University of Buckingham, MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors
Partial studentships for the MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors at the University of Buckingham
Applications are invited for partial studentships for the MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors at the University of Buckingham to start in September 2014. This unique MA focuses on the development of interiors and decorative arts in England and France in the long eighteenth century (c.1660–c.1830) and their subsequent rediscovery and reinterpretation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The course is taught by the University of Buckingham, with contributions from leading international experts and curatorial staff from the Wallace Collection. A key element is the emphasis on the first-hand study of decorative arts within the context of historic interiors. There are frequent trips to collections in and around London, as well as a study week in Paris.
The programme provides a vocational and academic training which has enabled students to pursue careers in museums and galleries, auction houses, interior design, and institutions such as the National Trust and English Heritage.
Eligibility: applicants should hold a first or second class honours degree.
Informal enquiries can be made to the course director Jeremy Howard, Jeremy.howard@buckingham.ac.uk; the course tutor Dr Barbara Lasic, Barbara.lasic@buckingham.ac.uk; or Linda Waterman, Linda.waterman@buckingham.ac.uk.
Further details are available here»
Fellowships | Art History Fellowships at The Met
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art History Fellowships, 2014–15
Applications due by 1 November 2013
Art History Fellowships are offered for PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and senior museum professionals interested in furthering their scholarly research within one of the Museum’s curatorial departments. Working with supervisors and departmental staff, fellows are able to utilize the Museum’s collections as a way to expand their own research and dialogue about art in their field. Throughout their time at the Museum fellows may contribute to departmental projects that complement their research. They will also share their research at the spring fellows’ colloquia in which they give a brief presentation on their work in progress. All fellowships must take place between September 1, 2014, and August 31, 2015. The stipend amount for one year is $42,000 for senior fellows and $32,000 for pre-doctoral fellows, with up to an additional $6,000 for travel. Health care benefits are included.
Further information is available here»
Call for Essays | Terra Foundation for American Art Essay Prize
Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize
Submissions due by 15 January 2014
The Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize recognizes excellent scholarship by a non-U.S. scholar in the field of historical American art. Manuscripts should advance understanding of American art, demonstrating new findings and original perspectives. The prize-winning essay will be translated and published in American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s scholarly journal. The winner will receive a $1,000 cash award and a $3,000 travel stipend to give a presentation in Washington, D.C., and meet with museum staff and fellows. This prize is supported by funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
The aim of the award is to stimulate and actively support non-U.S. scholars working on American art topics, foster the international exchange of new ideas, and create a broad, culturally comparative dialogue on American art. Ph.D. candidates and above (or equivalent) are eligible to participate in the competition. Essays may focus on any aspect of historical (pre-1980) American art and visual culture; however, architecture and film studies are not eligible. Preference will be given to studies that address American art within a cross-cultural context and offer new ways of thinking about the material. A strong emphasis on visual analysis is encouraged. Manuscripts previously published in a foreign language are eligible if released within the last two years (please state the date and venue of the previous publication). Essays that have been published in English will not be considered. Authors are invited to submit their own work for consideration. We also urge scholars who know of eligible articles written by others to inform those authors of the prize.
The length of the essay (including endnotes) should be between 7,000 and 8,500 words and should include approximately 12 to 14 illustrations with figure references in the text. The essay should be submitted by e-mail as a Word file, accompanied by a PDF file containing all of the illustrations, along with captions that provide each object’s title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, and current location. All manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of 500 to 1,000 words written in English that: 1) clearly states the author’s thesis and the essay’s contribution to the field of American art, and 2) outlines the essay’s basic structure and methodology. A curriculum vitae should be included.
Submissions must be sent to TerraEssayPrize@si.edu by January 15, 2014. Questions or comments may be addressed to the same address.
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Note (added 20 June 2014) — The Smithsonian American Art Museum is pleased to announce that John Fagg, a lecturer in the school of English, drama, and American & Canadian studies at the University of Birmingham in England, is the winner of the 2014 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize. Fagg’s award-winning essay, “Bedpans and Gibson Girls: Clutter and Matter in John Sloan’s Graphic Art,” will appear in the 2015 volume of American Art (volume 29).
HBA Travel Award for Graduate Students
Historians of British Travel Award
Proposals due by 15 September 2013
The award is designated for a graduate student who will be presenting a paper on British art or visual culture at an academic conference in 2014. The award of $750 is intended to offset travel costs. Applicants must be current members of HBA. To apply, send a letter of request, a copy of the letter of acceptance from the organizer of the conference session, an abstract of the paper to be presented, a budget of estimated expenses (noting what items may be covered by other resources), and a CV to Renate Dohmen, Prize Committee Chair, HBA, brd4231@louisiana.edu. The deadline is September 15, 2013.
