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Juliet Koss

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Juliet Koss
AwardsBerlin Prize (2009)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Institutions

Juliet Koss is an American art historian. She is the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Chair in the History of Architecture and Art at Scripps College.[1]

Biography

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Koss received her B.A. from Columbia University in art history and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the history and theory of art and architecture.[1][2] Her research has focused on 19th and 20th century European art with a focus on German and Soviet modernism.[1]

Koss received a Berlin Prize in 2009 to work on her project "The USSR in Construction" that explored the symbolic status of construction during the founding years of the Soviet Union, analyzing works of such figures as Mikhail Bakhtin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Kasimir Malevich.[3][4] She was also a fellow at the Clark Art Institute in 2016.[5] She held the Rudolf Arnheim Visiting Professorship at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2011 and has been a visiting scholar at Harriman Institute at Columbia University.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Faculty Profile | Scripps College in Claremont, California". Academic Experience. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  2. ^ "Bookshelf | Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  3. ^ "Juliet Koss Awarded Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art | Scripps College in Claremont, California". Scripps College News. 2021-09-04. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  4. ^ "Juliet Koss". American Academy. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  5. ^ "Juliet Koss". www.clarkart.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-18.