BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Studied art history, German literature and philosophy. Professor of art history at the Department of Art History, specialising in modern art history, at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Member of the graduate course on "Codierung von Gewalt im medialen Wandel" (patterns of violence during the medial turn) and collaborator in the gender studies course at the Humboldt University. Research into art, architecture and political power since the French Revolution and into the gender studies in modern art history; theories and practice of representation in the arts since 1945; art of the 19th century. Essays and research on metaphors in political cult architecture since 1789; on Adolph Menzel; on art of the 19th century, mainly in Italy and Germany for the purposes of the birth of the nations; on the relationship of avantgarde and totalitarian regimes of the '30s, especially in Italy; on the symbolic hierarchy of the sexes in Modern Art; on questions how to "read" non-figurative art after 1945; on "reading" violence in art since 1789. BOOK PUBLICATIONS ........................... 1993 "Italienische Monumentalmalerei im Risorgimento 1830-1890. Strategien nationaler Bildersprache", Berlin 1979 "Der Zweite Futurismus und die Kunstpolitik des Faschismus in Italien 1922 bis 1943", Frankfurt a.M. ARTICLES ........................... in print "Vom Konzept zur Geste - oder: Wie frau den Minimalismus vom Kopf auf die Hände stellt", in: Gabriele Knapstein, Ingrid Buschmann eds., "QUOBO Kunst in Berlin 1989-1999" "The Body of Abstraction - The Politics of Visual representation in Postwar American Art", in: Ulla Haselstein, Peter Schneck eds., "Iconographies of Power" 2001 "Klassische Reglements. Vanessa Beecrofts Anordnungen", in: Texte zur Kunst, June 2001, no. 42, pp. 70-79 2000 "Mit aller Macht: Über die Gewalt des kuratorischen Diskurses", in: Texte zur Kunst, no. 36, 2000 "Dal Concetto al gesto: Il gioco die Monica Bonvicini con le strategie del modernismo, ovvero, come capovolgere il minimalismo", in: Cat. "Monica Bonvicini", Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Torino, Italy 1998 Statement, Symposion "Methodenstreit. Was ist linke Kunstkritik?", Berlin, Dec. 12/13, 1997, in: Texte zur Kunst, March 1998, no. 29, pp. 86-87 "Das Verlangen nach Bedeutung - Zur Lesbarkeit moderner Kunst", in: "Raum und Körper in den Künsten der Nachkriegszeit", Akademie der Künste Berlin ed.; ed. by Angela Lammert, Amsterdam and Dresden 1998, pp. 18-32 1997 "The Sphere: Reading a gender metaphor in the architecture of modern cults of identity", in: Art History, vol. 20, no. 2, June 1997, pp. 238-267 1994 "Stil als allegorisches Verfahren: Totalität und Geschlechterdifferenz in Mario Sironis Entwurf einer faschistischen Universalkunst", in: "Allegorien und Geschlechterdifferenz", S. Schade, M. Wagner, S. Weigel eds., Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 1994, pp. 187-204 1993 "Vom 'Ballhausschwur' zum 'Duce'. Visuelle Repräsentation von Volkssouveränität zwischen Demokratie und Autokratie", in: Die Neue Gesellschaft. Frankfurter Hefte, 11, Nov. 1993, pp. 1017-1026 |
