Kristine Stiles

Kristine Stiles in Istanbul, 2011. Photo by Bruce Lawrence

Kristine Stiles (born Kristine Elaine Dolan in Denver, Colorado, 1947) is the France Family Distinguished Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University.[1] She is an art historian, curator, and artist specializing in global contemporary art and trauma. Her most recent book is Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma, University of Chicago Press, 2016. She is best known for her scholarship on artists’ writings,[2] performance art,[3][4][5][6] feminism,[7][8] destruction and violence in art,[9][10] and trauma in art.[11][12] Stiles joined the faculty of Duke in 1988, and she has taught at the University of Bucharest and Venice International University. She received the Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence in 1994, and the Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring in 2011, both at Duke University.[13] Among other fellowships and awards include a J. William Fulbright Fellowship in 1995, a Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000, and an Honorary Doctorate from Dartington College of Arts in Totnes, Devon, England in 2005.

  1. ^ "Faculty | Art, Art History & Visual Studies".
  2. ^ Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz, eds. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996; Revised, enlarged 2nd edition, ed. Kristine Stiles, University of California Press, 2012.
  3. ^ Kristine Stiles, “Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions,” in Paul Schimmel, ed. Out of Actions: Between Performance and The Object 1949–1979. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998, 226–328.
  4. ^ Kristine Stiles, “Between Water and Stone: Fluxus Performance, A Metaphysics of Acts,” in Elizabeth Armstrong and Joan Rothfuss, eds. In The Spirit of Fluxus. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1993, 62–99. Reprinted in Tracy Warr, ed. The Artists’ Body. London: Phaidon Press, 2000, 211–14.
  5. ^ Kristine Stiles, “Performance,” in Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff, eds. Critical Terms for Art History. 2nd edition, Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003, 75–97.
  6. ^ Kristine Stiles, “INSIDE/OUTSIDE: Balancing Between a Dusthole and Eternity,” in Zdenka Badovinac, ed. Body and the East: From the 1960s to the Present. Ljubljana, Croatia: Museum of Modern Art, 1998, 19–30.
  7. ^ Kristine Stiles, “Never Enough is Something Else: Feminist Performance Art, Probity, and the Avant-Garde,” in James M. Harding, ed. Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde: Performance and Textuality. Madison: University of Madison/Wisconsin Press, 239–289.
  8. ^ Kristine Stiles, “Home Alone: ‘Reversal of Positions of Presentation’ and the Visual Semantics of Domesticity,” in Nancy Princenthal and Helaine Posner, eds. The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973–1990. Purchase, New York: Neuberger Museum, 2011.
  9. ^ Kristine Stiles, “Survival Ethos and Destruction Art,” in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 14:2 (Spring 1992): 74–102; excerpted in Tracy Warr, ed. The Artists’ Body. London: Phaidon Press, 2000, 227–229.
  10. ^ Kristine Stiles, “Thresholds of Control: Destruction Art and Terminal Culture,” in English and German for Out of Control. Linz, Austria: Ars Electronica & Landesverlag, 1992, 29–50; reprinted in Timothy Druckrey, ed. Ars Electronica: Facing the Future (A Survey of Two Decades). Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
  11. ^ Kristine Stiles, “Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma,” in Strategie II: Peuples Mediterraneens [Paris] 64-65 (July–December 1993): 95–117; reprinted with a new Afterword in Jean O'Barr, Nancy Hewitt, Nancy Rosebaugh, eds. Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996, 36–64.
  12. ^ Kristine Stiles, “Thoughts on Destruction Art,” Impakt 1997. Utrecht: Impakt Festival, 1997, 2–5.
  13. ^ "About | Duke Graduate School".