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Joan Marter

Professor II
Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
Ph.D., University of Delaware


LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Books:

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]

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].

Theodore Roszak, The Drawings. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992.

Alexander Calder. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. (reprinted 1993; revised paperback edition, 1997)

Jose de Rivera Constructions.  Madrid: Ediciones JB, 1980. (Introduction by Dore Ashton).

Vanguard American Sculpture 1913-1939. New Brunswick: Rutgers University, 1979  (with Roberta K. Tarbell and Jeffrey Wechsler).

Essays and Book Chapters

"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

Essays on Alexander Calder (v.4, 192) Dorothy Dehner (v.6, 350-51), Jose de Rivera (v.6, 471) Malvina Hoffman (v.10, 944-46) Gaston Lachaise (v.13, 13-14) Louise Nevelson (v.16, 309-11) Theodore Roszak (v.18, 930-32) David Smith (v.20, 158-59) Abastenia St. Leger Eberle (v.7, 272) Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (v.23, 300-03). In American National Biography. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Essay on Alexander Calder (band 15, 563). In Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon. K. G. Saur Verlag, Munchen, Leipzig, 1997.

Essay on Dorothy Dehner (v.1, 437-40). In Dictionary of Women Artists. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

Sculpture: after World War I (v.31, 612-15) and essays on Alexander Archipenko (v.2, 310-11) Alexander Calder (v.5, 422-24) Jose de Rivera (v.8, 77) and Ibram Lassaw (v.18, 813-14). In The Dictionary of Art. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1996.

Essays on works by Alexander Calder. In  A Gallery of Modern Art at Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis: Washington University Gallery, 1994.

Essay on Alexander Calder.  In Joann Prosyniuk, ed., Modern Arts Criticism, volume 2.  Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1992.

"Sculpture and Painting."  In Clark, Robert Judson, David De Long, Martin Eidelberg et al. Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision 1925-1950, pp.237-264; 326-329.  New York: Abrams, 1983.

Essays on Alexander Calder, Ibram Lassaw, Isamu Noguchi, and Theodore Roszak. In Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America: 1927-44, edited by John R. Lane and Susan C. Larsen, pp.59-62; 182-83; 202-03; 311-13. New York: Abrams, 1983.

"Contemporary American Art at the Academy." In Bolger, Doreen, Richard Boyle, Frank Goodyear et al. In This Academy, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, pp.229-258; 310; 316.  Washington, D.C.: Museum Press, 1976.

Essays in Museum Publications

Dorothy Dehner's untitled, 1951 and  Dance, 1957 in American Twentieth-Century Watercolors at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, pp. 108-09;114-115; 123.  New York: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, 2000.

"Identity Crisis: Women Artists of the 1950s," In Women and Abstract Expressionism, Painting and Sculpture 1945-1959, Mishkin Art Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York, 1997, pp. 3-8.

"Ages of Discovery: The Women Artists Series at Douglass," Twenty Five Years of Feminism; Twenty-Five Years of Women's Art: Women Artists Series, 1971-1996, Rutgers University, 1996, pp. 1-2.

"Moderne skulptur og Alexander Calder: Laeremester i bevaegelse [Contemporary Sculpture and Alexander Calder: Mentor in Motion] in Alexander Calder, Louisiana Revy (Humlebaek, Denmark: Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, 1995): pp. 78-83.

"Spatial Matters: Sculpture from the Collection," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, 1996, pp. 3-4.

Dorothy Dehner, Sixty Years of Art, Katonah Museum of Art, New York;. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993,  pp. 4-15.

"Sal Romano, Le installazioni cinetiche d'acqua," In Nel Piu Ampio Cerchio, Centro Museografico Dipartimento Arti Visive, Catanzaro, 1991, n. p.

Dorothy Dehner, Journeys, Dreams, and Realities, Baruch College Gallery, New York, 1991, pp. 3-5.

Salvatore Romano, Installation with Water, The Sculpture Center, New York, September-October, 1990.

"Myth and Metaphor, The Art of Anne and Patrick Poirier."  In Wandering Into Memory: Sculpture by Anne and Patrick Poirier. Storm King Art Center, New York, 1989,  n. p.

"Peter Stroud: Recontextualized Abstractions." In Peter Stroud, Retrospective Exhibition. New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1988, n. p.

"Carl Milles in America."  In Carl Milles. Organized by  Millesgarden, Stockholm. Circulated by The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D. C., 1988, pp. 6-12.

"Twenty-fifth Year of the MFA Program in the Visual Arts." In MFA/87 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, 1987, n. p.

Alexander Calder: Artist as Engineer, Bakalar Sculpture Gallery,  List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986, n. p.

"Carl Milles and His Students at Cranbrook." In Ten American Sculptors, Carl Milles' Students at Cranbrook,  Millesgarden, Stockholm, Sweden, 1986, pp. 7-20.

