Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Undergraduate research and digital humanities storytelling at center of new library exhibit: "The only thing missing from a new digital humanities exhibit in the entrance of Perkins Library about the glories of Venice is the present-day sight and smell of the canals that carry people throughout this remarkable floating city. Otherwise, the exhibit produced by four Duke undergraduate students working with Professor Kristin Huffman and an international team of digital storytellers immerses visitors so they can experience the… read more about Senses of Venice Exhibit »
The only thing missing from a new digital humanities exhibit in the entrance of Perkins Library about the glories of Venice is the present-day sight and smell of the canals that carry people throughout this remarkable floating city. Otherwise, the exhibit produced by four Duke undergraduate students working with Professor Kristin Huffman and an international team of digital storytellers immerses visitors so they can experience the city as European visitors did in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. In doing so, the exhibit… read more about Senses of Venice: Lavish Parties, Great Conversations and Lots of Canals »
Assistant professor Susanna Caviglia has been appointed to the position of Field Editor for 18th-Century Art for caa.reviews, effective July 1, 2019. http://www.caareviews.org/ read more about Faculty Editorial Appointment »
April 25-May 12, 2019 The 2019 End-of-Year Student Exhibition has three venues this year: Smith Warehouse (Bays 9-12), the Rubenstein Arts Center (Agora Gallery and 2nd Floor Gallery), and Cucciola Osteria restaurant (601 W. Main Street, Suite C, Durham). The exhibition presents works by 120 students from the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and the Program in Information Science + Studies (ISS). read more about 2019 End-of-Year Student Exhibition »
Auguste Raffet, Gâres les Albums, 1828 Kathryn Desplanque (Ph.D. '17) published a chapter entitled "A Physiology of the Inglorious Artist in early 19th-century Paris" in The Mediatization of the Artist, edited by Rachel Esner and Sandra Kisters, 2018. In June 2019, she will conclude her Carolina Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity at UNC Chapel Hill. In July 2019, Desplanque will begin a Banting Post-Doctoral Fellowship hosted in the Art History department at Carleton… read more about Kathryn Desplanque (Ph.D. '17) »
Cesare Lombroso Doctoral student Patricia Bass published “Cesare Lombroso and the Anarchists” in the Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 13, no. 1, 2019, pp. 19-42. www.jstor.org read more about Journal for the Study of Radicalism »
Wired! Lab faculty and staff presented the session, “Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D GeoSpatial Networks” at the College Art Association annual meeting in New York in February. Organized by associate research professor Victoria Szabo, who also spoke in the session, other speakers from the Wired! Lab included Hannah Jacobs, digital humanities specialist; Mark Olson, assistant professor of the practice; and Ed Triplett, instructor. Paul Jaskot, professor and director of the Wired! Lab, was a respondent. In summer… read more about Wired! Lab at CAA »
Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld has been reappointed Dean of Humanities for Trinity College of Arts & Sciences for a second, three-year term. A professor of art history and visual studies, Weisenfeld joined Duke’s faculty in 1998. She served two years on the Advisory Committee for Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure, and six years as the director of graduate studies for the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies prior to her tenure as dean. Her scholarship focuses on modern and contemporary Japanese art… read more about Weisenfeld Reappointed Dean of Humanities »
Neil McWilliam will be the Van Gogh Museum Visiting Fellow in the History of 19th Century Art at the Van Gogh Museum and the University of Amsterdam in June 2019. He will be leading a seminar on Tradition and Identity: The Nation in 19th-Century Art. The aim of the Van Gogh Fellow’s seminar is to provide MA students with the opportunity to study a single yet wide-ranging subject in nineteenth-century art through an intensive one-week workshop taught by a leading scholar in the field and supported by the Van Gogh Museum. The… read more about Van Gogh Fellow »
Neil McWilliam, the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Art and Art History, will serve as the interim Dean of Humanities for 2019-20 while Dean of Humanities Gennifer Weisenfeld is on leave. McWilliam served as interim chair for AAHVS during 2017-2018 and was the director of undergraduate studies for three years prior. His research focuses on the visual culture of 19th- and early 20th-century France, and particularly on public sculpture, the Academy, art criticism, and the interrelationship between aesthetics and… read more about McWilliam to Serve as Interim Dean of Humanities 2019-20 »
