Michelle Facos | Faculty
Professor, Department of History of Art
Adjunct Professor, Jewish Studies
E-mail: mfacos@indiana.edu
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Education
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1989
M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1983
B.A., Kirkland (Hamilton) College, 1976
Research Interests
- Nineteenth-century European painting and sculpture, particularly that of Scandinavia. Romanticism, Symbolism and issues of identity.
- The contribution of Jews to Swedish national identity in the years around 1900.
- Artistic innovation at the Danish art academy in the late eighteeneth century
Books
- An Introduction to Nineteenth Century Art (Routledge 2011)
- Symbolist Art in Context (California, 2009)
- Art, Culture and National identity in Fin-de-Siecle Europe, co-edited with Sharon Hirsh (Cambridge, 2003)
- Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Painting in the 1890s (California, 1998)
Honors and Awards
- American-Philosophical Society
- American-Scandinavian Foundation
- Fulbright Commission
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald
Courses taught
- Topics in Modern Art: Women Artists (A340/A540)
- 19th Century European Art (A340)
- Topics in Art History: Women Artists: from Hildegard of Bingen to Kiki Smith (A490)
- Topics in Modern Art: Modern Sculpture (A340/A540)
- Problems in Late 19th and Early 20th Century European Art: So much for Art. What of Thought? (A645)
Problems in Late 19th and 20th Century European Art: Art and Cultural Identity (A645) - The Worlds of Art History: Academic, Museum, Commercial (490)
- Problems in Late 19th and 20th Century European Art: Primitivism (A645)
- Problems in Late 19th and 20th Century European Art: Landscape from Claude to Christo (A645)
- Art and Architecture: Renaissance to Modern Art: (A102)
- 19th Century Art 1: Art in the Age of Revolution Europe 1750-1848 (A440)
- Problems in Late 19th and Early 20th Century European Art: Symbolism (A645)
- 19th Century Art ll: from the Revolutions of 1848 to the Universal Exhibition of 1900 (A441)
