The American University of Paris - Art History and Fine Arts

Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier

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About Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier

Professor Emerita of Art History

BA, University of California at Berkeley
Licence, Maîtrise spécialisée, Doctorat de Troisième Cycle, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne

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Gabriel Wick

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Professor Wick is an art historian, writer and curator whose research focuses on the designed environment. He first taught at �̾��Ƶ in 2014. He initially trained as a landscape architect and planner at the University of California, Berkeley (MLA, 2003) and worked in those fields in New York and Paris. In 2011 he completed a second masters on the conservation of historic landscapes at ÉNSA–Versailles. In 2017 he completed his doctoral research in history at Queen Mary–University of London.

His research focuses on 18th-century landscapes, designs and political culture. He is the author of Gardens in Revolution: Landscapes and Political Culture in France, 1760–1792 (Harvey Miller / Brepols, 2025). He also co-curated the exhibitions Comte d'Artois: Prince et Mécène (Château of Maisons / CMN, Winter 2025-2026); Le Petit Salon (Middlebury College Art Museum, Autumn, 2025); Vivre à l'Antique (Château of Rambouillet / CMN, Spring 2021) and Hubert Robert et la fabrique des Jardins (Château of La Roche-Guyon, Autumn 2017).

His current research project looks at 18th-century authors' homes and gardens. He teaches at NYU Paris and also lectures for the École du Louvre.

PhD, University of London - Queen Mary (in progress, anticipated date of completion: June 2015)
Master 2, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture -Versailles, 2009
MLA, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, 2004
BA, Gallatin Schoo, NYU, 2000

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Françoise Weinmann

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Associate Professor Emerita of Art History

Licence, Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

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George Wanklyn

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Associate Professor Emeritus of Art History

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Herve Vanel

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Professor Vanel specializes in mid-twentieth century art and has published on a diverse range of artists and topics, including the work of Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein and the experimental practice of John Cage. He is the author of Le Parti Commoniste: Roy Lichtenstein et l’art pop (ed. Carré, 2013) and Triple Entendre: Furniture Music, Muzak, Muzak-Plus (University of Illinois Press, 2013) and edited the exhibition catalog Warhol Unlimited, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2015-2016, which he co-curated. Vanel is particularly interested in interdisciplinary methodologies, and expects to motivate students in developing a form of rigorous creative and critical understanding of contemporary art and its history.

2018, June 5th: “‘A beautiful, incomplete idea’: Around Jasper Johns’ Flags” Symposium Art, Life & Politics: American Printmaking from the 1960s to Today, Terra Foundation for American Art, Paris, June 4-5 2018.

2016, March 7th: “Francis Bacon: Pertes et Profits,” Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, le Havre [Part of the cycle of conferences: L’art en Grande-Bretagne : 1750-1970]

2016, January 20th: “Andy Warhol Curates Everything from A to B and Back Again,” Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris. Panel including curators Sebastian Gokap, MAMVP), Emma Lavigne, director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz and Florence Ostende, curator, Palais de Tokyo.

Doctorat / PhD, Universite de Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne.

Recent Publications:

“Fauteur de trouble: Raymond Hains et la Biennale de Venise” in Raymond Hains: Venice, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris / Berlin, 2018. [French/English]

“Cybernetic Bordello (Nicolas Schöffer’s Aesthetic Hygiene),” in France and the Visual Arts since 1945: Remapping European Postwar and Contemporary Art, EPCAF (European Postwar and Contemporary Art Forum), Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Epcaf book series, AC Books., 2018.

“L’intranaute (Notes on James Turrell),” Exhibition catalogue, James Turrell: It Becomes Your Experience, Spring 2018, Musée d'Art de Nantes. [French/English]

“This is Fear of Death,” in Francis Bacon/Bruce Nauman. Face à face, (Cécile Debray, ed.) exhibition catalogue, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, July 1st-November 5, 2017, Suresnes, Couleurs contemporaines, Bernard Chauveau editions. [French/English]

“Speaking in Tongues (Selvaging Rauschenberg)” in Robert Rauschenberg: Salvage, 19 October 2016 -14 January 2017, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, p. 4-16 (French); p. 18-30 [French/English].

“Mauvais Genre” in Warhol Unlimited, exhibition Catalogue, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, October 2nd 2015 - February 7th 2016. [French]

Hervé Vanel is the co-curator of the "Warhol Unlimited" exhibition at the October 2nd 2015 - February 7th 2016 at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris and the director of exhibition catalog.

Warhol Unlimited, ed. Paris Musées, 2015.
Triple Entendre - Furniture Music, Muzak, Muzak-Plus, The University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Le Parti Commoniste — Roy Lichtenstein et l’art pop, editions Carré, Paris, 2013. [galley proof]
“Dernière Gerbe: De Kooning’s Last Gleanings” in Final Works, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Spring 2013.
“Visual Muzak and the Regulation of the Senses: Notes on Nicolas Schöffer,” in Audio • Visual - On Visual Music and Related Media, Cornelia Lund, Holger Lund (eds.) Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart, p. 58-75, July 2009. [galley proof]
“La philosophie d’Andy Warhol de a à a,” in Les écrits d'artistes depuis 1940, edited by Françoise Levaillant, CNRS, INHA and Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne co-édition, Institut des Mémoires de l’Edition Contemporaine, Paris, November 2004.

