fall 2020. During his leave, he Additionally, he presented lectures at
was included in a special issue on “Ecological Art Transparency in the Modern Kitchen,” published is finishing final revisions on his book “Frankish three conferences: “School, Seat of Writing, and
Practices” in the Journal of the National Academy in Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Manuscripts 7th-10th Centuries,” to appear in Library in the Plan of St. Gall” at “Paradigms and
of Art (2019). Horton was promoted to the rank Era of Liquid Modernity, Penny Sparke, Patricia the series “Manuscripts Illuminated in France,” Personae in the Medieval World: A Symposium
of Associate Professor with tenure, beginning Brown, Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Gini Lee and published by Harvey Miller Ltd. and Brepols. This in Honor of Elizabeth A. R. Brown” at CUNY
in fall 2019. She is on leave during 2019-20 after Mark Taylor, eds. (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), series is a detailed catalogue of 100 manuscripts, Graduate Center on March 16, 2018; “Antique and
receiving a Clark Art Institute Fellowship and an Pages 218-228. Second, “White Space: An Interior with introductory essays, publication envisaged pseudo-Antique in Manuscripts from the time
Andy Warhol Foundation Book Award to work on Monolog,” appeared in House Tour: Views of the for 2020. He plans to revise his book manuscript of Charlemagne” at Internationale Tagung “Die
her second book, “Earth Diplomacy: Indigenous Unfinished Interior, Adam Jasper, ed. (Zurich: Park “Illuminating the Word: On the Beginnings of Handschriften der Hofschule Kaiser Karls des
American Art and Reciprocity, 1953–1973,” which Books, 2018), Pages 102-107. He is currently editing Medieval Book Decoration,” completed before his Grossen–individuelle Gestalt und europäisches
charts the revitalization of Indigenous ecology two books: “Elusive Archives: Material Culture term as Chair, for submission to the publisher in Kulturerbe,” at Stadtbibliothek Trier on Oct. 11-13,
and diplomacy through Cold War arts initiatives. Studies in Formation” (Newark, Del.: University spring 2020. 2018; and “The European Context of Manuscript
She spent a portion of the summer building an of Delaware Press, forthcoming), co-edited Since the last issue of Insight, he published Illumination in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, 600–
earth-sheltered, solar-powered dome house on with Martin Brückner; and “Imagined Forms: four articles: “Networks or Schools? Production 900” (keynote address) at “Manuscripts in the
family land in California. The Material Culture of Modeling,” (Minneapolis: of Illuminated Manuscripts and Ivories During Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms” at the British Library on
University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming), the Reign of Charlemagne,” in “Charlemagne: Dec. 13, 2018.
18 19In March 2019, he and Stephen Jaeger Way Architecture (NWA),” at the Bartlett School architecture in China and Japan. Her next
co-organized and co-chaired a session titled of Architecture and Planning, University College seminar sequence will take place in December
“Genius and Originality in Medieval Literature London, as part of the annual conference of of 2019. This seminar sequence will be part of a
and Art: The Undiscovered Artist and Poet” at the the Architectural Research in Europe Network symposium and workshop on vernacular heritage
Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting Association (ARENA). The conference was themed and contemporary architectural design in China.
in Philadelphia. He also presented the 12th Kurt around architectural historiographies, which in She is excitedly looking forward to this upcoming
Weitzmann Endowed Lecture titled “The Princeton part honored the legacy of pioneer historian of event and the next steps of her collaborative
Garrett 6 Evangelists Revisited” in the Department global architecture Banister Fletcher. Okoye was projects with Tsinghua colleagues.
