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Pat Kirkham (Editor), Susan Weber (Editor)
Description: History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture 1400–2000
History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture 1400–2000
~JOHN ROBERT ALDERMAN—Independent art historian and writer on India, contributor to African Elites in India (2006), and author of numerous book reviews about India.
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Pat Kirkham (Editor), Susan Weber (Editor)
PublisherBard Graduate Center
PublisherYale University Press
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Contributors
JOHN ROBERT ALDERMAN—Independent art historian and writer on India, contributor to African Elites in India (2006), and author of numerous book reviews about India.
MARCUS B. BURKE—Senior Curator, The Hispanic Society of America, New York, has written extensively on Spanish and Latin American art and culture. Publications range from Spain and New Spain (1979) to El Alma de España / The Soul of Spain (2005) and “The Madrazo-Fortuny Family” in Fortuny y Madrazo: An Artistic Legacy (2012).
SILKE BETTERMANN—Librarian and scholar at the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, specializing in correlations between fine arts and music. Publications include Naoum Aronson und Ludwig Van Beethoven (2002), “Oriental Themes in the Work of Moritz Von Schwind,” in Facts and Artefacts: Art in the Islamic World (2007), and Beethoven im Bild (2012).
JEFFREY COLLINS—Professor and Chair of Academic Programs, Bard Graduate Center. Publications include Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts (2004), Pedro Friedeberg (contributing author, 2009), and studies of painting, prints, sculpture, architecture, urbanism, museology, furniture, and film.
AIMÉE E. FROOM—Independent scholar, formerly Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, and former visiting professor at Brown University and the Bard Graduate Center. Publications include Spirit and Life: Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection (2007) and Persian Ceramics from Collections of the Asian Art Museum (2008).
ANNETTE HAGEDORN—Independent scholar specializing in Islamic applied arts and European Orientalism in the decorative arts. Publications include Auf der Suche nach dem neuen Stil: Die Einflüsse der osmanischen Kunst auf die europäische Keramik im 19. Jahrhundert (1998), The Phenomenon of “Foreign” in Oriental Art (editor, 2006), and Islamic Art (2009).
DAVID JAFFEE—Professor and Head of New Media Research, Bard Graduate Center, specializes in North American material culture. Publications include The New Nation of Goods: Material Culture in Early America (2010) and numerous essays on early American artisans and the visual and material culture of nineteenth-century New York.
ROSE KERR—Honorary Associate of the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, has written widely on Asian art and design. Publications include Ceramic Technology: Science and Civilisation in China (2004), Song China Through 21st Century Eyes (2009), and Chinese Export Ceramics (2011).
PAT KIRKHAM—Professor, Bard Graduate Center; Editorial Board: Journal of Design History (1988–1999). She has written widely on design, gender, film, and material culture. Publications range from The London Furniture Trade (1988) to The Gendered Object (editor and contributing author, 1996), Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2000 (editor and contributing author, 2000), and Saul Bass: A Life in Design and Film (2011).
PATRICIA LARA-BETANCOURT—Research Fellow, the Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University, London. Publications include Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior (co-editor, 2011) and articles on the history of the nineteenth-century drawing room in Colombia.
CHRISTIAN A. LARSEN—Doctoral candidate and Curatorial Fellow, Bard Graduate Center; former Assistant Curator, Department of Architecture & Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Publications include Digitally Mastered (2006–7), 50 Years of Helvetica (2007–8), and Ateliers Jean Prouvé (2008–9).
DANA LEIBSOHN—Professor, Art Department, Smith College, specializes in indigenous visual culture in Spanish America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern period. Publications include Script and Glyph (2009) and Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520–1820 (with Barbara E. Mundy, 2010).
SARAH A. LICHTMAN—Assistant Professor of Design History, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York. Publications include articles and reviews in The Journal of Design History, Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, and West 86th.
ANDREW MORRALL—Professor, Bard Graduate Center; has written widely on the arts and culture of early modern northern Europe. Publications include Jörg Breu the Elder: Art, Culture and Belief in Reformation Augsburg (2002) and English Embroidery from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580–1700: ‘TwixtArt and Nature (co-editor and contributing author, 2008).
GEORGE MICHELL—Independent scholar, trained as an architect and studied Indian art and archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. His publications range from two volumes of The New Cambridge History of India (1993, 1995) to Hindu Art and Architecture (2000) and The Majesty of Mughal Decoration (2007).
BARBARA E. MUNDY—Associate Professor, Art History, Fordham University, New York. Publications include The Mapping of New Spain (1996), Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520–1820 (with Dana Leibsohn, 2010), Remembering Tenochtitlan: The Transformation of Mexico City (forthcoming).
AMY F. OGATA—Professor, Bard Graduate Center, has written widely on European and American modern architecture and design. Publications include Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living: Belgian Artists in a European Context (2001) and Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America (2013).
JORGE F. RIVAS PÉREZ—Curator, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Publications include Arte del Período Hispánico Venezolano (2000), Devoción Privada (2004), El Repertorio Clásico en el Mobiliario Venezolano (2007), De Oficio Pintor (2007), and Cornelis Zitman (2011).
MARIA RUVOLDT—Assistant Professor, Fordham University, New York. Publications include The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration: Metaphors of Sex, Sleep, and Dreams (2004), Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior (contributing author, 2007), and “Michelangelo’s Slaves and the Gift of Liberty” (Renaissance Quarterly, 2012).
TOMOKO SAKOMURA—Associate Professor of Art History, Swarthmore College, specializes in the visual culture of late medieval Japan and the relationships between text and image in Japanese art and design. Contributing author to Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th-19th Centuries (2002), Asian Games: The Art of Contest (2004), and The Golden Journey: Japanese Art from Australian Collections (2009).
ENID SCHILDKROUT—Curator Emerita, American Museum of Natural History, New York, and former Director of Exhibitions and Publications, Museum for African Art, New York. Publications include African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire (1990), Grass Roots: African Origins of and American Art (2008), and Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria (2009).
LEE TALBOT—Curator, Eastern Hemisphere Collections, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, and doctoral candidate, Bard Graduate Center. Publications include Threads of Heaven: Textiles in East Asian Rituals and Ceremony (2006) and Woven Treasures of Japan’s Tawaraya Workshop (2012).
SARAH TEASLEY—Reader in Design History and Theory, Royal College of Art, London. She has written widely on design and architecture in modern and contemporary Japan. Publications include Global Design History (co-editor, 2011) and Designing Modern Japan (2013).
CAROL THOMPSON—The Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art, High Museum, Atlanta. Exhibitions and publications include African Art Portfolio, An Illustrated Introduction (1993), For This World and Beyond (2002), and Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine (2011).
TOM TREDWAY—Doctoral candidate, Bard Graduate Center. Author of several book chapters and articles on twentieth-century designers and architects, including Eva Zeisel, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Paul Rudolph.
NORMAN VORANO—Curator of Contemporary Inuit Art, Canadian Museum of Civilization; has lectured, taught, and published widely on Indigenous North American arts, museum studies, and modernism. Publications include Inuit Prints, Japanese Inspiration: Early Printmaking in the Canadian Arctic (2011) and Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art (contributing author, 2013).
SUSAN WEBER—Director, Founder, and Iris Horowitz Professor, Bard Graduate Center. She has served as editor or co-editor and contributing author to a range of publications, including E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer (1999), James “Athenian” Stuart, 1713–1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity (2006), The American Circus (2012), and William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain (2013).
CATHERINE L. WHALEN—Assistant Professor, Bard Graduate Center; has written and lectured widely on North American decorative arts, craft, and design; history and theory of collecting; gender and material culture; and vernacular photography.