AHSC Inaugural Session at CAA Conference
Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004

The Art Historians of Southern California announce our affiliation with

The inaugural session at the CAA meeting included an array of topics reflecting the diverse research, methodological concerns, and approaches of our membership. The papers overlapped with discussions of the body, the other, image-making, Renaissance, texts, Roman monuments, creating or employing canons, and Counter-Reformation instruction.

Trudi Abrams, California State University, Northridge
Sandra Esslinger, Mt. San Antonio College
Picturing the Healthy Body: The Eugenics Movement in the Early 20th Century abstract

Eunice Howe, University of Southern California
Composing a City: Guidebook Authors and Renaissance Rome abstract

Margarita Nieto, California State University, Northridge
Unraveling a Knot in the Infinite Text: Vladimir Cora's Contemporary Paintings of "The Last Supper" and Leonardo da Vinci abstract

Vanessa Walker Oakes, University of California, Los Angeles
The Battered Body and the Enlightened Spirit: The Role of Physical Suffering in the Martyrdom Cycle at Santo Stefano Rotondo, Rome abstract

Nancy Troy, University of Southern California
(Re)Making Mondrian abstract


During our "AHSC Business Meeting"
we discussed the session theme for CAA - Atlanta 2005 and voted on a set of bylaws.