Dr Dorothy Rowe
Senior Lecturer
BA (Leicester) PhD (Essex)
Office: 2.31, 9 Woodland Road
Phone: +44 (0)117 954 6043
Email: d.rowe@bristol.ac.uk
Dorothy Rowe studied History of Art at the University of Leicester (BA) and the University of Essex (PhD). Before joining the University of Bristol, she was Senior Lecturer in Art History, founding member and co-director of the Centre for Research in Post-colonial and Transcultural studies at Roehampton University; prior to that she worked for the Higher Education section at the Victoria and Albert Museum and lectured in the History of Art at the University of East Anglia.
Research interests
- Modern German Art (German Expressionism and New Objectivity)
- Twentieth-Century Women Artists
- Photography in Germany
- Weimar Women Photographers
- Art in Britain since the 1980s
- Contemporary Art and Globalization
Research Supervision
Dorothy Rowe welcomes applications from postgraduate students wishing to undertake research related to any of the topics indicated above, German Modernism, or British Art since the 1980s. She is currently supervising the following research students:
- Klairi Angelou ‘Greek Women Sculptors since 1950’ (PhD)
- Elizabeth Robles, 'Disruptive Aesthetics: Black British Art since the 1980's' (PhD)
- Rebecca Walker ‘The Representation of Pregnancy in Twentieth-Century Art’ (MPhil)
- Georgina Webb-Dickin (AHRC funded), 'Memory and the Monument: The Creative Response of Berlin to the Vanishing Berlin Wall' (PhD)
- Holly Williamson, 'Lucy Lee Robbins (1865 - 1943) and the influence of late Nineteenth-Century Parisian fashion upon her art' (PhD)
Current research projects
Dr Rowe is leader of the Transnational Modernisms Research Cluster
She is currently editing a new book entitled German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter and its Legacies which had its origins in a major international conference co-organised with Dr Christopher Short (UWIC) and Dr Marko Daniel at Tate Modern, London in Autumn 2011 to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Der Blaue Reiter Almanac. Speakers at the conference included leading experts in the field of German Expressionism, Professor Peter Vergo, Dr Annegret Hoberg, Professor Rose-Carol Washton Long, Dr Shulamith Behr and international performance artist Stelarc, amongst others.
She is also working on a new exhibition with Dr Jill Lloyd (London) and Dr Christian Weikop (Edinburgh) entitled German Expressionism: The Cult of Youth and on a new research project entitled Imagining Celebrity that looks at the shift in the visual representation of celebrity from the circulation of prints of stage actors and actresses in the nineteenth century to the photographing of screen stars during the twentieth century.
Dr Rowe has also recently held a two year Leverhulme Research Fellowship in which she researched women artists and photographers in Weimar Germany. Her forthcoming book After Dada: Martha Hegemann and the Cologne Avant-garde (MUP, 2013) results from that research. New research for a further book entitled Weimar Women: Photography and Modernity continues those interests as does her membership of the academic network on Weimar Photography hosted by the University of Durham.
Publications
Books
- After Dada: Marta Hegemann and the Cologne Avant-Garde, Manchester: Manchester University Press 2013. Awarded 2012 CAA Millard Meiss Publication Grant.
- Women, the Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience (with Marsha Meskimmon) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013
- Architecture and Design in Europe and America 1750-2000 (co-ed with Abigail Harrison Moore) Oxford: Blackwell, 2006
- Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany, Ashgate: Scolar Press 2003
Articles
- 'Non-synchronous cartographies: Frank Bowling’s Map paintings’ Small Axe July 2013 (ed. David Scott) Duke University Press
- 'August Sander and the Artists', Tate Papers special issue on August Sander (April 2013)
- ‘Money, Modernity and Melancholia in the Writings of Georg Simmel’ in Braecker, Nicole & Herbrechter, Stefan (eds.) Metaphors of Economy, Critical Studies Vol. 25 Amsterdam: Rodophi 2005
- ‘Cultural Crossings: performing race and transgender in the work of moti roti', Art History, volume 26, number 2. Special Issue edited by Gill Perry, Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art, Oxford: Blackwell 2003 (part of the Art History Book Series)
- ‘Georg Simmel and the 1896 Berlin Trade Exhibition’ Journal of Urban History, Volume 22, August 1995, Cambridge: CUP
Contributions to books
- ‘Feminist Art History’ in Michael Kelly et al. (eds.) Oxford Encyclopedia to Aesthetics 6 volumes Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
- ‘Retrieving, Remapping and Rewriting Histories of British Art: Lubaina Himid’s Revenge' in Arnold, D. & Peters-Corbett, D. (eds.) A Companion to British Art and Architecture 1600-Present, Boston & Oxford: Blackwell, 2013
- ‘Testing the Limits: Oreet Ashery in Conversation with Dorothy Rowe’ in Meskimmon, Marsha and Rowe, Dorothy, eds., Women, the Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013
