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Emily Braun
Distinguished Professor of late-19th- and 20th - Century European and American Art.
Ph.D.
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU 1991
emily.braun@hunter.cuny.edu
In addition to her work on modern Italian art and fascist culture,
Professor Emily Braun has published on renaissance architecture,
late nineteenth-century European painting, twentieth-century American
art, women's studies, Jewish history, and contemporary painting
and sculpture. She was awarded a Senior Research Grant from the
Getty Foundation (1993), the Hunter College Presidential Award for
Excellence in Scholarship (2001), and a Fellowship from the New
York Public Library Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars
and Writers (2002). As a contributing author, she has twice received
the annual Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogues of Distinction in
the Arts (Northern Light: Realism and Symbolism in Scandinavian
Painting (1982) and Gardens and Ghettos. (1990) In 2005 she won a National Jewish Book Award forThe Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and their Salons, the catalogue for the exhibition of the same name.
Books and Catalogues:
The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and their Salons (co-authored with Emily Bilski). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
Mario
Sironi and Italian Modernism: Art and Politics under Fascism
(Cambridge University Press, London, 2000). Italian edition published
by Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, 2003.
Editor.
Giorgio de Chirico and America. New York and Turin: Hunter
College and Umberto Allemandi, 1996.
Editor. Italian
Art in the 20th Century, London and Munich: The Royal Academy
and Prestel Verlag, 1989.
Thomas
Hart Benton: The America Today Murals, Williams College
Museum of Art, Williamstown Mass., 1985.
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