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Susan Sidlauskas
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director
19th Century
Susan Sidlauskas has just come to Rutgers from the University of Pennsylvania,
where she was Associate Professor and Graduate Chair. Her interests continue
to be nineteenth and early twentieth century art and theory; intersections between
art and architecture; interiority in representation; gender studies; and contemporary
art. 
Her lecture courses and seminars cover 18th century to contemporary French,
German, English, Scandinavian and American art. Professor Sidlauskas is an affiliated
faculty member of Rutgers’ Women’s Studies Department. Current projects
include the completion of a book on Paul Cezanne’s portraits of his wife
called Cezanne’s Significant Other: the Portraits of Hortense (forthcoming
from University of California Press - also, see
related article ); a study of
Cezanne’s
Eternal
Feminine;
a book on John Singer Sargent’s portraits called Disturbing Beauty; and
participation
in a future catalogue for the Getty Museum devoted to Edgar Degas’s milliner
paintings. An essay “The Not-Beautiful: A Counter-Theme in the History
of Women’s Portraiture,” will be published in Picturing Women¸ a
collection of essays edited by Susan Shifrin, forthcoming from Penn State Press.
Professor Sidlauskas is also beginning work on a new
photography project—a series of “Before and After” images of
nineteenth-century women who underwent Dr. S.W.Mitchell’s infamous “rest
cure.” At the Sculpture Symposium in October 2005 at the Zimmerli Museum
at Rutgers, she gave a talk on a c.1880 terra cotta figure called The Slave (Negress),
part of the large scale exhibition of 19th century French sculpture, Breaking
the Mold, organized by Dennis Cate. At the 2006 annual meeting of the College
Art Association in Boston, Professor Sidlauskas will be chairing a session called “What
Can We Say Now About Cezanne?” a reconsideration of approaches to the
painter’s
achievements during the centennial of his death. She is also participating
in a CAA
session on feminist pedagogy chaired by Janet Marquardt, on the possibility
of exploring gender issues through the work of canonical, male artists, such
as Degas.
Professor Sidlauskas has advised dissertations on subjects such as: dress
and its representation in revolutionary and Napoleonic France; artists’ collaborations
with the Ballets Russes; the representation of pre-history in French 19th century
painting and sculpture; the imagery of adolescence in American painting and
photography;19th century French public sculpture of the nude; Japonisme in
the art of the women Impressionists; memory and the American interior. Courses
taught include graduate seminars on gender and Orientalism, portraiture, space
and representation, the art of Cezanne and Degas, the visual culture of the
fin de siecle, and undergraduate seminars on Napoleon as visual propagandist;
popular culture and modernity, and the body, dress, and representation.
Links
“The Not-Beautiful: A Counter-Theme in the History
of Women’s Portraiture,” from Picturing Women¸ a
collection of essays edited by Susan Shifrin.
Article Text (PDF)
Notes (PDF)
"Emotion, Color, Cézanne (The Portraits of Hortense)" Nineteenth-Century
Art Worldwide (Autumn 2004): http://19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn_04/articles/sidl.html
"Breaking the Mold," Zimmerli Art Museum, Exhibition (Oct. 23, 2005 - March
12, 2006): http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/exhibitions/breakingmold.html
Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas, "The Milliners," The Getty Museum, New Acquisition:
http://www.getty.edu/art/acquisitions/milliners.html
Rutgers University, Department of Women's Studies
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