Welcome to

UNC Art

History!

Schedule

1:30-2:00 Welcome and Program Overview (Carol Magee and Daniel Sherman)

2:00-2:30 Faculty/Student Introductions (short break at end)

2:30-2:45 Tour of the Visual Resources Library (JJ Bauer)

2:45-3:15 Tour of Sloane Art Library (Josh Hockensmith)

3:15-3:45 Tour of Ackland Art Museum (Carolyn Allmendinger)

3:45-4:00 Break

4-5:00 ASGO Happy Hour

Art History at UNC

• Art and Art History Department Web Site: https://art.unc.edu/courses-and-degrees/

• Graduate School Web Site:

• https://gradschool.unc.edu/academics/degreeprograms/

UNC COVID Information

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Art History Graduate Degree

Programs at UNC

• M.A.: 2 years, 36 credits, culminates in a thesis

• M.A./ MLS or MIS: 3 years, 54 credits, joint program with School of Library and Information Science, two theses

• Ph.D.: 3 to 5 semesters (30-48 credits) of course work, typically 5 years overall, culminates in a dissertation

Art History

Core Faculty

African, African-American, and Diaspora• John Bowles, Carol Magee, Victoria

Rovine, Lyneise Williams

Medieval and Early Modern• Christoph Brachmann, Kathryn

Desplanque, Tatiana String, Dorothy

Verkerk

Modern and Contemporary• J.J. Bauer, Cary Levine, Carol Magee,

Daniel Sherman

Art of the Americas• John Bowles, Maggie Cao, Eduardo

Douglas, Lyneise Williams

Adjunct Faculty• Ackland Art Museum: Carolyn

Allmendinger, Peter Nisbet,

Elizabeth Manekin

• American Studies: Bernard Herman

• Classics: Hérica Valladares

Degree

Requirements,

MA

12 courses (36 credit hours)

ARTH 850 (Methods)

5- 900 level graduate seminars

4 -900 level or mixed-level courses

Writing Seminar (ARTH 991)

Thesis writing (ARTH 992)

*1 foreign language

May take two courses in other departments

*Language proficiency exams offered by the Graduate School in French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, OR successful completion of fourth semester language course

Degree Requirements, PhD

(entering with MA)

10 courses (30 credit hours)4-900 level graduate seminars4- 900 level or mixed level coursesARTH 991 (Writing Seminar)ARTH 994 (Dissertation writing)*2 foreign languagesMay take two courses in other departments

*Language proficiency exams offered by the Graduate School in French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, OR successful completion of fourth semester language course

Degree Requirements, PhD

(entering without MA)

16 courses (48 credit hours)8 - 700-900 level graduate seminars5 - 900 level or mixed level courses

ARTH 850 (Methods)ARTH 991 (Writing Seminar)ARTH 994 (Dissertation writing)

*2 foreign languages

*Language proficiency exams offered by the Graduate School in French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, OR successful completion of fourth semester language course

Research Funding

Departmental funding:

• Special assistantships; Travel funding; Opportunity for advanced students to teach

their own course

Campus funding:

• Graduate School: Research funds, Dissertation Completion,

Travel funds

• Center for Global Initiatives

• Ackland Art Museum (Huntley and Object-Based Teaching Fellowships)

Research Funding

Additional Opportunities:

• FLAS Language Fellowships

• Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program

• Center for European Studies

• Graduate and Professional Student Federation Travel Grants

• Southern Oral History Project

• Women and Gender Studies

ARTH 961: Seminar in Medieval ArtFall 2021 Topic: OrnamentDorothy Verkerk

In contemporary society to be ornamental or decorative is a pejorative term and the person or object is relegated as someone or something not to be taken seriously. This is the result of an aesthetic dominated by the Greco/Roman, Renaissance and Modern western European notions and tastes that give primacy to the body, landscape and abstraction as well as the media of sculpture and painting. This seminar challenges this idea that ornament is superficial and looks at works of art and architecture where ornament is essential to the work of art and even the primary means of its agency.

Clothing and adornment play a crucial role in the construction and perpetuation of power in society. In this graduate seminar, fashion (clothing, accessories, footwear, and body adornment) we focus on fashion as the central cultural component for examining power. Exploring theories of power, material culture studies, cultural studies, and art history, we seek to understand the ways fashion and style serve as a cultural marker for the display and assertion and reinforcement of power. Selected readings will cover diverse historical periods and geographic locations as well as cultural groups and identity categories like sexuality, gender, race, and class. Students will have the opportunity to bring their areas of interest into the discussions and written analyses.

Right: President Barack Obama, Kehinde Wiley. 2018. Oil on canvas. The National Portrait Gallery.

ARTH985: Fashioning Power Graduate Seminar, Fall 2021/Dr. Williams

This seminar critically examines the relationships between technology and art in modern culture, with particular emphasis on the implicit and explicit politics of such relationships. We explore histories of art, aesthetics, scientific thinking, and mechanical production as ongoing struggles over notions of social progress, liberation, and domination.

