Romy Golan
Romy Golan | |
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 Professor Romy Golan | |
| Education | The Courtauld Institute of Art |
| Occupation | Art Historian |
| Employer(s) | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| Website | gc-cuny |
Romy Golanis an art historian and professor in the Ph.D. program in art history atThe Graduate Center, CUNY.Her research focuses on modern European art, particularly French and Italian painting of the interwar and postwar period.[1]
Education and career
[edit]Golan completed her Ph.D. at theCourtauld Institute of Art,London in 1989.[1]Before joining the faculty of The Graduate Center in 1998, Golan taught atVassar College(1987–2002) andYale University(1993–1998).[1]
Golan’s first book,Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France between the Wars(1995) posits a number of reversals betweenavant-gardeand rearguard. In a challenge to traditional scholarship oninterwar France,Golan argued that neo-traditionalbelle peintureand modernist painting,cosmopolitanismandxenophobia,in fact often shared the same stage.[2]
InMuralnomad: The Paradox of Wall Painting, Europe 1927-1957(2009), Golan explored thetransmedialityof themuralimage. The book looks at mural paintings, including works byClaude Monet,Mario Sironi,andPablo Picasso,that were not truly convinced that they belonged on walls.[citation needed]Installed in unorthodox manners, these public works manifested an ambivalence about their charged ideological identity.[3]
Her most recent book isFlashback, Eclipse. The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s(Zone Books, 2021). Structured by two forms of non-linear and decidedly non-presentist forms of temporality, the flashback and the eclipse, this book argues that Italian art of the 1960s reimagined Italian (and European) history, but in oblique form. The reimagining occurred as modernism in the country was formerly aligned withItalian fascism.[4][5]
Golan's curatorial work includesEncounters with the 1930sat theMuseo Reina Sofiain 2012 andAvigdor Stematsky’s Late Worksat theTel Aviv Museum of Artin 2008.[6][7]She has also contributed catalogue essays to exhibitions includingLe Paris deDufyat theMusée de Montmartrein 2021,Charlotte Perriand:Inventing a New Worldat theFondation Louis Vuitton,Paris in 2019, andPostwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965at theHaus der Kunst,Munich in 2016.[8][9][10]
Works
[edit]Books
[edit]- Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France Between the Wars(Yale University Press, 1995)[2]
- Muralnomad: The Paradox of Wall Painting, Europe 1927–1957(Yale University Press, 2009)[3]
- Golan, Romy (2019).Muralnomad: Le paradoxe de l'image murale en Europe (1927–1957)(in French). Translated by Yersin Legrand, Sophie. Paris: Editions Macula.ISBN978-2-86589-103-0.
- Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s(Zone Books, 2021)[4]
Selected articles and book chapters
[edit]- Golan, Romy (January 1, 2020)."Boogie Woogie in Rome (1953): A Geopolitical Tableau".Art History.doi:10.1111/1467-8365.12530.S2CID224907804.
- Golan, Romy (January 1, 2020)."Is Fascist realism a magic realism?".RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics.73–74: 221–237.doi:10.1086/710830.S2CID230713478.
- Golan, Romy (2018)."Monumental Fairytales: Mural Images during the Ventennio".Post Zang Tumb Tuuum. Art Life Politics Italia 1918–1945.Milan: Prada Foundation.
- Golan, Romy (2017)."Campo Urbano: Episodes from an Unwritten History of Participation".Bruno Munari: The Lightness of Art.Oxford: Peter Lang.
- Golan, Romy (2017)."Temporalités cachées dans Campo Urbano Transbordeur.pdf".Transbordeur: Photographie histoire société.
- Golan, Romy (2014)."Vitalità del negativo/Negativo della vitalità *".October.150:113–132.doi:10.1162/OCTO_a_00203.S2CID57568992.
References
[edit]- ^abc"Golan, Romy".gc.cuny.edu.RetrievedMarch 8,2022.
- ^abGolan, Romy (1995).Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France Between the Wars.New Haven: Yale University Press.ISBN9780300063509.
- ^abGolan, Romy (2009).Muralnomad: The Paradox of Wall Painting, Europe 1927–1957.New Haven: Yale University Press.ISBN9780300141535.
- ^abGolan, Romy (2021).Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s.New York: Zone Books.ISBN9781942130505.
- ^Gluibizzi, Amanda (December 2021).20 Best Art Books of 2021.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^"Encounters with the 1930s | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía".museoreinasofia.es.RetrievedMarch 8,2022.
- ^Golan, Romy (January 1, 2008)."Avigdor Stematsky: Late Works".Tel Aviv Museum.
- ^Golan, Romy (2021).Dufy's Tapestries: Vignettes(PDF).Musée de Montmartre.
- ^Golan, Romy (January 1, 2019)."Charlotte Perriand: Un art de la rue".Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World.
- ^Drosos, Nikolas; Golan, Romy (2016).Realism as International Style.Munich: Haus der Kunst.
