Academic : Design : Studio : Emeritus

Peter Chametzky, Ph.D.
Interim Director
Associate Professor, Art History

Peter Chametzky specializes in modern and contemporary art, teaching both surveys and special topics courses in modern and postmodern art and theory. He also teaches AD 207, Introduction to Art History, AD 101, Introduction to Visual Culture, and AD 207 Picturing Difference: Native, African and European Americans in American Art. He earned his Ph.D. in Art History in 1991 from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Prior to coming to SIUC’s School of Art and Design he taught at Adelphi University from 1990 to 1998 and at the School of Visual Art from 1983 to 1988. His research focuses on 20th-Century German art in its cultural and political contexts. His articles, book chapters, exhibition catalogue essays, reviews, encyclopedia articles and translations, have appeared in such journals as The Oxford Art Journal, October, The Massachusetts Review, Visual Resources, Zyma—Art Today, The New York Times, and Centropa (a journal for which he serves as Assistant Editor) as well as in catalogues or books published by The Stuttgart State Gallery, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Ashgate Press, Yale University Press and The University of California Press.

Recent and forthcoming publications include the book Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German Art: Beckmann to Beuys (forthcoming, University of California Press); book chapter “Titanic Sinks,  Departure Arrives: on Beckmann, Film, and the Fall of History Painting and Rise of the Historical Object,” Of Truths Impossible to Put in Words: Max Beckmann Contextualized, ed. Rose-Carol Washton Long and Maria Makela (Bern, Frankfurt, etc.: Peter Lang,  2008), 231-267; and articles “Not What We Expected: The Jewish Museum Berlin in Practice,” Museum and Society (forthcoming November 2008 or March 2009), and “Global Art, National Values, Monumental Compromises: ‘German'9/11 Commemoration in America, ‘American’ Holocaust Commemoration inGermany,” The Massachusetts Review, 50th Anniversary Issue, (forthcoming, March 2009).

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