AHVC Program News
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Patricia Manos wins the Alex Klebanoff Award!
The Alexander Klebanoff Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Art History senior project was awarded to Patricia Manos. Her project, “Strong in Our Weakness:” Yael Batana’s Strategies for Living with Ghosts (Advisor: Julia Rosenbaum) demonstrated extensive scholarship and daring originality in the area of modern art in the class of 2012. The project is a…
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Christopher Richards wins Two Major Awards
Art History major Christopher Richards ’12 won two of the most prestigious awards at Bard College for his senior project titled The Age of Tears: Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross and its Lachrymose Contexts (Adviser, Susan Merriam). Christopher received the Cristina Duarte Prize for Medieval Literature and the Wilton Moore Lockwood Prize…
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Jean M. French Travel Award
The Jean M. French Travel Award was established in 2011 to assist second semester juniors in researching their senior project. Money for this award was generously donated by Bard art history alumni in honor of Prof. Jean M. French, who retired in 2011. It was her wish that juniors could use the summer before their…
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Seniors Project Presentations 2012
On Thursday, May 19th, art history seniors presented their projects to their peers and faculty and then participated in a celebratory dinner. Here is the Program, please enjoy! Open publication – Free publishing – More 2012
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Sex and Death: Interwar French Pulps
Curated by Luc Sante, May 12-August 4, 2012 On View at the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrines. The populist avant-garde. In Paris in the 1920s and ’30s, highbrow and lowbrow met on the terrain of pulp publishing. Crime tabloids, skin magazines, and the flimsy pamphlets called ‘train-station novels’ were eye-catching and breathlessly modern. Employing…
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Senior Exhibits in the Vitrines
Exilliteratur Curated by Keziah Goudsmit ’12 April 30-May 10, 2012 After Hitler’s book burning in 1933, many authors fled the country to continue their writing. Most writers found refuge in other European cities like Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Prague and Moscow. After war broke out all over Europe, writers had to continue their journey. They found…
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Max Yeston ’08 shares his work
I thought I’d share with you some of the cool interpretation devices my historic preservation studio group has been working on. All semester we’ve been studying the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront along the East River. Here are, in full, the podcasts to listen to when taking the East River Ferry upriver from the Wall Street stop to the…
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Rachel Heidenry ’11 exhibits in San Salvador
Our Fulbright Award-Winning Art History graduate from 2011, Rachel Heidenry, is completing her project in El Salvador with an exhibition of her photographs of the many murals created throughout this country. “Los Murales de El Salvador: una exposicion de fotografia por Rachel Heidenry” will be on view in San Salvador at the Centro Arte para…
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Julia Rosenbaum is awarded NEH grant
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…
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