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Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims reconstructing no-longer extant or fragmentarily preserved Roman and Byzantine artworks...
Arts & HumanitiesDiliana Angelova - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims at creating a born-digital catalogue of Byzantine boxes made of ivory, bone, and wood. These objects, dated between the 10th and the 12th centuries, reveal an unusual side of Byzantium. They demonstrate that the Byzantines valued merrymaking, eroticism and the cultural heritage of Greece and Rome...
Arts & HumanitiesDiliana Angelova - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Tasks associated with researching in the humanities...
Arts & HumanitiesAglaya Glebova - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This book project examines photographs and photographic albums of the gulags, or Soviet forced labor camps, from the 1930s onwards, in particular the little-known visual legacy of the gulag system in Kazakhstan, and its relationship to forced sedentarization. These state-produced images entirely elide the violence of the forced...
Arts & HumanitiesAglaya Glebova - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This book project examines the idea of the exhausted body and the need for its revitalization in Soviet art and thinking of the 1920s and 1930s. How was the body damaged by war, overwork, trauma, and material scarcity to be revitalized? How was it to be represented? Could art help...
Arts & HumanitiesAglaya Glebova - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project centers on locating little-known primary sources on art in Soviet-art Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in the 1920s and 1930s and 1950s and 1960s...
Arts & HumanitiesAglaya Glebova - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies serves as the focal point at the University of California at Berkeley for students and faculty who conduct research and teaching on the geographic region of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. ISEEES is working to organize and digitize its...
Arts & HumanitiesDarcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
My new book is a meditation on the strange tenderness of handcolored photographs. Although I consider professional studio work, I focus on amateur practice of painting directly onto black and white photographs from the 1860s to 1950s. Research entails locating pertinent sources such as paint kits, how-to books and...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Spanish artist Jusepe Ribera interrogated the media of painting, drawing and etching in the vice-royalty of Naples. This publication project looks at the artist's In Ribera's work and its place in the Spanish Empire. His recourse to classical mythology as well as the depiction...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Beato Antonio Baldinucci (Florence 1665 – Lazio 1717), son of the art historian to the Medici court, was a Jesuit missionary in Lazio, known for his penitential missions, involving carrying a cross, flagellation and bonfires of the vanities. During these internal missions, Baldinucci carried with him a copy of a painting...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The French Huguenot ceramicist Bernard Palissy’s is famous for his casting of living specimens (amphibians and reptiles) for his plates. He was also a prolific writer, revealing his research in salt flats and his observation of fossils in the mountains. Palissy’s Discours admirable (1580) is a dialogue between Theory and...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesTodd Olson - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Simone Vouet was an emigré artist in Rome in the 1620s before he returned to France and became a major painter in Paris, most notably serving Anne d'Autriche, the mother of Louis III. This research project concerns the artist's production in Rome, most notably his execution...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences