John Welchman

Welchman is Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, and chair of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. His books include Modernism Relocated: Towards a Cultural Studies of Visual Modernity (Allen & Unwin, 1995), Invisible Colors: A Visual History of Titles (Yale, 1997), Art after Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990s (Routledge, 2001),Vasco Araújo (ADIAC, 2007), and Paul McCarthy: Caribbean Pirates (forthcoming, JRP|Ringier, 2016). Past Realization: Essays on Contemporary European Art (XX to XXI, vol. 1), the first of a six-volume series of Welchman's collected writings on art and visual culture, will be published in fall 2015 by Sternberg.