Bernard Herman
Art History, University of Delaware
"The Adultery of Mary West and Richard Jones: Writing Material Culture in the Absence of Objects"
Bernard Herman will be coming to speak as part of the
Seminar in New York & American Material Culture Wednesday, December 3, 2008, on; "The Adultery of Mary West and Richard Jones: Writing Material Culture in the Absence of Objects."
Dr. Herman received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the Chair and Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Art History, and a Professor in the Department of History, the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware. A recipient of the University's Excellence in Teaching Award, he offers courses in material culture, vernacular architecture, visual culture, folk and ethnic arts, historic preservation, and critical approaches to the history and interpretation of objects. His books include Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830 (University of North Carolina Press and the Ohmohundro Institute for Early American Culture, 2005) Everyday Architecture of The Mid-Atlantic (Hopkins University Press, 1997. With Gabrielle M. Lanier), The Stolen House (University Press of Virginia, 1992), A Land and Life Remembered: Americo-Liberian Folk Architecture (University of Georgia Press, 1988. With Svend Holsoe, photographs by Max Belcher, afterword by Roger Kingston), and Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware, 1700-1900 (University of Tennessee Press, 1987).
Bernard Herman has been the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and honors including ; the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum (three times: 2005, 1992-3, 1987) for the best book on North American vernacular architecture, an Associate Fellowship of the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2005), a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1996-1997), and the Fred Kniffen Award from the Pioneer American Society (two times: 1997-1998 with Gabrielle M. Lanier, 1992) for the best work, and best-edited work on American material culture, respectively
Currently Dr. Herman is working on three books: Quilts Talking: Conversation and the Art of the Quilt in Gee's Bend, Alabama (University of North Carolina Press), The First Period Houses of the Delaware Valley from the Falls at Trenton to the Capes of Delaware, 1675-1740, and On the Borderlands of Contemporary Art (A collection of linked essays on the place of craft, self-taught, and outsider arts in the contemporary artworld).
Please join us in the Lecture Hall in Bard Hall at 6:30 PM.
Bard Hall is located at 410 West 58th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues in New York City.
RSVP of attendance is required to, academic-events@bgc.bard.edu.
