Art History 2012 Year in Review by BYU Art History

BYU Art History & 2012 YEAR IN REVIEW

Café in Paris, Photos: Robert Doisneau and Sarah Carrigan

Introduction:

Note from the Program Coordinator

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Professor C. Mark Hamilton: A Tribute

Student Tribute

Faculty Updates

Study Abroad Report

Student News

Events

The Art History & Curatorial Studies program experienced a year of many highs and lows in 2012. We were thrilled to have a record number of students receive prestigious university awards and to offer two study abroad programs last year. Also, the number of majors increased significantly and we have continued to develop programs such as the business track and internships to enhance our students’ professional development. We were also happy to welcome two visiting professors, David Amott and Kate Lemay, who have contributed much to our program since joining us in the fall, and to provide opportunities for students to hear from experts in the field outside of BYU. However, we have had much to mourn this year as well. This fall, we were deeply saddened by the passing of one of our undergraduate students, Alyssa Isom, as well as our beloved and long-‐‑time faculty member, Mark Hamilton, and are mourning their loss. The following pages in this newsletter offer a review of these and other developments. We are excited about the upcoming year. Professors Jensen and Swensen will be leading a jam-‐‑packed study abroad program to Europe. Professor Peacock’s service as the acting director of the Center for the Study of Europe is facilitating myriad opportunities for our students. Under Professor Johnson’s leadership, the graduate program continues to flourish. We are developing new curriculum and continually looking for ways in which to enhance Art History & Curatorial Studies at BYU. We truly do love to hear from our alumni and friends of our program. Please send your personal and professional news to the program coordinator, Professor Jensen (heather_jensen @byu.edu). May art and art history continue to play a meaningful part of your life, and best wishes to you for a happy and fulfilling year. Heather Belnap Jensen

Professor C. Mark Hamilton: A Tribute by Mark J. Johnson

Professor Emeritus C. Mark Hamilton, born in 1942 and the founder of the art history program at Brigham Young University, passed away on November 13, 2012, following a short illness. He will be remembered by many as an important influence in their lives stemming from his various roles of friend, mentor, teacher, colleague, bishop, scholar, husband, and father. While working as a seminary teacher, Mark decided to pursue graduate work in art history, earning an M.A. from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in art history with a focus on architectural history. He was hired at BYU in 1974 to start the art history program within the old Department of Art. As the first professor with a Ph.D. in art history to teach at BYU, Mark had to build the program from the ground up, teaching the full range of classes from Roman art through Modern. Slides were used to teach art history then, but there was no money in the department budget then to pay for them, so Mark purchased them with money from his own pocket. Mark worked hard at building up the program, overseeing the creation of the art history major, followed by the creation of the master's program. He lobbied for additional art history faculty and encouraged some of the first art history majors at BYU to go on to graduate school and complete doctorates. Steve Bule who taught in our program for 14 years before moving on to Utah Valley University, Martha Peacock, and myself were all inspired by Mark to earn our degrees; he then encouraged the university to hire us. In this he continued his role as mentor but also became our very good friend. Our hiring allowed Mark to focus on teaching his passions American, English, and Modern architectural history and western Medieval art. He also wrote two important books: The Salt Lake Temple: A Monument to a People (Salt Lake City, 1983) and Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning, published by Oxford University Press in 1995, as well as several articles on architectural history. It was obvious that Mark really cared about people: every time someone entered his office a booming greeting would reverberate off the walls of our suite of offices. He would spend hours talking to any student or colleague about any topic they wanted. Each Monday morning during football and basketball seasons, he would greet me with a loud "How 'bout them Cougs?!' - whether or not BYU had won and then dissect the game. The first time I met him was my first day in 2

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one of his classes back in 1977 in which he amazed me by memorizing the names of all 32 of us students in that first hour - and never forgetting a name thereafter. This he would continue to do at the beginning of all of his classes for the rest of his career. I soon figured out that he did this, not as a trick to show off, but because it was his way of showing that he actually did care about each and every individual. In the late 1990s Mark suffered a series of heart attacks, which led to him receiving a heart transplant in 2001. In the months leading up to the transplant, he was facing the possibility of an untimely death. Never did we hear one complaint from him about his situation, only concern for us that we would be able to manage because he wasn't able to carry his share of the load as well as expressions of faith that the good Lord was watching over him and his family. His health restored, Mark returned to teaching full-time, working as before until his retirement in 2007. He and his wife Kaye later served a mission at the New York City Manhattan Temple and for the last year or so he was engaged in a service mission in the Temple Department at Church headquarters in Salt Lake, instructing church architects on architectural history as they worked on designs for the ever increasing number of LDS temples worldwide.

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Mark will be remembered for his engaging enthusiasm, for his ever-present smile, for his sense of humor, and his quick wit. A few years ago, after his transplant, Mark was serving as chair of the department committee overseeing faculty retention and advancement. There had been some disagreements in the committee and Mark had gone to talk to the dean of the college about what was happening. After explaining what he and the committee had done to diffuse the situation, the dean had complimented Mark and told him,

"You have a good heart." Mark responded, "that may be true, but it actually isn't my heart." [ :-) ] All of us who had the honor of knowing Mark as students and/or colleagues, however, know the truth: whether his own or a borrowed one, Mark did have a big heart and was a loving, caring, and positive person. He touched the lives of literally thousands and had a positive influence on many of us that we'll never forget. He has left two important legacies: first, his wonderful family, and second, a successful and growing art history program at BYU with its now hundreds of alumni.

