Faculty News
Aron Vinegar was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in October 2009.
In the spring of 2009, Myroslava M. Mudrak was elected Vice-Chair of The Ohio State University Senate Faculty Council, representing faculty of the eighteen colleges, the University Libraries, the Military Sciences, and the four Regional Campuses. She will serve as Chair of Faculty Council during the 2010-2011 academic year.
Lisa Florman chaired a session with Cordula Grewe of Columbia University on “Art and Art History After Hegel” at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, February 2009.
Lisa Florman was the recipient of the 2009 Virginia Hull Award, a grant established by OSU’s Board of Trustees in 1987 for women faculty doing research in the Humanities and now in the Arts. The award will support Professor Florman's ongoing work on Kandinsky and Hegel.
Aron Vinegar was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Grant in 2009 for work on his book project, Habitations: On Bodliy Habit and Architecture
Barbara Groseclose continues to serve on the College Art Association’s International Studies Committee; she was appointed to this post in 2008.
Barbara Groseclose was the recipient of a travel grant from the American Council of International Education in 2008.
Andrew Shelton was an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Myroslava Mudrak was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to work in Ukraine during the 2008-2009 academic year. Her project is entitled "Redressing Mythologies: A Scholarly Look at Constructivism and a Revised Study of Ukrainian Artistic Modernism." Her affiliation was with the State Academy of Design and Arts and the Kharkiv Museum of Literature.
Myroslava Mudrak presented a Master Class "The Practical Use of Images" at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute, New York Public Library, dedicated to Sources of Russian and Soviet Visual Cultures, 1860-1935: Study, Teaching, and Education (July 9, 2008).
Recent and Upcoming Faculty Publications
Julia F. Andrews, “The Art of the Cultural Revolution,” in Richard King, ed. Art and the Artist in Cultural Revolution China, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press (forthcoming).
Julia F. Andrews co-editor, Encyclopedia of Modern China (David Pong, general editor), 4 vols., Detroit, New York, San Francisco, etc.: Charles Scribner’s Sons/Gale, Cengage Learning, 2009.
Julia F. Andrews, “Art under Mao, ‘Cai Guoqiang’s Maksimov Collection,’ and China’s Twentieth Century,” in Josh Yiu ed., Writing Modern Chinese Art: Historiographic Explorations, Seattle Art Museum, 2009, pp. 53-69.
Julia F. Andrews, “Artists of China’s Reform Era,” main essay in Post-Mao Dreaming: Contemporary Chinese Art, Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, 2009.
Julia F. Andrews, “Post-Mao, Postmodern,” in Mahjong: Art, Film and Change in China, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2009, pp. 29-36.
Julia F. Andrews, "Exhibition to Exhibition: Painting Practice in the Early 20th Century as a Modern Response to 'Tradition'" in Turmoil, Representation, and Trends: Modern Chinese Painting, 1796-1949, International Conference Papers (Shibian xingxiang liufeng: zhongguo jindai huihua, 1796-1949, xueshu yantao hui lunwenji, Taipei, Chang Foundation in collaboration with the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2008, pp. 23-58.
Howard Crane, “Art and Architecture, 1300-1453,” in Kate Fleet ed., The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. 1: Byzantium to Turkey (1071-1453) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 266-352.
Lisa Florman, "Picasso circa 1925: Décor, the Decoratve and Difference" and "Classical Movements: Picasso's Metamorphoses Illustrations and the Suite Vollard," in Yve-Alain Bois, ed., Picasso Harlequin, 1917-1937 (Rome: Skira [for the Complesso del Vittoriano], 2008).
Ron Green, "Sophistication Under Construction: Oscar Micheaux's Sound Films," Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, (forthcoming, Spring 2010).
Ron Green, “Jiri Cernicky: Unknown Readable, Phoenixes, Taper Conversation, ABS video,” catalogue essay, Cleveland, Spaces, 2009.
Ron Green, “Twoness and the Film Style of Oscar Micheaux (1993),” in Bary Keith Grant ed., Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader, New York, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, pp. 304-316.
Barbara Groseclose and Jochen Wierich, Internationalizing the History of American Art, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009.
