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Complete CV and List of Publications (PDF, 339 KB)
Center for Studies in the Theory and History of Photography at the Institute of Art History
Camera Work Project
Complete List of Publications (PDF, 121 KB)
Books
Edited Books
Editor of the series Art & Photography, Heidelberg: Arthistoricum.net, 2021–. Volumes published:
Editor of the series Studies in Theory and History of Photography. Berlin: Akademie Verlag / de Gruyter, 2011–. Volumes published:
Bettina Gockel and Miriam Volmert (eds.). Wahrnehmen, Speichern, Erinnern. Memoriale Praktiken und Theorien in den Bildkünsten, 1650–1850. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.
Bettina Gockel (ed.). Vom Objekt zum Bild. Piktorale Prozesse in Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1600-2000. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011. (cf. supplement to this book with English abstracts of all articles.) Reviews: Jörg Probst in sehepunkte 13, Nr. 7/8 (2013), URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2013/07/21297.html; Hanna Holtz in Kult Online 30 (2012), URL: http://kult-online.uni-giessen.de/resolveuid/d2b044fac7a54437b0abcb2a7c5c0a61
Gabriele Dürbeck, Bettina Gockel et. al. (ed.). Natur der Wahrnehmung – Wahrnehmung der Natur. Sehen und Sichtweisen um 1800. Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 2001. Cf. review by Alexandre Métraux in: Süddeutsche Zeitung 15/16 Dec. 2001; see also reviews in: sehepunkte 2 (2002), No. 12, URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2002/12/3509.html, arthist.net, 17.7.2011, URL: https://arthist.net/reviews/215 and Perlentaucher, URL: https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/wahrnehmung-der-natur-natur-der-wahrnehmung.html
Co-editor of Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften.
Articles and Essays (Selection)
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The film „After Dadaism, Fluxism, Mailism comes Tourism“ has won in the category "swiss culture" at the Switzerland International Film Festival – SIFF.
Ute Christiane Hoefert created the film as part of her dissertation Rollenflexibilität und Demokratisierung in der Kunst. Der Konzeptkünstler, Mail Artist und Networker H. R. Fricker.
The first class of the CAS in Theory and History of Photography has started successfully!
Registration for the class of 2023/2024 will be open from Winter 2022 until the 30th of June 2023. The exact date of the registration start will be communicated shortly.
Bettina Gockel, Geschüttelt, nicht gerührt. Zukunftsfrage: Kunstgeschichte, in: R.A.W. or the sirens of Titan. Exh. Cat. (Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte), eds. Roland Scotti, Heinrich Gebert Kulturstiftung Appenzell. Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2022. 108–113. / Engl. translation: Shaken, not Stirred: Questions for the Future: Art History, in: ibid., 192–195. / French translatation: Secouée, pas émue. Question d'avenir: histoire de l'art, in: ibid., 210–213. Link (PDF, 46 MB)
Bettina Gockel, Being Beyond—Aesthetics of Resistance: Annemarie Clarac-Schwarzenbach, in: Women and Migration(s) II, eds. Kalia Brooks, Cheryl Finley, Ellyn Toscano, and Deborah Willis, Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022. 285–296.
5th Swiss Congress for Art History, 22.-24. June 2022
Japan is the guest country of the 2022 VKKS Congress at the University of Zurich's Institute of Art History.
Bettina Gockel (ed.) The Colors of Photography. Studies in Theory and History of Photography Vol. 10. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020.
Art History and Decolonization
Spring Semester 2022 Lecture Series with talks by Nana Adusei-Poku, Lotte Arndt und Sammy Baloji, CARAH – Collective for Anti-Racist Art History, Michelle Antoinette, Sally Schonfeldt, Anna Greve, Annette Bhagwati, and Noémie Etienne
Nicole Krup Oest Photography and Modern Public Housing in Los Angeles Art & Photography vol. 2. Heidelberg, arthistoricum.net, 2021.
Erna Yoshida Blenk. Ein Künstlerinnenleben, Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess, 2021.
Edited by the Eugen & Yoshida Früh Foundation. With Texts by Matthias Fischer, Annelise Zwez, and Bettina Gockel.
Prof. Dr. Bettina Gockel, "Erklär mir Kunstgeschichte. Was humanitäre Hilfsorganisationen und Waisenhäuser mit Kunst zu tun haben."
8. September, 10.00 a.m., Student Information Days
"CHARITY" by Damien Hirst (2002-2003)
Prof. Dr. Bettina Gockel talks about the publication The Colors of Photography
Prof. Dr. Bettina Gockel
"Klick. Klick? Von der Erfindung der Fotografie." Kinderuniversität Zurich 3. November 2021
Die Politisierung des Gesichts. Über Selfie-Aktivismus Wolfgang Ullrich Wednesday, 28. April, 18.15–19.30, via ZOOM
Historical Insights into Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia Alexander Supartono Wednesday, 5. May, 18.15–19.30, via ZOOM
Rollenflexibilität und Demokratisierung in der Kunst . Der Konzeptkünstler, Mail Artist und Networker H. R. Fricker Ute Christiane Hoefert Wednesday, 26. May, 18.15–19.30, via ZOOM
The book “Colors of Photography” will be presented on Wednesday, March 31, 6-7.30 p.m. by Bettina Gockel (UZH) and Andrés Mario Zervigón (Professor of the History of Photography am Art History Department der Rutgers University). They have been invited by the Cologne initiative "Ende der Kunstgeschichte" (end of art history).
To register for the presentation, send an e-mail to: endederkunstgeschichte@web.de
Ruth Preywisch. "Was ist überhaupt Kunst?" in: Miss Moneypenny, 11.02.2021
On February 10th, 2021, Prof. Dr. Deborah Willis will receive the “Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art” from the College Art Association. Prof. Willis has been teaching at the New York University, Tisch School of the Arts since 2001 and was at the Institute of Art History in Zurich in 2009, presenting the talk “Posing Beauty in African American Culture” at the lecture series Geography of Photography. The talk was published in the 2nd volume of the publication series Studies in Theory and History of Photography (American Photography: Local and Global Contexts, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2012).
It is a great honor for Prof. Dr. Gockel to present the new publication The Colors of Photography (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020) at the CAA Annual Conference, together with Prof. Deborah Willis, on the same day as the award presentation.
Marita Fuchs. "Fotografie ist hochpolitisch!" in: UZH News, 10.11.2020
Bettina Gockel (ed.) The Colors of Photography. Studies in Theory and History of Photography, vol. 10. Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020.
Die Pathologisierung des Künstlers. Künstlerlegenden der Moderne. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2010.
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