Professor II
Modern Art
Ph.D., Columbia University
Biographical Information:
Professor Spector is a specialist in
nineteenth- and twentieth-century
European art. He is currently working on a book about early
school education under the Third Republic in France and its
bearing on the formation of the Parisian avant-garde before
World War I. He is also working on Freud's influence on Klee
and Miro and serves as editor for the psychoanalytical
journal American Imago. Professor Spector recently
completed a series of studies on Duchamp's
L.H.O.O.Q., linking it to fin-de-siècle
Symbolism. His most important previous publications include
Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919 to
1939, The Gold of Time(Cambridge
University Press, 1997), and The Aesthetics of
Freud, 1972/8, which has been reprinted and translated
into many languages. The second Chinese edition was
re-issued in 1997.
Recent Publications:
Surrealist Art and writing, 1919 to 1939,
The Gold of Tome. Cambridge University Press,
Oct.1996.
Editor, 2 issues of American Image, Vol.53,
nos.1,2, "New Directions in Art
History," I and II, Spring, Fall 1996; with my introduction
to no.1, pp.1-5, and my article "Medusa on the Barricades,"
in no.1, pp.25-51.
"Delacroix's Liberty on the Barricadesin 1815
and 1830" in Source, Notes on the History of Art
vol.xv no.3, Spring, 1996, pp.36-41.
"Transparence, Utopia and Narcissism; Breton in the
Twenties and Thirties" forthcoming in a volume publishing a
Hofstra Symposium on "The American Years of Andre
Breton."
Preface to the second printing of the Chinese translation
of The Aesthetics of Freud, 1996.
Two lectures bear on this research: "Die Grenzen der
Vernunft in der modernen Kunst: Klee, Miro und Freud"
(Goethe Universitat, Kunstgeschichtliche Institut, Vienna,
Sept.26, 1997); "Rebus" (SUNY, Stony Brook, Nov.19,
1997).
European art. He is currently working on a book about early
school education under the Third Republic in France and its
bearing on the formation of the Parisian avant-garde before
World War I. He is also working on Freud's influence on Klee
and Miro and serves as editor for the psychoanalytical
journal American Imago. Professor Spector recently
completed a series of studies on Duchamp's
L.H.O.O.Q., linking it to fin-de-siècle
Symbolism. His most important previous publications include
Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919 to
1939, The Gold of Time(Cambridge
University Press, 1997), and The Aesthetics of
Freud, 1972/8, which has been reprinted and translated
into many languages. The second Chinese edition was
re-issued in 1997.
Art
History," I and II, Spring, Fall 1996; with my introduction
to no.1, pp.1-5, and my article "Medusa on the Barricades,"
in no.1, pp.25-51.