Learn about Early Modern Visual and Material Culture
Daniela Bleichmar
Assistant Professor, Early Modern Visual and Material Culture
Daniela Bleichmar’s teaching and research focus on the cultural and social lives of images and artifacts in the period 1500-1800, both in Europe and in the contexts of global colonialism and commerce. She is particularly interested in the relationships between art and science, the history of collecting and display, the history of books and prints, and the history of the art in a global context. Although her area of specialization is Spain and the Spanish Americas, she is interested in comparative studies looking at the Portuguese, British, French, and Dutch experiences in the Americas, the Caribbean, and Asia. She is currently finishing a book on the relationship among art, science, and colonialism, entitled Visible Empire. Colonial Botany and Visual Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World, and starting a new project on global collecting 1500-1820.
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Alexander Marr
Associate Professor, Early Modern Visual and Intellectual Culture
Alexander Marr researches the history of Early Modern culture, with a particular focus on art and science. He has published widely on the history of mathematics, curiosity and wonder, collecting, the book, architecture, landscape, and artistic theory in Italy, France, England, and the Netherlands. His most recent book is Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy (Chicago, 2011). He is currently working on a history of the concept of ingenuity in the Early Modern period, and is editing Richard Haydocke’s translation of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’arte de la pittura (1598), for the Modern Humanities Research Association’s new Tudor and Stuart Translations series. Additionally, he is collaborating with David Brafman (Getty Research Institute) on an ’Art of Alchemy’ project.
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Daniela Bleichmar
Assistant Professor, Early Modern Visual and Material Culture
Daniela Bleichmar teaches Latin American art from the colonial period to the present. Her own research focuses on colonial Latin American art, and she is particularly interested in the trajectories of images, words, and things across geographic, temporal, and contextual distances. She is currently finishing a book on the relationship among art, science, and colonialism in the period 1750-1810, entitled Visible Empire. Colonial Botany and Visual Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World, and starting a new book project on working on collections of American objects in the Americas and Europe in the period 1500-1820.
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Selma Holo
Professor of Art History and Director, USC Fisher Gallery
Selma Holo is the Director of USC Fisher Gallery and a Professor in the USC College Department of Art History. Her books, Beyond the Prado: Museums and Identity in Post-Franco Spain (1999), and Oaxaca at the Crossroads; Managing Memory, Negotiating Change (2004) study museums as institutions — and their influence on the shaping of culture. Her latest book, Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values, written with Mari-Tere Alvarez from the Getty Museum (Alvarez received her Ph.D. from the Art History Department of the University of Southern California) was published by the Altamira Press in its Museum Studies. Beyond the Turnstile argues for the indispensability of museums in today’s world and established qualitative way to assess a museum’s success of failure in that argument. Fisher’s exhibition of LA Artist, Victor Raphael: Travels and Wanderings 1979-2009, opened at the Fisher Museum of Art on September8,2010, and "Sight-Specific", an original exhibition sponsored by the Getty in its Pacific Standard Time initiative and curated by Tim Wride, explores the history of the LACPS (Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies) and opens in spring of 2012.
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Eunice D. Howe
Professor, Early Modern: 15th and 16th Century Art and Architecture
A specialist in Italian renaissance art and architecture, Eunice Howe’s research interests include gender and the built environment, travel literature, urbanism in late medieval and early Renaissance Italy, and 15th century Roman painting. Her current book project, The Art and Architecture of Healing; the Hospital in Early Modern Italy, examines communal rituals and gender in the formation of hospital design.
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Karen Lang
Associate Professor, Modern European Art
Karen Lang’s research focus is modern German art and aesthetic theory. Her book, Chaos and Cosmos: On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History (2006), examines the conceptual foundations of the discipline of the history of art. Where chaos is here understood as a jumble or aggregate of sensuous impressions confronting the artist or observer, cosmos refers to the rendering of perceptible and intellectual data into form and system. Addressing the interplay of chaos and cosmos in terms of history, art history, philosophy, and epistemology, her book traces shifts in point of view and the way these shifts change aesthetic objects into historical objects, and even objects of knowledge.
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Sonya Lee
Assistant Professor, Chinese Art and Archaeology
Sonya Lee specializes in religious art and architecture of pre-modern China. Her research focuses on the material culture of medieval Chinese Buddhism from the fifth to 10th centuries, in particular cave temples along the ancient Silk Road. Currently, she is completing a book on pictorial imageries of the Buddha Sakyamuni entering nirvana, in which she reassesses iconography as an art historical methodology, as well as explores issues of representation and social memory in the transformation of the Buddha’s absence into various material regimes of presence and continuity.
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John Pollini
Professor, Classical Art and Archaeology Art
Trained in the methodologies of classical art and archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, epigraphy, and numismatics, John Pollini is committed to interdisciplinary teaching and research. His special scholarly interests include ancient religion, mythology, narratology, rhetoric, and propaganda. His is Director of the new “Visual Culture of the Ancient World” initiative under the aegis of USC’s International Museum Institute. He has published several books and numerous articles. His most recent book, From Republic to Empire: Rhetoric, Religion, and Power in the Visual Culture of Ancient Rome, will appear in 2012.
