Kevin Murphy and Alumna Mary Anne Hunting Explore Networks and Archives of the Cambridge School

Kevin Murphy, department chair and professor of history of art, and Mary Anne Hunting, Vanderbilt alumna (BA’80) and independent scholar, New York City, jointly presented a paper at the annual symposium of The International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) held March 20-22 in the School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech. Their talk,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 25, 2019 in Conferences, Events, HART, Lectures, News, Student/Alumni, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Vivien Fryd Talks About Her Latest Book in Patmos

“The #MeToo movement has had a sweeping effect on politics, organized religion, educational institutions, Hollywood, sports and the military. The cultural grip might be recent. The movement, however, is not,” said Vivien Fryd, professor of history of art, in a June 23 talk in Patmos, Greece. Fryd was invited to speak about her latest book,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 25, 2019 in HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Christopher Johns Delivers Lecture at Southeast University in Nanjing

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, was invited to lecture in early June at Southeast University in Nanjing, People’s Republic of China. His lecture,  “Chinoiserie: Europe Imagines China from the Late Baroque to Romanticism,” investigated the trajectory of chinoiserie, works by European artists inspired or influenced by the example…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 24, 2019 in HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Betsey Robinson Leads Vanderbilt Tour from Rome to Sicily and Malta

Betsey Robinson, acting chair and associate professor of history of art, grew up in Massachusetts and began her archaeological career with deep-sea exploration between mainland Italy and Sicily and work in paleontology and history of science. This month Robinson, a Mellon Faculty Fellow in Digital Humanities, is returning to the Mediterranean to introduce Vanderbilt alumni…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 20, 2019 in Events, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Christopher Johns Publishes Essay on Maria Tibaldi Subleyras

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, has written an essay, “Making History at the Capitoline Museum: Maria Tibaldi Subleyras’s Christ in the House of Simon the Pharisee,” which was published this year in Eighteenth-Century Studies (Volume 52, Number 2). Johns wrote this essay in memory of Mary D. Sheriff—“scholar,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 20, 2019 in HART, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Art of the Book Exhibit Currently On View in Cohen Atrium

An imaginative, vibrant exhibit on view through mid-July in the atrium-level display cases of Cohen Memorial Hall are the handmade books created and decorated by the students of Elizabeth Moodey, associate professor of history of art, for her HART 2288 course, Art of the Book. “Illuminated manuscript (literally “handwritten”) books are arguably the most characteristic…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 18, 2019 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, News, Student/Alumni, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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HART Graduate Maris Paden Travels on a Downing Grant to View Vigée Le Brun’s Paintings

I had the honor of receiving a 2019 Downing Grant to supplement my research for the advanced seminar, HART4960: Art & Politics during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era. My focus was the career of the eighteenth-century French painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun during her stay in Italy. The Downing grant enabled me to travel to…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 14, 2019 in HART, News, Student/Alumni, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Rebecca VanDiver Receives 2019 Millard Meiss Publication Fund Award

Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American art, recently received a Millard Meiss Publication Fund Award. Two times each year, the College Art Association (CAA) awards grants to publishers in art history and visual culture to support presses in the publication of projects of the highest scholarly and intellectual merit that may not generate adequate financial…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 14, 2019 in HART, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Features Ceramics of Susan DeMay June 13-September 13

Susan DeMay began pursuing ceramics as a graduate student at what was then called the George Peabody College for Teachers, where she studied art from 1977 to 1979. After earning her M.S. degree and establishing a pottery studio of her own, she was invited to return to the Vanderbilt campus to teach. Nearly forty years later,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 11, 2019 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Matthew Worsnick to Present Paper at Université Libre de Bruxelles

Partly inspired by the publication of Jan Gross’s book Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland more than fifteen years ago, historians, social scientists, linguists and other observers of eastern Europe have recently produced exciting studies about coexistence, conflict and why violence unfolds in specific spaces at precise moments. They seek to…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 11, 2019 in Conferences, Events, HART, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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