Earn art history credit this summer with any of these exciting study abroad opportunities offered through International Programs www.international.fsu.edu: The London Study Centre: located in the historic Thanet House in the Bloomsbury District, a block from the British Museum. Prof. Robert Neuman offers two 6-week courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. “Museums of London” considers a range of institutions, from big national collections, like the British Museum and the National Gallery, to small personal gems like Sir John Soane’s Museum. “Buildings of London” surveys two thousand years of architecture from ancient Roman Londinium to recent postmodern designs. The Artistic Avant-Garde : this 6-week program addresses the rise and fall of the European avant-garde. Asst. Prof. Adam Jolles uses Paris’s unparalleled cultural resources to demonstrate how and why art changed so dramatically in the years between the French Revolution and the First World War. The Florence Study Center: located within the Palazzo Alessandri—a fifteenth-century urban palace—the study center is a short stroll from the marbled Duomo, the Ponte Vecchio, NEWSLETTER Fall 2007 Volume 1, Issue 2 The tendency to focus on the material production of the “West,” and the dichotomy of center and periphery that such privileging engenders, has been an issue of art historical debate since the 1970s. How do we expand the canon to reflect the history of art and the changing demographic of the classroom? What methodologies best elucidate the unique issues of divergent cultures? In our efforts to accurately reflect trends in art historical scholarship, we have expanded our course offerings to include a concentration in Taking on the World World Arts. With Michael Carrasco, Talinn Grigor, and Susan Lee as faculty teaching in such diverse areas as Pre-Columbian art and architecture, Middle Eastern modern architecture and (post) Colonial discourse, and the Arts of Asia, this is an exciting time for art history at FSU. The spring course offerings in World Arts will include: Arts of Asia, Islamic Art and Architecture, World Arts: Representations and Reality, Methods and Theories of World Arts, and Japanese Prints. Go International! and the Uffizi Gallery. Ph.D. candidate Frank Nero leads 6- and 12- week programs. The recently expanded itinerary now includes an extended visit to Giotto's Arena Chapel in Padua; an outing to the “ideal” renaissance city of Pienza, planned in the mid-fifteenth century by Pope Pius II and architect Bernardo Rossellino; and a tour of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice that gives students the opportunity to explore the art of the Italian Futurists. The Grand Tour: a multi-country excursion that takes students from London to Paris, Berlin, Venice, Florence, and Rome. Included are day-trips to Versailles, Auschwitz, and Pompeii. Ph.D. candidate, Ceil Bare, leads this brand-new 4-week program.
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Earn art history credit this summer with any ofthese exciting study abroad opportunitiesoffered through International Programswww.international.fsu.edu:
The London Study Centre: located in thehistoric Thanet House in the BloomsburyDistrict, a block from the British Museum.Prof. Robert Neuman offers two 6-weekcourses at both the undergraduate andgraduate levels. “Museums of London”considers a range of institutions, from bignational collections, like the British Museumand the National Gallery, to small personalgems like Sir John Soane’s Museum.“Buildings of London” surveys two thousandyears of architecture from ancient RomanLondinium to recent postmodern designs.
The Artistic Avant-Garde: this 6-weekprogram addresses the rise and fall of theEuropean avant-garde. Asst. Prof. AdamJolles uses Paris’s unparalleled culturalresources to demonstrate how and why artchanged so dramatically in the years betweenthe French Revolution and the First WorldWar.
The Florence Study Center: located withinthe Palazzo Alessandri—a fifteenth-centuryurban palace—the study center is a short strollfrom the marbled Duomo, the Ponte Vecchio,
NEWSLETTERFall 2007Volume 1, Issue 2
The tendency to focus on the materialproduction of the “West,” and the dichotomy ofcenter and periphery that such privilegingengenders, has been an issue of art historicaldebate since the 1970s. How do we expandthe canon to reflect the history of art and thechanging demographic of the classroom?What methodologies best elucidate the uniqueissues of divergent cultures?
