Author Bibliography
Dr. Jeanne S. M. Willette
Curriculum Vitae
Associate Professor of Art History
Otis College of Art and Design
President of the Art Historians of Southern California, 2009 – 2011
Author and publisher of the websites, Art History Unstuffed and The Arts Blogger
Writer for Artscene Magazine
Contributing Writer for Heathwood Press
Editor-in-Chief of Shockwrite. The Hyrbid Journal of the Arts
Finalist, Andy Warhol Foundation, Creative Capital, Artwriting Grant Program, Spring, 2007
Lecturer in Education Department, Orange County Museum of Art, 2006 to present
Selected Teaching Experience
California State University, Long Beach
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Claremont Graduate University
Loyola Marymount University
California Institute of Technology
California Polytechnic University, Pomona
Otis College of Art and Design
Education
Ph. D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation: The Archaeology of “Le Cubisme
Spring Quarter, 1993
M. A., Art History, California State University, Long Beach
Master’s Thesis: The Aesthetic Theories of Emmanuel Kant and Early Cubist Criticism, 1983
B. A., Fine Arts, California State University, Los Angeles, 1980
Fields of Concentration: Scholarship and Teaching
Late Contemporary Art: European
History of Twentieth Century Art
History of Nineteenth Century Art
History of Photography
Film Theory
Critical Theory
Art Criticism
Contemporary Multicultural Art
Museum Studies in the Modern and Contemporary Periods
Art of California
Selected Professional Affiliations
College Art Association
Art Historians of Southern California
Board Member and past President, Art Historians of Southern California, 2005-to present
Editor-in-Chief of Shockwrite, The Hybrid Journal of the Arts
Selected Panels:
“Familiar Grounds: Celebrating Roland Reiss and Imagining the Art of Tomorrow”
September 10-12, 2010, a series of panel discussions, including
“Running off the Edge,” with Roland Reiss, Christopher Miles, David Wells, John Gordon and myself: http://vimeo.com/29494186
Claremont Graduate University: Tribute to Roland Reiss
“New Trends in MFA Education”
Art Historians of Southern California
Panel on Professionalism and the Undergraduate Artist”
Mount Saint Mary’s College
Los Angeles, California
Spring 2006
“Out of Context” exhibition: discussion among artists, writers and curators about art from the Vietnamese community
Huntington Beach Art Center
July 17, 2005
“Learning Outcomes”
Panel Presentation for the
FATE Conference at
California State University at Northridge
Fall, 2004
“Theory and the Fine Arts”
Panel Discussion at Otis College of Art and Design
Spring, 2004
“Dancing with Theory, II”
Sponsored by Support Graduates of Graduate Art
Boritzer/Gray/Hammon Gallery
Los Angeles, California
November 18, 1994
“Dancing with Theory”
Sponsored by Support Graduates of Graduate Art
Claremont Graduate School
Claremont, California
November 13, 1993
“Literary Analogy and Its Critique”
Southeast Regional Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Conference on “Writing and the Architect”
College of Architecture
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
November 2-4, 1991
“Art and Censorship”
Spirit Square Center for the Arts
Charlotte, N. C.
May 10, 1990
“Design for Use; Conversations About Machine-Produced and Handcrafted Products”
Mint Museum of Art
Charlotte, N. C.
