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About Allison Leigh
Allison Leigh is an Assistant Professor of Art History and the SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Endowed Professor in Art & Architecture at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is a specialist in European and Russian art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries and her first book, Picturing Russia’s Men: Masculinity and Modernity in 19th-Century Painting, is currently available from Bloomsbury Visual Arts. Dr. Leigh received a B.A. in Art History from American University in Washington D.C. and completed a Ph.D. in Art History at Rutgers University, where she also served as a Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Russian and Soviet Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum. She has curated several exhibitions and published on topics ranging from the hybrid nature of 18th-century Russian portraiture to the prescriptions for male behavior in the 1840s and the role of social media in contemporary art history classrooms. Her primary research interests include the development of new art historical methodologies, masculinity studies, the history and historiography of modernism, and the philosophy of art and aesthetics in the modern era. A recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she formerly taught in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University and as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.NBN Episodes hosted by Allison:
December 26, 2023
The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader
In The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader (University of California Press, 2021), Jordana Moore Saggese provides the first comprehensive sourcebook on the ar…
December 3, 2022
Foreshadowed
When Kasimir’s Malevich’s Black Square was produced in 1915, no one had ever seen anything like it before. And yet it does have precedents. In fact, o…
October 17, 2022
Watermarks
Formless, mutable, transparent: the element of water posed major challenges for the visual artists of the Renaissance. To the engineers of the era, wa…
July 6, 2022
Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures
Who are the girls that helped build America? Conventional history books shed little light on the influence and impact of girls’ contributions to socie…
June 8, 2022
Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists
The #metoo movement has forced many fans to consider what they should do when they learn that a beloved artist has acted immorally. One natural though…
June 2, 2022
Courbet's Landscapes
Between 1862 and 1866 Gustave Courbet embarked on a series of sensuous landscape paintings that would later inspire the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and …
May 24, 2022
Takedown
For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon—kings, popes, and one-party states decided what was considered obscene, blasphemous, or p…
May 23, 2022
Women in the Picture
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mothe…
April 21, 2022
Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition
With this book, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen brings a new formal and conceptual rubric to the study of turn-of-the-century modernism, transforming our un…
August 31, 2021
Entitled
In Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Penguin Random House, 2021), Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understand…
July 12, 2021
A History of Art History
In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art fr…
July 9, 2021
Painting by Numbers
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art (Princeton UP, 2021) presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social…
June 18, 2021
The Late Works of J. M. W. Turner
The paintings and drawings Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) produced from 1835 to his death are seen by many as his most audacious and compel…
June 14, 2021
Fierce Poise
At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to…
June 8, 2021
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violen…
April 1, 2021
Visual Worlds
In Visual Worlds: Looking, Images, Visual Disciplines (Oxford University Press, 2020), James Elkins and Erna Fiorentini provide a full introduction to…
December 15, 2020
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages
In Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2020), Roland Betancourt reveals the fasci…
July 31, 2020
Savage Tales
In Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin (Yale University Press, 2019), Linda Goddard investigates the role that Paul Gauguin’s writings played i…
July 7, 2020
Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies
In Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies (Penn State University Press), Christian Kleinbub challenges the notion that Michelangelo, renowned for his magnific…
February 18, 2020
The Icon and the Square
In The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival (Penn State University Press, 2018), Maria Taroutina examines how the tr…
December 20, 2019
Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany
In her book, Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany (Camden House, 2018), April Eisman examines one of East Germany's most succe…