Dr. Lauren S. Weingarden
Associate Professor,
19th & 20th Century Art & Architecture;
Word & Image and Museum Studies
PhD University of Chicago
108 Fine Arts Annex
(850) 644-1250
lweingar@fsu.edu
Dr. Weingarden's philosophy and practice of teaching has evolved over three decades of experience in cross–disciplinary studies that explore the arts and humanities and interpret meanings and impacts within historical, cultural, and societal contexts. Her research interests are modern art, architecture, linguistics, literary theory, and cross–disciplinary interpretation. Her courses include Modern European Art, History of Modern Architecture, 19th-Century French Art, Critical Theory & Museum Practice, and Word & Image Studies seminars. Dr Weingarden's research grants and fellowships include the Dedalus Foundation Senior Research Grant in 2001 for studies in modernism, a visiting scholar position at the the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ in 1990-91 and the J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in Art History and the Humanities, held at the University of Michigan in 1986-87.
She is an active member of the American Association of Museums, Art History Association (Great Britain), Association of Historians of American Art, College Art Association, International Council of Museums, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Society of French Historical Studies, Southeast Society of Architectural Historians (Founding Member) and the Society of Architectural Historians, and she has served since 1990 on the Advisory Board of the International Association of Word & Image Studies.
Selected Publications
Books and Exhibition Catalogues
'Ut Poesis Architectura’: Louis H. Sullivan a 19th-century Discourse on the Poetics of Architecture. Amsterdam / New York: Editions Rodopi (Book forthcoming)
Louis H. Sullivan: A System of Architectural Ornament [1924]. Co-published by the Art Institute of Chicago and Ernst Wasmuth Verlag (Germany); distributed by Rizzoli International (U.S.), Wasmuth (Germany), Mardaga (France), 1990.
Louis H. Sullivan: The Banks. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987.
Editorial Reviews
Faith and Form: Synagogue Architecture in Illinois. Chicago: Spertus College of Judaica Press, 1976.
Journal Articles
“The Photographic Subversion: Benjamin, Manet and Art(istic) Reproduction,” RACAR Revue d'art canadienne/Canadian Art Review. (forthcoming)
“Sullivan’s Emersonian Reading of Whitman,” Mickle Street Review, 12 (1990): 83 – 98.
“Naturalized Nationalism: A Ruskinian Discourse in the Search for a New American Style of Architecture,” Winterthur Portfolio, 24 (Spring 1989): 43–68.
“A Transcendentalist Discourse in the Poetics of Technology: Louis Sullivan’s Transportation Building and Walt Whitman’s ‘Passage to India,’” Word&Image, 3 (April–June 1987): 202 – 221.