Spirituality and Autophagy in Minne's 'Le Petit Bléssé' of 1889. Verzamelen:
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Albert Alhadeff Associate Professor, History of Art Department of Art and Art History ph: 303-442-7880 The University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, Colorado 80309-0318
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[email protected] Born 1937, Brussels, Belgium EDUCATION 1972
Ph.D., History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Dissertation: George Minne, fin de siècle Drawings and Sculpture Thesis Director: H.W. Janson
1962
MA., History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Dissertation: Rodin, Michelangelo and Nineteenth Century Sculpture Thesis Director: H.W. Janson
1958
BA., History of Art , Columbia University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1969present
Assistant and Associate Professor, History of Art The University of Colorado at Boulder
1980
Visiting Professor, History of Art University of Connecticut, Storrs
1968-69
Visiting Lecturer, History of Art Rice University, Houston, Texas
1967-68
Instructor, History of Art Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1961-63
Instructor, History of Art The University of Texas, Austin
PUBLICATIONS Books 2012
Émile Verhaeren: Essays on the Northern Renaissance (Lang Publications:New York-Washington) (forthcoming, June 2012)
2003
The Raft of the Medusa: Géricault, Art and Race (Prestel: LondonNew York-Munich)
N.A.
Géricault’s Negritude: Black Chattel, Black Fortitude [in progress] (5 chapters complete; approximately 250 pages with footnotes)
Articles, Chapters, and Catalogue Essays 2012
Us and Them: Camper’s Odious ligne faciale and Géricault’s Beseeching Black, (forthcoming with Ashgate Publishers)
2008
Julian Barnes and the Raft of the Medusa, The French Review vol. 82, no. 2, Dec. 2008: 276-291
2000
Spirituality and Autophagy in Minne’s ‘Le Petit Bléssé’ of 1889 Verzamelen: Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent (a liber amicorum in 200 Jaar commemorating the Museum’s bicentennial), 2000: 181-187
1999
Minne, Maeterlinck ‘et la recherche de notre moi transcendental’ in the Annales de la Fondation Maurice Maeterlinck, vol. 31: 7-27
1993
George Minne, Grieving Mother with Two Children, one of eight catalogue entries for Les Vingt and the Belgian Avant Garde, exh. cat. ed., S. Goddard, The Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence Kansas, 293-311
1992
George Minne, Treurende moeder met twee kinderen, one of seven catalogue entries for Les Vingt en de avant-garde in Belgie, exh. cat. ed., S. Goddard, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, 234-244
1989
Minne and Meunier: Subtarranean Visions and the Blue Summits of the Soul, Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 65. no. 1, 23-35
1984
Minne and Gauguin in Brussels: An Unexplored Encounter in La sculptura nel XIX secolo: Atti del XXIV Congresso Internazionale di Storia dell’Arte, Vol. VI, Bologna, Italy, 177-188.
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1982
De man met de waterzak: Johannes de Doper in seculiere gedaante in George Minne en de kunst rond 1900, exhibition catalogue ed., R. Hooze, Museum vor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, 35-40 (with French and English translations: Minne l’Homme à l’outre as St. John the Baptist in a Secular Guise, and l’Homme à l’outre: Saint Jean Baptiste sous une forme séculaire.”
1982
Minne, Gauguin, en les Vingt een onverwachte ontmoeting, in George Minne en de kunst rond 1900, exhibition catalogue ed., R. Hooze, Museum vor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, 27-34 (with French and English translations: Minne, Gauguin and Le XX, An Unexplored Encounter, and Minne, Gauguin et les XX, une rencontre à découvrir).
1981
Rodin, Legrain and an ‘Infinity of Grotesque Heads’ in Rodin Rediscovered, exhibition catalogue ed., Albert E. Elsen, Natonal Gallery of Art, Washington, 40-60.
1979
Great Awakening: Le milieu belge, Arts Magazine, vol. 55, no. 4: 132-136.
1977
Meunier’s ‘Puddleur’, Heroic Grandeur or Heroic Afflatus? The University of New Museum Bulletin, vol. 10: 12-14.
1972
George Minne, Narcissism and Symbolist Sculpture, Studies in Western Art, Acts of the XII International Congress of the History of Art, Budapest, 401-409, 461-465.
1970
George Minne, George Minne, 1866-1941, Piccadily Gallery, London
1966
George Minne, Maeterlinck’s fin de siècle illustrator, Annales de la Fondation Maurice Maeterlinck, vol. 12: 7-42.
1966
Rodin: A Self Portrait in ‘The Gates of Hell,’ The Art Bulletin, XLVIII, 393-395.
1963
Michelangelo and the Early Rodin, The Art Bulletin, XLV, 363-368.
Reviews 1994
Performance in the Texts of Mallarmé: The Passage from Art to Ritual by Mary Lewis Shaw in The Journal of Ritual Studies, vol. 8. no. 2, 1994: 149-150.
1972
The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century by Albert Boime, The Art Bulletin, LIV.
