Scholars@Duke
Dore Bowen

Dore Bowen

Research Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
A262 Bay 10 Smith Warehouse, 114 South Buchanan Blvd., Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works

Húslestur - House Reading with Kristín Ómarsdóttir and Katie Donovan

Artistic production · November 21, 2025 This was a curated reading in Icelandic and English. Also with the participation of Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir ... Cite

With One Eye on the Wild: Michael Ann Holly and The Wolf of Gubbio

Book section · July 29, 2025 Featured Publication For this exciting volume, more than a dozen of the top art historians working today were invited to think creatively about writing art history while engaging in intellectual conversation with Holly. ... Open Access Cite

Grace Hartigan and Her Poets

Other Brooklyn Rail · July 1, 2025 A review of the exhibition "Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention" at the North Carolina Museum of Art from April 12 to August 10, 2025 ... Link to item Cite

A Tribute to William Graham Anthony (1934-2022)

Other Brooklyn Rail · April 2023 A Tribute to the artist William Anthony ... Link to item Cite

The Art of the Anthropological Diorama: Franz Boas, Arthur C. Parker, and Constructing Authenticity, by Noémie Étienne

Book review Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art · October 11, 2022 Review of The Art of the Anthropological Diorama: Franz Boas, Arthur C. Parker, and Constructing Authenticity, by Noémie Étienne ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Their Porous Body: On Bruce Nauman’s San Jose Installation, Infrastructure, and the Experience of Time

Book section · May 4, 2021 This book analyses this modification of perception through phenomenological approaches convoking Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, as well as Levinas, Depraz, and the neuroscientist Varela. ... Cite

Introducting Berghall

Artistic production · 2021 Link to item Cite

Paper Airplanes: An Interview with Akram Zaatari—Artist, Archivist and Curator

Book section · June 23, 2020 "The spectrum of contemporary nonfiction films from the MENA region is huge, as can be seen from a cursory glance at the catalogs of many international and local festivals. ... Open Access Cite

Lydia Ourahmane @ CCA Wattis

Other Square Cylinder · March 2, 2020 Exhibition Review ... Link to item Cite

"Slant Step Forward" at Verge Center for the Arts

Other Art in America · January 2020 Exhibition Review ... Link to item Cite

Bruce Nauman Spatial Encounters

Book · January 8, 2019 The first book devoted solely to Bruce Nauman’s corridors and other architectural installations, Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters deftly explores the significance of these works in the development of his singular art practice, examining ... ... Cite

Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts at MOMA and MOMA/PS1

Other Art in America · January 2019 Exhibition Review ... Link to item Cite

Une belle banalité : entretien avec Dan Graham

Journal article Culture et Musees · December 31, 2018 Full text Open Access Cite

On the site of her own exclusion: strategizing queer feminist art history

Book section · 2016 While feminist art history and queer theory both have a strong presence in academic discourse, there is no clear existing queer feminist art history. This book examines how and why this is the case. ... Open Access Cite

Fluxus

Book section · 2014 Surveys "the full breadth of critical thought on art, culture, and society --from classical philosophy to contemporary critical theory"; includes coverage of international aesthetics, modern aesthetics, new media such as computer art, and ... ... Link to item Cite

The Diorama Effect: Gas, Politics, and Opera in the 1825 Paris Diorama

Journal article Intermedialites / Intermediality · 2014 The diorama on the rue Sanson in Paris (1822–39) created a blended image by rotating the auditorium between two tableaux, each painted back and front and illuminated with colored light to create a sense of animation. What I call the “diorama effect” is the ... Full text Open Access Cite

Early Man on a Modern Road

Artistic production · 2009 Five-part exhibition/intervention at the Musee de Prehistoire des gorges du Verdon in Quinson, France. ... Cite

This Bridge Called Imagination: On Reading the Arab Image Foundation and Its Collection

Journal article In Visible Culture: an electronic journal for visual culture · 2008 Link to item Cite

Archival Lounge

Artistic production · 2008 Performance/installation with San José State MFA students, at the symposium "Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice" at the University of California, Santa Cruz ... Cite

The Function of Dysfunction

Journal article Switch · 2007 Link to item Cite

Soit dit en passant

Artistic production · 2005 Cite

Perfography: Projecting Personae

Artistic production · 2004 Cite

Hysteria and the Helio-trope: On Bodies, Gender and the Photograph

Journal article Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism · 1999 Link to item Cite

Exquisite Correspondence: A Dialogue with Whitney Chadwick

Journal article Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism · 1999 Full text Link to item Cite