David Joselit is an American art historian who is currently Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University, and also a published author, including being an editor of October.
Career
Joselit received his PhD from Harvard University.
At Yale, Joselit was a Carnegie Professor and also a past Harris Lecturer at Northwestern University. In 2014, Joselit was appointed as Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he taught until 2020.
In 2017, Joselit co-chaired the search committee that chose Jay Sanders as executive director of Artists Space.
In addition to his teaching activities, Joselit has been serving on the advisory board of the Hauser & Wirth Institute since 2018.
Selected works
Books:
- Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910–1941 (MIT Press, 1998).
- American Art Since 1945 (Thames and Hudson, 2003).
- Feedback: Television Against Democracy. (MIT Press, 2007)
- After Art (Princeton University Press, 2012).
- Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (MIT Press, 2020)
- Art's Properties (Princeton University Press, 2023)
Articles:
- Joselit, David (Fall 2011). "What to Do with Pictures". October. 138: 81–94. ISSN 0162-2870.
- Joselit, David (Summer 2011). "Signal Processing: David Joselit on Abstraction Then and Now". Artforum.
External links
- Harvard University web page
References
