CLARK V. POLING

EDUCATION

Columbia University, M.A., 1966; Ph.D., 1973 Dissertation: "Color Theories of the Bauhaus Artists"

Yale University, B.A., 1962

EMPLOYMENT

Emory University, Art History Department; Assistant Professor, 1973-1979;
Associate Professor, 1979-1988;
Professor, 1988- ;
Chair, 1987-1988, 1989-fall 1991, spring 1994, 1997-1998, 2001-2003

Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Faculty Curator of Works on paper, 2000-

Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology (now Michael C. Carlos Museum); Director, Jan. 1982-Dec. 1986

Cooper Union, New York, N.Y.; Visiting Lecturer, 1970-1973

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.; Instructor, 1969-1970

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.; Instructor, 1967-1969

AWARDS

Emory University Research Committee Grants, summer 1976, summer 1977, fall 1988

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Grant, June 1981

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1978

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Grant, September 1977

Kress Foundation Fellowship, 1964-1965

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Surrealist Vision and Technique: Drawings and Collages from the Pompidou Center and the Picasso Museum, Paris, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 1996 (served as exhibition catalogue; exhibition shown first at Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, and subsequently at Detroit Institute of Arts)

Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus Years, 1915-1933, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, N.Y., 1983 (served as exhibition catalogue; exhibition shown subsequently at High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Kunsthaus Zürich, Bauhaus Archive, Berlin; NEA grant)

Kandinsky's Teaching at the Bauhaus: Color Theory and Analytical Drawing, Rizzoli, N.Y., 1987 (English edition of Kandinsky - Unterricht am Bauhaus; Farben seminar und analytisches Zeichnen, Kunstverlag Weingarten, Weingarten, Germany, 1982; Dutch edition, Cantecleer Press, DeBilt, Netherlands, 1983)

In preparation: André Masson and the Surrealist Critique of the Self

Exhibition Catalogues

Contemporary Works on Paper from the Emory University Museum, University Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., Oct. 23-Nov. 24, 1987

Henry Hornbostel/Michael Graves, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, March 7-May 15, 1985

Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology: A Preview of the Collections, Feb. 15-April 4, 1982

Contemporary Art in Southern California, High Museum of Art, April 26-June 8, 1980 (NEA grant)

Contemporary Art in Atlanta Collections, High Museum of Art, April 10-May 16, 1976

Bauhaus Color, High Museum of Art, Jan. 31-March 14, 1976. Exhibition shown subsequently at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego (NEA grant)

Other Publications

"František Kupka, Newton's Disks," catalogue entry, Rings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1996

"Dessiner l'image surréaliste," in Dessins surréalistes: visions et techniques, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1995, pp.7-23

"The City and Modernity: Art in Berlin in the First World War and Its Aftermath," in Art in Berlin 1815-1989, High Museum of Art, Nov. 14, 1989-Jan. 14, 1990, pp. 83-90

"Interview with John Baldessari," Art Papers, VII/6 (1983), pp. 2-3

"Interview: Sam Gilliam," Art Papers, VI/1 (1982), pp. 6-8

Geometric Abstraction: A New Generation, catalogue essay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Jan.-March, 1981

"Ed Ross at the High Museum," Art in America, LXVI/2 (1978) p. 141 (illustration, p. 137)

"Kandinsky au Bauhaus: Théorie de la couleur et grammaire picturale," Change, special issue, "La Peinture," Nos. 26/27, Paris, 1976, pp. 194-208

Papers

"André Masson's Nietzschean Response," Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art, Paris; March 16, 2004.

"André Masson's Search for the Archaic Self," International Colloquium on Twentieth-Century French Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, April 20, 1990

"Sexuality, Death, and the Loss of Self: the Collaborative Work of André Masson and Georges Bataille," College Art Association, 1988

"The Museum and the University," Southeastern Museums Conference, Tampa, Oct. 17, 1984

"Kandinsky's Analytical Drawing Class at the Bauhaus," College Art Association, 1984

"Kandinsky and Klee at the Bauhaus: Shared Pictorial Themes," Paul Klee Colloquium, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Aug. 21, 1984

"Uniting Painting and Architecture: the Bauhaus Wall-Painting Workshop," College Art Association, 1976

"Sculpture and Materials at the Bauhaus," College Art Association, 1975

"Kandinsky's Color Theory During His Bauhaus Period," College Art Association, 1973

Book Reviews

Arnold L. Lehman and Brenda Richardson, eds., Oscar Schlemmer,and Matthias Eberle, World War I and the Weimar Artists: Dix, Grosz, Beckmann, Schlemmer, Art Bulletin, LXX/1 (1988), pp. 156-159

Gillian Naylor, The Bauhaus Reassessed, Krisztina Passuth, Moholoy-Nagy, and Bauhaus Photography (Eugene J. Prakapas, Forward), Design Issues, III/1 (1986), pp. 87-89

Francis Bulhof, ed., Nijhoff, Van Ostaijen, "De Stijl": Modernism in the Netherlands and Belgium, Art Journal, XXXVIII/2 (1978/79), pp. 143-46

Johannes Itten, Design and Form: the Basic Course at the Bauhaus and Later, Art Journal, XXXVI/4(1977), pp. 368-370

Television

"Varied Treasures: The Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology," WPBA, Channel 30, Atlanta, 1986

"Contemporary Art from Southern California," in the series, "Art Since 1960," WGTV, Channel 8, Atlanta, 1981 (Georgia Endowment for the Humanities Grant)