Subject Areas: Modern and Contemporary Art, History of Photography
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   Professor Curley’s primary interests are twentieth-century American and European art, visual culture, and politics. He received his Ph.D. in History of Art from Yale University in 2007, where he wrote his dissertation on the work of Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter and the politics of visual perception during the cold war. This work received the Francis Blanshard Prize for outstanding History of Art dissertation at Yale.

By considering the relation between artistic modernisms and social modernization, his work pinpoints contested sites where artists intervene within a broader nexus of visuality and politics, especially during the cold war. Other specific research interests include Willem de Kooning, Minimalism, /Life/ magazine, and postwar East and West German art and visual culture.

Professor Curley’s research has been supported by a number of fellowships and grants, including the American Council for Learned Societies and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst.