Megan R. Luke
Contact Information
261 Cochrane-Woods Art Center
773.702.8457
Ph.D. Harvard University – Modern Art, Architecture, and Art Theory; Early and Avant-Garde Film, German and Italian Cinema, Film Theory and Media Studies.
Research interests include: modernism and mass culture, with emphases on abstraction, reproductive media, sculpture, and collage; the impact of fascism, world war, and exile on the arts, cinema, and urban planning in Europe and America; art historiography and the history of archaeology; critical theory, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology.
Selected Publications
- “The Photographic Reproduction of Space: Wölfflin, Kracauer, Panofsky,” Res: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics 57/58 (Spring/Autumn 2010)
- “Spazio irradiante, fantasmagoria didascalica [Radiating Space, Didactic Phantasmagoria],” in Kurt Schwitters. Riga 29, Elio Grazioli, ed. (Milan: Marcos y Marcos, 2009).
- “Objecting to Things,” in Frank Stella 1958, Megan R. Luke and Harry Cooper, eds. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 1-65.