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Art History Newsletter, Fall 2008-2009

GRADUATE ALUMNI NEWS

Donald Bacigalupi (Ph.D. 1993), Director of the Toledo Museum of Art, inaugurated the Glass Pavilion, a landmark building showcasing the museum's renown glass collection.

Mark Caffey (Ph.D. 2008) is Assistant Professor of Art at Texas A&M (tenure track position at the Department of Architecture).

Catherine Dossin (Ph.D. 2008) is Assistant Professor of Purdue University (tenure track position at the Department of Art)

Erina Duganne (Ph.D. 2004), Assistant Professor at Texas State University at San Marcos, received a book contract from the University Press of New England for her manuscript, The Self in Black and White: Photography and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography. It will be published as part of a series entitled Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture, edited by Mark J. Williams and Adrian W.B. Randolph of Dartmouth College. Erina also co-edited and contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue, Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, published by University of Chicago Press in conjunction with the Williams College Museum of Art. The book was a finalist for the 2008 College Art Association Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award.

Gillian Elliott delivered a paper on short notice in Joan Holladay’s session at the Medieval Conference at Kalamazoo in May 2008, when a scheduled presenter was not able to attend the conference.

Regina Gee (Ph.D. 2003), Assistant Professor, Montana State University, is collaborating with John Clarke and Michael Thomas (Ph.D. 2001), on the Oplontis Project, the publication of an ancient Roman villa near Pompeii. Two other Romanists now finishing their dissertations, Alvaro Ibarra and Lea Cline, have have also worked with Clarke and Thomas on the excavation and study of the Villa of Oplontis.

Tracy Lea Hensley (M.A. 2007) is Director of Wilmarth Residential Hall at Skidmore College, NY. In Fall 2007 she taught English in Sinope of Northeastern Turkey.

Anne Rudloff Stanton is now chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri.

W. Jackson Rushing III (Ph.D. 1990) is now Adkins Presidential Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Oklahoma, where he holds the Mary Lou Milner Carver Chair in Native American Art.

Tracy Chapman Hamilton has been promoted to associate professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College. Eileen McKiernan Gonzalez has been asked to serve as a contributing author for Gothic Sculpture in America, III: The Museums of New York and Pennsylvania.

Nayla Muntasser (Ph.D. 2003) will be teaching at Trinity University, San Antonio for the next two academic years. She will also conduct a seminar at UT in spring, 2009, entitled "Augustus and the Provinces."

Lauren Hackworth Petersen (Ph.D. 2000), Associate Professor, University of Delaware, is collaborating with Professor Sandra Joshel, University of Washington, on a book entitled The Material Life of Roman Slaves (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Joe Alan Thomas (Ph.D. 1992) has become Professor and Chair of the Art Department at Kennesaw State in Atlanta.

Reiko Tomii (Ph.D. 1988) published Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York (with Eric C. Shiner; Yale University Press, 2007).

Margaret Woodhull (Ph.D. 1999) is Assistant Director and Senior Instructor in the Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Denver.

 

GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS

Sebastian Bentkowski was the recipient of a Kress Travel Grant.

Sarah Celentano’s paper won Best Paper by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.

Christina Cogdell is a Mellon Posdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.

Eileen Costello is a recipient of a Luce/ASCLS Fellowship.

Amanda Douberley was awarded the University Continuing Fellowship (2008-2009).

Rina Faletti is the recipient of a Huntington Library Fellowship.

Adrian Kohn is the recipient of a Menil Curatorial Fellowship for 2008/2009.

Peter Mowris is the recipient of a Menil Curatorial Fellowship (Spring 2008).

Ashley Schmiedekamp has been awarded the Walter Read Hovey Travel Fellowship.

Maia Toteva is the recipient of a Menil Curatorial Fellowship for 2008/2009.

Melissa Warak is the recipient of Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship and a Getty Research Institute Library Research Grant.

Maline Werness has a tenure-track position at Millsaps College at Jackson, Mississippi.

Hannah Wong is the recipient of a CASVA Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad.

Doris Bravo and Alexis Salas are recipients of the Graduate School Diversity Recruitment Fellowship.

