USC Dornsife Department of Art History

USC Pacific Asia Museum
Party @ PAM
April 20, 2024
8 PM
Please RSVP by April 17 - https://events.usc.edu/esvp/pamparty2024/

Degas and Filth; or the Matter and Maneuvers of Picture Making

Please join the USC Department of Art History in welcoming Michelle Foa for a presentation on her current book project, The Matter of Degas: Art and Materiality in Later Nineteenth-Century Paris.

Michelle Foa Associate Professor, Art History Carnegie Corporation of New York, Solon R. Cole, and Siegel Professor in Social Entrepreneurship, Tulane University.

Thursday, Noember 16, 2023
THH 309K
5:00 pm

Dornsife Maymester
AHIS 470: Studies in Contemporary Art in New York (12025D)
May 22 - June 15, 2023
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“Unlike most university-level courses, which require students to write long papers, I ask them to write very short pieces, similar to the actual word counts required when writing art criticism for established publications,” said Hudson, herself a longtime critic for Artforum. “However, there is an elaborate peer review process for each assignment.
https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/1829/sweet-trip/

On Saturday, February 5, 2022, USC AHIS PhD student Isabel Wade spoke at third annual Getty Graduate Symposium hosted by the Getty Research Institute. The Getty Graduate Symposium showcased the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. The symposium was organized into three sessions over the course of three days, the symposium included nine individual presentations, panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors, and Q&A sessions with the audience.

Please save the date for the Art History Department's next Works in Progress event of the Spring 2022 semester, featuring a presentation from Elissa Watters.

Wednesday, February 9th
12:30 - 1:30 pm PST
Hybrid (THH 308 and Zoom)

Elissa Watters, "A Changing Artistic Vision: Édouard Manet's Experimentation with Aquatint in the 1860s"
Please save the date for the Art History Department's next Works in Progress event of the Spring 2022 semester, featuring a presentation from Elissa Watters.

The presentation will be followed by a discussion.

This month's Works in Progress seminar will be hybrid:
in TTH 308 and on Zoom.
Join the Zoom meeting with this link.
Please RSVP if you will be attending in person.

The Works in Progress series is organized by the graduate cohort and supports the ongoing work of our scholarly community by providing opportunities for intellectual exchange. Please be in touch with the WiP coordinators, Margot Yale, or Courtney Carter, if you would like to give a talk this academic year.

Édouard Manet, The Absinthe Drinker, 1862, reworked ca. 1867, etching and aquatint, Yale University Art Gallery, 2012.159.74

Looking After: Conversations on Art and Healing | The Brooklyn Rail

Art historian and environmental humanities scholar Sria Chatterjee is the founder and project lead of the Visualizing the Virus digital project. Her research focuses on the political ecologies of art and design, with a particular focus on soil, transnational environmental histories, the histories of art and science and the relationships between climate, health, and colonialism.

https://brooklynrail.org/events/2022/02/03/looking-after-conversations-on-art-and-healing/

“The Quarantine Question” on Art Journal Open
For their post on Art Journal Open, “The Quarantine Question,” guest editors Dana E. Katz and Lisa Pon asked colleagues—historians of art, architecture, landscape, and culture; visual artists and musician-musicologists; curators and museum educators—to answer the following question as of summer 2021: “How has the past year’s quarantine affected your professional life?”

An introductory essay frames the twenty-one responses received by the editors. It draws on the plague hospitals and ghetto of early modern Venice to provide historical context for the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, especially for the social-distancing measures taken to mitigate its effects. The contributions that follow afford a mosaic of perspectives on what one of the contributors refers to as l’époque covidienne. They range from discussions of art projects sparked by the pandemic to rich descriptions of COVID’s personal and professional impacts—and the difficulty of disentangling them. Read the article here.

Image caption: An interactive word cloud represents the words most often used by respondents to “The Quarantine Question.”

History of the Renaissance Book
August 15 - 19, 2022 at UCLA
Faculty: Craig Kallendorf and Lisa Pon

For more information and how to apply please visit: http://www.calrbs.org/admissions/

Description: This course will serve as a comprehensive introduction to the history of the book in early modern Europe, from the beginning of the fifteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth. Our goal will be to use the holdings of the UCLA Research Library, with a focus on its Aldine collection, the Getty Research Institute Research Library, and the Huntington Library to learn to ‘read’ a Renaissance book, both as a physical object and as a carrier of cultural values. We will examine in turn how these books were produced, how they were distributed, and how they were used by those who bought and read them.

Wed. April 21 at 4:30 PCT
Del Chiaro for Ancient Italian Studies, and the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley are pleased to announce the 2021 Del Chiaro Lecture, featuring USC Dornsife Professor of Classical Art, Archaeology and History, John Pollini. Lecture topic is “Augustus Caesar: From Image to Icon"
Please register at https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g-fmxN82Tk-_lzxSbFBoJg

Congratulations to USC Dornsife Department of Art History's Lisa Pon who has been named a Guggenheim Fellow! She will use the fellowship to complete her book about Renaissance artist Raphael.

USC Dornsife art historian named a Guggenheim Fellow > News > USC Dornsife Lisa Pon earns the prestigious honor for her exploration of Renaissance artist Raphael’s collaborations.

Haunted Bauhaus: Gender, Sexuality, and Politics
Prof. Elizabeth Otto, SUNY Buffalo
Wednesday, April 14
5:00–6:30pm
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://usc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldu6grTotG9FC7gnBK8Gf8jcl6sE3Yi08
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting