Susan Kart

Domaine de recherche

l'Afrique

Pays de résidence

États-Unis d'Amérique

Titre

Assistant Professor of the Arts of Africa

Affiliation

Lehigh University Dept of Art|Architecture|Design and the Africana Studies Program

Adresse électronique

sek213@lehigh.edu

Adresse

Chandler Ullmann, Room 206
17 Memorial Drive East
Bethlehem, PA 18015-3047

Téléphone/Télécopie

tel: 610-758-1425
fax: 610-758-6551

Pays de spécialisation

Francophone West and Central Africa (Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Republic of Congo, DRC)

Éducation

BA: Smith College
MA, M.Phil, PhD: Columbia University

Recherche

colonial period, postcolonial period, emerging artists, Islam in arts of Africa, African diasporas

Enseignement

Arts of Africa, Islamic art and architecture of Africa, Contemporary global arts, African diasporas

Publications

“Ursula Schneider: Earth, Air, Water.” In Mikhail Zakin Gallery – Ursula Schneider earth, air, water. Demarest, NJ: The Art School at Old Church, 2013.
Contributor for Art History. by Marilyn Stokstad and Michael W. Cothren. 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2013.
“Book Review: Kristina Van @#!*% , ed. African Art from The Menil Collection. Houston: Menil Foundation, 2008, Distributed by Yale University.” African Studies Review. 53:1 (April 2010) 239-241.
“The Phenomenon of Récupération at the Dak’Art Biennale” African Arts. 42:3 (Autumn 2009) 8-9.
“Book Review: Edna G. Bay. Asen, Ancestors and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008.” African Studies Review. 52:1 (April 2009).
“Pas Deux…Yinka Shonibare’s Spectacular Doubling of a Single Variation.” In Yinka Shonibare, MBE: Odile and Odette (exhibition catalogue). Atlanta, GA: SCAD ACA Gallery, January 2008.
“Bodily Presence: The Reclamation of the Figure in Moustapha Dimé’s Late Works” Critical Interventions. 1 (July 2007).
“Picasso's Passion” Book Review of Peter Stephan. Picasso's Collection of African and Oceanic Art. Munich: Prestel, 2006. African Studies Review. 50:2 (September 2007).
“African Art and Its Collectors.” In Savannah Collects African Art (exhibition catalogue). Savannah, GA: Pei Ling Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, August 2007.
“The Choreography of Ethnology” Book Review of Francesca Castaldi. Choreographies of African Identities: Négritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. African Arts H-Net. Published by H-AFRARTS@h-net.msu.edu (June 2006).
Scholarly Consultant for The Ancient Americas: A Reference Guide to the Art, Culture and History of Pre-Columbian North and South America. Vols I-II, by Juan Schobinger, translated by Carys Evans-Corrales. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe Inc., 2001.
Scholarly Consultant for Vanished Mesoamerican Civilizations: The History and Cultures of the Zapotecs and Mixtecs. by Ernesto González Licón, translated by Andrew Ellis. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2001.
“Interview with the Artist” in Visionary Landscapes: The Glasswork of Josh Simpson. (exhibition catalogue) Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, July 1998.
“A Painted Ship Upon a Painted Ocean” in Wind, Waves and Sail. (exhibition catalogue). Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, March 1997.