Thomas E. Crow

Thomas E. Crow (born 1948) is an American art historian and art critic who is best known for his influential writing on the role of art in modern society and culture.

Crow was born in Chicago in 1948, and moved to San Diego, California in 1961. [ [http://www.getty.edu/news/press/leaders/crow.html Crow Appt. (Getty Press Release) ] ] He received a B.A. from Pomona College in 1969, and his M.A. in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1978, both from the University of California, Los Angeles. [ [http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/faculty/faculty1003188.html USC College: Faculty: Department of Art History: Thomas Crow ] ]

In his early career, Crow focused on eighteenth-century French art. His work from this period includes his books Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Paris (1985) and Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France (1995). More recently, his work has involved modern and contemporary American art. This recent work includes The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent (1996) and Modern Art in the Common Culture (1996).

Crow has held teaching positions at the California Institute of the Arts, the University of Chicago, Princeton University, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the University of Sussex, Yale University and the University of Southern California. [http://usccollege.usc.edu/tools/mytools/PersonnelInfoSystem/Faculty/AHIS/vita_1003188.pdf] He served as director of the Getty Research Institute from 2000 to 2007, and started a new position as the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in September 2007. [ [http://www.nyu.edu/public.affairs/releases/detail/1281 NYU > The Office of Public Affairs > Thomas Crow Comes to NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts As Professor of Modern Art ] ]

Crow is a contributing editor to Artforum.

elected Publications

*Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth Century Paris (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985)
*Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995)
*The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996)
*Modern Art in the Common Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996)
*The Intelligence of Art (University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
*Gordon Matta-Clark, co-authored by Thomas Crow, Corinne Diserens, Christian Kravagna and Judith Russi Kirshner (Phaidon Press, 2003)
*"Cosmic Exile: Turns in the Life and Art of Robert Smithson" in Robert Smithson, edited by Eugenie Tsai (University of California Press, 2004)
*Robert Rauschenberg: Combines, edited by Paul Schimmel (Steidl Publishing, 2006)

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