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Biography

Dr. Caterina Y. Pierre is Professor of Art History at 911爆料 at 911爆料 Community College. She achieved the rank of full professor in 2014. She received her doctoral degree in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2005. Dr. Pierre served as the Co-Director of the Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Concentration in Liberal Arts from 2012 through 2018. She has published numerous articles on sculpture of the Second Empire and the Third Republic in France, specifically on the work of Gustave Courbet, Jules Dalou and Marcello. She also writes about American art, especially in the area of sculpture, and sculpture production by women artists. Her first book, entitled Genius Has No Sex: The Sculpture of Marcello (1836-1879) was published in 2010 by 脡ditions de Penthes/Infolio, in Geneva, Switzerland. She is currently preparing a new book on cemetery sculpture as political art in the late nineteenth century, forthcoming from Routledge, and a non-academic biography of Marcello, forthcoming from Editions Cab茅dita.

Courses

Art 30 (Art and Activism)

Art 30 Online

Art 31 (Survey of Art History: Survey from Prehistory to the Present)

Art 31 Online

Art 34 (Survey of Art History: Renaissance to 19^th-Century Art)

Art 34 Online

Art 34 Hybrid (Art Alive: History of Art through New York City Museums)

Art 35 (Nineteenth Century Art, formerly Modern Art I: 1880-1945)

Art 35 Online

Art 36 (Twentieth Century Art, formerly Modern Art II: 1945-Present Day)

Art 36 Online

Art 39 (History of Women in Art)

Art 39 Online

Art 81 (Independent Study: Art History)

Art 98 (History of Modern Sculpture)

Art 98 Online

Education:

BA, Brooklyn College, CUNY, 1994

MA, Hunter College, CUNY, 1996

M.Phil., The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2001

Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2005

College Teaching:

Since 2005 at CUNY 911爆料; also: The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (visiting associate professor since 2008); Sotheby鈥檚 Institute of Art, New York; Formerly: Parsons, The New School, New York; Christie鈥檚 Education, New York; The American University in Paris, Paris, France.

Selected Publications and/or Other Resources:

Publications:

Book Review, 鈥淪culpting Abroad: Nationality and Mobility of Sculptors in the Nineteenth Century,鈥� Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 23, no. 1 (Spring 2024): [forthcoming in ]

Article, 鈥淣ew Discoveries: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Antinous, 1874,鈥� Co-authored with Stefania Corsini and Etta M. Madden. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 23, no. 1 (Spring 2024): [forthcoming in ]

Essay in an Anthology, 鈥淟鈥檈roe e la morte in Italia: I due monumenti ad Agostino Bertani eseguiti da Federico Gaetano Villa e Vincenzo Vela nel 1888,鈥� in Vincenzo Vela: Scultore del suo e del nostro tempo, miscellanea di studi (Bellinzona: Edizioni Casagrande/Museo Vincenzo Vela, 2023), p. 278-311.

Exhibition Review, 鈥淔ictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast,鈥� Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 22, no. 1 (Spring 2023):

Book Review, 鈥淪culptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 21, no. 2 (Autumn 2022):

Article, 鈥淭he Durig Scrapbook: Notes on the Silent Forger,鈥� Journal of Art Crime, Issue 27 (Spring 2022): p. 43-60.

Exhibition Review, 鈥淪uzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel,鈥� Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 21, no. 1 (Spring 2022):

Article, 鈥淎ttilio Piccirilli鈥檚 The Outcast (1904-1908) and Eternal Youth (1935): Immigrant Instability and the Italian American Experience,鈥� Public Art Dialogue, Vol. 11, Issue no. 2 (Fall 2021): p.153-179.

Exhibition Review, 鈥�Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy to New York, New York,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 20, no. 1 (Spring 2021):  

Exhibition Review, 鈥�Gemito: Le Sculpteur de l鈥櫭�me napolitaine,鈥� in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Fall 2020):

Book Review, Juilee Decker, Enid Yandell: Kentucky鈥檚 Pioneer Sculptor (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2019), in Art Inquiries, Vol. XVIII: No. 1 (2020): 98-100.

Essay in an Anthology, 鈥淐hapter 14: Sculpture and the Public Imagination: Nineteenth-Century Site-Specific Sculpture of the Cemetery, the Garden and the Street,鈥� in A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art, Michelle Facos, ed. First Edition. (Chichester, West Sussex and Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019), 225-242.

Exhibition Catalogue Essays, 鈥淛ean-Victor Bertin, Roman Figures in the Sabine Mountains,鈥� (pp. 125-129) and 鈥淐ourbet, Landscape at Ornans,鈥� (pp. 133-137) in The Herman H. Levy Legacy: A Cultivating Journey (Hamilton, ON, Canada: McMaster Museum of Art, 2017). [In French and English.] 

Article, 鈥淢odern Sculpture.鈥� In Oxford Bibliographies in Art History. Ed. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann. New York: Oxford University Press, website, 2017. 

