Faculty

David Cateforis Associate Professor, American art, modern and contemporary art email

COURSES TAUGHT
Art History I: Ancient through Medieval Art
Art History II: Renaissance to Modern Art
American Art
American Art 1860-1900
American Art 1900-1945
Art Since 1945
Modern Sculpture
Special Problems (topics vary, e.g. Revisionist Scholarship in American Art)
Curatorial Problems (topics vary; e.g. American Paintings in the Wichita Art Museum)
Seminar in Twentieth-Century Art (topics vary: e.g., Art of the 1980s)
Seminar in American Art (topics vary, e.g. Abstract Expressionism)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“’The Work Is Not Finished:’ Wenda Gu’s united nations Series and the Dartmouth Monuments,” in Wenda Gu at Dartmouth: The Art of Installation (Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College in association with University Press of New England, 2008), 63-85.

“Translation as Transformation: Wenda Gu's Forest of Stone Steles: Retranslation and Rewriting of Tang Poetry,” in Translating Visuality –Wenda Gu: Forest of Stone Steles, Retranslation and Rewriting of Tang Poetry, exhibition catalogue (Shenzhen, China: OCT-Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Museum, 2005), 311-321. (Also appears in Chinese translation in the same catalogue, 53-64.)

Commodities, Celebrities, Death and Disaster: Andy Warhol, Michael Bevilacqua,
Yasumasa Morimura, Lucinda Devlin, exhibition brochure (Salina, Kansas: Salina Art Center, 2004).

"Rosser's Renaissance: Six Years of Painting," in Warren Rosser: To Be Continued…Selected Paintings from 1998-2004, exhibition catalogue (Brookings, South Dakota: South Dakota Art Museum, 2004), 13-21.

"An Interview with Wenda Gu," in Mark H. C. Bessire, ed., Wenda Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003), 143-61.

Revising author, "Eighteenth-Century Art in Europe and North America," "Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States," "The Rise of Modernism in Europe and North America," and "The International Avant-Garde Since 1945," in Marilyn Stokstad in collaboration with David Cateforis, et al., Art History, 2nd ed. (New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with Prentice Hall, 2002), and rev. 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005).

"The Art of Robert Sudlow," in Spiritual Journeys: The Art of Robert Sudlow (Kansas City, Missouri: ExhibitsUSA, 2002), 14-66

"Robert Motherwell's Figure Before Blackness," Register of the Spencer Museum of Art 7, no. 3 (2001): 3-11.

"Elizabeth Murray: A New Way of Painting," in Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, exhibition catalogue (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with University of California Press, 2000), 196-97.

Editor, Decade of Transformation: American Art of the 1960s, exhibition catalogue (Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, 1999); essay “’All the Great Modern Things': American Pop in the Spencer Museum," 1-15.

Editor, with Frank Baron and Helmut Arntzen, Albert Bloch: Artistic and Literary Perspectives (Munich: Prestel-Verlag in association with Max Kade Center for German-American Studies, University of Kansas, 1997); essay: “Albert Bloch’s Visionary Landscapes,” 121-128.

"'That Our Soil Will Produce the Artist': American Landscape Painting and National Identity, ca. 1890-1950," in Novelene Ross, Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum Collection of American Art, exhibition catalogue (Wichita, Kansas: Wichita Art Museum, 1997), 37-59.

Willem de Kooning, Rizzoli Art Series (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1994).