ARTH 984: Art and Technology

Fall 2021

Prof. Cary Levine

Other Courses Fall 2021

ARTH 850 Methods (Professor Desplanque)

ARTH 473 Early Modern and Modern Decorative Arts (Dr. Bauer)Traces major historical developments in the decorative and applied arts, landscape design, and material culture of Western society from the Renaissance to the present.

ARTH 488 Contemporary African Art (Professor Rovine)Examines modern and contemporary African art (1940s to the present) for Africans on the continent and abroad; topics include tradition, cultural heritage, colonialism, postcolonialism, local versus global, nationalism, gender, identity, diaspora.

ARTH/HIST 514 Monuments and Memory (Professor Sherman)Explores the role of monuments in the formation of cultural memory and identity, both nationally and globally, chiefly in Europe and the U.S. Topics include the construction of identities in and through public spaces, commemoration of both singular individuals and ordinary citizens, and the appearance of new types of post-traumatic monuments in the 20th century.

Spring 2022 Courses

(Preliminary List)

• ARTH 466 History of the Illuminated Book (Prof. Verkerk)

• ARTH 485 Art of the Harlem Renaissance (Prof. Bowles)

• ARTH 588 Current Issues in Art (Prof. Levine)

• ARTH 957 Seminar in African Art: Art, Craft, Artifact: Classifying Objects & People (Prof. Rovine)

• ARTH 971 Seminar in Renaissance Art: German and Netherlandish Art, ca. 1475-ca. 1550 (Prof. Brachmann)

• ARTH 980 Seminar in Modern Art: Mexican Muralism in Context (Prof. Douglas)

This course focuses on the variety of ways in which scholars in the arts

disseminate their research and market themselves. Students will pursue a

semester-long project, structured to suit their career goals. The class will focus

on communication, both written and oral, with weekly analyses of readings,

student presentations, and short in-class writing exercises. The semester

will incorporate several guest lectures by art historians in a variety of careers,

conventional and unconventional. The course will also address urgent issues in

the field, and in higher education/ the art world more broadly, from the

impacts of the pandemic to ongoing struggles over decolonization of the

arts and academia.

ARTH 852: Professional Development

Spring 2021

Vicki Rovine

Take courses at Duke's Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies: (https://aahvs.duke.edu/current-courses/2020Sprng)*Robertson Scholars bus offers free transport between UNC & Duke

Centers, Programs, Departments and Institutes with Relevant Faculty, Research Resources, and Courses (not an exhaustive list!):

Centers:o African Studies Centero Carolina Asia Centero Center for Middle East and Islamic Studieso Center for Faculty Excellenceo Center for European Studieso Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East

European Studieso Center for the Study of the American Southo Center for Urban and Regional Studieso Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture

and History and the Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History.

Departments and Programs:o African, African American and

Diaspora Studieso American Studieso Women and Gender Studieso Program in Medieval and Early

Modern Studies.

Institutes:o Institute of African American

Research and the Black Communities Conference

o Institute for the Study of the Americas

Departmental Life

Art Students Graduate Organization (ASGO)

Workshops on:• Interviewing• Syllabus writing• Grant writing• Alt-Ac Career Panel

Leadership Opportunities:•ASGO Officers, including Faculty Liaison•Plan Annual Symposium•Departmental Life

Social Events:• Drinks at TRU• Craft Night• Zoom Cocktails

Recent Department Events

COMING SOON!

COMING SOON!https://go.unc.edu/Ld6x4

The 2021 Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History

Virtual Lecture Series: 5:30pm March 22, 2021 | 5:30pm March 30, 2021 | 5:30pm April 7, 2021 | 5:30pm April 15, 2021 Department of Art and Art History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Register Here: http://go.unc.edu/Ld6x4

This series of lectures explores the idea of the agency and creativity of a sometimes personified "Nature" in late medieval and early modern Europe. Often seeming to operate with surprising independence from the Christian God, Nature was understood as both a creator of artists and a powerful generator of images that served as inspiration to those same artists. This series of lectures traces a set of ideas that shaped the work of artists and art theorists, scientists and theologians in both northern and southern Europe, looking especially closely at the problem of "figured stones": stones (some fossils, some not) that seemed to bear mysterious images "made by Nature.”

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Rebecca Zorach Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern University

The Graduate Student Center

Sample events:

• Tips and Tricks Using MSWord to Format Your Dissertation

• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusive Teaching in the Community College Setting

• Effective Mentoring• What every Graduate Student should

know about using LinkedIn –• Writing a Diversity Statement• Writing Effective Teaching Statements

Provides an intellectually stimulating and rich learning environment

that builds a strong interdisciplinary graduate community.

