(above: dustjacket to A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender and Consumer Culture, Cécile Whiting)

CÈCILE WHITING Professor of Art History UCLA 405 Hilgard Avenue 100 Dodd Hall Los Angeles CA 90095-1417 whiting@humnet.ucla.edu

Publications as of April 21, 1999

Books
• A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender and Consumer Culture New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• Antifascism in American Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

 

 

Articles

• "Decorating with Stettheimer and the Boys" American Art (forthcoming).
• "Trompe L'Oeil and the Counterfeit Civil War." Art Bulletin V. 79 (Spring 1997) p. 251-268
• "Pop At Home." in Domesticity and Modernism, ed. Christopher Reed. (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), 81-94.
• "Figuring Marisol's Femininities." RACAR (Revue d'art canadienne/Canadian Art Review) Special Issue on Modern Art edited by Serge Guilbaut and Nicole Dubreuil-Blondin 18 (1991): 73-90.
• "Regenerate Art: The Reception of German Expressionism in the United States, 1900-1945," Art Criticism 9 (Fall 1993): 72-92.
• "Borrowed Spots: The Gendering of Comic Books, Lichtenstein's Paintings and Dishwasher Detergent." American Art 6 (June 1992): 8-35.
• Second Prize, Marshall Fishwick Award for Outstanding Essay on Popular Culture, Popular Culture Association, 1993.
• "Pop Art Domesticated: Class and Taste in Tom Wesselmann's Collages." Genders 13 (Spring 1992): 43-72.
• "Invading Barbarians and American Heroes: The Regionalist Response to Fascism." Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 13 (1988): 295-324.
• "Andy Warhol, the Public Star and the Private Self." Oxford Art Journal 10:2 (1987): 58-75.

 

 

Book Reviews and Entries

• "Williiam Gropper: Artist As Political Activist" [essay]. In Willam Gropper, ed. Ann Bavar (Manhattanville College, 1999)
• "John Peto, Office Board for Robert B. Davis, 1904 [essay]. Catalogue on American Still Life and Trompe L'Oeil Painting. Schwartz Gallery, Philadelphia, 1996.
• Book Review: Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace, Women Artists and Writers: Modernist [Im]positionings London and New York: Routledge, 1994 [forthcoming in Women and Language].
• "Stuart Davis" [entry]. The Dictionary of Art. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1996.
• "William Gropper" and "Philip Evergood" [entries]. The Encyclopedia of the American Left. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990.

 

 

Papers and Presentations (excluding U.C.L.A.)

