CURRICULUM VITAE Steven Harris Associate Professor Department of Art and Design 3-98 Fine Arts Building Edmonton, AB T6G 2C9 E-Mail: steven.harris@ualberta.ca Education 1997 Ph.D. in Art History University of British Columbia Dissertation: Sister to the Dream: The Surrealist Object between Art and Politics 1985 M.A. in Art History University of British Columbia Thesis: Of Rauschenberg, Policy and Representation at the Vancouver Art Gallery: A Partial History 1966-1983 1980 B.A., major in Art History University of British Columbia Employment 2007- Associate Professor 2002-07 Assistant Professor 2001-02 Instructor 1997-98 Instructor Mount Allison University 1987-88 Instructor Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
2 Awards 2012-13 President s Grants for the Creative and Performing Arts, 2011-12 SAS grant, Faculty of Arts, 2006-10 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant 2003-04 HFSSR Research Travel Grant, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta SAS grant, Faculty of Arts, EFF Capital Recruitment Fund, 2002-03 HFSSR Operating Grant, Faculty of Arts, SAS grant, Faculty of Arts, 1999-2001 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship Held at the University of Essex 1991-93 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship Publications 2016 The Surrealist Movement since the 1940s, in David Hopkins, ed., A Companion to Dada and Surrealism (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2016), pp. 385-99 2015 Appearances are deceiving. Mind Games: Lisa Turner (Edmonton: Museums Galleries at Enterprise Square, 2015), n.p. Review of Jennifer Shaw, Reading Claude Cahun s Disavowals, History of Photography, vol. 39 no. 1 (February 2015), pp. 96-98 2014 Biographies of Hans Arp, André Breton, René Crevel, Salvador Dalí, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy and Tristan Tzara, in Le Chant de la grenouille: The Surrealists in Conversation (New York: Helly Nahmad Gallery, 2014)
3 Asger Jorn in, on and about Surrealism, in Asger Jorn: Restless Rebel (Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2014), pp. 50-69 2013 Voluntary and Involuntary Sculpture, in Anna Dezeuze and Julia Kelly, eds., Found Sculpture and Photography from Surrealism to Contemporary Art (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 13-37 2012 How Language Looks: On Asger Jorn and Noël Arnaud s La Langue verte et la cuite. October, no. 141 (Summer 2012), pp. 111-32 Introduction to Asger Jorn, Structuralism and Suppression. October, no. 141 (Summer 2012), p. 80 Time for a Witness. Witness: Sherri Chaba & Lyndal Osborne (Sherwood Park, AB: Gallery@501, 2012), pp. 2-7 2011 The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art. Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, vol. 5 no. 1 (2011), pp. 159-61 (exhibition review) 2009 Tilt, The Capilano Review, series 3 no. 8 (May 2009), pp. 190-93 2008 Emancipation, Oxford Art Journal, vol. 31 no. 2 (2008), pp. 304-08 (book review) 2007 The End of Surrealism in Belgium, in Patricia Allmer and Hilde Van Gelder, eds., Collective Inventions: Surrealism in Belgium (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2007), pp. 50-67 Review of Robin Adèle Greeley, Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War, Canadian Journal of History, vol. 42 no. 1 (Spring- Summer 2007), pp. 127-28 2006 Pataphysical Graham: A Consideration of the Pataphysical Dimension of the Artistic Practice of Rodney Graham, Tate Papers, no. 6 (Autumn 2006), 13 pp., and Papers of Surrealism, no. 5 (Spring 2007), 19 pp.
4 2005 Surrealism and Photography, History of Photography, vol. 29 no. 4 (Winter 2005), pp. 383-85 (book review) The Gaulish and the Feudal as Lieux de mémoire in Postwar French Abstraction, Journal of European Studies, vol. 35 no. 2 (June 2005), pp. 201-20 2004 The Art of Losing Oneself without Getting Lost: Brecht and Filliou at the Palais idéal, Papers of Surrealism, no. 2 (Summer 2004), pp. 1-18 Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics and the Psyche (Cambridge University Press, 2004) reviews: Robert Linsley, CAA Reviews, 11 June 2004, 3 pp. (online review) Elza Adamowicz, TLS no. 5281 (18 June 2004), p. 37 Patricia Allmer, PopMatters, 6 July 2004, 2 pp. (online review) Mark S. Micale, H-France Review, vol. 4 no. 102 (October 2004), 4 pp. (online review) Jonathan Eburne, Modernism/modernity, vol. 12 no. 1 (2005), pp. 175-81 Robert Radford, The Art Book, vol. 12 no. 1 (February 2005), pp. 56-57 David Howard, Politics and Culture, no. 3 (2005), 4 pp. (online review) Catherine Vasseur, Cahiers du Musée National d Art Moderne, no. 90 (Winter 2004-05), pp. 123-24 William Cloonan, The French Review, vol. 78 no. 5 (April 2005), pp. 1053-54 Verena Krieger, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, 23 June 2005, 4 pp. (online review) C.F.B. Miller, Art History, vol. 28 no. 5 (November 2005), pp. 806-09 Natalie Adamson, Papers of Surrealism, no. 4 (Winter 2005), pp. 1-7 (online review) Gavin Parkinson, Oxford Art Journal, vol. 29 no. 2 (2006), pp. 306-12 Linda Steer, RACAR, vol. 30 nos. 1-2 (2005), pp. 133-36 J. Westbrook, Lu (Lectures utiles), Centre de recherche sur le surréalisme, 2006, 5 pp. (online review) 2002 Review of Robin Walz, Pulp Surrealism, Canadian Journal of History, vol. XXXVII no. 1 (April 2002), pp. 153-55 2001 Beware of Domestic Objects: Vocation and Equivocation in 1936, Art History, vol. 24 no. 5 (November 2001), pp. 725-57 Occluded Front, Art History, vol. 24 no. 4 (September 2001), pp. 608-12 (book review)
