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Professor David Rosand will be honored at a one-day symposium to be held at Columbia on Friday, October 17, 2008. The event will bring together Professor Rosand’s colleagues and former graduate students to present research and personal reflections on the occasion of his seventieth birthday and retirement. Organized by Jodi Cranston (’98 PhD) and Maria Ruvoldt (’99 PhD), the symposium will feature a keynote address by Professor Deborah Howard of the University of Cambridge, and papers on a wide variety of topics related to Professor Rosand’s past and current research. Speakers will include James Saslow, William E. Wallace, Mary Vaccaro, and Jonathan Crary
Dawn Delbanco was confirmed by the US Senate for a six-year term on the National Council on the Humanities, the 26-member advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Delbanco has taught at Columbia since 1991. Her primary commitment is to the Core Curriculum program, in which she teaches both Western and East Asian art to undergraduates. She also advises on doctoral dissertations and has mentored many graduate student teaching assistants. She has curated an exhibition of ritual Chinese bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections at the Fogg Art Museum, and has published as well on other aspects of Chinese art, including painting, woodblock prints and snuff bottles. She received her A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard.
Image from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
On November 19th University Professor Simon Schama won the International Emmy for Best Arts Documentary for his film on Bernini and the Ecstasy of St Theresa, one of eight in his PBS/BBC series "The Power of Art" which aired in Britain in 2006 and the United States this summer. The series took two years to make and won critical acclaim in both the UK and USA. Directed by Clare Beavan and shot by Chris Openshaw, the sculpture was filmed in High Definition and lit to optimize the drama of Bernini's touch. The film also features a sequence on the downfall of Bernini's bell tower for St Peter's which owes much to the definitive account written by Sarah McPhee (GSAS *97), a graduate of our department.
Columbia University is pleased to announce the appointment of David Freedberg as the Pierre Matisse Professor of Art History. The Pierre Matisse Professorship was established through a generous gift of the Pierre and Maria Gaetana Matisse Foundation in memory of the late Pierre Matisse, the distinguished art dealer and supporter of artists, who played a major role in introducing European modernism to America.
Born in South Africa, and educated at Yale University and Balliol College, Oxford, Professor Freedberg joined the Columbia faculty in 1984. Initially trained in classics, he has written about a vast array of topics, ranging from the art of the Renaissance to modern art and criticism. Among his books, The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response (1989)—which has been translated into many languages—has had a transformative influence in the field of art historical studies. His most recent book, The Eye of the Lynx: Art, Science, and Nature in the Age of Galileo (2002), has received many awards, including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of Phi Beta Kappa “for significantly contributing to our understanding of the cultural and intellectual condition of humanity.” His current research expands the boundaries of humanistic studies by applying new knowledge from the field of neurosciences to the understanding of art—an interest that is reflected in the title of his current book project, Modes of Seeing: Mind, Body, and Emotion in the History of Art.
Since 2000 Professor Freedberg has been the director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia, which he has developed into a major international center for interdisciplinary scholarship. Professor Freedberg has also served as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University and as Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. He has been honored with membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Accademia Nazionale di Agricoltura.
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When the National Research Council, in its most recent report,
rated Columbia first in the nation for art history scholarship,
it again recognized a legacy of leadership dating back more
than seven decades. Meyer Schapiro earned Columbia's first Ph.D.
in the field in 1929 with a dissertation that was to revolutionize
the study of Romanesque art. In the years since, scholars here
have shaped nearly every area of study in the field: pre-Columbian
to postmodern, style analysis to critical theory.
The department was founded in conjunction with the special resources
in archaeology and architecture at the Avery Memorial Library
as inspired by great European traditions of archaeology, connoisseurship,
and iconology. Well before recent advances, Columbia art historians
transcended the geographical and cultural boundaries of the
West. Since Paul Wingert expanded the Department's curriculum
in the 1930s, coursework in the study of the arts of Africa,
Oceania, Native America, the Near East, East Asia is a staple
of the Columbia University curriculum, and like Columbia's great
teachers of the past—Meyer Schapiro, Rudolf Wittkower,
Rober Branner, Howard McP. Davis, Julius Held, Howard Hibbard,
Edith Porada, and William Bell Dinsmoor—today's faculty
continue to apply art historical methods to illuminate particular
works of art, even as they place their works in the broadest
cultural context.
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