- 'Myth and History' at The Bristol Gallery. Curated group exhibition at The Bristol Gallery including the artists Lubaina Himid, Deborah van der Beek, Phil Sayers, Patrick Haines, Emma Tooth, Mark Parkinson and Tina Hill, September 19 to October 29, 2009
- ''Dada Angelika' and Marta 'La Paloma' Hegemann' in Michael Parke-Taylor (ed.) Angelika Hoerle: the Comet of the Cologne Avant-Garde 1912-23. Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario May 23 to August 30, 2009. Co-published with Verlag der Bucchandlung Walther König, Cologne 2009
- 'Of Magic, Myth and Metamorphosis' exhibition catalogue essay for Changing Places with Leeds, an exhibition of work by Phil Sayers and Rikke Lundgreen, Leeds City Art Gallery June-November 2008. Funded by the Arts Council of England
- 'Disruptive Beauty' exhibition catalogue essay for Changing Places, an exhibition of work by Phil Sayers and Rikke Lundgreen; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Lady Lever Gallery, Port Sunlight; The Collection, Lincoln; The Tennyson Centre, Lincoln; Bury Museum and Art Gallery, November 2007. Funded by the Arts Council of England
- ‘Biography and Spatial Experience in contemporary diasporic art’ in Arnold, D & Derevenski, J. Sofaer (eds.) Biographies and Space London & New York: Routledge 2008
- ‘Lesser Ury: The Painter as Stranger’ in Cowan, A. & Steward, J. (eds.) The City and the Senses Aldershot: Ashgate 2006
- ‘Painting Herself: Lotte Laserstein between Subject and Object’ in Schönfeld, C. (mit Finnan, C.) Practicing Modernity: Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2006
- ‘Differencing the City: Urban Identities and the Spatial Imagination’ in Miles, M. & Hall, T. (eds.) Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on Shaping the City London & New York: Routledge 2003
- ‘Cultural Crossings: performing race and transgender in the work of moti roti in Perry, Gill (ed.) Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art Oxford: Blackwell 2003
- ‘Wigs of Wonderment’ (moti roti). Interactive CD ROM catalogue essay; commissioned by David A. Bailey, Sonia Boyce and the African an Asian Visual Artists’ Archive for Documenting Live!; available from the Live Art Development Agency 2003
- ‘Desiring Berlin: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Germany’ in Meskimmon, M. & West, Shearer (eds.) Visions of the Neue Frau: Women and the Visual Arts in Weimar Germany Aldershot: Ashgate 1995
Reviews and review articles
- ‘Mapping Modernism’ Art History Volume 32, Issue 1, February 2009
- ‘Writing Women’s Art Histories’ Oxford Art Journal, no.1 vol.27, 2004
- ‘Site Specificity’ The Art Book, vol. 11, issue 2, 2004
- ‘Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Dresden and Berlin Years’ The Art Book, vol.11, issue 1, 2004
- ‘On Vision, Spectacle and Panorama’ The Art Book, vol. 11, issue 1, 2004
- ‘Architecturally Speaking’ in The Art Book 2003
- ‘Fragments of Berlin and other Cities’ The Art Book, vol.10, issue 2, 2003
- ‘L’Esprit Nouveau’ The Art Book, vol.9, issue 3, 2002
- ‘Mural Painting in Britain’ The Art Book, vol.9, issue 2, 2002
- ‘German Visual Culture 1890-1945’ The Art Book Vol.9, issue 1, 2002
- ‘Gender, Postcolonialism and The History of Art’ The Art Book, 2001
- ‘The Haunted Self’ in The Art Book 2001
- ‘Art Nouveau’ in The Art Book, 8, no. 1 January 2001 (Blackwell, Oxford)
- ‘Expressionism’ in The Art Book, 7, no.4 September 2000, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘Overcoming all Obstacles’ in Women’s Studies International Forum 2000
- ‘British Trade Union Posters’ in The Art Book, 7, no.3 June 2000, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘Fashioning Vienna’ in The Art Book 2000
- ‘Women Artists and the Limits of Modernist Art History’, Art History, 23, no.1, March 2000, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘The Germans and their Art’, The Art Book,6, no.4 September 1999, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘The Art of Persuasion’, The Art Book, 6, no. 3 June 1999, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘The Ghosts of Berlin’ in The Art Book, 6, no.1 January 1999, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘Geistliche Heimat: Germany’s Past and Present’ in The Art Book, 5, no.4 September 1998, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘French Modernism and the Avant-Garde’, [Review of] Michael Fried, (1996) Manet’s Modernism or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s, Chicago: University of Chicago Press in The Art Book Review Quarterly, Spring 1998
- ‘Bonnard’ [Review of ] Timothy Hyman, (1998)Bonnard, London: Thames and Hudson, in The Art Book Review Quarterly, Spring 1998
- ‘New Light on Old Vistas’ [Review of] Richard Thompson (ed.) (1998), Framing France. Essays on the Representation of Landscape in France 1870-1914, Manchester: Manchester University Press in The Art Book Review Quarterly, Spring 1998
- ‘Establishing Utopias: Realised Visions of Modern Life’, Long Book Review, Art History, (September 1995)