Lewis Kachur
Areas of Expertise
Professor Kachur is a world-class scholar and teacher. His teaching has been recognized with a Fulbright lectureship at Osaka University, Japan. He creates a webpage for each class, and leads all students on visits to area museums and galleries.
His book, Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibition Installations was recently hailed as “deeply descriptive in the best sense of the word. His comprehensive sketches of each event walk the reader not only through the space and contents of the different exhibitions, but through the planning, publicity, and aftermath of each event… His book remains a significant contribution to both avant-garde studies and the history of exhibitions.” It remains in print with MIT Press. His recent book is Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection. Further research on exhibition histories are in progress.
He has organized three exhibitions with catalogs at Kean, two together with students, most recently Past Pop: Robert Rauschenberg and James Rosenquist Graphics of the 1970s http://www.kean.edu/~gallery/docs/Rausch_Rosen%201970s.pdf
Among his dozens of essays, articles and reviews are two commissioned catalog essays from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, most recently ““Beethoven Symphonies on the Accordion”: Georges Braque’s Musical Instruments,” Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection, NY, 2014. His catalog essay “Der Arp ist da: Exhibition Presence and Display Practice,” will be published in the catalog The Nature of Arp at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, opening Sept. 15, 2018.
Last November was particularly busy, with scholarly lectures in London and Paris. “The “Dalí / Duchamp dialog in the exhibition sphere,” was delivered at a symposium at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, followed by “D’Arcy Galleries and New York Late Surrealism: Duchamp, Johns, Rauschenberg,“ at a symposium at the German Forum for Art History (DFK), Paris.
Kachur has also lectured at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Institute of Education, London, Musée Picasso Paris, and numerous Universities.
Summary
Professor Kachur is a world-class scholar and teacher. His teaching has been recognized with a Fulbright lectureship at Osaka University, Japan. He creates a webpage for each class, and leads all students on visits to area museums and galleries.
His book, Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibition Installations was recently hailed as “deeply descriptive in the best sense of the word. His comprehensive sketches of each event walk the reader not only through the space and contents of the different exhibitions, but through the planning, publicity, and aftermath of each event… His book remains a significant contribution to both avant-garde studies and the history of exhibitions.” It remains in print with MIT Press. His recent book is Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection. Further research on exhibition histories are in progress.
He has organized three exhibitions with catalogs at Kean, two together with students, most recently Past Pop: Robert Rauschenberg and James Rosenquist Graphics of the 1970s http://www.kean.edu/~gallery/docs/Rausch_Rosen%201970s.pdf
Among his dozens of essays, articles and reviews are two commissioned catalog essays from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, most recently ““Beethoven Symphonies on the Accordion”: Georges Braque’s Musical Instruments,” Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection, NY, 2014. His catalog essay “Der Arp ist da: Exhibition Presence and Display Practice,” will be published in the catalog The Nature of Arp at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, opening Sept. 15, 2018.
Last November was particularly busy, with scholarly lectures in London and Paris. “The “Dalí / Duchamp dialog in the exhibition sphere,” was delivered at a symposium at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, followed by “D’Arcy Galleries and New York Late Surrealism: Duchamp, Johns, Rauschenberg,“ at a symposium at the German Forum for Art History (DFK), Paris.
Kachur has also lectured at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Institute of Education, London, Musée Picasso Paris, and numerous Universities.
Kachur teaches courses in Modern art, Contemporary art and the History of Photography. He is coordinator of internships in the arts.
Advice for students: In today’s visually bombarded media environment, everyone needs approaches to analyzing and understanding visual messages.
Advice for students contemplating a minor in art history: Our program is global and cutting edge. With a strong reputation in the region, Kean art history program graduates have gotten jobs in arts management, galleries, museums, auction houses, cultural centers, corporate collections, and web design, and have gone on to successful graduate work at Montclair, Rutgers, Seton Hall, City University of NY, Hunter College, among others.
[1] Floyd, Kathryn M. "Writing the Histories of Dada and Surrealist Exhibitions: Problems and Possibilities." Dada/Surrealism 21 (2017): n. pag. Web. http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1327&context=dadasur