The Terra Foundation for American Art announces the 2009 recipients of the Terra Research and Travel Grants.
The Terra Foundation for American Art Research Travel Grants support travel to the United States for research purposes. Foreign nationals of all European countries whose research projects concern American art or transatlantic artistic relations prior to 1980 are eligible. Three pre-doctoral grants of $5,000 and three post-doctoral grants of $7,500 (for researchers who have been awarded their doctorate within the past ten years) are available. Applications must be received by one of the partnering institutions: the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, the Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, or the John F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität, Berlin.
2009 Doctoral Recipients:
Shir Aloni, Courtauld Institute of Art (London, United Kingdom)
‘Brushstrokes’: Hair in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists
Lisa Rossi, Université Paris-Diderot-Paris 7 (Paris, France)
The New Wave of Historical Processes in Contemporary Photography, in the United States of America and in the United Kingdom
Johannes Vogt, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität (Berlin, Germany)
From Object to Space: Early Room-Sized Installations by Dan Flavin and Donald Judd
2009 Post-Doctoral Recipients:
Laura Bieger. John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität (Berlin, Germany)
The Body in the Landscape: Land Art and its Politics of Space and Image
Sergio Cortesini, University of Cassino (Cassino, Italy)
The Diplomacy of Contemporary Italian Art in New Deal America
Philippe Simay, Université Paris 1 (Paris, France)
City, Architecture and Vision in Motion: László Moholy-Nagy
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