George Baker (art historian)
George Baker is an American art historian of modern and contemporary art. He is a professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles[1] and an editor of October journal.[2]
Baker studied art history at Yale University and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, also studying at the Whitney Independent Study program in New York.[3] While at Columbia his advisors were Rosalind E. Krauss and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh.[4] He is has edited an October Book on James Coleman, published in 2003, and has published "The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris" in 2007.[5] A review of his book by Merlin James was published in the online journal artcritical.[6] He is also a critic of contemporary art, a contributor to Artforum magazine, he has written essays on the work of artist Paul Chan amongst others.[7] In 2008 he participated in the conference Canvases and Careers Today at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, that was subsequently published as a book, delivering a paper called "Late Criticism".[8]
In 2009, Baker spearheaded an attempt to save the fine arts library on the UCLA campus, launching a facebook page and an online petition. [9]
References
- ^ http://www.arthistory.ucla.edu/people/faculty/gbaker/
- ^ http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=6040
- ^ Singerman, Howard. A history of the Whitney Independent Study Program - In Theory & Practice. Artforum, November 2004.
- ^ Baker, George. The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris. Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2007. p. xiii
- ^ http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=6040
- ^ http://artcritical.com/2008/03/01/the-artwork-caught-by-the-tail-francis-picabia-and-dada-in-paris-by-george-baker-and-i-am-a-beautiful-monster-poetry-prose-and-provocation-by-francis-picabia/
- ^ Chan, Paul. The 7 Lights. Serpentine Gallery, New Museum and Walther Konig, 2008
- ^ http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1221&bookId=116&l=en
- ^ http://www.artforum.com/archive/id=23495