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Stéphane Treilhou

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Assistant Professor, Curator of the Fine Arts Gallery

2011 Masters (research) degree: Cultural heritage and conservation-restoration, University of Paris, 1, UFR 03, History of Art and Archeology

2010 Masters (professional) degree: Conservation-restoration of cultural property, University of Paris, 1

2005 Diploma (Masters year 1): Science and Technology in Conservation-restoration of cultural property, University of Paris, 1, Sorbonne, specialization: antique wall painting

1993 Bachelors (License) degree in art, University Jean Monnet, St. Etienne

1992 Diploma in art (DEUG), University Paul Valéry, Montpellier

1990 First year, Science, option Physics/Chemistry, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse

1989 Baccaulaureat, Science option

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Iveta Slavkova

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Associate Professor

Now-2025: Member of the Research Lab ECLLA – Études du Contemporain en Littératures, Langues, Arts, University of Saint-Etienne
Now-2024: Member of the Editorial Board of EAM series, De Gruyter, Berlin
Now-2018: Member of the ISSS (International Society for the Study of Surrealism)
- Nominated for Vice-President in 2022
Now-2017: Member of the association “Les Amis de Jacques Audiberti”
Now-2016: Member of the Editorial Board of 20/21, Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest
Now-2016: Accredited as “Conférencier national” by the French Ministry of Culture
Now-2012: Member of the “European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies” (EAM)
2018-2012, Member of the Research Lab “Histoire de l’art et des représentations” HAR, (EA 3461, Paris-Ouest-Nanterre)
2001-2012, Member of the Research Lab “Cultural and Social History of Art”, HiCSA (EA 4100, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Professor Slavkova has a PhD in Art History from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her PhD dissertation, partly published under the title “Réparer l'homme. La crise de l’humanisme et l’Homme nouveau des avant-gardes autour de la Grande Guerre (1909-1929)” (2020, Presses du Réel) studies the vision of the New Man of several avant-gardes at the time of the First World War, underpinned by the desire to reenact or cut with humanism. The book explores the instrumentalization of the humanist discourse in war propaganda to justify the global massacre orchestrated by the European civilization, the subsequent humanism crisis and the response of the avant-gardes.

In the continuation of this inquiry, Prof. Slavkova is working on an HdR (habilitation in the French university system) on abhumanism, a term coined by French writer, playwright and occasionally painter Jacques Audiberti. Loosely related to Surrealism, abumanism involved Audiberti himself as well as painters/poets Camille Bryen and Wols, and the writer/playwright/painter Beniamino Joppolo. This project participates in a larger scholarly effort to reassess the Parisian scene after the Second World War. More largely, this research raises onto-ecological questions on the definition and the limits of the acting subject, the place of humans in the eco-sytem and the universe, casting into question human supremacy and the linearity of history and progress.

Prof. Slavkova has edited several volumes and published numerous papers related to art to these topics, more recently Surrealism and Ecology (Vernon Press, 2025) and Crisis (Ge Gruyter, 2022).

Organization of conferences and talks

November 27th 2024: "Sastuma Hirohachi and his Artistic Circle in Paris in the Interwar Period: Collecting as Politicum”, by Helena Capcova (College of Global Liberal Arts, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan), Art History Department talks in collaboration with the Student Government at �̾��Ƶ

https://aup.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10741967

October 28-October 30th 2024: 5th conference of the ISSS (International Society for the Study of Surrealism) at �̾��Ƶ in partnership with with Julia Drost (Centre allemand d’Histoire de l’art), Fabrice Flahutez ((Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne) and Olivier Penot-Laccassagne (Université Paris 3)

https://surrealismstudies.org/2024/10/18/isss-surrealismes-paris-2024-program/

/news-events/news/2024-12-02/prof-iveta-slavkova-brings-global-surrealism-conversations-aup https://szurrealizmus.wordpress.com/2024/11/04/le-surrealisme-en-2024/

June 12-13 2024, “Decolonizing the avant-garde I”, at �̾��Ƶ with Sascha Bru (KU Leuven), Fabrice Flahutez (Université Saint-Etienne) and Isabelle Wünsche (Constructor University Bremen) https://d-ag.weebly.com/paris-2024.html and /news-events/news/2024-07-31/art-history-fine-arts-department-hosts-international-symposium

March 22d 2023 , “Biodesign: Crossing Art and Science”, by Natasha Chayamoor-Heil (CNRS/Ecole de la Villette, Paris, France), Art History Department talks in collaboration with the Student Government at �̾��Ƶ

April 5th 2022: “Jean Painlevé: Scientist and Surrealist”, by Christina Heflin/University of London, UK), Art History Department talks in collaboration with the Student Government at �̾��Ƶ

November 17th-20th 2022, 4th conference of the ISSS (International Society for the Study of Surrealism),virtual, selection committee, https://surrealismstudies.org/isss-surrealisms-2022-call-for-proposals-appel-a-propositions-convocatoria-de-propuestas/

November 11th-14th 2021, 3d conference of the ISSS (International Society for the Study of Surrealism), virtual, selection committee, https://surrealismstudies.org/isss-surrealisms-2021-schedule-and-how-to-join/

Dec. 14-15 2010: International conference “Les années 30: Art et Résistance”, with the Research lab HAR and the journal Dissidences (presentation of the special issue, the articles and authors, debates and round tables), Auditorium of the University of Paris Ouest

Academic papers and invited talks

December 12 2025, “Le grand magasin de Jacques Audiberti et le cirque de Wols. Phantasmagories d’un monde nouveau après la guerre”, conference 1920-2020: Phantasmagories of war. Forms of antimimesis in the representation of conflict in Western and Eastern literatures, University of Palermo

https://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/cultureesocieta/1920-2020-Fantasmagorie-di-guerra--Convegno-internazionale/

November 27 2025, “Circus Wols”: a Critical utopian Project in Critical times”, conference Art-critical Reflection, Sofia University Saint Kliment Ohridski

https://nucci.uni-sofia.bg/news/art-critical-reflections-conference/

May 27 2025, "‘We are building a New World.’ Avant-garde artists and the First World War", invited talk, conference cycle "The artist as Citizen", Credo Bonum Foundation, Sofia

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ9JLWqNZ4b/

September 17 2024: “‘War is particularly humanist and human’. Abhumanism, war, and the zero hour of humanism”, 9th bi-annual conference of the EAM Avant-garde and War, University of Krakow

https://eam9.confer.uj.edu.pl/

April 9 2024 “Entre rêve et réalité: le surréalisme et Paris”. Between Dream and Reality: Surrealism and Paris », invited talk at AUBG (American University of Bulgaria), Modern Languages and Arts Department

https://www.facebook.com/PanitzaLibrary/posts/entre-r%C3%AAve-et-r%C3%A9alit%C3%A9-le-surr%C3%A9alisme-et-paris-1924-1939between-dream-and-reality/831777982329078/

February 1 2023, « Il n’y a pas d’aventure purement humaine ! » Abhumanism in the context of post-World War II Paris, invited talk at KU Leuven (MDRN lectures) http://www.mdrn.be/news/mdrn-lecture-abhumanism-post-wwii-paris-iveta-slavkova-american-u-paris ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XEtS_U7_JU

November 19 2022, “Breaking the body limits: the anti-humanist vision of the self in the abhumanist works of Jacques Audiberti and Camille Bryen”, 4th conference of the ISSS (International Society for the Study of Surrealism), online

November 12 2021, “Earth as a Desert: Surrealism and Ecology (revisited)” panel organization and round table with Anne Marie Butler, Donna Roberts, Christina Heflin, Julia Drost, Samantha Kavky, 3d conference of the ISSS (International Society for the Study of Surrealism), online

May 26 2021, “Penser le corps corps au-delà de l’humanisme, Jacques Audiberti et l’abhumanisme”, The Politics and Narratives of bodies/Politiques et récits du corps, May 26-28 2021, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (Argentina) and Fernando Gonçalves,Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxSNNPxkKW8&list=PLcXlcesjzxY_s3nIs0Oqip-tfwm_HvaI9&index=3

February 12 2021: “Earth as a Desert: The Ecology of Surrealism”, Panel chair and organizer with Anne Marie Butler (Kalamazoo College), for the CAA (College Art Association) Annual Meeting 2021, topic “Art and Climate Change”, online

November 3d 2020: Presentation of my monograph Réparer l’homme, annual meeting of the “Association des Amis de Jacques Audiberti”, online

March 15 2019: “Abhumanism after World-War II Paris: a “Periphery” within a “centre”, Art in the Periphery, Instituto de História Contemporânea da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa e Instituto de História da Arte da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon)

November 2 2018: “L’homme n’est peut-être pas le centre de l’univers” : Surrealism and Abhumanism, SURREALISMS: Inaugural Conference of the ISSS, Bucknell University Humanities Center

September 6 2018: “Abhumanism as realism: assuming cruelty”, Realisms, EAM (The European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies), University of Münster

http://www.eam-europe.be/realisms-avant-garde-university-m%C3%BCnster-2018

March 12 2018, “World War I and Commemoration”, invited talk, seminar Memory and Commemoration in Europe taught by Yael Hirsch, CIEE Paris

September 15 2017: “Oscar Schlemmer’s logo for the Bauhaus: the dictate of totalizing unity”, Dictators and degenerates. Modernism, Fascism and the Pursuit of Culture, University College Dublin

June 17 2016, « Entre charme et effroi. « Circus Wols », le récit de Wols des années terribles », La France en guerre : cinq « années terribles » 1792-1793 / 1814-1815 / 1870-1871 / 1914-1915 / 1939-1940, University of Clermont-Auvergne