Barbara Haeger, "Rubens’s Singular Tribute to Adam Elsheimer," in J. Coutre and N. Sluijter eds. Aemulation: A Festschrift in Honour of Eric Jan Sluijter, Amsterdam University Press (forthcoming 2011).
Barbara Haeger, “The Façade of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp: Representing the Church Militant and Triumphant,” in Piet Lombaerde (ed.) Innovation and Experience in Early Baroque in the Southern Netherlands. The Case of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp in Architectura Moderna 6 (2008), pp. 97-124.
John Huntington, “Understanding the 5th Century Buddhas of Sarnath: A Newly Identified Mudra and New Comprehension of the Dharmachakra Mudra,” Orientations, March 2009, pp. 84-93.
John Huntington, "The Record of a 'Broken Date' in Paris: A Review of the Catalogue 'Art of the Ganges Delta'," Orientations, vol. 39, no. 7 (Oct. 2008), pp. 34-45.
Christian Kleinbub, “Bramante’s Ruined Temple and the Dialectics of the Image,” Renaissance Quarterly 63 (forthcoming, Summer 2010).
Christian Kleinbub, “At the Boundaries of Sight: The Italian Renaissance Cloud Putto," in John Hendrix and Charles Carman eds., Theories of Vision in the Renaissance (Ashgate, forthcoming).
Christian Kleinbub, Review of Nicole Dacos, The Loggia of Raphael: A Vatican Art Treasure, translated by Josephine Bacon, New York, Abbeville, 2008, The Burlington Magazine(forthcoming).
Christian Kleinbub, "Raphael's Transfiguration as Visio-Devotional Program," The Art Bulletin, XC, no. 3, September 2008, pp. 367-393.
Timothy McNiven, "Things to which we give service": Interactions with Sacred Images on Athenian Pottery," in Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, ed., 'Reading' Ancient Greek Images: Modes of Representation and Contemporary Methodologies, Athens, The Center for the Book (in press).
Tim McNiven, "'Things to Which We Give Service': Interactions with Sacred Images on Athenian Pottery", an article in D. Yatromanolakis (ed.), An Archaeology of Representations: Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and Contemporary Methodologies, Athens 2009, 299-325.
Stephen Melville, “Ecce Pinctura: A Note on Betty’s Mastered Irony,” in De Bolla and Uhlig, eds., Aesthetics and The Work of Art: Adorno, Kafka, Richter (Language, Discourse, Society) London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Stephen Melville, “Betty’s Turn.” RES 53/54, Spring 2008.
Arline Meyer, "Regency Rowlandson: Thomas Rowlandson's studies after (long after) the Antique," The British Art Journal, vol. X, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2009, pp. 50-60.
Arline Meyer, Review of Robert Hoozee's "British Vision: Observation and Imagination in British Art, 1750–1950." Exhibition catalogue Brussels and Gent: Mercatorfonds and Museum voor Kunsten Gent, 2008. Exhibition schedule: Museum voor Kunsten Gent, October 6, 2007–January 13, 2008. In caa.reviews, January 28, 2009.
Myroslava Mudrak, “The Transfiguration of the Revolution: The Iconography of Light in the Avant-Garde” in Jeff Gatrall and Douglas Greenfield eds., Alter Icons, Penn State University Press (forthcoming).
Myroslava Mudrak, “The Graphic Arts: From Page Design to Theatre,” in Irena Makaryk and Virliana Tkacz eds., Modernism—Kyiv/Kiev—Kurbas, University of Toronto Press (forthcoming).
Myroslava Mudrak, “Musings on the Many Faces of Ukrainian Symbolism” in Proceedings from the Conference “Ukrainian Modernism in Context 1910-1930” to appear in a double-issue of Harvard Ukrainian Studies (forthcoming).
Myroslava Mudrak, review of Vitebsk: The Life of Art, by Aleksandra Shatskikh (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007) Russian Review 68 (January 2009): 135-36.
Myroslava Mudrak, Beyond Borders: Modern Ukrainian Book Design, 1914-1945, Kyiv, Krytya Publishers, 2008.
Myroslava Mudrak, “David Burliuk 1882-1967,” museum brochure, Ukrainian Museum of Art, New York, 2008.