In our efforts to accurately reflect trends in arthistorical scholarship, we have expanded ourcourse offerings to include a concentration in
Taking on the WorldWorld Arts. With Michael Carrasco, TalinnGrigor, and Susan Lee as faculty teachingin such diverse areas as Pre-Columbian artand architecture, Middle Eastern modernarchitecture and (post) Colonial discourse,and the Arts of Asia, this is an exciting timefor art history at FSU.
The spring course offerings in World Arts willinclude: Arts of Asia, Islamic Art andArchitecture, World Arts: Representationsand Reality, Methods and Theories of WorldArts, and Japanese Prints.
Go International!and the Uffizi Gallery. Ph.D. candidateFrank Nero leads 6- and 12- weekprograms. The recently expanded itinerarynow includes an extended visit to Giotto'sArena Chapel in Padua; an outing to the“ideal” renaissance city of Pienza, plannedin the mid-fifteenth century by Pope Pius IIand architect Bernardo Rossellino; and atour of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection inVenice that gives students the opportunity toexplore the art of the Italian Futurists.
The Grand Tour: a multi-country excursionthat takes students from London to Paris,Berlin, Venice, Florence, and Rome.Included are day-trips to Versailles,Auschwitz, and Pompeii. Ph.D. candidate,Ceil Bare, leads this brand-new 4-weekprogram.
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Developed by Ph.D. candidate Lana Burgess, theundergraduate Museum Object course is an interactiveexperience that provides students with the opportunity tocurate an exhibition in Strozier Library.
Scheduled as a 3-hour seminar that meets once a week,the first half of the semester is devoted to discussions andpresentations, while the last 8 weeks are organized as aworkshop, where students interact directly with objects inStrozier Library’s Special Collections.
Students explore the diverse elements of museumexhibitions, including accessibility, creativity, design,evaluation, interpretation, and problem solving. Workingtogether to conceptualize a project, participants define theexhibition goals and target audience, develop the exhibit’smain message, and research its themes. Additionalresponsibilities include drafting interpretative materials,producing didactic panels, displaying the objects, installingand lighting the cases, and evaluating the show.
Working with Strozier’s Special Collections allows studentsto handle original artifacts and acquire the skills necessaryto work in museums and libraries. Increasing theunderstanding of exhibitions enhances cultural andperceptual awareness for undergraduates.
The Museum Object Class: an Example of Participatory PedagogyOver the past two years students have curated exhibitionsthat explored diverse topics. Kapow! A Cultural Overviewof Comic Book Heroes and Icons (December 2, 2005 toJanuary 20, 2006) was selected from the Robert M. Ervin,Jr., Collection, which includes some of the most enduringnames in comic book history. Featuring Batman,Spiderman, Superman, and Catwoman, the displayexplored the role of heroes, anti-heroes, sidekicks, andvillains. Fetishizing Horror for the Silver Screen: SellingSlashers and Sex (April 14 to May 26, 2006), drawn fromthe Cinema Promotional Materials Collection, focused onhorror film advertisements containing provocative sexualimagery. More Than Words: The Historical Significance ofText and Image (December 1, 2006 to January 26, 2007)considered the evolution of books, from how theyfunctioned to how they were manufactured. Got Herb? A“Special Collection” of Botanicals and Herbals (April 16 toJuly 16, 2007) included objects from the LouiseRichardson Herbal Collection. This show explored thevarious ways in which humans use plants.
The undergraduate Museum Object course is an excellentinteractive course that provides students with a base oftheoretical knowledge and the practical skills necessary topursue a museum career. Ph.D. candidate Teri Yoo willteach this class in the spring.
Mark your calendars: Thesis Forum is November 7. Second year M.A. studentsKristie Cox, Karlyn Griffith, and Jennifer Pride will present the state of theirresearch. This is an excellent opportunity to support your colleagues and contributeto art historical discourse.
Kristie Cox is working with Profs. Lee and Jones on her topic, “Relics, ReligiousImagery, and Warfare in Byzantium and Medieval Japan.” As part of her research,Ms. Cox visited New York to examine a painted image on a suit of Japanese armorin the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s permanent collection.