September 15, 1990
Selected Publications:
Books:
The Writing of Cubism: The Construction of a Word (December, 2012)
Available in Kindle version
iBooks:
Art History Unstuffed: The Podcasts (June 2012)
Reprinted:
Theodore Adorno and The Culture Industry
Reprinted August 15, 2012, Heathwood Press
Walter Benjamin’s Origin of German Tragic Drama
Reprinted November 30, 2012, Heathwood Press
Periodicals:
Artscene
May 2013
Artscene
May 2012
Artscene
December 2012
Artscene
January 2012
Artscene
March 2012
June 2011
Artscene
Artscene
July 2011
Artscene
October 2011
Artscene
November 2011
Artscene
January 2012
Artscene
March 2012
Artscene
April 2012
“Jane Brucker”
Artscene
February, 2011
“William Eggelston”
Artscene
November 2010
“Material Culture: Art History Looks at Clifford Geertz,”
Shockwrite
February 2011
“Return to Change”
March 2011
Shockwrite
“Mayra Barraza”
Artscene
March 2010
“Nature L. A.: Larry Brownstein”
Artscene
January 2010
“WOW: Emergent Media Pheonmenon”
Artscene
October 2009
“Walking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum”
Artscene
Summer, 2007
“New Museum Rising: The Claremont Museum of Art”
Artscene
June, 2007
“The Prodigal Artist”
Artscene
October, 2006
Accompanied by an interview with Artscene on the magazine’s website
“Transluscent”
The Norton Simon Museum
Artscene
July, 2006
“What to Wear When Falling: A Girl’s Guide to Fashions of Failure, or, How to Lose Success and Gain a Man,” in Garb. An Anthology of Fashion Theory , published Spring, 2007
“One Ground”
Review of Israeli and Palestinian Filmmakers
University of California, Riverside
California Museum of Photography
ArtUS Magazine
Fall, 2003
“Whiteness: A Wayward Construction”
Artscene
April 2003
Volume 22, No. 8
pp. 17 and 18
“The Little White Dress”
Dutch Magazine
January, 1999
“Kim Dingle & Cohorts: The Artist, The Writer, The Bad Girls and The Lost Madonna”
Special Issue on Artists’ Collaborations
Artweek
November, 1998
pg. 15
“(Non)Photography as Commentary: The Camera (Obscura) and Post-Philosophical Systems
Artweek
Volume 30, No. 7
July, 1997
“How the Left Coast Stole the Idea of (Post)Modern Art”
Artweek
Vol. 28, No. 5
May, 1997
pp. 15 – 16
“Stitching Lives: Fabric in the Art of Betye Saar”
Fiberarts
March/April, 1997
pp. 44 – 48
“Baling the South: Construction and Critique in the Art of Linda Kroff”
Essay for Catalog for the winners of the 1993 Photography Fellowships
Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts
Spring, 1994
Reprinted in Aperture
“State of the Arts, Part II: The Museums of Southern California—The Final Frontier. The Big Two: MOCA and Newport”
Visions Art Quarterly
Spring, 1994
p. 41 – 43.
“Bad Boys/Good Boys: Sandow Birk and the Killing of Los Angeles”
Visions Art Quarterly
Vol. 6, No. 2
Fall, 1992
p. 47 – 49
“…There is No Title…,” lead essay written as
Guest Editor of the Art and Feminism in the 90′s Issue
Artvu Magazine
Vol. 5, No. 2
Fall, 1991
p. 4 – 7.
“Between Choice and Context: Curating in a Post Modern Age”
with Mark Leach, curator of the Mint Museum of Art
Charlotte, North Carolina
Crits: Discourses on the Visual Arts
Spring, 1991
p. 2-15
Reprinted in The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society
Volume 22, Number 4
Winter, 1993
p. 310 –320
Art Exhibition Catalogs
“The Theaters of Roland Reiss” in Roland Reiss Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s, exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of Art, September 18, 2011-January 8, 2012
http://shop.pmcaonline.org/collections/frontpage/products/roland-reiss-personal-politics-sculpture-from-the-1970s-and-1980s
A Brief History of Contemporary Art “From America”
The Museum of Contemporary Art
Minsk, Belarus
June 13 to July 10, 2006
Curated by Mela M.
“A Journey through The Flat World:
The Virtual Architecture of Mela M.”
