Pepe Karmel

Associate Professor Of Art History

Education

Ph.D. 1993, New York University; B.A. 1977, Harvard College.

Areas of Research/Interest

Picasso, Pollock, Cubism, Minimalism, Contemporary Art, Critical Theory, Art and Perception

Publications:

 

Picasso and the Invention of Cubism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003

“Cubism and the Politics of Form,” in Harry Cooper, ed., The Cubism Seminars: CASVA Seminar Papers 3 (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2017), pp. 123-169. 

 

“An Art of Negation: Reductive Painting and Minimal Sculpture,” in Jan van Adrichem and Adia Martis, eds., Stedelijk Collection: Reflections, Amsterdam: NAI Publishers, 2012, pp. 481-500. 

 

“Beyond the `Guitar’: Painting, Drawing, and Construction, 1912-14,” in John Golding and Elizabeth Cowling, Picasso: Sculptor/Painter, London, The Tate Gallery, 1994, pp. 189-97.

 

“Le Laboratoire Central: Cubist Drawings in the Musée Picasso,” in Anne Baldassari, ed., Cubist Picasso, exh. cat. (Paris: New York, Rizzoli, 2007), pp. 149-163.


“Francis Picabia, 1915: The Sex of a New Machine,” in Sarah Greenough, ed., Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2001, pp. 203-219. 


  “Report from Milan--The '30s: Art and Culture in Italy,” Art in America, October 1982, pp. 43-47.


“Jean Dubuffet: The Would-Be Barbarian,” Apollo, vol. CLVI, no. 489 (New Series), October 2002, pp. 12-20.


“A Sum of Destructions,” in Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel, eds., Jackson Pollock: New Approaches, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1999, pp. 71-100.


“Richard Pousette-Dart: The Body of Painting,” in Sam Hunter and Joanne Kuebler, eds., Richard Pousette-Art: The New York School and Beyond, Milan: Skira, 2005, pp. 19-33.


“Photography--Garry Winogrand, Public Eye,” Art in America, November 1981, pp. 39-41.


“The Year of Living Minimally,” Art in America, December 2004, pp. 90-101, 149.


“The October Century” [review of Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh], Art in America, November 2005, pp. 61-67.


“Terrors of the Encyclopedia: Max Ernst and Contemporary Art,” in Werner Spies and Sabine Rewald, eds., Max Ernst: A Retrospective, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005, pp. 81-105.