Tom Crow

Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

September–December 2014

Thomas Crow (Michael Holly Fellow) is an art historian who is best known for influential writings on the role of art in modern society and culture. His area of specialty ranges from eighteenth-century French art to modern and contemporary American art. He received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles (1978). Before teaching at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, he served as Director of the Getty Research Institute and taught at several universities including the University of Sussex and Yale University. His books include Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1985); Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France (1995); Modern Art in the Common Culture (1996); and The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent (1996). The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design 1930 to 1995 is forthcoming from Yale University Press. Crow is a contributing editor to Artforum and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2015, he will deliver the A.W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His project at the Clark concerns the transformations of European art in the wake of Napoleon’s fall, 1814-1820.