Haywood named Getty Fellow, receives grant
JESSICA DAUES
Robert Haywood, an assistant professor of art, art history and design at Notre Dame was named a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and the Humanties for the 1999-2000 academic year.
The Getty Fellowship, which is one of the highest and most competetive awards given to junior faculty, is an international competition which supports postdoctoral research.
"Each fellow is awarded $35,000 to pursue his or her research project which, acording to the grant program, the Getty believes will make a `significant contribution to art history and the humanities,'" Haywood said.
The Getty Fellowship will support the completion of Haywood's book, "Interventions: Art, Happenings and Cultural Politics (1958-1970)." The book focuses on newly discovered writings by two artists, Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg.
"Both are among the most significant artists of the 1960s," said Haywood, "because they redefined the terms of art. Through my research and extensive interviews with both artists, I have been able to aquire total access to their papers."
"It was a slow and deliberate process of winning their confidence," he added.
Haywood's research draws on over 30 private and public archives from all over the world. In his book, he will analyze how avant-garde artists in the 1960s, specifically Kaprow and Oldenburg, increasingly began to use non-conventional "canvases," such as courtyards or swimming pools, to create a form of abstract art by incorporating performers and other structures into the scene.
Under the Fellowship, Haywood will also contribute to the coming exhibition at Columbia University's Wallach Art Gallery, an exhibition said to dramatically change how avant-garde art has been understood since World War II.
Haywood is believed to be the sole junior art historian to receive all of the three major art history awards available to young scholars in the U.S. In addition to the Getty Fellowship, Haywood received a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art and a Smithsonian Fellowship at the Hirshhorn Museum and Scupture Garden.
Haywood is organizing a symposium "Crtique of the Museum in Contemporary Art," which will focus on contemporary artists who have challenged traditions and conventional artistic production and exhitbiton display. The symposium will take place Sept. 24, from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Room 101, DeBartolo Hall.
All News Stories for Thursday, September 16, 1999
