Faculty Member, Art
Professor
University College
About
I write on art theory, art, and visual culture from c.1700 to the present. Major publications include: Editing the Image: Strategies in the Production and Reception of the Visual (co-editor, University of Toronto Press, 2008), Abstract Art Against Autonomy: Infection, Resistance, and Cure since the 60s (Cambridge UP, 2006), Kant, Art, and Art History: Moments of Discipline (Cambridge UP, 2001), The Subjects of Art History: Historical Objects in Contemporary Perspective. (co-editor, Cambridge UP, 1998), Disturbing Abstraction: Christian Eckart (exhibition and catalogue) 1996-98, Alex Colville: The Observer Observed. (ECW Press, 1994), The Rhetoric of Purity: Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting (Cambridge UP, 1991), Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art (Oxford University Press, 1991), Memory Works: Postmodern Impulses in Canadian Art (exhibition)1990-91, and Theory Between the Disciplines: Authority / Vision / Politics (co-editor, University of Michigan Press, 1990). My current research focuses on cosmopolitanism in art theory since the 18th century and on GeoAesthetics.
Contact Information
http://www.art.utoronto.ca/people/art-history/graduate-faculty/cheetham
