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Joan Marter
Professor II
Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
Ph.D., University of Delaware
Biographical Information:
Joan
Marter has been appointed editor in chief of The Grove Encyclopedia of American
Art. This five-volume reference
to be published by Oxford University Press will be an entirely new and comprehensive
study of the art of the Americas, reconceptualized with new methodology and topics
significant to American art today. The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded a $150,000
grant for this three-year project.
Professor Marter's recent publications include: Abstract Expressionism, The
International Context (Rutgers, 2007), an edited volume with fifteen original
contributions
by David Anfam, Serge Guilbaut, Dore Ashton, Stephen Polcari, Ann Gibson, Ellen
Landau and other scholars. Professor Marter contributed an essay "Critical
Writings on Feminist Topics" to Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women, and Feminism
(Cambridge Scholars, Ltd, 2008) and wrote "Ethical Issues and Curatorial
Practices," in Ethics and the Visual Arts, edited by Elaine King and Gail
Levin (Allworth, 2006). Her article "Negotiating Abstraction: Lee Krasner,
Mercedes Carles Matter and the Hofmann Years," was published in Woman's
Art Journal 28 (Fall/Winter 2007) as her contribution to a symposium organized
by Stony Brook University, "The Art and Life of Lee Krasner, Cultural Context
and New Perspectives," held in April, 2007. Many of the papers presented
in this symposium were published as a special issue of WAJ devoted to Lee Krasner,
in honor of the 100th anniversary of her birth. Marter's other essays include: "Dorothy
Dehner" in Quaderni di Scultura Contemporanea (Matera, 2006) and "Regarding
Linda Stein's Knights and Glyphs (New York, 2006).
Professor Marter continues as editor of Woman's Art Journal, which has been
published for 28 years, and is in its 3rd year at Rutgers. She is working with
Marilyn Symmes, curator of the Morse Research Center at the Zimmerli Art Museum,
and a group of graduate students on an exhibition of Pop Art prints that will
open in September, 2008.
Professor Marter will also chair a session at the upcoming annual conference
of the College Art Association in Los Angeles, 2008 entitled "Kitsch in
the 60s, Modernism's Subversive Other." She serves on the Exhibitions
Committee of the College Art Association.
Recent Publications:
 "Arcadian Nightmares: David Smith and Dorothy Dehner in Bolton Landing," in Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and Critique edited
by Ellen Landau, Yale University Press, 2005.
"Joan Mitchell Paintings," in the Woman’s
Art Journal 25 (Spring/Summer 2004).
American Sculpture in The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Volume II, A Catalogue of Works by Artists
born between 1865 and 1885 . New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 2000 [co-author].
Off Limits: Rutgers University and the
Avant-Garde, 1957-63. New Brunswick: Rutgers University
Press and The Newark Museum, 1999 [as editor and
principal essayist]
Special Award:
Professor Joan Marter was one of four individuals inducted
into ALUMNI WALL OF FAME at the University of Delaware in
a ceremony
on May 7, 2004. More--->
Longer list of publications
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