Christopher Wood (art historian)

Christopher S. Wood (born June 7, 1961) is Professor and Chair of the Department of German at New York University.[1]

Biography

Wood is the son of Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian of the early American Republic and University Professor emeritus at Brown University. His sister Amy is Professor of History at Illinois State University.

Wood was raised in Barrington, R.I., attending Barrington High School. He earned an A.B. in History and Literature at Harvard University in 1983. After a year on a Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, he returned to Harvard and in 1992 received a PhD in Fine Arts. From 1989 to 1992 he was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard[2]. From 1992 to 2014 Wood was insuccession Assistant, Associate, Full, and finally Carnegie Professor in the History of Art Department at Yale University.[3]. In 2014 he joined the Department of German at New York University.

He has also held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley (1997); Vassar College (as Belle Ribicoff Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2001); and Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2007).

From 1999 to 2002 Wood was Book Review Editor of the journal of the College Art Association, the Art Bulletin. His review of Hans Belting, Bild-Anthropologie, in Art Bulletin 86 (June 2004): 370-73, was selected as one of 38 texts for inclusion in the Art Bulletin Centennial Anthology, 1911-2011.

Research

Wood’s dissertation and first book, Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape (Reaktion and Chicago, 1993), was a monograph on the sixteenth-century German painter who created the first pure landscape paintings in the European tradition. This book was reissued with a new Afterword in 2014. [4] Wood has published many articles on the art and culture of the German late middle ages and Renaissance, including essays on Albrecht Dürer and Albrecht Altdorfer; on drawings; on the cult of images and Reformation iconoclasm; on ex votos; and on early archeological scholarship. He has also written on Italian artists including Piero della Francesca, Raphael, and Dosso Dossi.

In 2000 Wood published an anthology of translated writings by Viennese art historians of the early twentieth century, with an introductory essay: The Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s (ZONE Books). His work on the history of the discipline of art history and its meaning within modernity includes articles on Alois Riegl, Josef Strzygowski, Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky, Otto Pächt, Ernst Gombrich, and Michael Baxandall. He has translated the treatise Perspective as Symbolic Form by Panofsky.

Another aspect of his research is the coordination of art and history. Early archeological studies, archaism, and typology are the main themes of his Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art (Chicago, 2008), which was awarded the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship.[5] Anachronic Renaissance, co-authored with Alexander Nagel (ZONE, 2010), has been widely reviewed. The French translation (Renaissance anachroniste, Les Presses du Réel) by Françoise Jaouen was awarded the Prix de la traduction of the Salon du livre et de la revue d'art at the Festival de l'histoire de l'art, Fontainebleau, June 2013[6]. Italian (Quodlibet) and Spanish (Akal) translations are in press.

Honors

  • Jacob Wendell Scholar, Harvard University (1980)
  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2002)[7]
  • NEH Rome Prize Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome (2002-03)[8]
  • Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2004)[9]
  • Member, School for Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2011)[10]
  • Senior Fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna (2012)[11]
  • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2016)[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Administration/Staff". NYU. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Directory of Current and Former Senior and Junior Fellows. Cambridge, Mass.: Society of Fellows. 2011.
  3. ↑ "Christopher Wood designated the Carnegie Professor of the History of Art". Yale. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape". The University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Humanities Book Prize Archives". Texas A&M University. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Salon du livre et de la revue d'art". Festival de l'histoire de l'art. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  7. ↑ "Christopher S. Wood". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  8. ↑ "Fellows and Residents of the American Academy in Rome". Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  9. ↑ "Christopher S. Wood". The American Academy in Berlin. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  10. ↑ "Christopher Stewart Wood". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  11. ↑ "Fellow - Christopher S. Wood". IFK. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  12. ↑ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Five NYU Faculty as 2016 Fellows". NYU. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
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