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Grant to enhance art history book
By Kate Blackwood
A prestigious Millard Meiss Publication Fund award will allow a new book by Kelly Presutti, assistant professor of History of Art and Visual Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, to be published at the highest quality possible.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Mont Blanc Seen from the Massif, Les Aiguilles Rouges, 1874. Watercolor heightened with gouache over traces of graphite on two sheets of blue-gray wove paper (glued together in a vertical seam at left), 11 7/16 × 26 1/8 in. (29 × 66.4 cm).
Her book, “Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France,” is forthcoming from Yale University Press in fall 2024; the grant, given by the College Art Association, subsidizes publication of books in art history ‘in the most desirable form.’”
“Art history is an inherently visual field,” Presutti said. “Much of what we do is to try to bring people into a deeper understanding of a work of art. Having the artwork reproduced on the page allows that process of understanding to unfold in real time.”
The grant enables Presutti to include over 100 images to tell the story of four landscape types – forests, mountains, wetlands and coasts – as sites of negotiation and contestation between state power, local inhabitants and the environment in 19th century France.
Read the full story on the College of Arts and Sciences website.
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