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Stephen Moonie is an art historian. He specialises in the art and theory of the post-war United States, with a particular interest in the critical discourse of modernism in the 1950s and 1960s. More broadly, he is interested in art writing and contemporary painting.

Previously, Stephen taught at the Department of History of Art at the University of Warwick. He completed his MA (Hons) at the University of St Andrews, and completed his MA and Ph.D. at the University of Essex.

Stephen’s research interests focus upon postwar art. Stephen is especially interested in modernist criticism and theory. He recently edited the special journal issue 'Reconsidering the State(s) of Criticism' for the online journal Arts, where he has also published an article on Charles Harrison's ambivalent relationship to modernism (2022).

His monograph Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States (2022) is a study of the major modernist critics and their important contributions to fundamental questions on art writing and method. A recent review of the book, published in the Journal of Art Historiography, can be found here: https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/bowman-rev.pdf

Stephen has recently finished a text on the letters pages from the first issue of Modern Painters. This will be published as part of a special issue of British Art Studies edited by Chloë Julius. Stephen has also written a catalogue text for the Austrian painter Wolfgang Hollegha's exhibition in Graz which was published this month.

He has also been researching the Conceptual art collective Art & Language.

Recent talks and papers:

'Art-Language's critique of Ways of Seeing,' Nottingham University Centre for Research in Visual Culture seminar, February 2023.

'American Art in the 1960s,' HENI Art Club, Oct 2022.

'A Rigorous Dialectic of Seeing and Reading: Annette Michelson's art criticism,' Association for Art History Annual Conference, April 2022.

'Annette Michelson's early art criticism,' Visual and Material Culture seminar, Northumbria University, Dec. 2020.

'Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstrokes,' Hatton Gallery, December 2019.

'Backing into modernist sculpture,' Reassessing Sculpture in and Beyond Abstract Expressionism, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, November 2018.

'Painting and Exile,' DAVAR Bristol, April 2018.

'Painting and Exile,' Laing Art Gallery, February 2017.

'Dan Flavin: Illumination,' Cafe des Artistes, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, January 2016.

'David Lynch Naming' [review] BBC Arts online, (Dec. 2014).

'Reflections on "Artwriting Under the Sign of Conceptualism,"' Tate research website, June 2013.

http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/art-writers-britain/art-writing-conceptualism/reflections

'Charles Harrison: Criticism, Complexity, Disinterest,' 'Charles Harrison: Writing on Art, 1966-2009,' workshop, Tate Britain, October 2013.

'October and the ends of Painting,' Conference: 'Hidden Forces: Painting in the 1960s and 1970s,' conference, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, June 2013.

'Ed Ruscha,' Artists Rooms, Hatton Gallery, April 2013.

'Where is Art Criticism?' Tate Britain Round-table, June 2013.

'Correspondences: Lawrence Alloway and Ray Johnson,' Critics and Curators Workshop, Getty Research Institute, November 2012.

‘Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp,’ BAPRAS Summer Scientific Meeting, The Sage Gateshead, July 2012.

38th Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes. Session convener: '"Bad" Painting', March 2012.

‘Leo Steinberg on Jasper Johns,’ University of Warwick research seminar, March 2011.

35th Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University: Intersections. Session co-convener (with Matthew Bowman): ‘Art History and Art Criticism: Intersections, Disconnections, Non-Communications,’ April 2009.

Stephen is module leader for 'Art Since 45: Postwar to Pluralism' (FIN2017/3027). He supervises undergraduate dissertations at Stage 3 level.

This year, he will be module leader for 'Art Writing' (FIN8016) for the new MA in Contemporary Art History and Curating.

I co-supervised Narbi Price's Ph.D. 'Repainting the Pitmen' (2020), and I am currently involved in the supervision of five Ph.D. students in both Fine Art and in the School of Language, Literature and Linguistics.

• Articles

  • Moonie S. . Selva: A Journal of the History of Art 2025, (6), 7-24.
  • Moonie S. . British Art Studies 2025, 1(28).
  • Moonie S. . Arts 2022, 11(1), 23.
  • Moonie S. . Journal of Contemporary Painting 2018, 4(1), 171-175.
  • Moonie S. . Journal of Contemporary Painting 2016, 2(1), 57-74.
  • Moonie S. . Getty Research Journal 2016, 8, 161-176.
  • Moonie S. . Visual Resources 2015, 31(1-2), 103-115.
  • Moonie S. 'Mapping the Field: Lawrence Alloway's Art Criticism-as-Information'. Tate Papers 2011, (16).
  • Moonie S. 'Leo Steinberg and the Provisionality of Modernist Criticism'. Rebus: an online journal of art history 2008, 2.

• Authored Book

  • Moonie S. . Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022.

• Book Chapters

  • Moonie S. . In: Holler-Schuster G, ed. Wolfgang Hollegha. Köln: Wienand Verlag, 2025, pp.48-64.
  • Moonie S. . In: Airey, R; Hedley, G; Massey, A, ed. Pioneers of Pop. 缅北禁地: Hatton Gallery, 2017, pp.43-48.
  • Moonie S. . In: Ehninger E; Kraus-Wahl A, ed. In Terms of Painting. Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2016.
  • Moonie S. 'Aesthetics in the Expanded Field of Culture'. In: Dadejik,O;Stejskal,J, ed. The Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture. 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp.50-60.

• Edited Book

  • Moonie S, Clark M, Green A, Nickas B, Sturgis D, Shalgosky S, Myers T, ed. The Indiscipline of Painting. Tate, 2011.

• Editorial

  • Moonie S. . Arts 2021, 10(2), 38.

• Online Publication

  • Moonie S. 'Painting and Performance'. AbstractCritical.com, 2012.

• Reviews

  • Moonie S. . Journal of Contemporary Painting 2017, 3(1-2), 253-7.
  • Moonie S. . Oxford Art Journal 2016, 39(1), 131-138.
  • Moonie S. . Burlington Magazine 2016, 158(July), 572-573.
  • Moonie S. 'Charles Harrison, Since 1950: Art and its Criticism'. Rebus: an online journal of art history 2009, 4.