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Paul Duro
PhD, University of Essex, UK, 1984
Professor of Art History/Visual and Cultural Studies

Paul.Duro@rochester.edu

425 Morey Hall
(585) 275-9262

Interests: academies; history painting and hierarchy of genres; mimesis and imitation; boundaries and frames in the constitution of the artwork; the pictorial sublime; art theory and the origins of modern picturing; science and visual representation.

Publications
The Academy and the Limits of Painting in Seventeenth-Century France, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
The Rhetoric of the Frame: Essays on the Boundaries of the Artwork, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Essential Art Theory, Bloomsbury, 1995.
Articles and book chapters: Art History, Partisan Canons, A Companion to Art Theory; Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century; The Age of Romanticism and Revolution: An Oxford Companion to British Culture; Grove Dictionary of Art; The Bloomsbury Guide to Art; Les Collections: Fables et Programmes; Australian Journal of Art; Oxford Art Journal,Gazette des Beaux - Arts, Women's Art Journal, and Bulletin de la Societe de L'histoire de l'art Francais.


Courses
AH 202/402 The Rhetoric of the Frame
AH 306/506 The Sublime in Visual Culture
AH 308/508 Art and Imitation


Duro
  Department of Art and Art History
424 Morey Hall | University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627 | USA
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Last Update: 24-Jan-2007, by CH
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