Attorney Joins Board : UCLA Professor Named National Gallery Fellow
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Cecelia Klein, an associate professor of art history at the UCLA College of Fine Arts, has been named an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow for the 1986-87 fall term at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
The fellowship is given to scholars who have held a Ph.D. for five years or more and who show outstanding promise in their field.
Her grant project, entitled “Dressed to Kill: Politics of Costume in Aztec Sacrificial Rites,” explores the meaning and symbols of costumes in ancient Aztec Indian death rituals.
Fellows are selected by a national committee of art historians.
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