Rebecca Zorach
Contact Information
268 Cochrane-Woods Art Center
5540 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.0268
Ph.D. University of Chicago - Late medieval and Renaissance art, primarily French and Italian; gender studies and critical theory; print culture and technology; new media and tactical media; contemporary Thai art. Current interests include mathematics, imagination and neoplatonism; art, religion and the body; print collecting and antiquarianism in the early modern period; and collaborative process in contemporary art/activism.
Selected Publications
- "'Un autre respect pour les letters des Princes': Time, Devotion and Empire in the Almanacs of the Sun King." Article in progress.
- "The Virtual Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", database and website, University of Chicago Library. In progress.
- The Renaissance in Three Dimensions: Art, Geometry, Subjectivity in the Renaissance, manuscript in progress, submission planned spring 2007.
- "Introduction," solicited and in progress for Renaissance Theory, eds. James Elkins and Robert Williams (The Art Seminars series, Routledge and Cork University Press, to appear 2007).
- "Love, Truth, Orthodoxy, Reticence: Or, What Edgar Wind Didn't See in Botticelli's Primavera," article accepted for Critical Inquiry special issue on the case, forthcoming autumn 2007.
- "Jealous Geometries: Prints, Perspective, and Artistic Identity" under revision for Art Bulletin.
- The Idol in the Age of Art, collected essays, co-edited with Michael Cole, under contract with Ashgate. Includes authored chapter, "Idols of the Mind: Print as material and immaterial in early Renaissance devotion" and co-authored introduction. Forthcoming.
- Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance. (December 2005, University of Chicago Press).
- Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe 1500-1800 (catalogue of exhibition, see below; co-editor with Elizabeth Rodini), (February 2005).
- Embodied Utopias: Gender, social change, and the modern metropolis(co-editor with Amy Bingaman and Lise Sanders). Volume based on conference. "Introduction" (co-authored; pp. 1-12) and "Haunting the City" (section introduction, pp. 220-224). (Routledge, January 2002).
- "The French Renaissance: An Unfinished Project," chapter for Artists at Court: Image-Making and Identity 1300-1550, eds. Stephen Campbell, (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2005).
- "'Blood upon the earth': Sacrifice and ritual in the King's Window," chapter in The Seventh Window, eds. Wim de Groot. (2005).
- "Desiring Things," Art History, Special Issue 2001, pp. 195-212; also published as Other Objects of Desire: Collectors and Collecting Queerly, ed. Michael Camille and Adrian Rifkin, (Blackwell, 2002,) pp. 33-50.
- "Everything Swims with Excess: Gold and its fashioning in early modern France," (Anthropology and Aesthetics, Spring 2000,) pp. 125-137.
- "Tu imagen divina: The Fetishism of the Femme and her Secret in Almodóvar's Tacones lejanos," (Torre de papel, Spring 2000,) pp. 124-133.
- "The Flower That Falls Before the Fruit: The Galerie François Ier at Fontainebleau and Atys Excastratus," (Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, spring 2000,) pp. 63-88.
- "Despoiled At the Source," (Art History 22:2, June 1999,) pp. 244-269.
- "The Matter of Italy: Sodomy and the Scandal of Style in Sixteenth-Century France," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 28:3, (Fall 1998,) pp. 581-609.
- "Bernard Salomon, illustrateur lyonnais by Peter Sharratt" review in Renaissance Quarterly, forthcoming.
- "Judith Butler," entry, completed, for Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers, eds. Diarmuid Costello and Jonathan Vickery (Berg, forthcoming 2006).
- "YOUgenics 3.0," (rhizome.org, March 1, 2005).
- "Theory of Every Thing," The Boston Globe Ideas, (January 9, 2005).
- "Marcia," entry, Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia, eds. Nadia Margolis and Katharina Wilson, (Greenwood Press, 2004).
- "Unsolved Mysteries of the Renaissance," The Boston Globe Ideas, (July 18, 2004).
- "Version>04: Invisible Networks," review, (rhizome.org, May 2004).
- "Painting by Numbers," The Boston Globe Ideas, (January 4, 2004).
- "Multiple Standards," review of "Beauty Suit" at Chiang Mai University Art Museum, art4d, no. 98, (October 2003).
- "Insurance Nation," The Boston Globe Ideas, (March 9, 2003).
- "The Book of the Heart (by Eric Jager)," Sixteenth Century Journal.
- "Adrian Armstrong, Technique and Technology: Script, Print and Poetics in France, 1470-1550" in The Medieval Review electronic newsletter, 01.08.03.
- "The Art of Arts (by Anita Albus)," Art Bulletin, (December 2002).
- "Art in France," entry, Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (Scribner's, 1999).
- "The End of Visual Culture?" Chicago Art Journal v. 7, no. 1 (Spring 1997).
- "The Pietà in French Late Gothic Sculpture (by William Forsyth)," review, The Sixteenth Century Studies Journal, Fall 1996
- "An Interview with Lucy Lippard," Chicago Art Journal v. 6, no. 1 (Spring 1996).
- "Sex, Laws, and Virtual Reality" (review of Catharine MacKinnon's Only Words), Chicago Art Journal v. 4, no. 1 (Spring 1994).
- "New Medieval Aesthetic," Wired 2.01, (January, 1994).
For more information:
http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Erezorach/