Faculty
Barbara McCloskey
(PhD, Northwestern University), associate professor, 20th-century German art
Room 209, Frick Fine Arts Building
Phone: 412-648-2417
E-mail: bmcc@pitt.edu
Barbara McCloskey has published widely on the relationship between art and politics in German 20th century art, the visual culture of World War II, and artistic mediations of the experience of exile in the modern and contemporary eras. Her lecture courses and seminars cover the history of art in 20th century Germany, international Dada and Surrealism, critical theory, and art historical methodology. Graduate students working under her supervision have developed MA and PhD theses on topics ranging from art and photography in Weimar and the Third Reich to studies of 1930s American muralism and leftist art history, East German art and design, Czech surrealism, and issues of nationalism in Russian fin-de-siéclè art. Many of her students have competed successfully for prestigious national and international awards including DAAD, Wolfsonian, Fulbright, Berlin Prize, and Fulbright-Hayes fellowships.
Recent publications:
"Hauntings," 10-20. In George Grosz: The Years in America, 1933-1958 (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009).
“Dialectic at a Standstill: East German Socialist Realism of the Stalin Era,” 104-117. In Art of the Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009).
"The Face of Socialism: George Grosz and José Carlos Mariátegui's Amauta," Third Text, vol. 22, issue 4 (July 2008): 455-465.
With co-author Fred Evans. "Sixties Redux?: Kutlug Ataman's Provocation at the 2004/05 Carnegie International" in Kunst und Politik 9 (2007): 175-181.
“Exile for Hire: George Grosz in Dallas.” In Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick, eds., Caught by Politics: German Exiles and American Visual Culture in the 1930s and 1940s (Palgrave Press 2007).
With co-author Fred Evans. “The New Solidarity: a Case Study of Cross-Border Labor Networks and Mural Art in the Age of Globalization,” 483-496. In Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt, eds., Toward a New Socialism (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007).
“From the Frontier to the Wild West: German Artists, American Indians, and the Spectacle of Race and Nation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” 299-321. In I Like America, ex. cat. Published in English and German editions. (Frankfurt am Main: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2006).
Artists of World War II (New York: Greenwood Press, 2005).
“Cartographies of Exile,” 135-152. In Alexander Stephan, ed., Exile and Otherness: New Approaches to the Experience of the Nazi Refugees (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005).
“Hitler and Me: George Grosz and the Experience of German Exile,” 243-258. In Helmut Koopmann and Klaus Dieter Post, eds., Exil: Transhistorische und transnationale Perspektiven (Paderborn: Mentis, 2001).
“George Grosz,” 326-33; and “Lyonel Feininger,” 360-67. In Renée Price, ed., New Worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890-1940 (New York: Neue Galerie, 2001).
George Grosz and the Communist Party: Art and Radicalism in Crisis, 1918 to 1936 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).
Honors/Awards:
Recent research grants from DAAD (Deutscher akademischer Austauschdienst), the Center for West European Studies, and the University Center for International Studies.
David and Tina Bellet Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences (2000)
Current projects:
Professor McCloskey will be on leave Spring 2010 to complete her study, The Culture of Exile: German Artists and Intellectuals in the United States during World War II and the Cold War.