Myroslava M. Mudrak, "Burliuk--The 'Radio-Modernist'" in Futurism and After: David Burliuk 1882-1967, exhibition catalogue, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2008, pp. 19-23.
Kris Paulsen, "Participation in the Arts: 1950 to Now," Shotgun Review, January 2009.
Kris Paulsen, "Continuous Coverage," in Ken Freidman and Owen Smith eds., Events and Event Structures, Copenhagen, Royal Danish Design School Press, 2009.
Kris Paulsen, "Bruce Nauman, Television, and Doing It Again," State of the Arts 2, Santa Barbara, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, 2008.
Kris Paulsen, "California Video," X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, 11, Issue 1 (September 2008).
Andrew Carrington Shelton, “Parodies and Panegyrics: The Biographical Writing on ‘Monsieur Ingres,’ 1840-56,” Ingres, un homme à part? Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Paris, École du Louvre/Rome, Académie de France, April 25-28, 2006, pp. 25-33, (forthcoming 2009).
Andrew Carrington Shelton, Review of Todd Porterfield and Susan L. Siegfried, Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007 in French Nineteenth-Century Studies (Fall-Winter 2008-2009) pp. 146-148.
Andrew Carrington Shelton, Review of David O’Brien, After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting and Propaganda Under Napoleon, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006 in French Nineteenth-Century Studies (Fall-Winter 2008-2009) pp. 153-155.
Andrew Carrington Shelton, Ingres, London: Phaidon, 2008 (Translations of this book in French, German, Italian and Spanish have also appeared).
Aron Vinegar, “Of Ducks and Decorated Sheds,” Dreamlands: Utopies Urbaines, exhibition catalogue, Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou (forthcoming, May 2010).
Aron Vinegar, “Photography Degree Zero,” in With(out) Dimension: Alan Cohen’s Photographs of the Equator, Chicago. University of Chicago Press and Center for American Places (forthcoming, 2009).
Aron Vinegar, “Viollet-le-Duc, Panoramic Photography, and the Restoration of the Château de Pierrefonds,” in Werner Oechslin ed., Essays on Viollet-le-Duc, Zurich, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule/Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur Verlag (forthcoming 2009).
Aron Vinegar, “Ed Ruscha, Heidegger and Deadpan Photography,” in Art History, 32, no. 5 (November 2009) special issue on Photography After Conceptual Art, eds. Margaret Iversen and Diarmuid Costello.
Aron Vinegar and Michael Golec eds., Relearning from Las Vegas, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2009, including an essay by Vinegar “The Melodrama of Expression and Inexpression in the Duck and Decorated Shed.”
Aron Vinegar, I AM A MONUMENT: On Learning from Las Vegas, Cambridge (MA) and London: The MIT Press, 2008.
Aron Vinegar, "Panoramic Photography and the Restoration of the Chateau de Pierrefonds,” in Viollet-le-Duc à Pierrefonds et dans l’Oise/Viollet-le-Duc at Pierrefonds and in the Oise Region (Paris: Editions du Patrimoine, 2008), pp. 70-81 (online book).
Recent and Upcoming Faculty Lectures
Aron Vinegar, “Chateaugraphy,” Geography in Modern Architectural Theory and History, at the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 21-25, 2010.
Aron Vinegar and Amanda Boetzkes, Session co-chairs, “Heidegger and the Work of Art History” AAH Annual Conference at the University of Glasgow, April 15-17, 2010.
Julia F. Andrews, “Picturing Utopia: The Visual Iconography of Socialist Realism, 1949-1979,” Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March 26, 2010.
Andrew Carrington Shelton, “Carnevale: An Episode in the Theatricalization of Self in the July Monarchy,”Tampa, FL, Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, March 11-13, 2010.
Andrew Carrington Shelton, “Achille Devéria’s Sergeants of La Rochelle (1822),” Military Subjects in Painting of the Revolutionary Period, Consortium for Revolutionary Europe, Charleston, SC, February 25-28, 2010.
Aron Vinegar, "Wittgenstein, Gesture, Architecture," Gesture at Large, The Ohio State University, February 25-27, 2010.
Barbara Groseclose, "Reading American Art (History)," 98th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Chicago, February 10-13, 2010
Christian Kleinbub, “The Senses in Early Modern Art and Visual Culture,” session co-chair, 98th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Chicago, February 10-13, 2010.
Andrew Carrington Shelton, “Women and Erotic Pleasure in the Lithographs of Achille Devéria,” Art History Open Session: 19th-Century Art, 98th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Chicago, February 10-13, 2010.
Aron Vinegar, “A Book that is Not One,” Architecture After Las Vegas,”School of Architecture, Yale University, January 22-23, 2010.
Christian Kleinbub, “Jacopo Bellini and the Drawing of Idolatry,” lecture for session celebrating David Rosand’s contributions to Venetian art at the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Venice, Italy, 2010.
Aron Vinegar, “Muriel Cooper Moving Between Mediums,” Architecture Moves, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, October 2-3, 2009.
Julia F. Andrews, “Funü zazhi as Visual Object and Constructions of the Image of the New Woman in Republican China,” International Conference on Gender Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, June 26-29, 2009.
Mark Fullerton, “Archaism and Classicism in the Roman Villa: the Case of the Herculaneum Athena,” presented at Greek Art/ Roman Eyes: The Reception of Greek Art in the Private Sphere in Ancient Italy, a symposium held at the Getty Villa in conjunction with the LCMA exhibit, Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples, Malibu, CA, June 6, 2009.
Ron Green, “Narrative and the Film Loop: Hubbard and Birchler,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Tokyo, May 24, 2009.
Christian Kleinbub, “The Visionary Dimensions of Raphael’s Transfiguration,” Julius Fund Endowment Lecture in Renaissance Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, April 2009.
John C. Huntington, “Relic Worship at Ajanta,” and “The Cave as a Whole: An Investigation into Buddhist Common Knowledge,” The Houston Museum of Arts conference: Ajanta - Miracle in the Mountains: A symposium in Honor of Walter M. Spink, April 18-19, 2009.
Julia F. Andrews, “Art to Represent the Nation: China’s First National Exhibition of 1929,” Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 28, 2009.
Barbara Haeger, "The Annunciate Virgin in Post-Tridentine Art: Weaving the Temple Curtain and the Body of Christ," Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, March 2009.
Christian Kleinbub, “Raphael’s Quos Ego and Its Humanist Audiences,” Renaissance Society of America ,Los Angeles, March 2009.
Christian Kleinbub, “Centro/Periferia?: Provincialism in Italian Renaissance Art,” respondent for panel, Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, March 2009.
Mark Fullerton, “Roma and Augustus on the Gemma Augustea,” Open Session on Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America, Los Angeles, February 28, 2009.
Stephen Melville, participant, Distinguished Scholar’s Session, “Svetlana Alpers: Paintings/Problems/Possibilities,” Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America, Los Angeles, February 2009.
Ron Green, “The Problem of Micheaux’s Sound Films” Faded Glory: Oscar Micheaux and the Pre-War Black Independent Cinema, New York, Columbia University and Film Society of Lincoln Center, February 7, 2009.
Stephen Melville, “On Smithson and Hegel,” Department of History of Art, University of Michigan, January 2009.
Stephen Melville, “Thing of the Past: On Hegel and Contemporary Art History,” Humanities Institute, University of Michigan, January 2009.
Myroslava Mudrak, “From Pluralism to Synthesis: “The Artist-Today” Exhibition of 1927,” Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology, Kyiv, Ukraine, December 18, 2008.
Julia F. Andrews, “Shanghai huabao (1925-1933) and Creation of Shanghai’s Culture Between the Wars,” University of Heidelberg, Germany, Dec. 12, 2008, as part of Workshop: Common People and the Artist, December 10-13, 2008.
Andrew Carrington Shelton, “Achille Devéria: Art, Identity, and Commerce in Early 19th-Century Paris,” Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Colloquium CCXXVI, December 11, 2008.
Myroslava Mudrak, “Execution Renaissance”—a talk on the artistic-cultural life of Kharkiv in the 1920s, Museum of Literature, Kharkiv, Ukraine, November 20, 2008.
Stephen Melville, "Architecture and Curriculum: Peter Eisenman's Wexner Center for the Arts," Humanities Center, Harvard University, November 2008.
Julia F. Andrews, “Art and the Nation: The First National Art Exhibition of 1929,” Leiden University, Institute of Sinology, Nov. 12, 2008.
Julia F. Andrews, “Illegibility as a Political Act in 1980s China, for “Rethinking the Written Word: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Chinese Calligraphy” National Taiwan Normal University, Nov. 2, 2008.
Julia F. Andrews, ”Funü zazhi as Visual Object and Construction of the New Woman in Republican China (Some Very Preliminary Thoughts),” Presentation for the Workshop “Gender and Cultural Production: A New Approach to Chinese Women’s Journals in the Early Twentieth Century” York University, Toronto, Oct. 26-27, 2008
Julia F. Andrews, “Post-Mao, Post-Modern,” at the Symposium China Transformed: Artscape/Cityscape, October 18, 2008, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive.
Barbara Groseclose, “Nineteenth-Century American Figure Painting vs. Landscape Painting,“ Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia and University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia October, 2008
Stephen Melville, “Were Painting To Exist . . .” Keynote lecture, Painting in the 21st Century, Phillips Collection, Washington DC, September 2008. [Also given at University of Essex, October 2008].
Julia F. Andrews, “The Woodcut, the Avant-Garde, and China’s Twentieth Century Revolutions,” The Art Institute of Chicago, in conjunction with the exhibition Cutting Edges: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints, June 19, 2008.
Kris Paulsen, "Back to You: Audience Participation in Performance Art, On- and Off-Line," Performing the Body Electric Panel, Berkeley Big Bang 08 New Media Symposium and Festival, June 2008.
Aron Vinegar, “Photography Degree Zero,” World-Making and World Art, Consortium for the Arts and Arts Research Center, UC Berkley, May 9-10, 2008.
Kris Paulsen, "Participation TV." LASER (Leonardo Journals), May 2008.
Christian Kleinbub, "Raphael's Transfiguration as Visio-Devotional Program," San Diego Museum of Art, April 18, 2008.
Julia Andrews, “Reconstructing Lu Xun: The Cultural Revolution Woodcut,” Visualizing Revolution: Propaganda Posters from the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1989, University of California, Davis, April, 12, 2008.
Aron Vinegar, "Deadpan and the Absorption of Skepticism,” Photography after Conceptual Art, Association of Art Historians, London, England, April 2-4, 2008.
Christian Kleinbub, "The Supernatural in Italian Renaissance Art," Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference, Chicago, March 2008.
Christian Kleinbub, "The Visual Displacement of Pagan Systems in Italian Renaissance Painting," at the national symposium Beholding Violence: A Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Representation and Culture, Bowling Green State University, February 28-March 1, 2008.
Barbara Groseclose, “George Caleb Bingham and the Election(s),” St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, February 2008.
Graduate Student News
Above: Maruta Vitols, Ph.D., Spring 2008.
2008 & 2009 Graduates, Ph.D.
Mark Magleby (2009)
Laurie Kilker (2009)
Walter Davis (2008)
Rebecca Twist (2008)
David Efurd (2008)
Maruta Vitols (2008)
2008 & 2009 Graduates, M.A.
Lauren Whitworth (2009)
Karen Nystrom (2009)
Sarah Johnson (2009)
Stacy Lawrence (2009)
Whitney Bair-Sneed (2008)
Clint Buhler (2008)
Rachel Trinkley (2008)
Jessica Boggs (2008)
Elizabeth Cohen (2008)
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
Amanda Gluibizzi, “Recycle, Reuse, Readymade,” 98th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Chicago, February 10-13, 2010.
PhD Candidate Christina Burke Mathison has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Grant to conduct research in Taiwan and Japan in December 2009-January 2010.
Abira Mukhopadhyay, "Bengali Folks and Village Sources for Jamini Roy's Paintings, " in a panel on Art and Politics, October 17, 2009, 58th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
Yanfei Zhu, "Art History and Nationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century China, " in a panel on Art and Politics, October 17, 2009, 58th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
Seung Han Paek, "The Modernity of the Everyday Commercial: Exploring a Conflicted Modernity in Contemporary South Korean Cities through the Case Study of Signboard Renovation Project in Gunpo City," in a panel on Peoples, Places, and Politics of Asia in the Twenty-first Century, October 16, 2009, 58th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
Eliza Ho, "Sha Fei's Revisions of the Great Wall in Chinese Wartime Photography" at the symposium The Role of Photography in Shaping China's Images, Northwestern University, April 24-26, 2009.
