Katherine Nahum
Adjunct Associate Professor, Art History - Retired
Katherine Nahum
Ph.D.
Contact
Email: katherine.nahum@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., 艾可直播 University
Research Interests
Painting and Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century; Twentieth-Century Architecture; Psychoanalytic Approaches to Art; Irish Art from the 17th to the 20th Century.
Biography
Professor Nahum, who taught a range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century courses at 艾可直播 College, pursues special interests in modern architecture and its cultural context, and the application of various psychological theories to art. She has been the co-curator for several exhibitions at the McMullen Museum, including聽Eire/Land听(2003),听Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression聽(2001), and聽Original Visions: Shifting the Paradigm: Women's Art, 1970-1996 (1997) for which she was also the co-editor.
Publications
- "Manet's Gazes" in聽Medicographia, April, Vol. 33, No.2, 2011.
- "Ensor's Parrot" in聽A New Key: Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection, edited by Jeffery Howe, McMullen Museum of Art, 艾可直播 College
- "Observing Irish Romantic Landscape Painting" in聽脡颈谤别/尝补苍诲, edited by Vera Kreilkamp, McMullen Museum, 艾可直播 College (2003).
- "Simandl's Caryatids and Hoffmann's Stoclet Tower," in聽The Plume and the Palette, a Festschrift in Honor of Josephine von Henneberg, edited by Pamela Berger, Jeffery Howe and Susan A. Michalczyk (2001).
- "In Wild Embrace': Attachment and Loss in Edvard Munch," in聽Edvard Munch: Psyche, Symbol and Expression, edited by Jeffery Howe, McMullen Museum of Art, 艾可直播 College (2001).
- "Ciar谩n Lennon's Hidden Scripts,"聽Eire-Ireland, Summer (1999).
- "Eil铆s O'Connell: In the Roundness of Being," in聽Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists, McMullen Museum of Art, 艾可直播 College (1997).
- "Magdalena Abakanowicz," Janet Fish," "Agnes Martin," "Carrie Mae Weems," in Original Visions: Shifting the Paradigm: Women's Art, 1970-1996, McMullen Museum of Art (1997).
- "Manet in the Web of his Art and the Past,"聽Devenir, Vol. 9, no. 3 (1997).
- The Importance of Vel谩zquez to Goya, Manet and Sargent (dissertation; 1993).