David Joselit is an American art historian who is currently Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University, and also a published author,[1] including being an editor of October.[2]

Career edit

Joselit received his PhD from Harvard University.

At Yale, Joselit was a Carnegie Professor[3] and also a past Harris Lecturer at Northwestern University.[4] In 2014, Joselit was appointed as Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he taught until 2020.[5]

In 2017, Joselit co-chaired the search committee that chose Jay Sanders as executive director of Artists Space.[6]

In addition to his teaching activities, Joselit has been serving on the advisory board of the Hauser & Wirth Institute since 2018.[7]

Selected works edit

Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941. MIT Press, 1998.

American Art Since 1945. Thames and Hudson, 2003.

Feedback: Television Against Democracy. MIT Press, 2007.

"What to Do with Pictures." October Magazine, Fall 2011.

Signal Processing: David Joselit on Abstraction Then and Now, Artforum, Summer issue, 2011.

After Art. Princeton University Press, 2012.

Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization. MIT Press, 2020

References edit

  1. ^ "Joselit, David". worldcat.org. Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  2. ^ "David Joselit". cuny.edu. Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  3. ^ "Art historian David Joselit is the new Carnegie Professor". yale.edu. 20 March 2009. Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  4. ^ "Past Distinguished Harris Lecturers". northwestern.edu. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  5. ^ "David Joselit Joins Art History Program".
  6. ^ Alex Greenberger (13 February 2017), Artists Space Names Jay Sanders Executive Director and Chief Curator ARTnews.
  7. ^ Alex Greenberger (27 November 2018), Aiming to Preserve Artists’ Legacies, Hauser & Wirth Founds Nonprofit Institute for Archival Projects ARTnews.