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Brynn Hatton
Kindler Family Assistant Professor in Global Contemporary Art
Global contemporary art and visual culture, conceptual art, protest art, the Vietnam-American War, social movement mobilization, post-colonial and decolonial theory, museum theory
My current research develops the idea of Vietnam鈥攏ot Vietnam itself, but the ways in which Vietnam has functioned symbolically in the world for over a half-century鈥攁s a conceptual engine and core subject in art and politics from the 1960s to the early 2000s. I am currently writing a book titled The Vietnam Idea which examines works of art and visual culture from North America, Oceania, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Latin America that share a common visual strategy of crafting an image of the political self with the idea of Vietnam principally in mind. The project has been generously supported by the Social Science Research Council, the US Department of Education, and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as university fellowships supporting projects in international studies, general humanities, and art history.
My courses take an interconnected view of disparate geographies, objects, ideas, and methods in global contemporary art. In my classes, students can expect at every level to engage with the broader social and political conditions that inform major artistic developments in the modern and contemporary period.
鈥淢idtown is always cold.鈥 Strike MoMA Reader, New York, NY: Verso Books (December 2021): 182-183: https://www.strikemoma.org/reader
鈥淥n Impossibility: Finding Vietnam in a Jordanian-Soviet Film Archive.鈥 ArtMargins 9.2
(June 2020): 7-32.
鈥淭here and Not There.鈥 In Clear-Hold-Build, edited by HEKLER and Shimrit Lee. Philadelphia, PA: Twelve Arts, October 2019: 58-61.
鈥淟鈥檌d茅e du Vietnam comme conceptualisme r茅silient.鈥 Marges 27 (December 2018): 48-65.
鈥淗old Your Gun Arm Steady to Keep the Color of the Flower: The Propeller Group
and Le Brothers.鈥 journal of visual culture 17:3 (December 2018): 286鈥298.
鈥淭he Image of Difference.鈥 In Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance,
edited by Lisa Y.B. Calvente and Guadalupe Garcia, London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016, 87-116.
"Rising Up Angry." In The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960鈥1980, edited by Alison Fisher, Greg Foster-Rice, and Katherine Bussard. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015:162.
鈥淪ilent Shout | Photography, Women, and the Iranian Rooftop: 1953, 1979, 2009.鈥 Al-Raida 141-142 (2014): 8-26.
鈥淒ream Sequence: The Motorbike as Allegory.鈥 MCA DNA, August 30, 2016.
鈥淕loria: Robert Rauschenberg & Rachel Harrison at Cleveland Museum of Art.鈥Artforum International 54:4 (December 2015).
鈥淭itus Kaphar at Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati.鈥 Artforum International 54:1 (October 2014).