GRIDLEY
McKIM-SMITH
Research
Interests:
(TBD)
Courses:
(TBD)
Recent Publications:
• "The
Rhetoric of Rape and the Hidden Language of Vandalism," Woman's
Art Journal, spring-summer 2002, 29-36
• "Drawing the Line: Clarity and Unclarity in Velázquez's Seville," Dear
Print Fan, A Festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn, Cambridge MA (Harvard University
Art Museums), 2001, 207-12
• "Spanish Art," "Overview of Painting and Sculpture from
the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century," The Oxford Companion
to Art, (Oxford U P), 2001, 704-06
• "La técnica Sevillana de Velázquez," in Velázquez
y Sevilla (Estudios), Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte, Junta de Andalucía),
1999, 2 vols., vol. 2, 109-23
• "Crafting the Intangible: The Art of John Clemmer," in John
Clemmer: Exploring the Medium, 1940-1999 (exhibition catalogue, New Orleans
Museum of Art), 1999, 20-29, with Leo Costello.
Personal Statement:
Gridley
McKim-Smith teaches courses in Spanish Baroque art and art
of the Habsburg empire, art and technology, the history of realism,
and art of the Spanish-speaking world. Her recent research has
concentrated on the implications of scientific examinations of
17th-century Spanish paintings, particularly works by Velazquez;
art vandalism and gender; the history of the body through the
study of costume; and polychrome sculpture of Latin America.
McKim-Smith's book Examining
Velazquez, the product of an innovative study she undertook with a paintings
conservator and a conservation scientist, was the first winner of the College
Art Association/Heritage Preservation Award for Distinction in Scholarship and
Conservation. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts, the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned
Societies, the National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts,
and Comité Conjunto (Treaty of Cooperation between the U.S. and
Spain).
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