Inspired: essays in Honor of Susan Donahue Kuretsky

Abstract

"This collection of essays, published by Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, celebrates the career of art historian Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Vassar Class of 1963 and Professor of Art on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair. A scholar specializing in Northern European art, Kuretsky has spent more than four decades introducing students to this material and serving as an invaluable mentor to many. The essays in this publication--all by former students--focus on works of art ranging in date from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first, and in geographic origin from Europe to the United States to Africa. These writings are all founded in observation and the close study of original objects, pillars of Kuretsky's pedagogy."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction / Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. -- Wrestling with the Devil in the Details: Illuminating the Life of Saint Margaret in a Fourteenth-Century Book of Hours / Maeve Doyle -- Dürer's Melencolia I: An Allegory of Creation / Susan Dackerman -- The Liechtenstein Venus: Aspects of Authorship and Authenticity / Ferdousi Islam -- Parmigianino's Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man / Naoko Takahatake -- Hendrick ter Brugghen's Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene: A Personal Account / Andaleeb Badiee Banta -- Segers and the Image to Come / Mia M. Mochizuki -- Time and Revelation in Rembrandt's Abraham Entertaining the Angels / Joanna Sheers Seidenstein -- Night Vision: Rembrandt's The Star of the Kings / Elizabeth Nogrady -- An Unfolding Odyssey in Rembrandt's Aristotle--A Reminiscence / Richard W. Hunnewell -- A Sympathetic Age: Michael Sweerts's Head of a Woman / Lara Yeager-Crasselt -- A Frans Hals for Worcester / James A. Welu -- Jan Steen's Woman at her Toilet: "An Invitation to Thirst" / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- A Singular Print of Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres / Paul Messier -- Blindness and Vision: Max Beckmann's Blind Man's Buff as an Allegory of History / Amy K. Hamlin -- At the Threshold: Fairfield Porter's Night, Transitions, and the Steadiness of Friendship / Marni Reva Kessler -- Pearls from the Ocean of Generosity: Wisdom and Reflection in Yelimane Fall's Océan de generosité / Ladan Akbarnia -- Seams: Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate / Niko Vicario.