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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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.
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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 most recent book, The de Nion Head: A Masterpiece of Archaic Greek Sculpture, appeared in 2003.
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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. Her current liturgical and historical research will appear in her forthcoming book, Saint-Bénigne de Dijon en l’an mil, “totius Galli basilicis mirabiliorem”: Interprétation politique, liturgique et théologique.
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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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Megan O’Neil
Assistant Professor, Arts of the Ancient Americas
Professor O’Neil focuses on the ancient arts and archaeology of Mesoamerica, particularly the Maya. Her forthcoming book studies the historical dimensions of Maya sculptures from the fifth through the eighth centuries C.E. in Mexico and Guatemala, exploring how the ancient Maya used monumental stone sculpture to create, reframe, and reshape historical narratives over time. Examining questions of audience, performance, and ritual, her book also focuses on the reuse and burial of whole and fragmented Maya sculptures as part of a discussion of ancient Maya interrelation with the material remains of their ancestors.
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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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Anne Porter
Assistant Professor of Art History and Near Eastern Archaeology
Anne Porter’s primary focus is the archaeology of third and second millennia BCE Syria and for a decade she co-directed excavations in the Euphrates river valley at a site called Tell Banat. Her fieldwork has been directed towards understanding the nature of the first cities and states in this area. Her thematic interests arise from this research and may be summed up as an exploration of the different ways people build connections between themselves in order to create community. In the ancient Near East, things as seemingly diverse as burials, ritual, kinship tradition, story-telling and even city plans may be means of negotiating some of the many things that have the potential to separate us. Porter considers all these things in trying to reach an intimate understanding of ancient life.
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Nancy J. Troy
Professor, Modern Art
Nancy J. Troy has recently embarked on a new book project that explores the circumstances in which Piet Mondrian's paintings and related works of the early 1940s were displayed, described, marketed, publicized, and otherwise circulated in the months and years that followed the artist's death in New York in 1944. The goal is to provide a comprehensive examination of the roles played by other artists, dealers, collectors, conservators, museum curators, and academic art historians in making, and remaking, Mondrian's oeuvre. Professor Troy has received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and is on leave during fall 2005 in order to work on this project.
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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 current book project, Martyrium Revisited: Churches, Saints and Communities in Late Antiquity, examines how the increasing popularity of saint veneration affected the architectural space and social function of early Christian churches across the Mediterranean. It focuses on evidence from Italy, North Africa and the Greek East from the fourth through sixth centuries CE to investigate the impact of saints' cults on commemoration for the dead, expressions of social hierarchies, and the organization of sacred space.
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