Pamela M. Lee

Professor

Art & Art History

Yes

Modern and contemporary art, theory and criticism

plee1@stanford.edu

Professor Lee is on sabbatical leave through fall 2011.

Please note that she will not be scheduling meetings with prospective graduate students during this time.

For information regarding graduate study in art history at Stanford, please contact Jill Davis <jmdavis@stanford.edu>

Works and Research in Progress:

Forgetting the Artworld: Globalization and Contemporary Art 

New Games: Postmodernism and the Prisoner's Dilemma (Routledge)

Think-Tank Aesthetics

Prof. Lee received her B.A from Yale University and her Ph.D in the Department of Fine Arts from Harvard University. She also studied at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her area is the art, theory and criticism of late modernism with a historical focus on the 1960s and 1970s. Among other journals, her work has appeared in October, Artforum, Assemblage, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Les Cahiers du Musee national d'arte moderne, Grey Room, Parkett andTexte zur Kunst.

A pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington D.C., and a recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Getty Research Institute, Lee has published two books in addition to journal articles, reviews and catalogue essays. Her books are Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000) and Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004). A French language edition of Object to be Destroyed will be published by Editions Macula, Paris; a Spanish language edition of Chronophobia will be released by El Centro de Documentación y Estudios Avanzados de Arte Contemporáneo (CENDEAC), Murcia, Spain.