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Max Loehr Collegiate Professor
Office Location(s): 170D Tappan Hall Office Hours: T 4:30-5:30pm & Th 2-3pm Phone: 734.615.6042 adpotts@umich.edu View Curriculum Vitae
Alex Potts is Max Loehr Collegiate Professor in the Department of History of Art. His work on art and artistic theory ranges over a number of areas - sculptural aesthetics and the history of sculpture, experimental practices and the aesthetics of realism in mid- and later twentieth century art, art and artistic theory in the nineteenth century, and Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment conceptions of the classical ideal. His books include The Sculptural Imagination. Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist (2000) and Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History (1994 and 2000). He co-edited the anthology of texts on modern sculpture, The Modern Sculpture Reader (2007) and was project scholar and wrote the introduction for the new English translation of Winckelmann’s History of the Art of Antiquity (2005) published by the Getty Research Institute. He is currently completing a book on the significance of experimental forms of realism in post-war Europe and America, titled Experiments in Modern Realism c1940-1965. This was the subject of the series of public lectures, the Slade Lectures in Fine Art, he gave at the University of Oxford in 2008, and of the Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures he gave at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 2009.
