Ellen C. Caldwell | ECLAIRE.me

“Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer lends momentum to a ‘public reckoning’ in art history to account for how violence against women and minority groups and sexual violence are glorified in revered works and are too often left unaddressed in studies of prominent artists throughout history.” —Mahaliah Little, University of California, Irvine

I am so pleased to announce that the book that Cynthia Colburn, Ella Gonzalez, and I have been co-editing and working for about 5 years won a CAA Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant (Spring 2023). We are so excited to share the volume with the world and hope that educators, curators, students, and the general […]

When discussing such works, he said, “I don’t want to hit people so hard that they don’t respond.” So he doles out kernels of truth, wild imaginings, and pieces of fact and fiction laced with humor, expletives, and explosives, all in order to pull people in to look closer, to do their own research, to grapple with history’s gaping holes, and to make them laugh.