Faculty
Aaron Sheon
Professor emeritus of art history, modern art
PhD Princeton, 1966
Email: ash2@pitt.edu
Aaron Sheon has published widely on 19th-century French art, with a particular interest in psychoanalytic approaches. His long and distinguished teaching career includes the top undergraduate teaching award given to faculty in the Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He continues to teach part-time in the department and to pursue inter-disciplinary research.
Selected Honors
Herodotus Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1984
Bellet Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 2002
Selected Publications
Monticelli, his Contemporaries, his Influence,
Pittsburgh:Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, c1978.
(with Donald Miller) Organic Vision: The Architecture of Peter Berndtson, Hexagon Press, 1980.
Visions, Fragments, and Impressions: 19th-century French Drawings and Bronzes from the Collection of Dr. Herbert and Carol Diamond, catalogue, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2000
"Courbet, French Realism and the Discovery of the Unconscious," Arts Magazine, February 1981, pp. 114-38.
"1913: Forgotten Cubist Exhibitions in America," Arts Magazine, March 1983, pp. 104-118.
"Van Gogh's Understanding of Theories of Degeneration, Neurosis and Neurasthenia in the 1880s," Van Gogh 100, Hofstra University: Greenwood Press, 1996.
"Theo van Gogh, Publisher: The Monticelli Album," The van Gogh Museum Journal, 2000, 2001.