The Museum of Contemporary Art
Minsk, Belarus
Summer 2006
“The Im/Position of the Margin”
Catalogue essay for Out of Context
Exhibition of Vietnamese artists at the
Huntington Beach Art Center
Summer, 2005
“Hall of Mirrors”
Catalogue essay for The Photographs by James Higginson: POV
Budapest, Hungary, April 2005
Design 3G Press, 2005
“Art as Blog: The Politics of Community Art”
Exhibition Catalogue for
Eye-Speak: Art from the African-American and Latino Communities of Los Angeles
Glendale and Southwest Community Colleges
Fall, 2001, published as CD/DVD Catalogue, Winter, 2005
A Brave Place: The Edge of Roland Reiss
Catalogue essay for an exhibition at
Huntington Beach Art Museum
March 3 – April 13, 2001
Huntington Beach, California
“Following Bravo: The Tradition of Manuel Alvarez Bravo in Mexican Photography” for the catalogue
Manuel Alvarez Bravo and His Followers
Cerritos College Art Gallery
Winter, 1999
Cerritos, California
“Candy-Sucking Art, Finger-Licking Good: The Wit and Wisdom of Martha Benzing, A Post/Post-Modern Project: A Tasteful Commentary on the State of Art at the Millennium–Art Sucks, Art Bites, Art Chews”
Catalog Essay
Exhibition of the works of Martha Benzing at the Carin Golden Gallery
New York, New York
Fall, 1997
“It Just So Happens That These Artists Are Women”
Catalog Essay for the Alumni Exhibition
California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
January 1996
“Floating Existences: ALienation in LA”
Catalog Essay: Faculty Exhibition
Laband Art Gallery
Loyola Marymount University
Westchester, California
Fall and Winter, 1996
“Lode Star: The Light Art of Sally Weber”
Catalog essay for the Exhibition
Sally Weber-Im Licht
Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum der Stadt Hagen
Hagen, Germany
30. April bis 18. Juni 1995
“Black is Black”
Art Exhibition Catalog for the Exhibition
In The Black
Irvine Fine Arts Center
Irvine, California
December 2, 1994 – February 26, 1995
“Spun from Sugar, Composed of Confections, Confined to Quarters: The Fate of the Girls of the West and How They Broke Free to Run Wild and Wreak Havoc, Generally”
Catalogue Essay for the Art Exhibition Catalog
Recent Paintings by Kim Dingle
Jason Rubell Gallery
Miami Beach, Florida
October – November 1993
“Some Thoughts About Marking”
Essay/Poem for the Exhibition Jacqueline Caples
Trinity College
Hartford, Connecticut
March – April, 1993
“You Have to Know the Story to Read the Picture”
Essay and Artist Entries for
In the Looking Glass: Contemporary Narrative Painting
July 6 – September 15, 1991
The Mint Museum of Art
Charlotte, North Carolina
“A Summer of Light and Dark: A Journey of Two. Xie Tien Cheng and James Higginson. The Season of Tiananmen Square”
Catalog Essay for a Collaborative Exhibition
The China Paintings: Paintings of Xie Tien Cheng and James Higginson
Guilin, China, Summer, 1989
Pacific Asia Museum
August-September, 1992
(Catalogue Published by the Museum but Suppressed by the Chinese government, which threatened to kill Xie Tien Cheng if a catalogue mentioning “Tienanmen Square” was distributed)
“In Whose Voices Do We Speak?”
Catalog Essay for
Energy: Interaction of Contrasts: An Exhibition of Multicultural Art (catalog sold out)
L. A. Artcore Annex
652 Mateo Street
Los Angeles, California
Funded by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
May 1-31, 1992
(reprinted in Fall Issue, 1992 of Visions Art Quarterly, inaugurating the Topic Column)
“Installation as Object”
Catalog Essay for Discarded Histories/Reclaimed Voices
Artist in Residence Exhibition Program
Exhibition of the Art of Linda Kroff
Spirit Square Center for the Arts
Charlotte, North Carolina
September, 1991
Web Publications
Art History Unstuffed
“What is Modern?” posted on Friday, September 4, 2009
“The Enlightenment: An Introduction” posted on Friday, September 11, 2009
“The Enlightenment and Reason” posted on Friday, September 18, 2009
“The Enlightenment and Society” posted on Friday, September 25, 2009
“The Enlightenment and the Art Public” posted on Friday, October 2, 2009
“The Political Revolution in America” posted on Friday, October 9, 2009
“Revolution and Terror in France” posted on Friday, October 16, 2009
“The Enlightenment and Artistic Styles” posted on Wednesday, October 23, 2009
“The Rise of Napoléon” posted on Friday, October 30, 2009
