Faculty
Barbara McCloskey
Department chair and professors, 20th century German art
Advisee(s): Heidi Cook , Rachel Di Cicco , Meredith North
Past PhD(s): Maria D'Anniballe, April Eisman, Kristen Harkness, Karla Huebner, Annah Kellogg-Krieg, Cindy Persinger, Sylvia Rhor, Leesa Rittelman; See a listing of Past PhDs for details
Constellation(s): Agency, Contemporaneity, Mobility/Exchange
Barbara McCloskey became Department Chair and Director of the University Art Gallery in January 2013 after serving ten years as Director of Graduate Studies. She has published widely on the relationship between art and politics in 20th century German art, the visual culture of World War II, and artistic mediations of the experience of exile in the modern and contemporary eras. Her most recent book, The Exile of George Grosz: Modernism, America, and the One World Order, was published by University of California Press in January 2015. Her lecture courses and seminars cover the history of art in 20th century Germany, international Dada and Surrealism, critical theory, and art historical methodology. Graduate students working under her supervision have developed MA and PhD theses on topics ranging from art and photography in Weimar and the Third Reich to studies of 1930s American muralism and leftist art history, East German art and design, Czech surrealism, and issues of nationalism and populism in Russian fin-de-siéclè and early 20th century Croatian art. Many of her students have competed successfully for prestigious national and international awards including DAAD, Wolfsonian, Fulbright, Berlin Prize, and Fulbright-Hayes fellowships.
Education
PhD, Northwestern
Selected Publications
The Exile of George Grosz: Modernism, America, and the One World Order (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015).
“Marking Time: Women and Nazi Propaganda Art during World War II.” Contemporaneity 2 (2012): 1-17.
"Hauntings," 10-20. In George Grosz: The Years in America, 1933-1958 (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009).
“Dialectic at a Standstill: East German Socialist Realism of the Stalin Era,” 104-117. In Art of the Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009).
"The Face of Socialism: George Grosz and José Carlos Mariátegui's Amauta," Third Text, vol. 22, issue 4 (July 2008): 455-465.
With co-author Fred Evans. "Sixties Redux?: Kutlug Ataman's Provocation at the 2004/05 Carnegie International" in Kunst und Politik 9 (2007): 175-181.
“Exile for Hire: George Grosz in Dallas.” In Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick, eds., Caught by Politics: German Exiles and American Visual Culture in the 1930s and 1940s (Palgrave Press 2007).
With co-author Fred Evans. “The New Solidarity: a Case Study of Cross-Border Labor Networks and Mural Art in the Age of Globalization,” 483-496. In Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt, eds., Toward a New Socialism (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007).
“From the Frontier to the Wild West: German Artists, American Indians, and the Spectacle of Race and Nation in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” 299-321. In I Like America, ex. cat. Published in English and German editions. (Frankfurt am Main: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2006).
Artists of World War II (New York: Greenwood Press, 2005).
“Cartographies of Exile,” 135-152. In Alexander Stephan, ed., Exile and Otherness: New Approaches to the Experience of the Nazi Refugees (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005).
“Hitler and Me: George Grosz and the Experience of German Exile,” 243-258. In Helmut Koopmann and Klaus Dieter Post, eds., Exil: Transhistorische und transnationale Perspektiven (Paderborn: Mentis, 2001).
“George Grosz,” 326-33; and “Lyonel Feininger,” 360-67. In Renée Price, ed., New Worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890-1940 (New York: Neue Galerie, 2001).
George Grosz and the Communist Party: Art and Radicalism in Crisis, 1918 to 1936 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).
Selected Awards
Recent research grants from DAAD (Deutscher akademischer Austauschdienst), the Center for West European Studies, and the University Center for International Studies.
David and Tina Bellet Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Arts and Sciences (2000)
