Paul (Monty) Paret, Ph.D.

Paul (Monty) Paret is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Utah where he teaches courses on modern and contemporary art and visual culture. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department of Art and Archaeology. His current research projects concern the Bauhaus school of art and design, the relationship of sculpture to the visual and material culture of modernity, and issues of land use in contemporary art. Paret has published on the sculptors Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Archipenko, sculpture and photography at the Bauhaus, and modernist and surrealist painting in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT. His latest publications include the essay “Picturing Sculpture: Object, Image, Archive,” in Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism, eds. Jeffrey Saletnik and Robin Schuldenfrei (Routledge 2009), and two focus essays on Oskar Schlemmer for the exhibition catalog Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009).

6810 Visual Intersections: Land Art, Earthworks and Experimental Geographies
4495 Senior Seminar: Art and Culture in Weimar Germany
4440 Topics in Modern Sculpture: Body, Object, Image
4430 Art Since 1970
4420 Modern Art and After: 1940s-1970s
4410 Modern Art: 1900-1945
4000 Good Looking: Writing about Visual Art  
3400 Twentieth-Century Art
2500 Introduction to the History of Western Art