Summary information for:
The History of Art Department's Emeritus Faculty
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Svetlana Alpers
Professor Emerita
Northern Renaissance Art
email: svetlanaalpers@gmail.com |
Honored at CAA Distinguished Scholar Session Los Angeles, February 2009
The 2009 Distinguished Scholar Session, entitled “Paintings/Problems/ Possibilities,” centered on the art of painting. The panel—which included Svetlana Alpers, Mariët Westermann, Carol Armstrong, Thomas Crow, James Hyde, and Stephen Melville— focused on six pictorial images proposed by Alpers. “An openness to the strangeness of pictures as things made for seeing bound Alpers to the late Michael Baxandall. With him she shared intellectual origins in the study of literature, as well as a central concern for the distance between words and paintings. The pleasures of France gave common ground to their different and complementary styles of being in the world.” — Mariët Westermann, November 2008 CAA News |
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James Cahill
Professor Emeritus
Chinese Art
email: jamescahill3@aol.com
website: jamescahill.info
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James Cahill took his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1958, and was Curator of Chinese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art from 1958. In 1965 he moved back to Berkeley, to teach there until his retirement in 1995.
From 2011 Newsletter: James Cahill continues to divide his time between Vancouver
and Berkeley, with houses and relatives in both cities: his wife
Hsingyuan (still going through divorce proceedings) and 15-yearold
twin sons Julian and Benedict in Vancouver, his daughter
Sarah (the famous pianist) and her family in Berkeley. His book
on “vernacular” Chinese painting was recently published by the
U. C. Press. His main late-life project is a series of lengthy videorecorded
lectures on Chinese painting through the Song dynasty,
posted for free viewing on the web; see his website jamescahill.info, or that of the Institute of East Asian Studies, http://ieas.berkeley.edu/publications/aparv.html. Seven lectures have been
posted and six more soon will be; and two further series are
planned, to be completed so long as his declining energies
hold out. His continuing residence in Vancouver permits him to
continue work on these with his collaborator Rand Chatterjee. |
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T.J. Clark
Professor Emeritus
Modern Art
For contact and other Information:
email: travesty@berkeley.edu
more info.: Tim's Summary Page
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T.J. CLARK RETIRED SPRING 2010
From 2011 Newsletter: Tim Clark spent the year adjusting to retirement and London.
He said yes to a few too many invitations and failed to finish his
Picasso book; but he enjoyed, among other things, writing the
occasional response to an exhibition for the London Review of
Books, spending two weeks in Oslo and Trondheim as guest of the
Office for Contemporary Art (fine people, and time to get to know
the National Museum, plus the tapestries of Hannah Ryggen,
Communist modernist extraordinaire), speaking to a theater in
Berlin still full of people at half past midnight (only in Berlin)
about “The End of the Anti-Aesthetic,” having the splendors of
York as regular part of the year, dreading the reaction of a room
full of neo-Luddites to a paper entitled “A Left with No Future”
(they were charitable), and arguing against the hermeneutics of
suspicion in a lecture given at UCL and Melbourne called “Do
Landscapes Have Identities?” He misses hills and old friends.
For more information, please see T.J. Clark's Summary Page
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Jacques de Caso
Professor Emeritus
of Modern Art
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From 2011 Newsletter: Since his retirement in 1994 Jacques de Caso has been dividing his time between San Francisco and Paris, where he resides part of the year. After launching sculptor Théophile Bra’s drawings and writings into scholarly and mediatic orbit, Jacques has returned to sculptor David (d’Angers). He is completing an edition of David’s numerous unpublished articles on art and politics. He is also editing a volume of the newly discovered long correspondence between poet Victor Pavie and David (d’Angers) and working on a study of David’s visit to Goethe in Weimar in 1829. Jacques is also curating the first exhibition of the works of the Romantic sculptor Félicie de Fauveau to open in 2012 at the Musée d’Orsay and other venues. He has recently stewarded and presented the first exhibition of the newly wax sculptures by Gustave Moreau (Musée national Gustave Moreau, “Gustave Moreau, l’envers de la sculpture”, in Gustave Moreau, l’homme aux figures de cire, Paris, Somogy, 2010). |
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Loren Partridge
Professor Emeritus
Early Modern Art
For contact and other Information:
email: lpart@berkeley.edu
more info.: Loren's Summary Page
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LOREN PARTRIDGE RETIRES SPRING 2009
After forty years of teaching in (and often chairing) our department, we are indebted to you and thank you. A Personal Tribute by two of Loren’s students From 1972 to 1977
I studied with Loren Partridge at Berkeley. My first seminar on “History Painting in Sixteenth-Century Rome” set the stage for my future research. Celebrating the conclusion of the course with a picnic dinner, we students tried to create an intermezzo to offer thanks. We got no farther than the opening word—“Ca-a-a-a-prarola!”—sung with appropriate gusto to the tune of “Oklahoma.” But it did sum up our admiration of Loren’s scholarship, knowledge of the archives, and intellectual standards. more.