July 18 2014: “The Aviator, the Avant-garde and the Great War. The Crossing of the Skies between ultimate spirituality and ultimate potential of destruction”, in Annual Conference of the “Space in Between” Society, London, Institute of English Studies, University of London

December 5 2013: “L’aviateur : chevalier éternel, héros moderne, Homme nouveau des avant-gardes”, 1914 : Guerre et avant-garde, Université Paris Nanterre

March 15 2013: “La marginalité comme condition de l’art : l’alcoolisme de Wols vu par Sartre”, round table and debate around the publication Les Arts drogués (Presse Universitaires de Paris Ouest), Maison Rouge/Fondation Antoine-de-Galbert, Paris in relation to the exhibition Sous influences. Artistes et psychotropes, 15 février—19 mai 2013

November 21 2012, “Histoire des arts : arts visuels, quelques clefs pour lire les images”, château de Grignan, Châteaux de la Drôme/ Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale

September 7 2012: “Rethinking Camille Bryen's Materiality within the Framework of his Own Abhumanist Theory”, in Material meanings, EAM (The European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies), University of Kent, Canterbury

April 11 2011 : “Le futurisme entre propagande et revendication libertaire”, in Art & Propagande : jeux inter-dits/Gevaarlijk spel tussen kunst en propaganda, Auschwitz Foundation/Bibliothèque royale Albertina, Brussels

June 7 2010 : “Quelle définition pour l’avant-garde?”, round table “The End of the Avant-Gardes”, invited speaker, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

September 26 2009: “La bouteille de Wols”, in La Création ivre. L’alcool comme métaphore, moteur et motif artistique (16-20e siècles), Institut National d’Histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris

July 2 2009: “The New Man and Humanism: Back to the Difference between Dada and Futurism”, in Back to the Futurists: Avant-Gardes 1909-2009, Queen Mary University London, University of London, Swansea University

October 17 2008: “The Saatchi Collection between Art Loving and Self-interested Investment”, Modernity of Collections, Center of Contemporary Art, Torun

August 18 2007: “Dalí entre 1925-1929. Le désir n’est pas humaniste”, Dalí. Sur les traces d’Eros, Cerisy-la-Salle

February 3 2007, “Détruire le sujet pour construire une communauté nouvelle. Réflexion sur Dada et le politique”, La Destruction et l’avant-garde, Institut National d’Histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris

October 12 2006: “La Révolution surréaliste démythifie l’humanisme”, seminar Fabrique surréaliste, Centre de recherche sur le surréalisme, Université de Paris 3

March 6-9 2002, “Circus Wols, un projet de Wols au camp des Milles”, Les Ecrits d’artistes depuis 1940, École Normale Supérieure (Paris)/IMEC (Caen)

April 5 2001: “Wols entre la France et l’Allemagne”, conference and round table, Centre allemand d’Histoire de l’art (Paris)

Museums and General Public (most recent)

IVETA SLAVKOVA, CV january 26.pdf

Ph. D. Modern and Contemporary Art History, 2006
University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l’unanimité (summa cum laude)
Dissertation: “L’Homme n’est peut-être pas le centre de l’univers“. La crise de l’humanisme et l’Homme nouveau des avant-gardes (1909-1930), supervisor Pr. Philippe Dagen

Post-graduate thesis (DEA), Modern and Contemporary Art History, 2000
University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Mention Très bien avec félicitations (magna cum laude)
Dissertation: “Dessiner comme écrire. La démarche de cinq artistes abhumanistes: Antonin Artaud, Camille Bryen, Fred Deux, Henri Michaux et Wols“

MA (Maîtrise) Modern and Contemporary Art History, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Mention Très bien avec félicitations (magna cum laude)
Dissertation: “Wols (1913-1951). Contradiction dans l’analyse et l’interprétation de l’œuvre“

BA (Licence) Art History and Archaeology, 1998, University of Montpellier III,
Paul-Valéry, Mention Bien (cum laude)

Scholarly work accepted for publication

Avant-garde and War, Berlin, De Gryuter, co-edited David Ayers (University of Kent), Sascha Bru (KU Leuven), Kate Kangashlahti (KU Leuven), proceedings of the 9th EAM conference in Krakow expected 2026
“‘War is particularly humanist and human’. War, abhumanism, an opera and a circus.”, in Avant-garde and War, Berlin, De Gryuter, approved by the editorial committee, expected 20026
“Immanence et inhumanité. Réflexions sur Camille Bryen et le néo-dadaïsme”, Neo-Dada et néo-dadaïsmes, éd. Fabrice Flahutez et Olivier Penot-Lacassagne, Paris, L’Echappée, expected 2026.

