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Faculty Reports 3

Graduate Student Travel& Research 8

Undergraduate ThuneFellows 11

Colloquia & Lectures 12

2004 Graduates 13

Honors & Awards 14

Alumni News 15

Upcoming Events 15

enabled a growing number of undergraduate andgraduate students to enroll in seminars that createexhibitions and travel to the sites that they arestudying. All of this has been underwritten by alarge and generous community of friends.

Come visit us in the Jaffe Building or athttp://www.arthistory.upenn.edu.

With warm wishes,David B. BrownleeShapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor and Chair

January 2005

Dear Friends,

In 2004 we passed many milestones at highspeed, welcoming wonderful new facultyand students while celebrating some of ourlongest serving colleagues. We revamped ourintroductory courses (now called simplyHistory of Art 1 and 2), created innovativeclasses to support the new programs inVisual Studies and Cinema Studies, and

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A Woman Appears. Newlyarrived from the University ofRochester, Dr. Karen Beckman isthe first holder of the Elliot andRoslyn Jaffe Professorship. Aspecialist in the history ofphotography, film, and othernew media, she offers crucialsupport to the program inCinema Studies. Dr. Beckmantook a double first in Englishfrom Cambridge University andstudied literature at Göttingenbefore earning her Ph.D. atPrinceton with a thesis that wonthe Council of Graduate Schools’Distinguished DissertationAward. Her first, alreadyacclaimed book is Vanishing Women: Film andFeminism (2003).

Degas in DC. In October 2004 SuzanneLindsay invited a group of fortunate students toshare her insider’s view of Edgar Degas with a two-day mini course, Degas Up Close. After a day in theclassroom discussing Degas and the arts of his time,the class traveled to observe the artist’s workfirsthand at Washington’s National Gallery of Art,where Professor Lindsay is preparing a catalogue ofDegas’ sculpture. The course was made possible bythe Samuel H. and Charles E. Goldman MemorialFund.

Drawn from the Ashmolean.Bouguereau, Degas, Ingres, Millet andRossetti were among the artists repre-sented in the exhibition of masterdrawings from the Ashmolean Museumthat was on view at the Arthur RossGallery in April-June 2004. Before thedrawings arrived in Philadelphia, theyhad been thoroughly studied byundergraduate and graduate students ina seminar taught by Susan Sidlauskas.The class traveled to Oxford to consultwith Ashmolean curator John Whiteleyand examine the works, returning toPhiladelphia to write essays for theshow’s catalogue and join in planningthe gallery installation. The James andNan Farquhar Fund, the Hyde Founda-

tion, and Peter S. Reed supported the seminar andcatalogue.

Exposed! The ICA Seminar. In collaborationwith Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art, thedepartment is now sponsoring a third edition of theyear-long seminar Issues in Contemporary Art andthe Art of Curating. Under the leadership of ProfessorKaren Beckman, ten undergraduates have spunthrough an autumn whirlwind of visits to museums,private collections, galleries, and artists’ studios,studying the latest trends in art making, collectingand exhibiting. They have begun to plan an exhibi-tion, tentatively entitled Exposure, which will open at

Departmental News

Cover of the Master Drawingsexhibition catalogue shows aJohn Frederick Lewis drawingdetail.

examine site-specific art. Another important part ofthe Spiegel initiative is an annual symposium, aimedat an undergraduate audience and held in conjunc-tion with the ICA. The inaugural symposium,devoted to Barry Le Va, will be held March 17-18,2005. Professor Christine Poggi will chair one of thepanels.

After the War. Meredith Malone, JonathanMekinda, and Julia Walker—graduate students inthe History of Art—collaborated with their col-league Alexander Eisenschmidt from the Ph.D.Program in Architecture to organize the interna-tional symposium ReCovering Post-War Europe: Artand Architecture 1945-1970, which was held at theICA on October 8-9, 2004. Four panels of graduatestudents, each chaired by an established scholar,focused on a variety of artistic and architecturalthemes from this time of political, economic,social and technological change.

Here’s to John. Festivities in honor of JohnMcCoubrey on this eightieth birthday attractedscores of friends and former students tothe Romanesque Cloister of the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art on March 5, 2004. A famedLindback Award-winning teacher, John taught atPenn from 1960 until his retirement in 1996,schooling generations of students in the art ofintelligent looking. His scholarship redefined thestudy of American art and cast new light onnineteenth-century French and English painting,and he was the first holder of the James and NanWagner Farquhar Professorship (created in1989). Reminiscences and toasts from PMA directorAnne d’Harnoncourt, Professor Susan Sidlauskas andmyriad other friends helped mark this joyousoccasion.

Celebrating Malcolm. On October 2, 2004,the symposium From Raphael to the Grand Tourcelebrated Malcolm Campbell’s seventiethbirthday and drew a large audience to hear papersby Malcolm’s students and admirers. Chaired byDeborah Marrow, Director of the Getty GrantProgram, and Joseph Rishel, Senior Curator ofEuropean Painting before 1900 at the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art, the symposium addressed a widevariety of topics in Italian art from the Renaissancethrough the eighteenth century, reflecting the vastscope of Malcolm’s interests and the wide sweep ofhis influence. Malcolm retired in 1996 afterteaching at Penn for 35 years and serving as Assistantand Vice Dean of the College of Arts andSciences, Associate Dean for the Humanities, andActing Dean of the School of Fine Arts. He was alsoappointed the Class of 1965 Professor.

the ICA in April 2005. In completing this project,they will work on every aspect of the show, includ-ing budget planning, borrowing objects, writing,publication, educational programming, andinstallation. The generous support of the HydeFoundation and Mr. Richard Thune have madepossible this extraordinary opportunity.

