Karen Carter

Karen Carter

Professor of Art History
Art History
Phone: (616) 259-1250
Email: [email protected]

Education

• PhD, University of Chicago, Art History
• MA, University of South Carolina, Art History, Modern Art
• BA, University of South Carolina, Art History and History (double major), Modern Art

Biography

Dr. Carter received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Art History. She has received grants and fellowships from the University of Chicago, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Getty Research Institute, the French-American Foundation, the Library of Congress (Kluge Fellowship), and the National Endowment for the Humanities among others.

Publications and Intellectual Contributions

• Book Chapter
  Carter, K. L. (2023). “Confronting Racial Stereotypes in Graphic Design History,” In J. Kaufmann-Buhler (Ed.), V. R. Pass (Ed.), C. Wilson (Ed.), Design History Beyond the Canon. (Paperback). pp. 129-144. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
• Exhibition and catalogue review
  Carter, K. L. (2022). "Review of Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret (exhibition and catalogue)," NIneteenth-Century Art Worldwide. 21 (3). pp. 283-91. https://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn22/carter-reviews-always-new-the-posters-of-jules-cheret
• Journal Article
  Carter, K. L. (2020). “Les réseaux d’affichage à Paris, 1880-1905” ("Networks of Poster Displays in Paris, 1880-1915)," In J. Schuh (s.), Le Magasin du XIXe siècle. 10 (2020). pp. 55-62. Éditions Champ Vallon for the Société des études romantiques et dix-neuviemistes. https://serd.hypotheses.org/magasin-du-xixe-siecle
• Book Chapter
  Carter, K. L. (2019). “Confronting Racial Stereotypes in Graphic Design History,” In J. Kaufmann-Buhler (Ed.), V. R. Pass (Ed.), C. Wilson (Ed.), Design History Beyond the Canon. pp. 129-144. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
• Online Essay
  Carter, K. (2017). “Advertising in Nineteenth-Century America, c.1860-1920,” Trade Catalogues and the American Home (database) Malborough: Adam Matthew Digital. http://www.tradecatalogues.amdigital.co.uk
• Exhibition Review
  Carter, K. L. (2017). "Review of “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” at the Walker Art Center," Design and Culture. 9 (1). pp. 96-8. Taylor and Francis/Informa UK. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfdc20
• Journal Article
  Carter, K. (2015). “’Masterpieces for Rag-Pickers’: Working-Class Crowds, Collective Spectatorship, and the Censorship of Posters in late 19th-century Paris,” Space and Culture. 18 (4). pp. 358-71. Sage Journals.
• Edited volume
  (2015). "Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914: Strangers in Paradise," In K. L. Carter (Ed.), S. Waller (Ed.),
• Book Chapter
  (2015). "Introduction, Strangers in Paradise: Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914," In K. L. Carter (Ed.), S. Waller (Ed.), Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914: Strangers in Paradise. pp. 1-26. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
• Book Chapter
  Carter, K. (2015). “’Earning a Living’ in the International Graphic Arts: The Académie Julian and the Teaching of Poster Design and Illustration, 1890–1914,” Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914: Strangers in Paradise. pp. 53-65. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing.

Presentations

• Oral Presentation
  Carter, K., Midwest Art History Society, “Maximilien Luce and Urban Landscapes of Collective Memory in the Third Republic," Midwest Art History Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (March 30, 2023).
• Lecture
  Carter, K. L. (Author & Presenter), Members' Preview Lecture, Milwaukee Art Museum, "Jules Chéret and Posters in Fin-de-siècle Paris," MIlwaukee Art Museum, MIlwaukee, Wisconsin, (June 2, 2022).
• Paper
  Carter, K. L. (Author & Presenter), Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium (theme: Enchantment/Disenchantment), “Maximilien Luce’s La Rue Mouffetard: Paris as Spectacle and Disenchantment,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Sarasota, FL, (October 31, 2019).
• Paper
  Carter, K. L., Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium (theme: Celebrity/Obscurity), “Mapping the Display of Posters in Marginalized Spaces of Paris, 1881–1905,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Manhattan Beach, CA, (October 26, 2018).
• Oral Presentation
  Carter, K. (Co-Chair), Pass, V. R. (Co-Chair), College Art Association Conference, "Panel Co-chairperson: “Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Appropriation in the History of Design,” College Art Association (CAA), Los Angeles, CA, (February 23, 2018).
• Paper
  Carter, K., Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, “Paris, Capital of Nineteenth-Century Lithography: The Centennaire de la Lithographie Exhibition within a Colonial Economy,” Brown University and NCFS, Providence, Rhode Island, (October 27, 2016).
• Paper
  Carter, K., SECAC, “Confronting Racial and Sexist Stereotypes in Design History,” SECAC, Roanoke, Virginia, (October 21, 2016).
• Oral Presentation
  Carter, K., O'Brien, D. (Coordinator/Organizer), Society for French Historical Studies Conference, "Panel chair and commentator for “Mobilizing Art: Prints and Posters in World War I France,” Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS), Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee), (March 5, 2016).
• Paper
  Carter, K., Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium (theme: Contamination), “’Contamination through the Eyes’: The Censorship of Illustrated Posters in Fin-de-siècle Paris,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS), Princeton, NJ, (November 6, 2015).
• Paper
  Carter, K. L. (Author), College Art Association Conference, “The Transatlantic Influence of the Académie Julian on American Illustration, 1890–1914,” College Art Association (CAA), New York, NY, (February 11, 2015).