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Joanne Allen Specialty: Italian Renaissance
Article: ‘Giovanni Bellini’s Baptism of Christ in its visual and devotional context: Transforming sacred space in Santa Corona in Vicenza’, Renaissance Studies, Vol. 27, Issue 5 (November 2013), pp. 681-704
Article: ‘Nicholas V’s Tribuna for Old St. Peter’s in Rome as a Model for the New Apsidal Choir at Padua Cathedral’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 72, no. 2 (June 2013), pp. 166–189
Juliet Bellow Specialty: Modern European
Book: Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde
"Elegantly written and sumptuously illustrated, this wonderful book offers a fascinating journey through the rich intersections between music, painting, the decorative arts, and performance on the Ballets Russes stage." - Marion Schmid, French Studies 67, no. 4 (October 2013): 573-574.
Essay: Co-Editor (with S. Elise Archias): "Dance and Abstraction," in ARTS
Article: "Hand Dance: Auguste Rodin's Drawings of the Cambodian Royal Ballet," in The Art Bulletin
Essay: "A May-December Romance? Time and Collaboration in The Seasons" in Merce Cunningham: Common Time
Essay: The Sacre "Au Printemps": Parisian Receptions of the Ballets Russes in Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris 1870-1914
Kim Butler Wingfield Specialty: Italian Renaissance
Co-editor (with Tracy Cosgriff): Revisiting Raphael's Vatican Stanz
Essay: Eloquence and Intertextuality in the Sistine Chapel in Gifts in Return: Essays in Honour of Charles Dempsey
Essay: "Reddita lux est": Raphael and the Pursuit of Eloquence in Leonine Rome in Artists at Court: Image-Making and Identity, 1300-1500
Article: "Networks of knowledge: Inventing 'theology' in the Stanza della Segnatura" in Studies in Iconography.
Nika Elder Specialty: American Art
Book: William Harnett’s Curious Objects: Still-Life Painting after the American Civil War
Essay: “Art Institutions and Race in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850,” co-edited with Catherine Roach and Daryle Williams [suite of 6 essays with an editors’ introduction], American Art, vol. 36, no. 2 (summer 2022), 2-45
Article: “In the Flesh: John Singleton Copley’s Colonial Portraits and Whiteness,” Art History vol. 44, no. 5 (Nov. 2021), 948-977.
Essay: “African-American Art and the White Cube,” Routledge Companion to African American Art History (London: Routledge, 2019), pgs. 337-348.
Op-Ed: "Art History's Image Problem" in Inside Higher Ed
Andrea Pearson Specialty: Northern European Art, 14th-16th Centuries
Book: Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art
Book: Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance
Book Editor: Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Agency, Identity
Essay: “Gender, Sexuality, and the Future of Agency Studies in Northern Art, 1400-1600,” in the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art.
Article: "Sensory Piety as Social Intervention in a Mechelen Besloten Hofje" in Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art.
Ying-Chen Peng Specialty: Asian Art
Book: Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making in Art
Article: "Lingering between Tradition and Innovation: Photographic Portraits of Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908)" in Ars Orientalis.
Essay: "Shopping China in Europe: Samuel P. Avery (1822-1904) and the Collecting of East Asian Ceramics in the United States" in Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on Western Markets
Essay: Reconfiguring Patriarchal Space: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) and the Reconstruction of the Gardens of Nurtured Harmony in Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th - 20th Centuries
Andrew Wasserman Late Modern and Contemporary Art
Article: “And the Mural Came Down: Race, Removal, and Reckoning in the Sunshine City,” The Art Bulletin 104, no. 4 (December 2022)
Article: “How to Destroy a Mural,” Source: Notes from the History of Art 41, no. 2 (Winter 2022)
Article: “A Pretty Good Idea: Bernard Lown’s Nuclear Test Thermometers,” Art Journal 79, no 1 (Spring 2020)
Essay: “Stamm Beyond SoHo” in Ted Stamm: Series (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2023)
Essay: “Not a Monument, As Such: Richard Hunt’s Public Art” in Richard Hunt: MONUMENTAL (Omaha: Kaneko, 2023).
Emeriti Faculty
Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard Co-edited books
Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany
The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History
The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact
Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism
"This is an excellent cross section of current feminist theory. These essays will prove invaluable not simply for students of art history, but for readers interested in the fields of cultural studies, gender theory, sociology, and others. Broude and Garrard have produced another exceptionally important and well-thought-out text!" - Linda Nochlin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Norma Broude Specialty: Modern European
Editor: Gauguin's Challenge: New Perspectives After Postmodernism
“I didn't think it could be done: A new collection of essays about Gauguin that contains original research and new conclusions. And important ones too, about gender, sex, vision, religion, power, identity and colonialism. This is a Gauguin for the 21st century!” - Stephen F. Eisenman, Professor of Art History, Northwestern University.
Editor: Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris
Mary D. Garrard Specialty: Italian Renaissance
Book: Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity
“In her new book, Garrard has taken two bold steps that challenge much received opinion in the discipline of art history. Analyzing two of Gentileschi’s least violent but most moving images, Garrard argues that the painter’s personality is discernible no less in the subjects and their interpretation than in the ‘style’ of the works: consideration of both aspects is essential to understanding the meaning of these extraordinary pictures and their authorship. Perhaps even more important, Garrard makes crystal clear that Artemisia Gentileschi, far from a ‘good woman painter,’ was one of the major visual thinkers of her time.” - Irving Lavin, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton
Book: Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
“One of the founders of feminist art history…Garrard is an admired art historian who is all too rare: a light touch with weighty material.... [In this book] she situates Artemisia as an artist inspired by, and in community with, other talented and explicitly feminist women, especially writers…. Much more than an exploration of a singular female artist of the Italian Baroque, it’s a map of interconnected traditions, intellectual conversations, inspirations and leapfrogging, a whole network of early modern European feminists.” - Bridget Quinn, Hyperallergic, October 2020.
Helen Langa Specialty: American Art
Book: Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York
"Radical Art is a landmark study, both in the history of printmaking and in the history of American art of the thirties. There is no better explicator of the graphic arts of this era and their cultural context than Helen Langa. Her thoroughly researched and compellingly written volume is a major scholarly contribution." - Betsy Fahlman, author of John Ferguson Weir: The Labor of Art.
Co-editor (with Paula Wisotzki): American Women Artists, 1935-1975: Gender, Culture, and Politics