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Carolyn Malone
Associate Professor, Medieval Art and Archaeology
Carolyn Malone teaches medieval art from 300 to 1300, but specializes in French Romanesque and English Gothic architecture and sculpture. Her book, Facade as Spectacle: Ritual and Ideology at Wells Cathedral (2004) interprets the Gothic façade of Wells as part of political discourse and liturgical innovation in England around 1220. Likewise, her book, Saint-Bénigne de Dijon en l’an mil, “totius Galli basilicis mirabiliorem”: Interprétation politique, liturgique et théologique, in Breplos series : Disciplina monastica 5, eds. Susan Boynton and Isabelle Cochelin (Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium, 2009) is a liturgical and political interpretation of this early Romanesque monastery. For this publication she received in 2010 the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award. It builds on her previous publication of the reconstruction of its church, Saint-Bénigne et sa rotonde : archéologie d'une église bourguignonne de l'an mil (Editions universitaires, Dijon, 2008). Professor Malone is currently co-editing with Clark Maines (Wesleyan University) a collection of inter-disciplinary essays to be published by Brepols on Medieval customaries and monastic life and liturgy which were presented in June of 2007 at an interdisciplinary conference at the Chateau de la Bretesche in Brittany, France. She received an Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Grant to organize the conference and produce this publication. Carolyn Malone is Departmental Chair from 2009-2012.
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Richard Meyer
Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art
Professor Meyer specializes in 20th century American art, cultural studies, and the history of photography. He is particularly interested in how discourses of gender and sexuality have shaped modern art and criticism. His book, Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (2002) examines a series of historical episodes in which work by homosexual artists was suppressed or censored outright. It demonstrates how artists from Paul Cadmus in the 1930s to Holly Hughes in the 1990s responded to the threat of censorship by producing their own images of social and sexual outlawry.
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John Pollini
Professor, Classical Art and Archaeology Art
Trained in the methodologies of classical art and archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, epigraphy, and numismatics, John Pollini is committed to interdisciplinary teaching and research. His special scholarly interests include ancient religion, mythology, Narratology, rhetoric, and propaganda. His most recent book, The de Nion Head: A Masterpiece of Archaic Greek Sculpture, appeared in 2003.
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John Pollini
Professor, Classical Art and Archaeology Art
Trained in the methodologies of classical art and archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, epigraphy, and numismatics, John Pollini is committed to interdisciplinary teaching and research. His special scholarly interests include ancient religion, mythology, Narratology, rhetoric, and propaganda. His most recent book, Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization: The Cobannus Hoard, appeared in 2002.
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Ann Marie Yasin
Assistant Professor, Roman and Late Roman Art and Architecture
A specialist in Roman and late antique art and architecture, Ann Marie Yasin’s primary research interests include the social lives of ancient objects and buildings; material culture of ancient religion; monuments and commemoration; and the history of collecting and displaying Roman and early Christian antiquities. Her recent book, Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009) examines how the increasing popularity of saint veneration affected the architectural space and social function of early Christian churches across the Mediterranean. Her current research focuses on questions of memory, materiality and sensory perception in Roman and late Roman architecture and material culture.
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Megan Luke
Assistant Professor, Modern Art, Architecture, and Art Writing
Megan Luke is a specialist in modern art, architecture, and art writing of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research focuses on the advent of abstraction and collage, the history of photography and art reproduction, and the intersection of avant-garde art and mass culture, particularly early cinema. Her forthcoming book, Exiled Images: The Late Work of Kurt Schwitters, investigates the German artist's collaborations with peers in The Netherlands and Central Europe, his work in sculpture, and the impact of wartime displacement on his ideas about abstract pictorial composition. She is currently preparing a manuscript that considers the role of the photography of sculpture in the writing of art history, aesthetics, and media theory.
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Suzanne Hudson
Assistant Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art
Suzanne Hudson specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art, with emphases on abstract art, formalism, art pedagogy, institutional history, and art criticism. She is the co-founder of the Contemporary Art Think Tank and co-founder and President of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians, an affiliate society of the College Art Association. In addition to her work as an art historian, she is an active critic whose work has appeared in such publications as Parkett, Flash Art, and Art Journal; she is a regular contributor to Artforum. Hudson published Robert Ryman: Used Paint (MIT Press) in 2009 and is currently at work on a manuscript dealing with abstraction and spirituality in 1960s America, as well as Contemporary Art: 1989–Present, coauthored and coedited with Alexander Dumbadze (forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell in 2012) and Painting Now (forthcoming from Thames & Hudson in 2013).
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Kate Flint
Provost Professor of English and Art History
Kate Flint works on C19th and early C20th British and Italian painting; the history and theory of photography from the C19th to the present day, and a range of issues concerning visual culture more broadly. These include the conceptualisation of the visible and the invisible; outsider art/street art; the relationship of sight to the other senses; and the transatlantic transmission of ideas about art, photography, and seeing. Her many publications include The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (CUP 2000) and recent articles on mid C19th Italian painting, and "Books in Photographs." She is currently writing a book provisionally entitled "Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination."
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