James D. Herbert

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name = James D. Hebert
caption = Art History Professor at the University of California Irvine
birth_date = June 1959
birth_place = United States
occupation = Art Historian/Professor

James D. Herbert, born June 1959, is currently a professor and chair of the Art History department at the University of California Irvine. After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale University, he became a part of the staff at Yale before moving on to the University of Southern California and finally to the University of California Irvine. He originally studied French paintings ranging from the late 19th century to early 20th century, but has widened his topics of interest to include other European Art. Besides studying painting, he also studies architecture, sculpture, gardens, and musicology. He describes his approach to art as one that "has ranged from the social history of depicted motifs, to the close semiotic analysis of pictorial details, to the comparative study of art and non-art objects in the manner of visual studies." [ [http://www.faculty.uci.edu/scripts/ucifacultyprofiles/humanities/arthistory/faculty_detail.cfm?faculty_id=2630 Faculty Detail ] ]

He has published many articles and books including "Our Distance from God" [ [http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/?tag=Humanities Zot!Wire: News Briefs from UC Irvine ] ] and "Fauve Painting" [ [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300050682 Fauve Painting - Herbert, James D. - Yale University Press ] ] which was the co-winner of the 1993 Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award given by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

While teaching at the University of California Irvine, he received the Division of Undergraduate Education for Instructional Technology Innovation Award and the Teaching Excellence Award in 2007 from the School of Humanities for his groundbreaking use of the program Keynote for Macintosh computers. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ5qUkqffBI YouTube - 2007 Celebration of Teaching Award Winners at UC Irvine 1 ] ]

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