The department consists of a core of full-time faculty and a larger
group of part-time faculty from other departments in the School, from
the museum, and established scholars, critics, curators, and other
professionals from the Chicago area. The department offers a wide range
of courses in modern and contemporary art, theory and criticism, and
visual culture (totaling about eighty separate lecture courses and
seminars a year).
Art History faculty are also in close contact with the studio areas.
As teachers and advisors, they are available to students for discussion
of studio work. Students will find studio faculty teaching courses on
issues in contemporary art, and art history faculty giving critiques in
the studios, bridging what might otherwise be an artificial gap between
art history and art making. This integration of theory and practice is
one of the special characteristics of the School.
Graduate students in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism
develop thesis research topics in consultation with the full-time
faculty. Senior adjunct faculty may also be available as thesis
advisers in some cases. The department maintains close ties with the
Visual and Critical Studies and Arts Administration and Policy
departments, and faculty from these departments also contribute to
graduate student thesis advising.
See also affiliated departments: Visual and Critical Studies and Arts Administration and Policy.
FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Simon Anderson Associate Professor, Art History, Theory, and Criticism sander2@saic.edu bio |
Selected articles and projects: "Fluxus, fluxion, fluxshoe: the 1970s," in K. Friedman, ed., The Fluxus Reader (Academy, 1998) Light Bound: A Love Affair, co-authored with C. Peterson (Ranchouse, 2004) Betwixt and Between: The Life and Work of Fluxus Artist Dick Higgins, exhibition co-curated with H. Higgins, Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, 2000 "Fluxus Publicus," in In the Spirit of Fluxus, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1993) "Flux hunting," Performance 58 (Summer 1989): 11-21 |
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Christine Atha Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism Faculty catha@saic.edu bio |
Selected articles: 2006 "Victorian Values: the Roles of Reception Theory in the Construction of Taste in the context of Regeneration Practice" Research into Practice, University of Hertfordshire, England. 2004 "The Thing is: between the Designer Poet and the Artist Bricoleur." Research into Practice, University of Hertfordshire, England 2001 "Value and Integrity in the Creative Process" Ways of Working. The Arts Council of Great Britain, London Curatorial projects: 2004 "Cheval Surprise/Equine Reflections" The Hanbury Gallery, London Curator 2001 "Future Map" London Institute Gallery Curator 1998 "The Shape of Things to Come" Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Curator 1997 Design Museum, London |
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Delinda Collier Assistant Professor dcollier@saic.edu |
Selected publications: "The Reception of Nationalist Art: A Response." Dialogue Section, African Arts, Winter 2008. "The Displacement of National Art in a Transnational Artworld." Dialogue Section, African Arts, Autumn 2008. "Forms of Appropriation." Picasso and Africa Issue of Art South Africa, Winter 2006. |
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James Elkins E. C. Chadbourne Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism jelkins@saic.edu bio gallery website |
Selected books: Six Stories from the of Representation Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction Master Narratives and Their Discontents What Happened to Art Criticism? Why Art Cannot be Taught Pictures of the Body The Domain of Images Why are Our Pictures Puzzles? The New PhD in Studio Art On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts The Poetics of Perspective Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History The Object Stares Back Stories of Art Pictures and Tears How to Use Your Eyes What Painting Is On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art ed., The Art Seminar (7 volume series) ed., Visual Literacy ed., Visual Practices Across the University |
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David Getsy Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Associate Professor Department of Art History, Theory + Criticism dgetsy@saic.edu bio profile website |