Karlyn Griffith is working with Prof. Emmerson on the 89 miniatures of thefourteenth-century play, Le Jour du Jugement, MS Besançon 579. As part of herresearch, Ms. Griffith traveled to France to examine the manuscript, which is in thecollection of the Bibliothèque municipale, Besançon.
Jennifer Pride, directed by Prof. Weingarden, is writing about Manet's Masked Ballat the Opera and Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du mal.” Ms. Pride visited New York andWashington D.C. this summer to conduct part of her research.
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Asst. Prof. Michael Carrasco will present “From Field toHearth: An Earthly Interpretation of Maya Mythology” at the40th Annual Chac Mool Conference at the University ofCalgary in November.
Prof. Paula Gerson presented “Painted RomanesqueMonumental Sculpture: Essential or Skin-Deep?” at “Art asHistorical Text,” a conference held at Ben GurionUniversity in Israel in May.
Asst. Prof. Talinn Grigor presented “Tehran: ARevolution in Making” at the Middle Eastern CitiesColloquium held at the University of Michigan, October 3-5.While in Ann Arbor, she also presented “Of Heritage &Inventions: a Lost Ferdawsi, his Modern Tomb, and theUtopic Future in 1920 Iran” at a public lecture, and“Imperialism of Ancient Heritage in the 1970s Iran” at ateaching workshop. She will present “Dolling-up Yerevan:Avant-garde Urbanism in Post-Soviet Politics” at theCentral Eurasian Studies Society, 8th annual conference,at the University of Washington in Seattle on October 17.
Asst. Prof. Lynn Jones presented “When is a CopticTextile not Coptic?” at the annual Byzantine StudiesConference at the University of Toronto October 11-14. Dr.Jones, President of the BSC, will discuss the Coptic textilefragment recently found in Special Collections at StrozierLibrary.
Professors and Graduate Students Present Papers
Asst. Prof. Lynn Jones’s new book Between Islam and Byzantium: Aght’amarand the Visual Construction of Medieval Armenian Rulership is forthcoming inNovember from Ashgate Publishing. It provides the first complete analysis of thedevelopment of the visual expression of medieval Armenian rulership between884-1045 CE. During this period, the Armenian rulers loosened their ties with theArab caliphate, but by its end the Byzantine Empire had become dominant in theregion. The influences exerted by these external, opposing powers are a majortheme of Dr. Jones’s book.
Asst. Prof. Talinn Grigor has two new publications. “Orient oder Rom? Qajar‘Aryan’ Architecture and Strzygowski’s Art History,” was published in theSeptember issue of Art Bulletin and “Transient Constructs: Soviet Monumentsand Those of their Enemies" appears in Enemies of Empire: New Perspectiveson Imperialism, Literature and History published by Four Courts Press. EóinFlannery and Angus Mitchell edited the volume.
Prof. Roald Nasgaard is included in the anthology, Beyond Wilderness: TheGroup of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art, ed. John O'Brian andPeter White (McGill-Queens University Press), released this September. Hisexhibition, The Urge to Abstraction, opened Saturday, September 15, at TheVarley Art Gallery, Unionville, Ontario.
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Prof. Robert Neuman presented “Disneyland's MainStreet, U.S.A., and Its Sources in Hollywood, U.S.A.” atthe annual joint meeting of the American CultureAssociation and the Popular Culture Association in Bostonlast March, and attended the annual conference of theSociety of Architectural Historians in Pittsburgh last April.
Assoc. Prof. Lauren Weingarden presented “Benjamin’sElective Affinities: Reassessing ‘The Paris of the SecondEmpire’ in Baudelaire” at the XVIIIth Congress of theInternational Comparative Literature Association in Rio deJaneiro this past summer.
Karlyn Griffith (M.A. student) will present “PerformingCourtly Love and Ivory Composite Caskets” at theSoutheastern College Art Association annual conference inCharleston, West Virginia, October 17-20.
