Lobel, MichaelProfesseur invité pour le programme Terra Foundation for american art (mars-mai 2012)

Biographie
Michael Lobel is an associate professor of art history and director of the MA Program in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory at Purchase College, State University of New York. His publications include two books, Image Duplicator : Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art (Yale University Press, 2002) and James Rosenquist : Pop Art, Politics and History in the 1960s (University of California Press, 2009), as well as exhibition catalog essays and articles in such publications as Art Journal, Artforum, Parkett, and Art Bulletin. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the early twentieth-century American artist John Sloan, which focuses on Sloan's engagement with the field of popular illustration. In the fall of 2011, he was a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

Bibliographie

• James Rosenquist : Pop Art, Politics and History in the 1960s (University of California Press, 2009)

• Image Duplicator : Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art (Yale University Press, 2002)

• “Realism, Circa 1970.” Lifelike (Walker Art Center, 2012)

• “John Sloan : Figuring the Painter in the Crowd.” Art Bulletin 93, no. 3 (September 2011)

• “Vincent Fecteau : Sculpture and Circumstance.” Skulpturales Handeln (Sculptural Acts) (Munich : Haus der Kunst, 2011)

• “Something Old, Something New.” Shared Intelligence : American Painting and the Photograph (Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2011)

• “Scale Models.” Artforum 49, no. 2 (October 2010)

• Fugitive Artist : The Early Work of Richard Prince, 1974-77 (Neuberger Museum of Art, 2007)

Projet de recherche

During my time in Paris, I will work on my book manuscript on John Sloan. This project considers the work of Sloan and his colleagues in the context of a broader shift in American visual culture, in which changes in printing technologies and distribution networks fundamentally altered the work of newspaper illustrators around the turn of the twentieth century. My study contributes to the existing scholarly literature by more fully examining the range of Sloan's work in the field of popular illustration, including word puzzles and editorial cartoons. This, in turn, offers new insights into the social and political alignments of American art in that period. I also plan to conduct research on the development of the market for photographic reproductions of works of art in the nineteenth century by the French firm Goupil. This research is connected to a project on Vincent van Gogh, who worked for Goupil, in both Paris and London, in the 1870s.