2012 Dissertation Listings
From caa.reviews:
Dissertation Listings
PhD dissertation authors and titles in art history and visual studies from US and Canadian institutions are published each year in caa.reviews. Titles can be browsed by subject category or year.
Titles are submitted once a year by each institution granting the PhD in art history and/or visual studies. Submissions are not accepted from individuals, who should contact their department chair or secretary for more information. Department chairs: please consult our dissertation submission guidelines for instructions. The annual deadline is January 15 for titles from the preceding year.
In 2003, CAA revised the subject area categories of art history and visual studies used for all our listings, including dissertations. These categories are listed in the Dissertation Submission Guidelines.
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The index for 2012 lists nine eighteenth-century dissertations completed, including:
• Currie, Christopher, “Art, Illusion, and Social Mobility in Eighteenth-Century France: Hyacinthe Rigaud and the Making of the Marquis de Gueidan” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sheriff)
• Ferng, Jennifer, “Nature’s Objects: Geology, Aesthetics, and the Understanding of Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France” (MIT, M. Jarzombek)
• Fripp, Jessica, “Portraits of Artists and the Social Commerce of Friendship in Eighteenth-Century France” (Michigan, S. Siegfried)
• Medakovich, Molly A., “Between Friends: Representations of Female Sociability in French Genre Painting, 1770–1830” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sheriff)
• Riggs, Marion, “Architectural Translations: Giuseppe Barberi (1746–1809) between Rome and Paris” (Princeton, J. Pinto)
and forty dissertations in progress, including:
• Beachdel, Thomas, “Landscape Aesthetics and the Sublime in France, 1750–1815” (CUNY, P. Mainardi)
• Bell, Andrea, “French Artist in Rome: An Examination of Eighteenth-Century Drawing Albums” (IFA/NYU, T. Crow)
• Chadwick, Esther, “The Radical Print: Experiments in Liberty, 1760–1830” (Yale, T. Barringer)
• Charuhas, Christina, “Constructing Eighteenth-Century Bermuda: Utopia in the Transatlantic Imagination” (Columbia, E. Hutchinson)
• Contogouris, Ersy, “Of Marble and Flesh: The Attitudes and Representations of Emma Hamilton” (Université de Montréal, T. Porterfield)
• Cox, Alison, “Images of Mourning and Melancholia in France, 1780–1830” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sheriff)
• Crawford, Katelyn D., “Transient Painters, Traveling Canvases: Portraiture and Mobility in the British Atlantic, 1750–1780” (Virginia, M. McInnis)
• Fox, Abram, “The Great House of Benjamin West: Family, Workshop, and National Identity in Late Georgian England” (Maryland, College Park, W. Pressly)
• Girard, Catherine, “Hallali! Hunting and the Violence of French Rococo Art, 1699–1755” (Harvard, E. Lajer-Burcharth)
• Gohmann, Joanna M., “Living Together: People and Their Animals in Eighteenth-Century French Art, 1700–1789” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sheriff)
• Knowles, Marika, “Pierrot’s Costume: Theater, Curiosity, and the Subject of Art in France, 1665–1860” (Yale, C. Armstrong)
• Laux, Barbara M., “Claude III Audran, Modern Ornemaniste of the Rococo Style” (CUNY, J. Sund)
• Lenhard, Danielle, “Reading with One Hand: Suggestive Folds and Subversive Consumption in Jean-Honore Fragonard’s ‘The Bolt’” (Stony Brook University, J. Monteyne)
• Logie, Rose, “The Self-Conscious Artist: The Strange Formality of Watteau’s Oeuvre” (Toronto, P. Sohm)
• Oliver, Elizabeth Lee, “Mercantile Aesthetics: Art, Science, and Diplomacy in French India (1664–1757)” (Northwestern, S. H. Clayson)
• Sezer, Yavuz, “The Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Library Movement: Architecture, Reading, and the Politics of Knowledge” (MIT, N. Rabbat)
• Smith, Hilary Coe, “The Role of the Auction Catalogue in the Growth of the Parisian Art Market, 1675–1789” (Duke, H. Van Miegroet)
• You, Ji Eun: “The Afterlife of Luxury: the Material Culture of Interior Furnishing during the French Revolution 1789-1795” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sheriff) [not included in the 2012 list at caa.reviews, this entry serves as a useful reminder that the list should not be understood to be comprehensive]
• Veen, Kasie, “The Spectacle of New Ruins in Britain and France, 1760–1840: Landscape Gardens and the Diorama” (UT Austin, M. Charlesworth)
• Viggiani, Daniela, “L’édition de L’Abecedario Pittorico de Pietro Maria Guarienti (1678–1753), une source pour l’histoire de l’art portugais” (Université de Montréal, L. De Moura Sobral)
• Wile, Aaron, “Charles de La Fosse and His Generation: Painting, Authority, and Experience at the Twilight of the Grand Siècle, 1680–1715” (Harvard, E. Lajer-Burcharth, H. Zerner)
