Martha Ward

Biography

Martha Ward’s current research focuses on the arrangement and reception of art in exhibition and museum spaces, particularly in modern France.  Her book, The Art Show, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, examines museological practices at the Louvre and other sites in the first half of the 20th century in relation to aesthetic, social, and political developments. She also studies the creation of art in the light of real or imagined destinations, as in Pissarro, Neo-impressionism and the Spaces of the Avant Garde. A course she regularly offers, “Museums and Art,” considers the changing relationship between artistic production and museum- and exhibition-related innovation over the last two and half centuries, content that she is fashioning into a book-length study.  As much as possible, she focuses her teaching upon objects in local collections.  She is the recipient of both the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring and the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Publications

Looking and Listening in 19th Century France (With Anne Leonard)

University of Chicago Press
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2008

Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism, and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde

University of Chicago Press
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1996

Art in the Age of Visual Culture: France in the 1930s,” in The Lure of the Object (Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005)

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“The Politics of Labels,” Smart Museum of Art Bulletin 13 (2001)

“The Politics of Labels,” Smart Museum of Art Bulletin 13 (2001)
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12/01/2001

“What's Important about the History of Modern Art Exhibitions?” in Thinking about Exhibitions, eds. Reesa Greenberg, et al (London: Routledge, 1996)

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“Art Criticism to Art News: Journalistic Reviews in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” in Art and its Institutions in Nineteenth-Century France, ed. Michael Orwicz (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995)

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“Impressionist Installations and Private Exhibitions,” Art Bulletin 73 (1990)

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“The Rhetoric of Independence and Innovation,” in The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, ed. Charles Moffett (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1986)

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1986

Profiles

Andrei Pop
Andrei Pop
Modern Art and Aesthetics
Department Chair
CWAC 162 | Tuesdays 1-2pm or by appointment.
773.702.0278
Niall Atkinson
Niall Atkinson
Medieval and Renaissance Architecture and Urban History
CWAC 260
773.702.0270
Wei-Cheng Lin
Wei-Cheng Lin
Chinese Art and Architecture
Architectural Studies Advisor
CWAC 268 | Office Hours: Wednesdays 9-10am and 12-1pm
773.702.0268
2006-07
Iowa State University
Assistant Professor, East Asian Art and Architecture
Potters Wheel
Richard Neer
Ancient Greek Art and Architecture
CWAC 259
773.702.5890
Megan Sullivan
Megan Sullivan
Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
CWAC 272
773.702.5126