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Marnin Young

Marnin
Young

Associate Professor and Chair of Art History

myoung2@yu.edu
646-592-4848

Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#708

BA, University of California, Berkeley
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Marnin Young is the author of Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time (Yale University Press, 2015). The book received a Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant from the College Art Association and an Honorable Mention for the Robert Motherwell Book Award. Dr. Young has published articles and reviews on nineteenth-century art in The Art Bulletin, Art History, caa.reviews, Critical Inquiry, H-France Review, RACARThe RIHA JournalNineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, and Nineteenth Century Studies. He is also a contributing editor at .

Dr. Young's current research revolves around the new circumstances of artistic exhibition in late nineteenth century France. He is especially interested in the history of art criticism, the formation of the avant-garde, the politics of autonomy, and the painting of Georges Seurat. Recent publications include essays on Impressionism and Vincent van Gogh.

For his teaching at Stern College for Women, Dr. Young was selected as the Lillian F. and William L. Silber Professor of the Year (2011) and the General Studies Professor of the Year by the Senior Classes of 2011, 2012, and 2015. He also received the Dean Karen Bacon Faculty Award in 2014.

 

BOOKS

Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015).

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

"'Unity is Strength': Van Gogh and the Exhibitions of the Avant-Garde," in Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, ed. Cornelia Homburg (London: The National Gallery, 2024), 113-128.

 

鈥淰an Gogh's Realism,鈥 in Through Vincent's Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources, ed. Eik Kahng (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022), 93鈥121.

 

鈥淚mpressionism and Criticism,鈥 in A Companion to Impressionism, ed. Andr茅 Dombrowski (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 11鈥26.

 

鈥淔茅n茅on鈥檚 Art Criticism,鈥 in F茅lix F茅n茅on: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde, ed. Starr Figura, Isabelle Cahn, and Philippe Peltier (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2020), 32鈥45.

 

"Le critique d'art," in F茅lix F茅n茅on: Critique, collectionneur, anarchiste, ed. Isabelle Cahn and Philippe Peltier (Paris: Mus茅e d鈥橭rsay, 2019), 60-79.

 

EDITED VOLUMES

鈥淭he Nineteenth Century: Part Four,鈥 Nonsite 46 (May 2024) co-edited with Bridget Alsdorf,

 

鈥淭he Nineteenth Century: Part Three,鈥 Nonsite 35 (May 2021) co-edited with Bridget Alsdorf and Todd Cronan, 

 

鈥淭he Nineteenth Century: Part Two,鈥 Nonsite 27 (Spring 2019) co-edited with Bridget Alsdorf,

 

鈥淭he Nineteenth Century: Part One,鈥 Nonsite 26 (Winter 2018) co-edited with Bridget Alsdorf, 

 

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

"Impressionism and Imperialism in Maurice Cullen's African River," RACAR 46:1 (Spring 2021): 75-94.

 

鈥淭he Temporal Fried,鈥 Nonsite 21, Special issue 鈥淎rt and Objecthood at Fifty鈥 (17 July 2017),

 

鈥淧hotography and the Philosophy of Time: On Gustave Le Gray鈥檚 Great Wave, S猫te,鈥 Nonsite 19 (3 May 2016),

 

鈥淐apital in the Nineteenth Century: Edgar Degas鈥檚 Portraits at the Stock Exchange in 1879,鈥 Nonsite 14, Special issue 鈥淣ineteenth-century France Now: Art, Technology, Culture鈥 (15 December 2014),

 

鈥淭he Motionless Look of a Painting: Jules Bastien-Lepage, Les Foins, and the End of Realism,鈥 Art History 37:1 (February 2014): 38鈥67.

 

鈥淭he Death of Georges Seurat: Neo-Impressionism and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in 1891,鈥 RIHA Journal 0043, Special Issue 鈥淣ew Directions in Neo-Impressionism鈥 (14 July 2012),

 

鈥淣apoleon Disfigured: Nation, Identity, and War in Antoine-Jean Gros鈥檚 Battle of Eylau,鈥 Nineteenth Century Studies 26 (2012): 1鈥25.

 

鈥淗eroic Indolence: Realism and the Politics of Time in Raffa毛lli鈥檚 Absinthe Drinkers,鈥 The Art Bulletin 90:2 (June 2008): 235鈥59. (Awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association and the Emerging Scholar Award from the Nineteenth Century Studies Association).

 

myoung2@yu.edu
646-592-4848

Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#708

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Fall 2024

Women in the Avant-Garde

ARTS 1451

 

History of Art II

ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art

ARTS 1050

 

Fall 2023

History of Art II

ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art

ARTS 1050

 

Summer 2023

Manet, Degas, and Modern Paris

ARTS 1974

 

Spring 2023

Late Nineteenth-Century Art

ARTS 1432

 

History of Art II

ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art

ARTS 1050

 

Fall 2022

Early Nineteenth-Century Art

ARTS 1431

 

History of Art II

ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art

ARTS 1050

 

Spring 2022

Late Twentieth-Century Art

ARTS 1452

 

History of Art II

ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art

ARTS 1050

 

Fall 2021

Women in the Avant-Garde

ARTS 1451

 

History of Art II

ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art

ARTS 1050

 

Spring 2021

Seminar on Impressionism

ARTS 1977

 

History of Art II

ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art

ARTS 1050

 

Fall 2020

History of Photography

ARTS 1645

 

History of Art II

ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art (Honors)

ARTS 1050H

 

Spring 2020

Late Nineteenth-Century Art

ARTS 1432

 

History of Art II

ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art

ARTS 1050

 

Fall 2019

Early Nineteenth-Century Art

ARTS 1431

 

History of Art II

ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art

ARTS 1050H

 

Spring 2019

Late Twentieth-Century Art

ARTS 1977

 

History of Art II

ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art

ARTS 1050H

 

Fall 2018
Early-20th-Century Art.
ARTS 1451

 

History of Art II
ARTS 1052

 

Introduction to Art
ARTS 1050H

 

Summer 2018
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ARTS 1973H