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Brett Van Hoesen

Anne Rudloff Stanton

Visiting Instructor 2006-2007
Modern and Contemporary Art
Ph.D. University of Iowa (expected 5/2007)
M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst

mailing address:
University of Nevada, Reno
Art Department/224
1664 N. Virginia St.
Reno, Nevada 89557

phone: 775-784-6639
email: VanHoesenB at missouri dot edu

Teaching

Fall 2006:

  • AHA 3750: Modern Art in Europe and America
  • AHA 4120/7120: Women, Art and Society
  • AHA 4670/7670: Modern Sculpture

Winter 2007:

  • AHA 1105: Great Ideas of the 20th Century
  • AHA 3760: Contemporary Art
  • AHA 4780/7780: Advanced Course in Contemporary Art: The Culture of Collage

Research

My research areas include:   Modern and Contemporary Art, Visual Culture of the Weimar Republic, Dada, the History of Photomontage, African Art, Museum Studies and Digital Culture.

My work in German Studies involves examining the role that Weimar visual culture played in sustaining the legacy of Germany's colonial history, whichofficially ended with the Treaty of Versailles. In my dissertation, entitled "Weimar Re-visions of Germany's Colonial Past: Max Pechstein, Hannah Höch, László Moholy-Nagy," I evaluate the work of three particular artists affiliated with German Expressionism, Berlin Dada and the Bauhaus as a means to ascertain the level to which the historical avant-garde critiqued the political and cultural remnants of Germany's period of colonial rule (1884-1919). In particular, I examine the work of these three artists in conjunction with larger themes including the culture of travel journals, techniques and tactics of photomontage, visual strategies of the Weimar popular press and display methodologies of German ethnographic museums. My current research and forthcoming publications in the field of contemporary digital culture deal with theorizing the increased usage of museum visitor-generated digital devices (cameras, camcorders and cell phones) and the ramifications that this phenomenon is having on the relationship between the individual and the institution.

Grants and Fellowships

My scholarship has been supported by a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program) Fellowship, a Ford Foundation-sponsored Crossing Borders Interdisciplinary Studies Fellowship, a FLAS (Foreign Language Area Study) grant, as well as a T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship and a Seashore Dissertation-Year Fellowship from the University of Iowa.

Publications

"The Short Century:   Constructing a Contemporary Critical Biography of Africa." New Art Examiner 31 (Jan./Feb., 2002):   36-41.

"The Digital Muse: Imaging and Imaging the Museum in the Age of Digital Reproduction." In Thinking Photography (Again) , ed. Jonathan Long, Andrea Noble, and Edward Welch (The Photo Group - University of Durham, UK), forthcoming 2007.

Teaching Experience

I have served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Northern Iowa, Cornell College and the University of Hartford. I have also taught courses at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the University of Iowa.

Museum Experience

I have held internships at the following museums:   The University of Iowa Museum of Art, The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, The Busch-Reisinger Museum and The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.

 


Dada-Tanz
Hannah Höch,
1922


Militarism/
Propaganda Poster
László Moholy-Nagy, 1924


Carl Einstein and Dr. Eichhorn examining the Fleschtheim Collection, 1926


Palau Drawings
Max Pechstein,
1914

 

 

 


 
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