Campus Communities

and Affinity Groups

• Black Graduate and Professional Students Association

• Black Student Movement

• Carolina Black Caucus

• Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS

• Carolina Women’s Center

• Initiative for Minority Excellence

• LGBTQ Center

• Southern Historical & Southern Folklife Collections, Wilson Library

• Triangle African Studies Hub (TASH)

• Womxn of Worth Initiative

Clockwise from top left: Ackland Art Museum; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University; North Carolina Museum of Art; Reynolda House of American Art; Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston Salem; Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library, High Point; Mint Museum, Charlotte

• The arts are for everyone.• The arts create and share new meaning.• Every space can be a creative space.

•Creative industries drive economic growth.•Experiencing wonder sparks exploration.

Website

Thank

you!

• Daniel Sherman

dsherman@email.unc.edu

My research focuses on medieval and early modern art, especially on artistic and cultural exchange between France and Germany, including the aspect of art and (proto-)national identity-building. I have recently been working on a monumental Entombment group in Eastern France (above). This very prominent donation will be studied and identified as an anti-Protestant monument in the context of the religious controversy between Catholics and Protestants. While on leave in spring 2021 I am also working on a book-length project on court art under Henri II of France (r 1547-1559).

Christoph Brachmann

Mary H. Cain Distinguished

Professor

European Art 1100-1650,

European Architecture

Ligier Richier, Entombment, ca. 1560, stone, St. Mihiel, Church of St. Étienne

Dr. Williams is the author of Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932, (February 2019, Bloomsbury Academic Publishers), which examines how Parisians’ visual language of Latin Americans in popular imagery inextricably links blackness to Latin American identity beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. Williams focuses on shifts in Latinizing visuality in three case studies focusing on the imagery of Cuban circus entertainer, Chocolat, representations of Panamanian World Bantamweight Champion boxer, Alfonso Teofilo Brown, and paintings of Black Uruguayans by Pedro Figari, a Uruguayan artist during his residence in Paris. In her current book project, Williams explores the intersection of glamour, sports, technology, fashion, masculinity, and the black male athletic body in 1920s and 30s Paris.

Williams is the founder and director of VERA (Visual Electronic Representations in the Archive) Collaborative, an interdisciplinary center advocates for culturally-responsible archival practices that address the significant erasures in visual, material, and historical representation disproportionately affecting communities of color. Williams presented her VERA Collaborative research at the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, The British Library, The National Archives (UK), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and The Alan Turing Institute. VERA Collaborative is one of the founding co-partners of the Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC). VERA partners with the UNC Chapel Hill Libraries, the Maryland State Archives, the National Park Service, Kings College London Digital Humanities Department, and the Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS).

Lyneise WilliamsAssociate Professor of Art History (PhD Yale 2004)

Above: Dr. Williams and her 2019 book, Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932.

Dorothy Verkerk

Associate Professor

Late Antiquity and early medieval Ireland

My current research is focused on the non-biblical iconography on the Irish High crosses such as cats, disembodied heads, and cat-headed snakes. For example, Muirdach’s Cross, 10th c. CE, seen above.

• 19,000 works of art• Tremendous geographic range, including art from Africa,

Asia, Europe, North America, and South America• Chronological range of 5,000 years, from antiquity through

contemporary art• Media include painting, sculpture, ceramics, drawings,

prints, photography, video, digital media

Ackland Art Museum Collections

Unidentified artist, Mughal, Jahangir period, Perforated Screen, c. 1605-27, sandstone, 42 1/8 × 40 9/16 × 3 3/4 in. (107 × 103 × 9.5 cm). Special Acquisition Fund, 2019.16.3.

Nam June Paik, South Korean, active in the United States, 1932-2006, Eagle Eye, 1996, antique slide projector, aluminum, computer keyboards, eye chart, neon, 9 five-inch televisions, 2 nine-inch televisions, dvd player, dvd, 66 11/16 x 86 3/8 x 24 1/2 in. (169.4 x 219.4 x 62.2 cm). Ackland Fund, 99.8.

Valentin de Boulogne, French, 1591-1632, St. John the Evangelist, c. 1622-1623, oil on canvas, 38 5/16 × 52 15/16 in. (97.3 × 134.5 cm). The William A. Whitaker Foundation Art Fund, 63.4.1.

Opportunities forGraduate Students• Work at the Ackland

• Paid Fellowships and Internships offered during the academic year and the summer

• Focus on teaching, research, and other aspects of museum work

• Teach at the Ackland

• Use the collection and exhibitions to support your own teaching

• Participate in workshops on methods of teaching with art objects

• Research at the Ackland

• Curators and curatorial files are available for research consultations

• Belong at the Ackland• Student memberships are free

for UNC-Chapel Hill students

•Volunteer at the Ackland•Volunteer docents teach K-12 and community groups in the galleries

ASGO

(Virtual)

Happy

Hour

• https://unc.zoom.us/j/94061829519?pwd=TUpYMTlPMGlTZVdWSTJPYzRZdkxVUT09