Jennifer Getson, "Jules Dalou's Alphand Monument: A Study in the Formation of Sculptural Commemoration in Third- Republic France," 44th Annual Graduate Student Seminar, Art Institute of Chicago, April 17-18, 2009.
Eliza Ho, "Sha Fei (1912-1950) and the Beginning of Chinese Social Documentary Photography" for the symposium China Seen by Chinese, organized in conjunction with the exhibition "Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography" on view at the China Institute, New York, NY form September 24 through December 13, 2009, Tang Center, Princeton University, October 24, 2009.
Sarah Getzelman, "Imaging the Dalai Lama: Incarnations in Art and Practice," Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, October 2009.
Ariana Maki, "Framing the Future: Phajo Dudjom Zhigpo (1184-1251 CE) and the Establishment of Drukpa Kagyu Buddhism in Bhutan,” International Seminar of Young Tibetologists, Paris, September 7-11, 2009.
Clint Buhler, "'Post-Utopian' Reflections on Terror: Artistic Engagements with Stalinism," 2009 Space Between Society Conference, "Sound and Silence in the Space Between (1914-1945)," The University of Notre Dame, June 11-13, 2009.
Clint Buhler, "Stalin on his Own Terms: Artistic Confrontation with the Stalinist Legacy," 2009 Slavic Forum, The University of Chicago, May 8-9, 2009.
Clint Buhler, "Testifying to the Terror: Artistic Reminiscence of Stalinism," 2009 Image as Witness Conference, Pennsylvania State University, April 18, 2009.
Ariana Maki, "Nangkar Dok: Ritual and Identity in Bhutanese Drukpa Kagyu Buddhism," North American Graduate Student Conference in Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 17-18, 2009.
Ariana Maki, Hidden Treasures of Enlightenment: The Bhutanese Terma Tradition," Society for Asian Art, AAM, San Francisco, April 16, 2009.
Ariana Maki, "Another Dragon's Gift: The Buddhism of Bhutan," Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, February 21, 2009.
Matthew Baumann, "Whiskers of Change: Reconsidering the Hercules Righetti," Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia , January 9, 2009.
Katie Rask, "Whose Sign Is It Anyway: Seal Use in Geometric through Classical Greece," Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia , January 9, 2009.
Laurie Kilker, A Setting for the Thesmophoria: The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Corinth," Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 10, 2009; and "Clarifying the Role of Women at symposion and deipnon," The 105th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Minneapolis, April 2, 2009.
Clinton Buhler, "Redefining a Georgian National Identity in Film", 2008 Armenia and Its Neighbors Conference, "Georgia: The Making of a National Culture," The University of Michigan, May 15-18, 2008.
Clinton Buhler, "Tengiz Abuladze's "Repentance" and Collective Trauma," 2008 Midwest Slavic Conference, The Ohio State University, April 18-19, 2008.
Jennifer Getson, "'Men of Genius are Less Men than Monsters': Explaining the Controversy around Rodin's Balzac," Art History Symposium, Bowling Green State University, April 12, 2008.
Elizabeth Cohen, "The Dybbuk: Didi-Huberman and the Role of Metaphor in Art History," The Art Institute of Chicago Graduate Student Seminar, The Art Institute of Chicago, April 1-12, 2008.
Clinton Buhler, "Stalin as Ubermensch: Stalinist Monumental Propaganda as Palimpsest." 2008 MU/KU Art History Symposium "Power & Piety: The Interplay Between State and Religion", The University of Missouri-Columbia, February 29-30, 2008.
Elizabeth Cohen, "The Overlooked Parody of Auguste Clésinger's Woman Bitten by a Snake" in "Au Naturel: Studying the Representation of the Nude in Art," The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 29, 2008.
