Kathryn Kramer, Associate Professor of Art History, Modern and Contemporary Art, Critical Theory, (Ph.D. Columbia University)

kramerk@cortland.edu

Kathryn Kramer came to SUNY Cortland in 1997. She received the Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University in 1993. Her dissertation, entitled Mythopoetic Politics in the Late Work of Paul Klee, examined Klee's adaptation of mythical imagery as an aesthetic strategy opposing the visual language of Nazism. Professor Kramer continues her research into the work and career of Klee: her current project focuses upon the marketing of Klee's work by German émigré art dealers in the United States after World War II. Other research interests include the visual construction of German identity under conditions of immigration and exile; the legacies of German Romanticism for 20th-century German art; the social history of cooperative and alternative space galleries in the United States after World War II; the role of cooperative galleries in the United States in the promotion of women's art; and the history of women's art patronage since 1945. Professor Kramer's research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Starr Foundation, and by grants awarded by the research foundations of Columbia University, Purdue University, and SUNY Cortland.

Professor Kramer¹s public lectures include major presentations at conferences of the American Studies Association, College Art Association, German Studies Association, and the Society for German-American Studies. Most recently, she delivered a lecture on revising the introductory art history survey at the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education conference in Boston (March 2001), three lectures on the history of the American Women's Art Movement at Ostrava University in the Czech Republic (March 1999), and a lecture on the patronage practices of the American artist Alice Baber at the Women Art Patrons and Collectors: Past and Present Conference in New York City (March 1999). Professor Kramer's most recent publications include the exhibition catalogue essay for Unquiet Voices: Drawings and Prints by Minna Resnick (Rathbone Gallery, The Sage Colleges, Albany, New York, September, 1999) and the introduction to the chapter on African-American women artists as well as seven encyclopedia entries in Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th-Century Artists in the Americas (Greenwood Press, 1999). She also has published her scholarship in numerous exhibition catalogues, journals, and books, including "Paul Klees œgyptische Idyllen," in Paul Klee: Reisen in den Süden (Gustav Lübcke Museum, 1997) and "Myth, Invisibility, and Politics in the Late Work of Paul Klee" in Languages of Visuality: Crossings between Science, Art, and Literature (Wayne State University Press, 1996).