Habilitation Project

Research project HdR at the University Saint-Etienne

L’abhumanisme, l’avant-garde et l’art à Paris après la Seconde Guerre mondiale (working title), HDR project (Habilitation à diriger des recherches), supervisor Fabrice Flahutez (Professor, Université Lyon-Saint-Etienne)

The project summarizes my research on abhumanism, Jacques Auidberti, Camille Bryen and Wols during the past 10 years. Key topics were presented at various conferences and all my recent articles explore aspects of this subject. In the French University system an HdR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) is a second doctorate which qualifies the candidate to become a Professor and to direct PhDs and sit of PhD juries. I am intending to publish this work as a monograph upon completion

BOOKS

Monograph

2020, Réparer l'homme. La Crise de l'humanisme et l'Homme nouveau des avant-gardes autour de la Grande Guerre (1909-1929), Presses du réel (Dijon) https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=2218

Review 1 by Catherine Dufour, in Mélusine en ligne, 2020 https://melusine-surrealisme.fr/wp/iveta-slavkova-reparer-lhomme-la-crise-de-lhumanisme-et-lhomme-nouveau-des-avant-gardes-autour-de-la-grande-guerre-1909-1929/

Review 2 by Mariana Pinto dos Santos, « Italian Futurism and the Bauhaus through the lens of humanism », Revista de História da Arte: “Art in the Periphery — hommage to Foteini Vlachou", n°9, 2021 (https://institutodehistoriadaarte.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/rha_w_9.pdf) p. 127- 131.

Review 3 by Abigael van Aelst (KU Leuven), in European Legacy, vol. 27, n° 7-8, 2022.

(https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10848770.2022.2029175?scroll=top&needAccess=true&role=tab)

Review 4 by Deirdre O’Grady (University College Dublin): “The Crisis of Humanism, the Search for a New Man and the Historical Avant-garde”, in The International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, vol. 13, Berlin, De Gryuter, 2023, p. 447-451

(https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111318394-022/html?lang=de )

Edited/ co-authored/translated/

2025, Surrealism and Ecology, Wilmington, Vernon Press, co-editors Anne-Marie Butler and Donna Roberts

https://vernonpress.com/book/2432?srsltid=AfmBOoptig5EK6G208RBD4pqFN22YxxNwQWGHzY-twNXXYMPuZbns7OJ

2023, Les Avant-gardes européennes (1905-1935). Guide illustré, Paris, Hermann, Sascha Bru (author), Iveta Slavkova (translator)

https://www.editions-hermann.fr/livre/les-avant-gardes-europeennes-1905-1935-sascha-bru

2022, Crisis, Berlin, De Gruyter. 7th volume of the series “European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies”, co-edited David Ayers (University of Kent), Sascha Bru (KU Leuven), Li Lin (University of Antwerpen), Kate Kangashlahti (KU Leuven)

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110773637/html

2013, “Histoire des arts: une méthode des exemples”, Documentation photographique/La documentations française, n° 8091, co-authored with Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc (Université de Paris Ouest)

2010, “Les Années 1930 : art et résistance. Éveil politique et engagement des artistes”, Dissidences, n°9, co-edited with Jean-Paul Salles (Université de la Rochelle) and Vincent Chambarlhac (Université de Dijon)

Peer-reviewed articles

2022, “Camille Bryen Avant-Gardist/Abhumanist: A Reappraisal of an Artist Who Called Himself the “Best-Known of the Unknown”, Arts, Volume 11, Issue 2, 43

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/11/2/43/htm

2021, “The Strange Destiny of Wols, the « French Pollock ». Reflections on Abhumanism and the the Parisian avant-garde in “Periphery” after World-War II, Revista de História da Arte: “Art in the Periphery — Homage to Foteini Vlachou", n°9, May 2021, 83-97. (https://institutodehistoriadaarte.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/rha_w_9.pdf)

2020, Cemetery civilization: Circus Wols, World War II and the collapse of humanism”, Arts: “World War, Art, and Memory: 1914 to 1945”, Volume 9, Issue 3 (https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/9/3/93)

2017, “Histoire de l’art, histoire, culture visuelle”, Histoire@politique, n°33; special issue edited by Cécile Pichon-Bonin, Anastasia Simoniello, Jerôme Bazin: Image, éducation et communisme dans l’Europe des années 1920-1930 (https://journals.openedition.org/histoirepolitique/9809 )

2011, “La bouteille de Wols, la plume de Sartre et une histoire à réécrire”, Food & History, vol. 9, n°1; special issue edited by Valérie Boudier and Frédérique Desbuissons: “Inebriating Creations: from the 16th to the 20th Century. Alcohol as Motor, Motif, and Metaphor in (Early) Modern Art”

https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.FOOD.1.102295

Book chapters and academic articles

2019, “Utopies sociales et politiques des avant-gardes 1912-1968”, La Vie intelectuelle en France xixe et xxe siècles, vol. 2, Paris, Editions Points, edited by Laurent Jeanpierre and Christophe Charles, second edition (first published 2016, Editions du Seuil)

https://www.editionspoints.com/ouvrage/la-vie-intellectuelle-en-france-collectif/9782757873465

First edition on 2016 at Editions du Seuil

https://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/la-vie-intellectuelle-en-france-tome-2-collectif/9782021081435

