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.
Selected publications:
“Dialectic at a Standstill: East German Socialist Realism of the Stalin Era,” in Art of the Two Germanys during the Cold War (Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition catalogue, 2008).
"The Face of Socialism: George Grosz and José Carlos Mariátegui's Amauta," Third Text (2008).
With co-author Fred Evans. "Sixties Redux?: Kutlug Ataman's Provocation at the 2004/05 Carnegie International" in Kunst und Politik (2008).
"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” in I Like America (Schirn Kunsthalle exhibition catalogue, 2006).
Artists of World War II (Greenwood 2005).
George Grosz and the Communist Party: Art and Radicalism in Crisis, 1918 to 1936 (Princeton 1997).
Honors/Awards:
David and Tina Bellet Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences (2000)
Current projects:
Professor McCloskey is currently working on a study of German exile artists and intellectuals in the United States during World War II.