Dr Dorothy Rowe
Senior Lecturer
BA (Leicester) PhD (Essex)
Office: 2.31, 9 Woodland Road
Phone: +44 (0)117 954 6043
Email: d.rowe@bristol.ac.uk
Dorothy Rowe studied History of Art at the University of Leicester (BA) and the University of Essex (PhD). Before joining the University of Bristol, she was Senior Lecturer in Art History, founding member and co-director of the Centre for Research in Post-colonial and Transcultural studies at Roehampton University; prior to that she worked for the Higher Education section at the Victoria and Albert Museum and lectured in the History of Art at the University of East Anglia.
Research interests
- German Visual Culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly Imperial and Weimar visual culture, German Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit
- The ways in which race and gender are inscribed within European modernism
- Art in Britain since the 1980s
Research Supervision
Dorothy Rowe welcomes applications from postgraduate students wishing to undertake research related to any of the topics indicated above, German Modernism, or British Art since the 1980s. She is currently supervising three research students:
- Elizabeth Robles, 'Masking/Costuming in Contemporary Diasporic British art 1980-present' (PhD)
- Georgina Webb-Dickin (AHRC funded), 'Memory and the Monument: The Creative Response of Berlin to the Vanishing Berlin Wall' (PhD)
- Holly Williamson, 'Lucy Lee Robbins (1865 - 1943) and the influence of late Nineteenth Century Parisian fashion upon her art' (PhD)
Current research projects
Dr Rowe is leader of the Transnational Modernisms Research Cluster http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arthistory/research/tmrc.html
She is currently co-organising a major international conference with Dr Christopher Short (UWIC) at Tate Modern, London to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Der Blaue Reiter Almanac to be held at Tate in Autumn 2011. Speakers include leading experts in the field of German Expressionsm, Professor Peter Vergo, Dr Annegret Hoberg, Professor Rose-Carol Washton Long, Dr Shulamith Behr and international performance artist Stelarc, amongst others. http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/24491.htm
She is also completing a co-edited book with Professor Marsha Meskimmon Women, the Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience (Manchester University Press 2013).
Between 2008-2010 Dr Rowe held a two year Leverhulme Research Fellowship researching women artists and photographers in Weimar Germany. Her forthcoming book After Dada: Magic Realism in Weimar Germany is the first part of the results of that research. Dr Rowe is continuing the research for a further book entitled Weimar Women: Photography and Modernity which it will form the basis for an exhibition to be curated with the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Dorothy Rowe welcomes applications from postgraduate students wishing to undertake research related to any of the topics indicated above, German Modernism, or British Art since the 1980s.
Publications
Authored books
- Rowe, Dorothy (2003) Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany (Ashgate, Scolar Press) [single-authored monograph] refereed; ISBN: 0754604519; pp.1-203
Edited books
- Harrison-Moore, Abigail & Rowe, Dorothy (eds.) (2006) Architecture and Design in Europe and America 1750-2000Oxford: Blackwell ‘Critical Anthologies in Art History’ Series; refereed; ISBN: 1-405215300; pp.1-544
Academic journal papers
- Rowe, Dorothy (2005) ‘Money, Modernity and Melancholia in the Writings of Georg Simmel’ in Braecker, Nicole & Herbrechter, Stefan (eds.) Metaphors of Economy, Critical Studies Vol. 25 Amsterdam: Rodophi; refereed; ISSN: 90-420-1568-3; pp.27-39
- Rowe, Dorothy, (2003) ‘Cultural Crossings: performing race and transgender in the work of moti roti , Art History, volume 26, number 2, Special Issue edited by Gill Perry, Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art, Oxford: Blackwell; refereed ISSN: 01416790; pp.456-473 (also part of the Art History Book Series)
- Rowe, Dorothy (1995) ‘Georg Simmel and the 1896 Berlin Trade Exhibition’ Journal of Urban History, Volume 22, August 1995, Cambridge: CUP, refereed ISSN: 0963-9268, pp.216-229
Chapter contributions to edited books
- Rowe, Dorothy (2008) ‘Biography and Spatial Experience in contemporary diasporic art’ in Arnold, D & Derevenski, J. Sofaer (eds.) Biographies and Space London & New York: Routledge ISBN978-0-415-36551-2; pp.139-155
- Rowe, Dorothy (2006) ‘Lesser Ury: The Painter as Stranger’ in Cowan, A. & Steward, J. (eds.) (2006) The City and the Senses Aldershot: Ashgate; ISBN: 07546 05140; pp.198-217
- Rowe, Dorothy (2006) ‘Painting Herself: Lotte Laserstein between Subject and Object’ in Schönfeld, C. (mit Finnan, C.) Practicing Modernity: Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann; [refereed]; ISBN: 3-8260-3241-1; pp.68-89
- Rowe, Dorothy (2003) ‘Differencing the City: Urban Identities and the Spatial Imagination’ in Miles, M. & Hall, T. (eds.) Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on Shaping the City London & New York: Routledge [refereed]; ISBN: 0415-26694; pp.27-43
- Rowe, Dorothy (2003) ‘Cultural Crossings: performing race and transgender in the work of moti roti in Perry, Gill (ed.) Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art Oxford, Blackwell; [refereed; book version of Special Issue Art History journal cited as no.2 in Academic Journal Papers section above]; ISBN:1-405112026 pp.138-155
- Rowe, Dorothy (2003) ‘Wigs of Wonderment’ (moti roti). Interactive CD ROM catalogue essay; commissioned by David A. Bailey, Sonia Boyce and the African an Asian Visual Artists’ Archive for Documenting Live!; available from the Live Art Development Agency
- Rowe, Dorothy (1995) ‘Desiring Berlin: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Germany’ in Meskimmon, M. & West, Shearer (eds.) Visions of the Neue Frau: Women and the Visual Arts in Weimar Germany, Aldershot: Ashgate [refereed]; ISBN: 1859281575; pp. 143-165
Contributions to exhibitions
- Rowe, Dorothy (2009) 'Myth and History' at The Bristol Gallery. Curated group exhibition at The Bristol Gallery including the artists Lubaina Himid, Deborah van der Beek, Phil Sayers, Patrick Haines, Emma Tooth, Mark Parkinson and Tina Hill, September 19 to October 29, 2009
- Rowe, Dorothy (2009) ''Dada Angelika' and Marta 'La Paloma' Hegemann' in Michael Parke-Taylor (ed.) Angelika Hoerle: the Comet of the Cologne Avant-Garde 1912-23. Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario May 23 to August 30, 2009. Hoerle (1899-1923) and her artist husband Heinrich Hoerle were key figures in the Dada movement in Cologne, and she created an outstanding body of work - now almost entirely housed at the AGO - from 1919 until her untimely death in 1923. The exhibition and catalogue explores how her art fit into the artistic and political movements in Weimar, Germany. Also includes essays by Angie Littlefield and Dr. Sabine Kriebel. Co-published with Verlag der Bucchandlung Walther König, Cologne
- Rowe, Dorothy (2008) 'Of Magic, Myth and Metamorphosis' exhibition catalogue essay for Changing Places with Leeds, an exhibition of work by Phil Sayers and Rikke Lundgreen, Leeds City Art Gallery June-November 2008. Funded by the Arts Council of England.
