Reesa Greenberg
Encyclopedia
Reesa Greenberg is an independent scholar
, museum consultant, and writer with an intense interest in cultural theory
and the theory of exhibition and museum practices. She has translated these interests into a variety of contributions within the academic and museum communities.
She is currently an Adjunct Professor
at York University
in Toronto, Ontario
(Canada) and Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec
(Canada).
In addition to publishing numerous essays on contemporary Canadian art and artists, she has written extensively on the theory and practice of exhibition experience in the contemporary museum, most notably in in the book Thinking about Exhibitions (1996), that she co-edited with Sandy Nairne
and Bruce W. Ferguson.
2008 "Editing the Image: Strategies in the Production and Reception of the Visual" (Conference on Editorial Problems), eds. Mark Cheetham, Elizabeth Legge (Catherine M. Soussloff, Toronto: University of Toronto
Press
2007, "The Currency of Time: Muntadas and I Giardini," CIEL VARIABLE No. 77, Winter. p. 10-12.
2007, "La représentation muséale des génocides: Guérison ou traumatisme réactualisé?," Gradhiva, No. 5, p. 77 - 83.
2006, Aesthetics of Trauma: five installations of Charlotte Salomons "Life as Theatre" Reading Charlotte Salomon
, Michael P. Steinberg and Monica Bohm-Duchen Editors, Cornell University Press
, Ithaca and London. p. 148 – 166
2006 "Closets and Collectors" Reesa Greenberg, De Witte Raaf, 121 May.
2005 "Redressing history: Partners and the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection," Reesa Greenberg for Kritische Berichte.
2005 "Identity Exhibitions: From Magiciens de la terre to Documenta 11." Art Journal. Spring 2005. Vol.64, No.1. 90-94.
2004 "From Wall to Web: Displaying Art Stolen from Jews by Hitler" in Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture, and Interpretation, Anthony Kiendl, ed., Banff Centre
Press, 92-109.
2003 "The Jewish Museum
, Vienna: A Holographic Paradigm for History and the Holocaust" in Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust, Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz, eds. Indiana University Press,235-250.
2003 "Beauty, Magic, Points of View, "Canadian Art, Winter 2003, Vol.20, No. 4, 76-81.
2003 "Museums and Money," Racar/XXVIII, 2001–2003,83-85.
2002 "Jews, Museums and National Identities," Ethnologies, Vol.24, No.2, 125-137.
2002 "Lamentations: The Use of Visual Art in Exhibitions Related to World War II
and the Holocaust in Canadian Museums at the Beginning of a New Millennium" in Loren Singer, ed., Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature, Montreal: The Concordia University for Canadian Jewish Studies
, 188-201.
2001 "Playing it Safe: The Display of Transgressive Art in the Museum" in Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery in Recent Art, Norman Kleeblatt, ed., Rutgers University Press
, 85-95.
2000 "Private Collectors, Museums, Display: a post-Holocaust perspective" Jong Holland, 1, 29-41.
2000 "Die Asthetik des Traumas: Zur Darstellung des Holocaust in Judischen Historischen Museen" in Denkmale und kulturelles Gedächtnis nach dem Ende der Ost-West-Konfrontation, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper and Edward von Voolen, eds., Berlin, Jovis, 2000, 227-238.
1998 "Defining Canada," Collapse, #3, 95-118.
1997 "Mapping International Exhibitions," with Bruce Ferguson & Sandy Nairne
, Art & Design, No.52, 30-37.
1996 Thinking about Exhibitions, co-ed. with Sandy Nairne
and Bruce W. Ferguson.
1995 "The Exhibition as Discursive Event" in Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, Site Santa Fe, 118-125.
1994 "The Exhibited Redistributed: A Case for Reassessing Space" in Exhibited, Bard College
, Annadale-on Hudson, 17-38; Reprinted in BE, 2, Nov., 1994 (Berlin) in English and translated into German and Russian; Reprinted in Thinking about Exhibitions, 1996.
1993 "Barbara Steinman's A Lapse in Logic" in A Lapse in Logic, The Art Gallery
of Windsor. (exhibition catalogue)
1992 "Idées-chocs," in Museums: Rethinking The Future, ICOM, 22-24.
