Subject Areas: 19th and 20th Century Art
Office: 105 Scales
FAC Phone: 336-758-5080
Home Page:http://www.wfu.edu/~knott/

Bob Knott received his undergraduate degree in studio art from Stanford University, an M.A. in art history from the Univ. of Illinois, and Ph.D. from the Univ. of Pennsylvania. Before coming to Wake Forest he taught at the Univ. of Massachusetts - Boston. With research interests in late 19th and 20th century art he is currently finishing a book manuscript entitled Reconsidering the Center: The Anti-Fragmentary Impulse in Modern Art. His most recent publication American Abstract Art of the 1930 and 1940s: The J. Donald Nichols Collection (Abrams,1998) was based on the exhibition he curated. He also has a strong interest in outsider art having curated and written the catalogue for the exhibition of self-taught African American artists, "Diving in the Spirit". Since 1975 he has supervised the Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art, advising the student purchase committees and teaching contemporary art. He is also an active sculptor working primarily in wood.

Window on Wake Forest Article  about Dr. Knott's Retrospective Show 3/2008