 

FACULTY NEWS

STEVE BOURGET
Steve Bourget reports on his fascinating discoveries at Huaca el Pueblo Archaeological Project (N. Peru): "During this academic year, we conducted the second and third archaeological field seasons at Huaca el Pueblo. The site is extensive and consists principally of a Moche occupation with monumental architecture. It is located in the Zaña Valley of the Peruvian north coast.

"The second field season of a three-year project was dedicated to the study of an extensive domestic sector. One of the aims of this season was to establish a first chronological and stylistic framework for the following excavations at the site. The excavation was very successful and a 1200-year sequence was established. It also set the stage for the following season.

"The third field season at the site had for principal objectives the study of three monumental structures, and of the early and middle Moche occupations of the site. The season was very productive. Mid-way during the dig we found the large funerary chamber of a high-ranking individual, quickly named the 'Lord of Ucupe' by the local population. The remainder of the season was thus dedicated to the excavation and the preliminary study of this important context. The tomb is exceptional. It represents the first Middle Moche period elite burial found outside Sipán—another major Moche site located immediately to the north of Huaca el Pueblo. Furthermore, the Ucupe tomb dates to the transition from the Early Moche to Middle Moche period, with both stylistic traditions well represented within the funerary chamber. This discovery will thus enhance drastically our understanding of the evolution of Moche political structures and social organization."

To know more about the project, the site and the latest discoveries, please visit the following websites:

Huaca el Pueblo Archaeological Project

The Lord of Ucupe Tomb

In addition to his intensive fieldwork, during this period Bourget collaborated on the organization of a Moche exhibition at the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago. He also authored the catalogue for the exhibition. Highlights of the show can be visited and the catalogue downloaded here.

Finally, in 2007-2008 Bourget co-edited the publication of the proceedings of the Fourth D.J. Sibley Family Conference on World Traditions of Culture (University of Texas Press). This volume, which gathers the contributions of nineteen notable Moche scholars will hopefully become a milestone of Moche studies. You may preview the book here.

 

MICHAEL CHARLESWORTH
Charlesworth’s book Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth Century Britain and France was published by Ashgate this year. In December 2007 Charlesworth was promoted to the rank of full professor.

 

JOHN CLARKE
John R. Clarke published one book, several book chapters, and three reviews during the academic year. Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250, appeared in November 2007, published by the University of California Press (pp. xi + 325, 24 color plates, 119 b-w illustrations). It examines the intersection of humor and social class by examining humorous paintings, sculptures, and ceramics. Many of these objects have never been published before. The University Co-operative Society provided a generous grant to print the 24 color plates.

Three publications on his ongoing work on the Roman Villa of Oplontis appeared, two of them co-authored with the head of excavations, Michael L. Thomas (Ph.D. 2001). Two book chapters, five articles, and several book reviews are completed and in press.

Clarke was on leave in the spring term with a grant from the Faculty Development Program (Faculty Research Assignment). He divided his time between the archives and libraries in Rome and the site at modern Torre Annunziata, near Pompeii. In January he was invited to the University of Bologna to present the Oplontis Project, a program of study, excavation, and publication in collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendency of Pompeii and the King’s Visualisation Lab, King’s College, London. In March the King’s Visualisation Lab, who are charged with creating a state-of-the-art 3D model of the Villa, received a grant of £133,000 from the Leverhulme Foundation, Great Britain. This high-resolution model will constitute the primary instrument of research and publication; databases, objects, archival images, and new archaeological finds will be mapped to the model rather than to a paper publication. In August, 2008, Clarke, as principal investigator, received a Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (Project title: "The Oplontis Project. Excavation, study, and digital publication of Villa A at Torre Annunziata, Italy, 50 BCE-CE 79." $355,000). The grant will fund Clarke and his team for the final excavation season, May-July 2009.

The 2008 season focused on the descriptive catalogue of the Villa’s extensive wall paintings, database development, and excavation of a enigmatic remodeled part of the Villa. The dig happily reunited current and former doctoral students, including Regina Gee, Álvaro Ibarra, Lea Cline, and Ivo van der Graaff. Clarke and Thomas have been invited to present the results of the 2007 and 2008 seasons at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Clarke lectured extensively. He was keynote speaker for a symposium, "Roman Art and Ritual" held at the Seattle Art Museum in conjunction with an exhibition of Roman antiquities from the Louvre; he lectured at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the British School at Rome, and the American University in Rome.

 

ANDREA GIUNTA
In December 2007 Andrea Giunta presented in Buenos Aires the accomplishments of the two first years of the Research and Documentation Center, which she founded and directed from 2006 to 2007, at the Centro Cultural Recoleta de Buenos Aires (CeDIP, Center of Documentation, Research and Publications). On this occasion the publishing collection, CeDIP was formally introduced, which included thirty publications on exhibitions held during 2007, as well as the magazine, Transvisual, which she directed during its first year of publication. At the end of 2007 she completed her two-year appointment on the Advisory Commission to the direction of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Argentina. During 2007 she was the Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow at The Art and Art History Department, The University of Texas at Austin (2006-2007) and she was invited as a Visiting Professor at the Curatorial Program, Bard College.

In September 2008 she began to teach as a Full Professor of Latin American Art at The Art and Art History Department, The University of Texas at Austin.

In 2007 Duke University Press published her book Avant-Garde, Internationalism and Politics: Argentinean Art in the Sixties, a translation of the first edition of 2001(Paidos Press, Argentina-Spain), which received the 2002 Award Association of Latin American Art (an affiliate of the College Art Association) funded by the Arvey Foundation for the Best Scholarly Book on the art of Latin America from the Precolumbian era to the present. The third revised edition of this book will be published this year by Siglo XXI (Buenos Aires-México-Madrid).

In 2008 her article "Traditions and Survivals in Latin American Art" was translated into Chinese and published by ARTCO magazine (Taipei, Taiwan). In 2008 she curated the exhibition León Ferrari. Works 1976-2008, at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, México, D. F. and edited the book with the same title published by RM Press, México, D.F. which also included an interpretative essay that she wrote about the heliographic series of the artist. She published several historical and interpretative essays in bilingual books of anthological exhibitions: Antoni Muntadas at the Telefónica Foundation (bilingual edition); Oscar Bony at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires; Tomás Maldonado at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina (book published by Skira, Milán). She also published the essays "Imágenes / Síntomas," in Encuentro entre dos Mares. Bienal de Sao Paulo-Valencia, Fundación de la Comunidad Valenciana para la Promoción de las Artes Contemporáneas, Valencia; "Notes on Art History in Latin America," in James Elkins (Ed.), Is Art History Global?, University College Cork and Routledge, New York-London, 2007; "Crisis y patrimonio", in Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, Álvaro Fernández Bravo y Alejandra Laera (comps.), El valor de la cultura. Arte, literatura y mercado en América Latina, Rosario, Beatriz Viterbo, 2007. In 2009 The Museum of Modern Art, New York will publish her interpretative essay about Leon Ferrari as principal contribution about the artist for the catalogue of his anthological exhibition at the MoMA that will open in April 2009.

In February 2008 Giunta co-chaired the session "Global Modern Art. The World Inside Out and Upside Down" together with Anthony White at the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, Melbourne, Australia. Currently she is the Director of the book series, Arte y pensamiento (Siglo XXI Publishing House), Vice-Director of TyPA Fundation; member of the board of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), Birkbeck, University of London; member of the editorial board of the journals Márgenes (Faculdade de Letras de la UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Facultad de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, and Programa de Pós-Graduação en Letras e Linguística, Universidade Federal da Bahia) and Afuera, Estudios de Crítica Cultural, Buenos Aires. She is currently editing the books, Metropolis de papel, Revistas y redes internacionales en la modernidad artística latinoamericana and El Guernica de Picasso entre Europa, Estados Unidos y América Latina (both forthcoming from Biblos Press, Buenos Aires, 2009) and preparing her book Postcrisis, Arte argentino después del 2001 (forthcoming from Siglo XXI, 2009). She is also curating, together with Néstor García Canclini, the traveling exhibition Foreignness, to be presented in Buenos Aires in July 2009.

 

LINDA DALRYMPLE HENDERSON
During 2007-2008 Linda Henderson finished the preparation of the catalog and exhibition Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery in 1960s New York at the Blanton Museum of Art (Sept. 28, 2008-Jan. 18, 2009). That exhibition brings together for the first time in forty years the works of the artists who ran the cooperative gallery Park Place between 1963 and 1967: painters Dean Fleming, Edwin Ruda, Leo Valledor, Tamara Melcher, and David Novros and sculptors Mark di Suvero, Peter Forakis, Forrest Myers, Anthony Magar, and Robert Grosvenor. The catalog includes Henderson’s essay "Park Place: Its Art and History," along with color illustrations of the paintings and sculptures in the show as well as a sampling of the group’s artist-designed posters, photographs of installation views at Park Place, a timeline reconstructing the history of the gallery’s shows, and chronologies and bibliographies for the artists (many created for this exhibition).

Henderson also published the essay "Einstein and 20th-Century Art: A Romance of Many Dimensions" in the Princeton University Press anthology Einstein for the 21st Century, which brings together contributions by the speakers at the Einstein Centennial conference in Berlin in 2005. She also completed two other essays now in press: "The Image and Imagination of the Fourth Dimension in 20th-Century Art and Culture" (to appear in an issue of the journal Configurations on "Mathematics and the Imagination"), and "The 'Fourth Dimension' as Sign of Utopia in Early Modern Art and Culture" (to be published in a volume of the proceedings of a conference on "Utopianism and the Sciences" at the University of Groningen). In October 2007 Henderson was an invited participant in a meeting of a consortium on "Memory in Neuroscience and the Humanities" at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Huntington, NY). She also presented the annual Beckwith Lecture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and papers at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts as well as the College Art Association. In summer 2008 she gave a gallery talk at the Whitney Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting with Universe.

 

JOAN HOLLADAY
Joan Holladay continues work on both a book on genealogical imagery in the Middle Ages and on Gothic Sculpture in America, 3: The Museums of New York and Pennsylvania. Supported by major grants from the NEH and the Getty Foundation, this latter project will catalogue some 415 objects in twenty museums. Along with her co-editor, Holladay is coordinating the assignments of these objects to twenty-eight authors; she will be on leave in the spring of 2009 to work on the editing of the submitted entries. Holladay was invited to organize the Open Session on Medieval Art at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in Dallas in February of 2008 and a session entitled "Talking about Medieval Art in the Middle Ages: Verbal Accounts, Hearsay and their Impact" sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art at Kalamazoo in May. She was awarded the College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Award for 2008.

 

JANICE LEOSHKO
For Leoshko 2007-2008 has been a year of organizing and participating in various programs and symposia at UT and elsewhere. One major activity concerned shepherding the final stages of implementation of the new Portfolio Program in Museum Studies that officially began in Fall 2008.

Leoshko organized the international symposium "East Asian Buddhists Traveling in South Asia and the Significance of Xuanzang." She also organized various events surrounding week-long visit by Pablo Bartholomew, renowned photojournalist, who also appeared in the seminar "Visualizing Tribal India." These events occurred in September 2007.

Leoshko also presented a paper "Defining Jain Elements at Udayagiri-Khandagiri, Orissa," at SOAS, University of London, and was discussant for a panel on Bodhgaya at the International Association of Buddhist Association, held for the first time in USA at Emory University. Another activity included chairing the panel at Annual South Asia Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, October, 2007 "Muslims, Monuments and Memory: Modern Indian Dialogue with its Islamic Past."

 

NASSOS PAPALEXANDROU
In 2007-2008 Papalexandrou presented the results of his latest research in the Annual Meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago ("Brazen Monsters: The Orientalizing Cauldrons and their Reception in Early Greek Sanctuaries") and the College Art Association in Dallas ("Are there Hybridic Visual Cultures? Reflections on the Orientalizing phenomena in the Mediterranean of the first millenium BCE"). He also participated in a fascinating conference on Greek Religion organized by the Swedish Institute of Archaeology in Athens and the British School of Archaeology in Athens ("Vision and Visuality in the Study of Early Greek Religion") and he lectured in Austin and San Antonio.

