Tilburg University

Faculty Member, Culture Studies

Assistant Professor

About

Kathryn Brown holds a D.Phil in French (University of Oxford) and a PhD in Art History (University of London). She is a tenured Assistant Professor of Art History at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She is a Rhodes Scholar and has taught and held visiting fellowships at the University of Kent (United Kingdom), the University of British Columbia (Canada), and Tulane University (USA). Her publications span a range of areas including nineteenth and twentieth-century French painting and literature, aesthetics, and contemporary art. Her most recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and American Art. She is the author of Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890 (Ashgate, 2012: ISBN 978-1-4094-0875-8). She is currently  editing and contributing a chapter to a multi-author volume entitled The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe (Ashgate Publishing) and to New Interactive Practices in Contemporary Art (I.B. Tauris).

Brown is currently working on two projects that examine the relationship between poetic language and imagery. The first consists in a monograph study of the livres d'artiste of Henri Matisse. The second concerns the interface between sculpture, documentary photography, and poetry in La Mort et les statues, a book co-published by Jean Cocteau and Pierre Jahan in 1946.

Brown is also working on several projects in the field of contemporary art. These have particular focus on aesthetic issues raised by computer art forms.

Brown is chair of the Modern and Contemporary Art section of the Netherlands Research School in Art History (Onderzoekschool Kunstgeschiedenis) and a member of the International Committee of the College Art Association.

Brown has been awarded a grant by the Shpilman Institute for Photography for the purposes of carrying out research for her project on 'La Mort et les statues by Jean Cocteau and Pierre Jahan'.

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