The first two Halpern-Rogath CuratorialSeminars. Leslee Halpern-Rogath and David Rogath

have given the Department’sprogram of curatorial seminarsan additional boost, establish-ing a fund that will supportfive of these popular andunusual courses.

The first Halpern-RogathCuratorial Seminar is beingtaught this year by ProfessorGeorge Marcus and is devotedto the work of Charles and RayEames, central figures inAmerican design in the 1940sand 1950s and creators ofarchitecture, furniture, films,and multi-media exhibitions.Designed in collaboration witharchitect Donna Sink, the showis slated to open in the ArthurRoss Gallery in July 2005.

A second Halpern-Rogathseminar is scheduled for thissemester, when Professors LarrySilver and Michael Cole willintroduce students to the

printmaking work of Renaissance and Baroque artistswho are better known as painters. The course willexplore this important but rarely consideredmaterial, and participants will help to prepare anexhibition called The Early Modern Painter-Etcher,which will be assembled from major museumcollections and hung in the Ross Gallery in spring2006. Students will also contribute to the accompa-nying book

The Spiegel Program. A bold initiative tointroduce undergraduate students to contemporaryart has been established in the Provost’s office by thenew Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund. This semesterour Department is proud to contribute three coursesto the Spiegel program, including two freshmanseminars and a lecture course devoted to art afterWorld War II. Ingrid Schaffner, the senior curator ofthe ICA, will teach a seminar that focuses on theICA’s big springtime show Accumulated Vision: BarryLe Va, while Dr. Rebecca Butterfield’s seminar will

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Professor John McCoubrey. (Photo L. Labriola)

KAREN BECKMANKaren Beckman began her first semester at Penn

by giving a lecture at the Institute of ContemporaryArt. “When Video Does Foster Care” focused onPepón Osorio’s new installation, Trials and Turbu-lence, the result of Osorio's three-year artist-in-residency at the Department of Human Services’foster care division. She also has been travelingwidely around the East coast with the ten under-graduates enrolled in her course, Issues in Contem-porary Art and the Art of Curating, visiting privatecollections and museums in order to prepare for thetask of curating their own show at the ICA in thespring. Her most recent publication, “Dead WomanGlowing: Karla Faye Tucker and the Aesthetics ofDeath Row Photography,” appeared in CameraObscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies 55(Summer 2004), and the essay “Feminism in theTime of Violence” is forthcoming in a volumeentitled Interventions: Activists and Academics Respondto Violence, eds. Elizabeth A. Castelli and Janet R.Jakobsen (Palgrave, 2004). She appeared in theBBC’s 6-part documentary, Magic, in November2004. She is currently co-editing Still Moving:Between Cinema and Photography (forthcoming DukeUP), an interdisciplinary anthology that explores thespaces between cinema and photography, filmstudies and art history. She is also working on abook that uses cinematic depictions of car crashes toexplore U.S. fantasies of uninhibited mobility.

MICHAEL COLEAfter making a short research trip to Rome,

Michael Cole spent much of the summer organizingan exhibition (co-curated by Madeleine Viljoen) onThe Early Modern Painter-Etcher, which will open atPenn’s Arthur Ross Gallery in 2006 and travelthereafter. With Larry Silver, Cole will be teamteaching Penn’s second Halpern-Rogath CuratorialSeminar, focusing on painter-etchers, in spring2005. While orchestrating the catalogue for theshow, Cole continues work on a number of otherlong-term research projects, and a book co-edited byMary Pardo, Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance toRomanticism (Chapel Hill, 2004) has just appeared.During the 2003-2004 academic year, Cole gaveinvited lectures at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg,the University of Bonn, the Herzog AugustBibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Wesleyan University,Brown University, Harvard University, the Instituteof Fine Arts in New York, and a special session of the

Italian Art Society at the College Art Associationannual meeting in Seattle. Cole has also organized atwo-day international symposium on Michelangelo,Leonardo, and the Sala del Gran Consiglio inFlorence that will take place at Penn in April 2005.

JULIE NELSON DAVISJulie Nelson Davis spent the calendar year of

2003 as a Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at theSainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Artsand Cultures, affiliated with the University of EastAnglia, Norwich, and the School of Oriental andAfrican Studies (SOAS), University of London.While on leave, Davis completed the draft of herbook on Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-

1806) and continued research into related topics onukiyo-e. She also presented her recent research atseveral venues, including the Japan Research Centerat SOAS, the College Art Association conference, theAssociation for Teachers of Japanese annual meeting,the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association for AsianStudies conference, and our own departmentcolloquium. A research grant from the Center forEast Asian Studies supported her trip to Japan in theearly summer to begin research for a new project onissues of collaboration in ukiyo-e at the end of theeighteenth century as well as to continue developingher studies into post-war Japanese cinema. Hermost recent publications include an article on

Faculty Reports

Malcolm Campbell poses with well-wishers at the conference From Raphael to the Grand Tour.(Photo V. Coates)

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Spring, with the continuation of Haselberger’ssabbatical, may bring an explanation of this unex-pected feature at one of antiquity’s most sophisti-cated building sites.