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A Tribute to Alyssa Nicole Isom by Heather Belnap Jensen

On September 23, 2012, one of undergraduate students, Alyssa Isom, passed away from complications associated with juvenile diabetes. Alyssa was a thoughtful, dedicated student who saw her art history major and business management minor as preparation for a career in arts education. She was serving as a teaching assistant for an ARTHC 202 course at the time of her passing. Alyssa was the kindest of souls; she seemed keenly aware of the needs of others around her and volunteered to share notes or otherwise help classmates. In the days following her death, faculty and students wrote beautiful tributes to Alyssa on art postcards, noting her generosity, determination, and marvelous sense of humor—her rousing Guerilla Girls presentation in the Women in Art class, delivered while sporting a gorilla mask, is not soon to be forgotten. Art was clearly central to Alyssa; among the effects that were displayed at her funeral was her copy of Gardner’s Art Through the Ages and some of our art buttons. In the eulogy delivered at the funeral service, her siblings mentioned that one of Alyssa'ʹs 4

greatest dreams was to see the masterpieces of European art in person (sadly, she had hoped to participate in our spring study abroad program, but her health problems had precluded this). In the coming months, we hope to establish a memorial scholarship that helps to support a student who shares Alyssa’s dreams of studying abroad and encourage all who are able to contribute to this worthy cause. Alyssa Isom was awarded a degree in Art History & Curatorial Studies posthumously in December 2012. Her sister, who is a BYU student, will accept her degree at our convocation ceremony in April 2013.

Faculty Updates Heather Belnap Jensen

Martha Peacock

2012 was a busy year for Professor Jensen on many fronts. She had lots of opportunities for work-related travel, including a quick research trip to France and travel to Ireland to present at the Société de Dix-Neuviémistes conference and to secure student internships. Professor Jensen also participated in a number of national conferences, including those for the Society for French Historical Studies in Los Angeles and NineteenthCentury French Studies in Raleigh, and was in Washington D.C., New York City, and Chicago on business. In the spring, she returned to her alma mater, the University of Kansas, to deliver a talk on fashion in postRevolutionary French art and culture. Professor Jensen published three essays in 2012: “Quand la muse parle: Julie Candeille sur l'art de Girodet," which appears in an edited volume published by the Institut nationale d’histoire de l’art in France; “Modern Motherhood and Female Sociability in the Art of Marguerite Gérard,” published in an edited collection, Reconciling Art and Motherhood; and “Staël, Corinne and the Women Art Collectors of Napoleonic France” in a volume on the Germaine de Staël’s aesthetics. She was also commissioned to review a new book on the art patronage of Empress Eugénie for caa.reviews. Professor Jensen’s big publishing project for 2012 involved the co-editing of a volume tentatively titled Women, Femininity, and Public Space in European Culture, 1789-1914, and hopes to be able to report its publication in next year’s newsletter. In terms of her teaching responsibilities, she has served on a number of masters thesis committees in ARTHC and French Studies, taught another session for Late Summer Honors on art and fashion in modern Paris, and is thrilled to be able to offer an undergraduate course on women and art as part of the regular curriculum. She continues to serve on the Executive Committee for BYU’s Women’s Studies program and is the faculty advisor for its student journal. In May, she was appointed as the Art History & Curatorial Studies program coordinator.

Martha Moffitt Peacock published a chapter in the volume Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: The Spatial Turn in Pre-Modern Studies entitled, “Women at the Hunt: Developing a Gendered Logic of Rural Space in the Netherlandish Visual Tradition,” which appeared in the summer of 2012. This past summer she also directed a Study Abroad program to Europe that included stops in England, Austria, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and even Luxembourg. It was a marvelous trip with a truly outstanding group of students! This fall Martha published a second book chapter in the volume Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Mental-Historical Investigations of Basic Human Problems and Social Responses entitled, “The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the "Art" of Correction.” This coming year she has had a paper accepted for presentation at a conference on spirituality in the early modern period. The paper will explore the attraction for two 17th-century women artists, Anna Maria van Schurman and Maria Sybilla Merian, to the highly criticized Labadist religion. Currently, Martha is acting as a consultant for the BBC documentary, “The World That Women Made.” She has been advising the producer on an analysis of women artists of the Dutch Golden Age. In addition, Martha is serving as the Acting Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at BYU. 2012-2013 has been a year full of 10-year anniversary celebratory activities at the Center.

Faculty Updates continued…

Mark Johnson

James Swensen

In addition to leading a joint study abroad program with Professor Roger McFarlane (Classics), Professor Johnson had a productive year in scholarship. He presented a paper: "The Mausoleum of Bohemund at Canosa and the Architectural Setting of Ruler Tombs in Norman Italy" at the Romanesque and Mediterranean conference held in Palermo, April 2012, which was sponsored by the British Archaeological Association. The conference proceedings will be published in 2014. Professor Johnson also presented a paper, "Le chiese bizantine della Sardegna: Nuovi osservazioni (The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia: New Observations)" at the Ricerche in Cittadella conference at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari in May 2012. He also completed work on his book: The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia, which is being published by Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, and will be out in the next few weeks.

It has been a good year for Dr. James Swensen. This past spring Professor Swensen presented his work on John Steinbeck and photography at the annual American Literature Association. Later, in September, he was invited to present his research on the history of photographing the Colorado Plateau at the Entrada Institute. Both presentations were very well received. Professor Swensen also lead this year’s student field trip to Los Angeles and co-directed a field study to Escalante, Utah. The field study resulted in an exhibition that was curated by BYU Art History Students. He co-curated the annual Faith in Works exhibition with undergraduate student Heidi Olsen. This year’s exhibition focused on the relationship between Mormon and Muslim artists. After years of work his book chapter on Dorothea Lange’s documentation of the 1938 California Cotton Strike and the John Steinbeck Committee will finally be published in 2013 by the University of Kentucky Press in the anthology Ambivalent American: The Political Companion to John Steinbeck. He also has two manuscripts currently under review with university presses, and is readying a third for future submission. He is continually crossing his fingers that they will be well received. In 2013 his explorations of photography will take him to massive mines, alluring railways, and the landscape of the American West.

David spent the first half of 2012 teaching in the Department of Art History at the University of Utah before joining the Department of Art History at Brigham Young University for the second half of the year. David, of course, is thrilled to be back at in Provo as a visiting professor in the same department where he first learned the ins and outs of art history as an undergraduate student. Highlights of this past fall semester involved interacting with students in the classroom, in university activities, and particularly in the brown bag lectures, fundraising campaigns, and other events hosted by BYU'ʹs Art History Association (BYU AHA). David encourages any student who is interested in participating in the AHA to contact him to find out more about club leadership opportunities. Outside of teaching and AHA responsibilities, David is kept busy tweaking his dissertation chapters as well as laying the groundwork for a series of articles he has planned on little studied but critically important eighteenth and nineteenth century Brazilian churches. David was able to present some of his current research this past fall at the Brazilian Studies Association at the University of Illinois and is looking forward to another Brazilian studies conference next summer. When he finds a spare moment, David also works away on an article he is writing about a handful of Philadelphia'ʹs nineteenth-‐‑century churches, which culminates a project he began as a graduate student a few years ago. David wishes to congratulate all of his fall 2012 students on their hard work in preparing for and contributing to classes, for writing insightful term papers, and generally doing well with their coursework. He is especially proud of his capstone seminar students, each of whom wrote excellent essays that illustrated their abilities to navigate as full-‐‑fledged art historians. As his capstone students prepare to leave BYU, David sincerely wishes them well in all of their future endeavors While a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center in American Modernism at the Georgia O'ʹKeeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kate published her article, “La mémoire des victimes: la place des cimetières militaires comme lieux de mémoire,"ʺ in Normandie: 6 juin 1944: L’émergence d’une mémoire collective? Eds. Stéphane Simonnet and Denis Peschanski, (Le Conseil Régional de Basse-‐‑Normandie et le Mémorial de Caen); and a book review, “The ‘Good War’ in American Memory, by John Bodnar” for The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-‐‑1945. At the 100th Annual Conference of the College Art Association in Los Angeles, she co-‐‑chaired the panel “Where the Bodies Lie: Landscapes of Mourning, Memory, and Concealment.” Later that month, Kate gave a paper, “Aesthetic War Memory, the Overseas American Military Cemeteries, and the Erasure of the Individual” at the 2012 National Popular Culture & American Culture Conference, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Perhaps most exciting of all in 2012, Kate moved to Utah and started teaching at Brigham Young University as a visiting professor, where she has enjoyed getting to know all the fabulous students and wonderful colleagues! She is looking forward to 2013 and teaching Modern and Contemporary Art History.

David Amott

Kate Lemay

Interior of St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, Rome. Photo by Mark Johnson

ART HISTORY EUROPE STUDY ABROAD Spring & Summer 2012

During this spring term, Professor Mark Johnson, teaming with Professor Roger Macfarlane of Classics, took students to Greece (Athens, Mycenae, Epidauros, Sparta, Mystras, Olympia, Delphi, Vergina) Italy (Rome, Florence, Ravenna), with short visits to Berlin, Paris, and London. Although the focus was on ancient and medieval art, they spent some time seeing important monuments and collections from later periods of art.

During summer term, Martha Peacock and her husband let a program that focused on Renaissance through Modern art. While much of their stay was in France, touring myriad art sites of Paris and its environs, as well as the Loire Valley, Burgundy, and Strausbourg, they also toured Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, and London.

