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I am an art historian with particular research interests in sexuality, race, gender, women artists, photography, modernism, contemporary art, transnationalism and globalisation. Outside the University I also regularly collaborate on research, teaching and curating with museums and galleries.

I am research lead for the Transnational Modernisms Research Cluster, a Faculty wide research group that regularly hosts conferences, workshops, events and seminars on a variety of related topics, including the major international conference Framing the Critical Decade: After the Black Arts Movement, generously supported by BIRTHA and the Alumni Foundation. I am also General Series Editor for the cluster’s associated Peter Lang book series Transnational Cultures. In spring 2015 I was a visiting fellow at the Pratt Institute, New York. I am also founder member and inaugural Director of the Centre for Black Humanities, an interdisciplinary Faculty research centre established in 2017 and dedicated to researching the histories, art and thought of people of African descent.

I am Editor of Art History, a world-leading journal published by Wiley Blackwell for the Association of Art Historians.

I am currently working on several exhibition projects with external partners. In May 2018 I co-curated, with Chantal Joffe and Michael Simpson, a major exhibition of Chantal’s work in dialogue with Paula Modersohn-Becker, Personal Feeling is the Main Thing at The Lowry, Salford. I am also co-curating several other exhibitions including In Plain Sight: Art in Britain since 1945 and Women, Collage and Pop with Sue Tate, both for the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.

Recent impact from my research on gender and German modernism is evidenced by the award of a contract with Leicestershire City Council and Museums to co-produce a series of expert reports on the German Expressionist holdings of New Walk Museum and Art Gallery. You can watch a film about that research here.

I am a member of the Academic and Exhibitions Advisory Board of the Royal West of England Academy, a Trustee of Spike Island, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and a reviewer for the American Academy in Berlin. I have held research grants from the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, a collaborative doctoral award from the AHRC for a doctoral student to conduct research in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, London and most recently a Tate British Art network award for ‘Black British Art.’

I am currently working on several new publications including two new monographs, New Women, New Vision: Icons of Modernity in Weimar Germany for Reaktion Books and Käthe Kollwitz Between Symbolism and Expressionism, as well as several edited collections including German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter and its Legacies (Manchester University Press), Framing the Critical Decade: After the Black Arts Movement, Weimar’s Others: Art History and Visual Culture in Germany after 1918 (Special Issue of Art History, April 2018) and with Sonia Boyce MBE Black Artists and Modernism: Three Moments (Special Issue of Art History 2020). I have also published numerous articles in the fields of Black, Asian and Diasporic art in Britain, German Expressionism and Weimar culture.

 

Recent Publications

1. 2018

2. Published

   Remaking Society

   Price, D. 4 Jun 2018 Aftermath: Art in the wake of World War One. Chambers, E. (ed.). London: Tate Publishing, London, p.96-121

   Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

3. Published

   Chantal Joffe Personal Feeling is the Main Thing

   Price, D. 17 May 2018

   Non-textual form › Exhibition

4. Published

   Fierce Love

   Price, D. 17 May 2018 Chantal Joffe Personal Feeling is the Main Thing. Joffe, C. & Price, D. (eds.). London: Elephant and Victoria Miro, London, p.11-24

   Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

5. Published

   Journeys

   Price, D. 17 May 2018 Chantal Joffe Personal Feeling is the Main Thing. Joffe, C. & Price, D. (eds.). Elephant and Victoria Miro, London, p.25-106

   Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

6. Published

   Personal Feeling is the Main Thing

   Chantal Joffe & Price, D. 16 May 2018 London: Elephant and Victoria Miro, London.

   Book/Report › Edited book

7. Published

   Whose Art History?

   Price, D. 11 Feb 2018 Art History, 41, 1, p.8-11

   Contribution to specialist publication › Editorial

8. In preparation

   German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter and its Legacies

   Rowe, D. C. 2018 (In preparation) Manchester University Press.

   Book/Report › Edited book

9. 2017

10. Published

    The Splendour and Miseries of Weimar Germany’s New Woman

    Price, D. 27 Oct 2017 Glanz und Elend in der Weimarer Republik. Pfeiffer, I. (ed.). Germany: Hirmer Verlag, p.152-181

    Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

11. Published

    “Between us Sleeps our child – art”: Creativity, identity and the maternal in the works of Marianne von Werefkin and her contemporaries

    Price, D. C. 30 Jan 2017 Marianne Werefkin and the Women Artists in her Circle. Wuensche, I. & Malycheva, T. (eds.). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, p.106-122 (Avant-Garde Critical Studies; vol. 33)

    Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

12. 2016

13. Published

    Beauty on display: Karol Schenker in New York

    Price, D. 8 Sep 2016 Mas­ter of beau­ty: Karl Schenk­er’s gla­m­orous im­ages. Halwani, M. (ed.). Cologne: Walther König

    Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

Media Coverage

Sky Arts, BBC Radio 4, Channel 4 News

Social Media

Country Focus

Germany and United Kingdom

Expertise by Geography

England, Germany

Expertise by Chronology

20th century, 21st century

Expertise by Topic

Art & Architectural History, Urban History, Women, World War I