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Andrew Shelton—Chair, Associate Professor

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Andrew Shelton

Andrew Shelton is a historian of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century European art with a focus on Romantic-era Paris. He is interested in the ideological and sociological dimensions of art-making, with a particular emphasis on issues relating to sexuality and gender. He is currently at work on a book entitled Achille Devéria: Art, Identity, and Commerce in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris.


Education

  • Ph. D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1997
  • M. A. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1989
  • B. A. Columbia University, 1987 Major: History of Art and Archaeology Honors: summa cum laude

Publications

    Articles & Essays

  • "Ingres et la critique moderne, 1967–2005," in Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guéguan, Louis-Antoine Prat and Éric Bertin, eds., Ingres, 1780–1867, Paris, Gallimard/Musée du Louvre, 2006, 20–31
  • "Modernisme, académisme, ingrismes: La Polémique au sujet des Envois (1838–1840)," in Sébastien Allard et Marie-Claude Chaudonneret, Ingres: La Réforme des principes, 1806–1834, Lyon: Fage Éditions, 2006, 151–68
  • "Girodet et Boutard: Portrait d'une alliance artistico-journalistique au temps de Napoléon" in Sylvain Bellanger ed., Girodet (1767–1824), Paris, Gallimard/Musée du Louvre, 2005, 129–35
  • "The Third Republic, 1870–1889," in Michel Laclotte et al., Art and Spirit of Paris, 2 vols. (New York: Abbeville Press, 2003) II, 1018–1071
  • "Art, Politics and the Politics of Art: Ingres's Saint Symphorien at the 1834 Salon," Art Bulletin, LXXXIII, no. 4 (December 2001) 711–39
  • "Storming the Acropolis: Gender, Class and Classicism in 18th-Century England," in Elise Goodman ed., Art and Culture in the Eighteenth Century: New Dimensions and Multiple Perspectives, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001, 125–41
  • "Ingres versus Delacroix," Art History, 23 no. 5 (December 2000) 726–42; reprinted in Susan Siegfried and Adrian Rifkin, eds., Fingering Ingres, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, 76–92
  • "Les marchands sont plus que jamais dans le temple: Mural Painting in France under the July Monarchy," in Andrew Hemingway and William Vaughan eds., Art in Bourgeois Society, 1790–1850, London: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 178–199
  • "Une séjour ignoré d'Ingres sur la côte normande en mars 1834," Bulletin du Musée Ingres, no. 71 (July 1998) 51–59

    • Books, Edited Volumes, & Exhibition Catalogues

  • Ingres, London, Phaidon, 2008
  • Ingres and His Critics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005
  • Co-Author, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, London, National Gallery; Washington, National Gallery of Art; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999

    • Reviews

  • David O'Brien, "After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting and Propaganda Under Napoleon," Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 37, nos. 1–2 (Fall-Winter 2008–2009) 153–155.
  • Todd B. Porterfield and Susan L. Siegfried, "Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, David," Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 37, nos. 1–2 (Fall-Winter 2008–2009) 146–148.
  • "Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Washington" [exhibition review] The Burlington Magazine, CXLVI, no. 1211 (February 2004) 134–36
  • William Hauptman, Charles Gleyre, Princeton, SIAR/Princeton University Press, 1996, The Art Bulletin, LXXX, no. 3 (September 1998) 576–78

Seminars, Lectures & Presentations

    Invited Lectures

  • "Parodies and Panegyrics: The Biographical Writing on 'Monsieur Ingres,' 1840–56," Ingres, un homme à part? International colloquium, Paris, École du Louvre and Rome, Académie de France, April 25–28, 2006
  • "'Blows of the Brush' and 'Strokes of the Pen'": Girodet and the Journalistic Discourse Under Napoleon I, Art Institute of Chicago, February 16, 2006
  • "Impressionism: The Social and Political Background," Renoir, Then and Now (public symposium in conjunction with the exhibition Renoir's Women), The Columbus Museum of Art, October 16, 2005
  • "The Impressionists after Impressionism: The Late Works of Claude Monet," Lecture sponsored by The Ohio State Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities and the Columbus Museum of Art, The Columbus Museum of Art, April 8, 2004
  • "Ingres and the ingristes," in "Portraits by Ingres: An International Symposium," Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 22, 1999
  • "Thoughts on the Construction of Gender in Portraits by Ingres," Washington, National Gallery of Art, May 23, 1999
  • "The Fop and the Prude: Reading Gender into (and out of) Ingres's Portraits at the 1827–28 Salon," Wednesday Evening Lecture Series, The National Gallery, London, February 24, 1999
  • "Renegade or Reactionary? Rethinking the Career of J.-A.-D. Ingres," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., October 19, 1997

Professional Activities

    Academic Appointments

  • Chair, The Ohio State University, Department of History of Art, July 2006—present
  • Faculty Administrative Fellow, Dean's Office, College of the Arts, Ohio State University, September 2005—June 2006
  • Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, Department of History of Art, October 2005—present
  • Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, Department of History of Art, October 1999—September 2005
  • Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Art, Department of Critical Studies, September 1997—August 1999
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, Department of Art History, September 1996—August 1997
  • Visiting Lecturer, Dartmouth College, Department of Art History, Winter and Spring quarters, 1996

    • Papers Delivered at Professional Meetings

  • "Making/Marketing Masculinity in the Era of High Romanticism: The Lithographic Portraits of Achille Devéria," Nineteenth-Century Prints, College Art Association Annual Conference, Boston, February, 24 2006
  • "Seeing Celebrity: The Lithographic Portraits of Achille Devéria," Interdisciplinary 19th-Century Studies Conference: Ways of Seeing, Nanterre, Université de Paris X, June 23, 2000
  • "Ingres versus Delacroix," in "Fingering Ingres," College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 26, 2000
  • "The Limits of Internationalism: Joseph Wright of Derby's Portrait of Mrs. Sarah Clayton," The Fate of the International Style in 18th-Century European Portraiture, Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williams College, September 18, 1998
  • "Marketing Monsieur Ingres," in "Marketing Art," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 18, 1998
  • "The Alternative Exhibitions of J.-A.-D. Ingres," in "The Temporary Exhibition," College Art Association Annual Conference, Boston, February 23, 1996

    • Sessions Chaired at Professional Meetings

  • Panel Chair, "Future Trends in Nineteenth-Century Art," College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, February, 21, 2004
  • Panel Co-Chair, "Impressionism as End-Game," College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 20, 2003
  • Panel Organizer and Chair, "Discourses of Desire in French Romantic Painting: Ingres and Delacroix," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, Columbus OH, October 25, 2002
  • Session Chair, "Portraits and Portrait Painting in France, 1789–1880," College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, February 13, 1999

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

  • Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, Center For Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2008–2009.
  • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994–95
  • Chester Dale Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993–94