James Meyer

Winship Distinguished Associate Professor of Art History

Art History Department
Emory University
M27 Carlos Hall
Atlanta, GA 30322

JAMES MEYER (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1995)

Research Interests

American and European art since 1945, especially Minimalism, Postminimalism, Conceptualism, Institutional Critique and site-oriented installation.

Selected Publications

• Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the 1960s, Yale University Press, 2001.
• Ed., Minimalism, Phaidon, 2000.
• Howard Hodgkin . Co-authored with Nicholas Serota. London: Tate Britain, 2006.
• Ed., Gregg Bordowitz, The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003. MIT Press, 2004.
• Ed., Carl Andre, Cuts = Texts 1999-2004. MIT Press, 2005.
• Articles on Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, Andrea Fraser, Californian Minimalism, Institutional Critique, 'Nomadic' Art, Eva Hesse, and AIDS activism.

In Progress

• The Return of the Sixties. Under contract at the University of Chicago Press.

Selected Seminars

Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, The Artist and the Museum, Postmodernism, Nomads: Artists and Travelers in the Era of Globalization, The Art of Nothing, New Methods in Contemporary Art.

Awards

Center for Teaching and Curriculum Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities, 2005.