John
Pultz Associate Professor; Graduate Advisor and Director
of Graduate Admissions for European, American, and African art.
History of photography;
20th-century European art; art since 1945 in Europe and America;
contemporary art and criticism
LECTURE COURSES OFFERED: History of Photography; European Art 1900-1945; Art Since 1945.
GRADUATE SEMINARS: Reading Photographs as Documents; 1960s American Photography; Art Since 1970; Art Theory and Criticism and the 1970s and 1980s; Photography
and Modernism; The Body in Photography; Land-use Photography; Critical Issues in Twentieth-century
American Photography; Vernacular Photography, Popular Culture, and
High Art; Performance, Installation, Site-Specific Art, Twentieth-century
Collage; and Twentieth-century Portraiture.
EDUCATION
1993
Ph.D., History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts,
New York University
1981
M.A., History of Art, Williams
College/Clark Art Institute Graduate Program
1975
B.A., cum laude, Amherst College
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1999-
Associate Professor, University of Kansas
1992-1998
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
1992
Instructor, New York University
1991
Instructor, Kean College
1986
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard College; Instructor,
Tyler School of Art
MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
1992-2006
Curator of Photography, Spencer Museum
of Art, University of Kansas
2001-2002
Consulting Curator
of Photography and New Media, Denver Art Museum
1985
Consultant, Department of Photographs,
J. Paul Getty Museum
1981-84
Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial
Fellow, Dept. of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Harry Callahan, Modernist Photography, and Postwar Suburban Domesticity.” In A Fine Regard: Essays in Honor of Kirk Varnedoe. Edited by Patricia Berman and Gertje Utley. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.
“Tim White’s Photographs and Adolescent Time.” In Awakening: The Photographs of Tim White. Berlin: Galerie Michael Schultz, 2007.
Diane
Arbus: Family Albums, with Anthony W. Lee. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2003. Including the essay "Searching
for Diane Arbus's Family Album in her Monograph, Box of Ten
Pictures, and Esquire Work."
"Timothy
H. O'Sullivan's Photographs of the West 1871-1873."
In West Point/Points West. Denver: Institute of Western
American Art, Denver Art Museum, 2002.
"Photography." In The Oxford Companion to the Body. Edited by Colin
Blakemore. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
"Joseph
Judd Pennell and the Era of Commercial Studio Photography." In James R. Shortridge, Our Town on the Plains: J. J. Pennell's
Photographs of Junction City, Kansas, 1893-1922. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 2000.
Western Waters: Photographs by Geogory Conniff, Terry
Evans, and Wander Hammerbeck. Exh. cat. Spencer Museum
of Art, 1996.
The Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present.
Harry N.Abrams, 1995. (Foreign-language editions: French, German, Spanish, Korean, Chinese)
Le Corps Photographié,
with Anne de Mondenard. Flammarion, 1995.
"Austérité et Clarté:
La nouvelle photographie aux États-Unis, 1920-40"
and "Ansel Adams; An American Place, 1936." In Nouvelle
Historie de la Photographie. Edited by Michel Frizot. Paris: Adam Biro/Bordas, 1994.
"Ansel Adams and Harry Callahan: A Case
Study of Influence." In Ansel Adams/New Light: Essays
on His Legacy and His Legend. San Francisco: Friends
of Photography, 1993.
"Harry Callahan: The Creation and Representation
of an Integrated Life," History of Photography,
vol. 15, no. 3 (Autumn 1991):222-227.
"Fotografia americana
1918-1945." In Fotografia americana del S. XX.
Exh. cat. Barcelona: Centre Cultural de la Fundació
"La Caixa,"1991.
Harry Callahan: Early
Street Photography, 1943-45 . The Archive Research Series,
no. 28. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1990.
"L'interprétation
américaine du cubisme," Photographies,
no. 7 (May 1985):18-20.
"Collectors of
Photography" In A Personal Vision: Phtographs in
the Collection of Paul F. Walter. Exh. cat. New Museum of Modern Art, 1985.
Cubism and American
Photography, 1910-1930. With Catherine Scallen. Exh. cat.
Williamstown: Clark Art Institute, 1981.
"Equivalence, Symbolism
and Minor White's Way into the Language of Photography," Record
of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 39, no.
1/2 (1980):28-39.
EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
Spencer Museum of Art • 2005 Feeding Lawrence/Work + Workplace: A Video Installation by Earl Iversen and Luke Jordan • 2003 Diane Arbus: Family Albums, with Anthony
W. Lee • 2002 Remembering 9/11: The World Trade Center in Photographs • 1999 Cindy
Sherman: Selections from the Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection,
with Erin Barnett • 1996 Western Waters: Photographs of Gregory
Conniff, Terry Evans, and Wanda Hammerbeck • 1995 The
Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present • 1994 Land
and Its Uses: Photographs from the Collection • 1993 A
Survey of the History of Photography from the Collection • 1993 Photographs
by Gordon Parks
Denver Art Museum • 2002 Metamorphosis: Modernist Photographs by
Herbert Bayer and Man Ray
Kansas Interpretative Traveling Exhibits Service • 1998 The Face of the Law in Kansas From Territorial Days to
the Present
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona • 1991 Harry
Callahan: Early Work/Recent Work
The Museum of Modern Art, New York • Reinstallation of the permanent
collection (on view 1984-1990) • 1983 BIG PICTURES by Contemporary Photographers, with
John Szarkowski.
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown • 1981 Cubism
and American Photography, with Catherine Scallen
OTHER ACTIVITIES, GRANTS, AWARDS
Field Editor for Photography, caa:reviews, an on-line publication of College Art Association, 2006-2010.
Book and exhibition reviews for American Studies, Great Plains Quarterly, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), Art Journal
Keeler Family Intra-University Professorship, University of Kansas, 2006
Award for teaching excellence, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas, 1998
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1995
University of Kansas Graduate Research Fund Fellowships, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005
Manuscript review for Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, University Press of Kansas, American Studies, Art Journal
Juror for Society for Contemporary Photography (Kansas City), Kansas City Artists’ Coalition, Hidden Glen Art Fair (Johnson County, Kansas), Lawrence Photography Alliance
Portfolio reviewer for Santa Fe Center for Photography, Atlanta Celebrates Photography
Lectures and other public presentations at University of Iowa, Mount Holyoke College, Art Institute of Chicago, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis, Arvada (Colorado) Center for the Arts and Humanities, State University of New York at New Paltz, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Ohio Wesleyan University, Cornell University, Adelphi University, Baltimore Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Pennsylvania State University, Institute of North American Studies (Barcelona)
COMPLETED DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS CHAIRED:
•
"'Sighing after the Infinite': Masculinity,
Androgyny, and Femininity in the Art of Edward Burne-Jones"
• "Pin-up
Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality and the Pin-Up Genre, 1860 to the
Present" • "Fractured
Identities: Photomontage Production by Women in the Weimar Republic"
• "The
Precondition of Landscape: Tropes and Meaning in the Rural Landscapes
of J.W. W. Turner and John Constable"
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS CURRENTLY BEING CHAIRED:
•
Barbara Morgan, American photographer
Kress
Foundation
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