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Profiles
Dr Jody Patterson
Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer)
School of Humanities and Performing Arts (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)
Qualifications
PhD, University College London, 2009
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, 2009
Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in American Art, Ecole normal supérieure, 2009-2011
Teaching Fellow, University College London / Slade School of Fine Art, 2005-2008
Professional membership
Association of Art Historians
College Art Association
British Association of American Studies
Association of American Studies
Teaching interests
American Art and Culture of the 19th and 20th Centuries
International Modernism
Art and Politics
State Culture during the 1930s
Research interests
Visual Arts and Cultural Politics in the United States
International Mural Painting and Public Art
New Deal Art Programmes
State Art and Culture during the 1930s
Research groups
- Art History
Books
Modernism for the Masses: Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930sNew York (in preparation).
Book Chapters
‘Meyer Schapiro, Marxism, and Modernism in the US,’ ArtHistories, Cultural Studies and the Cold War, eds Grant Pooke,Ben Thomas (forthcoming Ashgate Publishing).
'The Nature of Abstract Art,’ Histoire Sociale de l'art: uneanthologie critique, vol. 1, eds Neil McWilliam, Constance Moréteau, Johanne Lamoureux (Institutnational d’histoire de l’art, Presses du réel, 2015), pp. 562-579.
‘Art and Politics on the New York Waterfront in the 1930s,’ Re/New Marxist Art History, eds Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran, Frederic J. Schwartz (Art/BooksUCL, 2013), pp. 316-332.
‘”It don’t mean a thing”: Jazz, Modernism, and Murals in New Deal NewYork,’ Music and Modernism, c.1849-1950, ed. Charlotte de Mille (CambridgeScholar’s Publishing, 2011), pp. 229-255.
'"Flight From Reality"? A Reconsideration of Gorky’s Politicsand Approach to Public Muralism in the 1930s,' Arshile Gorky: ARetrospective (Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press,2009), pp. 74-93.
Articles
'Marx on the Walls': Muralism and Anglo-American Exchange During the1930s,' Tate Papers 27 (Spring2017): http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/27
‘”Point of Promise and of Danger”: Social Art and the Legacies of theDemocratic Front in Cold War America,’ Special Issue: The Realism Problemin the Art History of the Postwar Period, Kunst und Politik16(2014): 77-91.
'Modernism and Murals at the 1939 New York World’s Fair,' AmericanArt 24.2 (Summer 2010): 50-73.
'TheArt of Swinging Left in the 1930s: Modernism, Realism, and the Politics of theLeft in the Murals of Stuart Davis,' Art History 33.1 (February2010): 98-123.
'Stuart Davis, Painting and Politics in the 1930s,' BurlingtonMagazine (July 2009): 465-468.
BookReviews
'American Artists Against War, 1935-2010,' Journal of AmericanHistory, 103.2 (2016): 512-513.
'The Writing on the Walls,' Art History 34.1 (February2011): 203-208.
'Fernand Léger: Paris-New York,' The Art Book 16.3(August 2009): 25-27.
'Stuart Davis, A Catalogue Raisonné,' Oxford Art Journal 31.3(Spring 2009): 457-460.
'Radical Art. Print-making and the Left in 1930s New York,' ArtHistory 28.5 (November 2005): 790-794.