MASHECK FESTSCHRIFT-CONFERENCE

‘Mostly Modern’ was the title of a Festschrift conference organized and coordinated by Professor Aleksandr Naymark in honor of Masheck’s 70th birthday, at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, on 21 January 2012. Art historians from Hofstra and other American and British universities participated. Professor David L. Craven (1951-2012), the now late Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico, gave the keynote address.

Masheck helped Naymark by editing the book version, which contains some additional papers: Mostly Modern: Essays in Art and Architecture (Stockbridge, Mass.: Hard Press Editions; and Easthampton, Mass.: Hudson Hills Press, 2014)

CONTENTS

CRITICAL THOUGHT

Terry F. Godlove, The “Space … in Which I Find Myself”: Kant on the Origin of Spatial Form

Andrew Ballantyne, Ruskin’s Critical Pathos

Brian Winkenweder, Cézanne’s Oedipal Complex: His Father’s Throne and His Lover’s Son

Steven Henry Madoff, Two Bodies

ARCHITECTURE IN CULTURAL SPACE

Ian Campbell, The “Solomonic Window” in Renaissance Scotland and at Large

Deborah Gans, Le Corbusier’s Middle Ground

František Lesák, Adhering to the Text: Notes on the Observation and Description of a House in a Novel

CENTRAL AND EAST-EUROPEAN MODERNISM

S. A. Mansbach, Nationality and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Baltic Art

Charles W. Haxthausen, Framing Movement: Kirchner in Berlin

Christine Poggi, Utopian Violence: El Lissitzky’s “Victory Over the Sun”

POSTEAR MODERNISM

David Ryan, Revisiting Indeterminacy: On Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and the New York Painters

Alan Johnston, Drawing on Mies’s Wall in Houston

Marjorie Welish, Afterlife of the Black Quadrilateral

STYLE AND HABITUS

Martha Hollander, Men of Saturn: Styling “Bohemian” Melancholy in the Seventeenth Century

Margaret Stewart, Modernist Art-School High Jinks in 1908

Joseph Masheck (in memoriam David Craven), Non-Mimetic “Imitations”: The Modernist Topos of Barbarian Numismatic Copies