“The Industrial Revolution” posted on Friday, November 6, 2009
“The Origins of Neoclassicism” posted on November 13, 2009
“French Neoclassicism” posted on November 20, 2009
“Neoclassicism: Sculpture and Architecture” posted on November 27, 2009
“The Artistic Revolution in France” posted on December 4, 2009
“The French Academy” posted Friday, December 11, 2009
“The French Academy: Sculpture” posted Friday, December 18, 2009
“The French Academy: Painting” posted Friday, December 25, 2009
“French Romanticism: The Historical Context” posted on Friday, January 1, 2010
“French Romanticism: Subject Matter and the Artist” posted Friday, January 8, 2010
“French Romanticism and the Avant-Garde” posted Friday, January 15, 2010
“The Definition of the Avant-Garde” posted on January 22, 2010
“Kant and the Critique of Philosophy” posted Friday, January 29, 2010
“Kant and Reason” posted Friday, February 5, 2010
“Kant and Aesthetics” posted Friday, February 12, 2010
“Kant and Aesthetic Theory” posted Friday, February 19, 2010
“Kant and the Critique of Judgment” posted Friday, February 26, 2010
“Kant and ‘Art for Art’s Sake’” Friday, March 5, 2010
“Kant, the Artist and Artistic Freedom” posted Friday, March 12, 2010
“Friedrich Schiller” posted Friday, March 19, 2010
“Schiller: “Naïve and Sentimental Poetry’” posted Friday, March 26, 2010
“The Origins of Art Criticism” posted Friday, April 2, 2010
“Hegel and the Dialectical Method” posted Friday, April 9, 2010
“Hegel, Art and the Dialectic Method” posted Friday, April 16, 2010
“Hegel and His Impact on Art and Aesthetics” posted Friday, April 23, 2010
“Early Nineteenth Century Utopian Philosophy” posted Friday, April 30, 2010
“Late Nineteenth Century Social Philosophy” posted Friday, May 7, 2010
“Philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels” posted Friday, May 14, 2010
“Marx, Engels, and Alienation” posted Friday, May 21, 2010
“Marx, Engels and Property” posted Friday, May 28, 2010
“Marx, Engels and Capitalism” posted Friday, June 4, 2010
“Marxism, Art and the Artist” posted on Friday, June 11, 2010
“Realism in England, France, and America” posted Friday, June 18, 2010
“Realism and Naturalism in Art” posted Friday, June 25, 2010
“Realism and the Role of the Realist Artist” posted Friday, July 2, 2010
“Salon Realism in France” posted Friday, July 9, 2010
“Avant-Garde Realism in France” posted Friday, July 16, 2010
“Royal Academy in England” posted Friday, July 23, 2010
“Avant-Garde Realism in England” posted Friday, July 30, 2010
“The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood” posted on Friday, August 6, 2010
“Charles Baudelaire and Art Criticism” posted on Friday, August 13, 2010
“Charles Baudelaire, Author of Modernism” posted on Friday, August 20, 2010
“Baudelaire and The Painter of Modern Life” posted on Friday, August 27, 2010
“Gustave Courbet” posted Friday, September 3, 2010
“Naturalism and Art for Art’s Sake” posted on September 10, 2010
“Manet and the Nude” posted on September 17, 2010
“Manet and Modernité” posted on September 24, 2010
“Manet and the Impressionists” posted on October 1, 2010
“The Barbizon School” posted on October 8, 2010
“Impressionism and Technique” posted on October 15, 2010
“Impressionism: Class and Gender” posted on October 22, 2010
“Impressionism and the Art Market” posted on October 29, 2010”
“Impressionism and the Landscape” posted on November 5, 2010
“Defining Post-Impressionism” posted on November 12, 2010
“Paul Gauguin” posted on November 19, 2010
“Vincent van Gogh” posted on December 3, 2010
“Paul Cézanne” posted on December 10, 2010
“Symbolist Art and Poetry” posted on December 17, 2010
“Defining Art Nouveau” posted on December 24, 2010
“Expressionism in Europe 1900-1910” posted on December 31, 2010
“Fauvism in Paris” posted on January 7, 2011
“Defining Fauvism” posted on January 14, 2011
“The ‘Primitivism’ of the Fauves” posted on January 21, 2011
“Cubism and Modernity” posted on January 28, 2011
“The Cubists: Artists and Writers” posted on February 4, 2011
“Phases of Cubism: Analytic Cubism” posted on February 11, 2011
“Phases of Cubism: Synthetic Cubism” posted on February 18, 2011
“Orphism and Simultaneity” posted on February 25, 2011
“German Expressionism” posted on March 4, 2011
“Die Brücke” posted on March 11, 2011
“Der Blaue Reiter” posted on March 18, 2011
