NEWSLETTERSpring 2010Volume 3, Issue 3

Words from our ChairGreetings! Our graduate students and faculty in art historyhave enjoyed terrific success this spring. Three doctoralcandidates and two professors presented their work at the 98th

Annual Conference of the College Art Association in Chicago inFebruary, which was well attended despite the snowstorms thatswept through the country. Three members of the faculty wereawarded 2010 Summer Research Grants by the Committee onFaculty Research Support (COFRS), an office of the Florida StateUniversity Council on Research and Creativity: MichaelCarrasco will conduct research on “Ritual Language, ReferentialPractice, and the Sacred Image in Maya and Mesoamerican Artand Culture”; Jack Freiberg is investigating “Bramante'sTempietto and the Spanish Renaissance in Rome”; andStephanie Leitch is examining “Flattening out the World:Planarity in Early Modern Visual Culture.” We enjoyed a largepool of applicants to our graduate program this year and lookforward to welcoming a talented class of master’s and doctoralcandidates in the fall..

A Work in ProgressThe next time you're in the center of the FSU campus,take a look at the construction at the southeast cornerof Landis Green. The William Johnston Building isundergoing a $49 million renovation andexpansion project, the largest ever undertaken atFlorida State.

Adam Jolles, Co-Chair,Dept. of Art History

We continue to invite a dynamic range of distinguished and emerging scholars tocampus. This semester we welcome Matthew McLendon, associate curator at theRingling Museum in Sarasota (Mar. 2); Elizabeth Boone, professor in the Departmentof Art History at Tulane University (Mar. 23); and Michael Schreffler, associateprofessor in the Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University (Apr.6). Please mark your calendars and join us.

The newly renovated building, with its 130,000 square foot addition, is the futurehome of the Department of Art History, as well as Art Education and Interior Design. These departments comprise the School of Art and Design, a new division of theCollege of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance. The Johnston renovation will preserve much ofthe unique architecture of the original building, such as mosaic-tiled columns andvaulted open-beam ceilings, with the addition of vibrant new public areas such as afive-story atrium and glass curtain wall at the core of the building. In the Fall of 2011,Art History will move into an expanded space with a large administrative core,workrooms, graduate offices, labs and lounges, state-of-the-art classrooms and a1500 square foot art library.

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Karen A. Bearor

Michael D. Carrasco

Jack Freiberg

Paula Gerson

Adam Jolles

Lynn Jones

Stephanie Leitch

Roald Nasgaard

Robert Neuman

Lauren Weingarden

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Dr. Karen A. Bearor was a recipient of the 2009William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award given bythe Florida Education Fund, sponsor of the McKnightDoctoral Fellowship Program. The award is presentedto faculty mentors who are deemed to have playedmajor roles in the lives and success of McKnightDoctoral Fellows. Dr. Bearor received her award at theinduction ceremonies for McKnight Doctoral Fellows inTampa on October 31, 2009.__ Dr. Bearor alsocontributed an essay on "Light Play in Abstract Art andFilm" to the catalogue of the exhibition ConstructiveSpirit: Abstract Art in South and North America,1920s-50s, on view at the Newark Art Museum inNewark, NJ, from February 17 to May 23, after whichthe show will travel to the Amon Carter Museum in Ft.Worth, TX. This is the first exhibition to bring togetherSouth American and U.S. geometric abstraction, withmore than 90 works by 70 artists from Argentina,Brazil, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.Dr. Jack Freiberg co-edited a volume of essays,Medieval Renaissance Baroque: A Cat's Cradle inHonor of Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, ed. David A. Levineand Jack Freiberg (New York: Italica Press, 2009), whichincludes his paper "Verrochio's Putto and Medici Love."He also published an article on "Pope Gregory XIII,Jurist," in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome54 (2009). He will be returning to Rome this summerto complete his book Bramante's Tempietto and theSpanish Renaissance in Rome.Dr. Lynn Jones spent two weeks on a "North EuropeanTour," giving lectures at three institutions. Jan. 28:"Medieval Material Culture and Identity East ofByzantium" in Byzantine Neighbors, a Conferencesponsored by the Centre for Byzantine, Modern Greekand Ottoman Studies at the University of Birmingham.Feb. 1: "An Illuminated Apocalypse? The InteriorDecorative Program of a 12th Century Rock-Cut-Church in Cappadocia," at the Institut fürKunstgeschichte der Universität Wein. Feb. 5:"Armenian Material Culture and Identity," at theDepartment of Eastern Christian Studies, LeidenUniversity. She published a chapter, "The Enkolpion ofEdward the Confessor: Byzantium and Anglo-SaxonConcepts of Rulership" in Cross and Cruciform in theAnglo-Saxon World: Studies to Honor the Memory ofTimothy Reuter, eds. S. Keefer, K. Jolly and C. Karkov(Medieval European Studies, 11) (West Virginia Univ.Press, 2010). She is writing the entry on "The HolySepulchre" for the new Oxford Bibliographies Online,ed. P. Szarmach. Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming April2010. Jones was also appointed to the Committee forMembership and Promotion for the InternationalCenter of Medieval Art.

