Alexander Nemerov

Alexander Nemerov teaches and writes on topics of American visual culture from the eighteenth century to the 1960s. He is the author of three books—Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures (University of California Press, 2005), The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812–1824 (University of California Press, 2001), and Frederic Remington and Turn–of–the–Century America (Yale University Press, 1995). He has also written numerous articles, including most recently “The Boy in Bed: The Scene of Reading in N.C. Wyeth’s Wreck of the “Covenant” (Art Bulletin, March 2006) and “The Flight of Form: Auden, Bruegel, and the Turn to Abstraction in the 1940s” (Critical Inquiry, Summer 2005). His forthcoming publications include the essay “Morris Louis: Court Painter of the Kennedy Era” in the upcoming catalogue Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited, which will accompany the High Museum of Art’s Morris Louis exhibition opening in October 2006. His exhibition Frederic Remington and the American Civil War: A Ghost Story, will be on view at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts from June 10 to October 29, 2006. Professor Nemerov’s current project is a book on a single night’s performance of Macbeth during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency.

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