Beverly McIver, Esbenshade Professor of the Practice, had a solo exhibition of paintings, “Souls of Mine: New Works by Beverly McIver, at C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore. The show ran from February 28-April 6, 2019. Of McIver’ work, art critic and art historian Irving Sandler noted: “McIver has made the expressionist tradition her own by funneling her life with urgency, painting autobiographical images in an authentic and distinctive style that are at once psychological and social.” read more about Souls of Mine »
Two faculty members published articles in a special themed issue of Visual Resources 34 (2019) on digital art history: Sequence of changes to the west façade of the Cathedral of Sant’Andrea at Amalfi. Left: Martinus Rorbye, 1835, from M. Ricciardi, La Costa d’Amalfi nella pittura dell’Ottocento (Salerno, 1998), plate 358; center: Robert Wimmer, 1851, Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; right: Karl August Wrede, 1859, Hannover, Niedersächsische Landesmuseum, Hannover. Caroline Bruzelius, Anne… read more about Visual Resources Journal »
Professor Paul Jaskot presented “Visualizing Krakow under Nazi Occupation: Exploring Digital and Analog Methods to Analyze the Built Environment” on February 7, 2019 at Columbia University, sponsored by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities. Krakow became a key location within the National Socialist plan for military expansion and the implementation of genocide in Eastern Europe during World War II. Here Hans Frank and the General Government he led developed their policies of oppression and occupation by establishing a… read more about Visualizing Krakow Under Nazi Occupation »
Villa in Asmara Professor Paul Jaskot and Mark Antliff, Anne Murnick Cogan Professor of Art and Art History, co-organized the session, Global Fascism, at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in February. The study of fascism in art history has its roots in the (originally marginalized) interest of leftist art historians of the 1960s and 1970s in the topic of art in Italy and German under fascist regimes. Since then, while not exactly mainstream, the relationship of art to fascist politics and ideology has… read more about Global Fascism »
Paul Jaskot, professor of art, art history and visual studies, co-organized with Robert M. Ehrenreich Visualization and the Holocaust: A Symposium, held on January 17-18, 2019 at the Nasher Museum of Art. The symposium was co-sponsored by the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies (Duke University) and The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum). Additional support was provided by the Nasher Museum of Art; Office of the Dean, Trinity… read more about Visualization and the Holocaust »
Piazza San Marco. Detail, Jacopo de’ Barbari and Anton Kolb, View of Venice, c. 1497-1500. Kristin Huffman, lecturing fellow of art, art history and visual studies, presented “A Portrait of a City: Jacopo de' Barbari's View of Venice (1500)” as part of the Cultural Heritage Imaging Symposium, April 6, 2019 at Florida State University. Participating archaeologists, art historians, and digital artists presented their work in photogrammetry, digital animation, LiDAR scanning, and historical… read more about Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice »
Hugo Rivera-Scott, Pop América, 1968. Collage on cardboard, 30 x 21.5 inches (76.5 x 54.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist. © Hugo Rivera-Scott. Photo by Jorge Brantmayer. Esther Gabara, E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies and associate professor of art, art history and visual studies, curated Pop América, 1965-1975, which opened at the Nasher Museum on February 21, 2019 after previously opening on October 4, 2018, in San Antonio, Texas, at the McNay Art Museum. Gabara presented… read more about Pop América »
After the devastating fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on April 15, Anne Murnick Cogan Professor Emerita Carolina Bruzelius, an expert on medieval architecture, was interviewed by various media outlets. On the day of the fire she appeared on NPR and NBC. The following day she was interviewed by CNN and later by Foreign Policy, as well as others.npr.org/2019/04/15/713616843nbcnews.com/news/worldforeignpolicy.com/2019/04/16https://youtu.be/4SF5ujSFn6Q After the fire, Duke Today posted an article about “Why the Cathedral… read more about Notre-Dame de Paris »
Two departmental faculty received 2019 Intellectual Community Planning Grants. Mark Olson, assistant professor of the practice, is part of a group that will bring together faculty who are interested in the rapid scale-up of research in the biomedical sciences, data and computational sciences, and environmental sciences as well as the increasing overlap of science and technology studies, medical humanities, and environmental humanities. Members aim to build a network of Duke and Triangle faculty and foster linked research… read more about Intellectual Community Planning Grants »
Doctoral candidate Anita N. Bateman has received a 2019 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Bateman was the only fellow in the field of art history among 67 awards. Her dissertation topic is Ethiopia in Focus: Photography, Nationalism, Diaspora, and Modernization. The fellowship provides a $30,000 stipend and up to $8,000 in research funds and university fees to advanced graduate students in their final year of dissertation writing. The program, which is made possible by a grant from The… read more about Doctoral candidate receives Mellon/ACLS fellowship »