Selected books: Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905 (Yale University Press, 2004) ed., Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c.1880-1930 (Ashgate, 2004) Rodin and the Making of Modern Sculpture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, forthcoming 2011) ed., From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art (Penn State University Press, forthcoming 2010-11). Selected recent articles and essays: "Mourning, yearning, cruising: Ernesto Pujol's Memorial Gestures," PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 90 (Sept 2008): 11-24. [.pdf] "Immoderate couplings: transformations and genders in John Chamberlain's Work," in M. Stockebrand, ed., It's All in the Fit: The Work of John Chamberlain (Chinati Foundation, 2009) [.pdf] "Rodin et Michel-Ange: réflexion sur l'érotisme des dessins de Rodin d'après les figures pour la chapelle des Médicis", trans. Jeanne Bouniort, Revue de l'Art162 (December 2008): 59-69. "Fallen women: the gender of horizontality and the abandonment of the pedestal by Giacometti and Epstein," in A. Gerstein, ed., Display and Displacement: Sculpture and the Pedestal (Holberton, 2007), pp.114-29 [.pdf] "Recognizing the homoerotic: the uses of intersubjectivity in John Addington Symonds's 1887 essays on art," Visual Culture in Britain 8.1 (Spring 2007): 37-57 [.pdf] "Privileging the object of sculpture: actuality and Harry Bates's Pandora of 1890," Art History 28.1 (February 2005): 74-95 |
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Michael Golec Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism mgolec@saic.edu bio |
Selected books: The Brillo Box Archive: Aesthetics, Design, and Art (Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press, 2008) (co-edited with Aron VInegar) Relearning from Las Vegas (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009) Recent articles and essays: "The Thinking Man's Filter: J.L. Austin's Ordinary Language Philosophy as Cultural Criticism," Cultural Critique (forthcoming) "Science's 'New Garb': Aesthetic and Cultural Implications of Redesign in a Cold War Context," Design Issues (forthcoming) "'A Science of Enjoyment': Ray and Charles Eames and Technological Utopianism in 1968," in C. Crane and N. Muellner, eds. (1968) (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming) "Rationalism Reproduces Itself in Swiss Graphic Design," Design Issues 24.2 (Spring 2008): 84-88. "Martha Stewart Living and the Marketing of Emersonian Perfectionism," Home Cultures 3.1 (Winter 2006) "Graphic Design History and Its Audiences," Voice: AIGA Journal of Design, www.aiga.com (30 June 2004) "Warhol's 'Wow!'," in J. Elkins, ed., Art History versus Aesthetics (Routledge, 2005) "'Doing it Deadpan': Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour's Learning from Las Vegas," Visible Language 37.3 (2004) "A Natural History of a Disembodied Eye: The Structure of Gyorgy Kepes' Language of Vision," Design Issues 18.2 (Spring 2002) |
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Kai Wood Mah Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism kmah@saic.edu bio |
Selected publications: "Classified landscapes of education: the Ontario Educational Exhibition of 1876," Visual Studies 22.1 (April 2007): 74-84 "Re-constructing blackness: Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth," in H. Wallinger, ed., Transitions: Race, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change (Vienna: Lit Verlag, 2006) |
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Maud Lavin Professor Department of Art History, Theory + Criticism and Department of Visual + Critical Studies mlavin@saic.edu bio profile |
Selected books: Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design (MIT Press, 2001). Korean translation in 2007. Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Höch (Yale University Press, 1993/1994) ed., The Oldest We've Ever Been: Seven True Stories of Midlife Transitions (University of Arizona Press, 2008) read press release [.pdf] ed., The Business of Holidays (Monacelli, 2004) |
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Stanley Murashige Associate Professor Department of Art History, Theory + Criticism s.murashige@saic.edu bio |
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Michael Newman Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism mnewman1@saic.edu bio gallery |
Selected books: Richard Prince: Untitled (couple) (Afterall Books / MIT Press, 2006) Jeff Wall: Works and Collected Writings (Poligrafa, 2007) ed. with J. Bird, Rewriting Conceptual Art (Reaktion Books, 1999) co-author, Film and Video Art, edited by Stuart Comer (Tate Publishing, 2008) Selected curatorial projects: Tacita Dean, Art Gallery of York, 2000 |
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Kymberly N. Pinder Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism kpinde@saic.edu bio |
Selected books and curatorial projects : ed., Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History (Routledge, 2002) Women of the African Diaspora Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, 2005 Selected articles and essays: "Missus Kara E. Walker: Emancipated, and On Tour," Art Bulletin 90.4 (December 2008): 640-48. "Sister Gertrude Morgan Everlasting: Breaking Free of the Confines of Race and Gender," The Outsider 10.1 (Winter 2005) "Dox Thrash and 'the Racial Idiom," in Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Reconsidered (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001) "Biracialty and nationhood in contemporary American art," Third Text 53 (Winter 2000): 43-54 "Black representation and the construction of African American art history in Western survey texts," Art Bulletin 81.3 (Fall 1999): 533-37 "Class, race, and Arthurian narratives in San Francisco in the 1870s," in D. Mancoff, ed., King Arthur's Modern Return (Garland, 1998) "'Our Father, God; Our Brother, Christ; or are we bastard kin?': images of Christ in African American painting," African American Review 31.2 (Summer 1997): 223-33 |
