History of Art + Visual Culture – RISD Academic Affairs

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Schiff at Cambridge University Conference

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Karen Schiff (Lecturer, History of Art + Visual Culture), presented a paper at Jesus College, Cambridge University, about the marbled leaf in the novel, Tristram Shandy. Her paper, Revitalizing Humanity through ‘Reading’ the Marbled Page, offered new...

Scanlan, Divine and Demonic

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Suzanne Scanlan (Lecturer, History of Art + Visual Culture) recently published her book, Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de’Specchi, 1400-1500: Religious Women and Art in 15th-Century Rome. It is published by Amsterdam University Press and...

Maltz-Leca Book Published

Written on March 20, 2018. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Leora Maltz-Leca (Associate Professor, History of Art + Visual Culture) has had her book, Wiliam Kentridge: Process as Metaphor & Other Doubtful Enterprises, published by the University of California Press. Richard Shiff (Effie Marie Cain Regents...

Lambrecht Reviews Tanzanian Talk

Written on February 6, 2018. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Winnie Lambrecht (Senior Lecturer, History of Art + Visual Culture) recently reviewed, Popobawa: Tanzanian Talk, Global Misreadings, by Katrina Daly Thompson (Indiana University Press, 2017) in the Spring 2018 edition of the Journal of Folklore Research...

Sittenfeld Featured in New Yorker

Written on November 21, 2017. Posted in Announcements + Updates.

Josephine Sittenfeld (Critic, History of Art + Visual Culture) recently had her work featured in the New Yorker. In an article entitled, A Photographer’s Old College Classmates, Back Then and Now, the article’s author Eren Orbey describes...