Judy Sund
Associate Professor of Modern European Art (18th through 20th centuries) and Art of the Americas (Pre-Columbian to modern)

PhD, Columbia University, 1983

jsund@gc.cuny.edu

Prof. Judy Sund's research is primarily devoted to modern painting in Europe and the United States. Her more particular interests include visual artists' responses to texts, and intersections of high art and popular culture (in world's fairs, popular journals, advertising). A well-known scholar of Van Gogh, Prof. Sund is the author of several publications on that artist, including the soon-to-be published Van Gogh volume in Phaidon's Art & Ideas series. She also is a longtime student and teacher of Pre-Columbian art and architecture, whose study of 20th-Century appropriations of ancient artifacts is ongoing. 

Books:

Van Gogh, Phaidon Press, 2002

"Beyond the Grave: The Twentieth-Century Afterlife of West Mexican Burial Effigies," Art Bulletin, December 2000, 734-767.

"The Preke Speaks: Kahlúa Co-Opts West Mexico," Visual Resources, 2000, 169-184.

True to Temperament: Van Gogh and French Naturalist Literature, Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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