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Daniel Quiles Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism dquiles@saic.edu |
"Tangled Alphabets: Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel at MoMA," Artforum (New York), Summer 2009. "Mixed Fortunes," in Mariliana Arvelo: Mixed Fortunes, ed. Jose Guillermo Fantoni. Exh. Cat. Cambridge, MA: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2009. "Deciding the Best of Given Choices," in Carla Herrera-Prats: Prep Materials: Art in General New Commissions Program Vol. XIX, eds. Anne J. Barlow and Eva Diaz. Exh. Cat. New York: Art in General, 2008. "Bearing Witness: A recent show at El Museo del Barrio explored four decades of performance art in the Americas," Art in America (New York), June 2008, pp. 112-114. "Burn Out My Identity: Destruction and Collectivity in Greco and Minujin," in Beginning With A Bang! From Confrontation To Intimacy: An Exhibition of Argentine Contemporary Artists, ed. Gabriela Rangel Mantilla. Exh. Cat., Americas Society. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2007, pp. 69-80. |
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David Raskin Associate Professor Department of Art History, Theory + Criticism Director, BFA with an emphasis in Art History, Theory + Criticism draskin@saic.edu bio profile |
Books: Richard Serra. London: Phaidon Press, forthcoming 2010. Donald Judd's Local Orders: Art, Principles, and Activism. New York and London: Yale University Press, forthcoming 2010. Selected recent articles and essays: "Judd's Scale," in Allan Antliff, et.al. The Writings of Donald Judd (Marfa, TX: The Chinati Foundation, 2009), pp. 27-41. Christopher Cook and David Raskin, Midwestern Unlike You and Me: New Zealand's Julian Dashper (ex. cat.). Sioux City: Sioux City Art Center, 2005. [ISBN 0-9763457-0-6] [.pdf] "The Dogma of Conviction," in F. Halsell, et al., eds., Re-Discovering Aesthetics (Stanford Univ. Press, 2008) [.pdf: 1, 2] "Where Baertling is," in Olle Baertling: A Modern Classic, exh. cat., National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (Steidl, 2007), 39-45. [.pdf] "The Shiny Illusionism of Krauss and Judd," Art Journal 65.1 (Spring 2006): 6-21 [.pdf] "Art That Just Goes 'Ping': Sandback's Vibration," Apollo (March 2007): 72-77 [.pdf] "Judd's Moral Art," In Nicholas Serota, ed., Donald Judd (London: Tate, 2004), 79-95. [.pdf] "Specific Oppositions: Judd's Art and Politics," Art History 24.5 (November 2001): 682-706 [.pdf] |
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Nora A. Taylor Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art History ntaylo1@saic.edu bio profile |
Selected books and exhibition catalogues: Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art (University of Hawaii Press, 2004) Changing Identity: Recent Works by Women Artists from Vietnam [traveling exhibition of works by ten contemporary Vietnamese artists , 9 venues between January 2007 and March 2009]; exh. cat. published in 2007 by International Arts and Artists (co-edited with Gisèle Bousquet) Le Viêt Nam au féminin. Viêt Nam: Women's Realities (Paris: les Indes savantes, 2004) (ed.) Studies in Southeast Asian Art: Essays in Honor of Stanley J. O'Connor (Cornell University Press, 2000) Recent articles and curatorial projects: "Vietnamese Anti-Art and Anti-Vietnamese artists: experimental performance culture in Hà Nôi's alternative exhibition spaces," Journal of Vietnamese Studies 2.2 (Summer 2007): 108-28 "Writing Contemporary Southeast Asian Art History," in A. Reid, ed., Southeast Asian Studies: Pacific Perspectives (Tempe: PSAS Monograph Series, 2003), 179-92 "National Colors: Minorities in Vietnamese Nationalist Art," in S. Niessen, et al., eds., Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalisation of the Asian Dress (New York: Berg, 2003), 159-84 "Raindrops on Red Flags: Tran Trong Vu and the Roots of Vietnamese Painting Abroad," in J. Winston and L. Ollier, eds., Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue (St Martin's Press, 2001), 112-25 "Framing the National Spirit: Viewing and Reviewing Painting Under the Revolution," in H. Ho Tai, ed., The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (University of California Press, 2001), 109-34 |
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Lisa Wainwright Interim Dean of Faculty Professor Department of Art History, Theory + Criticism lwainw@saic.edu bio |
Selected catalogues and curated exhibitions: Ah... Decadence! Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2008 Things of Nature and the Nature of Things: John Wilde, exh. cat., Chazen Museum of Art (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) From Steel to Flesh, Indiana University Gallery, 2001 Pink, Jean Albano Gallery, 1997 Selected essays: "Raymond Pettibon's High/Low High Jinx," in A History of the Renaissance Society, 1990-2000 (University of Chicago Press, 2004) "Found objects in art," Fiberarts 24 (1997): 46-50 "Robert Rauschenberg's fabrics: constructing domestic space," in C. Reed, ed., Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture (Thames and Hudson, 1996) |