St. Peters, Rome

9 San Vitale, Ravenna

Great Altar of Zeus, Pergamon Museum, Berlin

by Mark Johnson

Ghirlandaio, Old Man and Grandson, Louvre, Paris

Santâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ivo, Rome

Spring Study Abroad Photography

STUDENT & NEWS: TRENTON OLSEN In March 2012 Trenton Olsen presented a paper at the Annual Humanities Education and Research Association Conference in Salt Lake City. The title of this paper was "ʺFrom Icon to Academy: Visual Art in the Establishment of Russian National Identity from the Pre-‐‑ to Post-‐‑ Petrine Period. He was the Stewart Fellow at the Springville Museum of Art in the summer, where he helped to coordinate and advertise upcoming events and exhibitions. In October, the Woodbury Gallery hosted an Evening for Educators in conjunction with the Springville Museum of Art; Trenton was invited to be the keynote speaker for the evening, where he gave a lecture titled "ʺMajor Movements in Russian Art."ʺ

RACHEL WISE In March 2012, Rachel Wise presented at the Arizona State University'ʹs annual graduate student symposium, where she gave a talk titled, "ʺRitualistic Experience: The Making and Viewing of Art and Art History. Last fall, Rachel was invited to participate in the prestigious Sixteenth-‐‑Century Studies Conference, held in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she presented a version of her thesis, "ʺReading the Rosary in Women'ʹs Hands: Sixteenth-‐‑Century Netherlandish Laywomen and Rosary Devotion."ʺ CARLYLE SCHMOLLINGER Carlyle Schmollinger published an artist interview, “In Alien Hands: The Zig Jackson Interview,” in the August 2012 edition of Santa Fe’s Monthly arts magazine, THE Magazine.

JACQUIE HIBNER Last year, Jacquie Hibner presented two papers on her work on designer Balenciaga: “Ideological Constructs Within the Work of Cristóbal Balenciaga: Woman as Fragmented, Disembodied, Icon, Spectacle” was presented at the joint graduate symposium hosted by University of Missouri-‐‑Columbia and the University of Kansas in March 2012 and “Catholic Ideological Constructs Within the Work of Cristóbal Balenciaga: Woman as Fragmented, Disembodied, Icon, Spectacle” was presented at the Arizona State University conference in March 2012.

EMILY ANN LARSEN The Art History department is pleased to recognize Emily Ann Larsen as the recipient of our Outstanding Senior in Art History & Curatorial Studies award for 2012.

Caitlin Perkins Bahr: Recollecting Byzantium: "ʺPrimitive"ʺ Representations at the 1908 Vienna Kunstschau Hillary Carman: Trenton Olsen:

Graduate Student

Last December, students in Professor Jensen’s graduate seminar on Modern European Primitivism presented their research to the public. Moving from popular culture to high art, from India to Eastern Europe, these students engaged with theories of primitivism in sophisticated ways. Congratulations to all who participated!

Brittany Dahlin: Jacque Hibner:

Haddy Mae Jarvis Beacham: Heidi Olsen Larsen: Primitivizing the Pietà: Marsden Hartley in Nova Scotia Nicole Vance: Sculpting Bombay Under the British Raj: Decorative Sculpture and the Victoria Terminus Sarah Schwieger: Down, Back, Over, Out: Caldecott'ʹs Route Through Primitivism Katelyn Sheffield: Katie White: Martyr, Murderer, or Memorial? The Crisis of Representation and the Indian Mutiny of 1857

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2012 Internship Update Outskirts of Dublin, Ireland Photo by Kevin Nemelka

Internships continue to play an important role in the budding careers of our Art History Students at BYU. Since Winter Semester 2012 twenty-six Art History students have completed internships at nine different institutions. Together that translates to more than 4,000 hours of service rendered by our students!

This past year our students worked at the Hunt Museum in Limerick, Ireland, The National Wildlife Museum (Jackson, WY), the Slater Museum (Norwich CT), BYU’s Museum of Art, the Springville Museum of Art, the Harbor History Museum (Gig Harbor, WA), the Library of Congress, the Harold B. Lee Library, and the Church Museum of History. As usual our students received high marks for their work. Speaking of one of our students a museum curator wrote, “she is a skilled, mature, intelligent, young woman who was extremely helpful to our very staff-‐‑lean museum. She made a huge difference in our ability to compete . . . We would invite her to return anytime.” During their work our students also realized how important gaining experience is in our field. One student even admitted that she was glad it was a requirement. Commenting on her experiences Sarah Carrigan wrote, “My internship experience was by far one of the richest, most rewarding opportunities I have had as a student at BYU.” After completing her internship at the Springville Museum of Art, Mindy Moon professed that she grew as a person and art historian.