5 Coup d oeil, Oxford Art Journal, vol. 24 no. 1 (2001), pp. 89-111 2000 Devotion, in...ok, i want to get off the phone now: New & Recent Work by Fredette Frame (Sackville, NB: The Owens Art Gallery, 2000) 1999 The Chain of Glass: Rethinking Breton s Concept of Objective Chance, Collapse no. 4 (May 1999), pp. 48-71 1996 Cruel Invention, RACAR, vol. XXI nos. 1-2 (1994), pp. 119-23 (book review) Work in Progress The Poetics of Disenchantment: The European Avant-Garde at Mid-Century, a booklength manuscript, not yet completed Co-editing a special issue of Art History, the journal of the Association of Art Historians in Britain, on postwar European art, to appear in 2016 Co-editing the Encyclopedia of Surrealism, to be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2017 EROS, c est la vie, completed scholarly article (9636 words) Scholarly Presentations 2013 Theory and Practice of F/G Invited speaker in association with exhibitions of work by Robert Filliou and Alberto Giacometti Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, May 2013 Reimagining the Relation between Poetics and Politics in Postwar Europe Department of Art, University of Toronto, January 2013 2012 How Language Looks: On Asger Jorn and Noël Arnaud s La Langue verte et la cuite Cut and Thrust, Impulses and Fallouts: Reconsidering Asger Jorn. Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark, March 2012
6 Revised version of paper originally presented in 2009 2010 EROS, c est la vie Breathless Days, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 2010 2009 How Language Looks: On Asger Jorn and Noël Arnaud s La Langue verte et la cuite Surrealism, Post-War Theory and the Avant-Garde, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, November 2009 Universities Art Association of Canada, Edmonton, October 2009 The Need for a New Myth and the Revolutionary Project in Wartime and Postwar Surrealism Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, May 2009 2007 The Abolition/the Supersession/the Persistence of Art: Late Thoughts on a Debate in and around 1968 Association of Art Historians, Belfast, April 2007 2006 The Inoperative Community in Postwar European Art or, The Collective at Play University of Essex, April 2006 Pataphysical Graham: A Consideration of the Pataphysical Dimension of the Artistic Practice of Rodney Graham Tate Britain, University of Manchester, May 2006 The Idea of Experiment in the Postwar European Avant-Gardes University of Manchester, University of Essex, May 2006 These three lectures delivered as Visiting Scholar, AHRC Centre for the Study of Surrealism and Its Legacies, 2006 2005 The End of Belgian Surrealism Association of Art Historians, Bristol, April 2005 2004 The art of losing oneself without getting lost: Brecht and Filliou at the Palais idéal Keynote speaker, Symposium of Art, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB, October 2004 2003 Voluntary and Involuntary Sculpture Involuntary Sculpture, a conference at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, November 2003
7 The Gaulish and the Feudal as Lieux de mémoire in Postwar French Abstraction Cultural Memory in France: Margins and Centers, a conference at the Winthrop-King Center for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University, October 2003 The art of losing oneself without getting lost: Brecht and Filliou at the Palais idéal Surrealism Laid Bare, Even, a conference at West Dean College, West Sussex, May 2003 2001 The Shape of Things to Come Reconstruction, Consommation, Contestation: Art and Critical Debates in Postwar France, 1945-1972, a conference at the University of British Columbia, October 2001 The Poetics of Disenchantment: Experimental Art in Postwar Europe University of Essex, January 2001 University of British Columbia, March 2001 2000 Coup d oeil Surrealism Laid Bare, Too, a conference at West Dean College, West Sussex, May 2000 L Expérience continue: The Avant-Garde at Mid-Century University of Essex, March 2000 1998 Un faux en écriture: Claude Cahun, Surrealism and the Popular Front in 1936 University of Guelph, March 1998 Mount Allison University, March 1998 1996 Surrealism and the Struggle for Abstraction in Postwar Paris College Art Association, Boston, February 1996 1995 Beware of Domestic Objects: Vocation and Equivocation in the Surrealist Movement in 1936 The Modern...Now and Then, a conference held at Cornell University, March 1995
8 Community lectures 2012 Tensions and Convergences in the Art of Last Century or, Peggy Guggenheim s Earrings, Art Gallery of Alberta, 29 February 2010 What Is Art?, introductory lecture to five-part lecture series What Is Art?, Visual Arts Studio, St. Albert, 18 March 2007 Production and Consumption in the Collages of Kurt Schwitters, Edmonton Art Gallery, 11 October 2004 Picasso s Reputation, Edmonton Art Gallery, 9 December What was Modern Art?, Lunch by the Books series, Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton, 18 November Expressionism A to Z, Edmonton Art Gallery, 18 March Surrealism in the City, Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton, 25 February