David Joselit

David Joselit is an American art historian who is currently Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University, and also a published author,[1] including being an editor of October.[2]

Career

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Joselit received his PhD from Harvard University.

At Yale, Joselit was a Carnegie Professor[3] and also a past Harris Lecturer at Northwestern University.[4] In 2014, Joselit was appointed as Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he taught until 2020.[5]

In 2017, Joselit co-chaired the search committee that chose Jay Sanders as executive director of Artists Space.[6]

In addition to his teaching activities, Joselit has been serving on the advisory board of the Hauser & Wirth Institute since 2018.[7]

Selected works

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Books:

  • Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910–1941 (MIT Press, 1998).
  • American Art Since 1945 (Thames and Hudson, 2003).
  • Feedback: Television Against Democracy. (MIT Press, 2007)
  • After Art (Princeton University Press, 2012).
  • Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (MIT Press, 2020)
  • Art’s Properties (Princeton University Press, 2023)

Articles:

  • Joselit, David (Fall 2011). "What to Do with Pictures". October. 138: 81–94. ISSN 0162-2870.
  • Joselit, David (Summer 2011). "Signal Processing: David Joselit on Abstraction Then and Now". Artforum.
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References

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  1. ^ "Joselit, David". worldcat.org. Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  2. ^ "David Joselit". cuny.edu. Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  3. ^ "Art historian David Joselit is the new Carnegie Professor". yale.edu. 20 March 2009. Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  4. ^ "Past Distinguished Harris Lecturers". northwestern.edu. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  5. ^ "David Joselit Joins Art History Program".
  6. ^ Alex Greenberger (13 February 2017), Artists Space Names Jay Sanders Executive Director and Chief Curator ARTnews.
  7. ^ Alex Greenberger (27 November 2018), Aiming to Preserve Artists’ Legacies, Hauser & Wirth Founds Nonprofit Institute for Archival Projects ARTnews.