Notes from the Field: Materiality

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsMartha RoslerMartha Rosler is an American artist working in diverse media, including photography, video, and installation. Her concerns range from landscapes of everyday life to the public sphere, especially as these affect women. In November 2012 New York's Museum of Modern Art presented her performance event Meta-Monumental Garage Sale [roslerstudio@earthlink.net, http://www.martharosler.net/].Caroline Walker BynumCaroline Walker Bynum is professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study and university professor emerita at Columbia University in New York. Her most recent book is Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe (Zone Books, 2011) [School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. 08540, cwbynum@ias.edu].Natasha EatonNatasha Eaton is lecturer in the history of art at University College London, specializing in British colonial and South Asian visual culture. She has recently completed two books, Mimesis in Flux: Artworks, Networks, Empires in India, 1765–1860 (Duke University Press, forthcoming) and Color, Art and Empire (I. B. Tauris, forthcoming) [Department of the History of Art, Gower Street, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, U.K., n.eaton@ucl.ac.uk].Michael Ann HollyMichael Ann Holly is the Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute. Interested in the critical history of art, she published The Melancholy Art this winter with Princeton University Press [Research and Academic Program, the Clark Institute, Williamstown, Mass. 01267, mholly@clarkart.edu].Amelia JonesAmelia Jones is Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture. Her recent publications include articles on performance art histories, feminist art, and curating. She recently published Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts and Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History, co-edited with Adrian Heathfield [Art History and Communication Studies Department, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G5, Can., amelia.jones@mcgill.ca].Michael KellyMichael Kelly is professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His most recent book is A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art (Columbia University Press, 2012), and he is editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 1998; 2nd edition forthcoming) [Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, N.C. 28223, mjkelly1@uncc.edu].Robin KelseyRobin Kelsey is the author of Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850–1890 and co-editor with Blake Stimson of The Meaning of Photography. He is at work on two books, one about photography and chance and one about photography in the United States between 1945 and 1989 [Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Mass. 02138, kelsey@fas.harvard.edu].Alisa LaGammaAlisa LaGamma, curator of African art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has overseen since 1998 an ambitious program of exhibitions and publications, recognized for its outstanding scholarship in 2012 by the Bard Graduate Center. Her dissertation on the Punu Mukudj masquerade was based on fieldwork in southern Gabon [Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York 10028, alisa.lagamma@metmuseum.org].Monika WagnerMonika Wagner, professor emerita of art history at Hamburg University, chaired the Funkkolleg Moderne Kunst and was fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. She has researched the fine arts since 1800, public spaces, and the iconography of materials. Her publications include Das Material der Kunst and Lexikon des künstlerischen Materials [Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20149 Hamburg, Germ.].Oliver WatsonOliver Watson worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1979–2003), in Doha, Qatar (2003–5), the Ashmolean Museum (2005–8), and as the director of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (2008–11). He was appointed the first I. M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Oxford in 2011 [Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, 3 St. John Street, Oxford OX1 2LG, U.K., oliver.watson@orinst.ox.ac.uk].Tristan WeddigenTristan Weddigen is professor of early modern art at the University of Zurich (PhD Technische Universität, Berlin). He has published on Italian Renaissance art and on the history of collecting. He is currently leading the European Research Council Starting Grant research project "An Iconology of the Textile Medium in Art and Architecture" [University of Zurich, Institute of Art History, Raemistrasse 73, CH-8006 Zurich, Switz., tristan.weddigen@uzh.ch].