In the future we will continue to encourage students to pursue every opportunity. As Susana Chavarria stated, “I believe that future interns should take advantage of every opportunity to get more valuable knowledge, experience and valuable advice."ʺ Kev Nemelka offered this summary of his internship in Ireland: "ʺWorking at The Hunt Museum in Limerick was a memorable and valuable learning experience. Because it was a rather small museum, I worked with the three department chairs of The Hunt and gained experience in art conservation and collection care, writing text panels and press releases on temporary shows, designing posters and invitations, setting up exhibitions, and preparing for opening receptions. The most interesting and enjoyable work I completed was implementing Google SketchUp into the museum’s curatorial program and designing two contemporary art shows using the 3D digital models I constructed. On top of career experience, working at The Hunt had its cultural perks—Ireland is spectacularly beautiful and covered with the most unearthly green hills I’ve yet seen. But if there’s one thing I remember most of all it is most assuredly the fish n’ chips."ʺ

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland Photo by Kevin Nemelka

Students Who Completed Art History Internships 2012: FALL SEMESTER

Brooke Carpenter – Springville Museum of Art – Curatorial Natalie Harris – Springville Museum of Art – Curatorial Katie White – University of Utah Museum of Fine Art (Salt Lake City, UT) – Curatorial

SPRING / SUMMER SEMESTERS

Corinne Brierley – Brigham Young University Museum of Art – Curatorial Hilary Carman – National Museum of Wildlife Art (Jackson, WY) – Curatorial Colin Carnahan – Harbor History Museum (Gig Harbor, WA) – Research & Curatorial Susana Chavarria -‐‑ Brigham Young University Museum of Art – Curatorial Brittany Dahlin – Springville Museum of Art – Curatorial & Education Natalie Harris -‐‑ Brigham Young University Museum of Art – Registration Kevin Nemelka – Hunt Museum (Limerick, Ireland) – Administration Meredith Logan – Springville Museum of Art – Curatorial Emily Mckinny – Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University – Digital Acc. Melinda Moon – Springville Museum of Art – Curatorial & Education Marie Murphy – Church History Museum (Salt Lake City, Utah) -‐‑ Curatorial Aimee Rich – Slater Memorial Museum (Norwich, CT) – Curatorial, etc. Katelyn Sheffield -‐‑ Brigham Young University Museum of Art – Curatorial

WINTER SEMESTER

Sarah Carrigan -‐‑ Brigham Young University Museum of Art & BYU Student Association Christine Heaton – Springville Museum of Art – Curatorial Shae Iwasaki -‐‑ Brigham Young University Museum of Art – Curatorial Hadley Jarvis-‐‑ Brigham Young University Museum of Art – Curatorial Lauren Packard -‐‑ Brigham Young University Museum of Art – Curatorial Lisa Selman -‐‑ Brigham Young University Museum of Art – Curatorial

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The Art History and Curatorial Studies Department is pleased to mention the four graduate student recipients of two very prestigious awards; the Foreign Language Acquisition Scholarship (FLAS) & the Graduate Studies Fellowship.

Rachel Wise,

FLAS recipient 2012-‐‑2013 of the Dutch Language, is currently doing her research on gender dynamics in late fifteenth and early-‐‑sixteenth northern rosary confraternities. Knowing Dutch is a necessity for her thesis research “Reading the Rosary in Women’s Hands: Sixteenth-‐‑Century Netherlandish Laywomen and Rosary Devotion.” She is using her FLAS to take two intensive Dutch language courses in Amsterdam and Antwerp. She will also be using the funds for travel to archives located in Holland, Belgium, Germany, and France.

Caitlin Bahr,

Graduate Studies fellowship recipient, will be researching her thesis, "ʺWomen and the Wiener Werkstätte: The Centrality of Women and the Applied Arts in Early Twentieth-‐‑Century Vienna.” She will write about the early 20th Century Viennese workshop of applied arts, the Wiener Werkstätte, and how it reflected Vienna’s unique society in which women played a central role, as designers and craftswomen as well as consumers. She hopes to present the Wiener Werkstätte as a lens through which we can gain a greater understanding of the roles of women in early twentieth-‐‑ century Viennese society, as well as the historical significance of Viennese applied arts in the field of visual culture. She plans to use the funds from the Graduate Studies Fellowship to conduct research in museums and archives in Vienna.

Breezy Taggart,

Graduate Studies fellowship recipient, will use the grant to facilitate primary research in Washington, D.C and Brooklyn, New York on her thesis “Esther Bubley'ʹs Documentation of the 1940'ʹs Dissin'ʹs House: Race and Social Class Exposed."ʺ She will delve into the racial and social environment of Jewish Americans living in America during World War II. In 1942 Esther Bubley documented Jewish American workers in Washington, D.C. for the Office of War Information. Breezy intends to use these photographs to bring about a better understanding of Jewish cultural experience within America. She will specifically research within the collection of FSA photographs at the Library of Congress as well as visit the Esther Bubley Archives in NY.

Katelyn

Sheffield, FLAS recipient 2012-‐‑2013 of the Polish Language, is working on her Thesis entitled “Zofia Stryjenska: Shaping the face of Poland”. Katelyn’s research centers on the work of Polish artist Zofia Stryjenska, a remarkable woman working in Poland between the two world wars. Because there is next to nothing written in English about Stryjenska, her research will be largely conducted in Polish. With the aid of the FLAS, she will be enrolled in courses fall/winter that will help continue to expand her vocabulary, especially on academic topics related to art, history, and culture, as well as solidify her understanding and use of Polish grammar. Furthermore, with the funds received, she will be traveling to Poland in August to conduct additional research.

Corinne Brierley: The Dog as a Symbol of Power: Titian'ʹs Meredith Logan: Benjamin West'ʹs Death of General Wolfe: A Social-‐‑Historical and Marxist Reading

We want to congratulate all of the students who completed an honors, senior, or masters thesis in 2012. This is quite an accomplishment and we are thrilled at the caliber of our students’ research, writing, and presentation skills.

