Christine Poggi Explained
| Christine Poggi |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Professor of History and Art |
| Workplaces: | University of Pennsylvania |
| Website: | https://arth.sas.upenn.edu/people/christine-poggi |
| Notable Works: | In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage |
Christine Poggi is an American art historian and author. She was professor of modern and contemporary art and criticism in the History of Art Department and in the Italian Section of Romance Languages at University of Pennsylvania until 2017.[1] Since September 2017 she has been the Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.[2]
Education
Christine Poggi earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She earned a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Yale University.[3]
Books
- In Defiance of Painting: Cubist, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage (Yale University Press; 1992)
- Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism (Princeton University Press; 2008) .[4] [5] This book won the Dedalus Foundation's 2003 senior fellowship book award, which was then a book project named Modernity as Trauma: The Cultural Politics of Italian Futurism, however when it was published by Princeton its name was changed.[6]
- Picasso: Seven Decades of Drawing, with Olivier Berggruen (Rizzoli; 2022)
Awards
Poggi has earned fellowships from various institutions, including the Fulbright Commission, the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, the Dedalus Foundation, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She received the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching from the School of Arts and Sciences in 2009.[7]
Notes and References
- Web site: Home Penn History of Art . 2023-06-01 . arth.sas.upenn.edu.
- Web site: 2017-03-24 . Christine Poggi Named Director of NYY's Institute of Fine Arts . 2023-11-02 . Artforum . en-US.
- Web site: 2017-03-29 . Christine Poggi to Head the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University . 2023-11-02 . Women In Academia Report.
- Günter Berghaus . Review: Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism by Christine Poggi . . 105 . 1 . 2010 . 263–265 . 10.1353/mlr.2010.0353 . 25655195.
- Review: Christine Poggi, Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism . . 2011 . 41 . 4 . 721–722 . 10.1177/0265691411417598ae.
- Web site: Christine Poggi . 2023-11-03 . The Dedalus Foundation . en-US.
- Web site: Home Penn History of Art . 2023-11-03 . arth.sas.upenn.edu.