AHRC Studentship | The Art of Longford Castle
From Birkbeck College:
Patronage, Acquisition and Display: Contextualising the Art
Collections of Longford Castle during the Long Eighteenth Century
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, The National Gallery and Birkbeck College
Applications due by 5 July 2013
Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD studentship researching the collecting and patronage of the Radnor family at Longford Castle during the long eighteenth century, drawing on both the collection itself and previously untapped archival material, largely housed at the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office. The National Gallery enjoys a unique relationship with Longford Castle, which has made full access to these resources newly possible. This project will make a significant contribution to the history of taste, collecting and the country house
in the long eighteenth century.
The studentship funding is subject to final confirmation by the AHRC but will be fully funded for three years full-time (or five years part-time) and will begin in October 2013. This project will be supervised by Dr Kate Retford, Senior Lecturer in History of Art (Birkbeck College, University of London) and Dr Susanna Avery-Quash, Research Curator in the History of Collecting at the National Gallery.
More information is available here»
Call for Papers | Cleveland Symposium for Graduate Students
39th Annual Cleveland Symposium | Splendor: Exploring Value in the History of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art, 11 October 2013
Proposals due by 1 June 2013
The 39th Annual Cleveland Symposium, to be held at the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 11, 2013, invites graduate submissions examining the theme of splendor in the visual arts. This symposium aims to explore how works of art are elevated to become objects that are prized or venerated. Specifically, in discussing the value afforded a work, we seek to further understand its historical context, materiality, visibility, agenda, and cultural significance, whether through the object’s physicality or representational function. The grandeur and renown of a work can also manifest itself through its associations, patrons, and/or esteemed artists. Possible topics might include:
– Material value of object(s), attributed upon creation or retroactively
– The use of costly or precious mediums and components
– Public, private, royal, and civic commissions
– Decorative arts
– Reliquaries and other objects with religious functions
– Artist markets and trade
– Depictions of important political or religious events
– Pomp, pageantry, and ceremony
– Gifts, personal or diplomatic
We welcome submissions from art history and architecture graduate students in all stages of their studies and from all fields and geographic regions, ranging from ancient through contemporary art. We will also consider papers from a wide range of methodologies and approaches. A monetary prize will be awarded to the speaker who presents the most innovative research in the most successfully delivered paper. To be considered, please send a 250-word abstract, recent CV, graduate level, and contact information to clevelandsymposium@gmail.com by June 1, 2013.
Graduate Student Seminar | Coloring Color at YCBA
Summer seminar at the YCBA:
Coloring Color: The History, Science, and Materiality of Paint
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 17-21 June 2013
Applications due by 4 March 2013
In June 2013, the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) will offer a week-long graduate student seminar, open to doctoral candidates interested in learning about color and its historical development, manufacture, and use in a range of art works in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The seminar, which is organized by the YCBA’s Conservation Department, will concentrate on the physical materials of color. The long eighteenth century plays a central role in the history of color, as the scientific revolution and the development of chemistry were, in part, fueled by the urge to synthesize pigments and dyes. The seminar will examine color from historic and scientific perspectives, explore its physical definitions and biological responses, and create a familiarity with the language of color as it evolved historically. Studio demonstrations and some practice will be used to help inform art history students who may have had little or no experience in handling pigments and mediums in the studio. The aim of the seminar is to equip students with a fundamental understanding of the history and theory of color, and to develop an understanding of the appearance of color in paintings and works on paper.