In spring 2008 Papalexandrou co-taught a seminar with Classics professor Adam Rabinowitz on the Blanton Collection of Greek Vases. In collaboration with Blanton curators Annette Carlozzi and Jennifer Garner, Papalexandrou, Rabinowitz, and their graduate students produced updated and extensive didactic materials regarding the Greek vases, their original contexts, and their place in the artistic production of ancient Athens and South Italy. Papalexandrou and Rabinowitz are now working on a new, comprehensive publication of these vases, with Art History and Classics graduate students contributing major entries and essays on various aspects of the collection.

In summer 2008 Papalexandrou traveled to Greece where he conducted research in Delphi, Athens, and the south of the Peloponnese (Ancient Messene). A major article appeared in the journal Hesperia ("Boiotian Tripods: The Tenacity of a Panhellenic Symbol in a Regional Context") whereas numerous other projects are either in press or in preparation.

In December 2007 Papalexandrou was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

 

GLENN PEERS
For the 2007-08 academic year, Peers was on research leave as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, where he continued research projects on philhellenism in Renaissance France, orthodox magic in Late Medieval Trebizond, and Muslim-Christian relations in Medieval Sicily. He also continued work on a proposed exhibition on Byzantine materiality at the Menil Collection in Houston. He lectured in Toronto, Leiden and Berlin during the year, but mostly he enjoyed the calm and collegiality of the Institute, and bicycle rides to Princeton University and Seminary libraries.

 

SUSAN RATHER
I continue as assistant chair for Art History, with administrative responsibility for the 22-faculty-member division within the Department of Art and Art History. As a detail person, I actually find much satisfaction in carrying out my responsibilities, while relishing the opportunity to take broader initiatives, such as undergraduate curriculum reform. In a more light-hearted vein, I hosted a community building event for Art History faculty, graduate students and staff in the form of a "Come as a Work of Art or an Artist" costume party, a challenge met with admirable ingenuity by the roughly sixty persons in attendance. Many thanks to the graduate student committee whose assistance with planning and execution made the whole thing possible.

I’m pushing forward with my book project, The American School: Artist and Identity in the Late Colonial and Early National Era. The project draws together new and ongoing scholarship with previously published material in substantially reworked form. My investigations cohere around the problematics of periphery, center, and nation from the perspective of artists and their audiences and in the recurrence of key issues and personae. Major themes include artisanry and professionalism; practice and theory; regional, colonial, and national identities; the democratization of art and portrait painting as a political metaphor; artistic nationalism and naturalism as a presumed American idiom; and the emergent history of American art.

My former field of inquiry, 20th century sculpture, briefly preoccupied me when I was commissioned to write a catalogue entry on Paul Manship’s sculpture Diana (1921), for 50 Years of Collecting at the Colby College Museum of Art.

 

ANN REYNOLDS
This past academic year I completed work on a long essay, "In the Absence of Sound: Moving and Still Life," for a volume on the relationship between cinema and sculpture entitled Sculpting in Time and Space (forthcoming from Ashgate Press, 2008). I am currently working on a number of new projects which will result in publications in the coming year: "Constructive Art in Brazil: A Perspective from New York," for the two-volume Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil (MFA, Houston and Yale University Press, 2009) an essay on the artist Zoe Leonard for book to be published in conjunction with her one-person exhibition at Dia Beacon opening this fall (Dia Foundation and Yale University Press, 2009), and an essay on Joan Jonas’ recent performance "The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things."

I have also recently been commissioned to write essays for an anthology entitled Since 1968 and a volume on postwar queer experimental film. The essay for the latter volume, which is tentatively titled "Home Movies," deals with a mode of cinematic practice and a way of life that a number of New York experimental film makers described as "home movies" since they felt that their lives were lived in front of the camera. This past May, I gave a related lecture on 1960s drawing, animation, and film, entitled "Media Imagined and Re-imagined," at the College Art Association Annual Meeting in Dallas. I also continue to work on my book-length project Playtime: Creativity, Community, and Publics in New York, 1940-1970, and several of my on-going projects will become part of this larger project. The first week of October 2008 I will be co-chairing a conference entitled "Political Emotions: Affect and the Public Sphere" with Janet Staiger and Ann Cvetkovich at the University of Texas.

