Cecile WhitingProfessor, Art History Professor, Visual Studies |
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Research Abstract |
My research focuses primarily on American art of the mid-twentieth century about which I have published three books: Antifascism in American Art (Yale, 1989), A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture (Cambridge, 1997), and Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (Berkeley, 2006). My most recent book was awarded the 21st Charles C. Eldredge Prize awarded annually by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American Art. Currently I am working on two projects: one on the transatlantic exchange between Los Angeles and London in the mid-twentieth century, and another on the way in which artists, writers, and filmmakers revisited World War Two during the 1960s. Before joining the faculty at U.C.I., I taught between 1988 and 2003 in the Department of Art History at U.C.L.A. At U.C.I. I have served as Director of the Graduate Program in Visual Studies, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the School of Humanities, and Chair of the Department of Art History. My teaching surveys the history of American art from the colonial through modern periods. Specialized seminars have covered topics such as Interwar Modernity, Vision/Body/Affect, and U.S. War, Art, and Memory. SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS •Books Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Paperback 2008. Awarded the 21st Annual Charles Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in American Art. A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. • Chapter 3, “Lichtenstein’s Borrowed Spots,” Swedish translation in Den Maskulina Mystiken, ed. A-L Lindberg (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2003). Antifascism in American Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. •Selected and Recent Articles and Essays “It’s Only a Paper Moon: The Cyborg Eye of Vija Celmins,” American Art 23 (Spring 2009)36-55. “Los Angeles Art in the 1960s,” in Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968 ed. Lars Nittve (Stockholm: Moderna Museet Exhibition Catalogue in association with Steidl Verlag Publishers), October 2008, 11-35. Reprinted in Hot Spots: Rio de Janiero/Milano-Torino/Los Angeles, 156-1969 (Kunsthaus Zurich Steidl, 2009). “A New England Lament: Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand in the 1940s,” Art Bulletin 99 (December 2007): 797-814. “Ed Ruscha Gunpowder Drawings,” brochure for exhibition at Craig F. Starr Associates, New York (October 24- December 15, 2007). “More Than Meets the Eye: Archibald Motley and Debates on Race in Art.” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 26 (2001): 449-476. “Decorating with Stettheimer and the Boys.” American Art 14 (Spring 2000): 25-49. |
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| Last updated | 09/11/2009 | |