Exploring Pop Art From Across The Americas on "The State of Things" By Amanda Magnus & Frank Stasio Many people associate pop art with American artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, but there were many contributions to the movement from outside the borders of the United States, notably from Latin American artists. A new exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University called “Pop América, 1965-1975” shares the work of artists from the Americas, from Tierra del Fuego up to Anchorage. … read more about Curator Esther Gabara on WUNC radio »
Bill Fick has seen where Duke’s arts programs have been and where they’re going. Lecturing Fellow in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Assistant Director for Visual and Studio Arts, Rubenstein Arts Center, Fick attended Duke in the 1980s, where he majored in art. At the time, the department was far from a focal point on campus, both geographically – it was housed in a small building in a far-flung corner of East Campus – and in terms of stature – Fick estimates that the number for art majors at the… read more about Blue Devil of the Week: Seeing the Vision in Art »
Analyzing Space and Place with Digital Methods and Geographical, Textual, and Visual Sources January 17-18, 2019 Nasher Museum of Art and Wired! Lab for Digital Art History & Visual CultureDuke University Co-Sponsored by The Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies (Duke University) and The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)Duke Sponsors: Nasher Museum of Art; Office of the Dean, Trinity… read more about Symposium and Workshop: Visualization and the Holocaust »
Rebecca van Diver (Ph.D. ’13), assistant professor of African American art at Vanderbilt University, published "The Diasporic Connotations of Collage: Loïs Mailou Jones in Haiti, 1954-1964" in American Art (journals.uchicago.edu) and "Art Matters: Howard University's Department of Art from 1921 to 1971" in Callaoo (muse.jhu.edu). Loïs Mailou Jones, Cockfight, 1960. Mixed media on board, 29 × 25 in. Location unknown. Reproduced from Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, The Life… read more about Recent Alumni Publications »
Carrie Mae Weems Doctoral candidate Anita Bateman has received a Carr Center Independent Scholars Fellowship with resident artist Carrie Mae Weems. Weems is one of the most respected and highly recognized names among visual artists today. ISF is a program designed to provide opportunities for early career artists and art historians to access, and work alongside nationally and internationally renowned artists of color. The Carr Center resident artist in visual art, Carrie Mae Weems, will create a vital, dynamic, and one-of-… read more about Independent Scholars Fellowship »
9th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2018 Two prints by Merrill Shatzman, professor emerita of the practice of printmaking, were included in the 9th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2018 held in Douro Portugal from August 10-October 31-2018. The exhibition, curated by Nuno Canelas, includes fourteen hundred works of seven hundred artists from seventy different countries. Due to the size of the exhibition, fourteen exhibition venues in Alijó, Bragança, Celeirós, Chaves,… read more about Merrill Shatzman recent exhibitions »
Raquel Salvatella de Prada, Cornered, 2018.Cornered, a video installation by assistant professor of the practice of art Raquel Salvatella de Prada, ran from September 27 to October 17, 2018, and extended the Nasher Museum’s In Transit exhibition to the Rubenstein Arts Center. It represented the motivation and struggles of African immigrants leaving their home country and making an attempt—most often failed—to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish cities of Melilla and Ceuta, the only… read more about Cornered »
Food Matters Tom Rankin, Cleveland, Mississippi, 2008, photograph. Professor of the practice of documentary art Tom Rankin’s article and photographs on “Food Matters” appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of Southern Cultures.southerncultures.orgPropitious Wind and Rain Tom Rankin, Bacheng Fishmarket, December, 2016, photograph.Propitious Wind and Rain, which runs from November 4, 2018 to February 17, 2019 in the Photography Gallery of the Rubenstein… read more about Tom Rankin recent exhibitions »
Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History, has been named the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, for spring 2019. The Safra Visiting professor is “a six-month appointment of a scholar who advances his or her own research on subjects associated with the Gallery's permanent collection.” About CASVA: Since its inception in 1979, CASVA has promoted the study of the history, theory, and criticism of… read more about CASVA Professorship »
Paul Jaskot presented, “The Art Historical Promissory Note: Evidence and Narrative in Digital Art History,” at a Clark Art Institute workshop on the topic of “Evidence and Narrative in Writing Visual Histories” on September 21, 2018 at the Clark Institute. read more about The Art Historical Promissory Note »