“Der Blaue Reiter Painting” posted on March 25, 2011
“Futurism and the Future” posted on April 1, 2011
“Defining Futurism” posted on April 8, 2011
“De Stijl” posted on April 15, 2011
“Piet Mondrian” posted on April 22, 2011
“De Stijl Architecture” posted on April 29, 2011
“The Russian Avant-Garde” posted on May 6, 2011
“Alfred Stieglitz and American Modernism” posted on May 13, 2011
“Modernism in New York City, 1920s” posted on May 20, 2011
“Dada and the Great War” posted on May 27, 2011
“Dada and Chance” posted on June 3, 2011
“Dada and Photomontage” posted on June 10, 2011
“Comparison of Dada and Surrealism” posted on June 17, 2011
“Surrealism in Context” posted on June 24, 2011
“Surrealism and Freudian Theory” posted on July 1, 2011
“The Surrealist Object” posted on July 8, 2011
“School of Paris: The Historical Context” posted on July 15, 2011
“School of Paris: The Waning of the Avant-Garde” posted on July 22, 2011
“New Objectivity in German Art” posted on July 29, 2011
“Bauhaus: The Founding” posted on August 5, 2011
“Bauhaus: Modern Design” posted on August 12, 2011
“Bauhaus: Internal Tensions” posted on August 19, 2011
“Bauhaus: The End” posted on August 26, 2011
“Bauhaus: The Fate of the Bauhaus” posted on September 2, 2011
“The Frankfurt School, Part One” posted on September 9, 2011
“The Frankfurt School, Part Two” posted on September 16, 2011
“The Philosophy of Walter Benjamin, Part One” posted on September 23, 2011
“The Philosophy of Walter Benjamin, Part Two” posted on September 30, 2011
“The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” by Walter Benjamin, Part One” posted on October 7, 2011
“The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” by Walter Benjamin, Part Two” posted on October 14, 2011
“The Origin of German Tragic Drama,” 1925 by Walter Benjamin posted on October 21, 2011
“The Making of the New York School” posted on October 28, 2011
“Abstract Expressionism and Meaning” posted on November 4, 2011
“Avant-Garde and Kitsch” 1939 by Clement Greenberg” posted on November 11, 2011
“Abstract Expressionism: The Field of Cultural Production” posted on November 18, 2011
“Abstract Expressionism, The Definition” posted on November 25, 2011
“Abstract Expressionism: Redefining Art, Part One” posted on December 2, 2011
“Abstract Expressionism: Redefining Art, Part Two” posted on December 9, 2011
“Events in Abstract Expressionism” posted on December 16, 2011
“Culture in Los Angeles, 1940-1950″ posted on December 23, 2011
“Art in San Francisco, 1940-1950″ posted on December 30, 2011
“The Beats, Art and Literature” posted on January 6, 2012
Post-War Art in California” posted on January 13, 2012
“Post-War Culture in America” posted on January 20, 2012
“Neo-Dada” posted on January 27, 2012
“Modernist Painting by Clement Greenberg” posted on February 3, 2012
“Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Flatbed Picture Plane’” posted on February 10, 2012
“Jasper Johns and ‘Things the Mind Already Knows’” posted on February 17, 2012
“Theodor Adorno and The Culture Industry“ posted on February 24, 2012
“Theodor and Negative Dialectics“ posted on March 2, 2012
“Gutai in Japan” posted on March 9, 2012
“Introduction to Pop Art” posted on March 16, 2012
“Characteristics of Pop Art” posted on March 23, 2012
“Pop Art in Europe” posted on March 30, 2012
“New York Art and the Happenings” posted on April 6, 2012
“Fluxus as Experience” posted on April 13, 2012
“Defining Minimal Art, Part One” posted on April 20, 2012
“Defining Minimal Art, Part Two” posted on April 27, 2012
“Minimal Art and Philosophy” posted on May 4, 2012
PODCASTS
Podcast on “Introduction to Soundbytes in Modern Art” posted on September 4, 2009
Podcast on “What is Modern?” posted on September 4, 2009
Podcast on “Neoclassicism” posted on September 18, 2009
Podcast on “Jacques Louis David and Neoclassicism” posted on October 10, 2009
Podcast on “Romantic Aesthetics” posted on October 16, 2009
Podcast on “Romanticism” posted on October 31, 2009
Podcast on “The Academy and the Avant-Garde” posted on Friday, November 13, 2009
Podcast on “Formalism and Romanticism” posted on Friday, November 27, 2009
Podcast on “Romanticism in France” posted on December 11, 2009
Podcast on “Romanticism: Gros and Girodet, Part One” posted on Friday, December 25, 2009
Podcast on “Romanticism: Gros and Girodet, Part Two” posted on Friday, January 8, 2010