Dr. Adam Jolles presented "Making It Big: Scale andStatus in Contemporary Photography," on March 3 aspart of the Vero Beach Museum of Art DistinguishedProfessor Series. He is also presenting "Windows onthe War: Soviet TASS posters at Home and Abroad,1941–1945" on May 26 at Seattle University.Dr. Stephanie Leitch presented "Planarity in EarlyModern Visual Culture" at the College Art Association’sannual conference in Chicago in February. In June, shewill give a presentation at the German HistoricalInstitute on new research for the project "FlatteningOut the World" in Washington D.C. She also received apost-doctoral grant from GHI for the project. She wasalso selected as the 2010 "Up and Coming Scholar" forthe College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance and will berecognized at the FSU Research Recognition dinner.Dr. Roald Nasgaard delivered a publiclecture, “Matière and the Automatiste Revolution,” atthe University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, onJanuary 21. His exhibition, The AutomatisteRevolution: Montreal 1941-1960, opens at theAlbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY on March 19,2010. A symposium dedicated to the exhibition willconvene at the Albright-Knox on April 23, 2010.Dr. Lauren Weingarden published the essay"Benjamin’s Elective Affinities: Re-assessing 'The Parisof the Second Empire in Baudelaire'” in Media interMedia. Essays in Honor of Claus Clüver, ed. StephanieGlaser (Amsterdam, New York, NY: Rodopi, 2009).Prof. Weingarden was a respondent for the session“Recent Research in Chicago Architecture” at theCollege Art Association Annual Meeting, held inChicago in February. In May, she will serve as theResident Chair of the Institute of TransdisciplinaryStudies at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais(Belo Horizonte, Brazil). During her month-longprofessorship, she will present a public lecture,"Reflections on Baudelairean Modernity," teach aseminar on word & image methodologies, andparticipate in interdisciplinary workshops in thehumanities, visual arts, music and literature.

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Congratulations!The College Art Association held its annual nationalconference in Chicago, Illinois, February 10–13, 2010.Three of our Ph.D. candidates presented their research:Nathan Timpano presented “The Dialectics of Vision:A Re-evaluation of Viennese Expressionism” in theEmerging Scholars panel of the HGCEA (Historians ofGerman and Central European Art & Architecture).Jennifer Courts Naumann presented "WeavingLegitimacy: The Jouvenel des Ursins Family andConstructing Nobility in Fifteenth Century France" inthe panel "Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda inthe Middle Ages." Her paper will be published in acollection of essages from the session.Other Student Presentations:Stassa Edwards presented “'Almost Sure to Mislead':Oscar Rejlander, Charles Darwin and the Photographyof Performance" in the Young Scholars’ Works inProgress portion of the Historians of British Art panel.Stassa also presented a version of the same paper atthe Annual Conference of the Association ofNineteenth-Century Historians, which took place inJanuary at the University of Tampa.Stephanie Bender presented her paper titled "TheViolated Woman in World War I Propaganda:Contradictions of Politics, Power, and Desire in LouisRaemaeker's Seduction" at the Eleventh AnnualGraduate Symposium on the History of Women andGender at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Jennifer Feltman is presenting a paper “There’s anApp for That! Using Citation Management Software toOrganize Research and Facilitate Publication,” at the45th International Congress on Medieval Studies inKalamazoo, MI in May in the International Center ofMedieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee’s sessionentitled, “Technology, New Media, and Medieval ArtHistory: A Graduate Student Perspective.” Jennifer wasalso awarded the Penelope E. Mason DissertationWriting Fellowship for Spring and Summer 2010, andrecently found out that her article, “Inscribing Order:The Didactic Function of Schemata in The Walters ArtMuseum MS. 73,” Athanor 24 (February 2007): 7-15,was cited in the recent exhibition catalogue, MelanieHolcomb and Lisa Bessette, Pen and Parchment:Drawing in the Middle Ages (New York: MetropolitanMuseum of Art, 2009).

