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Michael Yonan

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Assistant Professor
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Art
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

mailing address:
Department of Art History and Archaeology
109 Pickard Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1420

phone: 573-884-7141
fax: 573-884-5269
email: YonanM@missouri.edu

Teaching

  • AHA 3730: Eighteenth-Century European Art
  • AHA 3740: Nineteenth-Century European Art
  • AHA 4120/7120: Women, Art, and Society
  • AHA 4640/7640: Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
  • AHA 4710/7710: Arts of the Rococco
  • AHA 4730/7730: Realism to Post-Impressionism
  • AHA 8120: Theories and Methodologies in Art History and Archaeology
  • AHA 8170: Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Art. Topic: Ornament

Research

My research engages with several aspects of art and culture eighteenth-century Europe, including court and monarchical art, the interpretation of rococo architecture, eighteenth-century material culture and decorative arts, Austrian and especially Viennese art, and Enlightenment thinking about gender and sexuality.  

My current book project investigates the art patronage of Empress Maria Theresa (1717-1780), the Habsburg dynasty's first sovereign female ruler, which I situate within early modern debates and discussions about gender, art, and monarchical power. Other current and long-term research interests include the ostensibly insane sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt; rococo ornament and its interpretation; eighteenth-century artistic relations between European and non-European cultures; and Enlightenment material culture. I have book and exhibition reviews in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Frühneuzeit-Info and am presently coediting a volume of essays on eighteenth-century porcelain. My scholarship has been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the DAAD.  

Publications

    • Empress Maria Theresa and the Politics of Habsburg Imperial Art, Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming.
    • “Portable Dynasties: Imperial Gift-Giving at the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Court in Vienna.” The Court Historian, 14, no. 2 (2009): 177-188.
    • “The Man Behind the Mask? Looking at Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 42, no. 3 (Spring 2009): 431-451.
    • “Nobility and Domestic Conviviality in the Paintings of Archduchess Maria Christine.” ISECS conference proceedings. Theatrum Historiae 4, supplement, Univerzita Pardubice, Czech Republic, forthcoming 2009.
    • “The Academic Establishment and the Messerschmidt Mythos.” Getty Museum exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, forthcoming.
    • “Igneous Architecture: Porcelain, Natural Philosophy, and the Rococo cabinet chinois.” In The Cultural Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Porcelain, ed. Alden Cavanaugh and Michael Yonan, Ashgate, forthcoming.
    • "Ornament's Invitation: The Rococo of Vienna's Gardekirche." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, forthcoming.
    • "Pompeo Batoni Between Rome and Vienna," Source: Notes in the History of Art 26, No. 2 (Winter 2007): 32–37.  
    •  "Imperial and Familial Politics in Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Portraiture," in Royal Family: Monarchy and Metaphor in European Culture, ed. Jo Tollebeek and Tom Verschaffel, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press), forthcoming.
    • "Veneers of Authority: Chinese Lacquers in Maria Theresa's Vienna."   Eighteenth-Century Studies 37, no. 4 (Summer 2004): 652-672.  
    • "Modesty and Monarchy: Rethinking Empress Maria Theresa at Schönbrunn," Austrian History Yearbook 35 (2004): 25-47.
    • "Conceptualizing the Kaiserinwitwe: Empress Maria Theresa and her Portraits," in Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe , ed. Allison Levy, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), 109-125.

 

 

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