Elissa Auther
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Elisa Auther is the Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.
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| alma_mater = University of Maryland at College Park
| thesis_title = Gustave Courbet's Sleep : paresse et luxure and the threat of tribadism in mid-nineteenth century France
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| thesis_year = 1993
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Education
Auther received her B.A. from San Francisco State University, and her Ph.D. in History of Art from the University of Maryland, College Park.{{Cite web |title=Museum of Arts and Design Appoints Elissa Auther as Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator |url=https://callforcurators.com/blog/museum-of-arts-and-design-appoints-elissa-auther-as-deputy-director-of-curatorial-affairs-chief-curator/ |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=Call For Curators |language=en-US}}
Career
Auther was at the University of Colorado where she was an associate professor of contemporary art and director of the art history and museum studies program from 2003– 2014. In 2014 she moved to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. In 2019 Auther was named deputy director of Curatorial Affairs and the William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design.
Work
Her book "String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art" (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) was known for its revisionist history in re-contextualizing craft in recent contemporary art. Auther co-curated with Bill Arning the retrospective of painter and photographer Marilyn Minter, "Pretty/Dirty" (2015–2016), which toured four cities and closed at the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.{{Cite web |last=Mendelsohn |first=Meredith |date=2015-03-31 |title=Marilyn Minter's Seductive Paintings and Photographs Collected in First Major Retrospective |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/marilyn-minter-retrospective-article |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=Architectural Digest |language=en-US}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite book |last=Auther |first=Elissa |url= |title=String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art |date=2009-12-21 |publisher=Univ Of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-5609-7 |edition= |location=Minneapolis, Minn. |language=English}}Reviews of String, Felt Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art
- {{Cite journal |last=Chave |first=Anna C. |date=2011 |title=Review of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/657511 |journal=Signs |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=762–764 |doi=10.1086/657511 |jstor=10.1086/657511 |issn=0097-9740}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Simpson |first=Mary C. |date=2011 |title=Review of String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41331113 |journal=Woman's Art Journal |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=67–68 |jstor=41331113 |issn=0270-7993}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Anger |first=Jenny |date=2010-12-09 |title=Jenny Anger. Review of "String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art" by Elissa Auther. |url=http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1551 |journal=Caa.reviews |language=en |doi=10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.139 |issn=1543-950X|doi-access=free }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Auther |first=E. |date=2004-03-01 |title=The Decorative, Abstraction, and the Hierarchy of Art and Craft in the Art Criticism of Clement Greenberg |url=https://academic.oup.com/oaj/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/oaj/27.3.339 |journal=Oxford Art Journal |language=en |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=339–364 |doi=10.1093/oaj/27.3.339 |issn=0142-6540}}
- {{Cite book |last=Bryan-Wilson |first=Julia |url= |title=West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977 |date=2011-11-02 |publisher=Univ Of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-7726-9 |editor-last=Auther |editor-first=Elissa |edition=1st |location=Denver, Colo |language=English |editor-last2=Lerner |editor-first2=Adam}}Reviews of West of Center
- {{Cite journal |last=Rudnick |first=Lois |date=2013 |title=Review of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43023060 |journal=Western American Literature |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=436–437 |jstor=43023060 |issn=0043-3462}}
- {{Cite journal |last=FRANCIS |first=JACQUELINE |date=2013 |title=Review of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24485551 |journal=Journal of American Studies |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=581–582 |doi=10.1017/S0021875813000327 |jstor=24485551 |issn=0021-8758}}
- {{Citation |last=Auther |first=Elissa |title=Sheila Hicks and the consecration of fiber art |date=2016 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315639772-11/sheila-hicks-consecration-fiber-art-elissa-auther |work=Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon |pages=90–103 |access-date=2023-06-18 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781315639772-11 |isbn=978-1-315-63977-2}}
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