Jim Jordan

Professor
Modern
Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1974
M.F.A., B.A., The University of Iowa

Courses Taught at Dartmouth

• Art History 2, Introduction to Art History II
• Art History 53, Classic Modernism
• Art History 54, The First Crisis of Modernism
• Art History 55, Late and Post-Modernism
• Art History 84, The Blue Rider Group

Courses 53, 54, & 55 (usually offered in sequence) cover painting and sculpture of the twentieth century. Jordan's seminars and special topics focus on specific periods and groups such as Cubism, German Expressionism, Abstract Art, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism.

Special Interests

Much of Jim Jordan's scholarship focuses on early 20th-century abstract art and its sources. His monographs on Paul Klee and Arshile Gorky, for example, trace abstract derivations respectively from Cubism and Surrealism. Recent interests include interpretations and theories of abstract art; the Surrealist movement, on which he has taught interdisciplinary courses in Dartmouth's MALS program; and the historical position of Abstract Expressionism.

Selected Publications

• Paul Klee and Cubism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984).
• The Graphic Legacy of Paul Klee (exhibition catalogue, 1983)
• The Paintings of Arshile Gorky, with Robert Goldwater (New York: New York University Press, 1982).