Arne R Flaten
Arne Flaten (Ph.D. Italian Renaissance Art History, Indiana University-Bloomington) is Head of the Rueff School of Design, Art and Performance and Professor of Art History at Purdue University. Previously he served as Director of the School of Art at Ball State University, as Chair of Visual Arts and as Associate Dean of Fine Arts at Coastal Carolina University. Dr. Flaten publishes on topics ranging from Renaissance Europe, Digital Humanities and 5th century BCE Delphi to portrait medals and American popular culture. In addition to dozens of articles, essays and book chapters, Flaten co-edited four issues of the The Medal (British Museum Press, 2010, 2015, 2018, 2021); two issues of Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation (Routledge, 2009, 2012); an issue of Mediterranean Archaeometry and Archaeology (2015); and two issues of Source: Notes on the History of Art (University of Chicago Press, 2020, 2024). He is author of Medals and Plaquettes 15th to 20th Centuries: The Ulrich Middeldorf Collection (Indiana University Press, 2012), American Football Cards 1888-1988 (Hermes Press, 2023), and Albert Paley: Works on Paper (Purdue University Press, forthcoming).
Flaten’s research has been supported by the William J. Fulbright Commission (2x); the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (3x); the National Endowment for the Humanities USA (2x); the National Endowment for the Arts USA; the J. Paul Getty Research Institute; and the Renaissance Society of America, among others. In 2013 Flaten was named the HTC Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of the Year at Coastal Carolina University, and in 2014 he was elected to European Academy of Science and Arts—Salzburg.
Growing up in a diplomatic family, Dr. Flaten had the opportunity to live and study in various parts of the world, including Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He graduated with high honors from the American International School in Israel, just outside Tel Aviv. He earned his B.A. in Art Studio and English Literature at St. Olaf College and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. After college, he bicycled from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv to coach the varsity soccer team and teach at his former high school. Returning to the states the following year, he spent several years designing marketing plans for General Mills in Minnesota. He quit that job in 1992, got married, moved to Rwanda to teach at the International School in Kigali, and began graduate studies the following year.
Arne Flaten is a program accreditation reviewer for the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), serves one the Leadership Development Committee for the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD), and the Services to Historians of Visual Art and Culture committee for the College Art Association (CAA).
Address: Pao Hall #1190
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Flaten’s research has been supported by the William J. Fulbright Commission (2x); the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (3x); the National Endowment for the Humanities USA (2x); the National Endowment for the Arts USA; the J. Paul Getty Research Institute; and the Renaissance Society of America, among others. In 2013 Flaten was named the HTC Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of the Year at Coastal Carolina University, and in 2014 he was elected to European Academy of Science and Arts—Salzburg.
Growing up in a diplomatic family, Dr. Flaten had the opportunity to live and study in various parts of the world, including Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He graduated with high honors from the American International School in Israel, just outside Tel Aviv. He earned his B.A. in Art Studio and English Literature at St. Olaf College and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. After college, he bicycled from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv to coach the varsity soccer team and teach at his former high school. Returning to the states the following year, he spent several years designing marketing plans for General Mills in Minnesota. He quit that job in 1992, got married, moved to Rwanda to teach at the International School in Kigali, and began graduate studies the following year.
Arne Flaten is a program accreditation reviewer for the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), serves one the Leadership Development Committee for the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD), and the Services to Historians of Visual Art and Culture committee for the College Art Association (CAA).
Address: Pao Hall #1190
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
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Highlights from the Vernon Hall Collection and Later Acquisitions
Introductory Essay by Stephen K. Scher
Contributors: Philip Attwood, Arne R. Flaten, Mark Jones, Douglas Lewis, Eleonora Luciano, Joseph G. Reinis, Stephen K. Scher, Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Louis A. Waldman
Edited by Maria F.P. Saffiotti Dale
Softcover, illus.
ISBN: 978-1-93327-017-3
List price: $39.95 (plus S&H)
Member price: $27.97 (plus S&H)
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
American Numismatic Society
2014
This grouping of medals represents the museum’s Renaissance, Baroque, and nineteenth-century highlights and illustrates the history of the art of the commemorative medal. This catalogue incorporates the scholarship of nine international medallic experts. Their erudition, consummate research skills, and effective prose are evident in sixty-one essays on some of the masterpieces of this art form written for the education and enjoyment of students, specialists, and the general public alike.
Order: http://numismatics.org/store/chazeneuromedals/
Proposals are invited for a session (or sessions) dedicated to Renaissance medals and exonumia proposed for the annual Renaissance Society of America meeting Boston, 20-22 March 2025.
As small-scale, sculptural objects intended for circulation and dissemination, Renaissance medals represent one of the most abundant surviving forms of early modern material culture. Intended for a wide range of audiences, medals and related objects served a range of purposes beyond commercial exchange. In addition to the portraits that traditionally appeared on their obverses, medals bore texts and imagery that included original inventions as well as those drawn from antique and contemporary sources, allegory, heraldry, or narrative.
Proposals that address the imagery on medals and the intersection of this with other media – including painting, other sculpture, and architecture as well as print- and bookmaking – are particularly encouraged. So too are those addressing political and social aspects of the creation, collection, and exchange of the objects.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 200 words with titles of 15 words max, along with a c.v. (PDF or Word doc) and a list of keywords to Arne Flaten [aflaten@purdue.edu] and Tanja Jones [tljones10@ua.edu] by Saturday, 10 August 2024. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
CFP: Renaissance Medals and Exonumia
Proposals are invited for a session (or sessions) dedicated to Renaissance medals and exonumia to be held at the annual Renaissance Society of America meeting Dublin, 30 March-2 April 2022.
As small-scale, sculptural objects intended for circulation and dissemination, Renaissance medals represent one of the most abundant surviving forms of early modern material culture. Intended for a wide range of audiences, medals and related objects served a range of purposes beyond commercial exchange. In addition to the portraits that traditionally appeared on their obverses, medals bore texts and imagery that included original inventions as well as those drawn from antique and contemporary sources, allegory, heraldry, or narrative.
Proposals that address the imagery on medals and the intersection of this with other media – including painting, other sculpture, and architecture as well as print- and bookmaking – are particularly encouraged. So too are those addressing political and social aspects of the creation, collection, and exchange of the objects.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 150 words with titles of 15 words max, along with a brief c.v. and a list of keywords to Arne Flaten [aflaten@purdue.edu] and Tanja Jones [tljones10@ua.edu] by Thursday, 5 August 2021.