2014, “La marginalité comme condition de l’art : l’alcoolisme de Wols vu par Sartre”, Arts drogués. Expériences psychotropiques et création artistique, Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, edited by Miguel Egaña et Fabrice Flahutez

https://books.openedition.org/pupo/8273

2013, “L’homme entre alpha et omega : vertus et périls de l’unité absolue. Le logo de Schlemmer pour le Bauhaus”, Histoire de l’art, n° 71 ; special issue edited by Camille Morando : L’Écrit dans l’œuvre

https://www.persee.fr/doc/hista_0992-2059_2012_num_71_1_3423

2013, “Surviving the Collapse of Humanism after World War II: the ‘Abhumanist’ Response of J. Audiberti and C. Bryen”, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies SITES, vol. 3, n°17

https://sites.uconn.edu/volume-17-issue-3/

2011, “L’Humanisme aussi est un mythe. Prolégomènes à une peinture abhumaniste”, Art et mythe, Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, edited by Thierry Dufrêne and Fabrice Flahutez : https://books.openedition.org/pupo/1994?lang=fr

2010, “L’Exil avorté de Wols au comité Fry. Pour une multiplicité des résistances”, Dissidences n°9 ; special issue edited by Vincent Chambarlhac, Jean-Paul Salles and Iveta Slavkova: Les Années 1930 : art et résistance. Éveil politique et engagement des artistes

2007, “Deux aspects de la crise de l’humanisme dans l’entre-deux-guerres”, Mélusine, n°XXVII

https://www.melusine-surrealisme.fr/site/astu/Slavkova_Position

Conference Proceedings

2018, « Entre charme et effroi. « Circus Wols », le récit de Wols des années terribles », in Nathalie Ponsard and Jean-Pierre Caron (ed.), La France en guerre : cinq « années terribles » 1792-1793 / 1814-1815 / 1870-1871 / 1914-1915 / 1939-1940, Rennes, PUR.

https://books.openedition.org/pur/170448

2016, “From eternal knight to modern hero. The aviator as the New Man of the avant-garde at the outbreak of the Great War”, 1914: Guerre et Avant-gardes, Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, edited by Marine Branland

https://books.openedition.org/pupo/15645

2012, “The Saatchi Collection Between Art Loving and Self-interested Investment”, Modernity of Collection, Torun, Contemporary Art Centre/University of Copernic

2011, “Le Futurisme entre propagande et revendication libertaire”, Art & Propagande : jeux inter-dits/Gevaarlijk spel tussen kunst en propaganda, published as special issue of Témoigner/Getuigen : revue pluridisciplinaire de la Fondation Auschwitz, n°111, edited by Luba Jurgenson et Philippe Mesnard

https://www.auschwitz.be/images/_bulletin_trimestriel/111_slavkova.pdf

2010, “Dalí entre 1925-1929. Le désir n’est pas humaniste”, Dalí. Sur les traces d’Eros, edited by Geneva, Editons Notari, edited by Frédérique Joseph-Lowery and Isabelle Roussel-Gillet

2009, “La Révolution surréaliste, un travail collectif pour défaire le sujet”, La Fabrique surréaliste, actes du séminaire du Centre de Recherches sur le Surréalisme/University of Paris III, edited by Maryse Vassevière,

https://www.melusine-surrealisme.fr/5.-Fabrique_BAT.pdf

2004, “Circus Wols, un projet de Wols au camp des Milles”, Les Ecrits d’artistes depuis 1940, Caen, Editions de l’IMEC, edited by Françoise Levaillant

exhibition catalogs

2017, « Horreur et rédemption dans l’œuvre de guerre de Zinoview », Alexandre Zinoview. Un peintre russe sur le front français (1914-1918), edited by Cécile Pichon-Bonin et Alexandre Sumpf, Paris, Editions Gallimard ; exhibition at Péronne, Historial de la Grande Guerre, May 18—December 10 2017

https://www.librairie-gallimard.com/livre/9782072721687-alexandre-zinoviev-un-artiste-russe-sur-le-front-occidental-collectif/

2008, Notes for five artworks in Le Futurisme et Paris, edited by Didier Ottinger, Paris/Milan, Editions du Centre Pompidou/5 Continents, translated into English and Italian; exhibition at the MNAM/Centre Pompidou, October 15, 2008—January 29, 2009

textbooks

2011, French Literature Textbook, High school Junior Year, Paris, Editions Nathan:

Hard copy textbook
Digital textbook with interactive resources (animations, and interactive visual analysis)
Teacher’s book (suggested answers and additional development on the images)

reviews

2024, “From the Origins to Now: Cross-disciplinary Global Approaches to Surrealism. Review of Surrealism (ed. N. Lusty, 2021) and Routledge Companion to Surrealism (ed. K. Strom, 2023) », International Journal of Surrealism, vol. 1, issue 2, Spring 2024, https://manifold.umn.edu/read/ijs0102-07/section/63531383-f6e0-4624-a04f-6b935e98f513

