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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Annie Bourneuf Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism abourn@saic.edu bio |
Selected publications: "Picasso, Braque, and the Uses of the Print, 1910-1912," in Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-12, ed. Eik Kahng, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011). "'Radically Uncolorful Painting': Walter Benjamin and the Problem of Cubism," Grey Room 39 (Spring 2010), special issue on Walter Benjamin's Media Tactics: Optics, Perception, and the Work of Art, ed. Michael W. Jennings and Tobias Wilke. "A Refuge for Script: Paul Klee's Square Pictures," in Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse, and Modernism, ed. Robin Schuldenfrei and Jeffrey Saletnik (London and New York: Routledge, 2009). "A Speculative Tapestry: Gunta Stölzl's Slit-Tapestry Red-Green," in Modell Bauhaus exhibition catalogue, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, and the Bauhaus-Museum der Klassik Stiftung Weimar (2009). Translations of Walter Benjamin, "Bekränzter Eingang" and "Antoine Wiertz: Gedanken und Gesichte eines Geköpften," in Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media, ed. Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Y. Levin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008). |
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Delinda Collier Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism dcollier@saic.edu bio |
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 Professor Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism Director of Undergraduate Programs in Art History, Theory, and Criticism dgetsy@saic.edu Faculty of the Year - 2007 bio profile website |
Selected books: Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture (Yale University Press, 2010) Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905 (Yale University Press, 2004) ed., From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art, c.1880-1930 (Penn State University Press, 2011) ed., Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c.1880-1930 (Ashgate, 2004) 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] "Tactility or Opticality, Henry Moore or David Smith: Herbert Read and Clement Greenberg on the Art of Sculpture, 1956," Sculpture Journal 17, no. 2 (December 2008): 73-86. Reprinted in Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture, 1945-75 (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011) [.pdf] "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 "The Reconstruction of the Francis Bacon Studio in Dublin," in M. J. Jacob and M. Grabner, eds., The Studio Reader (University of Chicago Press, 2010), 99-103. "Pedagogy, Art, and the Rules of the Game," in J. Baas and M. J. Jacob, eds., Learning Mind: Experience into Art (University of California Press, 2009), 125-35. |
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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: "Theorizing Canadian Blackness: Moments, Place and Cultural Production of the Black Diaspora," in Charmaine Nelson ed., Ebony Roots & Northern Soil (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010). "Young Gardeners: On Gardens As Spaces of Experiential Pedagogy," Public 41 (June 2010): 98-107. "Children and School Interiors: The User-Material Culture-Environment Nexus in Late Nineteenth-Century Toronto," in Loren Lerner ed., Depicting Canada's Children (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2009). "Classified Landscapes of Education: The Ontario Educational Exhibit of 1876," Visual Studies 22 (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 Visual + Critical Studies (primary) and Department of Art History, Theory + Criticism (affiliated) mlavin@saic.edu Faculty of the Year - 2010 bio profile |
Selected books: Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women, Maud Lavin, MIT Press, Debuts September 2010 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 Faculty of the Year - 2006 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 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 bio profile |
“Conrad Freiburg: Out of Time,” in Conrad Freiburg: It Is What It Isn’t, exh. cat. (Chicago: Hyde Park Art Center, 2011). [.pdf] “TV Parties,” Dis Magazine (New York), originally posted April 7, 2011 [http://dismagazine.com/discussion/15641/tv-parties]. “The Artist Is Absent: Notes on Tania Bruguera,” Arte al Día International (Miami), October 2010. [.pdf] “1,000 Words: Marta Minujín on Minucode,” Artforum (New York), April 2010, pp. 156–159. “Damian Ortega at ICA Boston,” Artforum (New York), November 2009, p. 227. “Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel at MoMA,” Artforum (New York), Summer 2009. [.pdf] 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, pp. 21–37. [.pdf] “Rétournement: Patricio Larrambebere, Esteban Álvarez, Tamara Stuby,” Arte al Día International (Miami), June 2008, pp. 64-67. [.pdf] |
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David Raskin Professor and Chair, Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism draskin@saic.edu Faculty of the Year - 2009 bio profile website |
Books: Richard Serra. London: Phaidon Press, forthcoming 2012. Donald Judd. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. 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] 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. "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. "The Shiny Illusionism of Krauss and Judd," Art Journal 65.1 (Spring 2006): 6-21. "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. "Specific Oppositions: Judd's Art and Politics," Art History 24.5 (November 2001): 682-706. |
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Nora A. Taylor Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art History Director, Graduate Program in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory, and Criticism ntaylo1@saic.edu Faculty of the Year - 2011 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 Dean of Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs. 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) |