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CONFERENCE PAPERS | Selected 2013
“George Minne, Jan Van Ruysbroeck and a vie immobile,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, New York
2012
“George Minne and the Salon de Gand of 1889,” Museum for Museum für Schöne Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium
2011
“Émile Verhaeren and Karel van Huysmans on Grünewald’s Cassel Crucifixion” University of Colorado Boulder — Faculty Presentation
2011
“From Karlsruhe to Isenheim: Émile Verhaeren and Grünewald’s Cassel Crucifixion,” 46th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Western Michigan University
2011
“Christ as a larron: Émile Verhaeren, Rembrandt and the Early Modern Masters,” 99th College Art Association Annual Conference, (and the Netherlandish Society of America), New York, New York
2009
”Camper’s Odius ligne faciale and Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa,” 97h College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles
2008
“Horace Vernet’s ‘Atelier’ Revisited: A Case of French Hauteur,” 96th College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas
2008
“Verhaeren’s Reading of Rembrandt: A Capricious ‘fou,’” 81st American Association of Teachers of French Conference, Liege, Belgium.
2006
“Julian Barnes’ Reading of ‘The Raft of the Medusa,’” 31st European Studies Annual Conference, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska
2005
“An Outlandish Confrontation: Géricault’s ‘Boxers’ (1818),” 30th European Studies Annual Conference, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska
2004
“Vision of Blacks in Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa,’” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
2003
“Craniology, Race and Racism in Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa,’” 12th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Boulder, Colorado
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2003
“Disaster at Sea: Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa,’” The Tate Britain, London, England
2003
Moderator for a panel on Cannibalism with an introduction on “‘The Raft of the Medusa’ and Cannibalism,” 23rd Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
2002
“Autophagy and Spirtitualism: Mine and Maeterlinck’s Joy Before Ruysbroeck’s faim éternelle,” 37th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2001
“Calenture, Murder and Mass-Hallucinations in the ‘Raft of the Medusa,’” Center for the Humanities and the Arts, (Jeffrey Cox, Director); Work in Progress Seminar
2000
“Géricault’s ‘Raft,’ and Brunet’s Importance of Labor,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS), Yale British Art Center, New Haven, Connecticut
2000
“Ruysbroeck’s l’Admirable and Minne’s ‘Le petit blesses,’ Autophagy and Spiritualism,” 19th Annual Conference of the Western Humanities Alliance
1997
“‘Lui voulait mourir,’ Géricault’s Death as Michelet’s Necrophiliac Obsession,” 12th Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, University of California, Berkeley, California
1997
“Minne, Maeterlinck et ‘La recherché de notre moi transcendental,’” La Fondation Maurice Maeterlinck, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium (paper delivered in French)
1995
“Les XX as Urban Entertainment: Avant garde ad absurdum,” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1994
“Salvation, espéramce and Equality in Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa,’” 20th Annual Colloquium in Nineteenth Century French Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1994
“Phrenetis calenture and Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa,’” 21st Annual Meeting of the Midwest Art History Society (MAHS), School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1994
“Sur les épaules d’un pauvre esclave: The Signaling Black in Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa,’” North American Society for the
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Study of Romanticism Conference, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 1994
“Sur les épaules d’un pauvre esclave, Charles Blanc and Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa,’” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
1993
“Théodore Géricault’s Elevation of the Other: A Study of Le ministre du roi Zaide traçant la carte de l’Europe,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
HONORS, AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS | Selected lectures and papers National and International 2013
College Art Association, New York, New York (lecture)
2012
Museum fur Schöne Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium (lecture, by invitation)
2011
46th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2011
College Art Association, New York, New York (lecture)
2009
College Art Association, Los Angeles, California (lecture)
2008
American Association of Teachers of French, Liege, Belgium
2008
College Art Association, Dallas, Texas, (lecture)
2003
Tate Britain, London, symposium guest lecturer (by invitation)
1997
Fondation Maurice Maeterlinck, Ghent, symposium guest lecturer (by invitation)
1989
College Art Association, New York (lecture)
1982
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, memorial lecture in honor of H.W. Janson
1981
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, guest lecturer (by invitation)
1980
International Congress of the History of Art, Bologna, Italy (lecture)
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1968
International Congress of the History of Art, Budapest, Hungary, (lecture)
University 2012
Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH), University of Colorado Boulder
2011
Dean’s Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado Boulder
2011
Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities Grant (GCAH), University of Colorado Boulder
2011
Dean’s Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado Boulder
2008
Council of Research and Creative Work Grant, University of Colorado Boulder
2008
Dean’s Fund for Excellence Grant, University of Colorado Boulder
1994
Nominated for Teaching Recognition Award by Professor Jean Watson, University of Colorado Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Human Caring, The University of Colorado Health Science Center
1977
Council on Research and Creative Work Grant, University of Colorado
1976
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Independent Study Fellowship, University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship (declined for NEH grant)
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE 1982
George Minne en de kunst rond 1900, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent,Belgium (18 Sept.-5 Dec). Exhibition curated with Robert Hooze, Director of The Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
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