Branden Wayne Joseph is the Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art in the department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

. Prior to coming to Columbia in the fall of 2006, Joseph taught at the University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...

. He is the author of Random Order: Robert Rauschberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde, contributing author to Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works

Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works

Anthony McCall: The Solid Light Films and Related Works is a nonfiction book on avant-garde artist Anthony McCall and his work in cinema. The book was edited by Christopher Eamon with contributions by Branden W...

and an editor of the journal Grey Room, a multi-disciplinary journal of architecture, art, media and politics. He has published books about Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg

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, Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

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, John Cage

John Cage

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, Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus

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, Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

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, Robert Morris

Robert Morris (artist)

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, Pat O'Neill

Pat O'Neill

Pat O'Neill is an independent experimental filmmaker and artist who has also worked in the special effects industry. Although his work embraces an extremely wide technical and aesthetic scope, he is perhaps best known for his startling, surrealistic, and humorous film compositions achieved through...

, and Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall

Anthony McCall is a British-born American Avant-Garde artist, specializing in cinema/projected film.thumb|Anthony McCall at Gallery Zander , Cologne...

. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Awards

• Coca-Cola Berlin Prize from The American Academy of Berlin

Publications

• Joseph, Branden Wayne. Anthony McCall: the solid light films and related works, with texts by Branden W. Joseph and Jonathan Walley; edited by Christopher Eamon. Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press San Francisco, CA: New Art Trust, 2005. 172 p.: ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. ISBN 0-8101-2318-5
• Joseph, Branden Wayne. Random order: Robert Rauschenberg and the neo-avant-garde, Branden W. Joseph. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2003. xiii, 418 p.: ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0-262-10099-1
• Robert Rauschenberg, edited by Branden W. Joseph; essays by Leo Steinberg ... [et al.]. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2002. 163 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-262-10096-7

External links

• Branden W. Joseph faculty page at Columbia University
• Branden W. Joseph page at MIT Press
• Branden W. Joseph page at FindArticles.com
• InterActivist Info Exchange: Branden W. Joseph, "Interview with Paolo Virno"