Kerstin Thomas

Kerstin Thomas (* 1970 in Hanau ) is a German art historian and deputy head of the Institute for Art History at the University of Stuttgart .

Life

Kerstin Thomas studied art history, philosophy and classical archeology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1992 to 2001 . She then received a scholarship at the Graduate College Psychological Energies in the Fine Arts there and in 2005 at the German Forum for Art History in Paris . In 2006 she completed her doctorate on the subject of mood as a pictorial appropriation of the world. Puvis de Chavannes - Seurat - Gauguin . From 2006 to 2009 she worked in Paris as a research assistant. From 2009 to 2010 she was a research fellow of the DGIA at the Free University of Berlin . From 2010 to 2016 she headed the Emmy Noether junior research group Form and Emotion. Affective structures in French art of the 19th century and their social validity at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . In 2013 she was a Guest Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles . In April 2018 she took over the chair for modern art at the Institute for Art History at the University of Stuttgart. Since October 2018 she has been the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History in Stuttgart.

Area of ​​Expertise

Kerstin Thomas' research area is the history of modern art, especially French art and art theory of the 19th century. In addition, she deals with art criticism and art-historical emotion research. You are also interested in the concepts of form and expression in modern art, science and aesthetics, and the history of science.

She is working on a manual of the concepts of emotion in the French art discourse of the 19th century and on a project within the framework of the DFG network entitled The Nocturnal Self. Dream knowledge and dream art in the century of psychology (1850-1950 ).

Memberships

Kerstin Thomas is a member of the following organizations:

• Society for the Exploration of the 19th Century
• DFG network “The nocturnal self. Dream knowledge and dream art in the century of psychology (1850–1950) "
• DFG network "Moods, Conflicts, Worlds"
• AcademiaNet - network of excellent women scientists

Publications (selection)

Books

• Matters of Fact. Main topic of the journal for aesthetics and general art history . In: Kerstin Thomas and Aron Vinegar (ed.): Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History . tape 60 , no. 1 , 2015.
• World and mood at Puvis, de Chavannes, Seurat and Gauguin . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-06404-1 .
• Kerstin Thomas (Ed.): Mood. Aesthetic category and artistic practice. Colloquium in Paris, German Forum for Art History 2007 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-06938-1 .
• Kerstin Thomas and Ursula Schöndeling: body presentations. Choreography and masquerade. Exhibition catalog Oper Frankfurt . 1999.