Susana Chavarria: Destruction of Numancia: A Spanish Search for National Identity Jennifer Hinckley: Cecilia Beaux'ʹs Sita and Sarita Carley Wells: Rosa Bonheur and "ʺThe Wild"ʺ Assertions of the Religious, Primitive, Modern Woman"ʺ Jacque Healy: Redefining Women: The Power of the Three Maries Fresco at Dura-‐‑ Europos Christine Mccluskey: Bridging the Gap: Metaphysics in the Well of Moses and Word Iconography Eliza Meeks: Medieval Gift Giving: The Gift and Receipt of Gifts by Adam and Eve Maddie West: Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Demonstration and Assertion of Control: The Implications of the Missing Figure in Botticelli’s Primavera April Griffiths: Elements in the Studio: Proving the Legitimacy of the

Lauren Dursteler: Understanding Yves Klein Keri Erdmann: Adolph de Meyer’s Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Brooke Carpetner: The Art of Fashion: A Look into the Transfixing Aura of Art and Fashion Haley Nimer: Those Who Did Not Fit the Mold: A Reading of Christina'ʹs World Aaron Haines: Turkey'ʹs Cultural Embargo: Establishing Identity through the Repatriation of Antiquities Sarah Maines: The Road to Selfdom: A Critical Look at the Uniqueness and Influence of Albrecht Dürer’s Self-‐‑Portrait of 1500 Kate Kelly: The Penance of Caravaggio as Seen in His Two Supper at Emmaus Lauren Stroud: Watson and the Shark: American Entrepreneurism Kelsey Gee: The Architecture of Society: The Success of the 1853 New York Crystal Palace Diana Lauritzen: Recognizing Faces: Women’s Portraits on the Salt Lake City and County Building Leslie Ostler: Sex and Spectacle: The Merging Roles of Cha-‐‑U-‐‑Kao Hadley Jarvis: The Montmartre Female Experience: As Seen in The Blue Room by Suzanne Valadon Heidi Olsen: Consuming Subjects:

MASTERS & HONORS THESES

MASTERS THESES Allison Sligting Mays: German Nationalism and the Allegorical Female in Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Nan T. Atwood: Rembrandt van Rign’s Jewish Bride: Depicting Female Power in the Dutch Republic Through the Notion of Nation Building Alec Teresa Gardner: Joseph as Father in Guido Reni’s St. Joseph Images

Annie E. Stott: The Influence of the Roman Atrium-‐‑House’s Architecture and Use of Space in Engendering the Power and Independence of the Materfamilias Sarah Dibble: George Dibble and the Struggle for Modern Art in Utah

HONORS THESIS Emily A LARSEN: The Women of Picasso’s Guernica: Tropes and Stereotypes derived from Popular Spanish Civil War Imagery

STUDENT IN FOCUS: One student’s experience in the professional world— career development at its finest. This past June, I had the opportunity to attend a weeklong training in Magdeburg, Germany that was sponsored by the “Provenance Research Training Program.” The program was focused on Nazi-‐‑looted art and the research methods used to determine the provenance of these works. It was a great training where I was able to meet many professionals involved with cultural restitution from across the globe. The next week, I presented a paper in Italy at the annual art crime conference sponsored by the “Association for Research into Crimes against Art.” My paper discussed the recent change in Turkey’s exhibition loan policy and how it has impacted the international art community. Following my presentation, I received valuable feedback from archaeologists and lawyers involved with cultural patrimony.

To the right is the Berliner Dom (The Berlin Cathedral). The one on the left is the Altes Museum (The Old Museum).

Pompeii, Italy

Both of these experiences have been invaluable as I continue to prepare myself for a career in art crime investigation and art law. I’m very grateful to the art history faculty for helping me prepare for these conferences and for providing me with funds to subsidize the costs.

"Ponte Vecchio", Florence, Italy

DOISNEAU’S PARIS Re-Photographed by Sarah Carrigan This past summer I had the opportunity to undergo a unique research opportunity with the aid of a grant from the Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA). My project was to seek out the locations of a selection of images taken by the famed Parisian photographer Robert Doisneau, and return to take a second photograph as a way to document a social and physical change in the Parisian landscape from when Doisneau was working to now. While at first the task was overwhelming given my lack of familiarity with the city as well as the limited scholarship on Doisneau as an artist, it turned out being the most rewarding academic pursuit of my undergraduate career thus far. By returning to the exact sites that Doisneau was working in 60, 70 years ago, I felt as though I was able to connect with the art – and by extension the people and culture – in a way I never would have been able to had I chosen to spend my time digging through archives or traversing museums. This project gave me a chance to create something of my own while honoring the work of a charming artist who is beloved by the French people for portraying their culture as one of both romance and resiliency. Having had this experience I have grown to feel tremendously empowered as an art historian. My perception of this discipline has broadened to encompass the human aspect of the art we devote ourselves to, and I am encouraged to know first-‐‑hand that risk, adventure, and creativity all have a place in such an academic field. I look forward to continuing my work with Doisneau’s photographs in the future as I make return trips to Paris in the hopes of broadening the research that will eventually serve as the subject for my senior thesis paper and possibly additional publications.