of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. also asked to participate in a related keynote
He continues to serve on the Advisory Board of roundtable entitled “The Objects of Architectural At the invitation of the European Studies
the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, History,” which was part of a public event held at Group at the University of Iowa, Janis Tomlinson
University of Hamburg, Germany, and has begun the Royal Institute of British Architects. In this venue, lectured on “Goya: The War Years 1808-1814” on
a three-year term on the Fellows Nominating Okoye contributed a short spoken commentary March 26, 2019. Her article, “Amistades y tiempo
Committee of The Medieval Academy of America. on “Histories of Architecture and Urbanism, and en la vida de Goya,” was published in “El tiempo
Professor Lauren Hackworth Petersen enjoys a glass bottom boat tour
the Ecological–An African Perspective.” of the sunken ruins of ancient Roman villas. (Photo courtesy of Lauren
y el arte: Reflexiones sobre el gusto” (Zaragoza:
Professor Ikem Stanley Okoye was In spring 2019, Okoye was honored to Hackworth Petersen) Instituto Fernando el Católico, 2018), Pages 87-98,
on sabbatical in spring 2018, and conducted receive a short term grant from the Canadian Alberto Castán, Concha Lomba and María Pilar
research for his slavery’s landscapes project Centre for Architecture (CCA, Montreal), an In 2018, Professor Vimalin Rujivacharakul Poblador, eds. Tomlinson also co-authored, with
in West Africa, the United Kingdom and South advanced study center for world architecture— was awarded the three-year Visiting Ronna Hertzano and Philip A. Mackowiak, “Goya’s
Africa. The periods of archival and field research the only one of its kind in the world. The short Professorship at Tsinghua University’s School Lost Hearing: A Twenty-First Century Perspective
were nevertheless interspersed with invited term grant supported his return to research on of Architecture, a post which she is holding on its Cause, Effects and Possible Treatment”
lectures and conference presentations. He modern architecture in Africa. Awarded to only in tandem with her position at the University printed in The American Journal of Medical
delivered a talk, “Enigmatic Mobilities/Historical 16 among 90 applicants from across the globe, of Delaware. The award ceremony was held Sciences, 357 (2019): 275-279. Her biography,
Mobilities,” at the symposium “African Mobilities Okoye undertook a brief period of research, in Beijing at Tsinghua University in May 2018, “Goya: A Portrait of the Artist,” is in press (Princeton
–This is Not a Refugee Camp Exhibition,” which resulting in a paper and an embedded proposal during which she also gave an inaugural lecture University Press, fall 2020). Her review of “Spanish
was held at the Architekturmuseum, Munich in for a wider project. Last May, Okoye delivered the of her visiting professorship, “The Other Origin,” Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment” (Paris
April 2018. He worked to convert the talk into a paper under the title “Where Was Modernism” at detailing ways in which Chinese architecture and London) by Nicolás Bas Martín, Andy Birch
scholarly paper, which was ultimately published, a series of workshops held over three days at the as a concept was developed as a foil for the trans., appeared in Dieciocho (Leiden and Boston:
under the same title, in the “Discourses” section Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Design emergence of European architectural history Brill, 2018), 42.2 (fall 2019): 425-427. As Director of
of the exhibition website—an independent peer- and City Development (EiABC), Addis Ababa as a field of inquiry. In November of the same Special Collections and Museums, she developed
reviewed online platform, experimenting with the University, Ethiopia. year, she gave the first seminar sequence at an integrated Collections Management Policy, in
idea of a catalogue, outliving the exhibition’s first Tsinghua as part of her duty as Tsinghua’s visiting consultation with the Conservation Center for Art
iteration. Earlier, Okoye published an extended Professor Lauren Hackworth Petersen professor. The seminar sequence, “Orientalism and Historic Artifacts, approved by the Library
online review of the book “Authentically African: continues to serve as the Interim Associate and Vernacular Architecture,” examined the ways Executive Council in July 2019.
Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Dean for the Humanities. Last October brought in which the subject of vernacular architecture
Culture” by art historian Sara Van Beurden for a her to the Bay of Naples (Cumae), Italy, where emerged alongside that of modern architecture Professor Jennifer Van Horn spent the
February release of caa.reviews. she presented a paper, “Pompeian Women and in the 20th century. The sequence consisted of past year as the William C. Seitz Senior Fellow
In fall 2018, his leave concluded and he the Making of a Material History,” at Symposium eight seminar classes in total and together they at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual
returned to campus. Okoye was invited by Campanum, “Women on the Bay of Naples: mapped the growth of the idea and variations Arts (CASVA), at the National Gallery of Art. She
organizers of the Africa-Asia Conference to give Recent Research” conference. The conference in design definitions of “vernacular architecture” has been writing her second book, “Resisting
a paper at their annual international conference, conveners organized a wonderful glass bottom in China and Japan for a period of 180 years, the Art of Enslavement: Slavery and Portraiture
which for 2018 was titled “Africa-Asia—A New boat tour to show participants the sunken ruins starting with late 19th-century Sinologists and in American Art, 1720-1890.” Van Horn’s article
Axis of Knowledge.” For this extraordinary of ancient Roman villas, along with a visit to European architects, the Bauhaus obsessions “‘The Dark Iconoclast’: African Americans’
gathering, Okoye delivered a paper titled the local museum at Baiae filled with sculptural with things in the East, Walter Gropius’ connection Artistic Resistance in the Civil War,” published
“Diplomatic Dances Across Transnationality: Of treasures. This past March, Petersen once again with Kenzo Tange, and Le Corbusier’s French in The Art Bulletin in 2017, received the National
Art (and Architecture) in the New Globalism.” joined delegates from Delaware to advocate for Orientalist interpretations of French colonies, Portrait Gallery’s inaugural Director’s Essay
The event was held at the University of Dar es the humanities and for NEH funding on Capitol before concluding with late 20th-century Chinese Prize, a biennial award for leading research by
Salaam in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In October, Hill, which is always a rewarding experience. and Japanese architects’ re-interpretations an emerging scholar in American portraiture.
Okoye gave another talk, “Circa 1912: Africa’s New of European-American interpretations of She published two essays in collected volumes
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