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Curriculum VitaeKenneth Paul BendinerDept. of Art History Phone: (414) 229-4330 |
Kenneth Bendiner (PhD Columbia University 1979) has published three books on English art of the Victorian period, and one book on food in painting. He has also written on Matisse, Rauschenberg and other 20th-century artists. His teaching areas include the history of the decorative arts and photography. At the moment he is studying photographic portraiture, specifically portraits of U.S. presidents. EducationSecondary School: Francis Lewis High School, New York, N.Y.Undergraduate Study: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. BA l969 Graduate Study: Columbia University, New York, N.Y. MA l970; M Phil l975; PhD 1979 PhD Thesis: "The Portrayal of the Middle East in British Painting, 1835-l860" Teaching Posts1974-75: Preceptor of Fine Arts, Columbia University Honors1969: U. of Michigan: Magna Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Senior Prize in Art History PublicationsBooks Ford Madox Brown: Il Lavoro (Turin: Lindau, 1991). The Art of Ford Madox Brown (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1998). Food in Painting from the Renaissance to the Present (London: Reaktion Books, 2004). Articles and Reviews "John Constable," Art in America, vol. 64 (Sept.-Oct., 1976), pp. 42-43. "The Finch and the Frog in Manet's Dejeuner sur l'herbe," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 94 (Nov., 1979), p. 174. "Albert Moore and John Frederick Lewis," Arts Magazine, vol. 54 (Feb., l980), pp. 76-79. "Thomas and William Daniell's Oriental Scenery: Some Major Themes," Arts Magazine, vol. 55 (Dec., l980), pp. 5-10. "Wilkie in Turkey: The Tartar Messenger Narrating the News of the Victory of St. Jean d'Acre," Art Bulletin, vol. 63 (June, l98l), pp. 2599-268. "Sir Edwin Landseer," Burlington Magazine, vol. l24 (Jan., l982), pp. 57-58. "Rauschenberg's Canyon," Arts Magazine, vol. 56 (June, l982), pp.57-59. "De Chirico and the Macchiaioli," Source: Notes in the History of Art, vol. 1 (Summer, l982), pp. 24-27. "David Roberts's Holy Land and Egypt & Nubia: Social and Religious Themes," Art History, vol. 6 (Mar., l983), pp. 67-81. "John Brett's Glacier of Rosenlaui," Art Journal, vol. 44 (Fall, 1984), pp. 241-248. "The Chairs of Matisse," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 106 (Nov., l985), pp. l79-l88. "Political and Social Themes in Late Eighteenth-Century British Images of India," in David Castriota, ed., Artistic Strategy and the Rhetoric of Power (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, l986), pp. 87-97. "William Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat," Pantheon, international annual, year 45 (Dec., l987), pp. 124-128. (with Jane Waldbaum), "Napoleon in Egypt: Images from the Description de l'Egypte, exhibition essay and notes", Milwaukee, UWM Art History Gallery, l987. "Whistler's At the Piano", Apollo (Dec. l988), pp.399-401,452-453. "Max Arthur Cohn," exhibition catalogue essay, Milwaukee, UWM Art History Gallery, 1989. "The Bible Illustrations of Marc Chagall," in The Bible Illustrations of Marc Chagall, exhibition catalogue essay, Milwaukee, Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, l989. "Impossible Picturesqueness, Edward Lear's Indian Watercolours l873-l875 by V. Dehejia and Al Staley," Arts of Asia, vol. 20 (Sept.-Oct., 1990), pp. 160-162. "Clive Wainwright, The Romantic Interior: The British Collector at Home, 1750-1850," Albion, vol. 23, no. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 147-149. "Art in the Age of Mozart," in A Medley of Images: Art in the Age of Mozart, exhibition catalogue, UWM Art History Gallery, Milwaukee, l99l. "Lawrencia Bembenek: Sources and Meanings," in Born under Saturn: The Art of Lawrencia Bembenek, exhibition catalogue, UWM Art History Gallery, Milwaukee, May, l992. "Matisse and Surrealism," Pantheon, International Annual, Year 50 (Dec. 1992), pp. 134-142. "Brown and Wilkie," Gazette des Beaux-Arts (May-June, 1993), pp. 227-230. "Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Paintings," The Taft Museum; Its History & Collections, Vol. I (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1995), pp. 179-233. "Kenneth McConkey, Impressionism in Britain," Albion, vol 27, no. 4 (Winter, 1995), pp. 696-697. "Orientalism," The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996), vol. 23, pp. 502-505. "M. Liversidge and C. Edwards, eds. Imagining Rome; British Artists and Rome in the Nineteenth Century," Albion, vol. 29, no. 3, 1997, pp. 510-511. "Marc Simpson. Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent," Albion, vol 30, no. 3 (Fall, 1998), pp. 543-545. "Joan Del Plato, Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem 1800-1875", Albion, vol. 35, no. 4 (2003), p. 581. "The Sins of the World," Apollo (Oct., 2006), pp. 50-55. Entries on T. Brigstocke, G. E. Hering, W. Maddox, T. F. Heaphy, E. M. Ward and J. F. Lewis for New Dictionary of National Biography. "Work: Ford Madox Brown’s Painting and Victorian Life by John A. Walker," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, n.s. vol. 16, spring 2007, pp. 88-91. Other Professional ActivitiesReader for J. Paul Getty Foundation, Columbia University Press, Yale University Press, Art Bulletin, Prentice Hall, National Endowment for the Humanities. Curator, "Max Arthur Cohn," exhibition, Milwaukee, UWM Art History Gallery, 1989."Eadweard Muybridge: Yosemite Photographs," exhibition, Milwaukee, UWM Art History Gallery, 1994. Co-curator, "Napoleon in Egypt: Images from the Description de l'Egypte, exhibition, Milwaukee, UWM Art History Gallery, 1987. "A Medley of Images: Art in the Age of Mozart," exhibition, Milwaukee, UWM Art History Gallery, 1991. "Born Under Saturn: The Art of Lawrencia Bembenek," exhibition, Milwaukee, UWM Art History Gallery, 1992. |
