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ART HISTORY AND ART

News and Updates

September 14, 2009

Faculty Activities

Ellen Landau read the paper, "Philip Guston, The Jew as Modern Artist," at the 15th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 2009. She also curated the exhibition on Mercedes Matter, founder of the New York Studio School, at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York.

Catherine Scallen has published, "The Global Rembrandt," in the Proceedings of the International Congress of Art History 2008 (June 2009), and "Museum Masterpieces: The National Gallery, London," a course of twenty-four half-hour lectures on DVD for The Teaching Company, June 2009. She also read the paper, "Rembrandt, Aesthetic Purity, and Creative Integration," at the session, "Problems in Rembrandt" of the annual meeting of the College Art Association in Los Angeles, February 2009.

David Carrier's article, "Anthony Blunt's Poussin," was published in Word and Image, 25/4, October-December 2009, 416-426.


Alumni

Bradley Bailey (Ph. D. 2004) has published, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess, New York: Readymade Press, 2009, with Francis M. Naumann, for the exhibition, "Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master," at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art from May 2009.

William Chiego (Ph. D. 1974?) has published Modern Art at the McNay, San Antonio,TX: 2001.

Nina Freedlander Gibbons (M.A. 1966) is recipient of the 2009 Cleveland Arts Prize- Martha Joseph Citation. She is on the panel, "Mid-Century Modern Architecture at the Crossroads," for the 2009 AIA Ohio Valley Region Convention, and has curated the exhibition, "Cleveland Goes Modern: Designs for the Home 1930-1970," which won local and state Preservation Awards as an exemplary 150th anniversary project.

Erin Valentine (M.A. 2009) has entered the Masters program in Library Science at Kent State University with an assistantship in the Department of Special Collections.

Rachel Duszynski (M.A. 2007) has taken a position as Lecturer at Bowling Green State University for 2009/2010.


Student News: Graduate Students

Tamara Durn has had the papers "Recontextualizing the Naples Philosopher Mosaic," and "Reconsidering Bellini's Washington Saint Jerome," accepted, respectively, for The Archaeological Society of America Conference in Los Angeles in 2010, and The annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Venice, 9 April 2010. She also functioned as Art Leader for the Global Forum on Business as an Agent of World Benefit in June 2009.

Student News: Undergraduate Majors

Undergraduate Art History Club officers for 2009/2010 are Margaret Roulette and Eileen Sabrina Herman as co-ordinators; Victoria Wolfe, Treasurer; Chelsea Myers, Secretary; and Meghana Karnik, Public Relations.



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