Museum Publication/Catalogue, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: Sculpture at the Dahesh Museum, part of the series In Focus (3) New York: Dahesh Museum of Art, 2016. 

Keynote Address, 鈥淎rt + Controversy: The Photography of Robert Mapplethorpe,鈥� in Paideia 3 (2015): 13-17. http://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/kccreads/Documents/2015_16/journal2015WEB.pdf 

Book Review, Claire Jones, Sculpture and Design Reform in France 1848-1895: Sculpture and the Decorative Arts (Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014), in H-France Review, Vol. 15 (August 2015): 

Exhibition Review, 鈥淐arrier-Belleuse: Le m芒itre de Rodin,鈥� in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Spring 2015):  

Exhibition Review, 鈥淛ean-Baptiste Carpeaux,鈥� in caa.reviews (March 5, 2015)  

Published Lesson Plan, 鈥淓ighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Sculpture,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Art History Teaching Resources (Spring 2015) 

Exhibition Catalogue Essays, 鈥淪culpting Against the Grain: Images of Women in Marcello鈥檚 Oeuvre,鈥� (pp. 65-77) and 鈥淐ourbet, Marcello, and the Shared Model,鈥� (pp. 94-103) in Marcello 1836-1879 (Milan: 5 Continents, 2014). [In French, German and Italian.] 

Exhibition Review, 鈥淒avid d鈥橝ngers, Making of the Modern Monument,鈥� in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Spring 2014):  

Book Review, Susanne Glover Lindsay, Funerary Arts and Tomb Cult, Living with the Dead in France, 1750-1870 (Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate Press, 2012), in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Spring 2014):  

Exhibition Review, 鈥淣el segno della Libert脿. Gli artisti Francois (1784-1855) e Sophie (1797-1867) Rude,鈥� in in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Autumn 2013):  

Exhibition Review, 鈥淒alou: le sculpteur de la R茅publique,鈥� at the Petit Palais, Mus茅e des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris and 鈥淒alou, regards sur le XVIIIe si猫cle,鈥� at the Mus茅e Cognacq-Jay, Paris, in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Autumn 2013):  

Essay in an Anthology, 鈥淭he Altar to Liberty at Green-Wood: A Monument to Brooklyn鈥檚 First Heroes,鈥� in Green-Wood at 175: Looking back/Looking forward, edited by Jeffrey I. Richman, (2013), p. 128-133. 

Newspaper Article, 鈥淣el segno della Libert脿. Gli artisti Fran莽ois (1784-1855) e Sophie (1797-1867) Rude鈥� in Corriere del Ticino, 26 April 2013, p. 34. 

Article, 鈥淧reserving the Site-Specificity of Ruckstuhl鈥檚 Minerva (1920) in Green-Wood Cemetery鈥� in Markers (Vol. XXVIII): 14-43. 

Commentary, 鈥淭en Items to Help Guide a New Art History Online Course鈥� in Art History Teaching Resources (April 6, 2013). 

Exhibition Review, 鈥淟orenzo Bartolini: Scultore del bello natural鈥� at the Galleria dell鈥橝ccademia, Florence, Italy, in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Autumn 2012):  

Book Review, Ren茅e Ater, Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Autumn 2012):  

Article, 鈥淟ouis-Ernest Barrias and Modern Allegories of Technology鈥� in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (May 2012, special edition):  

Book Review, Jane Mayo Roos, Auguste Rodin (New York: Phaidon, 2011), in caa.reviews, (April 5, 2012):  

Book Review, Alison McQueen, Empress Eug茅nie and the Arts: Politics and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Vermont: Ashgate, 2011), in H-France Review, Vol. 12 (February 2012):  

Exhibition Review, 鈥淒egas, Sculpteur (1834-1917): Un exceptionnel Orsay hors les murs鈥� at Roubaix-La Piscine, Mus茅e d鈥橝rt et d鈥橧ndustrie Andr茅 Diligent, Roubaix, France, in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Autumn 2011):  

Exhibition Review, 鈥淚llusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography and Cinema, 1875-1918鈥� at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Spring 2011):  

Article, 鈥淭he Pleasure and Piety of Touch in Aim茅-Jules Dalou鈥檚 Tomb of Victor Noir鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Sculpture Journal Volume 19, Number 2 (Fall 2010):173-185. 

Exhibition Review, 鈥淢atisse & Rodin鈥� at the Mus茅e Rodin, Paris, in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Fall 2010):  

Book Publication, Genius Has No Sex: The Sculpture of Marcello (1836-1879). Geneva, Switzerland: Editions de Penthes/Editions Infolio, 2010. 

Exhibition Review, 鈥淒alou in England: Portraits of Womanhood, (1871-1879)鈥� at the Yale Center for British Art, in  (Spring 2010). 

Article, 鈥淒es 芒mes s艙urs: les 茅changes entre Delacroix et Marcello鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Soci茅t茅 des Amis du Mus茅e National Eug猫ne Delacroix, Bulletin No. 7(Fall 2009): 39-46. 

