Calendar:

  Departmental News & Events | University Calendar

Weekly Newsletter
To subscribe to NewsByte, the AAH&VS weekly email newsletter, please email your request and email address to John Taormina at taormina@duke.edu

NewsByte :: June 9, 2009 ::

Homepage | Faculty | PhD Program | Undergraduates | VRC | Announcements | Contacts NASHER MUSEUM OF ART Christian Marclay: Video Quartet May 7 - July 26, 2009 Christian Marclay, Video Quartet, 2002. Four-channel DVD projection with sound, 14 minutes. Each screen is 8 x 10 feet; overall installation is 8 x 40 feet. Edition 1 of 5. For this 2002 work, London- and New York-based artist Christian Marclay sampled more than 700 Hollywood films featuring images of hands on keyboards, horns and violins, as well as men and women singing, dancing, and making other noises. The result is a virtuoso visual and sonic collage. Video Quartet is a 14-minute, four-screen DVD projection that will be on view in the Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle Pavilion. For more information: http://www.nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions_marclay.php David Roberts and the Holy Land On view through November 29, 2009 David Roberts, Jerusalem, Church of the Purification, 1842-1844, color lithograph. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The Holy Land, as the birthplace of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, has long fascinated people around the world. Many of the revered sites from religious scriptural traditions-Sinai, Nazareth, Jericho, Bethlehem, and of course, Jerusalem-have become an integral part of cultural as well as political identities. David Roberts (1796-1864) of Scotland was one of the first major European artists to travel in the Middle East, sketching its landscapes and religious sites. This year the Nasher Museum will present two installations from its collection of the complete lithographs after David Roberts' images of the Middle East. The first selection of twenty-five prints in Summer 2009 will present a general survey of Roberts' journey and some of the major sites he visited. The second installation in Fall 2009 will showcase a selection of the prints made by professors Eric Meyers and Carol Meyers of Duke's Divinity School, and professor Annabel Wharton of the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, to complement their Fall 2009 academic programs. A fully illustrated catalogue of the complete set of these lithographs is available in the Nasher Museum Store. For more information: http://www.nasher.duke.edu/perm_collection.php#david_roberts PROVOST'S COMMON FUND GRANT Steve Brodner, The Bushanos, from Freedom Fries, 2004. Duke University Provost Peter Lange and Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies Susan Roth have awarded funding of $50,000 through the annual Common Fund competition to support the interdisciplinary project, Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature. The winning proposal was submitted by Neil McWilliam, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies; James "Jay" Hamilton, professor of public policy studies and economics at the Terry Sanford School of Public Policy and Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy; and Kimerly Rorschach, Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director of the Nasher Museum of Art. Students working on the exhibit are part of McWilliams' visual studies course, "From Caricature to Comic Strip." The project will feature an exhibition of contemporary and historical graphic satire at the Nasher Museum of Art in Spring 2010. The exhibition, developed by undergraduate seniors and graduate students at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill will show works from the founding moment of journalistic caricature-the campaign mounted by Honoré Daumier and his contemporaries against French monarch Louis-Philippe (1830-1848)-and compare them to cartoons of the Clinton and Bush presidencies. The project will also include complementary programming, such as round-table discussions, symposia, and film presentations "to explore the issues around caricature and relate them to debates around the wider public role of print media at a moment of far-reaching economic and technological change," Jay Hamilton said. The organizers will engage collaborators from among faculty in Public Policy, Law, Film, and New Media, student teams from Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, and invited experts from popular media outlets. All of the events will be designed to draw participation from the university community and beyond. GRADUATE STUDENT 2009-2010 FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Ignacio Adriasola • Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Summer Research Fellowship (Summer 2009) Elizabeth Baudoin • Summer Program of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Summer 2009) • American School of Classical Studies at Athens Field Scholarship Alexis Clark • Graduate School Summer Pre-Dissertation Award (Summer 2009) Kency Cornejo • Latin American Studies Research Grant (Summer 2009) Aurelia D'Antonio • Aleane Webb Research Fellowship (Summer 2009) • Rome Prize (2009-2010) • Society of Architectural Historians Kress Fellowship (declined) Karen Gonzalez • College of Arts & Sciences Course Enhancement Grant, 2009 Erin Hanas • University of Iowa Art History Society, Symposium Honorarium, 2009 Zoe Jones • Fulbright IIE Commission Grant, Italy (January 2009-November 2010) Yukiko Kato • Camargo Fellowship to study in Cassis, France (Fall 2009) Meagan Green Labunski • Fulbright IIE Research Grant, Italy (2009-2010) Youngji Lee • Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Summer Research Fellowship (Summer 2009) Alfredo Rivera • Center for Latin American Studies Summer Award (Summer 2009) Mitali Routh • Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship (Summer 2009) • Bass Instructorship (2009) Jasmina Tumbas • The Gulnar Bosh Travel Awards, SECAC 2009 Matthew Woodworth • Junior Fellowship from Paul Mellon Centre for British Art (Summer 2009) NEW STAFF MEMBER JOINS DEPARTMENT Todd Berreth has recently joined the department as a research associate.  He will be managing projects and developing software for the Perkins Library LINK MediaWall and working with Bill Seaman, professor of visual studies, on project and coursework development.  Todd is an artist and licensed architect, who has worked as a project architect and designer at the Freelon Group in Durham, NC and KSS Architects and CUH2A in Princeton, NJ.   He received his graduate architecture degree at the University of Pennsylvania, a fine arts and media studies degree at Carleton College, and has previous experience in IT management and systems administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Haverford College.  His research interests include topics related to computer visualization, effective diagramming, and the pervasive integration of display and sensor technologies in the built environment. AAHVS ART HISTORY COURSES FOR FALL 2009 ARTHIST 70D Intro to Art History Instructor: Hans Van Miegroet Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930, oil on canvas. Kunsthaus Zürich ARTHIST 103 Women in the Classical World Instructor: Sheila Dillon ARTHIST 116 Museum Internship Instructor: Anne Schroder ARTHIST 152 Renaissance Architecture in Italy: Brunelleschi to Michelangelo Instructor: Sara Galletti Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo), 1296-1436, Florence. ARTHIST 155 Michelangelo in Context Instructor: Sara Galletti ARTHIST 156 Early Modern French Art and Visual Culture Instructor: Hans Van Miegroet ARTHIST 170 Chinese Buddhist Art Instructor: Stanley Abe Seated Buddha, c. 650 CE, dry lacquer. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ARTHIST 184 History of Impressionism Instructor: Mark Antliff ARTHIST 185FCS Russian Art and Politics Instructor: Pamela Kachurin ARTHIST 189BD Postmodern Architecture Instructor: Annabel Wharton ARTHIST 199 History of Photography Instructor: Patricia Leighten Lewis Hine, Powerhouse Mechanic, 1925, gelatin silver print. ARTHIST 272S Special Topics in Chinese Art Instructor: Stanley Abe ARTHIST 283S Topics: Picasso: Art, Language and Culture Instructor: Patricia Leighten ARTHIST 296S Methodology of Art History Instructor: Mark Antliff ARTHIST 340 Goya and David Instructor: Neil McWilliam Francisco Goya, Third of May 1808, detail, 1914, oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid. ARTHIST 374 Jerusalem Instructor: Annabel Wharton Dome of the Rock, completed 691 CE, Jerusalem. ARTHIST 395.01 Topics: Interpretation of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture Instructor: Sheila Dillon SUMMER NEWSBYTE PUBLICATION Martin Johnson Heade, Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth, 1888-1890, oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. NewsByte will be issued monthy during June, July, and August 2009. Please refer all relevant departmental information for inclusion in our weekly announcement to John Taormina, Director, Visual Resources Center, at taormina@duke.edu. Homepage | Faculty | PhD Program | Undergraduates | VRC | Announcements | Contacts © 2008 Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University. Unauthorized use is prohibited.

