Kay Dian Kriz

Kay Dian Kriz was born in 1945. She received her BS from Indiana University in 1966, her BA from Western Washington University in 1981 and her MA and PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1984 and 1991 respectively.[https://vivo.brown.edu/display/kkriz Kay Dian Kriz.] Brown University. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

Kriz was a member of the faculty of Brown University from where she retired in 2013.[http://www.browndailyherald.com/2013/09/16/hiaa-department-welcomes-three-new-profs/ HIAA department welcomes three new profs.] Stephanie Hayes, The Daily Brown Herald, 16 September 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2016. She is currently professor emerita of art and architecture at Brown. She is a specialist in British landscape painting and the visual culture of British colonialism and West Indian slavery.[https://www.rc.umd.edu/person/kriz-kay-dian Kriz, Kay Dian.] Romantic Circles, University of Maryland. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

Kriz's first book was The idea of the English landscape painter: Genius as alibi in the early nineteenth century. Writing in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ann Bermingham described the book as "an illuminating analysis of the place that landscape painting and landscape painters held within the evolving nationalistic discourse of aesthetics in the early nineteenth century" which explained how, "spurred by nationalist sentiments provoked by the Napoleonic wars, the English configuration of artistic "genius" was formulated in opposition to the French school of painting."Ann Bermingham. [https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v032/32.3br_kriz.html Book review: "The Idea of the English Landscape Painter: Genius as Alibi in the Early Nineteenth Century."] Eighteenth-Century Studies 32, no. 3 (1999): 409-410. (accessed March 13, 2016). In a positive review of Kriz's Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement (2008), Christer Petley in H-Net praised Kriz for her insights into the visual representations of the West Indies and slavery between the late seventeenth century and the mid-nineteenth century".[http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23632 Christer Petley. Review of Kriz, Kay Dian, Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840.] H-Caribbean, H-Net Reviews. July, 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

• "An English Arcadia revisited and reassessed: Holman Hunt's The Hireling Shepherd and the rural tradition", Art History, Vol. 10 (1987), pp. 475–91.
• The idea of the English landscape painter: Genius as alibi in the early nineteenth century. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1997. {{ISBN|978-0300068337}}[http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300068337/idea-english-landscape-painter The Idea of the English Landscape Painter.] Yale University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
• An economy of colour: Visual culture and the Atlantic world, 1660-1830. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2003. (Co-editor with Geoff Quilley) {{ISBN|978-0719060052}}
• Slavery, sugar and the culture of refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008. {{ISBN|9780300140620}}[http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300140620/slavery-sugar-and-culture-refinement Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement.] Yale University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2016.

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• [https://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/visualities/praxis.visualities.2014.kriz.html "Visuality's Romantic Genealogies Turner’s Slavers, Race, and the Ridiculous Human Fragment"] by Kay Dian Kriz

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