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Jack Edinger

Program Coord
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
114 S Buchanan Blvd, Smith Warehouse Bay 11 Room A240, Durham, NC 27708
Duke University Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766

Selected Publications


Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan

Book · 2023 Gas Mask Nation explores the multilayered construction of an anxious yet perversely pleasurable visual culture of Japanese civil air defense—or bōkū—through a diverse range of artworks, photographs, films and newsreels, magazine illustrations, postcards, c ... Cite

Imagining Sculpture

Book · 2022 There was no Sculpture in China. Imagining Sculpture is the story of this something that did not exist. Imagining Sculpture is a series of short vignettes, historical and fictional... ... Cite

The Aesthetics of Reaction: Tradition, Identity and the Visual Arts in France, c. 1900-1914

Book · December 31, 2021 A study of cultural conservatism and the radical right in pre-war France. ... Cite

Visualizing Venice: Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City

Book · 2018 Visualizing Venice presents the ways in which the use of innovative technology can provide new and fascinating stories about places and times within history. Written by those behind the Visualizing Venice project, this book explores the variety of discipli ... Cite

Concerning Consequences Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma

Book · March 21, 2016 The essays in this book focus primarily on performance art and photography. ... Cite

Preaching, Building, and Burying

Book · June 1, 2014 Choir screens served as temporary west façades while funds were raised for completion. This is the first book to analyze the friars’ influence on the growth and transformation of medieval buildings and urban spaces. ... Cite

WXDU 88.7 FM 30th Anniversary Archive

Internet Publication · 2014 Digital preservation archive of historical print media from the collection of WXDU Durham 88.7 FM Duke University Radio in celebration of the station's 30th anniversary. ... Link to item Cite

WXDU 88.7 FM 30th Anniversary Archive

Internet Publication · 2014 Digital preservation archive of historical print media from the collection of WXDU Durham 88.7 FM Duke University Radio in celebration of the station's 30th anniversary. ... Link to item Cite

New Program Connects Arts with Science

Other Duke Today · October 24, 2013 Carved into 15,000 square feet of sleek, remodeled space in bays 10 and 11 on the second floor of Smith Warehouse, this new program provides space for seven ongoing Duke projects... ... Link to item Cite

Vorticism New Perspectives

Book · October 2013 Vorticism addresses the seminal innovations in theatre, literature and poetry as well as Vorticist painting, sculpture, print making, and photography that encompassed the Vorticism art movement. ... Cite

Imaging Disaster Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923

Book · November 14, 2012 Imaging Disaster is a rich social history of Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. ... Cite

Le Palais du Luxembourg de Marie de Médicis, 1611-1631

Book · 2012 Marie de Médicis, veuve d'Henri IV, commande à la mort de ce dernier un fastueux palais parisien sur la rive gauche de la Seine. Exemplaire par son projet politique, son architecture et ses ornements, ce palais, remanié au xixe siècle, deviendra un modèle ... Cite

Creative Movement

Other Duke Magazine · September 1, 2011 With high-visibility projects like the Nasher Museum, Duke has injected new money and energy into the arts. But its ambitions are greater — to transform the campus culture. ... Link to item Cite

Cyclists Making Durham Bike-Friendly

Other The Durham Flyer · March 1, 2008 The Durham Flyer is a monthly publication dedicated to coverage of the Durham community. ... Cite

Cutting a Figure Fashioning Black Portraiture

Book · 2008 Examining portraits of black people over the past two centuries, Cutting a Figure argues that these images should be viewed as a distinct category of portraiture that differs significantly from depictions of people with other racial and ... ... Cite

Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI) Curriculum Unit

Book · 2008 The K-12 EEI Curriculum uses the environment as a context to help students learn science and history-social science. It is a model to demonstrate how to integrate environmental literacy into instruction. ... Link to item Cite

States of Mind Dan & Lia Perjovschi

Book · 2007 Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'States of mind: Dan and Lia Perjovschi, ' Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Aug. 22, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008. ... Cite