No Laughing Matter - Contact Information
Director and Main Contact:
Angela Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College, teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art and visual culture within an international and global perspective.
Her publications include two books on the eighteenth-century painter Angelica Kauffman, a co-edited volume entitled The Other Hogarth: Aesthetics of Difference, (Princeton, 2001), and a guest-edited issue on "Hair" for Eighteenth-Century Studies. She has previously worked as a curator of contemporary art and has published on issues of contemporary visual culture. She is currently editing with Agnes Lugo-Ortiz a volume on Slave Portraiture in the Circum-Atlantic World, 1630-1890 that emerged out of a Humanities Center Conference at Dartmouth, and she is finishing her book on The White of Enlightenment: Racializing Bodies in Eighteenth-Century British Visual Culture. Her interest in visual humor emerged from her work on British eighteenth-century graphic satire during abolitionism, and her interest in developments in contemporary art.
Angela Rosenthal
Department of Art History
Center for the Visual Study of Human Variety
6033 Carpenter Hall, # 207
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755, USA
E-mail: Angela.Rosenthal@dartmouth.edu
Senior Fellow and Co-Director:
David Bindman recently retired as Professor of the History of Art at University College London. Over a long career he has worked mainly on British art, including caricature and sculpture, and has written books on William Blake, William Hogarth, Louis Fraçois Roubiliac, and British reactions to the French Revolution. In recent years he has become more interested in racial representation, the subject of his 2002 book Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race, 1700-1800 (Reaktion and Cornell U Press), and he is currently involved with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University to complete and publish the remaining volumes of The Image of the Black in Western Art series. This institute brings together his interest in race and in visual humor. His most recent work on the subject is an essay in Treasures of Jewish Heritage in the Jewish Museum London, 2006, on their collection of caricatures of Jews.
David Bindman
Department of the History of Art
University College London, UK
E-mail: ucwchdb@ucl.ac.uk
Humanities Center Administrator:
The Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities
Dartmouth College
6240 Haldeman Center
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: (603) 646-0896
Fax: (603) 646-0998
E-mail: Humanities.Center@dartmouth.edu