Celeste Brusati Professor and Chair U of M Affiliation(s) Women's Studies PhD University of California, Berkeley

Celeste Brusati is Professor in the Department of the History of Art and the Program in Women's Studies. Her research focuses on the art and culture of the Netherlands in the early modern period, with special attention to the role of the pictorial arts in the making of Dutch history and culture. She has written on still life, trompe l'oeil, self-imagery, technologies of seeing, ideologies of art and gender, and the interplay of pictorial and textual discourses of art in the Netherlands. Her current work examines fictions of viewing and their functions in Dutch still life and genre painting.

Books:

Artifice and Illusion. The Art and Writing of Samuel van Hoogstraten. University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Johannes Vermeer. (Rizzoli Art Series), Rizzoli, 1993.

Articles in Journals:

"Stilled Lives. Self-Portraiture and Self-Reflection in Seventeenth
Century Netherlandish Still Life Painting," Simiolus 20:2/3 (1990-91), pp. 168-82.

"Pictura's Excellent Trophies: Valorizing Virtuous Artisanship in the Dutch Republic," Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 54, 2003.

Articles in Books:

"Honorable Deceptions and Dubious Distinctions: Trompe-l'oeil Self- Imagery." Blændværker. Gijsbrechts–kongernes illusionsmester/ Illusions: Gijsbrechts–Royal Master of Deception, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, September-December, 1999, pp. 49-73.

"Capitalizing on the Counterfeit: Trompe-l'oeil Negotiations." Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, June-September, 1999; and Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, October 1999-January 2000, pp. 59-71.

"Natural Artifice and Material Values in Dutch Still Life." Looking at Dutch Art: Realism Reconsidered, ed. Wayne Franits, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 144-57.