David Joselit

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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]

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Career

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

Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941. MIT Press, 1998.

American Art Since 1945. Thames and Hudson, 2003.

Feedback: Television Against Democracy. MIT Press, 2007.

"What to Do with Pictures." October Magazine, Fall 2011.

Signal Processing: David Joselit on Abstraction Then and Now, Artforum , Summer issue, 2011.

After Art. Princeton University Press, 2012.

Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization. MIT Press, 2020

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References

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  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 .