Ralph Ubl
Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor of Visual Art in the Committee on Social Thought and in the College.
Ralph Ubl works primarily on art and art theory since 1800. He has published extensively on modern painting and its after-effects in photography, collage, film, and beyond. In his book on Max Ernst he examines fundamental concepts of historical discontinuity in the avantgarde. He has written several articles on the poetics of drawing, on theoretical and methodological issues of art history, on the depiction of animals, and on political representation in 17th century Rome. Current research focuses on concepts of space and orientation, the history and theory of drawing, and French Romanticism. He is presently working on a study of Eugène Delacroix and the temporalization of painting.
Selected Publications
- Prähistorische Zukunft. Max Ernst und die Ungleichzeitigkeit des Bildes, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich, 2004
- Was aus dem Bild fällt. Funktionen des Details, co-edited with E. Futscher, W. Pichler, S. Neuner, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich, 2007
- Verkehrte Symmetrien. Topologische Imagination in Kunst und Theorie, forthcoming, co-edited with W. Pichler, Turia & Kant, Vienna, 2008
- “Delacroix’ Tiere”, Politische Zoologie, ed. J. Vogel, A. von der Heiden, Diaphanes Verlag, Berlin, 2007, pp. 243-257.
- “Vor dem ersten Strich. Dispositive der modernen und vormodernen Zeichnung.” Ästhetische und epistemische Dimensionen der Zeichnung, eds. W. Busch, C. Meister, O. Jehle, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich, 2007, pp. 233-257 (co-author: Wolfram Pichler).
- “Delacroix’ Wärmeräume”, forthcoming, Räume der Romantik (Stiftung für Romantikforschung), eds.: G. Neumann, I. Mülder-Bach. Königshausen und Neumann, Würzburg, 2007
- “Trenn- und Mischkunst. Dieter Roth als Zeichner”, forthcoming, Zeichnung. Grenz- und Fliessfigur anschaulichen Denkens, eds. F. T. Bach, W. Pichler, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2007
