Kristine Stiles, Professor and Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Kristine Stiles
Office Location:  107A East Duke Building
Office Phone:  (919) 684-2467, (919) 684-2224
Email Address:  send me a message

Teaching (Fall 2012):

Education:

Specialties:

Contemporary Art (1945 - Present)
Modern Art
Visual Studies/Visual Culture
Art History
Performance Studies
Theory & Criticism
Documentary Photography
Cultural Studies
Animal Studies
Trauma Studies
Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications   (More Publications)
  1. K. Stiles. Correspondence Course, An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle.  Duke University Press, 2010.
  2.  “Cloud with its Shadow: Marina Abramovic” in Marina Abramovic.  Phaidon, 2008.
  3. K. Stiles, ed.,. States of Mind: Dan & Lia Perjovschi.  Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; distributed by Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 2007.
  4. K. Stiles and Peter Selz, eds.,. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings.  University of California Press, 1996. (forthcoming in an expanded new edition edited by Kristine Stiles in 2012)
  5. K. Stiles. "“Foreword, Or, Unbuckling the Belt of Fluxus through Billie Maciunas’ Experiences”." Billie Maciunas, The Eve of Fluxus  (2010): ix-xvi..
  6. "Art will be…2009-2034." Duke Alumni Magazine  (May, May, 2009).
  7. "Irregular Ways of Being in Time." The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia 1860-1989  (2009): 333-345.
  8. "The Trinity Session." Future Species: Hybrids, Exoskel, Cybor Living Makeover Madness  (2009): 35-38.
  9. "INSIDE/OUTSIDE: Balancing Between a Dusthole and Eternity." Archive 1 (2008).
  10. "Come and Go." California Video  (2008).
  11. "Burden of Light." Chris Burden  (2007).
  12. "Teaching a Dead Hand to Draw, Kim Jones, War and Art." Kim Jones: A Retrospective  (2007).
  13. "Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations From Cultures of Trauma" (1993), appeared without its 1996 "Afterword" in Bruce Lawrence and Aisha Karim, eds., On Violence: An Anthology (Durham, N.C., Duke University Press); 522-538."  This essay was originally published in Strategie II: Peuples Mediterraneens [Paris]64/65 (1993): 95-117; it was excerpted in Dan Perjovschi Post R, for the exhibition “Media Culpa,” Bucharest, Romania, 1995; it was reprinted with a new Afterword in Jean O'Barr, Nancy Hewitt, Nancy Rosebaugh, eds., Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996): 36-64; excerpted in Dan Perjovschi: Anthroprogramming (New York: Franklin Furnace, 1996); excerpted in Lusitania [New York] 6 (1994): 23-39; excerpted in German in kursiv [Linz, Austria] 2-3. (1995): 19-25; excerpted in numerous Romanian journals 1994-present.   (2007). [html]
  14. "Metzger's Fierce, Poignant, and Prescient Manifestos." Rett Kopi: A Norwegian Journal of Art and Aesthetics  (2006).
  15. "Performance." Critical Terms for Art History 2nd Edition (2003): 75-97.
  16. "Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions." Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979 Paul Schimmel Edition (1998): 226-238. [pdf]