Albert Alhadeff

  • Associate Professor
  • 19th & 20th Century European Art History
  • ART HISTORY

Teaching and research interests include 19th and 20th-century European painting and sculpture with an emphasis on Romanticism and Symbolism;  courses recently taught include Van Gogh and the 1890s, Picasso, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism and its off-shoots, as well as excursions in the Italian Renaissance, particularly Michelangelo.

Alhadeff has long been working on a book researching the state of people of color--free and enslaved--in France during the opening decades of the 19th century. His work focuses on the images of the Other as drawn by Theodore Gerricault, a leading proto-Romantic artist of the period. Aware of diversity within current art historical studies, Alhadeff brings a sensitivity to questions of the estranged. 

Single-author Volumes:

  • Th茅odore G茅ricault: Painting Black Bodies. Confrontations and Contradictions. Routledge Research in Art History, Routledge, New York and London, 2020
  • 脡mile Verhaeren: Essays on the Northern Renaissance: Rembrandt. Rubens, Gr眉newald and Others. Peter Lang Publishers, New York, Munich, Washington, 2012
  • The Raft of the Medusa. G茅ricault, Art and Race. Prestel, Berlin, London, New York, 2003
     

Book Chapters:

  • 鈥淰erhaeren on Rembrandt鈥檚 folie.鈥 In Mental Illnes in Symbolism. Ed. by Rosina Neginsky, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Cambridge, 2017), 63-83
  • 鈥淯S and THEM: Camper鈥檚 odious ligne faciale and G茅ricault鈥檚 Beseeching Black.鈥 In Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Adrienne L. Childs and Susan H. Libby (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014), 47-67
  • 鈥淔别迟颈蝉鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;Coup de lance: Ensor and 脡mile Littre.鈥 In Hommage: Robert Hoozee, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1982-2012. Eds. by  atherine Verleysen, et al. Ghent: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2014), 114-17
  • 鈥淪piritualisme en zelfvertering in Minnes ,Jongeling鈥 en ,De kleine Gekwetste鈥. In  200 jaar verzamelen: Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent. Ed. by Arnout Balis and Robert Hoozee  (Gent:  Amsterdam, 2000), 181-87
     

Catalogue Essays:

  • 鈥淪erres chaudes: Inside-Outside, Outside-Inside鈥. In Nature鈥檚 Mirror. Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape. Exh. cat. Ed. by Jeffery Howe. Mc Mullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 95-102, 2017
  • 鈥淢inne鈥檚 鈥渄rei heilege frauen鈥 und eine toten kunstlern geschnitze bildwelt鈥. In George Minne. Ein Anfang der moderne. Exh. cat. Ed. by Arie Hartog. Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, das bildhauermuseum norden, Bremem, Wienand, 32-49, 2014
  • 鈥淢inne鈥檚 , drie heilige vrouwen鈥 en 鈥榚en door overleden kunstenaars uitgehouwen  beeldenwereld.鈥 In George Minne. Ein Anfang der moderne. Exh. cat. Ed. by Arie Hartog. Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, das bildhaernmuseum Norden, Bremen, Wienand 35-47 [in Flemish], 2014
     

Journal Articles:

  • 鈥淛ulian Barnes and The Raft of the Medusa.鈥&苍产蝉辫;The French Review 82. no. 2: 276-91, 2008
  • 鈥淢eunier and Minne: Subterranean Visions and the Blue Summits of the Soul.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 65 no 1: 23-35, 1989

 

Selected Honors and Awards:

  • Kayden Fund, University of Colorado, 2019
  • Guest lecturer at the University of Ghent,1997
  • Guest lecturer for the Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium 198 
  • Participant at the international Congress of the History of Art, Bologna, Italy, 1979
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study (N.E.H.)
  • University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 1976
  • Participant International Congress of the History of Art, Budapest, Hungary, 1969