"Alexander Archipenko: Themes and Variations."  In Alexander Archipenko: Drawings Reliefs, Constructions. Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College Center, 1985, pp.11-20.

Geoffrey Hendricks: Early Sky, Late Sky Paintings, Environment, Drawings, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1984, n. p.

Dorothy Dehner and David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1984,  pp. 4-19.

Beyond the Plane: American Constructions 1930-1965.  New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1983, pp. 7-20.

John Goodyear, Kinetic Paintings, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1981,  n. p.

Professional Journals

"Joan Mitchell Paintings," in the Woman’s Art Journal 25 (Spring/Summer 2004).

" The Engineer Behind Alexander Calder's Art," Mechanical Engineering 120 (December 1998): 52-57.

"The Legacy of Alexander Calder," Sculpture 17 (July/August 1998): 30-35.

"Joan Semmel's Nudes: The Erotic Self and the Masquerade," Woman's Art Journal 16 (Fall/Winter 1995): 24-28.

"The Ascendancy of Abstraction for Public Art: The Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner Competition," Art Journal 53 (Winter 1994): 28-36.

Postwar Sculpture Re/viewed," editorial statement for Sculpture in Postwar Europe and America, 1945-59, Art Journal 53 (Winter 1994): 20-22.

"Recollections of New Images of Man: An Interview with Peter Selz," Art Journal 53 (Winter 1994): 65.

"World War II: Reverberations," Art Journal 53 (Winter 1994): 6-14 (with Mona Hadler).

"Nature Redux: Recent Reclamation Projects," Sculpture 13 (November-December 1994): 30-33.

"Then and Now: Recognition of Women Artists Since 1970," The Journal of the Rutgers Universities Libraries 54 (June 1992): 24-27.

"Collaborations: Artists and Architects on Public Sites," Art Journal 48 (Winter 1989): 315-320.

"Paul Kelpe and Constructivism in America," Kresge Art Museum Bulletin III (1988): 26-31.

"Strategies for Women in Art," Women's Studies Quarterly XV (Spring/Summer 1987): 51-53.

"Athena Tacha's Sculpture: Landscape Transformed," Sculpture (July/August 1987): 12-15.

"Theodore Roszak's Futuristic Visions,"  Drawing IX (May-June 1987): 1-4.

"Confrontations: The Paintings of Selina Trieff," Arts Magazine 60 (Summer 1986): 51-53.

"Contradictory Worlds: The Art of Zigi Ben-Haim,"  Arts Magazine 60 (November 1985): 102-103.

"Artpark: Site Installations in Retrospect,"  Arts Magazine 59 (January 1985): 132-134.

"Theodore Roszak's Photograms: In Light of the Bauhaus," Arts Magazine 59  (November 1984): 120-125 (co-author).

"Nancy Holt's `Dark Star Park,' " Arts Magazine 59 (October 1984): 137-139.

"Joan Semmel's Portraits: Personal Confrontations," Arts Magazine 58 (May 1984): 104-106.

"Salvatore Romano's Water Sculptures,"  Arts Magazine 58  (November 1983): 122-125.

"Constructivism in America: The 1930s," Arts Magazine 56  (June 1982): 73-80.

"Narrative Paintings, Language, and Ora Lerman's Trilogies,"  Arts Magazine 56  (May 1982): 90.

"Dorothy Dehner,"  Woman's Art Journal I  (Fall 1980/Winter 1981): 47-50.

"Jose de Rivera's Constructions in Space and Time,"  Arts Magazine 55 (November 1980): 142-146.

"Theodore Roszak's Early Constructions: The Machine as Creator of Fantastic and Ideal Forms,"  Arts Magazine 54 (November 1979): 110-114.

"Three Women Artists Married to Early Modernist: Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Marguerite Thompson Zorach," Arts Magazine 54 (September 1979): 88.

"Alexander Calder's Stabiles: Monumental Public Sculpture in America," The American Art Journal XI (July 1979): 75-85.

"Robert Beauchamp: Haunting Images,"  Arts Magazine 53 (February 1979): 146-147.

"Alexander Calder: Cosmic Imagery and the Use of Scientific Instruments,"  Arts Magazine 53 (October 1978): 108-113.

"Alexander Calder at the Art Students League," American Art Review IV (May 1978): 54-61.

"Alexander Calder: Ambitious Young Sculptor of the 1930s," Archives of American Art Journal l6 (1976): 2-8.



Contact:
    Phone: 732-932-7041 Ext.20
    Email Dr. Marter

Office Hours:
 

Mondays 1-4 pm
Thursdays 10-11 am; 1-3 pm


Current Interests & Research:

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Twentieth-century painting and sculpture in Europe and America

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American sculpture from 1930 to the present; gender studies

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Contemporary art

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Current projects include a book on constructivist sculpture between the two World Wars.


Undergraduate Classes Taught:

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Twentieth Century: Inventions and Events

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Women & Art


Graduate Classes Taught:

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Exhibition Seminar








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