Art History

Professor Julia Rosenbaum has been named Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. for 2015-2016.
The Smithsonian’s year-long research fellowship will support Professor Rosenbaum’s new project examining art, science, and representations
of the body from the Civil War to WWII.

Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Bearing the Weight

For more information:  http://www.sunyorange.edu/news/articles/pr2013-005.shtml

“The Alchemical Kitchen: At Home with Leonora Carrington” is a commemoration of the artist by Prof. Susan Aberth, published in Nierika: Celebrando a Leonora Carrington.  Nierka is a new Mexican on-line art journal.

Nierika cover

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Femininity in Asian Women Artists’ Work from China, Korea and USA
If the Shoe Fits
by Patricia Karetzky

ISBN: 978-0-9536541-2-3
c. 46 pages, 40 + illus. (2012)
.epub format
£4.50

Prof. Patricia Karetzky discusses the metaphor of the shoe and how it is present in different women artists’ work in China, Korea and USA.  The artists discussed are: Peng Wei, Nina Kuo, Yin Xuizhen, Cai Jin, Xin Song, Il Sun Hon, Betty Yaquin Zhou and Mimi Kim.

This ebook is the first in a new series from KT press and is available as an .epub only. It is compatible with Apple ibooks and can be read on many different color e-readers.

The APS has awarded a Franklin Grant to Laurie Dahlberg to support the development of her  manuscript:

Amateur v. amateur: Photography and the Devolution of a Gentleman’s Art.

Prof. Julia Rosenbaum has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship to study the visual culture of the American Civil War. The NEH Institute takes place this summer in New York City and involves work with a team of scholars, study of materials at significant museum and archival collections, and new media lab workshops.

Patricia Karetzky latest publication is:

“Contemporary Chinese Art: Uses and Reuses of the Past”
Education About Asia, Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2012, pp. 39-43

To view a supplement of the artist’s images not shown in the article, please visit:  http://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/

Laurie Dahlberg has been awarded a NEH summer stipend award to support development of her  manuscript:

Amateur v. amateur: Photography and the Devolution of a Gentleman’s Art.

On April 19th  she is  giving a talk, entitled “For Love or Money?: Dilemmas of Class and Caste in Early Amateur Photography”  which is derived from one segment of her project, at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia.

Congratulations Laurie!

The Princeton Review
http://www.princetonreview.com/uploadedFiles/Sitemap/Home_Page/Rankings/Best_Professors/BestProfessors_schools.pdf has cited two Bard professors as among the 300 best professors in the country: our own Diana Depardo-Minsky, art history, and Karen Sullivan, Literature.   Read the testimonial:  diana_depardo_minsky.  Congratulations Diana!