*Professor Aron Vinegar is currently on Research Term leave, Spring 2024
Academic interests
I write and teach at the intersection of visual studies, art history, aesthetics, architecture, and philosophy. These broader domains of inquiry are driven by three constellations of concern: habit, repetition, second nature, temporality, and the unthought; rethinking the concept of indifference in relationship to ontology, ethics, politics, and capitalism; and critical perspectives in preservation and heritage. I am also an avid birder and reader of all things related to birds and ornithology. Two recently published books are reflective of some of these interests: A sole authored book, Subject Matter: The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown (MIT Press, Short Circuits Series, Nov 2023), and a co-edited book, Grey on Grey: At the Threshold of Philosophy and Art (Edinburgh University Press, Oct 2023). I currently belong to two research groups at UiO: Temporal Experiments: Literary, Aesthetic and Social Modes of Thinking and Living Time and the Research Group in Visual Studies.
Background
Before taking up my position as Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Oslo, I was Director of History, Theory, and Criticism in the College of Architecture and Design, University of Houston; Director of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter; Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art, Ohio State University; and an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow/Richard H. Tomlinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Communication Studies and Art History, McGill University. I received my BA and MA from McGill University in Canada, and my PhD from the Department of Art History at Northwestern University, U.S.A.
Courses taught
- KUN 2500/4500 Current Topics in Art History: On Habit, Art, and Architecture
- KUN 2550/4550 Topics in Modern and Postmodern Art: Rethinking Indifference
- KUN 2560/4560 Topics in Visual Studies: Visuality, Aesthetics, and Capitalism
- KUN 1003 Introduction to Visual Studies
Tags:
Art History,
Visual Studies,
Aesthetics
Selected publications
Books (sole-authored and edited)
- Aron Vinegar, Subject Matter: The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Short Circuits Series, Nov 2023)
- Aron Vinegar and Kamini Vellodi, eds. Grey on Grey: At the Threshold of Philosophy and Art (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Refractions Series, Oct 2023).
- Aron Vinegar and Amanda Boetzkes, eds. Heidegger and the Work of Art History (London: Ashgate Press, 2014).
- Aron Vinegar and Michael Golec, eds. Relearning from Las Vegas (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
- Aron Vinegar, I AM A MONUMENT: On Learning from Las Vegas (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008).
Guest Edited Journals
- with Kirsten Thomas, special issue, Zietschrift fur Asthetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, on "Matters of Fact," vol. 60, no. 1 (August 2015).
- Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory, and Criticism, on “Rethinking the Monument,” vol. 9, no. 2 (Spring 2012).
- Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory, and Criticism, on “Rethinking the Monument,” vol. 8, no.2 (Fall 2011)
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Introduction" and "Barthes' Grisaille and an Aesthetics of Indifference," in Aron Vinegar and Kamini Vellodi, eds. Gray on Gray: At the Threshold of Philosophy and Art (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Oct 2023), pp. 203-248.
- “Evidently—On “Learning from Everything,”’ Denise Scott Brown: With Others’ Eyes, Bauwelt Fundamente Series, eds. Frida Grahn and Elisabeth Blum (Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2022), pp. 250-255.
“Habit: Or, the Matter of Time in Remainder,” Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature, edited by Bruce Barnhart and Marit Grøtta, Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature, (New York: Routledge, 2023), pp. 31-52 and 149-151.
- "In Flagrante: On Some Burning Questions for Restoration, Future Anterior, special issue, "The Notre-Dame Effect," vol. 17, no. 1 (Summer 2020): 1-16.
- "Habit's Remainder," in The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture, Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White, eds. (London: Routledge, 2019), 117-137.
- "Speculations on Representation and Image in Junglim Architecture (Korean and English)," Space, no. 597 (September 2017): 17-21
- “Introduction” and “Art History and Visual Culture without World” in Special Issue, Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, on “Matters of Fact,” guest edited by Aron Vinegar and Kirsten Thomas, vol. 16.2 (August 2015).
- “Introduction” and “Reluzenz: On Richard Estes,” in Heidegger and the Work of Art History, eds. Aron Vinegar and Amanda Boetzkes (London: Ashgate, 2014), 1-30 and 249-68
- "Architecture and Collectivity” and “Habit,” in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly, 2nd ed, 6 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
- “On Preserving the Openness of the Monument,” (introduction), Future Anterior, special issue on “Rethinking the Monument,” vol. 9, no. 1 (Spring 2012).
- “Chatography,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 71, no. 3 (September 2012): 362-385.
- “What a Monument Can Do,” (introduction), Future Anterior, special issue on “Rethinking the Monument,” vol. 8, no. 2 (Fall 2011).
- “La fantasme du Canard et du Hangar décoré,” Dreamlands: Des parcs d’attractions aux cites du futur (Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2010), 94-198. Catalogue essay for the Dreamlands exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, May 5-Aug 9, 2010.
- “Ed Ruscha, Heidegger and Deadpan Photography,” Photography After Conceptual Art, eds. Margaret Iversen and Diarmuid Costello (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2010), 28-49. * Also published as “Ed Ruscha, Heidegger and Deadpan Photography,” Art History, vol. 32, no. 5 (December 2009): 852-873. Special issue, Photography After Conceptual Art, eds. Margaret Iversen and Diarmuid Costello.
- “Viollet-le-Duc, Panoramic Photography, and the Restoration of the Château de Pierrefonds,” Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, ed. Werner Oechslin (Zürich: Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule-Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur Verlag/Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2010), 90-109.
- “Introduction” and “The Melodrama of Expression and Inexpression in the Duck and Decorated Shed,” in Relearning from Las Vegas, eds. Aron Vinegar and Michael Golec (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), pp. 1-17 and 163-193.
- “Panoramic Photography and the Restoration of the Château de Pierrefonds,” Colloque sur l'Oeuvre de Viollet-le-Duc (Paris: Editions du Patrimoine, 2008), 70-81. Online book.
- “At the Limit,” in Horizons and Intersections III, catalogue essay, for an exhibition at the Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2007, 1-8.
- “Viollet-le-Duc and Restoration in the Future Anterior,” Future Anterior, vol.3, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 57-67.
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