Rebecca Zorach
Associate Professor
Department of Art History
University of Chicago
Office Address: Cochrane-Woods Art
Center 268, 5540 S. Greenwood Ave., Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773 702-0268
Art History Department site
Also affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies,
Departments of Romance Languages and Cinema and Media Studies
Research and teaching interests: Late medieval and Renaissance art, primarily French
and Italian; gender studies and critical theory; print culture and technology;
new media, tactical media and activism in contemporary art; contemporary Thai
art. Current interests include theories of imagination and the passions in the
sixteenth century, and the politics of emotion in contemporary America.
My book Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance
and Excess in the French Renaissance
was published by University of
Chicago Press, December 2005
My Curriculum Vitae
Everyone is talking about Feel Tank
Chicago. What is it? Find out! From the manifesto: "We are a feel
tank, but this does not mean that we do not think. We are governed by outrage
that the desires and demands for a less bad life and a better good life
continue to go unrecognized. We desire and demand to think beyond what's deemed
possible. We want to interfere with the reproduction of economic, racial, and
sexual privilege -- to practice a commitment to an impractical sense of
justice."
Anti-war, anti-racist
reading list. A collaborative effort of the Hyde Park Committee Against War
and Racism.
Buy
Embodied Utopias, a book I co-edited
based on a conference
we organized here at the U of C in 1999
Read what I have to
say on teaching about sexuality in art
Paper
Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800, a Smart Museum
exhibition and symposium
I am working on with Elizabeth Rodini, Anne Leonard and graduate students. From
the catalogue introduction: "Prints certainly do not carry the same aura
of authenticity as paintings or sculpture. But they reached a wider audience of
collectors, aficionados, and students of art throughout Europe and beyond,
enabling an unprecedented communication among artists, dissemination of ideas
and motifs, and refining of compositional and drawing techniques. The
widespread use of reproductive intaglio and woodcut printmaking techniques is a
defining characteristic of the period of art history we call early modern
(Renaissance and Baroque, or for our purposes approximately 1500-1800)."
Look for my
article in Michael Camille and Adrian Rifkin, eds., Other Objects of Desire