Yale historically has been linked to color teaching. From 1950 until his death in 1976, Joseph Albers taught, studied, and painted in New Haven, and it was at the Yale School of Art that he developed his seminal theories and teachings on color. Yale’s superb collections and conservation facilities make the University an ideal setting for color immersion. Students will be able to correlate color theory with the wide range of paintings on view at the YCBA and the Yale University Art Gallery, as well as in the various library collections with extensive holdings of original manuscripts and color ephemera, such as the Faber Birren collection, one of Yale’s gems. Yale’s collections are rich with examples of artists who experimented with color, and many of these paintings present us with technical puzzles, as we consider artistic intention in relation to the aging of paintings.
The lead instructors of the seminar are Mark Aronson, Chief Conservator, and Jessica David, Assistant Paintings Conservator at the ycba. Other specialists, including curators, art historians, scientists, conservators, and artists, will be involved in teaching special sessions during the course. The seminar is open to current PhD students within the United States and internationally, whose doctoral research focuses on issues relating to painterly practice and the materiality of paintings and works on paper. Participants will be provided with economy airfare, ground transportation, meals, and accommodation at Yale. Students are expected to undertake reading assignments in advance of the seminar. A syllabus and details of assignments will be available in late spring 2013. The graduate student summer seminar is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Applications must be submitted electronically. Please include a cv and a statement (no more than two pages) of how your research interests intersect with the focus of the seminar, and what you hope you to gain for your own work by participating. Applications should be emailed to: Marinella Vinci, Senior Administrative Assistant, Department of Research, marinella.vinci@yale.edu. Please also address any queries to Marinella Vinci. The deadline for receipt of
applications is Monday, March 4, 2013.
East India Company Annouces Two Research Posts
The East India Company at Home project recently announced two post-doctoral researcher posts. Both are funded by the AHRC, and each lasts for three months beginning on 14 February 2013. Applications are due 1 February 2013. Click on each heading below for more information.
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East India Company at Home / Osterley Park and House Project Post
Research Associate (EICH), Ref:1305745
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral researcher based in the Department of History at UCL to work with Osterley Park and House (a National Trust property based in Hounslow) and a UCL research team (The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 project). The post is for three months duration and will be funded by the AHRC project entitled Indian Ocean material worlds at Osterley, c. 1700 to the present.
Ideal candidates will hold (or have recently submitted) a PhD in history or a related subject and have a proven track record of high quality research on the East India Company, 18th-20th-century British or colonial history or material culture history of the 18th and/or 19th centuries as well as a demonstrable interest in public engagement.
Interview date: Wednesday 6th or Thursday 7th February 2013
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Legacies of British Slavery / East India Company at Home / British Library Project Post
Research Associate (East Meets West), Ref:1305932
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral researcher based in the Department of History at UCL to work with the British Library and with two UCL research teams (from the East India Company at Home project and the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project). The post is for three months’ duration and will be funded by the AHRC project entitled East Meets West: Caribbean and Asian colonial cultures in British domestic contexts.
Ideal candidates will hold (or have recently submitted) a PhD in history or a related subject and have a proven track record of high quality research on the colonial history of the 18th and/or 19th centuries as well as a demonstrable interest in public engagement.
Interview date: Wednesday 6th or Thursday 7th February 2013
Call for Papers | Traces of Early America
Traces of Early America: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 26-28 September 2013
Proposals due by 15 March 2013
Scholars encounter early America through its traces, the vestiges and fragments left behind. And in reconstructing the fleeting and ephemeral, scholars also attempt to trace early American encounters. This conference will bring together graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines to explore the various meanings of traces—as material objects, cultural representations, and academic practices. Papers might consider how people deliberately and unwittingly left traces as they moved through space and time; what traces or remnants of the past get privileged while others are marginalized or occluded; how written, visual, and other texts are both material objects and traces of lives and experiences; and where we look for the traces of different communities and conflicts in early America. More generally, papers might address tracing as a method of historical inquiry, one that both uncovers and constitutes objects and archives, as well as the methodological traces that have reconfigured early American studies, such as Atlantic history, diaspora studies, hemispheric studies, and circum-Caribbean and Latin American studies.
We welcome applicants from a wide variety of disciplines—among them history, literature, gender studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, archeology, geography, art history, material culture, religious studies, and political science—whose work deals with the histories and cultures of North American and the Atlantic world before 1850. Applicants should email their proposals to mceas.traces.2013@gmail.com by March 15, 2013. Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 words along with a one-page c.v. Paper presentations should be no more than 20 minutes. Limited financial support is available for participants’ travel expenses. Decisions will be announced by May 15, 2013.
Any conference-related questions can be directed to: mceas.traces.2013@gmail.com.
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