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Dorinda Evans

Professor

Art History Department
Emory University
M39 Carlos Hall
Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-6287

devan03@emory.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 


DORINDA EVANS (Ph.D., University of London, Courtauld Institute, 1972)

Research Interests

Research Interests: Art of the United States; the cultural ideology of the neoclassical and Romantic periods; concepts of the sublime; psychobiography; the creations of mentally disordered artists in the Romantic era.

Selected Publications

The Genius of Gilbert Stuart, Princeton University Press, 1999.

Mather Brown, Early American Artist in England, Wesleyan University Press, 1982.

Benjamin West and His American Students, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980.

Articles on Colonial and Federal Portraiture, Gilbert Stuart, Raphaelle Peale, Ralph Blakelock, and Albert Pinkham Ryder.

Work in Progress

Art in Conflict: The Legacy of Gilbert Stuart (a book)

"Ruskin and Ryder" (article)

"The Psychic States of William Riminer" (article)

"The Meaning of Luminism" (article)


Selected Seminars

The Federal Era; The Romantic Sublime; The Stieglitz Circle; Georgia O'Keeffe; Issues in Connoisseurship; Visionary Artists; The Portrait in Context; Nineteenth Century American Art.

 

 
 
 
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