 

RICHARD SHIFF
Several of Richard Shiff's interpretive essays for exhibitions appeared this year: in September 2007, for the Georg Baselitz show at the Royal Academy, London; in November, for the Jasper Johns show at the Art Institute of Chicago; in February 2008, for the Peter Doig show at Tate Britain and in the same month for the 20th-century abstraction show at Kunstforum Vienna; in June for the Richard Serra show at Kunsthaus Bregenz, and in the same month for the Cy Twombly show at Tate Modern, and for the Marlene Dumas show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He wrote a comprehensive essay for Joel Shapiro's exhibition of new work at PaceWildenstein, which opened in November 2007.

During the past year, Shiff also published historically oriented essays on Cézanne in connection with an exhibition at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (September), on Pissarro in connection with an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York (September), and on Seurat in connection with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (November).

Shiff's book on forms of conflict between art and critical practice—titled "Doubt"—appeared in November (published by Routledge). He is now at work on studies of Edvard Munch and Per Kirkeby, as well as a new essay on Cézanne's connection to traditions of twentieth-century painting and sculpture.

 

JEFFREY CHIPPS SMITH
Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Kay Fortson Chair in European Art, held a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in spring 2008. He was elected President of Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (2008-2011). He continues to serve as Associate Editor of Renaissance Quarterly and member of the board of directors of the Renaissance Society of America. His term on the board of the Sixteenth Century Society ended in October 2007. Smith is one of three founding editors of the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (JHNA), a new on-line journal that will publish its first issue in June 2009.

During the year he completed his monograph on Albrecht Dürer, which Phaidon Press (London) will publish in February 2009. With Larry Silver, Smith is co-editing The Essential Dürer (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, fall 2009). Another new printing of The Northern Renaissance (London: Phaidon, 2004) was made in fall 2007. His earlier book German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, c. 1520-1580: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994) is being reissued as an e-book.

His recent publications include "The Pictorial Languages of German Art, 1400-1650," in Camden House History of German Literature, vol. 4, Early Modern German Literature 1350-1700, ed. Max Reinhart (New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2007), pp. 549-592; "A Tale of Two Cities: Nuremberg and Munich" in Embodiments of Power: Building Baroque Cities in Europe, eds. Gary B. Cohen and Franz A. J. Szabo (New York: Bergbahn Books, 2008), pp. 164-190; and numerous book reviews. Smith presented several talks and hosted a visiting lecture series in conjunction with Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) – Woodcuts and Engravings: The Dürer Collection of the Foundation of Lower Saxony and the Konrad Liebmann Foundation, Germany, an exhibition held at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas. He was chair and commentator for the "Transformations: Typology in Sixteenth-Century Art" session at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference meeting in Minneapolis. Smith was the organizer and chair of "The Northern Renaissance" session at the 2008 College Art Association meeting in Dallas. His other talks included "The Art Historical Shaping of Albrecht Dürer: From Wölfflin to Panofsky," at the Dürer and Cranach. Art and Humanism in Renaissance Germany symposium at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; "Repatriating Sanctity," in Repatriation, chaired by Dario Gamboni, at Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence, 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2008; "Dürer and the Art of the Print" at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock; and "Dürer’s Losses and the Dilemmas of Being," a plenary talk presented at the Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär conference at Duke University.

