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Katherine M. Kuenzli (Ph.D. University of California Berkeley 2002) teaches courses in modern European art from the French Revolution through World War II. Some of her recent courses include surveys of nineteenth-century modernism and the twentieth-century avant-garde, an introductory seminar, Vincent Van Gogh and the Myth of Genius, and an upper-division seminar on Wagner and modernism. Kuenzli's research focuses on European art at the end of the nineteenth century, and more specifically on questions of modernism studied from a broad cultural and political perspective. Her topics of research include art and politics, the practice and theory of the decorative, modernism and the private sphere, and constructions of the Gesamtkunstwerk. In 2008 she co-organized with Andre Dombrowski a symposium co-sponsored by Wesleyan University and Smith College entitled "Towards a Synaesthetic Modernity." She also guest curated an exhibition at Wesleyan's Davison Art Center entitled "Music and Modernism in the Graphic Arts, 1860-1910." Her publications include a review article on Vuillard published in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (2004); an article Aesthetics and Cultural Politics in the Age of Dreyfus: Maurice Denis's Homage to Cizanne that appeared in Art History (2007); an essay "Wagner as Intimist: The Nabis and the Gesamtkunstwerk," published in an edited volume, Art, History and the Senses (Ashgate, forthcoming); and a book, The Nabis and Intimate Modernism: Painting and the Decorative at the Fin-de-Siecle (Ashgate, forthcoming). She is currently at work on a monograph devoted to Henry van de Velde, a portion of which was presented at the 2009 CAA conference under the title "Henry van de Velde's and Ludwig von Hofmann's Dionysian Modernism."
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