CHRISTIANE
HERTEL
Research
Interests:
Her strong interest in visual and literary traditions has led her
to focus on research projects involving their interplay. With varying
degrees of emphasis, much of her research has dealt with the interpretation
of art in the contexts of different kinds of critical reception,
ranging from scholarship and art criticism to artistic and poetic
response to the needs and purposes of cultural politics. Other projects
have addressed questions in the history of collecting and collections,
and topics in art theory and aesthetics.
Current research interests include the relationships between Rococo
culture and the Enlightenment in the art, art criticism and aesthetics
of 18th-century Germany; the reverberations of these relationships
in German and Austrian Modernism; ornament and ornament theory; the
reconstruction of 18th-century German monuments at various moments
in the 20th century and in the present.
Courses:
Christiane Hertel teaches courses on the
arts of Northern Europe, especially in Germany and the Netherlands,
from the Reformation to
the 20th century. Recent and upcoming seminars include "Vermeer," "The
Dance of Death (16th-20th c.)," "Rubens and Rembrandt," "Eighteenth-century
German Art and Aesthetics," "Dresden 1500-2000," and, with Professor
Imke Meyer, German Department, "The City as Cultural Focus:
Vienna 1900."
Recent Publications:
Recent and forthcoming publications include:
• "Vermeer: Reception and Interpretation" (Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
• "Seven Vermeers: Collection, Reception, Response," in
W. Franits, ed., A Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge and New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
• "Dis/Continuities in Dresden's Dances of Death," The
Art Bulletin, Spring 2000)
• "Hairy Issues: Portraits of Petrus Gonsalus
and his family in Archduke Ferdinand II's 'Kunstkammer' and their
contexts," Journal of the History of Collections 13:1
(2001)
• "Grotesques -- Rocaille -- Laocoön: 'Remembering
Nature' in Winckelmann, Erdmannsdorff, Chodowiecki, and Goethe," 1650-1850:
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (forthcoming)
• "Beyond In/Autheniticity: The Case of Dresden's Frauenkirche," in
Joan Ockman, ed., Architourism: Architecture as a Destination
for Tourism (New York and Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2005) (forthcoming)
Directed
Research Projects:
The topics of directed
past and current senior, master's and doctoral research projects
range from the
16th to the 20th centuries and include
the study of Albrecht Dürer, Joachim Patinir, Adam Elsheimer,
Vermeer, Rembrandt, Caspar David Friedrich, J.M.W. Turner, The Nazarenes,
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hannah Höch, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
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