Eliza Ho, Ph.D. Candidate, "What Does a Landscape Photograph Tell? A Chinese Photographer Sha Feiâ's Political Photographs in the 1930s," Graduate Student Symposium in East Asian Art, Princeton University, February 16, 2008.
Angela Andersen, Ph.D. Candidate, "Affecting Space, Representing Margins: The Shafi'i Prayer Hall in Diyarbakir," as part of the Second Annual Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Studies, January 17, 2008.
Laurie Kilker, Ph.D. Candidate, "Taming the Bear at Brauron, Literally and Literarily," On the Border: Animals, Hybrids and Monsters in Ancient Culture, Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Antropologici sulla Cultura Antica, Università degli Studi di Siena/Focus Program in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures and Religions, The Ohio State University, January 12, 2008.
Katie Rask, Ph.D. Candidate, "The Domesticated Wild: Etruscan Deer Bones and a Theory of Sacrifice," On the Border: Animals, Hybrids and Monsters in Ancient Culture, Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Antropologici sulla Cultura Antica, Università degli Studi di Siena/Focus Program in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures and Religions, The Ohio State University, January 12, 2008.
Robert Calhoun, Ph.D. Candidate, "Gustav Klutsis: Constructing Socialism," 22nd Annual Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, Hagerty Hall, The Ohio State University, April 12, 2008.
2008 Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum
Eight History of Art graduate students (pictured below) participated in the 2008 Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, with three representatives from the department placing in the competition—for the second consecutive year, three of our students made a clean sweep of the awards in the category of the arts!
History of Art participants in the 2008 Hayes Graduate Research Forum (from left to right): Robert Calhoun: "Gustav Klutsis: Constructing Socialism;" student from School of Music; Yanfei Zhu: "'Song of Unending Sorrow': Hasimoto Kansetsu Between True Love and Politics;" Alicia East (2nd place): "Waking Dreams: F.W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' and Weimar Era Cinema; Carrie Wills (3rd place): "Antoine-Jean Gros's 'Hercules and Diomedes': A Return to Baroque;" Sarah Getzelman: "An Image Divided: The Dual Nature of Bharat Mata in India, 1905-2007;" Lauren Whitworth: The Commodification of Culture: Japanese Ganguro and Iona Ronzeal Brown's Geishas;" Angela Andersen: "Architectural Lineage: History and Lore at the Great Mosque of Diyarbakir." Not pictured: Julia Fisher (1st place): "Constructing a First Impression of Japan: Recreating a Photo Album of Felice Beato."
Other Graduate News
Eliza Ho received a number of grants, including a Mershon Center for International Security Studies Student Grant, to support the organization of her exhibition Art, Documentary, and Propaganda in Wartime China: The Photography of Sha Fei (1912-1950), scheduled to open at OSU's Urban Arts Space in January 2010.
PhD Candidate Jennifer Getson, who represented the Department of History of Art at the 44th Annual Graduate Student Seminar at the Art Institute of Chicago last April was deemed by the organizers of this event to have delivered the best paper in the seminar. She has been invited to give a longer version of her paper, entitled "Jules Dalou's Alphand Monument: A Study in the Formation of Sculptural Commemoration in Third- Republic France," to the general public at the Art Institute on December 11, 2009.
Ariana Maki, accepted a position with the curatorial department of the National Museum of Bhutan in Paro, Bhutan effective October 2009.
Ph.D. Candidate Sarah Getzelman received a Philanthropic Educational Organization Fellowship for 2009-2010.
Graduate student Anastasia Nurre won the Sixteenth Century Society's Carl S. Meyer Prize for her paper, "Among the Philippists: The Identification of a Magdeburg Patrician in a Lutheran Confessional Epitaph." The Meyer Prize is "awarded annually for the best paper delivered at the Society's yearly meeting by a scholar who is still in graduate school or has earned the Ph.D. in the last five years."
Ph.D. candidate Ariana Maki has been appointed Curatorial Fellow at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City. This is the only museum in the world devoted solely to the arts of the greater Himalayan sphere, essentially Tibet, Bhutan, Mongolia and Nepal.
Ph.D. candidate Yanfei Zhu was awarded an internship in the Asian Art Department at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota Bay, Florida for the summer 2008. He worked as a curatorial assistant planning exhibitions and doing research on the recently enriched Asian Art collections.
