Faculty Curriculum Vitae
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NAME:
Candace Clements
POSITION/TITLE: Affiliate faculty, Art History, School of Art
OFFICE ADDRESS:
FA 204A
OFFICE TELEPHONE:
713 743 3001
WORK EMAIL:
cclements4@uh.edu
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND/TRAINING
Ph.D. 1992 Yale University
Dissertation: “Unexpected Consequences: The Concours de peinture of 1727 and
History Painting in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris” (J. Colton)
M.A. 1982 University of Missouri-Columbia
Thesis: “The History and Illustration of the 1762 Edition of the Contes of La
Fontaine” (P. Crown)
B.A. 1978 Austin College, Texas (double major: Art, with honors, and French)
RELEVANT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2002-Present
Part-time teaching appointments in Art History, Glassell Art
School, University of Houston and University of St. Thomas,
Houston
2001-2003
Two-year leave, University of Hartford
2000-2001
Chair, Departments of Art History-Cinema-Drama, University of
Hartford
1998-2001
Project Director, N.E.H./Harry Jack Gray Teaching Enhancement
Grant (administering selection, activities, and funding of two-year
Distinguished Teaching Humanist and one-year Distinguished
Visiting Professor appointments including University teaching
workshops and summer humanities workshops for University and
local high school faculties)
1997-2003
Associate Professor, Art History, University of Hartford
1994-95
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Art Department,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
1989-1997
Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Hartford
1988 (fall)
Acting Instructor, History of Art Department, Yale University
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP/RESEARCH/CREATIVE ENDEAVORS
Publications:
1996 “The Duc d’Antin, the Royal Administration of Pictures, and the Painting
Competition of 1727,” Art Bulletin 78 (December): 647-62.
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1993
1992
1987
1982
1980
“Noble Liberality and Speculative Industry in Early-Eighteenth-Century French
Painting: Charles Coypel,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 29 (Winter): 213-18.
review essay, Philip Stewart, Engraven Desire: Eros, Image, and Text in the
French Eighteenth Century (1992), Eighteenth-Century Studies 27 (Winter): 306309.
“The Academy and The Other: Les Grâces and Le Genre Galant,” special issue
Eighteenth-Century Studies, ed. Mary Sheriff, 25 (Summer): 469-94.
Entries on European paintings in Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings and Sculpture
from the European and American Collections (eds. Holliday T. Day and Hollister
Sturges).
Entries on individual works in Jules Breton and the Rural Tradition (exhibition
catalogue, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE)
“Robert's Temptation of a Saint: A Reinterpretation,” Muse 15: 46-53.
In progress:
article: “Representing the Marseilles Plague: Michel Serre and Jean-François de Troy”
book: “Between the Palace and the Salon: Painters, Painting, and Practices in Early 18thCentury Paris”
Papers and Conference Sessions:
2004 Symposium honoring Patricia Crown, Columbia, Missouri
Paper: “Metamorphoses of a Hero in the French Rococo: Hercules in the Work of
François Lemoyne”
2002 College Art Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Paper: “François Lemoyne, Laurent Cars, and Reproducing the Rococo”; panel,
“Intepreting Facture”
2001 French Historical Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Discussant, panel, “Art, History, and Pedagogy”
1998 Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Paper: “Mirrors, Order, and Chance in the Hall of Mirrors and the Salon de la
Princesse”; panel, “Spatial Relations”
1997 Society for French Historical Studies, Lexington, Kentucky
Paper: “Shifting Representation: Louis XV and François Lemoyne”: panel, “The
French Monarchy Displayed: Dynastic Constructions and the Visual Arts 17201820”
1996 Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Tallahassee, Florida
Paper: “Testing the Waters: Charles and Noël-Nicolas Coypel in the Competition
and Exhibition of 1727”; panel, “Gendered Genres and Social Spaces”
1995 College Art Association, San Antonio, Texas
Paper: “Produire du beau, or Acquérir l'utile: The Case of Charles-Antoine
Coypel”; panel, “Work, Leisure, and Art in the 18th Century”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Tucson, Arizona
Paper: “Shadowing the Grand Siècle: The Duc d'Antin and François Lemoyne”;
panel, “Backward Glances: Historical, Literary, and Visual Constructions of
History”
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1993
1992
Organizer and co-chair panel for same meeting, “Cultural Border Crossings:
France into Germany”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky
Paper: “Inscribing a Public in the Visual Arts: C.-A. Coypel's Molière
Frontispiece”; panel, “Public and Private Lettering”
College Art Association, Seattle, Washington
Paper: “Reconsidering the Event: The Paris Painting Competition and Exhibition
of 1727”; panel, “Between the Cracks: Problems in the Historiography of 18thCentury Art”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Providence, Rhode Island
Paper: “Rococo Lives: Biographical Criticism in Caylus and Mariette”; panel,
“Reworking the Rococo”
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Haven,
Connecticut
Commentator on panel, “Illustrating Science in the Eighteenth Century”
Symposium, “The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods,” Kimbell Art
Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (in conjunction with exhibition, The Loves of the
Gods: Mythological Painting from Watteau to David)
Invited paper: “The Painters Choose: History and Fable in the Competition of
1727”
1991 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Discussant, panel, “Representing the Rococo”
1990 College Art Association, New York, New York
Paper: “The Competition of 1727: The Painters Respond”; panel, “English and
French Rococo”
1987 Symposium, “Social Implications of the Rococo Style: Images of Women,”
Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia
Paper: “The Academy and the Other: Les Grâces and le genre galant”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Cincinnati, Ohio
Paper: “Making Space for Secular Narrative: Representations of the Marseilles
Plague”; panel, “Problems of Narrative in Eighteenth-Century Painting”
1983 Turner Lecture Series, Yale Center for British Art
Paper: “Turner and Two Patrons: Walter Fawkes and the Earl of Egremont”
1981 Art History and Archaeology lecture series, University of Missouri-Columbia:
“Author and Illustrator in a French 18th-Ceentury Illustrated Book: The 1762
Contes of La Fontaine”
1980 Fifteenth Annual Graduate Student Seminar, The Art Institute of Chicago
Paper: “Robert des Ruines and La Fontaine”
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