Albert Boime

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Albert Isaac Boime (born March 17, 1933 in St. Louis , Missouri , † October 18, 2008 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American art historian and university professor . He wrote and taught in particular on 19th century European art.

Life

Boime was the son of the businessman Max Boime (1906-1989) and his wife Dorothy Rubin (1909-1984); both parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. By drawing cartoons , he found his way to art at a young age. From 1955 to 1958 he served in the United States Army , which stationed him in post-war Germany . After military service, he began at the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in art history , which he completed in 1961 with a bachelor's degree. At Columbia University in New York City he then earned a Master of Arts degree until 1963 and the title Doctor of Philosophy until 1968 . Since 1967 he has also worked there as a teacher, since 1969 as an associate professor . In 1971 he was appointed to the State University of New York in Binghamton , where he taught as appointed professor of art until 1978 and headed the art faculty from 1972 to 1974. In 1978 he moved to the University of California, Los Angeles, as a professor of art history. He taught in this chair for three decades.

In his art-historical work, Boime looked at the emergence and development of art, particularly from a Marxist , social-historical and psychoanalytic perspective.

In 1971 he was awarded the A. Kingsley Porter Prize for the article The Second Republic's Contest for the Figure of the Republic . In 1974 and 1984 he was awarded a Guggenheim scholarship . In 1979 he won the Rome Fellowship Prize of the American Academy in Rome . In 1999 he received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the book The Unveiling of the National Icons . In 2006, the University of California, Los Angeles honored him with the organization of a symposium on the social history of the arts.

Through his brother Jerome Boime (1934-1977), Boime met the teacher and social activist Myra Block in the 1960s. The couple married in 1964 and had two sons. Albert Boime died of osteomyelofibrosis at the age of 75 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (1971)
  • The Second Republic's Contest for the Figure of the Republic . In: Art Bulletin , Volume 5, No. 1 (March 1971), pp. 68-83
  • Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision (1980)
  • The Art of Exclusion: Representing Black People in the 19th-Century (1990)
  • The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalist Era (1997)
  • A Social History of Modern Art
    • Art in an Age of Revolution, 1750-1800 (1987)
    • Art in an Age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815 (1990)
    • Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, 1815-1848 (2004)
    • Art in an Age of Civil Struggle, 1848–1871 (2007)

Web links

  • Boime, Albert , biography in the portal arthistorians.info (Dictionary of Art Historians)
  • Boime (Albert) papers , data sheet on the documentary estate in the portal oac.cdlib.org (Online Archive of California)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Boime, Leading Art Historian, Dies at 75 . Article dated November 1, 2008 on nytimes.com (New York Times), accessed January 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Boime, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boime, Albert Isaac (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 2008
Place of death Los Angeles , California