Essays

• The definite indefinite: forms of emotion in the picture . In: Marion Lauschke, Johanna Schiffler and Franz Engel (eds.): Iconic Form Processes. On the philosophy of the indefinite in images . de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-053103-9 , pp. 85-100 .
• Between image and music: color and mood in Paul Cézanne's pictures . In: Elisabeth Oy-Marra, Klaus Pietschmann, Gregor Wedekind and Martin Zenck (eds.): Intermediality of image and music . Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7705-5559-8 , pp. 323-348 .
• Expressive Things: Art Theories of Henri Focillon and Meyer Schapiro Reconsidered . In: Sjoerd van Tuinen (Ed.): Speculative Art Histories. Analysis at the Limits . University Press, Edinburgh 2017, ISBN 978-1-4744-2104-1 , pp. 113-129 .
• The art of incessant recapitulation. Gauguin's late work between self-assurance and experiment . In: Verena Krieger and Sophia Stang (eds.): Repeat offenders. Self-repetition as an artistic practice in modern times . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50748-0 , p. 63-79 .
• Gray as the color of emotion in symbolist painting . In: Magdalena Bushart and Gregor Wedekind (eds.): The color gray . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-037279-3 , pp. 219-235 .
• Subtility of différence. Henri Focillon's concept of the artwork . In: Bernadette Collenberg-Plotnikov, Carole Maigné and Céline Trautmann-Waller (eds.): Berlin 1913 - Paris 1937: Aesthetics and Art Science in the Age of Congresses / l'Esthétique et la science de l'art à l'âge des congrès ( =  Journal of aesthetics and Art Science General . band 61 , no. 2 ). Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7873-3107-9 , pp. 315-328 .
• Half sleeps . In: Marie Guthmüller and Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa (eds.): The nocturnal self. Dream knowledge and dream art in the century of psychology . tape 1 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1903-5 , p. 249-277 .
• The Still Life of Objects: Heidegger, Schapiro, and Derrida reconsidered . In: Kerstin Thomas and Aron Vinegar (eds.): Matters of Fact, main topic of the magazine for aesthetics and general art history . tape 60 , no. 1 , 2015, ISSN  0044-2186 , p. 81-102 .
• The artist's book as a palimpsest. Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa . In: Caroline Fischer, Diego Saglia and Brunhilde Wehinger (eds.): Productive reception: Imitatio, Intertextualität, Intermedialität, Colloquium in Fréjus, 2010 . Stauffenberg, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86057-233-7 , p. 135-161 .
• The art historian among artists. Art criticism and art history with Meyer Schapiro . In: Beate Söntgen (Ed.): Journal for Art History . tape 78 , no. 1 , 2015, ISSN  0044-2992 , p. 45-64 .
• Inside and outside. Mood painting in impressionism and expressionism . In: Angelika Wesenberg (Ed.): Impressionism –Expressionism. Art turn. Exhibition catalog Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin . Hirmer, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2343-2 , pp. 35-44 .
• The affective regime of images . In: Claudia Emmert and Jessica Ullrich (eds.): Affekte. Exhibition catalog Kunstpalais Erlangen . Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95808-010-2 , pp. 180-193 .
• Personal objects. Psychoanalysis and art with Meyer Schapiro . In: Imago. Interdisciplinary yearbook for psychoanalysis and aesthetics . Psychosozial-Verlag ,, Giessen 2014, p. 177-194 .
• Uproar of painting. The event as a synaesthetic shock in Carlo Carrà's "Funeral of the anarchist Galli" . In: Uwe Fleckner (Ed.): Pictures make history. Historical events in the memory of art . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-006317-1 , pp. 293-304 .
• Current facial expressions and potential energetics. Aby Warburg's theory of expression between aesthetics and science . In: Jutta Müller-Tamm, Henning Schmidgen and Tobias Wilke (eds.): Feeling and accuracy. Empirical Aesthetics around 1900, Berlin Colloquium 2012 . Fink, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5584-0 , p. 137-167 .
• Corot and the aesthetics of the Rêverie . In: Dorit Schäfer and Margret Stuffmann (eds.): Camille Corot. Nature and Dream, exhibition catalog Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe . Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86828-332-7 , pp. 363-373 .
• Image mood as meaning in 19th century painting . In: Anna-Katharina Gisbertz (Ed.): "Mood". On the return of an aesthetic category. Colloquium at the University of Mannheim 2009 . Fink, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-5176-7 , pp. 211-234 .
• Les pantheons d'artistes. Delaroche and Cornelius . In: Thomas W. Gaehtgens and Gregor Wedekind (eds.): Le culte des Grands Hommes 1750-1850 . Paris 2009, p. 371-408 .
• Heroes of modernity. For the collective construction of hero images. Replacement or revaluation of a traditional concept in 19th century French art? In: Acta Historiae Artium . tape 48 , 2007, p. 305-315 .
• "Un paysage est un état del'âme". Landscape as a mood for Paul Gauguin . In: Werner Busch and Oliver Jehle (Eds.): Measuring. Landscape and non-representational . diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-03734-015-8 , pp. 167-185 .
• The poetics of daydreams. Arcadian joy in Pierre Puvisde Chavannes . In: Klaus Herding and Antje Krause-Wahl (eds.): How feelings are expressed. Close-up emotions . Dr. HH Driesen, Taunusstein 2007, ISBN 978-3-936328-76-9 , p. 211-230 .
• Mood in painting. To some of Georges Seurat's pictures . In: Klaus Herding and Bernhard Stumpfhaus (eds.): Pathos, affect, feeling. The emotions in the arts, Congress Oper Frankfurt / Main 2002 . de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-017735-0 , p. 448-466 .

Web links

• Kerstin Thomas. University of Stuttgart, Institute for Art History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief CV
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ms. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kerstin Thomas | Institute for Art History | University of Stuttgart. In: University of Stuttgart. Institute for Art History. Retrieved November 18, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Kerstin Thomas. In: DFG Network: The Nocturnal Self. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .