Indiana University Bloomington

Department of the History of Art

Andrei Molotiu | Faculty

Senior Scholar

Department of History of Art

E-mail:amolotiu@indiana.edu

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Education

PhD, New York University, 1999
MA, New York University, 1992
AB, Harvard University, 1988

Research Interest

Research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, critical theory and the philosophy of art, and the history of comics.  His publications include "Fragonard's Allegories of Art" (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), a book that grew out of his doctoral dissertation, and that accompanied the exhibition "Consuming Passion:  Fragonard's Allegories of Love" (at the Getty and the Clark Museum of Art, in Williamstown, Mass), which he co-curated; and "Abstract Comics:   "The Anthology"  (Fantagraphics Books, 2009).  He is currently writing a book on the early years of the "Spider-Man" comic book, under contract with Rutgers University Press.  His longer-term projects involve studies of the capriccio tradition in art, and of theories of viewer reception.  He teaches courses on all these subjects, on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, and on the history of the nude.

Selected Publications

Fragonard's Allegories of Love, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007

Abstract Comics: The Anthology, Fantagraphics Books, 2009

Selected curatorial work:

co-curator, Consuming Passion: Fragonards's Allegories of Love, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and Clark Art Museum, Williamstown, MA , 2007-2008

co-curator Silent Pictures, James Art Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, 2009