Ariana Maki was awarded an OIA Travel Grant for dissertation research in Bhutan.
Yanfei Zhu was selected to receive the 2008 Atsushi Onoe Scholarship Award from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL). This award supports OSU students pursuing the study of the Japanese language and culture.
Ph.D. candidate Sarah Getzelman was awarded a College of the Arts Student International Matching Travel Grant to conduct research in India.
Ph.D. candidate Robert Calhoun was awarded both a College of the Arts Student International Matching Travel Grant to conduct research in Russia and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship to study Russian at Moscow State University.
Graduate student Katie Rask was accepted into the Regular Year Program at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and has been awarded a fellowship from the School to attend.
Congratulations to Eliza Ho on winning a 2008 Presidential Fellowship; and to Ariana Maki for winning an AGGRS.
Ph.D. candidate Matthew Baumann was awarded a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens for the 2008-09 academic year. Matthew will be preparing his thesis on the imagery of poet cults in ancient Greece.
Graduate student Eliza Ho was awarded a Mershon Center Student Travel Grant in support of research on her Ph.D. thesis entitled "War, Propaganda and Photography: The Chinese Photographer Sha Fei (1912-1950)."
Recent Graduate Student Publications
Ariana Maki, "In the Dragon’s Wake: Bhutanese Art in the Rubin Museum of Art Collection," Arts of Asia, (forthcoming, March/April 2010).
Amanda Gluibizzi, The Handbook of Art + Design Librarianship for Higher Education, (forthcoming, 2010).
Eliza Ho, Entries on the History of Documentary Photography, the History of Propaganda Photography, the History of Pictorial Magazines since the 1880s, the Fan Changjiang, and the Lignan School of Painting in the Encyclopedia of Modern China edited by David Pong (forthcoming 2009).
Ariana Maki, Contributing author to exhibition catalogue Mandala: The Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism, ed. Martin Brauen. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2009.
Sarah Getzelman, "Forbidden Image: The 1996 Chinese Ban on Images of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama" Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, 8, no. 1, (Winter 2008),
p. 44-55.
Greer Pagano's review of the Giorgio Morandi exhibition that was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall and the Museo d'Arte Moderno di Bologna this spring has been published on the CAA reviews website.
Undergraduate Student News
Wensie Cange and Hayley Leventhal were recipients of the Arts and Sciences Excellence in Scholarship Award for Arts and Humanities.
Staff News
Visual Resources Curator Stepanie Bernhardt was the recipient of a 2008 Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award. The selection committee cited Stephanie's "extraordinarily fine leadership," and noted that the Visual Resources Library had been characterized as a "world-class facility" by the team of external evaluators who visited the Department last year.
Visual Resources Associate Curator Michelle Maguire was the recipient of a 2008 College of the Arts Staff Professional Development Grant.
Visual Resources Associate Curator Michelle Maguire was the recipient of a 2009 College of the Arts Staff Professional Development Grant.
Visual Resources Associate Curator Michelle Maguire participated in Safety is of the Lord, a 2-person photography and painting exhibition at Chop Chop Gallery, April 17 thru May 11, 2009.
Alumni News
Rui Zhang, Ph.D. (2005), who is currently working for Sotheby's in Beijing, has just published The Cinema of Feng Xiaogang: Commercialization and Censorship in Chinese Cinema after 1989 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008).
Kuiyi Shen, Ph.D. (2000), has been promoted to full professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California - San Diego. During the 2008/9 academic year he will be Hulsewe-Wazniewski Professor of Archeology, Art & Material Culture of China at the Sinological Institute of Leiden University.
Dorothy Bokelman has been granted tenure and promotion in the Department of Art at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York.
Wendy McPeters Schaller has been granted tenure and promotion in the Department of Art Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio.
Rita Tekippe has been granted tenure and promotion in the Department of Art/ Art History at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia.
James Voorhies, M.A. (1995), has been named Director of Exhibtions at the Columbus College of Art & Design.
Marian Mazzone, Ph.D. (1997), has been appointed Chair of the Art History Department at the College of Charleston, South Carolina.