Julianne Parse-Sandlin (Ph.D. candidate) will present“Louis XIII and the Church of the Oratory: An Expressionof Sovereign Authority” at the Southeast Chapter of theSociety of Architectural Historian’s annual conference,which will be held October 24-27 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nathan J. Timpano (Ph.D. candidate) presented “DerMärchenkönig & the American Imagination: Understandingthe Medieval and the Exotic in the Early Works of WilliamMerritt Chase” at the “Research on the Formation ofArtists” conference in Munich, October 9-11.
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Travels and AdventuresProf. Paula Gerson, who is on sabbatical this year, will beat the Sorbonne in Paris in November. She will then visitSantiago de Compostela, Spain, where she will present ata conference on pilgrimage texts.
Brandon Burrell (Ph.D. student) taught a 5-week courseon the art and architecture of Paris this summer and willtravel to Melbourne, Australia, in January to participate inthe International Congress for the History of Art.
Tanja Jones (Ph.D. candidate) will be in Washington D.C.on a Graduate Student Residency at Dumbarton-Oaks inNovember. She is working on her dissertation, “Pisanello’sMedals for Ludovico Gonzaga of Mantua: Dynasty, theRelic of the Holy Blood, and Crusade.” Assoc. Prof. JackFreiberg directs Ms. Jones’s committee.
Formed by Stassa Edwards (Ph.D. candidate) and Keri Fredericks (Ph.D.student), the Interdisciplinary Association of Modernists (I AM 1789) seeks tofoster a relationship between graduate students across disciplines who areinterested in modern art, literature, and culture. The group’s name, I AM1789, refers to the beginning of the French Revolution—the death of the kingand the germ of modernism. “Vive le revolution!”
Membership is open to all FSU graduate students interested in themes ofmodernism.
Join our listserv at [email protected] or visit us on Facebook.
Alumnus Publishes I Was CubaRamiro Fernandez, who graduated from FSU’s School ofVisual Arts and Dance in 1974, has recently published a bookof his photographs. I Was Cuba is an original look at Cubanhistory as seen through the Ramiro Fernandez Collection,arguably the world’s leading archive of Cuban photographs.With texts from famed Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (BeforeNight Falls), this captivating volume is an intimate view into abygone era of glamour, political upheaval, and astoundingvisual culture. On October 23 Mr. Fernandez will give apresentation about his collection of rare, vernacular imagesfrom the nineteenth century through the revolutionary period.Mr. Fernandez recently retired after a thirty-year career as aphoto-editor for Time-L i fe and People m a g a z i n e s .
I AM 1789—a New Graduate Student Association
Jennifer Naumann (Ph.D. candidate) is in Paris doingresearch for her dissertation “The Game of Princes:Copies, Competition, and the Construction of CourtlyCharacter.” Prof. Rick Emmerson chairs her committee.
Frank Nero (Ph.D. candidate) is living in Florence andworking on his dissertation. In July, Mr. Nero curated Time,Memory, Image, an exhibition by Angela Gould. Ms. Gouldis a recent FSU MFA graduate. The exhibition was theresult of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant awardedto Ms. Gould.
Nathan J. Timpano (Ph.D. candidate) is in Austria andGermany on a Fulbright and DAAD doing research on hisdissertation “The Language of Gesture: ExaminingTheatrical Corporeal Form in Austrian ExpressionistPainting.” Asst. Prof. Adam Jolles chairs Mr. Timpano’scommittee.
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Congratulations!Brandon Burrell (Ph.D. student) has been nominated by the College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance to be a featuredstudent on FSU’s homepage. Mr. Burrell held the University Fellowship from 2005-07 and has been awarded aMcKnight Doctoral Fellowship for 2007-10.
Jennifer Feltman (Ph.D. candidate) was invited to Ph.D. candidacy Aug. 22. Her committee includes Profs. Gerson,Emmerson, Lee, and Walters (French). Her dissertation will address the construction and representation of purgatoryduring the Middle Ages.
Segundo (Ph.D. student) and Bobbie (M.A. student) Fernandez welcomed their third child, Henry James, on August27. He weighed 9 lbs. 2 oz.
Matt McCaskill (M.A. student) will defend his thesis, “The Frescoes of the Church Fathers in Santa Maria Antigua:Theological Proclamation through Visualization” this October. Profs. Jones and Gerson co-chair his committee.
