Rebecca Zurier

Associate Professor

rzurier@umich.edu

Office Information:

120C Tappan Hall
phone: 734.763.5840

Education/Degree:

PhD Yale University

About

Rebecca Zurier studies what American art and culture can tell us about each other, defining art broadly to include comic strips, mass media, vernacular architecture, and other aspects of the visual and built environment. Her research has focused to date on the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, a time when industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and changes in race relations and social mores–as well as experimentation in politics and the arts–redefined the United States as modern. Current interests include urban culture in New York and Detroit, national identity and the perception of American art abroad, and concepts of realism and representation in art and writing.

Field(s) of Study

American nineteenth-century and twentieth-century art and architecture

About

Field(s) of Study

American nineteenth-century and twentieth-century art and architecture

Highlighted Work and Publications

Toward 'Loss of Logic': Realism, Politics, and Pop Art

Rebecca Zurier

Kunst und Politik Band 19 (2017), special issue on "Realism in Modern British and American Art."

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Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School

Rebecca Zurier

Picturing the City takes an innovative look at the group of urban realists known as the Ashcan School, and at the booming cultures of vision and representation in early twentieth-century New York. Offering fresh insights into the development of modern cities and modern art in America, Rebecca Zurier considers what it meant to live in a city where strangers habitually watched each other and public life seemed to consist of continual display, as new classes of immigrants and working women claimed their places in the metropolis. Through her study of six artists—George Bellows, William...

Tags: History of Art , US