 Specialization:
Modern and Contemporary Art, Theory & Criticism, and Trauma Studies
Theory & Criticism
Late 19th and Early 20th Century Art, History of Photography, Theory & Criticism
Research Interests:
Kristine Stiles received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her main field of research is contemporary art with a focus on performance art and other interdisciplinary experimental art practices. Her research is especially concerned with the representations of violence, trauma, and destruction internationally. She is the recipient of Duke University's Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Award for Teaching (1994), the Fulbright (1995), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim (2000), among others fellowships. Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Darlington College of Arts & The University of Plymouth, England (2005)
Education:
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PhD University of California, Berkeley 1987
Contact Info:
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Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings. edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter SelzBerkeley University of California Press,
(1996). (forthcoming in an expanded new edition edited by Kristine Stiles in 2009)
- Concerning Consequences of Trauma in Art and Society. University of Chicago Press,
(2009).
- Correspondence Course, An Epistolary History of Carolee Scheemann and Her Circle. Durham: Duke University Press,
(2009).
- World Art Since 1945. Co-authored with Kathy O'Dell, London: Laurence King Publishing,
(2011).
- "Burden of Light." Chris Burden (2007).
- "Teaching a Dead Hand to Draw, Kim Jones, War and Art." Kim Jones: A Retrospective (2007).
- "Metzger's Fierce, Poignant, and Prescient Manifestos." Rett Kopi: A Norwegian Journal of Art and Aesthetics (2006).
- "The Story of the Destruction in Art Symposium and the "DIAS Affect"." Gustav Metzger: Geschichte Geschichte (2005).
- "Remembrance, Resistance, Reconstruction, the Social Value of Lia & Dan Perjovschis's Art." (2005).
- "I/Eye/Oculus: Performance, Installation and Video." Art of the Twentieth Century. Edited
by Charles Harrison and Paul W. Wood. (2004): 183-229.
- "Performance." Critical Terms for Art History. Edited
by Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff. 2nd Edition (2003): 75-97.
- "Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions." Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979 Paul Schimmel Edition (1998): 226-238.
- "Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations From Cultures of Trauma." (1993). [html]
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