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Kenneth Bendiner

  • Professor Emeritus, Art History

Education

  • Ph.D., Columbia University, 1979
  • M. Phil., Columbia University, 1975
  • M.A., Columbia University, 1970
  • B.A., University of Michigan, 1969

Courses Taught

  • ARTHIST 358 - Modern Painting I
  • ARTHIST 364 - Modern Painting II
  • ARTHIST 368 - History of Modern Design
  • ARTHIST 365 - History of Photography
  • ARTHIST 261 - Modern Art
  • ARTHIST 363 - Modern Sculpture
  • ARTHIST 463 - Cubism
  • ARTHIST 465 - Surrealism
  • ARTHIST 366 - German Painting
  • ARTHIST 351 - English Art and Architecture 1530-1900

Research Interests

  • 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century painting and sculpture in Europe and America
  • Victorian art
  • Matisse
  • Rauschenberg
  • food imagery
  • Modern Decorative Arts
  • History of Photography

Related Activities

  • Reader for Art Bulletin, Yale University Press, Columbia University Press, J. Paul Getty Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Curator for various exhibitions 1989-2009 UWM Art History Gallery

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