Earlier this year, professor Haselberger orga-nized, in collaboration with Dr. John Humphreyand assisted by John Henry Rice, a four-dayinternational Symposium in Rome on ImagingAncient Rome: Documentation-Visualization-Imagina-tion. Some 40 speakers, including professor AnnKuttner and Elisha Ann Dumser, participated inthis Third Williams Symposium held at theAmerican Academy in Rome, the British School atRome, and the German Archaeological Institute inRome. Generous support came, again, from CharlesWilliams; the preparation of the symposium volumeis underway. The eventful year was rounded off bytalks and lecture tours, of which the most excitingwere arranged by Renata Holod (with the prospectof further collaboration): in February to thePolitecnico di Bari, Italy, and in November to theInstitute of Archaeology in Kiev, Ukraine, just daysbefore that notoriously rigged election. Moststudents were barred from attending the talk!

RENATA HOLODRenata Holod has been busy with several

projects this year. The first is the completion ofStudies on Jerba whose website should be going up inthe late spring, with the final report going to pressat the same time. Since most students connectedwith the Jerba Project (Max Brown, MichaelFrachetti, Tom Morton, Luly Feliciano, KostisKourelis, Heather Grossman) have completed theirPh.D. dissertations, this seems the opportune timeto finish as well. The second project is co-editing alarge volume entitled City in the Islamic World. Thebook's 53 authors include Dede Ruggles, DavidRoxburgh, Lucienne Thys-Senoçak and AlisonMackenzie. The Program for Archaeology in Ukraineis moving ahead, necessitating another field tripwith Holly Pittman and Alexander Leskov last June.They traveled to sites and archaeological collectionsin southern Ukrainian cites, and initiated a programof exchange with the Institute of Archaeology, Kyiv.Holly Pittman gave the first lecture in this exchange.This fall the department is hosting OleksandrSimonenko, a Fulbright scholar and a specialist onSarmatians. The program has also sent threelecturers to the Institute from Penn: LotharHaselberger, Michael Frachetti and Renata Holod,who spoke about their ongoing research projects.Renata Holod’s lecture happened at the very excitingtime of the Orange Revolution in Kyiv, so she had

Utamaro in the anthology The Artist as Professional inJapan and a study of a painting by Teisai Hokuba inThe Allen Memorial Museum of Art Bulletin. She alsoreports that the remodeling of her house in Univer-sity City continues apace.

LOTHAR HASELBERGERLothar Haselberger won the Ira Abrams Award,

the highest teaching honor in the School of Arts andSciences, in spring 2004, and he enjoyed the fallterm as the Siemens Fellow of the American Acad-emy in Berlin, in the center of a vibrant and much-changed Germany. There he finished his book

Urbem adornare: Rome’s Urban Metamorphosis underAugustus and resumed work on Designing Graeco-Roman Architecture: From Didyma to the Pantheon, avolume that will present 25 years of research onancient construction drawings and the “secrets” ofclassical design strategies. He has become intriguedby the strange character of the still-standing,unfinished column at Didyma, where, counter to allestablished rules, the shaft presents a concaveoutline, a negative entasis as it were. Always visible,this anomaly has now been measured by a high-precision, digital survey made possible by Charles K.Williams II. Dinner guests at the American Acad-emy, when confronted with this irrefutable evidence,took some comfort from the fact that the dessertsprepared by the Academy’s gourmet chef weregraced (each one!) by the hallmark columns ofDidyma, modeled in biscuit and marzipan ...4

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Karen Beckman and her class outside the Williams College Museum. The students will be curatingtheir own show at the ICA in the spring. (Photo A. Sackler)

the chance not only to speak to colleagues at theInstitute but also to experience this transformativeevent in person. She has lectured at the SavannahCollege of Art, at the Philadelphia CommunityCollege, at the Polytechnic in Bari, Italy, at theChina Academy of Art, Hangchow, China. She gavethe keynote speech at the Meeting on the Mediterra-nean Medina in Pescara. The Islamic Environmen-tal Research Centre honored her with an awardfor outstanding work in Islamic ArchitecturalStudies.

ANN KUTTNERThe Salvatori Fund supported Ann Kuttner’s

work in Rome last summer on the Pyramid ofCestius and Ara Pacis. “Roman Art during theRepublic” in The Cambridge Companion to theRoman Republic, Harriet Flower ed., came out inspring. Two essays went to press in fall 2004:“Pergamon’s Asian Self-Image” in CulturalBorrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity,Erich Gruen ed., (Oriens et Occidens vol. 8);“Cabinet Fit for a Queen: The Lithika [GemsBook] as Posidippus’ Cup and JewelleryMuseum,” in The New Posidippus: A HellenisticPoetry Book, K. Gutzwiller ed. (Oxford Univer-sity Press). Of her recent talks, two occasionsespecially moved the speaker. “An Archaeology ofExperience: The Project of Revisioning AncientRoman Sightlines” was presented at the WilliamsConference hosted in May by the American,German and British Academies in Rome. ThemedImaging Ancient Rome: Documentation, Visualization,Imagination, the conference was organized by LotharHaselberger with John Humphrey. In tribute to agreatly mourned colleague, she offered “BringingSplendor to the Table: the Archaeology of Servitudeon Display” in the conference The Edge of RomanDining: A Symposium in Honor of John D’Arms.(Both conferences will be published.) ProfessorKuttner is now interim chair of the Graduate Groupin Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World— an exciting time to guide AAMW, as Penn's newpresident Amy Gutmann brings new focus (andresources) to graduate education.

ROBERT MAXWELLRobert Maxwell enjoyed a productive year while

Faculty Fellow in the collegial ambience of the PennHumanities Forum in 2004-2005. The Forum’sthematic topic, “Belief,” offered the opportunity toexplore the role of belief in the construction ofhistorical perception in the high Middle Ages. Thissubject bridges his earlier work on urbanism as a

locus of identity construction and his new project onthe production of history and historical perceptionin illuminated manuscripts. An award from theNEH extended this research into the summermonths, allowing him to examine several manu-scripts scattered across England and France.