Listen to the Podcast on “Romanticism and Ingres, Part One” Friday January 22, 2010
Podcast on “Romanticism and Ingres, Part Two” posted on Friday, February 5, 2010
Podcast on “Romanticism and Delacroix, Part One” posted on Friday, February 19, 2010
Podcast on “Romanticism and Delacroix, Part Two” Friday, March 5, 2010
Podcast on “Romanticism: England, Part One” posted on Friday, March 19, 2010
Podcast on “Romanticism: England, Part Two” posted on Friday, April 2, 2010
Podcast on “Romanticism and Turner” posted on Friday, April 16, 2010
Listen to the Podcast on “Romanticism and Constable” posted on Friday, April 30, 2010
Listen to the Podcast on “Romanticism and Goya” posted on Friday, May 14, 2010
Podcast on “Romanticism: Germany” posted on Friday, May 28, 2010
Podcast on “Romanticism and Friedrich” posted on Friday, June 11, 2010
Podcast on “American Romanticism: The Hudson River School” posted on Friday, June 25, 2010
Listen to the Podcast on “Realism in Europe, Part One” posted on Friday, July 16, 2010
Podcast on “Realism in Europe, Part Two” posted on Friday, July 30, 2010
Listen to the Podcast on “Sincerity and Artifice in Realism” posted on Friday, August 13, 2010
Podcast on “Gustave Courbet, Part One” posted on Friday, August 27, 2010
Podcast on “Gustave Courbet, Part Two” posted on Friday, September 3, 2010
Podcast on “Édouard Manet, Part One” posted on Friday, September 14, 2010
Podcast on “Édouard Manet, Part Two” posted on Friday, September 23, 2010
Podcast on “Whistler, Part One” posted on Friday, October 8, 2010
Podcast on “Whistler, Part Two” posted on Friday, October 22, 2010
Podcast on “Whistler, Part Three” posted on Friday, November 5, 2010
Podcast on “Painting 1: Preface to the Avant-Garde” posted on November 19, 2010
Podcast on “Painting 2: Manet to Post-Impressionism” posted on December 3, 2010
Podcast on “Painting 3: The Pre-War Avant-Garde” posted on December 17, 2010
Podcast on “Painting 4: Cubism to Dada” posted on December 31, 2010
Podcast on “Painting 5: Between the Wars” posted on January 14, 2011
Podcast on “Painting 6: Art in New York” posted on January 28, 2011
Podcast on “Painting 7: Clement Greenberg” posted on February 18, 2011
Podcast on “Painting 8: Neo-Dada” posted on March 4, 2011
Podcast on “Painting 9: Pop Art” posted on March 18, 2011
Podcast on “Painting 10: Andy Warhol” posted on April 1, 2011
Podcast on “Painting 11: Photo-Realism and Conceptual Art” posted on April 15, 2011
Podcast on “Painting 12: Impact of Art by Women” posted on April 29, 2011
The Arts Blogger
The Big Fix posted on April 20, 2012
Game Change posted on March 12, 2012
Young Adult posted on December 18, 2011
Margin Call posted on December 12, 2011
Mélancholia posted on November 28, 2011
Being “Feminine” in the Twenty-First Century posted on November 25, 2011
The Shock Doctrine posted on October 8, 2011
Now I Have Become Death: Picturing the Bomb posted on October 1, 2011
Of Memorials and Memory: Martin Luther King Memorial posted on August 26, 2011
The Help posted on August 11, 2011
Sarah’s Key posted on August 5, 2011
Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene in the 1960s posted on July 31, 2011
The Assault on Reason posted on July 18, 2011
The Names of Love posted on July 1, 2011
Beginners posted on June 13, 2011
Art in the Streets, MOCA, Los Angeles posted on June 1, 2011
Midnight in Paris posted on May 28, 2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams posted on May 10, 2011
Jane Eyre posted on March 26, 2011
Battle L. A. posted on March 23, 2011
Unknown posted on March 13, 2011
The Adjustment Bureau posted on March 10, 2011
The King’s Speech posted on January 20, 2011
The Tourist posted on December 26, 2010
True Grit posted on December 25, 2010
Tron: Legacy posted on December 22, 2010
Censorship Redux: The Smithsonian and MOCA LA posted on December 19, 2010
Inside Job posted on November 9, 2010
The Social Network posted on October 13, 2010
Climbing Mount Everest to Death posted on September 13, 2010
Flipped is a Flop posted on September 10, 2010
California’s Little Red Schoolhouse Higher E-Education on Line posted on September 8, 2010
Jean-Michele Basquiat: The Radiant Child posted on September 2010
A Film Unfinished posted on August 29, 2010
Rubicon, Summer Season, 2010 posted on August 22, 2010
