JADVICA da COSTA NUNES, Associate Professor of Art History

Chair, Department of Art (1993-present) Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. 18104-5586

Area of Specialty: History or Art and Photography in America and Europe 1750-

Courses Presently Taught: All Advanced Classes (taught every three years) are currently “W” courses

Introduction to Art History
Ancient Art
Italian Renaissance Art
Northern Renaissance Art
Baroque Art
Eighteenth Century Art
Nineteenth Century Art
American Art

Courses Previously Taught:

History of Photography
Modern Art
Perils and Potentials of the 20th Century 1 & II
Art of the Romantic Era
American Genre Painting (Graduate)
Drawing I
Life Drawing

EDUCATION :

Graduate:

Rutger University, New Brunswick., NJ
Ph.D.. 1983
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Iconography of Labor in American Art 1750-1850
M.Ph., 1980 MA, 1977
Title of MA Thesis: “The Close-Up In Twentieth-Century Photography"

Undergraduate:

William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ
BA. 1973
Major: Art Studio and Art History
NJ and NY certification to teach art. K 12 Art Therapy
Minor: Art Education

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION:

Associate Professor of Art History, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. 18104 (1984 to present).

Previous Teaching Experience:

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History, Rutgers Graduate School, New Brunswick, NJ. (Seminar on Nineteenth-Century American Genre Painting), Spring 1985.

Assistant Professor of Art History, Monmouth College, West Long Branch, 1979-1984

Adjunct Instructor of Art History: Rutgers University 1979; Fairlegh Dickinson University, 1Sr;r7-79; Jersey City State College, NJ, 1977-79; and Livingston College, 1975-77.

Instructor - Art Therapy, Clinton State Prison for Women, NJ and Meadowview Mental Hospital, Secaucus, NJ, 1973.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

President - Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
(1993-1997, 1st term): (1997-2000, 2nd term).
A national interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary studies. Celebrating its twentieth anniversary, 2000.

Duties:

-- Oversee/supervise program and locations directors of annual three day conference.
-- Oversee/supervise editor of annual publication, Nineteenth Century Studies. -- Organize and conduct board meetings, business meetings, etc. -- Advise treasurer, membership director, journal and newsletter editors. -- Ad hoc member of elections, membership and public relations committees. -- Publish and supervise distribution of all association literature (call for papers, application brochures, and conference materials. -- Oversee creation and maintenance of web site.
-- Secure location and help secure funding for conference each year. -- Develop and implement long-range goals which have included: incorporation of the organization; campaign for membership expansion; development of cyberspace communications; development of new programs to enhance scholarly interaction between members, strengthening of association's finances; oversee transition in editorship and financing of journal and newsletter; -- Oversee changes in editorial policies, election procedures, and interactions with other associations.

Member, Board of Advisors, Southeastern Nineteenth Centuary Association, (1987- 1993) Elected to serve two three-year terms.

Art Exhibitions Editor. Nineteenth Century Studies, (1992 to present).

Authorship of approx. 20-25 page essay review of major exhibitions and their accompanying exhibition catalogues in America and Europe for a scholarly interdisciplinary annual publication.

Editorial Reviewer:

-- Art essays for Nineteenth Century Studies, 1989 to present. -- Nineteenth-century American art essays for SECAC Journal, 1996-98. -- Paper proposals for NCSA conferences, 1987 to present. -- Art texts for Harcourt, Brace College Publishers, Texas, 1995-97. -- Grant proposal for Susquehanna University, 1992.
Paper proposals, SENSCA conferences, 1989-1993.
-- Nineteenth-century American and British essays for RutgersArtReview, 1979-81.

Consultant:

-- Advise organizers of Lehigh Valley Hospital Symposium "Hospitals and Healing Arts", February 10, 1996.
-- Art History Faculty Consultant, The College Board and Educational Testing Service, 199495.
-- Consultant, Allentown Art Museum, 1985-91.
-- Letters of Recommendation requested: Virginia Commonwealth University, -- Susquehanna University, Franklin and Marshall College, Gettysburg University, University of Alabama at Birmingham and at Huntsville.

Program Director, Annual Conference. Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Southeastern
Studies:

'Time and Space in 19th Century Life and Culture". Hosted by the University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 7-9, 1994.

Organized and Chaired Session:

"Metamorphosis: Word into Image", Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October, 1993.

Annual Conference. Southeastern Studies:

"Color and Colorfulness in Nineteenth-Century Life", Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, University of Florida, Tampa, April 24-26, 1992.

Organized and Chaired Session:

"American Art: Issues in National Identity," Southeastern College Art Association, University of Alabama at Birmingham, October, 1992.

Organized symposium and participant:

To coincide with exhibition, "Painting Progress, the Idea of Technology in American Art 1800-1917", Allentown Art Museum, October 19, 1991.

