Darby English
Contact Information
252 Cocrhane-Woods Art Center
5540 South Greenwood Avenue 60637
773.702.0262
denglish@uchicago.edu
Ph.D. University of Rochester (Visual and Cultural Studies) - Modern and Contemporary American Art, Cultural Studies, Art Theory and Criticism. Current interests include: rhetorics of abstraction; sociality and
aesthetics; the politics of modernism; contemporary historiography.
Selected Publications
- How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007).
- Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress, Darby English et al., eds. (New York: Rizzoli, 2007).
- Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress, Darby English et al., eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003).
- “What Matters to Criticism?” in The State of Art Criticism, James Elkins and Michael Newman, eds. (New York and London: Routledge, 2007).
- "Ralph Ellison's Romare Bearden," in National Gallery of Art Studies: Romare Bearden, Ruth Fine and Jacqueline Francis, eds. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, forthcoming).
- "Glenn Ligon: Committed to Difficulty," in Glenn Ligon: Some Changes, Thelma Golden and Wayne Baerwaldt, eds. (Toronto and New York: The Power Plant and the Studio Museum in Harlem, 2005), 31-77.
- "Kara Walker's Endless Conundrum," in Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter, eds., BITS + PIECES PUT TOGETHER TO PRESENT A SEMBLANCE OF A WHOLE: Walker Art Center Collections (Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005), 64-67.
- "Almost Comic: The Art of Laylah Ali," Afterall 6 (Autumn 2002),16-23.
- "Grands Institutes d'Art," Les nouvelles de l'institut national d'histoire de l'art 11/12 (November 2002), 18-19.
- "No Shocking Allusions" (critical essay on Kara Walker's Mistress Demanded a Swift and Empathetic Reaction Which We Gave Her (2000)), in Ars 01, exhibition catalogue, (Helsinki: Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001).
- "The Promise of Lyrical Criticism," in Greater New York, exhibition catalogue, (New York: Museum of Modern Art/PS 1, 2000).
- "Question Marks and Futures Already Alive: Glenn Ligon and Kara Walker, Together for the First Time," (New York: Brent Sikkema Gallery, 1999).