Nancy J. Troy: Art History Spring Lecture

Date
Mon May 5th 2008, 4:00pm
Event Sponsor
Department of Art & Art History
Location
Cummings Art Building, Art 2

The Sculpting of Piet Mondrian's Furniture Nancy J. Troy, Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California, has published widely on modern art, architecture and design in Europe and America. She has also been involved in the organization of several museum exhibitions. Her most recent book, Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion (2003), explores issues of originality and reproduction and the tensions around commodity culture in early twentieth-century France and America. She has published two other books (The De Stijl Environment, 1983, and Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France: Art Nouveau to Le Corbusier, 1992), as well as Cubism and Architecture (1997), co-edited with Eve Blau. In her current book project, Troy examines the circumstances in which Piet Mondrian's mature work was conserved, displayed, described, marketed, publicized, and otherwise circulated after his death in New York in 1944. She seeks to elucidate how the artist's reputation and, correspondingly, the monetary value of his work, have been secured in elite and popular domains during the last sixty years. A former Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin, Troy has been the recipient of fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, Getty Research Institute, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others.

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