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Teaching and research interests include 19th and 20th century European painting and sculpture with an emphasis on Romanticism and Symbolism; Renaissance painting and Michelangelo in particular.

Education

1972 Ph.D., History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Disertation Topic: George Minne, fin de siecle Drawings and Sculpture
1962 M.A., History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Thesis director: H.W. Janson
1958 B.A., History of Art, Columbia University

Selected Publications

Re-reading Gericault's Raft of the Medusa: Studies in Ambivalence, Doubt and Denial (publication date Fall 2002), Prestel Verlag.
"Spiritualisme en zelfvertering in Minnes 'Jongeling' en 'de Kleine Gekwtste,'" in 200 Jaar Verzamelen: Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, Ludion Gent, 2000.
"Minne, Maeterlinck et 'la recherche de notre moi transcendental," in Maeterlinck et les arts plastiques. Actes du Colloque International de Gand. 6 December 1997. Fondation Maurice Maeterlinck, 1999.

Selected Honors and Awards

Guest lecturer at the University of Ghent,1997; guest lecturer for the Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium 1981; participant at the international Congress of the History of Art, Bologna, Italy, 1979; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study (N.E.H.); University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 1976; participant International Congress of the History of Art, Budapest, Hungary, 1969.

Current Projects

Working on a book on the Belgium Symbolist sculptor George Minne; otherwise working on studies on Gericault and Rodin.

View The Raft of the Medusa: Gericault, Art, and Race