 

LOUIS WALDMAN
During the academic year 2008-2009 Waldman is on leave from UT and is in Florence, where he holds a temporary position as Assistant Director at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

The academic year 2007-2008 saw the publication of ten new essays: "A Rediscovered Portrait of Benvenuto Cellini Attributed to Francesco Ferrucci del Tadda and Cellini," The Burlington Magazine, CXLIX, No. 1257 (December 2007), pp. 820-830; "Sogliani and His Patrons: The Albizzi, Bernardi, and Serristori Altarpieces," Paragone, LIX, No. 697 (March 2008), pp. 69-86, figs. 63-71; "A New Drawing by Alonso Berruguete in Lisbon," Source, XXVII, No. 4 (Summer 2008), pp. 11-15; "A Drawing by Tribolo for Montorsoli’s Lost Hercules and Antaeus for the Medici Villa at Castello," Szépmüvészeti Múzeum Közleményei [Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts]), 105 (2008), pp. 93-100; "Parigi/Firenze: Novità per il pittore fiorentino Bartolomeo Ghetti," Erba d’Arno, CXI (Winter 2008), pp. 45-58; "'Io Mariotto di Christofano sono chontento chome disopra si chontiene': An Artistic Contract of 1440," Source, XXVII, No. 1 (Fall 2007), pp. 10-13; "The Donation of Antonio del Pollaiuolo’s Workshop to Salvestro del Pollaiuolo" The Burlington Magazine, CXLIX, No. 1252 (July 2007), pp. 471-472; "The Family of Bernardo Buontalenti and the Artistic Career of His Father Francesco di Domenico Rosselli," in Invisibile agli occhi. Atti della giornata di studio in ricordo di Lisa Venturini, Firenze, Fondazione Roberto Longhi, 15 dicembre 2005, ed. Nicoletta Baldini, (Florence: Fondazione Longhi 2007), pp. 138-157, figs. 159-161; "The Origins of the Self-Portrait Bust: Rediscovering Bartolomeo di Jacopo," Source, XXVI, No. 4 (Summer 2007), pp. 9-15; "Nicoletto da Modena and Giovanni Larciani," Print Quarterly, XXIV, no. 2 (June 2007), pp. 41-45.

Prof. Waldman also published four catalogue entries on Benedetto Bonfigli and Cristofano dell'Altissimo in the catalogue of the exhibition Matthias Corvinus, the King: Tradition and Renewal in the Hungarian Royal Court, 1458-1490, ed. Péter Fárbaky, exh. cat., Budapesti Törteneti Múzeum (2008); and an entry on Alexander Formoser (the Master of Santa Lucia sul Prato) in the catalogue of the exhibition The Splendour of the Medici – Art and Life in the Renaissance Florence, ed. Anna Maria Giusti and Monica Bietti, exh. cat., Budapest, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (2008), pp. 164-165.

An interview was published in the Hungarian version of The Times Review of Books: "Ha tíz perc alatt nem vagy meggyözö, felejtsd el az elméletedet: Louis A. Waldman müvészettörténésszel Pallag Zoltán és Szele Bálint készített interjút" ("'If You Can’t Convince People in Ten Minutes, Throw It Out': Art Historian Louis A. Waldman Talks to Zoltán Pallag and Bálint Szele [about Botticelli, the Master of the Esztergom Virtues, and the methodology of connoisseurship]"), Élet és Irodalom [Life and Letters], LI, no. 28 (July 13, 2007), p. 7.

Waldman spoke at the Renaissance Society meeting in Chicago on "The Drawings of Giovanni Bandini" in a session on Old Master drawings that he organized around seven related papers. He spoke in two conferences at Villa I Tatti of which he was co-organizer: "Benedetto da Rovezzano in England and After: New Research on the Artist, His Collaborators, and His Family," paper presented at the symposium "Henrici-Medici: Artistic Links between the Early Tudor Courts and Medicean Florence," Florence, Villa I Tatti, September 19-20, 2007; and "Artistic Exchanges between Florence and Hungary, c. 1485-1525: Benedetto da Maiano, Alessandro di Giovanni Tedesco, Francesco Fiorentino and Others," paper presented at the symposium "Italy and Hungary: Humanism and Art in the Early Renaissance," Florence, Villa I Tatti, June 6-8, 2007.

Waldman gave the keynote lecture ("Matthias and His Legacy") for the week-long conference "Mathias Rex 1458-1490 – Hungary at the Dawn of the Renaissance," held by the Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, May 20 2008.

Waldman’s teaching was recognized with the 2008 Texas Blazers Faculty Excellence Award.

 

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