Kristine Stiles
Kristine Stiles (* 1947 ) is an American art historian , artist, and professor of art and art history at Duke University .
life and work
Stiles studied art history at the University of California, Berkeley , and obtained his doctorate in 1987 with Peter Selz on the subject: The Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) . In 2006 she became a full professor at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Her research and teaching focus is on modern and contemporary art, feminist art , art theory and criticism, as well as trauma studies . In particular, she has made an international name for herself through numerous contributions to performances , action art , gender roles and feminist art as well as Fluxus .
The work Theories and documents of contemporary art, published together with Peter Selz in 1996 . A sourcebook of artists' writings is still considered a standard work on the art history of the contemporary avant-garde.
Fonts (selection)
- Selected comments on destruction art. In: Alex Adriaansens (Ed.): Boek voor de instabiele media = Book for the unstable media. Stichting V2, 's-Hertogenbosch 1992, ISBN 90-90-04840-5 , pp. 43-75. Abstract ( online ).
- Theories and documents of contemporary art. A source book of artists' writings. University of California Press, Berkeley 1996, ISBN 0-520-20251-1 . (Also: 2nd edition, revised and expanded, 2012, ISBN 978-0-520-25374-2 ).
- Paul Schimmel: Out of actions. Between performance and object 1949–1979. With essays by Kristine Stiles et al. a. Cantz, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 3-89322-956-6 . (Bibliography pp. 345-360). - English edition: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Calif .; Thames and Hudson, New York 1998, ISBN 0-914357-56-5 .
- The Painter as an instrument of Real Time. In: Carolee Schneemann: Imaging her erotics. Essays, interviews, projects. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2003, ISBN 0-262-69297-X , pp. 3f.
- Marina Abramovic. Phaidon, Berlin a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-0-7148-4802-0 .
- Kristine Stiles (Ed.): States of at least Dan & Lia Perjovschi. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC 2007, ISBN 978-0-938989-30-1 .
- Kristine Stiles (Ed.): Carolee Schneemann: Correspondence course. An epistolary history of Carolee Schneemann and her circle. Duke University Press, Durham, NC 2010, ISBN 978-0-8223-4500-8 .
Web links
- Short biography from Duke University , accessed June 22, 2010
- Shaved heads and marked bodies. Representations from cultures of trauma. 1993 , accessed June 22, 2010
- Uncorrupted joy. Forty years of international art actions, commissures of relation. Excerpt 1998, accessed June 22, 2010
- Kristine Stiles, Selected Comments on destruction art , accessed June 25, 2010
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| SURNAME | Stiles, Kristine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American university professor and art historian for modern and contemporary art |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |