Professor Nancy J. Troy teaches courses on modern European and American art, architecture, design, and visual culture between about 1850 and 1950. At the graduate level, she has offered seminars on subjects ranging from the work of a single artist (Marcel Duchamp) to problems in Art, Business and the Law. Other topics include Originality and the Cultures of the Copy; Fashion and Transgression; the Historiography of Cubism; Marketing the Modern: The Visual Culture of Avant Garde and Kitsch; Writing (and) the History of Art (the last two co-taught with Richard Meyer). Her seminars for undergraduates have addressed specialized topics including the Visual Culture of Modernism; Impressionism; and Cubism. All of her more general overviews of the period present an integrated approach to the disparate media in which modern artists often worked. Having published three monographs on diverse aspects of modern art and visual culture, Professor Troy is now completing a 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. Her 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. A former Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and the Getty Research Institute. Professor Troy is as member of the Steering Committee of USC's Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program. has offered seminars ranging from the work of a single artist (Marcel Duchamp) to problems in Art, Business and the Law. Other topics have included Originality and the Cultures of the Copy, Fashion and Transgression, Marketing the Modern: The Visual Culture of Avant Garde and Kitsch (co-taught with Richard Meyer), and the Historiography of Cubism.

Modern Art