Prof. Gertsman is delighted to announce the publication of her article, “Playthings: Ivory on Ivory” in Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages, edited by Elizabeth Lapina & Vanina Kopp. The article features two Cleveland objects, the celebrated ivory mirror (1940.1200) and the ivory casket with the scenes of romances (1978.39.b). To learn more about the book, click here. To get a copy of the article, please email Prof. Gertsman directly.
Watch a recording of Professor Bolman’s recent lecture, titled “The Red Monastery Church (Upper Egypt): Its Significance and Conservation,” here.
Click here to read the new issue of the university art/sci magazine, which features an article on Prof. Gertsman’s Guggenheim Fellowship and includes a woodcut created by Ben and Reed in her honor!
Here is a sneak peek at Prof. Gertsman’s new book, Abstraction in Medieval Art, coming out this January! Read more about the book here. Prof. Gertsman professes undying gratitude to Reed O’Mara and Russell David Green for their copy editing help!
Professor Elina Gertsman talks about her new book The Middle Ages in 50 Objects, what she loves about Cleveland and more in her interview which was featured in The Daily. Click here to read more!
Only just published, The Middle Ages in 50 Objects, which Prof. Gertsman co-authored with Barbara Rosenwein, will be translated into Italian. The translation is slated to appear in 2020! For more on the book, click here.
Maggie Popkin, the Robson Junior Professor and Associate Professor of Art History, has been at work this past year researching ancient Roman souvenirs and memorabilia, a project supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
Professor Elina Gertsman (Department of Art History, Case Western Reserve University) and Vincent Debiais (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) received a $20,000 grant from the French-American Cultural Exchange Foundation for their collaborative project “Abstraction Before the Age of Abstract Art.”
Congratulations to Maggie Popkin who was promoted to Associate Professor effective July 1! Her first book,The Architecture of the Roman Triumph: Monuments, Memory, and Identity, was published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press.
Elina Gertsman’s and Barbara Rosenwein’s The Middle Ages in 50 Objects is published after being hailed as “a splendid visual feast” (Julia Smith, University of Oxford). Don’t miss the authors’ lecture, “Divine, Desirable, Deadly: the Middle Ages through Objects,” which will take place on December 12 at the Cleveland Museum of Art.