The Switch posted on August 20, 2010
Salt posted on August 19, 2010
Eat, Pray, Love posted on August 15, 2010
Hollywood Does “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” posted on August 1, 2010
Grown up Digital: The Net Gen as Teachers and Learners posted on July 27, 2010
Work of Art, Bravo Network posted on July 20, 2010
The Kids Are Alright posted on July 19, 2010
Inception posted on July 17, 2010
Jean-Léon Gérôme: History Painter posted July 7, 2010
Exit Through the Gift Shop posted on June 28, 2010
Doctor Who and Vincent van Gogh posted on June 27, 2010
I am Love posted on June 21, 2010
Michael West: The Artist was a Woman posted on June 18, 2010
Edition Jacob Samuel: Outside the Box posted on June 16, 2010
The Karate Kid posted on June 14, 2010
Famous for Fifteen Minutes at the Orange County Museum of Art posted on June 7, 2010
What is Artistic Success? Roger Kuntz posted on May 29, 2010
I see Dead People posted on May 27, 2010
The Death of a Museum: The Claremont Museum of Art posted on May 24, 2010
Robin Hood posted on May 20, 2010
Letters to Juliet posted on May 18, 2010
Mother and Child posted on May 16, 2010
The City of Your Final Destination posted on May 12, 2010
Harry Brown posted on May 10, 2010
Please Give posted on May 8, 2010
Riverworld posted on April 26, 2010
The New Doctor Who posted on April 24, 2010
Modern Family posted on April 22, 2010
Patrick McElnea posted on April 20, 2010
Racism and “American Stories” posted on April 18, 2010
Lost, The Final Season posted on April 6, 2010
How to Train Your Dragon posted on April 5, 2010
The Ghost Writer posted on March 31, 2010
The Art of the Steal posted on March 27, 2010
The Hurt Locker posted on March 26, 2010
Green Zone posted on March 24, 2010
The Blind Side posted on March 23, 2010
The Good Wife posted on March 22, 2010
Justified posted on March 21, 2010
House, Season 6 posted on March 20,2010
The White Ribbon posted March 19, 2010
The Pacific posted on March 18, 2010
Select Scholarly Papers presented
Chair of the session for the Art Historians of Southern California: “Shockwrite: Changing the Game.”
Presentation: “Return to Change”
College Art Association,
New York City
Saturday, February 12, 2011
“A Few Last Minute Details: A Tribute to Naomi Schor”
College Art Association
Art Historians of Southern California Panel on Feminism
New York, New York
February, 2007
“The Terrible Nearness of Distant Places: Theory Matters”
Presented at the 2004 Meeting of the Art Historians of Southern California
Armand Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, California
November 6, 2004
“The Medusa Effect: Not/Looking at Postmodern Photography”
C/C Berlin Gallery
Berlin, Germany
October 16, 2003
“The Illusion of Illusionism: The Photographic Untruths of Günther Förg”
Presented at the 1993 Meeting of the Art Historians of Southern California
J. Paul Getty Museum
Malibu, California
October 30, 1993
“Painting as Différend: The Landscapes of Anselm Kiefer and the Event of History”
Presented at the conference: The Landscape as Idea: Art, Architecture, and Urbanism
Cosponsored by the College of Architecture of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the Mint Museum of Art
Charlotte, North Carolina
October 26, 1991
“The De/Re/Un/Non-Definition of Cubism”
Presented in the Session: Cubism: The New Questions
College Art Association
New York City, New York
February 17, 1990
Select Museum Presentations
Series of Lectures on The Decades, The Eighties, the Nineties, The Aughts
Orange County Museum of Art
Fall, Winter, and Spring 2011 – 2012
Series of Lectures on The Decades: The Fifties, the Sixties, the Seventies
Orange County Museum of Art
Fall, Winter, and Spring 2010 – 2011
Series of Lectures on A Brief History of Painting, Sculpture and Installation
Orange County Museum of Art
Fall, Winter, and Spring 2009 – 2010
“Toulouse Lautrec: A Life in Posters”
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
University of California, Irvine
December 2009
Series of Lectures on The Forgotten Thirties
Orange County Museum of Art
Fall, Winter, and Spring, 2008 – 2009
Series of Lectures on Romanticism and Revivals
Series of Lectures on Impressionists, Their Friends, and Their Enemies
Series of Lectures on Expressionism, Old, New, and Neo
Orange County Museum of Art
Fall, Winter, 2006
Spring, 2007
