JOHN PULTZ

JOHN PULTZ BIO

A Passion for Learning

John Pultz is an art historian, curator, and critic. He holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. He currently teaches art history at the University of Kansas. He has worked as a curator of photography and curatorial consultant at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum; and the Denver Art Museum.

COURSES

Educational Opportunities

ART 1945-1980: MODERNISM TO POSTMODERNISM

EUROPEAN ART 1900-1945

HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Every spring semester

This course will cover major and some minor movements in art from 1945 into the 1980s. Students will learn to recognize appropriate works of art and styles and to place the work in the context of artistic development and of aesthetic and political histories.

Every spring semester

This course covers in European art between 1900 and 1945, concentrating on modernist and avant-garde movements including Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Constructivism, Suprematism, Purism, Dada, and Surrealism, and on major artists such as Matisse, Picasso, and Duchamp. Primary emphasis will be on painting, but sculpture, prints, architecture, and the decorative arts will also be considered.

Every fall semester

This course will cover European and American photography between 1839 and the present, with emphasis on American photography since 1900.