Christine Mehring
Contact Information
272 Cochrane-Woods Art Center
773-702-0253
mehring@uchicago.edu
Ph.D. Harvard University - 20th century art, contemporary art, art theory and criticism. Current areas of interest: abstraction, art and design, postwar Western Europe, German art, relations between new and traditional media.
Selected Publications
- The Art of Blinky Palermo, The Impulse of the Era, 1964-1977 (forthcoming 2008 from Yale University Press).
- "Light Bulbs and Monochromes: The Elective Affinities of Palermo and Richter," in: Blinky Palermo: To the People of New York City (New York: Dia Art Foundation, forthcoming 2007).
- "Duckhunting with Dieter Roth," in Object Lessons (New Haven: Yale University Press , forthcoming 2008).
- "Mass Appeals: The Art of Thomas Bayrle," Artforum (April 2007).
- "Benjamin Buchloh," in Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers, ed. Jonathan Vickery and Diarmuid Costello (Oxford: Berg/Oxford International, 2007).
- "Siskind's Challenge: Action Painting and A Newer Laocoon, Photographically Speaking," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006).
- "Hans Hartung, Mid-Century Modern," in Hartung: 10 Perspectives, ed. Anne Pontegnie (Milan: 5 Continents, and Antibes: Fondation Hans Hartung et Anna-Eva Bergmann, 2006).
- "Abstract Painting," in Europe since 1914: The Age of War and Reconstruction, ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter (Detroit: Charles Scribner Sons, 2006).
- Neo Rauch Renegaten, exh. cat. (New York: David Zwirner Gallery, 2005).
- "Abstraction and Decoration in Blinky Palermo's Wall-Paintings," Grey Room (Winter 2005).
- "Continental Schrift: The Magazine Interfunktionen," Artforum (May 2004).
- "Supergegenständlichkeit: Der Maschinenmaler Konrad Klapheck," Special Issue on the 1950s, Texte zur Kunst (June 2003).
- "Four of a Kind: The Art of Blinky Palermo," Artforum (October 2002).
- Wols Photographs, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, distributed by Yale University Press, 1999).
- with Pamela Lee, "Drawing is Another Kind of Language": Recent American Drawings, exh. cat., (Stuttgart: Daco Verlag, 1997; German translation 1998).
- "Siegfried Kracauer's Theories of Photography," History of Photography 21 (Summer 1997).