Professor Maxwell also tied up loose ends on afew projects. Articles finished last year and appearingthis year include essays on a rediscovered sculpturefrom Parthenay (Bulletin monumental), a mono-graphic study of St-Pierre of Parthenay-le-Vieux(Congrès archéologique de France), and the dispersedsculptures of Notre-Dame-de-la-Couldre (Journal ofMedieval Archaeology). Lectures touched on histori-ography (for our own colloquium series), Ro-manesque urbanism (Institute for Advanced Studies,Princeton), and the construction of family memoryin urban monuments (Penn Humanities Forum). Healso joined the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures deCivilisation médiévale (Poitiers) for their session d’été,lecturing on the urbanization of RomanesqueParthenay and on the church of Parthenay-le-Vieux.Upcoming engagements will have him presentingpapers to the Art History Department of JohnsHopkins University and at conferences of theAssociation of Art Historians (Bristol), the MedievalInstitute (Kalamazoo), and Villanova University.

MICHAEL W. MEISTERMichael W. Meister completed his term as

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Holly Pittman with her team of workmen in Jiroft, Iran. (Photo H. Pittman)

media attention, being the subject of articles inIranian, French and American magazines. AnIranian film crew has produced an award-winningdocumentary, and a French team is preparing to filmduring the next season. Pittman and four graduate

students from History of Art, AAMW,and Anthropology left for the thirdseason on December 22, 2004. She iscertain that the results of this year'scampaign will be as remarkable as lastyear's.

CHRISTINE POGGIThis year Christine Poggi is

working to complete her book,Modernity as Trauma: The CulturalPolitics of Italian Futurism, supportedby a Jane and Morgan WhitneyFellowship at the MetropolitanMuseum of Art. Her essay, “TheReturn of the Repressed: Tradition asMyth in Futurist Fascism,” waspublished in the anthology DonatelloAmong the Blackshirts: History andModernity in the Visual Culture of FascistItaly, edited by Claudia Lazzaro and

Roger Crum (Cornell, 2004). Shepresented one of her chapters, “Pictur-ing Madness in 1905: Giacomo Balla’s

The Madwoman and the Cycle The Living” at BostonUniversity in December. This chapter will also bepublished in RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (spring2005). A related essay that considers the representa-tion of madness in Italian Futurism will appear as“Figure della Follia nell’arte futurista” in theproceedings of the conference held in Florence lastyear: Sapere & narrare: Figure della follia (CentroFiorentino di Storia e Filosofia della Scienza, 2005).Her essay, “Mass, Pack, and Mob: Art in the Age ofthe Crowd,” will be published next fall in a volumetitled Crowds, edited by Jeffrey T. Schnapp andMatthew Tiews (Stanford, 2005).

This spring Professor Poggi is helping toorganize a two-day symposium on Barry LeVa, inconjunction with the major exhibition of his work atthe ICA. For the symposium she will moderate thepanel, “The Trouble with Resistance,” which willaddress how curators deal with the difficulties ofpresenting ephemeral, performative, or otherwisechallenging art.

SUSAN SIDLAUSKASIn fall 2003 Susan Sidlauskas took a class of

graduate and undergraduate students to Oxford and

Center. He organized an international workshop lastspring on The Salt Range Culture Zone, Pakistan atPenn and the University of Wisconsin, and tookPenn graduate students to study temples in the hillstate of Himachal Pradesh, India, this past summer

(as a joint project with the University of Vienna).He is working on a study of one of these templecomplexes, the eighth-century “temple-mountain” atMasrur. While on sabbatical this year, Prof. Meisterhopes to conclude the report of his archaeologicalinvestigations of early temples in the Salt Range inPakistan.

HOLLY PITTMANAfter twenty-five years, Holly Pittman has

realized her dream of returning to the field in Iran.In collaboration with an Iranian colleague, Pittmanand her graduate students from AAMW participatedin the second season of excavations at the Bronze Agemounds of Konar Sandal A and Konar Sandal B inthe region of Jiroft, south of Kerman. Discovered asa result of extensive looting in 2001, these moundedsites hold the remains of a hitherto unexploredcivilization that flourished during the Bronze Age,ca. 3000-2000 B.C. Working with a huge team ofmore than 18 archaeologists, five specialists, andalmost 300 workmen, she has begun to reveal thenature of the urban settlement.

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Rochelle Behrens discusses a drawing in the exhibit Master Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum: 1800-1914.(Photo S. Brady)

London. The class was organizing an exhibition ofmaster drawings from the holdings of the AshmoleanMuseum at Oxford. For days, under the generousstewardship of the Curator, John Whiteley, students(wearing white gloves) were able to hold and observeclosely their chosen drawings by such artists asDegas, Ingres, Morisot, and Corot. Students wroteessays on their drawings, which were collected for anexhibition catalogue published by the Arthur RossGallery at Penn. The exhibition opening in Aprilwas attended by Arthur Ross himself and KittyCarlyle Hart. While in London students were alsoable to visit a superb private collection, thanks to theinvitation of Elizabeth Easton, Curator of EuropeanPaintings and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum ofArt. In addition to the administrative duties as lastyear's graduate chair and chair of the Americanistsearch committee, Susan Sidlauskas, with LarrySilver, taught the new “gateway” course for theDepartment, The Rise of Modern Visual Media,which examined murals, prints, maps, photographs,film, and video, as well as more conventionalpainting, drawing, and sculpture. Outside Penn,Susan Sidlauskas was a respondent for a two-partpanel at the CAA on “Artistic Self-Fashioning;”spoke at a symposium on portraiture at the Univer-sity of Delaware, chaired by Margaret Werth; andalso spoke in June 2004 at the Getty Museum on anew acquisition, Edgar Degas’ La Malade. Her bookon Cezanne's portraits of Hortense Fiquet Cezanne isnearing completion, and she has been commissionedto write a book for the Getty Museum Studies serieson Cezanne’s painting Eternal Feminine.

LARRY SILVERLarry Silver has been busy with a host of “in

progress” projects, many of them with Penn connec-tions. For an anthology of essays on images of theTurk in European art, organized by James Harper(U. Oregon), he has written a piece, “East is East,”on Germanic imagery of the early modern periodfrom the Housebook Master and Dürer to the courtof Rudolf II. For another anthology about Idolatryin the Era of Art, edited by Michael Cole andRebecca Zorach, he prepared an essay, “Full ofGrace: Mariolatry in Post Reformation Germany,”which was also presented in the departmentalcolloquium in conjunction with the recent fallfestivities honoring Malcolm Campbell.

In similar fashion, a host of Festschrift articles(most of them also in process) for various retiringcolleagues has marked his own age in unsettlingfashion: James Marrow (on Death and the Maiden in

German Art), Sandra Hindman (on Pieter Bruegel’sTriumph of Death), Suzanne Urbach (on Jörg Breu’sstained glass images of hunts and battles forEmperor Maximilian), and Carl van de Velde (onLucas van Leyden’s multi-sheet cavalcade prints).The last grows out of an ongoing prints exhibitionproject, scheduled for a stop at the PMA butorganized by Wellesley College’s Davis Center,entitled Size Matters: Multi-Sheet Prints in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Another prints exhibition, to becombined with a Halpern-Rogath seminar in spring2005, is being organized with Michael Cole andMadeleine Viljoen (of the La Salle University ArtGallery). Scheduled to open at Penn in spring2006, this exhibition will investigate the validityand limits of the concept of “amateur” contributionsby “painter-etchers” during the period from six-teenth through eighteenth centuries.

One large project is actually nearing comple-tion. A book on the rise of pictorial genres in thesixteenth-century Antwerp art market is in produc-tion with the University of Pennsylvania Press, beingcopy-edited as of this writing, and is scheduled toappear in fall 2005. Another book, a monograph onBosch, is in progress, commissioned by a Frenchpublisher.

After a dull past summer of nothing butprocessing words, Silver looks forward to a short-term teaching assignment next July and August atthe University of Melbourne. Before that time hewill serve as Acting Chair of the Department duringthe well-earned sabbatical of David Brownlee.

CECIL L. STRIKERCecil L. Striker continues to enjoy his retired

status, as it is ideal for uninterrupted research. Hismain activity over the past year remained comple-tion of the second and concluding volume of theKalenderhane Archaeological Project final report. Heis helped by a number of research assistants,including Christopher Pastore (Gr 04), MatthewJohnson (Anthropology), Susanna McFadden(History of Art), Kimberly Brown (Gr 04), and ErinGleason (SAS 00).

While in Europe for several months this pastsummer, he took part in the Workshop on ChristianArchaeology and Byzantine Art in Mainz. He was alsoin Istanbul for a month visiting various researchprojects and exploring the possibility of a newundertaking.

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Asian art.

JENNIFER T. CRISSA nine-month Chateaubriand Fellowship from

the French government has brought Jennifer T. Criss(5th year) back to Paris for a second opportunity toconduct research for her dissertation, “Gender andJaponisme: Art of the Women Impressionists, 1865-1895.” The National Museum of Women in the Artsin Washington, D.C. is also receiving Jennifer’sassistance, as she will both help curate the upcomingexhibition, Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and HerCircle and speak on the topic during a brief visithome. Her lecture on January 13 will help launchthe exhibition, which will run from January 14through May 8, 2005.

CHRISTIANE GRUBERChristiane Gruber (6th year) has spent the past

two years working in American, European, Egyp-tian, Iranian and Turkish museums and libraries,gathering information for her dissertation, “TheProphet Muhammed’s Ascension (Mi’raj) in IslamicArt and Literature, 14th to 17th Centuries.”Currently supported by a fellowship at the AmericanResearch Institute in Turkey, she is based in Istanbulwhere she is writing both her dissertation and thecatalogue of Arabic-script calligraphies in the Libraryof Congress’ collections. She is aiming to receive anAugust 2005 degree. This year, Christiane publishedtwo articles related to her dissertation topic, one inthe Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egyptand another in Luqman.

MEREDITH MALONEAfter spending last spring in Paris, Meredith

Malone returned to Philadelphia to continueresearch and begin writing her dissertation,“Nouveau Realisme: Performative ExhibitionStrategies and the Everyday in Post World War IIFrance.” Over the summer she traveled to the GettyResearch Center to examine the Allan Kaprowpapers and then to San Diego to visit the Niki deSaint-Phalle Archives. This travel was funded by aGetty Research Grant. She co-organized thesuccessful international graduate student symposiumRe-Covering Post-War Europe, Art and Architecture1945-1970, which was held at the ICA in October.In November Meredith presented her dissertationcolloquium to the department and is currentlywriting in Philadelphia.

JESSICA BOEHMANWith the help of a Latner Fellowship, Jessica

Boehman spent part of the summer in Romecataloguing the sculpture in Baroque churches andlocal museums in preparation for her dissertationprospectus on Ercole Ferrata's sculptural workshop.By studying the visual surroundings of altarpieces,descending into crypts, and climbing onto roofs topeer through skylights, Jessica gained an unusualperspective on Roman Baroque sculpture. In April,Jessica had the honor of becoming this year’s

recipient of theNortheasternAssociation ofGraduateSchools’Master’sScholar Awardfor the bestMaster’s thesisin the Artsand Humani-ties.