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Peter Selz
Professor Emeritus
Modern Art
For contact and other Information:
email: peterselz@sbcglobal.net
At Left: Peter Selz speaking at the Fundraiser in memory of Walter Horn.
[Photo: Erin Babnik] |
From 2011 Newsletter: This has been a busy year. In the fall Peter wrote the lead
catalogue essay “Centenary Exhibition of Morris Graves” (New
York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 2010). He also worked with the
Montreal critic, John Grande; they co-curated the exhibition Eco-
Art for the Pori Museum in Finland and wrote an essay entitled
“Six Environmental Artists”. Closer to home Peter also curated
a large exhibition “Framing Abstraction” for the Municipal Art
Gallery in Los Angeles and an international show of figurative
painting and sculpture called “Heads” for the Dolby Chadwick
Gallery in San Francisco. Dr. Paul Karlstrom’s biography, Peter
Selz. Sketches of a Life in Art is in publication at the UC Press, to
appear this fall. |
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Anne Wagner
Professor Emerita Modern and Contemporary Art
For contact and other Information:
email: awagner@berkeley.edu
more info.: Anne's Summary Page
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Anne Wagner RETIRED SPRING 2010.
From 2011 Newsletter: Anne Wagner writes that this has been a year of firsts: the first
spent living in London, the first as Professor Emerita, the first
commuting by bicycle to the Millbank home of Tate. It saw
her lecturing for the first time in Oxford, Stockholm, York, and
Burlington, VT–this last thanks to Assistant Professor Anthony
Grudin, to whom she owes warm thanks. In October 2010, she
delivered the inaugural lecture in a annual series launched at
Tate in honor of a former director, Sir John Rothenstein. (Another
first: its electronic publication in Tate Papers, Issue 15.) Speaking
of publications: she corrected more edits and proofs than she
would ever have thought possible, and among them those for
her first essay, published in Cubes and Anarchy (LACMA), on the
sculptor David Smith. Her first granddaughter arrived, and, if not
her first grandson, then the first one named Thomas. In all this,
some of the strongest notes of continuity have been visits from
Berkeley students, colleagues and friends: Elizabeth Ferrell,
Lizzy Ramhorst, Sonal Khullar, Linda Fitzgerald, Michael
Thompson, Shannon Jackson, Marty Jay, Cathy Gallagher, Sanjyot
Mehendale, Chris Hallett, and Tony Kaes. With any luck the next
few months will bring a whole new wave of travelers her way.
For more information, please see Anne's Summary Page
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Joanna Williams
Professor Emerita
Art of India & Southeast Asia
For contact and other Information:
email: prusty@berkeley.edu
more info.: Joanna's Summary Page
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Joanna Williams RETIRED SPRING 2010
From 2011 Newsletter: Joanna Williams has been in good health herself, although her
travel has been limited to visiting her 97-year-old mother in
Indiana. Joanna taught her last graduate seminar this spring and
from it learned a lot on the subject of pictorial narration. She
was much cheered by a recent visit from Kirtana Thangavelu
(PhD 1998), who has left UCSC for the Central Indian University
in Hyderabad, where she loves the challenge of teaching a new
kind of students.
For more information, please see Joanna's Summary Page
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David H. Wright
Professor Emeritus
Art from Augustus to Charlemagne
423 Doe Library
510-642-4040
email: wright@berkeley.edu
Mailing Address: 416 Doe Library #6020 Berkeley, Ca 94720
download Wright's CV
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Education: - Harvard College, A.B. 1950 (completed requirements for concentration with honors in Physics in 1949; then changed to Fine Arts; honors thesis on Walter Gropius)
- Harvard Graduate School of Design, Basic Design with Josef Albers, summer 1950 Graduate work at Harvard, Munich (studied Archaeology and History of Art with Profs. Buschor, Gall, Kähler, Usener, 1951-52), London, Warburg Institute (studied with Profs. Buchthal, Gombrich, Wormald, 1953-54),
- Harvard Ph.D., January 1957; thesis: The Vespasian Psalter and the Eighth Century Renascence.
Fellowships:
Fulbright Fellowship to the Warburg Institute, London, 1953-4 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1960-1 Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1962-3, 1976-7, 1984, 1993-4
Teaching:
- Harvard University: Instructor in Fine Arts and Resident Tutor, 1956-60 at Berkeley since 1963
- main teaching field: Art from Augustus to Charlemagne
- advanced specialties: manuscript illustration, codicology, numismatics
- undergraduate seminars in photography
- freshman seminars in campus architecture, classic movies.
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