Yearly Archives: 2022

Congratulations to Molly Bond who will present her research at the 2022 Getty Graduate Symposium

Getty CenterGetty Research Institute hosts the fourth annual Getty Graduate Symposium, showcasing the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Organized into three sessions over the course of one day, the symposium includes nine individual presentations, panel discussions moderated by faculty mentors, and Q&A sessions with the audience.

Saturday, February 5, 2022
9:45am- 6:00pm

This a hybrid event that takes place both in-person and online.

For more registration information visit: https://gty.art/31CS0Pc

 

 

 

Jeanette Kohl appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

 

Portrait of Associate Professor Jeanette Kohl, History of Art, who is also co-director of the Center for Ideas and Society. (UCR/Stan Lim)The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz is a research institute of the Max Planck Society dedicated to the history of art and architecture. Its main areas of focus are the art and visual culture of Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean sphere in the global context. The scientific advisory board is composed of internationally respected academics from Germany and abroad. Its task is to evaluate the Institute’s academic activities on a regular basis.

Read more at https://www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles/index.php

 

 

 

Humans
2021, TERra foundation for American art
Jason Weems, co-editor

Humans are organisms, but “the human being” is a term referring to a complicated, self-contradictory, and historically evolving set of concepts and practices. Humans explores competing versions, constructs, and ideas of the human being that have figured prominently in the arts of the United States. These essays consider a range of artworks from the colonial period to the present, examining how they have reflected, shaped, and modeled ideas of the human in American culture and politics. The book addresses to what extent artworks have conferred more humanity on some human beings than others, how art has shaped ideas about the relationships between humans and other beings and things, and in what ways different artistic constructions of the human being evolved, clashed, and intermingled over the course of American history. Humans both tells the history of a concept foundational to US civilization and proposes new means for its urgently needed rethinking.

Congratulations to Jason Weems on the publication of his newly co-edited volume

Humans

Edited by Laura Bieger, Joshua Shannon, and Jason Weems
Surveys the representations and constructions of the human being in American art.

 
Humans are organisms, but “the human being” is a term referring to a complicated, self-contradictory, and historically evolving set of concepts and practices. Humans explores competing versions, constructs, and ideas of the human being that have figured prominently in the arts of the United States. These essays consider a range of artworks from the colonial period to the present, examining how they have reflected, shaped, and modeled ideas of the human in American culture and politics. The book addresses to what extent artworks have conferred more humanity on some human beings than others, how art has shaped ideas about the relationships between humans and other beings and things, and in what ways different artistic constructions of the human being evolved, clashed, and intermingled over the course of American history. Humans both tells the history of a concept foundational to US civilization and proposes new means for its urgently needed rethinking.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo125062072.html