Salah Hassan

Hassan honored for elevating the study of global modern art

Salah Hassan, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Africana Studies, has been elected as the 2021 Distinguished Scholar by the College Art Association for his scholarship and curatorial work, which have been deeply formative in bringing recognition to the study of modern and contemporary African and African diaspora art.

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Three A&S professors named Milstein Faculty Fellows

Andrew Moisey, assistant professor of history of art and visual studies; Malte Ziewitz, assistant professor of science & technology studies and Tao Leigh Goffe, assistant professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender, & sexuality studies, have been chosen as new Milstein Faculty Fellows in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity.

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Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading

Iftikhar Dadi Salah M. Hassan

Title:

Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading

Edited by:

Salah Hassan and Iftikhar Dadi

Publisher:

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Year:

2001

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Geronimo Cristobal

My research examines the relationship of visual form, material culture, and literary production in Maritime Southeast Asia, with a focus on Islamic art and the networks of Muslim port cities. Drawing on vernacular systems of visuality and belief, I explore how ornament and devotion converged in the material cultures of global Islam. I examine how scale, format, and media specificity shape meaning and representation by integrating close readings of texts and images with research into the historical readers and users of talismanic and nacreous objects—such as pearls, hilts, scrolls, and devotional diagrams—that circulated across the Indian Ocean and the Sulu Sea, and that reappear, often reframed, in early modern European paintings. Drawing on an archipelagic methodology, I approach the sea as a generative matrix through which knowledge and image-worlds circulated and transformed. My research traces the cultural-critical formation of Southeast Asian artists, examining how religious and colonial encounters mediated their artistic subjectivity. Engaging the historiography of Southeast Asian and Islamic art, I foreground syncretic expressions and local epistemologies, attending to how they have both supported and unsettled imperial frameworks.

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Juliana Fagua Arias

Juliana is an art historian and curator of Latin American art and material culture. Her research explores artistic exchange between Asia and the Spanish Americas during the colonial period, with particular attention to the visual and material impact of the Manila Galleon trade. She is especially interested in materiality as a driver of cultural connectivity in the early modern trans-pacific milieu, focusing on the physical, affective, and historical aspects of materials—like silk and camelid fibers, lacquer, feathers, mother of pearl and emeralds—and the ways they interact with their makers, consumers, and environments over time.

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Jenna Marvin

Jenna's research focuses on the history of American photography from the nineteenth century to the present with an emphasis on the development of corporate capitalism in the United States. Her dissertation project focuses on early industrial pictures of coal mining in Pennsylvania and analyzes the emergence of industrial photography as a distinct genre at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Alice Fung

Alice’s dissertation examines the cultural development of postwar Hong Kong, looking at how Western modernism took root, changed, and adapted in the city. Instead of viewing modernism only as an artistic style, she explores how it functioned within shifting political, cultural, and colonial contexts. Her project positions Hong Kong as an important site for rethinking the global history of modernism and offers a fresh perspective on postwar Chinese art beyond the usual focus on socialism.

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Eric Goh

Eric Goh is interested in modern and contemporary art that treats the region of Southeast Asia as method for prospecting socially-engaged practices. He is also deeply committed to blurring the boundary between fine art and material culture. Currently his work examines how craft, as an ideological and social tool, is invoked as both a curative and obstructive antithesis to colonial, industrial, and digital modernity within the expanded field of craft-based artistic practices in Malaysia.

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Considering a career in paintings conservation 9.20.22

History of Art Career Symposium lecture - Matthew Hayes. This informal talk will discuss my career trajectory as a paintings conservator following undergraduate study of art history at Cornell (BA ’99), including recent scholarship and graduate teaching.

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Sensing Borderlands 9.14.22

Jung Joon Lee, "Sensing Borderlands: The DMZ, Camptowns, and the Theater of Repetition," Wednesday September 14, 4:45pm, GSH G22, Findley History of Art Lecture Series

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Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th–20th Centuries

Annetta Alexandridis

Title:

Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th–20th Centuries: Demolition, Defacement, Disposal in Europe and Beyond

Editor:

Edited by: Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček

Publisher:

De Gruyter

Year:

2022

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