Art History

Cindy Sherman

The Art History Program will hold its Majors’ Event on Wednesday, November 5th in the Faculty Dining Room.  Art History faculty will meet with majors and interested students to discuss the Spring 2015 course offerings.  Three alumni will speak of their lives after Bard, their failures and successes, giving tips and networking advise to current students.

Refreshments will be served.

Art History Senior Presentations Thursday, May 16th: art history seniors presented their projects to their peers and faculty and then participated in a celebratory dinner.

Here is the Program, please enjoy!

Candidate for the tenure-track Medieval Position in Art History

Beatrice Kitzinger
Stanford University

will give a talk:
“Manuscript Space and the Material Cross in the Late Eighteenth Century”

Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Reem Kayden Science Bldg. 102
6:00 pm

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean and the Art History Program

Candidate for the tenure-track Medieval Position in Art History

Christopher R. Lakey
John Hopkins University
will give a talk:
“On the aspect of things: The Relief-Image and the Paradox of Perspective in the Middle Ages”

St. George Killing the Dragon, Cathedral of St. George, Ferrara (1135)

Thursday, March 14, 2013
Reem Kayden Science Bldg. 102
6:00 pm

Sponsored by the Dean of the College and the Art History Program

Candidate for the tenure-track
Medieval Position in Art History
K A T H E R I N E   M.  B O I V I N
University of Montreal
will give a presentation:

Passing Below to Rise Above:
Medieval Church Passageways as Dynamic Interface

St. Jakob in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Reem Kayden Science Bldg. 102
6:00 pm
Sponsored by the Dean of the College and the Art History Program

CJA

The Collegiate Journal of Art, the nation’s only undergraduate publication devoted to art history, has published its seventh edition and we have two copies in the office for you to peruse. Published at Dartmouth College, the journal looks to showcase essays that represent a cross section of the mammoth entity that is art history.   Please drop in and take a look.  CJA invites submissions for future issues – why don’t you think about it!   [email protected]

ArtH 264 Islam from Spain to Russia and China: Art, Philosophy, and Politics in the Medieval World

Mosque, Cordoba, Spain

Ali Humayun Akhtar
T Th 4:40-6:00 PM

This course examines the encounter of Islam with cultures and civilizations from Spain to Russia and China 800-1750 by exploring the  history of art, architecture, and material culture. The course examines specifically the political and philosophical dimensions of Islamic art in the pre-modern world in order to analyze more closely  categories like the “West,” the “Middle East,” and the “Far East.” To what extent does the art and politics of the pre-modern world allow us to define these geographic categories as distinct cultural regions with clear intellectual borders? Can we consider additional models of historiography that extend beyond paradigms like “The West and the Islamic World” or “Imperial Russia and the Islamic World”? How does our understanding of these paradigms change when we think in terms of  “trans-Mediterranean” and “trans-Caspian” artistic and political exchange?

This course fulfills the Ancient through Medieval requirement or the non-Western requirement. Art History students who are interested should contact Professor Akhtar immediately by e-mail.

On May 12th, the art history seniors (Class of 2011) gave their project presentations in Olin 102, followed by a celebratory dinner in the Faculty Dining Room.  Daniel Peacock, shown below delivering his presentation, received the Alexander Klebanoff Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art History.  This award is given annually to a senior project that demonstrates extensive scholarship and daring originality.  The title of this excellent project is Strange and Wayward Fancies: Desire, Vision, and Intervention in the Photographic Practice of F. Holland Day.

Daniel Peacock presenting

The Art History Department proudly announces that graduating art history major Rachel Heidenry has received the Fulbright Award.

Rogue Dalton Mural

She will do further research on the subject of her senior project entitled Mártires y Comandantes: Tracing Historical Memory in the Murals of El Salvador while living in El Salvador 2011-2012.

CONGRATULATIONS  RACHEL!!!!!

CAA’s two Directories of Graduate Programs in the Arts, covering MA, MFA, and PhD programs in art and art history, are now on sale: $15 for CAA members and $20 for nonmembers, plus $4 shipping.

For those of you in the process of applying to graduate school, these directories remain the most comprehensive resources available listing hundreds of programs in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and elsewhere worldwide. CAA will introduce revised, online versions of the directories in fall 2011, with a price to be determined.

For more information go to:
http://www.collegeart.org/news/2010/12/15/sale-on-caas-directories-of-graduate-programs-in-the-arts/