Art History Association & Brown Bag Lectures

Professor Holly Clayson, Professor of Art History and Director of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities visited BYU campus in January 2012 as a guest of the Art History & Curatorial Studies program and in conjunction with the BYU Museum of Art'ʹs national symposium on transculturalism. She conducted an informal Q-‐‑and-‐‑A with students, where she gave advice on education and professional development in the field of art history and also gave a public lecture, titled "ʺMary Cassatt'ʹs Lamp,"ʺ which is part of her current book project tentatively titled Electric Paris. Professor Clayson is a specialist in 19th-‐‑ century French art, and her work ranges from considerations of women in Impressionist art to transatlantic exchanges between France and the U.S. She offered invaluable perspectives on developments in the discipline of art history and commented numerous times on the intelligent, thoughtful questions and observations offered by our students.

We were privileged to hear from Dr. Rita Wright, the recently-‐‑ appointed Director of the Springville Museum of Art, as the keynote speaker at our annual Fall Assembly for majors. Dr. Wright, who has worked as a curator at both the BYU Museum of Art and Church History Museum, gave a truly motivational talk regarding her career path and the lessons she has learned along the way. This was a marvelous experience for those in attendance.

Erika Doss, Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, is an expert on 20th century American art. Her lecture, "ʺMemorial Mania: Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America,"ʺ addressed public art in America according to affective themes like fear, gratitude, and anger. She was particularly interested in how post 9/11 commemoration reflects a heightened emotionalism. We were delighted to have Dr. Doss on campus!

Escalante National Monument in Zion National Park, Utah

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BYU Visual Arts

In early June of 2012 a handful of students and faculty from BYU’s Department of Visual Arts traveled south to visit the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument. “The place had a strange beauty. It’s surreal”, says animation student Paul Petty. For five days this group of students immersed themselves in the local landscape and community. Their adventures included Bryce Canyon National Park, Calf Creek Falls, slot canyons, and Devils Garden. “The trip down to Escalante was full of great memories that I’ll recall with fondness for the rest of my life”, says Matt Asunama, an animation major.

After returning from the breathtaking

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landscape of Southern Utah, the

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students were asked to comment on

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their favorite parts of the trip. Nathan

Bates, Daniel Mortenson, Rachel

Harding, a student in the Illustration

Call, Sarah Croft, James Winegar,

program, said his favorite experience

Robert Cowan, Paul Petty, Matthew

was “the time spent at Calf Creek. Not

Asunama, Steven Waggoner, and

only was it a refreshing and beautiful

Brian Hutchinson. These artists are a

place, but it was there that I made

small sample of students from the

friends with other students”. Daniel

Illustration, Studio Art, Graphic

Mortensen’s said his was watching “the

Design, Photography, and Animation

red glow of the sun as it peaked above

Majors at BYU. Faculty advisors are

the distant mountains and bathed the

Jason Lanegan and James Swensen. The artwork will explore the

landscape in magical light…I felt

diverse ways in which our

alive”. As part of the experience the

experiences in Escalante continue to

students will be organizing an

resonate in us and in our work. As the

exhibition of their work for the 2012

students interacted with the landscape

Escalante Canyons Festival / Everett

and community of Escalante, they

Ruess Days in Escalante, Utah. The

gleaned ideas with which to create

exhibition titled, Resonance: Escalante

their artworks. The participants

2012, and was curated by Breezy

excitedly wait to return to Escalante to

Taggart, Mindy Moon, and Brittany

see what the Canyons Festival has to offer.

Covey Center for the Arts Amphitheater

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“Things Fall Apart” Art History Business Class Capstone Project By Hadley Jarvis

During fall semester 2012 a group of eight art history students in Prof. James Swensen’s Art History Business Capstone class worked together to create a durational art show at the Amphitheater of the Covey Center. The exhibition, titled “Things Fall Apart,” explored the idea of permanence within our lives and begged the question: What truly lasts forever? As a group it was decided to create a show that was powerful yet inviting – a space to be enjoyed and not restricted by rules. Artworks were put up with the expectation that they would not have to be removed by human force; rather they would fade and disintegrate on their own. Starting with only a rough idea of what they wanted the show to be, the students allowed the artists to truly develop the idea into a thesis. The result was an impressive and inspiring body of works by ten budding Utah artists including Ron Linn, Raphael Morin, and Tiana Birrell. Opening night was a huge success with almost 300 visitors in attendance. “Things Fall Apart” was a shining example of the caliber of our

students and the artists of this community. The project provided each student with real world curatorial experience. We are grateful to the City of Provo and the Covey Center for their hospitality and support of our students. This year’s participants in the Art History Business Capstone project included: Ashley Alley, Annika Åsen, Brooke Carpenter, Aaron Haines, Natalie Harris, Hadley Jarvis, Elizabeth Pusey, and Nicole Vance.

ART HISTORY ALUMNI UPDATES JENNIFER THADEN (2003) DARREN ZOBRIST (1995) Although I have chosen a career in finance and business, I was accepted to the MBA programs at Harvard and Wharton. As I wanted to work on Wall Street, I opted for Wharton, which has more of a finance emphasis. After Wharton, I worked at Goldman Sachs for several years. During my last year at Goldman, I invested in a start-‐‑up seafood company producing sushi quality tuna from Mexico. After about a year, I left Goldman to focus full-‐‑time on the seafood company, moving to Brazil to manage the expansion there. I sold my company in 2006 to a large, multi-‐‑national seafood company with production all over the world.

ANN POULSON (2002) KATIE LARSEN STROBEHN (APRIL 2006) I currently work at BYU as a graphic designer/graphic communications manager for the division of Student Academic and Advisement Services (Admissions, Registrar, Financial Aid, and Integrated Student Services). LINDSEY CHRISTENSEN (DECEMBER 2008) I will receive my Master'ʹs in Art History from The George Washington University in December 2012! My emphasis is post-‐‑colonialism within American and Ethiopian 19th century art. FAN FENG (April 2010) I now am in my second year of earning a master'ʹs degree in archaeology at BYU, and my emphasis is Chinese archaeology, especially focusing on trade on the Silk Route.

ELLIOTT WISE (BA 2007, MA 2009) I'ʹm currently in an Art History Ph.D. program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. My major field is Northern Renaissance painting, and my minor field is Medieval art. Right now I'ʹm working on my dissertation. ANNIE ROMANO (DEC 2008) I served a mission in Milan, Italy. After my return, I taught art and art history at a charter school (K-‐‑5) in Salt Lake called Legacy Preparatory Academy. I am back in school getting my Master of Public Administration in nonprofit management. I was married six months ago (new name is Annie Romano.) My husband and I worked for a nonprofit in Fiji this summer and I also was a fellow at the Partnership for Public Service (nonprofit that works to revitalize the federal government through recruiting and training) in Washington D.C. We plan to move back to DC after graduation. ERIC HARKER (BA 2009) Graduated with Master of Architecture from University of Utah in May of 2012 22

MARTHA BAUMGARTEN (MA 2003) I teach online English classes at Stevens-‐‑Henager College, and I also teach Art History part time at SLCC. Most of time, I'ʹm a stay-‐‑at-‐‑home mom in Sandy, UT. COURTNEY DAVIS (2006) I am currently a Lecturer of Art History at Utah Valley University, a position I have held since 2007. I developed and direct UVU'ʹs Art History & Photography study abroad program to Europe. Last summer was our inaugural trip, and we traveled to London, Paris and Barcelona to study art and immerse ourselves in the visual landscape of Europe. I developed and direct the annual art history symposium at UVU each spring (2013 will be our fourth year). Previous topics have included Word & Image and Art & Mass Media. I am also a licensed attorney (I graduated from BYU Law School in 2006, and worked as an associated attorney at Hill, John & Schmutz in Provo). I am always on the lookout for ways to combine my art historical and legal backgrounds, such as the study of copyright law and other art law topics. KELSEY GEE (APRIL 2012)

JENNY CHAMPOUX (2004) I recently moved to Denver, CO with my husband and two children, but I continue to teach art history classes online for Northeastern University. MICHELLE WIMBER HILL (BA 2004, MA 2007) Currently working at the San Antonio Public Library with the art collection. Also Adjunct Faculty in Humanites in the Alamo Colleges system. JULIANNE PARKER WEIS (2007) After BYU I came to Oxford where I did a Masters in African Studies, then went on to work at UNICEF and other development organizations around the world, in Brazil, Niger, Ethiopia, and other countries. I'ʹm now back at Oxford doing a PhD in the history of medicine. GAVIN POULIOT (2009) I am currently a Lead User Experience Designer for Measured Progress, Inc., a K-‐‑12 educational assessment firm. I'ʹm currently also developing an iPad app for autistic children to plan a museum visit by using picture stories. MAGGIE LEAK (APRIL 2009) My last semester I participated in BYU'ʹs Washington Seminar program which allowed me to intern with the Smithsonian'ʹs Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. That segued into a contract position at the Smithsonian'ʹs National Portrait Gallery that lasted 20 months. Now I am getting my MA in Museum Studies at The George Washington University in Washington DC focusing on Collections Management and Art History. SHELLEY WILLIAMS (MA 2009) I’ve been a stay at home mom since with my three little girls since I graduated, but I keep a medieval art history blog: Medieval-‐‑illumination.blogspot.com It not only keeps my mind in art history, but it also gets lots of traffic! Thousands of visitors every week from the Netherlands, Germany France, New Zealand and the U.S. It has created a small community of people who love beautiful medieval art, and sometimes we even solve mysteries. Lately I have been featuring photos I took of a special Book of Hours in the L Tom Perry Special Collections. Through my own investigations and those of my followers, old professors and friends, we have translated a mysterious sonnet written on a front page of the Book of Hours, figured out some confusing iconography, and Latin calligraphy. It'ʹs a lovely site, and I would recommend it to anyone studying art history at BYU, especially since it features a gorgeous work of art they have access to!

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