NewsByte archive ::

2009 May 5 Commencement 2009 | CIEMAS workshop | Christian Marclay | Smith Warehouse exhibitions | East Duke Bldg gallery | 2009 fellowships, awards, and grants | VRA Bulletin | Jack Edinger April 27 Bernard Frischer | Shawn Brixey | Wired! | From the Reel to the Virtual | Fatimah Tuggar | VSI Workshop | Smith Warehouse Exhibitions April 13 Student Exhibition | Carolyn Dean | Gregory Maertz | VSI Symposium | Gennifer Weisenfeld | Hans J. Van Miegroet | Bill Fick | Bill Seaman | VRC reconfigured March 31 Thomas Coomans | William Noland | Matthias Pabsch | Undergraduate Colloquium | Elizabeth Boone | Maqbool Fida Husain | Documentary Film | Gennifer Weisenfeld | Elizabeth Baudoin | Nasher: Mellon grant | Visual Resources Association conference, Toronto March 16 Jonathan Black | Richard H. Brodhead | Visual Resourses Center | Visual Studies Initiative | Merrill Shatzman | Edward Shanken February 24 Nelia Dias | East Duke Building gallery | Patricia Leighten | Mitali Routh February 9 Graduate Student Symposium | Kristine Stiles | Pedro Lasch January 29 Dans la nuit, des images January 14 Pedro Lasch | David Odo | Kristine Stiles | Casey Alt | El Greco to Velazquez | Caroline Bruzelius     2008   December 10 William Noland | Bill Seaman | Le Fresnoy | Bloomsbury Artists | Esther Gabara | Julie Doring November 24 Barkley L. Hendricks | Richard J. Powell | Merrill Shatzman | Neil McWilliam | Jack Edinger | Julie Doring | John Taormina

Visit our Facebook group, "Art, Art History & Visual Studies @ Duke"