1992 "Objects of Curiostity: Photographs of Museums," De la Curiosité: Petite anatomie d'un regard, Montréal, 69-83. Reprinted in Trois, vol. 7, nos. 2-3, Hiver-Printemps, 69-83.
1992 "Dedans/Dehors: les femmes, les musées et la fausse publicité," Musée, vol.14, no.1, Mars, 22-27.
1988 "Inside/Outside: Remapping Art History" in Critical Paths, Renée Baert, ed. Montréal, 20-21.
1986 "MOMA and Modernism: The Frame Game," Parachute, #42, March, April, May, 21-31.
1986 "Problems with Picasso: Fe-male and the Phallus," C Magazine, No.8, January, February, March, 19-24.
1985 "Begging the Question: A Review in Two Voices," co-authored with Bella Rabinovitch, C Magazine, No.7, Fall, 58-60. (exhibition review)
Reading Charlotte Solomon: http://books.google.ca/books?id=Ctd8MgGWpIoC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=Reading+Charlotte+Solomon&source=web&ots=7q4EnViiT_&sig=C3cWNmqJACPl3IeuYXOMo0G7zXg&hl=en
Independent scholar
An independent scholar is anyone who conducts scholarly research outside universities and traditional academia. Independent scholars play an especially important role in areas such as art history and other humanities fields...
, museum consultant, and writer with an intense interest in cultural theory
Culture theory
Culture theory is the branch of anthropology and semiotics that seeks to define the heuristic concept of culture in operational and/or scientific terms....
and the theory of exhibition and museum practices. She has translated these interests into a variety of contributions within the academic and museum communities.
She is currently an Adjunct Professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
at York University
York University
York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....
in Toronto, Ontario
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
(Canada) and Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
(Canada).
In addition to publishing numerous essays on contemporary Canadian art and artists, she has written extensively on the theory and practice of exhibition experience in the contemporary museum, most notably in in the book Thinking about Exhibitions (1996), that she co-edited with Sandy Nairne
Sandy Nairne
Alexander Robert "Sandy" Nairne CBE is a British museum director and writer. Since 2002, he has been the director of the National Portrait Gallery.-Life and career:...
and Bruce W. Ferguson.
Publications
2008 "Constructing the Canadian War Museum", Constructing the Landscape of a Canadian Identity (Re) Visualizing National History: Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium, ed. Robin Ostow, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 183 - 199.2008 "Editing the Image: Strategies in the Production and Reception of the Visual" (Conference on Editorial Problems), eds. Mark Cheetham, Elizabeth Legge (Catherine M. Soussloff, Toronto: University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
Press
2007, "The Currency of Time: Muntadas and I Giardini," CIEL VARIABLE No. 77, Winter. p. 10-12.
2007, "La représentation muséale des génocides: Guérison ou traumatisme réactualisé?," Gradhiva, No. 5, p. 77 - 83.
2006, Aesthetics of Trauma: five installations of Charlotte Salomons "Life as Theatre" Reading Charlotte Salomon
Charlotte Salomon
Charlotte Salomon was a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in...
, Michael P. Steinberg and Monica Bohm-Duchen Editors, Cornell University Press
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, Ithaca and London. p. 148 – 166
2006 "Closets and Collectors" Reesa Greenberg, De Witte Raaf, 121 May.
2005 "Redressing history: Partners and the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection," Reesa Greenberg for Kritische Berichte.
2005 "Identity Exhibitions: From Magiciens de la terre to Documenta 11." Art Journal. Spring 2005. Vol.64, No.1. 90-94.
2004 "From Wall to Web: Displaying Art Stolen from Jews by Hitler" in Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture, and Interpretation, Anthony Kiendl, ed., Banff Centre
Banff Centre
The Banff Centre, formerly known as The Banff Centre for Continuing Education, is an arts, cultural, and educational institution and conference complex located in Banff, Alberta...
Press, 92-109.
2003 "The Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum
Jewish Museum may refer to:Australia* Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, VictoriaAustria* Jewish Museum ViennaCzech Republic* Jewish Museum of PragueDenmark* Danish Jewish Museum, CopenhagenGeorgia...