Dierdre Carter is _presenting "Illustrating _History inMatthew Paris's Life of Edward the Confessor" at the45th International Congress on Medieval Studies ,Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May.

Karlyn Griffith is presenting "The Role of theApocalypse in Douce 308: Rejoining Harley 4972 toIts Original _Manuscript Context" at the 45thInternational Congress on Medieval Studies,Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May. She also published“Viewing the Romance of Antichrist in the Miniatures_of the Jour du Jugement, MS Besançon 579” inAthanor 27 (2009)__. Karlyn is engaged to marry C.McKenzie Lewis, a PhD Candidate in the ClassicsDepartment at FSU this summer.Nathan Timpano is presenting "Paint, Plaster,Propaganda: Satirizing National Socialism at Harvard’sGermanic Museum" at the conference "Laughing atArt: The Study of Humour in the Visual Arts," atPembroke College, University of Cambridge, April 29-30. He has been appointed to a two-year visitingposition with the University of Miami faculty in arthistory, beginning in autumn 2010.Jennifer Courts Naumann presented "ProblematizingPatronage: The Book as Gift and the Repackaging ofHarley MS 4431" in the session The Gift of Literature:New Perspectives on Medieval Patronage and LiteraryCirculation at the Medieval Academy of AmericaAnnual Conference in March. She was awarded the2010 Medieval Academy Graduate Student PaperPrize.Matt Whistler was invited by Hanover College, hisalma mater, to teach a spring term class in Berlin thisMay as part of their alumni teaching program on thehistory of street and graffiti art as well ascontemporary German graffiti artists.Beth Woodward presented "The Influence ofTheological Commentary in the Illustrations of theGulbenkian Apocalypse" at the Fifth Annual NorthTexas Medieval Graduate Student Symposium at theUniversity of North Texas, Denton, Feb. 4–5, 2010.She is also presenting at the 45th InternationalCongress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan,in May.

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About the Newsletter

SAVE THEDATE

March 22: Mason Grantapplications due

March 22: M.A. Reviewcover sheet and paper

dueMarch 31: Official

Thesis/Dissertationmanuscript approval

deadlineApril 1: Yearly progressreminder to PhDs (ABD)

April 23: Last dayof classes

April 26: M.A./Ph.D.interviews complete

April: 26-30:Final Exam week

April 30:Semester ends.Commencement

May 1:Commencement

Stephanie BenderMery-et LescherKatie McCampbellNicole MahanTraci MatthewsSamantha Ogden

Matt WhistlerElizabeth WoodwardShaun Wright

A Message from AHA

Ramiro 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-Life and People magazines.

How About Those Alumni?Kayla Bielanski Freeland was awarded a scholarship by the Marine CorpsOfficer's Spouses' Club on Okinawa to earn her Master's degree in AmericanHistory at the American Military University.

We love to hear from our alumni! Drop us a line and let us know how you are doing atarh@www.fsu.edu

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ART HISTORYNEWSLETTER

Spring 2010Volume 3, Issue 2

EDITOR:SARAH HOWARD

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Spring Greetings from the Art History Association! We hope that everyone’ssemester is going well, and would like to thank everyone for your participation inthe spring book sale. Because of everyone’s donated books and time, as well asyour purchases, AHA raised almost $200! This money will go towards next year’sAHA events. Thanks again!Samantha Ogden, Kati McCampbell, and I (Stephanie Bender), your AHAofficers, are looking forward to passing the torch at the end of the school year.The AHA elections will be held in April, and your new officers will be announcedon April 23.Have a great semester!

The Art History Newsletter is e-published 3 times a year: March15, July 15 & October 15. It is available on our website.

Best Wishes to our 2010 MA Graduates!