Marni Kessler
@marnikessler.bsky.social
Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
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We are losing a true publishing genius, someone who could stay focused on the thinking and writing that is our purpose, while innovating in forms and the university press break-even form of business.
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
University of Minnesota Press Director Retires
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…
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October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We are losing a true publishing genius, someone who could stay focused on the thinking and writing that is our purpose, while innovating in forms and the university press break-even form of business.
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One last visit to see the gorgeous Hilma af Klint:What Stands Behind the Flowers@MoMA before it closes next week. It’s still about the searching roots & fragile petals for me. But these goat willows with their nearly translucent faces overlaid w pin-sized dabs of yellow! Just wow!
September 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
One last visit to see the gorgeous Hilma af Klint:What Stands Behind the Flowers@MoMA before it closes next week. It’s still about the searching roots & fragile petals for me. But these goat willows with their nearly translucent faces overlaid w pin-sized dabs of yellow! Just wow!
Astonished as I look and look at every gorgeous watercolor in the Hilma af Klint show @MoMA. Just the right amount of pigment barely held by fragile graphite filaments and slivers of unfilled paper to represent intricately searching roots, gossamer petals, and slender stems.
July 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Astonished as I look and look at every gorgeous watercolor in the Hilma af Klint show @MoMA. Just the right amount of pigment barely held by fragile graphite filaments and slivers of unfilled paper to represent intricately searching roots, gossamer petals, and slender stems.
Such a joy to see the magisterial “Gustave Caillebotte:Painting his World” exh @artinstitutechi.bsky.social on Sat with 2 beloved former grad students. The show is full of clever juxtapositions that inspire new thoughts. But I’ll never tire of the grids and veils that structure many of his works.
June 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Such a joy to see the magisterial “Gustave Caillebotte:Painting his World” exh @artinstitutechi.bsky.social on Sat with 2 beloved former grad students. The show is full of clever juxtapositions that inspire new thoughts. But I’ll never tire of the grids and veils that structure many of his works.
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Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲
www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
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Current Table of Contents | ncfs
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June 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲
www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
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“Archives are not confined to buildings. They are places, streets, hillsides as much as card indexes.”
Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...
Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...
Edmund de Waal: “The Ragpicker's Way”
The writer and potter on archives as places of memory, instability, and trespass—from porcelain shards to a derelict house in London.
yalereview.org
May 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“Archives are not confined to buildings. They are places, streets, hillsides as much as card indexes.”
Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...
Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...
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Moved by the Friedrich exhibition @ the Met. Delicately drawn clutches of leaves & blooms and spruce needles quieted by the softest snow. He understood deeply the aliveness of nature.
April 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Moved by the Friedrich exhibition @ the Met. Delicately drawn clutches of leaves & blooms and spruce needles quieted by the softest snow. He understood deeply the aliveness of nature.
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The next NCFS Unbound is Friday 2/28! Anne O’Neil-Henry will interview Rebecca Powers about her new book, Balzac on the Barricades. Link below! #FrHistory 🗃️
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5 Episode 4: Rebecca Powers with Anne O'Neil Henry. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Rebecca Powers discusses her new book Balzac on the Barricades with Anne O'Neil Henry
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February 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The next NCFS Unbound is Friday 2/28! Anne O’Neil-Henry will interview Rebecca Powers about her new book, Balzac on the Barricades. Link below! #FrHistory 🗃️
southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Looking forward to presenting “Aerial Intimacies: Edgar Degas’ Ironers, Coal Smoke, and Chemicals” tomorrow (Wed) @ 4:30pm @ CAA 113th Annual Conference
February 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Looking forward to presenting “Aerial Intimacies: Edgar Degas’ Ironers, Coal Smoke, and Chemicals” tomorrow (Wed) @ 4:30pm @ CAA 113th Annual Conference
Delighted to see that @francescaberry.bsky.social’s whip-smart new book on Vuillard is out!
I am delighted to announce that today is my book’s publication day!!! 🎉
📕 Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity is in print (and ebook) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
It looks gorgeous. It feels chunky. I couldn’t be happier! 😊
📕 Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity is in print (and ebook) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
It looks gorgeous. It feels chunky. I couldn’t be happier! 😊
📕 My book, Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity, to be published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts @BloomsburyAcad has a cover and has gone to press! 💃
I am incredibly grateful to the 4 reviewers whose lovely comments grace the back cover.😊
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I am incredibly grateful to the 4 reviewers whose lovely comments grace the back cover.😊
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January 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Delighted to see that @francescaberry.bsky.social’s whip-smart new book on Vuillard is out!
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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"...as we move into this grim season, we must think like [subarctic moss], survive like this, grow like this: like the hardy + unregarded things that make do with little + less. The things that cultivate the wasteland, and make it soft + green for those who need it; that bloom like rust on rock..."
On Moss, Rock, Lichen, and Survival
“Moss. Roots” by Ivan Shishkin Lately, I’ve been looking at the life cycle of moss. I found myself instantly lost in a thicket of botanical terminology—from...
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January 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"...as we move into this grim season, we must think like [subarctic moss], survive like this, grow like this: like the hardy + unregarded things that make do with little + less. The things that cultivate the wasteland, and make it soft + green for those who need it; that bloom like rust on rock..."
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A fantastic web publication from RISD about French wallpaper design! risdmuseum.org/art-french-w...
November 20, 2024 at 11:57 PM
A fantastic web publication from RISD about French wallpaper design! risdmuseum.org/art-french-w...
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And now we welcome the new year.
Full of things that have never been.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Full of things that have never been.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
January 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
And now we welcome the new year.
Full of things that have never been.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Full of things that have never been.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Berlin, Germany, 1930s, two girls playing the board game "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht" (still popular in the German-speaking world), sitting next to a Chanukiah (Menorah) lit for the the third night of Hanukkah. Published in the Jewish newspaper CV-Zeitung on November 29, 1934. #chanukah #hanukkah
December 27, 2024 at 9:13 PM
A must read by the great @rmesch.bsky.social
I wrote a piece about a certain flavor of academic abuse. I have carried parts of this story for upwards of 25 yrs, & I’m grateful to @chronicle.com for helping me to tell it.
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #PHDchat
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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #PHDchat
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What Do We Do With Monstrous Mentors?
It’s time for a reckoning.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:11 PM
A must read by the great @rmesch.bsky.social
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To celebrate women working in art history, Women’s History Today invites contributions to the topic of Women and the Making of Art History. Find out more here 👇
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#WomensHistory #GenderHist
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#WomensHistory #GenderHist
CFP Women’s History Today Special Issue – Women and the Making of Art History
Women and the Making of Art History Since the publication of Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ (1971), feminist art historians have led a revolutionary mo…
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December 10, 2024 at 1:11 PM
To celebrate women working in art history, Women’s History Today invites contributions to the topic of Women and the Making of Art History. Find out more here 👇
womenshistorynetwork.org/cfp-womens-h...
#WomensHistory #GenderHist
womenshistorynetwork.org/cfp-womens-h...
#WomensHistory #GenderHist
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Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities
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November 20, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities
www.asle.org/conference/b...
www.asle.org/conference/p...
www.asle.org/conference/b...
www.asle.org/conference/p...
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Our Zoom book series NCFS Unbound resumes this Friday at 2:30 EST with Helen Craske in conversation with @hannahfrydman.bsky.social
Helen’s new book is Complicity in Fin-de-Siècle Literature
Register below
#academicsky #FrHistory #FrenchStudies
Helen’s new book is Complicity in Fin-de-Siècle Literature
Register below
#academicsky #FrHistory #FrenchStudies
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5 Episode 2: Helen Craske with Hannah Frydman. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Helen Craske discusses her new book "Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature" with Hannah Frydman
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November 17, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Our Zoom book series NCFS Unbound resumes this Friday at 2:30 EST with Helen Craske in conversation with @hannahfrydman.bsky.social
Helen’s new book is Complicity in Fin-de-Siècle Literature
Register below
#academicsky #FrHistory #FrenchStudies
Helen’s new book is Complicity in Fin-de-Siècle Literature
Register below
#academicsky #FrHistory #FrenchStudies
Still trying to figure out how this works, but I do have a random question: does the bsky.social handle make anyone but me think of the artist Banksy? Oh, and is there a way to search for starter packs?
November 15, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Still trying to figure out how this works, but I do have a random question: does the bsky.social handle make anyone but me think of the artist Banksy? Oh, and is there a way to search for starter packs?
I'm finally here and wondering why it took me so long to migrate to this blue space where there are so many familiar faces!
November 13, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I'm finally here and wondering why it took me so long to migrate to this blue space where there are so many familiar faces!