Michael Lobel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Art History
Director of the M.A. Program
in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Theory
School of Humanities

Office: 2046 HUM Building
Tel: (914) 251-6577
Fax: (914) 251-6559
E-mail: michael.lobel@purchase.edu

Dr. Michael Lobel is an associate professor of art history in the School of the Humanities and director of the M.A. program in modern and contemporary art, criticism, and theory. His interests include postwar and contemporary art; theories of mass culture; and methodological issues in the analysis of recent art.

Education   

1990, B.A., Wesleyan University
1993, M.A., Yale University
1999, Ph.D., Yale University

Positions

Lecturer, 1996–2000, Whitney Museum of American Art
Instructor, 1999–2000, Yale University
Assistant Professor, 2002–2004, Bard College
Assistant Professor, 2004–2008, Purchase College, SUNY
Associate Professor, 2008–present, Purchase College, SUNY

Areas of Expertise
Postwar and contemporary art; the relationship between modern art and mass culture; contemporary theory and criticism.

Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, 1990; University Fellowship, Yale University, 1992-96; Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 1996-97; Blanshard Fund Dissertation Prize, Yale University, 1999; Getty Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000-02; Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2003.

Courses Taught
Introduction to Modern Art; Art Since 1945; Dada, Duchamp, and the Readymade; M.A. Colloquium; Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde; Art Historical Methods; Pop Art and Mass Culture; The Invisible Seventies.

Research Interests
Pop art and politics; the Pictures generation of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Publications

Books

James Rosenquist: Pop Art, Politics and History in the 1960s (University of California Press, forthcoming).

Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art (Yale University Press, 2002).

Exhibition catalogue

Fugitive Artist: The Early Work of Richard Prince, 1974-77 (Neuberger Museum of Art, 2007).

Selected journal essays, articles, and reviews

“Sturtevant: Inappropriate Appropriation.” Parkett no. 75 (December 2005).

"Black to Front." Artforum vol. 43, no. 2 (October 2004).

"Authorizing Warhol" (book review). Art Journal vol. 63, no. 2 (Summer 2004).

"Sign Language." Artforum vol. 42, no. 2 (October 2003).

"Departure and Return."  Richard Artschwager (London: Gagosian Gallery, 2003).

"Technology Envisioned: Lichtenstein's Monocularity." Oxford Art Journal vol. 24, no. 1 (2001).

"Rosenquist's Craft: Painting and the Limits of the Machine."  Parkett no. 58 (May 2000).

"Hasiography" (with Vincent Fecteau).  Nest no. 2 (September 1998).

"Other Voices" (book review).  Art Journal 56, no. 3 (Fall 1997).

"Warhol's Closet."  Art Journal 55, no. 4 (Winter 1996).  Revised version published in Possession Obsession: Andy Warhol and Collecting (Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, 2002).