Julie Johnson
Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary Art History Museum Studies, Art and Art History
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Ph.D. University of Chicago. Julie M. Johnson joined UTSA in 2007. She has held Fulbright and IFK residential fellowships in Vienna and was a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar during the 2020-21 academic year. She is the author of numerous essays on women artists and a book, The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 (Purdue University Press, 2012). Courses taught: Contemporary Art, Women Artists, Gender Issues in Art, Vienna 1900, Central European Art, Art Nouveau, The Art Museum, Histories of Display, Research Methods, Themes in Contemporary Art: Suburbia and Domesticity, Surveys of Western Art, World of Vermeer (online only), and Art & the Holocaust (online only, new in F21).Research Interests
- Modern and Contemporary
- Vienna 1900
- Women Artists
- Museum Studies
Degrees
- Ph.D. Art History, University of Chicago (1998)
- M.A. Art History, University of Iowa (1988)
Honors and Awards
- https://cla.umn.edu/austrian/announcement/congratulations-julie-m-johnson-winner-2020-rath-prize
- https://www.neh.gov/news/two-utsa-art-history-faculty-members-win-coveted-neh-awards
Publications
BOOK
The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2012) (series edited by Gary Cohen).
Journal articles, chapters in edited volumes
“The Combinatorial Creativity of Broncia Koller-Pinell (1863-1934) and Heinrich Schröder (1881-1942): Integrating French and Viennese Modernisms”, in Broncia Koller-Pinell’s Network, Vienna Belvedere Museum of Austrian Art, forthcoming, Fall 2023.
“Between Media – Registering Practices of Knowing,” in Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Works from the Collection of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, ed Stefanie Kitzberger, Cosima Rainer, and Linda Schädler (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023), 133-151. (invited)
“Zwischen den Medien – Erkenntnismethoden erfassen,” in Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Werke aus der Sammlung der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, ed. Stefanie Kitzberger, Cosima Rainer, and Linda Schädler (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023), 133-151. (invited, translation of above)
“The Other Legacy of Vienna 1900: The Ars Combinatoria of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,”
Austrian History Yearbook 51 (2020): 243-268.
“Painting the Margins: Tina Blau and the Spaces of Modernity,” Woman’s Art Journal Spring/Summer 2020, vol. 41, no. 1: 30-38.
“The Silencing of the Past,” in Sabine Fellner, ed., Stadt der Frauen/City of Women, exh. cat. Belvedere, Vienna, January 25, 2019-May 19, 2019 (Munich, London and New York: Prestel, 2018), 37-50 also with translation “Getilgte Geschichte,” 31-42. (invited) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/belvedere-recognizes-unheralded-female-artists-early-20th-century-vienna-180971361/
“The Artist Residency: Intersections of Self and Place at Artpace,” International Review of African American Art, vol. 27, no. 1 (2018), special issue edited by Scott Sherer, pp. 2-1.
“Malen an der Peripherie: Tina Blau und die Räume der Moderne” (Painting the Margins: Tina Blau and the Spaces of Modernity), in Markus Fellinger and Agnes Husslein-Arco, eds., Tina Blau, Vienna: Austrian Gallery Belvedere, December 16, 2016-April 9, 2017
‘‘The Streets of Vienna are Paved with Culture, the Streets of other Cities with Asphalt”: Museums and Material Culture in Vienna—A Comment,” Austrian History Yearbook 46 (2015), pp. 89-96.
Contributor and co-editor (with Pieter Judson), “Forum on Museums and Material Culture in Vienna,” Austrian History Yearbook 46 (2015), 29-105.
“Women Artists and Portraiture in Vienna 1900,” in Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900, ed. Gemma Blackshaw. Exh. Cat. London, National Gallery of Art, October 9, 2013-January 12, 2014 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 133-154.
“Separation and Erasure: The Fate of Women Artists in Vienna 1900,” in Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914, ed. Temma Balducci and Heather Jensen (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), 241-256; Rereleased as paperback by Routledge, 2017.
“The Ephemeral Museum of Old Mistresses: A Tale of Two Exhibitions,” in 100 Jahre/Years VBKÖ Festschrift, ed. Rudolfine Lackner (Vienna: Austrian Association of Women Artists, 2011), 75- 96.
“The Invisible Foremother: Rediscovering Helene Funke,” Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 29, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2008), 33-40.
“Theater as Therapy in the Asylum at Mauer-Öhling: The Fin-de-Siècle Realization of a Romantic Dream?,” in Rebecca Thomas, ed., Madness and Crime in Modern Austria: Myth, Metaphor and Cultural Realities (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), 196-216. Invited from conference proceedings, peer reviewed.
“Helene Funke’s Still Lifes: Looking at the Overlooked” (in German “Helene Funkes Stillleben: Ein Blick auf das Übersehene”), in Helene Funke 1869-1957, ed. Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (May 4-September 11, 2007), 133-141.
“Writing, Erasing, Silencing: Tina Blau and the (Woman) Artist’s Biography,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, vol. 4, no. 3 (autumn 2005).
“The Embodied Gaze: Contemporary Art and the Museum Culture of Vienna," Blueprints for No-Man’s Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture, ed. Janet Stewart and Simon Ward (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004), 29-56.
*“Athena Goes to the Prater: Parodying Ancients and Moderns at the Vienna Secession,” Oxford Art Journal vol. 26, no. 2 (2003), 47-70. Double-anonymous peer-reviewed journal article
“The Return to Beauty in Contemporary Art and Art History,” in “A Place for Beauty,” eds. M. Sowder and A. Johnson, Rendezvous 36:1 (Spring 2003), pp. 1-21.
“From Brocades to Silks and Powders: Women's Art Exhibitions and the Formation of a Gendered Aesthetic in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna," Austrian History Yearbook 28 (Winter 1997), pp. 269-292.
“Schminke und Frauenkunst,” Die Frauen der Wiener Moderne, ed. Lisa Fischer and Emil Brix (Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, 1997), 167-178.