BETHCITRON

FollowingProfessorMichaelMeister’sspring 2004seminar on artand architec-ture fromKashmir andNorthwestIndia, BethCitron (2ndyear) traveledto India inJune withProfessor

Meister, Professor Deborah Klimburg-Salter of theUniversity of Vienna, and fellow graduate studentsMandavi Mehta (see below) and Pushkar Sohoni.The group toured Himachal Pradesh, visitingBuddhist monasteries and Hindu temples there.Following this research tour, Beth traveled to centralIndia to see examples of Buddhist art and architec-ture, supported by a Farquhar summer grant. Bethwill develop a dissertation topic on modern South

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Jennifer T. Criss in the Place des Vosges, Paris. (Photo L. Milkova)

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SUSANNA MCFADDENWith the aid of an SAS dissertation grant,

Susanna McFadden (5th year) is spending most ofthe year away from Philadelphia, participating inseveral projects related to her dissertation on lateantique wall paintings. June was spent with aPrinceton team excavating at Balis, an UmayyadQasr, in northern Syria. Many wonderful 8th-century paintings have been uncovered there.November was spent in Egypt, where she acted asproject manager for an Italian conservation teamrestoring a series of Coptic wall paintings in themonastery of Deir al-Ahmar (the Red Monastery),probably also dating to the 7th or 8th century. InFebruary 2005 Susanna will return to Egypt for yetanother excavation, joining a Columbia Universityteam at a late antique site called Amheida. Thepaintings being unearthed there are earlier than thematerial mentioned above, dating to the late 3rd orearly 4th century. Finally, Susanna hopes to roundout this year of travel and research with a fewmonths in Rome, examining an early 4th-centuryarchitectural complex containing Constantinian wallpaintings. These sites together, along with a fewothers, form a corpus of evidence that is the core ofSusanna’s dissertation. A thorough comparison ofthese monuments and better-known late antiquesites will reveal much about the visual culture of thelate antique Mediterranean.

MANDAVI MEHTALike Beth Citron, a Farquhar summer travel

fellowship allowed Mandavi Mehta (2nd year) tovisit the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh,India, over the summer. As part of a joint fieldprogram with University of Vienna, she made herway with Citron; another graduate student, PushkarSohoni; and Professor Michael Meister to Hindutemples and Buddhist monastic sites dating fromthe 9th to the 14th centuries. Following this, shespent four weeks visiting Iranian and Turkish Islamicsites in support of her work on Islamic art andarchitecture in South and Central Asia.

LESLEE KATRINA MICHELSENWith the help of a Willams Fellowship, Leslee

Katrina Michelsen spent a month conductingdissertation proposal research in London, Istanbuland Tashkent before joining the Russian-Frenchteam with whom she excavated at Samarkand. Shewas also able to work on fresco conservation, and hasdecided to concentrate her dissertation on figuralimagery in pre-Mongol Central Asia and Iran,

particularly on ceramics, metalwork and wallpaintings. Currently, she is one of three History ofArt graduate students giving Spotlight Lectures atthe Philadelphia Museum of Art.

LILIANA MILKOVALiliana Milkova (5th year), recipient of a

Penfield Travel Grant for the 2004-2005 academicyear, has traveled to Moscow and St. Petersburg,where she is conducting dissertation research onunderground artistic practices in the Soviet Unionduring the 1970s and 1980s. In St. Petersburg, sheattended a conference at the Hermitage organized inconjunction with the opening of Ilya Kabakov’s firstlarge art exhibition in Russia after he left thecountry in 1988. She traveled to Budapest’s OpenSociety Archives whose collections chronicle the

Jennifer T. Criss and Liliana Milkova showing off the often-neglected rear view of Notre Damein Paris. (Photo L. Milkova)

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pertaining to saint-related practice in Haitian,Bostonian, Welsh, and Icelandic societies. Quite adiverse group! Michelle’s paper will be included(after her thesis is completed) in the publication ofthe conference proceedings. Michelle intends toreceive her Ph.D. at the end of this academic yearthanks to assistance from the Department of theHistory of Art and the University.

JOHN-HENRY RICEJohn Henry Rice (5th year) is spending the year

in India on a Fulbright-Hays DDRA, where he isconducting research for his dissertation, “KanaraTemples: Architectural Transaction on the Periphery

of Empire.” He is document-ing and analyzing religiousmonuments built on thesouthwestern coast during the14th-17th centuries, coinci-dent with the period of the

Vijayanagara Empire. JohnHenry will take a break fromIndia during the spring whilehe does archival research inLondon.

NATASHA RUIZ-GÓMEZNatasha Ruiz-Gómez spent

the 2003-2004 academic yearin Paris, France on a PenfieldFellowship in Diplomacy,International Affairs, and BellesLettres from the School of Artsand Sciences. Workingprimarily at the BibliothèqueNationale de France-FrançoisMitterand and in the archivesof the Musée Rodin and theMusée National d’ArtModerne-Centre GeorgesPompidou, Natasha researchedher dissertation on Rodin’s

sculpture and its relationship to scientific theories ofthe time. This year she is a Critical WritingTeaching Fellow at Penn’s Center for Programs inContemporary Writing and is teaching a freshmanwriting seminar on sculpture and modernism.

cultural and political history of Eastern Europe, andspecifically the Soviet Union’s dissident intellectualand artistic practices. In Paris, she conductedresearch at the Kandinsky Library in the CentrePompidou and met with the Paris-based Russianartist Erik Bulatov, who in 1988 became the firstRussian artist given an individual exhibition by theCentre Pompidou and whose 1970s works form asignificant part of Liliana’s dissertation.