, Vienna: A Holographic Paradigm for History and the Holocaust" in Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust, Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz, eds. Indiana University Press,235-250.
2003 "Beauty, Magic, Points of View, "Canadian Art, Winter 2003, Vol.20, No. 4, 76-81.
2003 "Museums and Money," Racar/XXVIII, 2001–2003,83-85.
2002 "Jews, Museums and National Identities," Ethnologies, Vol.24, No.2, 125-137.
2002 "Lamentations: The Use of Visual Art in Exhibitions Related to World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
and the Holocaust in Canadian Museums at the Beginning of a New Millennium" in Loren Singer, ed., Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature, Montreal: The Concordia University for Canadian Jewish Studies
Jewish studies
Jewish studies is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of history , religious studies, archeology, sociology, languages , political science, area studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies...
, 188-201.
2001 "Playing it Safe: The Display of Transgressive Art in the Museum" in Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery in Recent Art, Norman Kleeblatt, ed., Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in Piscataway, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.-History:...
, 85-95.
2000 "Private Collectors, Museums, Display: a post-Holocaust perspective" Jong Holland, 1, 29-41.
2000 "Die Asthetik des Traumas: Zur Darstellung des Holocaust in Judischen Historischen Museen" in Denkmale und kulturelles Gedächtnis nach dem Ende der Ost-West-Konfrontation, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper and Edward von Voolen, eds., Berlin, Jovis, 2000, 227-238.
1998 "Defining Canada," Collapse, #3, 95-118.
1997 "Mapping International Exhibitions," with Bruce Ferguson & Sandy Nairne
Sandy Nairne
Alexander Robert "Sandy" Nairne CBE is a British museum director and writer. Since 2002, he has been the director of the National Portrait Gallery.-Life and career:...
, Art & Design, No.52, 30-37.
1996 Thinking about Exhibitions, co-ed. with Sandy Nairne
Sandy Nairne
Alexander Robert "Sandy" Nairne CBE is a British museum director and writer. Since 2002, he has been the director of the National Portrait Gallery.-Life and career:...
and Bruce W. Ferguson.
1995 "The Exhibition as Discursive Event" in Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, Site Santa Fe, 118-125.
1994 "The Exhibited Redistributed: A Case for Reassessing Space" in Exhibited, Bard College
Bard College
Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...
, Annadale-on Hudson, 17-38; Reprinted in BE, 2, Nov., 1994 (Berlin) in English and translated into German and Russian; Reprinted in Thinking about Exhibitions, 1996.
1993 "Barbara Steinman's A Lapse in Logic" in A Lapse in Logic, The Art Gallery
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
of Windsor. (exhibition catalogue)
1992 "Idées-chocs," in Museums: Rethinking The Future, ICOM, 22-24.
1992 "Objects of Curiostity: Photographs of Museums," De la Curiosité: Petite anatomie d'un regard, Montréal, 69-83. Reprinted in Trois, vol. 7, nos. 2-3, Hiver-Printemps, 69-83.
1992 "Dedans/Dehors: les femmes, les musées et la fausse publicité," Musée, vol.14, no.1, Mars, 22-27.
1988 "Inside/Outside: Remapping Art History" in Critical Paths, Renée Baert, ed. Montréal, 20-21.
1986 "MOMA and Modernism: The Frame Game," Parachute, #42, March, April, May, 21-31.
1986 "Problems with Picasso: Fe-male and the Phallus," C Magazine, No.8, January, February, March, 19-24.
1985 "Begging the Question: A Review in Two Voices," co-authored with Bella Rabinovitch, C Magazine, No.7, Fall, 58-60. (exhibition review)
External links
Reesa Greenberg's personal website archiving many of her published works: http://www.yorku.ca/reerden/Reading Charlotte Solomon: http://books.google.ca/books?id=Ctd8MgGWpIoC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=Reading+Charlotte+Solomon&source=web&ots=7q4EnViiT_&sig=C3cWNmqJACPl3IeuYXOMo0G7zXg&hl=en