Chair of Panel:

"Political Agendas of Nineteenth-Century Cultures", Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Loyola University, New Orleans, April 1991.

Participant:

N.E.H. Summer Institute, Tufts University, Boston, "Technology in American Society 1607-1940, Choices and Consequences", June i-July 1, 1987.

CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES:

"Midst Steam and Smoke: The Pennsylvania Coal and Steel Industries in American Art 1850-1950" -- in progress-- under the direction of Art Gallery of Susquehanna University; o travel to five venues in Pennsylvania (currently seeking funding).

"The Child-Savers: Children and philanthropy in New York City 1850-2000" (working budget $100,000 to open March 2000) New York Historical Society, New York City.

"Women of the Land: Images of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis," Go-Curator.
Frank Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, October 1- November, 30, 1996.

"Painting Progress: The Idea of Technology in American Art 1800-1917", Allentown Art Museum, October 10 December 31, 1991.

"The Faculty Collects", Frank Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, August 21 October 10, 1991.

"The Man-Altered Landscape: Three Photographic Perspectives", Frank Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, September November 1986.

"Baroness Hyde de Neuville Sketches of America 1806-1822", New York Historical Society, NYC, Nov. March 1984-85, and the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, (June - August 1984).

PUBLICATIONS:

Exhibition Catalogues :

(In Progress) 'Midst Steam and Smoke: The Pennsylvania Steel and Coal Industries in American Art, 1850-1950.
Approximately 50 page publication, including essay and checklist.

(In Progress) The Child-Savers: Children and Philanthropy in New York City, 1850-2000.
Approximately 150 page publication, including two essays and checklist.

Painting Progress: American Art and the Idea of Technology. 1800-1917. (Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa.) 1991.

The Man-Altered Landscape: Three Photographic Perspectives. (Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa.) 1986.

Baroness Hyde de Neuville Sketches of America 1806-1822. (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ) 1984.

Articles:

"Righteous Violence; The Representation of Firearms in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Art," submitted for review of American Studies Journal, Sept. 1998.

"O.J.Rejlander's Photographs of Street Urchins: TheIdea of Poverty in MidVictorian Society, Nineteenth-Century Studies, 4, (Spring 1990) 93-136.

"The Naughty Child in Nineteenth Century American Art", British Journal of American Studies, (August 1987) 225~7.

"The Industrial Landscape in American Art 1800-1840: Ideology into Art", Journal of Industrial Archeology, (Fall 1986) 1938.

"Red Jacket, The Man and his Portraits", American Art Journal (Summer 1980) 4-20.

Art Exhibition Reviews:

"Pursuit of Plein Air Pleasures," Nineteenth Century Studies 12, summer, 1998, pp. 164-187.

"Grand Retrospectives," Nineteenth Century Studies ii, 1997, pp. 168-192. "Impressionism Redux."

Nineteenth Century Studies 10, 19%, pp. 1 11-133.

"Exploring Less Charted Visual Terrains," Nineteenth CenturyStudies 9, 1995, pp. 99-126.

"The Other French Impressionists"," Nineteenth Century Studies 8, 1994, pp. 105118.

"Reflections on a Bountiful Season for American Art," Nineteenth Century Studies 7, 1993, pp. 103-112.

Book Reviews:
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Winslow Homer in the 1890's: Prout's Neck Observed and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Paintings and Their Influence. Nineteenth Century Studies 6, 1992, pp. 86-94.
Wayne Craven, Colonial American Portraiture, British Journal of American Studies

PAPERS:

"Out of the Depths: The Representation of the Pennsylvania Coal Industry in American Art, 1850-1950," Southeastern College Art Association, Florida [International University, Miami, October, 1998.

"Righteous Violence: The representation of Firearms in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Art", Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Berkeley, University of California,, April 1997.

"Rhapsody in Steel: Pennsylvania Steel Industries and American Art", Southeastern College Art Association, Charleston, SC, October, 1996.

"The Gun as an Icon of Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century American Painting", (Expanded version) ,the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture Symposium, New York City, May 1996.

'The Gun as an Icon of Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century American Painting," The Southeastern College Art Association, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, October, 1995.

"The Old Mill in American Art” The Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Tulane University, New Orleans, April 1992.

"Technological Nostalgia in Nineteenth-Century American Art", the Southeastern College Art Association, University of Tennessee, Memphis, October, 1991.

"Flower Girls and Other Female Street Arabs as a Theme in Nineteenth-Century Art" the National Conference of Interdisciplinary 19th Century Studies Association, Long Branch, CA, March, 1990.

'The Flower Girl in Nineteenth-Century American Art: Reflections on Issues in Class and Gender", The Southeastern College Art Association, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA, October, 1990.

"The Craftsman in Nineteenth Century American Art", The Southeastern College Art Association, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, October, 1989.