MICHELLE REINMichelle Rein presented material from the first

chapter of her dissertation, “Mark My Words:Pejorative, Proselytizing, and Political Graffiti in

Moroccan Sacred Spaces,” at this year’s CAAconference in Seattle. Michelle was able to attendthe meeting with the aid of a grant from the CollegeArt Association and the generous support of theHistorians of Islamic Art. In addition to theconference in Seattle, Michelle participated in theCollege of Charleston’s Carolina Lowcountry andAtlantic World Series conference. This year’s theme,Saints and Pilgrimage around the Atlantic, offered allthe participants the novel experience of taking partin a regional-studies group that considered problems

Arabic graffiti inside a marabout, or saint's shrine, warning against the dangers of saint veneration. Erfoud, Morocco. (PhotoM. Rein)

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NOEL FAHDENNoel Fahden spent two weeks exploring Dutch

art in its urban context. She began her trip inAmsterdam at the Rijksmuseum. While thisincomparable collection allowed her to appreciatethe subtle details of Rembrandt’s greatest works, sheenjoyed also seeing the breadthof Dutch decorative arts,especially Delft tiles. Noel wenton to visit other museums, andamong her favorite were theFrans Hals Museum in Haarlemand the Mauritshuis in TheHague. In addition to visitingmuseums and historical pointsof interest, Noel’s experiencewas supplemented by viewingthe Dutch urban landscapefirsthand. By visiting thepreserved parts of the cities shewas able to observe their spatialand architectural elements.Walking around the cities gaveNoel a vivid sense of their scaleand layout. From that she wasable to conceptualize thehistorical backdrop and contextof the artists and works of artthat she is studying.

JESSICA FAINJessica Fain traveled to

Havana this past summer for two and a half weeks tobegin researching her senior honors thesis on Cubanart at the time of the Soviet Union's fall. Havingstudied in Havana during her junior year, Jessica feltcompelled to return to the island to revisit itsvibrant art scene. Her research included gallery andmuseum visits and interviews with prominentCuban curators and artists. She discovered thatmany artists were showing their work in interna-tional exhibitions and had become affiliated withuniversities overseas. The Cuban government’ssupport for the arts afforded artists internationaltravel opportunities and an elevated status in Cubansociety. Despite this, what impressed Jessica mostwas the accessibility of the artists. Upon callingprominent contemporary artists on the phone, theywould invite her to their houses to talk for hours.Such a thing would be impossible in New York.

DANA KATZWith the support of a Thune Summer Travel

Fellowship and several other grants from the College,Dana Katz traveled this past summer to Sicily andsouthern Italy. With Palermo as the starting point ofher trip, she visited the Cappella Palatina in the

Palazzo dei Normanni as well as a host of Normanchurches and palaces in Palermo and its immediatesurroundings, including the Cathedral of Monrealeand Cefalù. She then proceeded to visit many otherNorman sites in Sicily ranging from a twelfth-century fortress at Erice to churches in Messina.This research will allow Dana to complete her seniorthesis focusing on the iconography of the CapellaPalatina mosaics in light of Roger II’s attempts tolegitimize his rule following his coronation in 1130.Dana’s visit to Sicily enabled her to see firsthand theunique blend of artistic traditions manifested in themosaics produced under the Norman rulers andtheir multicultural court.

Undergraduate Thune Fellows

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Cathedral of Monreale, Sicily. (Photo D. Katz)

Summer 2004

2004 Colloquia and LecturesJANUARY 16 Professor Renata Holod, History of Art: “Reconstructing the Historical Landscape:

Medieval and Early Modern Jerba”23-24 Graduate Student Dissertation Colloquia

Mark Levitch: “Art from the Front: The Aestheticization of War Material in Great War France”Emily Hage: “Dada Art Journals, 1916-1926: International Venues of Exchange”Laura M. Hogan: “Problems in Provençal Painting and Illumination, 1440-1525”Janice Mercurio: “Imitation and Creation: A Dialogue between Music and the Visual Arts in

Eighteenth-Century France”Alison Bechtal: “Art, Decoration, and the Politics of Taste in America, 1860-1910”

30 Peter Barberie, Horace W. Goldsmith Curatorial Fellow in Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art: “Some ofPhotography's Particular Aspects: The Case of Charles Marville”

FEBRUARY 6 Professor Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Hamburg University: “Art, Art History, andArt Historians in Fiction”

13 Dr. Joseph Rishel, Philadelphia Museum of Art: “The State of Play: An Exhibition of Latin American ColonialArt”

27 Dr. Andreas Andreapoulous, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn Humanities Center: “Metamorphosis of an Icon:The Transfiguration in Byzantine Iconography”

MARCH 19 Professor Terry Adkins, Graduate School of Design, Penn: “Towering Steep”

APRIL 2 Professor Cynthia Hahn, Florida State University, Tallahassee and Institute for Advanced Studies,Princeton: “Sacred Treasure: Early Medieval Reliquaries”

9 Dr. Jon Whiteley, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: “A Golden Age of Draftsmanship, 1880-1900”16 Professor Alfred Acres, Princeton University: “Things Unseen in the Age of Van Eyck”23 Professor Thérèse Dolan, Temple University and Tyler School of Art: “Strums the Word in

Manet's Spanish Guitarist”

