A review of the exhibition catalogue for the show of the same name at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, February-September 2017. This is a review for the Museum Bookstore. The url with images is here: http://www.guggenheimstore.org/books/visionaries-creating-a-modern-museum-exhbition-catalogue

This thesis uses ethology as a framework to examine Franz Marc’s paintings of animals. To perceive animals ethologically means acknowledging that animals feel, think, experience, and imagine the world. Ethology has come to include interpretive pursuits as well as traditional field studies, and as I show, Marc’s practice encompassed both asp…[Read more]

Even as there has been a pronounced trend towards secularization in modern literature, a group of authors continues to be haunted by religious texts, histories, and rituals. George Eliot, James Joyce, Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, V.S. Naipaul

Editorial for the “Descentrar la modernidad/Decentering Modernity” issue of Nomenclatura: Aproximación a los estudios hispánicos, available at http://uknowledge.uky.edu/naeh/.

This is a review of Max Beckmann in New York. Written by Sabine Rewald and published by Yale University Press, this catalogue accompanies the eponymous exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue, 16 October 2016-20 February 2017; 148 pages with color reproductions of all the paintings from the exhibition plus other Beckmann…[Read more]

This is the introduction to a Raubkunst investigation spanning decades and continents.

Lecture delivered to near eastern studies and religious studies programs.

The Lion and the Lamb: Reconsidering ‘Jewish-Christian Relations’ in Antiquity.

Editors’ Introduction to a special roundtable with four essays on intellectual freedom, vigilantism, and censorship in India.

The Place of the Biblical Jew in the Early Christian Holy Land

These are reviews of publications produced by the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel am See, Germany, relating to retrospective texts and exhibitions of the painter and writer Franz Marc on the 100th anniversary of his death in 2016.

A review of the book of translations and commentaries, ed. Kimberly A. Smith, The Expressionist Turn in Art History: A Critical Anthology (2014).

A review of “The Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights” (2013) by Stephen F. Eisenman

This paper is an intensely-focused study of Expressionist painter Franz Marc’s 1911 “Liegender Hund im Schnee” (Dog Lying in the Snow), a portrait of Marc’s dog, Russi. The purpose of this analysis is to show Marc’s careful description of the dog, in both his writings and the titles of other paintings of Russi, to depict the challenging subjects…[Read more]

This paper uses aspects of the type of Nachträglichkeit, or deferred action, as described by Hal Foster in “The Return of the Real” (1996) to recover Franz Marc’s utopian visions of Eden as shown in the mural Marc made with August Macke called “Paradies”. Traces of Marc’s ideas about animals and utopia can be found in Joan Jonas’s 2009 “Reading…[Read more]