Annie Bourneuf

Education: BA, magna cum laude, 2001, Harvard University; MA, 2006, PhD, 2011, Princeton University. Awards: 2024-25 Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor in Art History, Williams College; 2020 Dedalus Foundation Senior Fellowship; 2019 David Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship, Leo Baeck Institute; 2016 Robert Motherwell Book Award; 2016 Jean Goldman Book Prize; Felix Gilbert Residential Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers.

My research interests center on modernism, mostly in Central Europe, with an emphasis on its relations with politics, technologies of reproduction, religion, and class. A new project reexamines cultural pessimism.rs around them, such as kissing, hiding, defacing, visualizing, and meditating.

• Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022)
  • Critical Inquiry
  • Commonweal Magazine
  • Hyperallergic
  • New Criterion
• Paul Klee: The Visible and the Legible (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)
• Awarded the 2016 Robert Motherwell Book Award
• Awarded the 2016 Jean Goldman Book Prize

• "Lucia Moholy's Documentation Service." In Lucia Moholy exhibition catalogue, ed. Jordan Troeller (Prague: Kunsthalle Praha, 2024), in press.
• "Type/Face: Wassily Kandinsky and Walter Benjamin on Language and Perception." In German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter and Its Legacies, ed. Dorothy Price, Manchester University Press, 2020
• "Otti Berger's bauhaus picture book." In The Bauhaus and Harvard, ed. Laura Muir, Harvard Art Museums, 2020
• “Interfaces and Proxies: Placing Moholy-Nagy’s Prints,” Leonardo 50, no. 3 (2017), special section “In Focus: László Moholy-Nagy,” ed. Maria Kokkori, Joyce Tsai, and Francesca Casadio
• "An Art of Privacy?: Wilhelm Hausenstein on Paul Klee." In Paul Klee: Making Visible exhibition catalogue, ed. Matthew Gale, Tate Modern (London: Tate Publishing, 2013).
  Republished in Painting: Critical and Primary Sources, ed. Beth Harland and Sunil Manghani (London: Bloomsbury, 2015)
• "Picasso, Braque, and the Uses of the Print, 1910-1912." In Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-12 exhibition catalogue, ed. Eik Kahng, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).
• "'Radically Uncolorful Painting': Walter Benjamin and the Problem of Cubism." In Grey Room 39 (Spring 2010), special issue on Walter Benjamin's Media Tactics: Optics, Perception, and the Work of Art, ed. Michael W. Jennings and Tobias Wilke.
• "A Refuge for Script: Paul Klee's Square Pictures." In Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse, and Modernism, ed. Robin Schuldenfrei and Jeffrey Saletnik (London and New York: Routledge, 2009).

• Justice Henderson (2023), "Ed Clark's 'Reactions' to Paris and New York, 1952-66"
• Samantha Adams (2021), “Ambivalent Images, or Tracing Repetition Compulsion in the Visual Vocabulary of Georges Bataille’s Editing of Documents Magazine, 1929-1930”
• Gunnar Olseth (2021), “Touch and Vision in Claude Cahun's Irrational Objects”