SEPTEMBER 17 Professor Julie N. Davis, History of Art: “The Trouble with Hideyoshi: Ukiyo-e and the EhonTaikôki Incident of 1804”

24 Professor David Brownlee, Chair, History of Art: “Abstract Abstraction?: I.M. Pei’s East Building andModernism at the End of the Twentieth Century”

OCTOBER 1 Professor Larry Silver, History of Art: “Full of Grace: Mariolatry in Post-Reformation Germany”8 Graduate Student Dissertation Colloquia

Ashley West: “Hans Burgkmair the Elder: Portraying the Past”Freyda Spira: “Originality as Repetition/Repetition as Originality: Daniel Hopfer and the

Reinvention of the Medium of Etching”15 Professor Ann Kuttner, History of Art: “Why did the Trojan Braid his Hair? Or, Always Becoming Roman, on

the Ara Pacis Augustae”29 Professor Detlef Mertins, Chair, Dept. of Architecture: “Correspondences: Mies van der Rohe and Modern Art”

NOVEMBER 12 Graduate Student Dissertation ColloquiaBeck Feibelman: “Real Life after ‘The Death of the Author’: Celebrity and Identity in the Media”Meredith Malone: “Nouveau Réalisme: Exhibition Strategies and the Everyday

in Post-World War II France”19 Professor Holly Pittman, History of Art and University Museum: “New Light on Bronze Age Iran. Report from

the Field, Excavations in the Halil Rud Basin”

DECEMBER 3 Professor Melissa McCormick, History of Art Department, Columbia University: “The FemaleMonochrome Imaginary in Medieval Japan”

10 Professor Christine Poggi, History of Art: “Mass, Pack, and Mob: Crowds in Contemporary Art”

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Orifessir Terry Adju=

May 2004 History of ArtDarwish, Orit Hanna, M.A. “Eunuchs in King Sennacherib's Palatial Bas-Reliefs: Assyrian Innovation or

Tradition?”Gold, Susanna Williams, Ph.D. “Imaging Memory: Re-Presentations of the Civil War at the 1876 Centennial

Exhibition”Hallam, Jennifer Lynne, Ph.D. “Re-Presenting Women in Early Stuart England: Gender Ideology, Personal

Politics and the Portrait Arts”Milkova, Liliana Vladimirova, M.A. “The Thracian Tombs at Sveshtari and Kazanluk: Representations of the

Sacred Marriage Ceremony”Taube, Isabel Louise, Ph.D. “Rooms of Memory: The Artful Interior in American Painting, 1880 to 1920”

August 2004 Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean WorldBrown, Kimberly, Ph.D. “Fluxgate Gradiometry and the Investigation of Archaic Period Rural Settle-

ment in Central Italy (600-450 B.C.)”

August 2004 History of ArtSears, Tamara, Ph.D. “Housing Asceticism: Tracing the Development of Mettemayura Saiva

Monastic Architecture in Early Medieval Central India”

December 2004 History of ArtO'Rourke, Kathryn, M.A. “Following the Donkey through South America: Toward a New Architecture”Feliciano, Maria J., Ph.D. “Mudejarismo in Its Colonial Context: Iberian Cultural Display, Viceregal

Luxury Consumption, and the Negotiation of Identities in Sixteenth-CenturyNew Spain”

Grossman, Heather E., Ph.D. “Building Identity: Architecure As Evidence of Cultural Interaction betweenLatins and Byzantines in Medieval Greece”

Graduate Degrees Awarded

Behrens, Rochelle A.Bullock, Ethan H. T.Correll, Stephen D.

Dubin, Emily A.Freeland, Carolyn J.

Gallun, Lucy B.Gamer, Meredith J.Gerfen, Kathryn W.

Green, Nicole A.Marzec, Lucas N.

Undergraduate Degrees Awarded

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Oster, Nancy M.Pratto, Lauren A.Riley, Martha Q.Sandberg, Dana J.Spector, Erica J.Stein, Erica B.

Stewart, Pamela A. V.Swartley, Suzanne R.

Zilinski, Sarah M.

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American Research Institue in TurkeyChristiane Gruber

Chateaubriand FellowshipJannifer T. Criss

College Art AssociationMichelle Rein

Critical Writing Teaching FellowshipNatasha Ruiz-Gómez

Fulbright-Hays DDRAJohn-Henry Rice

Farquhar Travel GrantsBeth Citron

Mandavi Mehta

Getty Research GrantMeredith Malone

Historians of Islamic ArtMichelle Rein

Latner Travel GrantJessica Boehman

Liebman FellowshipMeredith Malone

Penfield Travel GrantsLiliana Milkova

Natasha Ruiz-Gómez

SAS Dissertation FellowshipSusanna McFadden

Thune FellowshipsAlexis Noel Fahden

Jessica FainJordana Grodnitzky

Dana KatzAmanda Weingarten

Willams FellowshipLeslee Katrina Michelsen

Honors and Awards

Please join us when

Leo SteinbergBenjamin Franklin Professor

and University Professor Emeritus

lectures on

Picasso

April 26, 2005

See www.arthistory.upenn.edu for detailsas the event nears

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A Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship supports Christopher Pastore's project, entitled "Expanding Antiquity: LearnedFarming and Villeggiatura in Sixteenth-Century Italy." His goal is to expand the his dissertation into a study of therelationship between villeggiatura, Counter-Reformation diocesan administration and governmental intervention inCinquecento Italian agricultural development.

Kevin Salatino reports that he now serves as Curator and Head of the Departments of Prints and Drawings at theLos Angeles County Museum of Art, a position he has held since 2000.

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