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Dr. Antje Gamble
Antje Gamble is an art historian of Italian modernist sculpture and trans-Atlantic exhibition practices at mid-century. From Fascism to the Cold War, her work examines the exhibition, sale, and critical reception of Italian art and how it shaped and was shaped by national and international socio-political shifts.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Modern Italian art and culture, exhibition histories, trans-Atlantic movements of art and politics, contemporary art, modernist sculpture and ceramics, public sculpture, modern Italian design, curatorial practice, public history, and digital humanities
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Call for Papers for my SECAC 2024 Panel Due May 1st
SECAC 2024 will be in Atlanta, GA ― Conference Dates: October 23 – 26, 2024 (more info here)
Panel Title: Race-ing Modern Art
Since Kymberly Pinder’s groundbreaking 2002 edited volume Race-ing Art History Critical Readings in Race and Art History, there has been much work done in fields like Sociology and History to understand the mechanics and changes in the ideas of race over time. Yet, race is still a blind spot in much of modernist art history. All artwork created within racialized systems of power are understood in terms of race within their contemporary cultural contexts, regardless of whether or not the artist explicitly discusses it. At the same time, these systems are continually changing, bring in more ethnicities to whiteness and shifting hierarchies of BIPOC communities. In addition, these changes are site specific; racial hierarchies are different across different continents, countries, and even communities. Therefore, there is much work to do in understanding how race played a role in the creation, exhibition, and even sale of artworks in the modern context. This panel seeks to engage with understanding how art, art exhibitions, art collecting, and the art market during the twentieth century reflected changes in race on a broader cultural level. This panel encourages papers from any artistic context globally.
CFP – Due May 1st Apply Here
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Juried A Show in Owensboro, KY
Spent the day at the Owensboro Museum of Art with my co-jurors selecting works for the 62nd annual Juried Art Exhibition sponsored by the Owensboro Art Guild. Working with Kristina Arnold, Western Kentucky University Department Chair, Professor and Gallery Director, and Bill Whorral, a contemporary artist based in Shoals, Indiana, we choose a great show. The show opens March 9th.
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Next Month!
In March, I’m going to be part of a group of jurors that will be selecting work for the 62nd annual Juried Art Exhibition at the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY. It’s always great to get to work with new regional institutions!
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Book Review of “MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938” out now in Panorama
My book review of Caroline M. Riley’s excellent book MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art from University of California Press is in the Fall 2023 issue from Panorama. I definitely recommend this book for folks interested in the intersections of art and politics in the creation of the American canon.
You can read it ok their website here.
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Successful book talk and launch reception!
Had an amazing time chatting with my students and colleagues about my book! Everyone had great questions and we had an excellent discussion.
Thanks again to my department for supporting my research and having me talk and having a book launch reception.
If you’re interested in having me speak at your institution, send me an email and we can set something in person or virtual up!
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Book Talk and Book Launch Reception
The Department of Art & Design at Murray State University will host a book release talk and reception in honor of Dr. Antje Gamble’s new book, “Cold War Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design”, on Tuesday, Sept. 5 at 5 p.m. in the Clara M. Eagle Gallery on the Murray State main campus. This event is free and open to the public.
Gamble is an art historian of Italian modernist sculpture and trans-Atlantic exhibition practices in the mid-1900s. An associate professor in Murray State’s Department of Art & Design, Gamble earned her doctorate from the University of Michigan, Master of Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught at Murray State since 2015.
Her new book, “Cold War Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design” shows the dynamic role art played in constructing both Italian and American culture after the Second World War. Moving beyond previous studies, Gamble’s book focuses on a 1950-53 exhibition called “Italy at Work” that traveled to 12 American museums during the Cold War era and explores what that exhibit contained, how it was received by the public and how it shaped and was shaped by national and international socio-political dynamics.Â
Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
An excerpt from “Cold War Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design” states, “From ceramic sculpture to traditional folk craft, from textiles to industrial design, the peculiarity of the wide variety of some 2,500 objects reflected both the multifaceted ideas about modern design in Italy that had roots in the interwar period and also the desire to legitimize modern design in the post-war United States.”
For more information about the event, please contact Murray State University’s Department of Art & Design at 270-809-3784.
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Book Launching Today!
Cold War Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design is shipping today!
Buy it on the Routledge website here.
If you haven’t preordered, you can still get in on the early-bird discount of 20% off through the end of August. Just use the code SMA36 at check out.
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Dr. Antje Gamble 