• "Outside Manhattan, Inside L.A." Pop Art Symposium, University of British Columbia, October 1999.
• "Outside Manhattan, Inside L.A." Part Art Symposium, Yale University, March 1999.
• "Decorating with Stettheimer and the Boys." [Keynote Lecture]. University of Arizona. February 1999.
• "William Gropper: Artist as Political Activist." Manhattanville College, February 1999.
• "Pop Art and Collectors at Home." University of Minnesota, Fevruary 1998.
• "Collectors at Home." Los Angeles Forum for Architecture andUrban Design, April 1997.
• "Trompe L'Oeil Painting and the Counterfeit Civil War." The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, November 1996.
• "Marisol: Mimicking the Feminine Mystique." Conference, "Drawing Connections: Studies in American Visual Culture," Stanford University, May 1996.
• "Figuring Marisol's Femininities." Keynote Speaker, "Art and Politics." University of Kansas. March 1995.
• Session Chair, "Art and Commercial Display in Urban Spaces, 1880-1995." College Art Association, San Antonio, January 1995.
• "Figuring Marisol's Femininities." Indiana University. October 1994.
• "Engendering Interior Spaces." College Art Association Annual Meeting, Seattle. February 1993.
• "Marisol: Fashioning Femininity and Artistic Identity." Women's Caucus for Art Annual Meeting, Seattle. February 1993.
• "Grant Wood's Parson Weems' Fable: American Heroes Confront the Fascist Threat." Anglo-American Conference of Historians, University of London, Institute of Historical Research. July 1992.
• "Pop Art Domesticated: Class and Taste in Tom Wesselmann's Collages." University of California, Berkeley. April 1992.
• "Decoding Pop Art: Recoding Cultural Hierarchies." San Diego Museum of Art. March 1992.
• "Regenerate Modernism in the United States" and Graduate Seminar on Antifascism in American Art. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. December 1991.
• Session Chair and Respondent, "Men at Work: Visual Representation and the Construction of Masculinities." American Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore. November 1991.
• "American Regionalism." The Huntington Art Galleries, San Marino, California. April 1991.
• "Regenerate Modernism in the United States." Symposium on "The International Response to the Degenerate Art Exhibition." Los Angeles County Museum of Art. April 1991.
• Session Chair, "The Gender Politics of American Art and Culture." College Art Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. February 1991.
• "The Gender Politics of Tom Wesselmann's Domestic Interiors." American Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans. November 1990.
• "Class, Taste and the Gendered Gaze: Tom Wesselmann's Domestic Interiors." University of Texas at Austin. September 1990.
• "Art and Politics during the 1930s: Realism vs. Abstract Art." Symposium on "The Politics of Style in Twentieth Century U.S.A." Pomona College, Claremont, California. April 1990.
• "Social Realism's Anti-Fascist Narratives." University of British Columbia, Vancouver. March 1990.
• "Class, Taste and the Gendered Gaze: Tom Wesselmann's Domestic Interiors." University of British Columbia and Vancouver Art Gallery. March 1990.
• "Class, Taste and the Gendered Gaze: Tom Wesselmann's Domestic Interiors." Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. March 1990.
• Interviewed for the documentary film, Irony Curtain: Art and Politics Between the Superpowers, by Murray and Barbara Grigor for British Channel 4. October 1989 [program broadcast in January 1990].
• "Grant Wood's Parson Weems's Fable: American Heroes Confront the Fascist Threat." Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. April 1989.
• "Warhol's Jackies: Mourning JFK or Playing with Life." College Art Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco. February 1989.
• "American Heros and Invading Barbarians: The Regionalist Response to Fascism." National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. May 1985.
• "Stuart Davis's Alliance of Modern Art, Technology and Jazz." Whitney Museum Symposium on American Art, New York. April 1985.

 

 

Papers and Presentations at U.C.L.A.

• "Men at Home." Eighth Annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture, January 1999.
• "Pop Art Domesticated: The Collector and his Interior." UCLA Chancellor's Associates, March 1998.
• "The Beat Generation," Reading the World Through the Arts: Fourth Annual Literature Conference, April 1997.
• "Collectors at Home," Modern and Contemporary Studies Workshop. "Living Spaces: Domestic and Public," January 1997.
• Symposium Chair, "Ed Kienholz Remembered." October 1996.
• "Pop Art Domesticated." Feminist Seminar sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women. May 1993.
• Session Chair, "New Urban Forms." American Studies Conference on Urban Culture. May 1993.
• "Audrey Flack." Friends of Art History. Wight Art Gallery. May 1992.
• "Florence Henri." U.C.L.A. Letters and Science Fund. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. February 1992.
• "Romare Bearden and African-American Art." U.C.L.A. Art Council. January 1992.
• Session Chair, "Discourses of/on Modernity: Art." Critical Studies and the Human Sciences Conference. May 1991.
• Session Chair, "Art and Imagery: Representations of War." Department of Art History. January 1991.
• "The Politics of Gender and Consumption in Tom Wesselmann's Interiors." American Studies Lecture Series. April 1990.
• "Pop Art and American Consumer Culture." The U.C./Leningrad State University Cultural Exchange Program. October 1989.
• Organized Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar on "Primitivism and Neo-Colonialism." Department of Art History. June 1989.
• "N.Y. Meets L.A.: Assemblage, Pop and Minimalism." Wight Art Gallery. February 1989.
• "Assemblage to Pop." U.C.L.A. Art Council. January 1989.