Lisa Bloom

Visiting Professor

lbloom@weber.ucsd.edu

http://www.lisaebloom.com

Education

Research

Work

Lisa Bloom is the author of Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions (University of Minnesota Press, 1993), which is the only critical book to date on the Arctic and Antarctic written from a feminist perspective, and an edited anthology entitled With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1999). She recently completed a third book (Routledge, London, 2006) titled, Jewish Identities in U.S. Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity. As its title suggests, the study explores the place of Jewishness in feminist art in the United States. It considers how the unspoken and unacknowledged issue of race, this "ghost" of the artists' Jewish ethnicity, has affected, even haunted, their art work. Her interdisciplinary research and pedagogical interests cut across numerous fields including feminist studies, media and film studies, cultural studies, visual culture and the history of art. She has both an M.F.A. from the Visual Studies Workshop and Rochester Institute of Technology (1985), and a Ph. D. from the History of Consciousness Board at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1990).

Publications

Selected Essays:

“Arctic Spaces: Politics and Aesthetics in Gender on Ice and True North,” in Art History and Diaspora: Genealogies, Theories, Practices (Williamstown, Mass., Clark Institute, Spring, 2008)

“Introduction to Special Issue: Gender on Ice: Feminist Approaches to the Arctic and Antarctic” in The Scholar and the Feminist (Barnard Center for Research on Women, New York City, forthcoming, November, 2008).

“Polar Fantasies and Aesthetics in the Work of Isaac Julien and Connie Samaras,” in the Special Issue: Gender on Ice: Feminist Approaches to the Arctic and Antarctic” in The Scholar and the Feminist (Barnard Center for Research on Women, New York City, forthcoming, November, 2008).

“Ghosts of Ethnicity: Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art,” in Daniel Rosenberg, Practicing Jews: Art, Identity and Culture (University of Wisconsin, Madison, forthcoming, 2008).

“Barbies’s Jewish Roots: Jewish Women’s Bodies and Feminist Art,“ in Nathan Abrams (ed.) Jews and Sex, (Five Leaves Publication, London, 2008), 121-137.

“The Contradictory Circulation of Fine Art and Antiques on eBay.” In Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, and Desire, eds. Ken Hillis, Michel Petit with Nathan Scott Epley, (Routledge, New York, 2006).

“True North: Isaac Julien’s Aesthetic Wager,” republished in German and English in Isaac Julien: True north : Fantôme Afrique, edited by Veit Görner and Eveline Bernasconi : Distributed Art Publishers, 2006. Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition Isaac Julien--True north/Fantôme Afrique, held at Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, June 23-Aug. 20, 2006.

“Creating Transnational Women’s Art Communities in Asia,” in Amelia Jones, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (London: Routledge; 2003).

“Gender, Race and Nation in Japanese Contemporary Art and Criticism.” The Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff. (London: Routledge, 2002) "Gender, Nationalism, and Internationalism in Japanese Contemporary Art: Some Recent Writings and Work." in n.paradoxa, vol. 5 (London, England, 2000), 35- 43.

"Writing Your Own Script: Revisioning the 1970s and the 1980s Through the Work of Eleanor Antin," in Eleanor Antin , eds. Howard N. Fox, Lisa E. Bloom, and Eleanor Antin. (New York and Los Angeles: Distributed Art Publishers in Conjunction with the Los Angeles CountyMuseum,1999), 159-189.

Selected Presentations:

“Eleanor Antin: Prophecizing Now,” San Diego Museum of Art, Oct. 17, 2008.
“Politics and Aesthetics in Isaac Julien’s True North,” in” Imagining Antarctica, Christchurch, New Zealand, September 2008.

“Reversing a Tradition of Artistic and Cinematic Representations of the Arctic.” Presentation for the conference, “North by Degree,” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May, 2008.

“Collaborations between Scholars of Visual Culture and Artists: Lisa Bloom’s Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions (1993) and Isaac Julien’s True North (2006),” Clark Conference in Williamstown, Mass., April, 2008.

“Digital markets and Digital Capitalism: The Impact of eBay on the Art and Antiques Market.” Presentation for the conference, “Markets: From the Bazaar to e-Bay,” University of Toronto, March 6-9, 2008.

“Reversing a Tradition of Inuit Representations: Staffen Julien’s The Prize of the Pole, Barnard College, Feb. 25, 2008.

“Gender on Ice: 15 Years Later.” Key-note address for the conference, “Arctic Discourse,” University of Tromso, Norway, Feb. 21-23, 2008.

“Ghosts of Ethnicity: Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art.” Key-note address for the conference, :Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 23-27, 2007.

“Jewish Feminist Art and Media Practices.” Workshop with Martha Rosler, Mierle-Laderman Ukeles, and Barbara Rose Haum.Center for Religion and Media, New York University. November 3, 2006.

“Feminist Art and Post Nationalist Jewish and Arab Identities.” College Art Association Panel, February 2006.

“Second Wave Feminism and U.S. Jewish Women Painters,” Jewish Museum. August 1, 2005.

“True North: Isaac Julien’s Aesthetic Wager,” for conference on Isaac Julien: True North, Mak Center for Art and Architecture , Los Angeles July, 2005.