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Sarah Lippert
University of Michigan - Flint, Department of Art and Art History, Faculty Member
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University of Michigan - Flint, Art & Art History; Arts Administration, Faculty Member add
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Dr. Sarah Lippert Assoc. Prof. of Art History, University of Michigan-Flint Director of the Society for Paragone Stud... moreDr. Sarah Lippert
Assoc. Prof. of Art History, University of Michigan-Flint
Director of the Society for Paragone Studies, Editor-in-Chief of Paragone Past and Present (Brill)
Faculty for:
Art History Program (BA), Art & Design (BFA), Fine Arts (BFA), Art Education (BS), Master of Arts in Arts Administration Program (Museum Studies Concentration), International Global Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
New Publication: The Paragone in 19th-Century Art with Routledge (2019), https://www.routledge.com/The-Paragone-in-Nineteenth-Century-Art/Lippert/p/book/9781472430953
Dr. Lippert is a Modernist scholar of late 18th through late 19th-century French and British art history, specialising in the history of collecting and exhibiting, inter-arts relationships, such as the paragone, (artistic competition), aesthetic theory, art criticism, and representations of the human figure. She is also active in secondary areas of Renaissance and Mannerist art, such as collecting, display, and reception of works by artists with problematic places in artistic hierarchies, such as the painter of pastiglia Carlo Crivelli. Others who form the focus of her research include Girodet, Moreau, Gérôme, Burne-Jones, Beardsley, and Bazzi. She holds a PhD in art history from Penn State, and MA in Art History and a BA Honours in Art History and Criticism from The University of Western Ontario.
In higher education, Dr. Lippert has worked in a variety of leadership roles (see c.v.), including as Director of the Visual Arts Program, Director of Women's and Gender Studies, and Director of the MA in Arts Administration. These roles involved being responsible for gallery management, scheduling, budget management, resource allocation, faculty mentorship, student advising, facilities and safety management, equipment acquisition, curriculum revision and development, course and program assessment and review, etc. In other leadership roles she is currently a member of the University of Michigan's Senate Advisory Committee for University Affairs and has chaired the UM-Flint Governance Task Force, Chancellor's Advisory Committee for Budget and Strategic Planning, the Tri-Campus Task Force, the Tri-Campus Committee, and the Curriculum Coordination Committee. Additionally, her work in developing high-level academic initiatives includes many projects in curriculum design, faculty development programs, international student recruitment, continuing education, study abroad, fund-raising, alumni development, lecture series..., etc.
Dr. Lippert is the Director of the Society for Paragone Studies, which is a non-profit association. The Society hosts an annual conference. Dr. Lippert is also the Editor-in-Chief for its journal 'Paragone: Past and Present,' now published by Brill (as of 2019).
At the University of Michigan-Flint Dr. Lippert works closely with area arts partners, including community-engagement initiatives, such as the Prison Creative Arts Program, as well as collaborations with the Flint Institute of Arts, and the Mott Applewood Estate. Dr. Lippert regularly serves as a guest curator for the Flint Institute of Arts, in addition to overseeing many student exhibitions in museum-studies and art-history teaching practice.
Numerous awards have supported Dr. Lippert's scholarship, including a Samuel H. Kress Travel Fellowship in the History of Art, a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and grants from the University of Michigan. As a Board member for the Friends of Modern Art, she helps to fundraise to support exhibitions, art acquisitions, and film series at the Flint Institute of Arts.
In pedagogy, Dr. Lippert teaches a range of survey to graduate courses including Advanced Museum and Gallery Management, The History of Collection and Exhibition Practices, Introduction to Curatorial Practice, Ways of Seeing (aesthetic and critical theory), Connoisseurship, History of 19th-century Art, and others. Many graduate students in Arts Administration (museum studies) are completing thesis work under Dr. Lippert's direction.
Some of the areas of expertise within Dr. Lippert's scholarly interests include: 19th-century exhibition and collection practices; limit-imposing aesthetic theorists; the theoretical underpinnings of the beau idéal or ideal figure; production, display, and reception of polychrome sculpture; Ovidian themes as they relate to supremacy of the image over the word; ekphrasis in 18th and 19th-century art criticism, especially in museum exhibition contexts. edit
Published by Routledge Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by prevailing aesthetic theories, or institutional and... more
Published by Routledge
Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by prevailing aesthetic theories, or institutional and cultural paradigms, to compete in the art world. The paragone has been considered primarily in the context of Renaissance art history, but in this book readers will see how the legacy of this humanistic competitive model survived into the late nineteenth century. Concentrating on artists such as Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Gustave Moreau, Jean-Leon Gerome, Edward Burne-Jones, and Aubrey Beardsley, who were drawn to subjects that connoted rivalry, and to techniques that demonstrated artistic virtue, the book explores their individual tactics in staking a claim to artistic supremacy in painting, sculpture, and works on paper. Typically such artists were motivated to participate in the paragone debate during crises, changes to the hierarchy of the arts, shifting aesthetic theories, cultural and social changes to the artist’s status, or political activism and patriotic endeavours. Lastly, this study will touch upon why competition was still a relevant artistic concern in the Modern era.
Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by prevailing aesthetic theories, or institutional and cultural paradigms, to compete in the art world. The paragone has been considered primarily in the context of Renaissance art history, but in this book readers will see how the legacy of this humanistic competitive model survived into the late nineteenth century. Concentrating on artists such as Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Gustave Moreau, Jean-Leon Gerome, Edward Burne-Jones, and Aubrey Beardsley, who were drawn to subjects that connoted rivalry, and to techniques that demonstrated artistic virtue, the book explores their individual tactics in staking a claim to artistic supremacy in painting, sculpture, and works on paper. Typically such artists were motivated to participate in the paragone debate during crises, changes to the hierarchy of the arts, shifting aesthetic theories, cultural and social changes to the artist’s status, or political activism and patriotic endeavours. Lastly, this study will touch upon why competition was still a relevant artistic concern in the Modern era.
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In an era when ease of travel is greater than ever, it is also easy to overlook the degree to which voyages of the body - and mind - have generated an outpouring of artistry and creativity throughout the ages. Exploration of new lands... more
In an era when ease of travel is greater than ever, it is also easy to overlook the degree to which voyages of the body - and mind - have generated an outpouring of artistry and creativity throughout the ages. Exploration of new lands and sensations is a fundamental human experience. This volume in turn provides a stimulating and adventurous exploration of the theme of travel from an art-historical perspective. Topical regions are covered, ranging from the Grand Tour and colonialism to the travels of Hadrian in ancient times and Georgia O'Keeffe's journey to the Andes; from Vasari's Neoplaronic voyages to photographing nineteenth-century Japan. The scholars assembled consider both imaginary travel, as well as factual or embellished documentation of voyages. The essays are far-reaching spatially and temporally, but all relate to how art has documented the theme of travel in varying media across time and as illustrated and described by writers, artists, and illustrators. The scope of this volume is far-reaching, both chronologically and conceptually, thereby appropriately documenting the universality of the theme to human experience.
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Kathryn Jacobs: At San Giovanni’s, Rome Liana De Girolami Cheney: Jacopo Tintoretto’s Female Concert: A Paragone of Musica and Bellezza Lisandra Estevez: “The Spanish Zeuxis:” Jusepe de Ribera’s Image in Baroque and Modern Poetry and... more
Kathryn Jacobs: At San Giovanni’s, Rome
Liana De Girolami Cheney: Jacopo Tintoretto’s Female Concert:
A Paragone of Musica and Bellezza
Lisandra Estevez: “The Spanish Zeuxis:” Jusepe de Ribera’s Image
in Baroque and Modern Poetry and Plays
Maria Portmann: The Paragone in Anatomical Treatises during the
Sixteenth Century
Jeffery Kahan: The Comic-Book Industry versus the United States
Government
Sarah LippertL Book Review of Liana De Girolami Cheney
Edward Burne-Jones’s Mythical Paintings
Liana De Girolami Cheney: Jacopo Tintoretto’s Female Concert:
A Paragone of Musica and Bellezza
Lisandra Estevez: “The Spanish Zeuxis:” Jusepe de Ribera’s Image
in Baroque and Modern Poetry and Plays
Maria Portmann: The Paragone in Anatomical Treatises during the
Sixteenth Century
Jeffery Kahan: The Comic-Book Industry versus the United States
Government
Sarah LippertL Book Review of Liana De Girolami Cheney
Edward Burne-Jones’s Mythical Paintings
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This article offers an investigation of the motives behind Jean-Léon Gérôme’s foray into sculpture towards the end of his career. By way of an exploration of Gérôme’s treatment of the Pygmalion myth, so closely tied to artistic rivalry... more
This article offers an investigation of the motives behind Jean-Léon Gérôme’s
foray into sculpture towards the end of his career. By way of an exploration
of Gérôme’s treatment of the Pygmalion myth, so closely tied to artistic
rivalry in the nineteenth century, the artist’s engagement with the paragone,
or inter-arts rivalry, of the era is analysed. Consideration of polychrome’s
status amongst theorists and critics of the time serves to contextualize
the artist’s interest in the tradition. These avenues of inquiry lead to a
conclusion regarding the artist’s own hierarchy of the arts.
foray into sculpture towards the end of his career. By way of an exploration
of Gérôme’s treatment of the Pygmalion myth, so closely tied to artistic
rivalry in the nineteenth century, the artist’s engagement with the paragone,
or inter-arts rivalry, of the era is analysed. Consideration of polychrome’s
status amongst theorists and critics of the time serves to contextualize
the artist’s interest in the tradition. These avenues of inquiry lead to a
conclusion regarding the artist’s own hierarchy of the arts.