"The High Bridge: Engineering as Art in Nineteenth Century American Art", The Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Georgia State University, Atlanta, April, 1989.

'The Image of Technology in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art," The Southeastern College Art Association, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, November, 1988.

"The Theme of the Artisan: An image of Ideal Labor in Late Nineteenth Century American Art", Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, Northeastern

University, Boston, April, 1988

"Street Arabs and Ragged Children: Reflections on the Victorian Idea of the Lower Class Child in British Photography", The Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Georgetown University, Washington DC, April, 1988

"Anti-Modems and the Image of Industry in Nineteenth-Century American Art", The Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, University of Alabama, Birmingham, April, 1987.

"The Cult of the self-made Man: A Comparative Analysis of Nineteenth Century Art and Literature". Mid-Hudson MLA, Marist College, NY,

"Rural Farm Festivities in Nineteenth-Century American Art, The Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Memphis State University, Tenn., April 1986.

"The Industrial Landscape in American Art 1800-1850", Society of Industrial Archeology Association, Newark, NJ, May, 1985.

'The Industrial Landscape in American Art 1800-1850," The City as Art Symposium, University of Lowell, Mass., October 31, 1985.

"The Schoolteacher in Nineteenth-Century American Art: A Reflection of the Changing Attitudes Regarding Sexual Roles and Education, National Women's Studies, Rutgers University, NJ, June, 1984.

"Baroness Hyde de Neuville Sketches of America", National Women's Studies, Rutgers University, NJ, June, 1984.

"The Impropriety of Children as a Theme in 19Th Century American Genre Painting", The Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA, April, 19&4.

"The Image of the Working Child", The Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association. Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, April, 1983.

"Home is Where the Hearth Is: Images of Women in American Genre Painting", Regional Women's Studies Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April,

"The Agrarian Myth in Nineteenth -Century American Art", Fourth Annual Goodson Symposium of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, May, 1981.

"Stereographs of Northeastern America 1865-1885: Gems of Scenery and Picturesque Ramblings", Graduate Student Symposium, Rutgers University, April,

INVITED LECTURES:

"Evolution of Genius: The Early Career of Gianlorenzo Bernini," to be delivered in April, 1999. The Italian Studies Association of Lehigh Valley, Allentown.

"Industrial Arcadia: American Landscape Painting in the Early Twentieth Century", Allentown Art Museum, March, 1996.

“On Nature of Close-Up Photography", Susquehanna University, September,

“Lines of Power: Engineering as Art in America", Air Products, Allentown, Pa.,

"The Dutch Little Masters", Allentown Art Museum, February, 1992. "Reflections upon Rembrandt and Hals", Allentown Art Museum, February, 1992. "Painting Progress: The Idea of Technology in American Painting", Allentown Art Museum (Symposium), October, 1991.
Four gallery lectures for “Painting Progress," Allentown Art Museum, Fall, 1991.

“The History of Women’s Fashion, Renaissance to Modern” Fashion, Renaissance to Modern", Friends of Muhlenberg College, April 1991

"Duecento and Trecento Art; The Proto-Renaissance in Italy", Allentown Art Museum, January, 1991.

"The Late Renaissance in Italy; Mannerism", Allentown Art Museum, February, 1991.

"l~ransitions and Precedents: Painti ng in the Late Nineteenth Century", Allentown Art Museum, January, 1989.

"Cubism and Futurism", Allentown Art Museum, January, 1989.

"The Representationof Technology in American Art", The American Studies Department, Brown University, Providence, RI, March, 1988.

"The Street Arab and the Cult of the Self-made Man in Nineteenth-Century American Art", Rutgers University Spring Art History Guest Lecture Series, New Brunswick, NJ, April 6, 1988.

"Rediscovering Some Nineteenth Century Minor Masters", Allentown Art Museum, Pa., February, 1988.

"Jacques L. David and Neo-Classicism", Allentown Art Museum, January 1988.

"Painters as Mythmakers: Art and Ideology in 19th Century America", Air Products Corporation, Trexlertown, Pa., May 1984.

"Baroness Hyde de Neuville Sketches of America", The New York Historical Society, Fall Lecture Series, November, 1984.

"Artists as Political Adversaries: J.L~ David and F. de Goya", Monmouth College, Honor Society Lecture Series, November, 1984.

"Just Plain Folks; American Nineteenth-Century Genre Painting", American Association of University Women, Monmouth County Chapter, NJ, April, 1981.

"Photographing the American West 1865-1885", American Association of University Women, Monmouth County Chapter, NJ, April, 1980.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Association of Art Historians American Studies Association Mid-Atlantic American Studies New England American Studies Nineteenth Century Studies Association Southeastern College Art Association Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association of American Historians

AWARDS:

Class of 1932 Faculty Research Grant, (1989).
Summer Research Grants.
Summer Course Development Grant, 1994.
New Jersey Graduate Fellowship (197479).