Svetlana Alpers
Svetlana Alpers (born February 10, 1936 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) is Professor Emeritus of Art History at UC Berkeley , California .
Career
The daughter of economist Wassily Leontief graduated from Radcliffe College in 1957 with a BA. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1965. In 1962 she began teaching art history at the University of California, Berkeley , where she stayed until her retirement in 1994.
Memberships and honors
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Woodrow Wilson Fellowship , 1957-8
- Kathryn-McHale Fellowship , AAUW, 1961-2
- Guggenheim Fellowship , 1972-3
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences , Stanford University , 1975-6
- ACLS Fellowship, 1978-1979
- Visiting Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar , 1979
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton , New Jersey , 1979-1980
- 1983 Eugene M. Kayen Prize for "The Art of Describing" as the best book by an American university publisher in the humanities discipline
- Distinguished Teaching Award, Berkeley, 1986
- Visiting Scholar, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities , Santa Monica , California, 1987–1988
- Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , Paris , 1991
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1991
- Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , 1992–1993
- Member, American Philosophical Society , 2011
- Corresponding member, British Academy , 2014
Works (selection)
- The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada . Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Brussels / London, 1971. [Dissertation Harvard University, 1965]
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The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983
- German: Art as a description - Dutch painting of the 17th century . Cologne, DuMont, 1985. ISBN 3-7701-1760-3
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Rembrandt's Enterprise: The Studio and the Market . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988
- German: Rembrandt as an entrepreneur. His market and his studio . Cologne, DuMont 1989. ISBN 3-8321-7297-1
- With Michael Baxandall : Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994
- German 1996.
- The Making of Rubens . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.
Web links
- Literature by and about Svetlana Alpers in the catalog of the German National Library
- UC Berkeley Distinguished Teacher ( Memento from November 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Svetlana Alpers in: Dictionary of Art Historians
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter A. (PDF; 945 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Member History: Svetlana Alpers. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 10, 2018 (with a short biography).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alpers, Svetlana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge , Massachusetts |