News Stories
Professor Lisa Florman has been awarded a College of the Arts Research Grant Level I to continue her work on Wassily Kandinsky in Paris.
The following History of Art faculty have been awarded Grants for Research and Creative Activity in the Arts and Humanities this year: Julia Andrews, with Christopher Reed (Department of History), for "Picturing Utopia: Visual Iconography of Chinese Socialist Realism" ($30,000); Myroslava Mudrak for "The Symbolist Quest: In Search of a Lost Chapter in the History of Ukrainian Modern Art" ($10,000); and Andrew Shelton for "Achille Devéria: Art, Identity and Commerce in Early 19th-Century Paris" ($10,000).
Associate Professor and Chair Andrew Shelton has been named the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Howard Crane has been named a recipient of the Harlan Hatcher Memorial Award for Excellence from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences for 2007-2008. The Hatcher Awards are "presented in recognition of distinguished, sustained, and balanced achievements in the areas of teaching, research, and service. The purpose of the awards is to honor those individuals in the Arts and Sciences who, over a period of years, have developed a noteworthy profile, with exceptional strength in research and teaching, and who serve
as role models for younger colleagues and students."
Recent Faculty Publications
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.
Julia 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, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2007, pp. 21-37.
Julia Andrews, "Reordering the Landscape: Li Huayi, Zhang Hong, and Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting," in Kuiyi Shen and Feng Bin eds., Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale (International Symposium, 2007), pp. 66-73.
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.
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).
Timothy J. McNiven, "Behaving Like a Child: Immature Gestures in Athenian Vase Painting, " in A. Cohen and J. Rutter, eds, Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (American School of Classical Studies, 2007) pp. 85-99.
Mudrak, Myroslava, M., "Malevich and his Ukranian Contemporaries," in Charlotte Douglas and Christina Lodder, "Rethinking Malevich: Proceedings of a Conference in Celebration of the 125th Anniversary of Kazimir Malevich's Birth," London: Pindar Press, 2007, pp. 82–120.
Stephen Melville, "What is Research in the Visual Arts?", Obsession, Archive, Encounter Symposium at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, April 27–28, 2007, caa.reviews, August 8, 2007.
Okechukwu Odita, "The Master Artist and the Masterpiece in Contemporary African Art: Veils, Values and Civic Responsibility of the African Art Historian," in Africa e Mediterraneo: Cultura e Societa, 58, no. 4 (2006), pp. 55–60.
Barbara Groseclose, Review of Hermione de Almeida and George H. Gilpin, Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006, in caa.reviews, April 19, 2007.
Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen, "The Traditionalist Response to Modernity: The Chinese Painting Society of Shanghai," in Jason C. Kuo, ed., Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s, Washington, D.C.: New Academia Publishing, 2007, pp. 79-93.
Recent and Upcoming Faculty Lectures
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.
Christian Kleinbub, "Raphael's Transfiguration as Visio-Devotional Program," San Diego Museum of Art, April 18, 2008.
Francesca Tronchin, "Understanding Eclecticism in the Houses of the Vesuvian Region," Stanford University Archaeology Center, April 5, 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.
Susan Huntington, "Art as Text, Art as Document: Understanding Buddhism Through Art", The Gonda Lecture, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, December 7, 2007.
Barbara Groseclose, "Model Citizens: The Drawings of George Caleb Bingham", St. Louis Art Museum, December 6, 2007.
Christian Kleinbub, "The Association of Prophecy and Artistic Imagination in High Renaissance Art," at the international symposium Art/Text/Imagination: The Unrepresentable in Early Modern Culture, Northwestern University, November 29-30, 2007.
Julia Andrews, "Remaking Tradition for the Revolution: Chinese Painting Since 1949," at the M. Victor Leventritt symposium Chinese Painting: The Twentieth Century and Beyond, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, November 3, 2007.
Julia Andrews, "Why Art History?" (delivered in Chinese), Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan, October 26, 2007.
Barbara Haeger, "Images, Meditational Prayer, and the Experience of Divine Presence," Faith and Fantasy in the Early Modern World, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, October 19-20, 2007.
Julia Andrews, Japanese Oil Paintings in the First Chinese National Art Exhibition of 1929 and the Development of Asian Modernism," at the workshop The Role of Japan in the Institutional Development of Modern Chinese Art, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taiwan, October 19, 2007.
Tim McNiven, "Significant Others: The Construction of Identity in Greek Art," Ohio University, October 17, 2007.
Julia Andrews, "Chonggou shanshui: Li Huayi, Zhang Hong, yu ershi shiji zhongguo huihua" (delivered in English as "Reconstructed Landscape: Li Huayi, Zhang Hong, and Modern Chinese Painting"), at the international symposium in conjunction with Reboot: The Third Chengdu Bienniale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, September 12, 2007.
Julia Andrews, participant, Scenes and Visions: Approaches to 20th-Century Chinese Visual Culture, University of Southern California, April 6-27, 2007.
Graduate Student News
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
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.
Lauran Whitworth, "The Commodification of Culture: Japanese Ganguro and Iona Rozeal Brown's Geishas," as part of "The Art of Persuasion," the 18th Annual Indiana University Art History Association Graduate Student Symposium, March 29, 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.
Chet Domitz, M.A. student, "Imposing Horizons: Community Building and the Imagery of Social Revolutions," 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.
Graduate Associate Teaching Award Nominations Announcement
The Graduate Associate Teaching Award nominations have been announced and the History of Art Department is proud to learn that three of our Teaching Associates have been nominated for the 2008 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA). The review process is rather long and arduous and the final competition for the 10 awards promises to be fierce, but, as Dean Osmer rightly notes in his letter to the nominees, "being nominated is, in and of itself, a great tribute."
Our nominees are:
Sean Delouche
Jennifer Getson
Laurie Kilker
The History of Art Department is proud of their accomplishments and offers congratulations to our most deserving TAs.
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
Graduate Student Sarah Getzelman has been awarded a College of the Arts Student International Matching Travel Grant to conduct research in India.
Ph.D. candidate Robert Calhoun has been awarded a College of the Arts Student International Matching Travel Grant to conduct research in Russia.
Ph.D. candidate Robert Calhoun has been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship to study Russian at Moscow State University this summer.
Graduate student Katie Rask has been 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 has been 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.
Ph.D. candidate Yanfei Zhu has been 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 will work as a curatorial assistant planning exhibitions and doing research on the recently enriched Asian Art collections.
Having just completed a year as a Fulbright Fellow in Riga, Lithuania, Ph.D. candidate Maruta Vitols has been awarded a P.E.O. Scholar award for the 2007-2008 academic year. Since its founding in 1869, the P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization) and its quarter of a million members in the U.S. and Canada have promoted women in their pursuit of higher education through various funds and awards. The P.E.O. Scholar Awards are given to women in recognition of their outstanding academic achievement and for their potential to make a significant contribution in their field. Maruta will receive $10,000 to use towards the completion of her dissertation and degree.
Matthew Baumann has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the American School in Athens for the 2007-2008 academic year. In addition to participating in the regular program of the American School, Matthew will also be engaged in the completion of a project that examines the Vandal invasion of Athens in the fifth century.
Ph.D. candidate Laurie Kilker has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship by the Graduate School for the 2007-2008 academic year. This fellowship will provide her with a monthly stipend as well as money to travel to present her research publicly. Kilker has also been accepted to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens as an Associate Member for 2007-2008. She will be completing resesarch on her dissertation entitled "Dining like Divinities: Evidence for Ritual and Marital Dining by Women in Ancient Greece."
Ph.D. candidate Amy-Ruth Holt also won a Presidential Fellowship, as well as an Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS), to complete her study of dance iconography in the Nataraja Temple in Tamil Nadu.
Other AGGRS recipients from History of Art include David Efurd and Eliza Ho.
Graduate student Eliza Ho has been 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)."
Graduate students Ariana Maki and Brid Arthur are among twelve students in North America selected for participation in the Tibet Site Seminar offered through Princeton University. This interdisciplinary program brings together advanced doctoral students with highly accomplished professors from Europe, Asia and the United States, all of whom study some aspect of Tibetan culture or history. Their group will travel through central and western Tibet for a month during the summer of 2007, visiting those sites most significant to the study of Buddhism and its related art. Over the course of this seminar, each student will produce an individual research paper for presentation at a conference scheduled for March 2008 at Princeton University.
Undergraduate News
History of Art undergraduate Mollie Dezern earned an honorable mention at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies' end-of-the-year celebrations as the runner-up for the Center's annual "best OSU undergraduate essay on a topic of Medieval or Renaissance history or culture." Mollie's essay was written for Assistant Professor Christian Kleinbub's winter quarter class, High Renaissance and Mannerist Art, and offered a sophisticated analysis of Il Sodoma's "St. Sebastian." The judges emphasized that the paper's elegant exposition came very close to winning the first prize.
History of Art majors Jessica Ann Daniel and Megan Elizabeth Wiegand have been invited to join Ohio State's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most prestigious undergraduate honor organization (Spring 2007).
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Alumni News
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.