Profile
Art faculty
 
 
Michael E. Klein
AssociateProfessor
270 745 5887
michael.klein@wku.edu
Ivan Wllson Center for Fine Arts 454
 
   
 
   
    Education
 
  1962 B.A. Rutgers University
  1965 M.A. Columbia University
  1971 Ph.D. Columbia University
   
    Publications
 
  “John Covert’s Time, Cubism, Duchamp, Einstein, A Quasi-Scientific Fantasy, “ Art Journal, Summer, XXXIII/4, Summer 1974
  “The Scotese Collection, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina,” Southeastern College Art Conference Journal, VII/2, Fall 1974
  John Covert, 1882-1960. Catalog of Exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976
  “John Covert and the Arensberg Circle: Cubism, Dadaism, Proto-surrealism,” Arts Magazine, May, LI/9, 1977
  “John Covert’s Studios in 1916 and 1923: Two Views into the Past,” Art Journal, XXXIX/1, Fall 1979
     
    Papers Delivered at Professional Conferences
     
    “John Covert’s Studios in 1916 and 1923: Two Views into the Past,” Southeastern College Art Conference, College of Charleston, South Carolina, November 1976
    “Hannibal and Napoleon, Carthage and England: Classical and Contemporary Sources for J.M.W. Turner’s Hannibal Crossing the Alps,” Southeastern College Art Conference, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, November 1982
    “Was Turner a Radical? Classical, Medieval and Contemporary Sources for Turner’s Hannibal Crossing the Alps,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, 1988
    “The Art of Arnold Friedman,” Midwest Art History Society, University of Kansas, Lawrence, April 1991
    “The Life and Art of Arnold Friedman,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Memphis State University, Tennessee, October-November 1991
    “The Art and Life of Arnold Friedman,” University of Louisville, April 1992
    “John Covert’s Time Considered Again: E.E. Southard and Relativity,” Symposium on Visual Culture and Science Since the Enlightenment, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, April 1996
    “John Covert’s Time Considered Again: E.E. Southard and Relativity,” Midwest Art History Society, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 2000
    “Arnold Friedman’s Still Lifes: Pastoralism and Puritanism in the Ghetto,” Midwest Art History Society, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, April 2001
    “Meyer Schapiro and the Jewish Factor,” Midwest Art History Society, University of Pittsburgh, April 2003
     
    Grants, Honoraria, Seminars
     
    Visiting Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Summer 1975
    National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, Stanford University, Albert Elsen, “The Artist’s Profession, Antiquity to the Present, 1979
    National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1980
     
    Courses Taught
   
  Survey of Ancient and Medieval
Survey of Renaissance, Baroque and Modern
Nineteenth Century Art
Twentieth Century Art
Baroque Art
Greek and Roman Art
Contemporary Art
Theory and Criticism
Undergraduate Seminar in Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
American Art