Matthew Affron
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Associate Professor
Department of Art
PO Box 400130
Department of Art
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4130
Phone:434-243-8648
Fax:434-924-3647
Education and Experiences:
Brown University: B.A., 1985;
Yale University: M.A., 1986;
M.Phil., 1988;
Ph.D., 1994;
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia: 1996-1998;
Assistant Professor/Instructor, Grinnell College: 1992-1996.
Interests:
Matthew Affron teaches modern art (1850-1950) of Europe and the United States. His courses focus on the social history of art, theories of modernism, and the political uses of art. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. He has published in the journal Word and Image and in catalogues for exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and , and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, and is co-editor of Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy. In 2004 he became Director of Special Curatorial Projects at the University of Virginia Art Museum.
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century art; the social history of modern art; theories of modernism.
Selected Projects:
Fascist Visions
Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, Fascist Visions explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse, cultural ...
Fernand Leger
Fernand Léger is the only major modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. From his early series Contrastes de formes of 1913-14--the first fully abstract works to emerge from Cubism--through ...
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