and some people may remember that Dr. Savage spoke at the ARLIS
conference in Pittsburgh in 2000 in the session on Andy Warhol's time
capsules on "Using Andy Warhol's Archives as a Teaching Tool."
Ted
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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Michelle Paquette
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> Apologies if I missed this, but just wanted to mention that Kirk Savage is
> the Chair of the History of Art and Architecture Department, and professor
> of the Art of the United States at the University of Pittsburgh, and we are
> very proud of his achievements! Congratulations, Dr. Savage!
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> From: "Kathleen Adrian" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 1:39:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [ARLIS-L] Kirk Savage Is the 2010 Eldredge Prize Winner
>
> Kirk Savage Is Awarded the 22nd Annual Eldredge Prize for
> His Book about the National Mall and the Transformation of Memorial Spaces
>
> The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2010 Charles C. Eldredge
> Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kirk Savage for his
> book Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the
> Transformation of the Memorial Landscape (University of California Press,
> 2009). It is recognized as a “beautifully written and cogently argued book
> that recounts the creation and re-creation of the memorial landscape of
> Washington, D.C., where generations of designers, engineers and artists have
> given concrete form to the imagined community of the nation.”
>
> The three jurors who awarded the $3,000 prize were Patricia Hills, professor
> of American art at Boston University; Margaretta M. Lovell, the Jay D.
> McEvoy Jr. Professor of the History of Art at the University of California,
> Berkeley; and Roberta K. Tarbell, visiting scholar at the Center for
> American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
>
> “Kirk Savage has written a compelling book about the history of one of the
> most important civic spaces in the United States that contributes an
> important perspective to the ongoing discussion of the role of the National
> Mall,” said Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the
> Smithsonian American Art Museum.
>
> The jurors wrote, “In part by design, in part by happenstance, the evolution
> of the Mall has been, Savage argues, a two-century tale of eloquent,
> shifting national self-definition. A relic-less site of civic pilgrimage,
> this public space with its monuments, vistas, urban forests and mass
> demonstrations, has proven a powerful battle ground of warring ideologies
> but also a site of national consensus-building. Anchored by accounts of the
> creation, reception and subsequent history of three very different
> monuments—the assertive Washington monument, the classicizing Lincoln
> Memorial and the minimalist Vietnam Veterans Memorial, as well as the
> abstract greensward they punctuate and define, Savage’s discussion is wide
> ranging and deeply nuanced.”
>
> Savage is professor and department chair in the history of art and
> architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned a doctorate degree
> from University of California, Berkeley in 1990. Savage began writing about
> public monuments and public space in the United States when he was a
> freelance writer in the early 1980s. His 1997 book Standing Soldiers,
> Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America won
> the John Hope Franklin Prize for best book published in American studies in
> 1998.
>
> The Eldredge Prize, named in honor of the former director of the museum
> (1982-1988), is sponsored by the American Art Forum, a patrons’ support
> organization. This annual award, initiated in 1989, seeks to recognize
> originality and thoroughness of research, excellence of writing and clarity
> of method. Single-author, book-length publications in the field of American
> art history appearing within the three previous calendar years are eligible.
> Dec. 1 is the deadline for 2011 nominations.
>
> Recent Eldredge Prize recipients include Cécile Whiting (2009) for her book
> Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (University of California Press,
> 2006) and JoAnne M. Mancini (2008) for Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and
> American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show (Princeton University
> Press, 2005). A complete list of past winners is available on the museum’s
> website at americanart.si.edu/research/awards/eldredge/.
>
> The museum’s research programs include fellowships for pre- and postdoctoral
> scholars, extensive photographic collections documenting American art and
> artists, and unparalleled art research databases. An active publications
> program of books, catalogs and the journal American Art complements the
> museum’s exhibitions and educational programs.
>
>
>
> Eldredge Prize Lecture
>
> On Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 4 p.m., Savage will present the annual Eldredge
> Prize lecture in the museum’s Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. A reception
> follows the event. The lecture and reception are free and open to the
> public.
>
>
>
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