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Catherine H. Lusheck Assistant Professor & Program Director, Art History/Arts Management, Department of Art + Architecture, University of San Francisco |
| Web Page: | http://www.usfca.edu/facultydetails.aspx?id=4294975637 |
| List Affiliations: | None |
| Interests: | Rhetoric Visual Studies |
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Bio: Kate Lusheck is the Program Director for the Arts History/Management Department and Assistant Professor of Art History/Arts Management in the Department of Art + Architecture at USF, specializing in Renaissance and Baroque art. She received her PhD in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley (2000). Prior to her appointment at USF, she taught at Santa Clara University, among other Bay Area institutions. She was previously a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), Washington, D.C., the Belgian-American Foundation (Brussels/New Haven), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). Her museum credentials also include year-long graduate internships at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C.) and the Department of European Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu). Kate's research and teaching interests include the art of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640), Renaissance humanism and the classical tradition in northern European art, style and early modern visual rhetoric, and drawing and artistic pedagogy in the Italian Renaissance tradition. She has presented her research at annual meetings of the College Art Association and the Renaissance Society of America, as well as at a number of major museums and universities in the United States and abroad. Her publications include "Content in Form: Rubens's Kneeling Man and the Graphic Reformation of the Ideal, Robust Male Nude," Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (2000). Currently, she is completing a book-length manuscript for publication entitled Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing. |
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