Exhibition Review, 鈥淗enry de Triqueti (1803-1874), scultore dei Principi鈥� at the Museo Vincenzo Vela, in  (Spring 2009). 

Exhibition Review, 鈥淟a mati猫re de l鈥櫭﹖range, Jean Carri猫s (1855-1894)鈥� at the Petit Palais, Mus茅es des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, in  (Fall 2008). 

Article, 鈥淏essie Potter Vonnoh: A Sculptor鈥檚 Legacy in New York鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Fine Art Connoisseur, Vol. 5, No. 4 (August 2008): 42-45. 

Exhibition Review, 鈥淓legant//Expressiv: Von Houdon bis Rodin, Franz枚sische Plastik des 19. Jahrhunderts鈥� at the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, in  (Spring 2008). 

Catalog Essay, 鈥淧lasters and Disasters: Audrey Flack鈥檚 Recent Sculpture鈥� in the catalog for the 911爆料 Community College Art Gallery exhibition of the same title (Spring 2007):1-15. 

Exhibition Review, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848 鈥� 1907): scultore Americano dell'Et脿 d'Oro at the Museo Vincenzo Vela, in  (Spring 2007). 

Article, 鈥淭he rise and fall of the Mus茅e Marcello鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The Journal of the History of Collections Vol. 18, No. 2 (Oxford, England, November 2006): 211-223. 

Article, 鈥淭o Bid Thee Farewell: Commemorative Portrait Depicting Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875)鈥� in WAPACC Organization, Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory Conference Proceedings, ISBN 0-9785461-0-5, pages 86-88, 219-220. 

Article, 鈥淎 New Formula for High Art: The Genesis and Reception of Marcello鈥檚 Pythia鈥�&苍产蝉辫; (Autumn 2003).

Events and/or Key Dates:

Tenure Granted, Fall 2010

Advanced to Associate Professor, Fall 2010

Appointed as Co-Director of the Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Concentration, Fall 2012 (Served two terms, 2012-2015; 2015-2018)

Advanced to Full Professor, Fall 2014

Research Interests:

Nineteenth-and early twentieth-century art, with a focus on European and American sculpture; the social impact of art; women sculptors; cemetery art and material culture; historic house museums and sites; museum studies; fakes, forgeries, and other art crimes.

Awards Recognition, Distinctions and Grants:

PSC-CUNY 48 Research Award, City University of New York Faculty Research Award (2017-2018) 
PSC-CUNY 47 Research Award, City University of New York Faculty Research Award (2016-2017) 
Chancellor鈥檚 Research Fellowship, City University of New York (2014-2015) 
President鈥檚 Faculty Innovation Award, CUNY 911爆料 Community College (2014-2015) 
PSC-CUNY 45 Research Award, City University of New York Faculty Research Award (2014-2015) 
PSC-CUNY 44 Research Award, City University of New York Faculty Research Award (2013-2014) 
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome (2013) 
R茅seaux-Echanges Program, Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland (2012) 
2011 Presidential Grants Fellows Program, CUNY 911爆料 Community College (2011-2012) 
PSC-CUNY 41 Research Award, City University of New York Faculty Research Award (2010-2011) 
PSC-CUNY 40 Research Award, City University of New York Faculty Research Award (2009-2010) 
President鈥檚 Faculty Innovation Award, CUNY 911爆料 Community College (2008-2009) 
PSC-CUNY 39 Research Award, City University of New York Faculty Research Award (2008-2009) 
PSC-CUNY 38 Research Award, City University of New York Faculty Research Award (2007-2008) 
PSC-CUNY 37 Research Award, City University of New York Faculty Research Award (2006-2007) 
IIE Fulbright Fellowship, affiliation with the Universit茅 de Fribourg, Switzerland (2003-2004) 
CUNY Dissertation Year Fellowship, Jewish Foundation for Education of Women (2002-2003) 
R茅seaux-Echanges Program, Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland (2002) 
Resident Fellowship, Swiss Institute for Art Research, Z眉rich (Summer 2001) 
John Rewald Fellowship (2000) 
Spero-Goldreich Fellowship for Dissertations in Sculpture (2000)

Institutional Affiliations / Professional Societies:

AICA 鈥� International Association of Art Critics (AICA, United States Section) 
American Association of University Women (AAUW) 
Association of Art Historians (AHA) 
Association of Historians of 19th-Century Art (AHNCA, Newsletter Editor/Board Member, 2010 to the present) 
Catalogue Raisonn茅 Scholars Association (CRSA) 
College Art Association (CAA) 
International Association for the Conservation and Promotion of Casts (IACPC) 
Italian Art Society (IAS) 
Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association (MAPACA, Former Co-Area Chair, American Studies, 2008 to 2014) 
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA) 
Public Art Dialogue (PAD) 
Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC)

Personal Interests:

French language study 
Gardening
Theater/Film
Twentieth-century music history, esp. Prince Rogers Nelson (1958-2016)

Currently reading the complete 20-novel series Les Rougon-Macquart by Emile Zola (in English)