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Evelyn Kain Evelyn M. Kain

Professor of Art
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8783

E-mail: KainE@ripon.edu

Personal web page

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Vienna
  • B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University

Awards and Honors

  • Ripon College Dean's Discretionary Grant for research in Munich, 2000
  • Global Studies Grant for a conference at the University of Cardiff, 2001
  • Ripon College special scholarly/artistic grant for a conference at the University of Western Ontario, 2000
  • Global Studies grant for research in Lustenau, Austria, 1999
  • Sabbatical leave and Fulbright Research Grant, 1996-97

Areas of Interest

  • Women Artists
  • Contemporary Art

Recent Publications/Presentations:

  • "Stephanie Hollenstein: Die 'Schiefmalerin' auf den Weg in die Moderne" (in German), public lecture about Stephanie Hollenstein in Lustenau, Austria, June 2002
  • "Paradoxical Patriotism: The World War I Drawings and Paintings of Stephanie Hollenstein," Minerva Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, summer 2002
  • "Stephanie Hollenstein: Malerin, Patriotin, Parodox," Jahrbuch des Vorarlberger Landesmuseums, spring 2002
  • "The Radical Ambiguity of Stephanie Hollenstein: Expressionist Painter, Fascist Patriot," Center for Austria Studies Seminar Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2002
  • "Seeing Context: Writing A Biography of Stephanie Hollenstein," Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference, November 2001
  • "Stephanie Hollenstein: Painter, Patriot, Paradox," Conference: Women, Gender and Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945, University of Cardiff, Wales, UK, July 4-6, 2001
  • "Stephanie Hollenstein: Painter, Patriot, Paradox," Woman's Art Journal, spring/summer 2001, 27-33
  • "Stephanie Hollenstein: Painter, Patriot, Paradox," Ripon College Faculty Scholarship Lectures, Ripon, Wisconsin, November 2000 and January 2001
  • Alois Riegl, The Group Portraiture of Holland, Getty Center for the Arts, 1999, translation from the original German version of 1903 into English. 415 pages

Reviews:

  • A. Danto, "Riegl Bearing," ARTFORUM, September 2000, 21-22; S. Nodelman, "Riegl's Reception," Art in America, November 2000, 49-50.
  • "Stephanie Hollenstein: The Nazification of a 'Degenerate' Artist," Imagining the Space Between: Constructing Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, May 2000.
  • "Stephanie Hollenstein: Painter, Patriot, Paradox," Conference: Women and Creativity, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 2000.
  • "Pedagogy in the Women and Art Course," Barnard College Feminist Art and Art History Conference, New York, N.Y., October 1999.
  • "Anna Stainer-Knittel: Portrait of a Femme Vitale." Woman's Art Journal, Fall-Winter 1999, 13-17, 31.
  • "On the Edge of the Habsburg Empire: Stephanie Hollenstein," On the Edge, Women's Caucus for Art, Los Angeles, California, February 1999, chair of a session and presenter.

 

Current Courses Taught

Survey of Western Art I

Survey of Western Art II

First Year Seminar: Shock of the Surreal in Art & Literature
Who Was Vincent van Gogh?

Early Modern Art
The Art and Culture of Vienna 1900
Art and Nature
Art NOW
Art and Gender

Arts Management
Senior Capstone Paper

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