2022, “A Different Causality and a Different Reality : Analysis of the Absurd in French Dada and Pre-surrealist Theatre”, Theatralia, vol. 25, issue 1. Review of Mariana Kunesova Orawczak's book L'Absurde dans le théâtre Dada et présurréaliste français, Brno: Filozofická fakulta, Masarykova univerzita, 2016

https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/145144

2019, “Utopie et réalité de la fin de l’art. L’art russe de la révolution d’Octobre à la mort de Staline au Grand Palais”, Mémoires en jeu/Memories in stake, n° 9, Summer : Fall 2019 (exhibition) https://www.memoires-en-jeu.com/actu/rouge-art-et-utopie-au-pays-des-soviets/

2009, Catherine Wermester, Grosz, l’homme le plus triste d’Europe, Paris, Allia, 2008, 72p, notice 117, Critique d’art n° 33

2009, Chants exploratoires/Minotaure/La revue d’Albert Skira, 1933-1939, Genève, Cabinet des Estampes du musée, 2008, 111p, notice 246, Critique d’art n° 33

2009, Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Maurice Fréchuret, Fernand Léger, Les Constructeurs, Paris, réunions des Musées nationaux, 2008, 55p, notice 197, Critique d’art n° 33

2009, Nicolas Beaupré and al., L’Autre Allemagne : rêver la paix (1914-1924), Milan, 5 Continents/Péronne, Historial de la Grande Guerre, 2008, 112p, notice 242, Critique d’art n° 33

General Public

2025, Podcast on Automobile in Corsa (Dynamism of a Car) (https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/ressources/oeuvre/AIByhep ) by Luigi Russolo (1913), Communication and Education Department at the Musée d’Art moderne, Centre George Pompidou, expected February 2025

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/podcasts/un-podcast-une-oeuvre/art-et-futur

2021, “Camille Bryen, the Forgotten Glory of Saint-Germain-des-Prés”, La Gazette Drouot, October 2021, https://www.gazette-drouot.com/article/camille-bryen-the-forgotten-glory-of-saint-germain-des-pres/28430

2021, “Supports/Surfaces: Painting above All”, La Gazette Drouot, May 2021, https://www.gazette-drouot.com/en/article/supports%252Fsurfaces%253A-painting-above-all/24675

2021, “Wols between Myth and Reality”, La Gazette Drouot, February 2021, https://www.gazette-drouot.com/en/article/wols-between-myth-and-reality/21611

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College Art Association
International Center of Medieval Art
Medieval Academy of America
International Medieval Society, Paris
Historians of Netherlandish Art
Hagiography Society

Professor Russakoff is a specialist in Gothic illuminated manuscripts. She has co-edited a volume on the fourteenth-century artist Jean Pucelle, and recently completed a monograph about miraculous images of the Virgin Mary in French illuminated manuscripts. She has also co-edited a volume about humans and animals in medieval France. Her current research project is about illustrations of cross-cultural animal fables. Russakoff has wide-ranging teaching interests, and enjoys broad surveys of art history in addition to more specialized classes. She is particularly enthusiastic about including the monuments and museums of Paris, France and Europe to enhance the classroom experience.

Kalamazoo, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2019; invited to participate in roundtable session sponsored by the International Medieval Society, Paris, entitled, “Introduction to Libraries and Archival Work: Conducting research in Paris and France”
Lausanne, Switzerland, December 2018: Invited to participate in a doctoral seminar entitled, “Jeux de mains . . . la question de l’attribution dans les manuscrits.” Presented a paper entitled, “Les mains des artistes dans les deux premiers exemplaires du Miroir historial (BnF fr. 316 et Leiden University Library, Vossius Collection, ms. VGG F 3A)”
Poitiers, France, June 2018: presented a paper entitled “Formulas for Animals? Animal Iconography in a Fable and in Bestiaries” as part of the fourth conference in the series ‘La formule au Moyen Age’
Amiens, France, June 2018: presented a paper entitled “Miracles and Movement: Miraculous Images of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts” as part of a conference entitled ‘L’oeuvre en mouvement’
Kalamazoo, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2017: presented a paper entitled “Cross-Cultural Animal Fables: Comparative Iconography in Three Kalila wa Dimna Manuscripts.” Session sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America.
Paris France, October 2016: “The Mouse Transformed into a Girl: Cultural Boundary-Crossing in the Kalila wa Dimna” will present a paper as part of a seminar entitled “Travelling Texts and Translated Men: Postcolonialism and Migration across Disciplines.” American University of Paris.
Paris, France, July 2016: invited to speak at the British Archaeological Association Conference entitled “Paris: the Powers that Shaped the Medieval City” on Parisian illuminators. Paper entitled “Jean Pucelle, Mahiet and the Fauvel Master: Relationships Between Manuscript Illuminators in Fourteenth-Century Paris”
Amiens, France, March 2016: conference entitled “Mondes animaliers au Moyen Age et à la Renaissance;” delivered a paper entitled “Kalila wa Dimna: les fables, les animaux et leurs images à travers les cultures”
St. Louis University, Manuscripta conference at the Vatican Film Library, October 2015; delivered a paper entitled: “Painted and Sculpted Images of Mary in ‘Miracles of the Virgin’ Illustrations”
Lisbon, Portugal, “Medieval Manuscripts in Motion” conference, March 2015; presented a paper entitled “Mobile Fables: Cross-Cultural Animals and their Representations in the Kalila wa Dimna”
Kalamazoo, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2014; presented a paper entitled, “Kalila and Dimna (Paris, BnF lat. 8504): Visual Lessons from Cross-Cultural Animals.” Session sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art.

PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
BA, Brown University

“Some Reflections from Ground Zero,” 513–515 in “Forum: Meditations after the fire: Scholars on Notre Dame,” with Coll Thrush, Matthew S. Champion, Kacie Morgan, Una McIlvenna, and Constant J. Mews, in: postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 10/4 (2019), 513–526, special issue on “Music, Emotion,” guest-edited by Helen Dell, Andrew Lynch, and Elizabeth Randell Upton. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-019-00149-5.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-019-00149-5
Monograph: Imagining the Miraculous: Miraculous Images of the Virgin Mary in French Illuminated Manuscripts, ca. 1250-ca. 1450. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2019. http://www.pims.ca/publications/new-and-recent-titles/publication/imagining-the-miraculous-miraculous-images-of-the-virgin-mary-in-french-illuminated-manuscripts-ca-1250-ca-1450
“The Jew, the Merchant and a Miraculous Image: Comparative Iconography in Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame manuscripts,” in Jewish Identity and Comparative Studies/Judéité et Comparatism: Etudies offertes à Astrid Starck-Adler par ses collègues et amis à l’occasion de son soixante-quinzième anniversaire, edited by Roy Rosenstein and Danielle Buschinger. Amiens: Presses du Centre d’Etudes Médiévales de Picardie, 2019, pp. 387-397
Mobile Fables: Some Preliminary Notes on Cross-Cultural Animals and their Representations in the Kalila wa Dimna,” in Medieval Manuscripts in Motion: La Circulación de manuscritos iluminados en la Península Ibérica. Edited by Alicia Miguélez and Fernando Villaseñor Sebastian. Madrid: CSIC, 2018, pp. 255-265
“Kalila wa Dimna: les fables, les animaux et leurs images à travers les cultures,” in Mondes animaliers au Moyen Age et à la Renaissance: Actes du Colloque international des 8, 9, 10 et 11 mars 2016 à la Maison de la Culture d’Amiens. Edited by Danielle Buschinger et al. Amiens: Presses du Centre d’Etudes Médiévales de Picardie, 2016, pp. 378-387.
“Portraiture, Politics and Piety: the Royal Patronage of Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame (Paris, BnF NAF 24541).” Studies in Iconography, vol. 37 (2016): 146-180.
Human and Animal in Medieval France, 12-15th century, Co-editor with Irène Fabry-Tehranchi, Rodopi, Faux Titre Series, 2014.
Collaborative Illumination: Jean Pucelle and the Visual Program of Gautier de Coinci’s Les Miracles de Nostre Dame (Paris, BnF, n.acq.fr. 24541),” in Jean Pucelle: Innovation and Collaboration in Manuscript Painting, volume edited by myself and Kyunghee Pyun. Brepols/Harvey Miller; November 2013.
“The Virgin Hodegetria: an Iconic Formula for Miracle Illustrations in the West?” in La formule au Moyen-Âge. Edited by Elise Louviot, forthcoming from Brepols (estimated date of publication: May 2013).
“Miracles de la Vierge et handicap au XIIIe siècle,” in Handicaps et sociétés dans l’histoire : l’estropie, l’aveugle et le paralytique de l’Antiquité aux temps modernes. Edited by Franck Collard and Évelyne Samama. Paris : L’Harmattan, 2010, pp. 129-144.
Book review of Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, Music, and Manuscripts, ed. Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones. Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), in Studies in Iconography 30 (2009), pp. 250-253.
Book review of Marina Vidas, The Psalter of Christina of Norway in the Collection of the Royal Library in Copenhagen (Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalanum Press, 2006), published by CAA.reviews on 26 July 2007.
Book review of Christopher de Hamel, The Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts (London: The British Library, 2005) and the French edition published by the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 2004, in The Book Collector 55, 4 (Winter 2006), pp. 616-619.
“The Role of the Image in an Illustrated Manuscript of Les Miracles de Notre-Dame by Gautier de Coinci: Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale 551,” in Manuscripta 47/48 (2003/2004), pp. 135-144.

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Karen holds a PhD in art history from Trinity College Dublin. Her thesis explored the manuscript illumination of late medieval Ireland with particular reference to its patronage.

Doctorate:
- Trinity College Dublin
- Thesis: Prestige, Power, and Patronage: Commissioning Illuminated Manuscripts in Late Medieval Ireland
- September 2010 – September 2013
- Viva voce January 2014
Masters:
- Trinity College Dublin
- Masters of Philosophy in Irish Art History
- Dissertation: The Illumination of Kingship in the Book of Ballymote
- October 2008 – October 2009
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- Trinity College Dublin
- Bachelor of Arts in History of Art and Architecture
- October 2004 – June 2008

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