Leonard Folgarait Edits Book on Mexican Muralism

A multi-author volume that deals critically and from a variety of thematic perspectives with Mexican mural painting—its problems, achievements, failures, and legacy—became the project of three editors and contributors: Leonard Folgarait, professor of history of art, Vanderbilt University; Alejandro Anreus, professor of art history and Latin American/Latino Studies, William Paterson University; and Robin Adèle Greeley,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 27, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Christopher Johns to Lecture at Pierpont Morgan Library

Christopher M. S. Johns, Norman and Roselea Goldberg Professor of History of Art, will lecture on Piranesi and the Warwick Vase: Image, Text, Fragments and Fictions in European Neoclassicism at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York on March 4. The lecture is part of a symposium devoted to artist’s letters. The Morgan Library has…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 26, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Tim Winters to Lecture on the Parthenon Marbles in Nashville

Tim Winters, professor of classics in the department of languages and literature, Austin Peay State University, will deliver the American Institute of Archaeology lecture on Tuesday, February 26, at 7 p.m. at the Nashville Parthenon in Centennial Park. His lecture is entitled “Belle Kinney, Leopold Scholz, and the Parthenon Marbles in Nashville.” Winters (Ph.D., Ohio…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 25, 2013 in Events, HART, VRC

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Alexandra Carpino To Deliver the Cinelli Lecture on February 5

Alexandra Carpino, professor of art history and department chair of comparative cultural studies at Northern Arizona University, will deliver the American Institute of Archaeology’s annual Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology on Tuesday, February 5, at 7 p.m. at the Nashville Parthenon in Centennial Park. Carpino’s lecture, Etruscan Faces: From the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 30, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Courtney Martin To Present Film Documentary on British Pop Artists

Courtney Martin, assistant professor of history of art, will present Ken Russell’s Pop Goes The Easel on Monday, February 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Sarratt Cinema. Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor focuses on four British pop artists—Peter Blake, Peter Philips, Pauline Boty, and Derek Boshier. Revolutionary in his approach, Russell…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 30, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Vivien Fryd Organizes International Conference in Berlin

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, has organized an international conference on American icons and monuments to be held January 25 at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Fryd, the Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art, will deliver the keynote address: “The Statue of Liberty: A Chameleon-Like Hollow…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 17, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Peter Parshall To Deliver Goldberg Lecture on January 24

Peter Parshall, curator of old master prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, from 1999 to 2010, will present the spring 2013 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, January 24, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. His lecture is titled The Concept of Aesthetic Disinterest: G….

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 14, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Mark di Suvero Exhibit Opens January 17 in Fine Arts Gallery

Mark di Suvero—Affinities, on view through February 28, celebrates Vanderbilt’s recent acquisition of Tumbleweed (1987), di Suvero’s monumental sculpture now installed on the grounds of the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center on the main campus. The exhibit opens Thursday, January 17, in the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery in Cohen Hall, with a reception from…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 7, 2013 in Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC

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Book Explores Illuminated Manuscripts of Crusader History

Elizabeth J. Moodey, assistant professor of the history of art, considers Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy from 1419 to 1467, as a patron of history writing and of illuminated manuscripts in her new book entitled Illuminated Crusader Histories for Philip the Good of Burgundy (Brepols Publishers, 2012). Among Moodey’s interests are the history of…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 4, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Lecture on Faith Ringgold in Paris on December 6

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, will lecture on “The Transgenerational Trauma of Slavery in Faith Ringgold’s Slave Rape Story Quilt ” in Paris on December 6 at the Terra Foundation for American Art Europe. Fryd is currently the Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Faith Ringgold’s…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on November 26, 2012 in Events, HART, VRC

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