mark a. meadow, associate professor

curriculum vitae

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B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Professor Meadow is the author of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric, 2002 and the editor of several volumes, including translations and critical editions of Symon Andriessoon's 1550 Duytsche adagia ofte spreeckwoorden, Hilversum, 2003 and Samuel Quiccheberg's 1565 Inscriptiones vel tituli theatri amplissimi, Los Angeles, forthcoming. A specialist in Northern European art of the early-modern period, Prof. Meadow has particular interests in the histories of rhetoric and collecting and in early-modern ritual and spectacle. As Co-Director of The Microcosms Project, Prof. Meadow is investigating the history, functions and future of the material collections in the contemporary university.  He recently founded Proteus: Studies in Identity Formation in Early-Modern Image-Text-Ritual-Habitat, a new book series with Brepols Publishers in Belgium.

undergraduate courses

15th Century Netherlandish Painting
16th Century Netherlandish Painting
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Museum Theory (Undergraduate Seminar)
Art Survey II:  Renaissance-Baroque
15th Century Netherlandish Painting

graduate seminar

2001 - 2002      Wonder and the Wunderkammer
2002 - 2003      Museum Practice:  University Art Museum Renaissance Gallery
2003 - 2004      Collecting Value: Toward a New Theory of Dynamic Value in
                         the Museum (Getty Consortium Seminar)
2004 - 2005      The Broken Frame