Liza Smirnova (B.A. student) has won an Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award. This prestigiousUniversity fellowship will enable Ms. Smirnova to conduct research in Chicago at the Art Institute and in Russia. Asst.Prof. Adam Jolles directs her project, “The Impact and Influence of Soviet Propaganda of the Great Patriotic War.”
Lee Todd (M.A. student) defended her thesis, “The Quest of the Individual: Interpreting the Narrative Structure in theMiracle Windows at Canterbury Cathedral” on July 11. Prof. Gerson directs her committee.
“College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance Presents” Lecture SeriesMade possible by a generous gift from the late Vincent and Mary Agnes Thursby, the Department of Art History willbring four distinguished art historians to FSU this year. Two speakers will join us in the Fall and two in the Spring. Alllectures are in the Fine Arts Building, Room 249 at 7pm.
Helen Evans is the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NewYork. She is the author of Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557) and Glory of Byzantium. She will present alecture, “The Holy Mountain of St. Catherine at Sinai: Responses to a Sacred Space,” Thursday, Nov. 1.
Fred Bohrer is Associate Professor of Art at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. He is the author of Orientalism andVisual Culture: Exoticizing Assyria in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2003), as well as several essays and articles inleading critical anthologies and journals. He curated the currently traveling exhibition, Antoine Sevruguin and thePersian Image. He will present a lecture, “Photography, Worldliness, and the Middle East: Then and Now” onTuesday, Nov. 13.
Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art in the Graduate Center at theCity University of New York. He is the author of Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography and Each WildIdea: Writing, Photography, History, in addition to numerous articles on the history and theory of photography. He iscurrently preparing an anthology of essays concerning Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida. He will speak on Thursday,Jan. 24.
Our fourth speaker will be announced later this month. We look forward to seeing you at the lectures!
SUMMER GRADUATES
Doctor of PhilosophyBarbara Johnston
Master of ArtsJungwon Lee and Keith Wemm
Bachelor of ArtsCarolyn Broadhead (Cum Laude), Ryan Campea, KatieCouture (Cum Laude), Ellen Howard (Magna Cum Laude),Jamie Lumpkin, Adrienne Meraz (Cum Laude), JacquelineMero, Lauren Skurow, and Ann Smith
Where are they now?
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Debra Murphy (M.A. 1979) completed her Ph.D. at BostonUniversity and is now an Associate Professor and the Chair ofthe Department of Art and Design at the University of NorthFlorida in Jacksonville.
Bill McKeown (Ph.D. 2005) is an Assistant Professor andGraduate Advisor in the Department of Art at the University ofMemphis in Memphis, Tennessee.
Keidra Daniels (M.A. 2007) is the new head of corporaterelations for the Orlando Museum of Art.
Kara Morrow (Ph.D. 2007) is an Assistant Professor in the ArtHistory Department at Albion College in Albion, Michigan.
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Fall 2007Volume 1, Issue 2
EDITORS:KERI FREDERICKSSARAH ANDYSHAK
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A Message from the Undergraduate Art History Association…
A Message from the Art History Association…AHA is an organization designed specifically for Art History graduate students at FSU. Wecoordinate guest lectures, host social events, and act as liaison between graduate studentsand faculty members. As a student in the department, you are automatically a member, soplease take advantage of all that our association has to offer.
President: Morgan McCormick ([email protected])Vice President: Stephanie Dutcher ([email protected])Treasurer: Alison Moore ([email protected])Faculty Liaison: Lindsey Skelly ([email protected])
Visit us on the web: www.fsu.edu/~arh/pages/people/aha/index.shtml
The Undergraduate Art History Association (UAHA) is dedicated to fostering a positiverelationship between undergraduate majors, the department, faculty, and graduatestudents.
President: Rachelle HellamsVice President: Charlotte WatersSecretary: Ashley HickmanTreasurer: Janelle Hernandez
Bake Sales: Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month in the FAB LobbyGraduation Discussion—October 24 (Topic: What to do with your degree)First Fridays—UAHA officers will gather every First Friday at 7pm in front of 621 Gallery
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