Janine Mileaf
Florine Stettheimer, "Spring Sale at Bendel's"
1921, oil on canvas, 50 x 40"
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Assistant Professor of Art History
Office: Beardsley 203
Telephone: 610-690-6833
Email:jmileaf1@swarthmore.edu
Education:
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.A., University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Area of Specialization:
19th- and 20th-Century European and American Art with an emphasis on Art Between the World Wars, History of Photography
Courses:
ArtH 001F - Strategies of Interpretation - Picasso
ArtH 005 - Modern Art
ArtH 019 - Contemporary Art
ArtH 074 - Studies in the History of Photography
ArtH 076 - The Body in Contemporary Art
ArtH 0001G - The Art of Exhibition
ArtH 166 - The Avant-Gardes in Early 20th-Century Art (Honors Seminar)
ArtH 168 - Dada and Surrealism (Honors Seminar)
Selected Publications:
"Man Ray's Objects Photographed and Disappeared," in Liliane Weissberg, ed. Picture This! [forthcoming 2008].
"Bachelorettes", in Anne Collins Goodyear and James W. McManus, eds. Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture [exh. cat.]. Washington: National Portrait Gallery [forthcoming 2008].
Please Touch: The Object in Dada and Surrealism [In progress].
“Paris Dada,” Coauthored with Matthew S. Witkovsky in Leah Dickerman, ed. Dada [exh. cat.]. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2005.
“L’Art sec” [Dry Art], Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne 88 (Summer 2004), 42-47.
“Between You and Me: Man Ray’s Object to be Destroyed,” Art Journal 63:1 (Spring 2004), 4-23.
“Boxes, Books, and the Boîte-en-valise,” in A Transatlantic Avant-Garde [exh. cat.]. Giverny and Chicago: Musée d’Art Américain and the Terra Museum of American Art, 2003, 33-42
"Marcel en abyme," Review of David Joselit's Infinite Regress (The MIT Press, 1998), Art Journal 61:3 (Fall 2002), 101-03.
"Poses for the Camera: The Muybridge Motion Studies, 1884-1885," American Art, the journal of the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum 16:3 (Fall 200), 30-53.
"Body to Politics: Surrealist Exhibition of the Tribal and the Modern," RES 40 (Autumn 2001), 239-55.
"The House that Carrie Built: The Stettheimer Doll's House of the 1920s," Art & Design 51 (November 1996), 76-81.
Exhibitions Curated:
Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women's Health in Contemporary Art,
Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, St. Louis, January-April 2005
Constructing Modernism: Berenice Abbott and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University, 1993.