- Rowe, Dorothy (2007) 'Disruptive Beauty' exhibition catalogue essay for Changing Places, an exhibition of work by Phil Sayers and Rikke Lundgreen; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Lady Lever Gallery, Port Sunlight; The Collection, Lincoln; The Tennyson Centre, Lincoln; Bury Museum and Art Gallery, November 2007. Funded by the Arts Council of England. Also includes essays by Sheila McGregor and Professor Lindsay Smith.
Forthcoming publications
- Rowe, Dorothy, After Dada: Magic Realism in Weimar Germany, 2013 (authored book)
- Meskimmon, Marsha and Rowe, Dorothy, eds., Women, the Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013 (co-edited book)
- Rowe, Dorothy ‘Testing the Limits: Oreet Ashery in Conversation with Dorothy Rowe’ in Meskimmon, Marsha and Rowe, Dorothy, eds., Women, the Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013 (chapter in book)
- Rowe, Dorothy ‘Retrieving, Remapping and Rewriting Histories of British Art: Lubaina Himid’s Revenge' in Arnold, D. & Peters-Corbett, D. (eds.) A Companion to British Art and Architecture 1600-Present, Boston & Oxford: Blackwell, 2013 (chapter in book)
Reviews and review articles
- ·Rowe, Dorothy ‘Mapping Modernism’ Art History Volume 32, Issue 1, February 2009, pp. 195-199
- ‘Writing Women’s Art Histories’ Oxford Art Journal, no.1 vol.27, 2004
- ‘Site Specificity’ The Art Book, vol. 11, issue 2, 2004
- ‘Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Dresden and Berlin Years’ The Art Book, vol.11, issue 1, 2004
- ‘On Vision, Spectacle and Panorama’ The Art Book, vol. 11, issue 1, 2004
- ‘Architecturally Speaking’ in The Art Book 2003
- ‘Fragments of Berlin and other Cities’ The Art Book, vol.10, issue 2, 2003
- ‘L’Esprit Nouveau’ The Art Book, vol.9, issue 3, 2002
- ‘Mural Painting in Britain’ The Art Book, vol.9, issue 2, 2002
- ‘German Visual Culture 1890-1945’ The Art Book Vol.9, issue 1, 2002
- ‘Gender, Postcolonialism and The History of Art’ The Art Book, 2001
- ‘The Haunted Self’ in The Art Book 2001
- ‘Art Nouveau’ in The Art Book, 8, no. 1 January 2001 (Blackwell, Oxford)
- ‘Expressionism’ in The Art Book, 7, no.4 September 2000, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘Overcoming all Obstacles’ in Women’s Studies International Forum 2000
- ‘British Trade Union Posters’ in The Art Book, 7, no.3 June 2000, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘Fashioning Vienna’ in The Art Book 2000
- ‘Women Artists and the Limits of Modernist Art History’, Art History, 23, no.1, March 2000, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘The Germans and their Art’, The Art Book,6, no.4 September 1999, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘The Art of Persuasion’, The Art Book, 6, no. 3 June 1999, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘The Ghosts of Berlin’ in The Art Book, 6, no.1 January 1999, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘Geistliche Heimat: Germany’s Past and Present’ in The Art Book, 5, no.4 September 1998, Oxford: Blackwell
- ‘French Modernism and the Avant-Garde’, [Review of] Michael Fried, (1996) Manet’s Modernism or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s, Chicago: University of Chicago Press in The Art Book Review Quarterly, Spring 1998, p.25
- ‘Bonnard’ [Review of ] Timothy Hyman, (1998)Bonnard, London: Thames and Hudson, in The Art Book Review Quarterly, Spring 1998, p.23
- ‘New Light on Old Vistas’ [Review of] Richard Thompson (ed.) (1998), Framing France. Essays on the Representation of Landscape in France 1870-1914, Manchester: Manchester University Press in The Art Book Review Quarterly, Spring 1998, p.20
- ‘Establishing Utopias: Realised Visions of Modern Life’, Long Book Review, Art History, (September 1995)