Andrew Graciano To Deliver Goldberg Lecture on September 26

Andrew Graciano, associate professor of art history, associate chair and graduate director in the department of art, University of South Carolina, will present the fall 2013 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, September 26, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. His lecture is titled Joseph Wright’s Academy by…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 3, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Features Hans Hinterreiter Through September 12

Paintings of the Swiss abstractionist Hans Hinterreiter are on view through Thursday, September 12, in the Fine Arts Gallery located in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus. The exhibition, titled Hans Hinterreiter: A Theory of Form and Color, covers almost fifty years of Hinterreiter’s artistic career. The earliest works in the exhibition are tempera…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 30, 2013 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Sacred Ecology Symposium Organized by History of Art, Anthropology Professors

Sacred Ecology: Landscape Transformations for Ritual Practice, an all-day symposium organized by Betsey Robinson, associate professor of history of art and classical studies, Tracy Miller, associate professor of history of art and Asian studies, and John Janusek, associate professor of anthropology, will be held on Friday, August 30, at the Sarratt Student Center. Hosted by…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 27, 2013 in Events, HART, VRC

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Betsey Robinson Receives Chancellor’s Award For Research

Betsey Robinson, associate professor in the departments of history of art and classical studies, received the Chancellor’s Award for Research at the Vanderbilt Fall Faculty Assembly on August 22. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos recognized Robinson for her groundbreaking research in classical archaeology and art history, citing her monograph, Histories of Peirene: A Corinthian Fountain in…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 23, 2013 in HART, VRC

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HART Department Welcomes New Faculty This Fall

The fall semester always brings new faces and new courses into our midst, among them, two faculty members who recently joined Vanderbilt’s History of Art Department: Halle O’Neal, Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian Art, and Rebecca VanDiver, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History. O’Neal (University of Georgia, B.A.; University of Kansas, M.A., Ph.D.)…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 21, 2013 in HART, VRC

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Swiss Abstractionist Hans Hinterreiter on View in Fine Arts Gallery

Swiss Abstractionist Hans Hinterreiter is the focus of the latest Fine Arts Gallery exhibition, which opens on Tuesday, July 9, in Cohen Memorial Hall. Hans Hinterreiter: A Theory of Form and Color will be on view through September 12. Free and open to the public, the gallery currently observes summer viewing hours: Tuesday through Friday,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on July 8, 2013 in VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Present Talk to Berlin Historical Association

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art, will give a talk in Berlin entitled A Non-Fictional Thriller: Henry Ries, the Quakers, the State Department and My Mother’s Dramatic Rescue from Nazi Germany. Fryd, niece of the New York Times photographer Henry Ries (1917-2004), will address the Berlin Historical Association on June 25 at the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 25, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Christopher Johns to Lecture in Rome at International Conference

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, will present a research paper on chinoiserie at the international conference “Torino Britannica,” held June 19-22 at the British School in Rome and the Centro di Studi di Venaria Reale in Turin. This interdisciplinary conference will examine a neglected aspect of eighteenth-century Grand…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 21, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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HART Professors to Lecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing

Betsey Robinson, associate professor of the history of art, and Tracy Miller, acting chair of the history of art department, will deliver comparative lectures on Thursday, May 23, in the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Their overarching topic is Sacred Landscapes Real and Imagined: Role Reversals in the Study of Pre-modern Greek and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 20, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Department to Honor HART Graduates at Reception on May 9

History of Art majors and minors and their families are invited to attend the department’s reception for our graduating seniors on Thursday, May 9, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. The event will be held in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus, and awards will be announced at 3:30 p.m. Graduates and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 8, 2013 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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