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Professor Gülru Çakmak's new book Jean-Léon Gérôme and the Crisis of History Painting in the 1850s has been published.
Professor Gülru Çakmak's Jean-Léon Gérôme and the Crisis of History Painting in the 1850s(Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2017) examines a turning point in French visual culture in the 1850s, when an increasing demand for empirical observation, coupled with a growing sense of an insurmountable distance separating the present from the past, led to the decline of traditional h
Karen Kurczynski Teaches Modern & Contemporary Art in Belgium
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Karen Kurczynski is living in Belgium on a Fulbright Scholar Grant for Teaching and Research at the University of Ghent for Fall semester, 2018. She is co-teaching a Research Seminar in Modern and...
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Adjunct Professor Kate Martineau Releases New Book titled "Ray Johnson: Selective Inheritance"
Sunday, June 24, 2018
On June 24th, friends and colleagues gathered at Amherst Books in Amherst, MA to celebrate the release of Kate Dempsey Martineau's new book, Ray Johnson: Selective Inheritance. This publication is...
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Rachel Young *17 at the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Rachel Young, who received her MA last year, was a featured speaker at the Renaissance Center on Wednesday, November 1st as part of the Center's Wednesday Lecture Series. The lecture was titled ...
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Mount Holyoke Professor Paul Staiti's expertise tapped by the New York Times
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Paul Staiti, Professor of Fine Arts at Mount Holyoke College, was quoted in a recent New York Times article on the National Gallery's comission of Amy Sherald to paint the offical portrait of...
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Professor Timothy M. Rohan's recent lecture at the Yale Center for British Art
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Professor Timothy M. Rohan lectured about postwar American architect Paul Rudolph's use of 19th century plaster casts of antique monuments at the Yale Center for British Art on Oct. 25, 2017. His...
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Gallery Talk: Intimate Looking in Sculpture from Auguste Renoir to Niki de Saint Phalle
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Gülru Çakmak, Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art at UMass and Guest Curator of A Very Long Engagement: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture and Its Afterlives, will discuss her...
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