Art History

Congrats to Professor Mona Hadler who co-edited, Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties with Kalliopi Minioudaki (Bloomsbury, 2022). Woman's Art Journal touted it as a "marvelous snapshot of the global sixties." See the review here.

Kudos to alum Arnaud Gerspacher (Ph.D. 2017), who has a new article out in the journal October.  In Zoonotic Undemocracy (2022:181, 61-92),  Gerspacher "argues for the urgency of re-thinking politics from a posthumanist perspective, one that considers the impact of environmental harm caused by the uses of nonhuman animals."  He examines a film by Wilson Coutinho and the work of conceptual artist Cildo Meireles, the subject of Coutinho's film. Already in the 1970s, they addressed environmental issues  - global warming, biodiversity loss, racist food politics, and zoonotic illnesses. Gerspacher analyzes the role of nonhuman animals in the context of environmental politics in Brazil, and beyond.

Alumna Lindsay Caplan (Ph.D. 2017) publishes Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy which showcases a group of visionary artists who used emerging computer technologies in the context of the Cold War in Italy.  Now Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Department of Art and Architecture, Caplan's research and publications focus on the intersection of technology, politics and Art History. This is her first book. 

Gillian Sneed (Ph.D. 2019) co-edits (with Marie Walsh) new book exploring the correspondence between artist, Rosemary Mayer, and poet, Bernadette Mayer.  Conceptual art, Postminimalism, and the New York School, in addition to Feminism are all explored in this volume. Sneed is Assistant Professor of Art History at The School of Art and Design at San Diego State University.  She specializes in 20th- and 21st-century feminist art histories in the Americas, especially Brazil.