Paul Duro

PhD, University of Essex, UK, 1984
Interm Chair Deptartment of Art and Art History - Spring 2013
Humanities Project Committee
Paul.Duro@rochester.edu

Department of Art & Art History
522 Morey Hall
(585) 275-9262

Interests:
Academies
History painting and hierarchy of genres
Mimesis and imitation
Boundaries and frames in the constitution of the artwork
The pictorial sublime
Art theory and the origins of modern picturing
Science and visual representation
Publications
The Academy and the Limits of Painting in Seventeenth-Century France, Cambridge University Press, 1997
The Rhetoric of the Frame: Essays on the Boundaries of the Artwork, Cambridge University Press, 1996
Essential Art Theory, Bloomsbury, 1995
Articles Amp; Book Chapters:
Art History, Partisan Canons, A Companion to Art Theory
Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century
The Age of Romanticism and Revolution: An Oxford Companion to British Culture
Grove Dictionary of Art
The Bloomsbury Guide to Art
Les Collections: Fables et Programmes
Australian Journal of Art
Oxford Art Journal,Gazette des Beaux - Arts, Women's Art Journal, and Bulletin de la Societe de L'histoire de l'art Francais
Courses:
AH 202/402 The Rhetoric of the Frame
AH 306/506 The Sublime in Visual Culture
AH 308/508 Art and Imitation