“Degas and Cassatt: Spaces and Places”
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
University of California, Irvine
December, 2006
Series of Lectures for Docent Training
“Concepts of Modern Art”
Torrance Center of Art
Torrance California
Summer, 2006 and 2007
Series of Lectures
“Women and Art: Beyond the Stereotype”
For the Docent Council
San Diego Museum of Art
May 5, 2006
“O’Keeffe and Stieglitz: A Modern Partnership”
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
University of California, Irvine
December 15, 2005
“Thirty Years Later: The ‘American War’”
in conjunction with the Out of Context Exhibition at the
Huntington Beach Art Center
June 11, 2005
“Everything You Wanted to Know About Contemporary Art But Were Afraid to Ask”
Palm Springs Library
May 20, 2005
“Art After 911—A Public Response”
A presentation to The Art Crowd
Newport Beach, California
February 23, 2002
And at The Art and Healing Conference
Claremont, California
April, 2002
“Diversity and Decorum: Multiculturalism and the Postmodern Experience”
AICAD Symposium on Studio and Liberal Arts
Ringling School of Art
Sarasota, Florida
November 3 – 6, 2001
“Neo-Victorians: Fin-de-Siècle All Over Again”
U. C. L. A./Armand Hammer Museum for the
Secret Victorians Exhibition
Lecture Series
October 2, 1999
“Contemporary Art at the J. Paul Getty Museum: Robert Irwin, Alexis Smith, Edward Ruscha, and Andy Goldsworthy”
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Visual Arts
Los Angeles, California
Saturday, July 17, 1999
Summer Quarter, 1999
“Out from the Shadow: The Life of Lee Krasner”
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Visual Arts
Los Angeles, California
Saturday, April 10, 1999
Spring Quarter, 1999
“Riding with Death: Jean-Michel Basquait”
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Visual Arts
Los Angeles, California
January 9, 1999
Winter Quarter, 1999
“Atget and Brassaï: Photography and Nostalgia in Paris Between the Wars”
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Visual Arts
Los Angeles, California
June 6, 1998
Spring Quarter, 1998
“Cindy Sherman: Un-Portraits of a Non-Self”
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Visual Arts
Los Angeles, California
January 10, 1998
“Skinning Kiki Smith: Postmodern Art and the Body”
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Visual Arts
Los Angeles, California
February 3, 1997
“Constant Changes: The Male/able Female Body”
UCLA at the Hammer Museum
Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition, Sexual Politics
May 5, 1996
“The Coloring of Porgy and Bess: The Effaced Narration of Alexis Smith”
Art Department
Whittier College
Whittier, California
April 25, 1996
“Seeing Through a Dark Adapted Eye: Representing the Black Male”
UCLA at the Hammer Museum
Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition, Black Male. Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art
Los Angeles, California
April 22, 1995
“Representing the Other: A History of Power in the Visual Arts”
UCLA at the Hammer Museum for the
Black Male. Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art Exhibition
Los Angeles, California
March 13, 1995
“Excavating Rothko”
San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, California
March 14, 1995
“Helen Frankenthaler: Legacy and Legend”
San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, California
October 15, 1994
“Being Cartesian/Minding the Body of Art: The Fable of Thelma and Louise: An En-Gendered Morality Tale”
Guest Lecture for the Art and Art History Department
Trinity College
Hartford, Connecticut
March 11, 1993
“The Inscription of the Profane in the Definition of the Sacred”
Lecturer for Art Talk Art Series
Foundation for Art Resources
The Municipal Art Gallery Theater
Barnsdall Park
Los Angeles, California
December 17, 1991
“An American in China: The Summer of 1989—An Artist’s Journey”, presented at the Laguna Art Museum
Laguna Beach, California
February 22, 1991
“The Matrix of Abstract Expressionism”
St. John’s Museum of Art
Wilmington, North Carolina
Fall Lecture Series: The Development of Abstraction in America
November 16, 1990
“Art and the Eye of the Beholder”
Censorship in the South panel
Southeastern College Art Association Conference
Atlanta College of Art
Oct. 25, 1990
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