Bradley Bailey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor; Art History Program Director
Visual and Performing Arts
Courses Taught
Approaching the Arts, History of Western Art II, Sculpture in St. Louis, Controversy in Art, Feminism in Art, Nineteenth-Century Art, American Art: Colonial to WWII, American Art: WWII to the Present, American Art Between the World Wars, Twentieth-Century Art, History of Photography, Research Methods
Education
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 2004
M.A., Case Western Reserve University, 2000
B.A., Rutgers University, 1996
Research Interests
- Marcel Duchamp
- Dada
- Art and chess
- Controversy in art
Publications and Media Placements
Appeared in the documentary Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2019), Electrolift Films / Cargo Films.
鈥淭he Baroness Theory Debunked, and the Real Heroine behind Duchamp鈥檚 Fountain,鈥� The Burlington Magazine, No. 1399, October 2019.
鈥淏efore, During, and Beyond the Brillo Box: The Impact of Pop on the 1964 Edition of Duchamp鈥檚 Readymades鈥� Visual Resources vol. 34, no. 3-4 (2018), pp. 347-363.
鈥淩ethinking Marcel Duchamp鈥檚 Fountain as a Collaborative Process鈥� in Creative Collaboration in Art Practice, Pedagogy, and Research, M. Kathryn Shields and Sunny Spillane, eds., (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), pp. 247-266.
鈥淏ack to the Well: Fountain as Source,鈥� in R. Mutt: Writings about Marcel Duchamp鈥檚 Fountain (1917) and Its Aftermath in Ostracon Journal of Criticism and Issues, No. 3 (October 2017), pp. 203-210. Also published in Marcel Duchamp Fountain: An Homage (New York: Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, 2017), 7-11.
鈥淏arbara Kruger, Untitled, 1989-90鈥� in Spotlights: Collected by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, ed. Sabine Eckmann (St. Louis: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 209-213.
鈥淎 Divine Comedy (or Winnipeg Regained): The Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures of Marcel Dzama鈥� and 鈥淭he Definitively Unfinished Taxonomy of Marcel Dzama鈥焥 Archetypes and Themes鈥� in Marcel Dzama: Sower of Discord, with a foreword by Raymond Pettibon, an interview by Spike Jonze, and short stories by Dave Eggers (New York: Abrams Books, 2013), pp. 9-33, 34-43.
鈥淩omancing the Machine: Marcel Duchamp鈥檚 Chocolate Grinder,鈥� in One Hundred Years of Chocolate Grinder (Nuremberg: Verlang f眉r Moderne Kunst, 2013), pp. 144-192 (published in English and German).
鈥淥 Superman: The Many Faces of the Man of Steel,鈥� in ConFiguring America: Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity, Klaus Rieser, Michael Fuchs, and Michael Phillips, eds. (London: Intellect Books, distr. by University of Chicago Press), pp. 95-114.
鈥淭he Shock of the Nu,鈥� Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage (New York: Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, 2013), pp. 7-16.
鈥淎 Little Game Between 鈥業鈥� and 鈥楳e鈥�: Marcel Duchamp, Chess, and New York Dada,鈥� Southeastern College Art Conference Review 16, no. 1 (2011), 23-38.
With Francis M. Naumann and Jennifer Shahade, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess (New York: Readymade Press; Distributed Art Publishers, 2009)
Entries on Marcel Duchamp, George Brecht, George Maciunas, Robert Morris, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, John Cage, Ben Vautier, and Alison Knowles in Meredith Malone, ed., Chance Aesthetics (Saint Louis: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).
"Fragmentation, Transformation, and Self-Realization: Marcel Duchamp and the Formation of the Creative Imago," SOURCE: Notes in the History of Art 27, nos 2/3 (Winter/Spring 2008): 49-55.
Exhibitions curated:
2019 鈥淭he Transient and the Permanent,鈥� Bonsack Gallery, John Burroughs School, St. Louis, MO
2014 鈥淪trategy by Design: Games by Michael Graves,鈥� World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, MO
2011 鈥淥UT OF THE BOX: Artists Play Chess,鈥� World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, MO
2009 鈥淢arcel Duchamp: Chess Master,鈥� The 91女神 Museum of Art and Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York
2007 鈥淧icturing Pollock: Photographs by Hans Namuth and Martha Holmes,鈥� The Art Center, SFASU
2006 鈥淏urchfield: Solitude,鈥� Griffith Gallery, SFASU, organized in association with the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Honors and Awards
Mellon Faculty Development Grant, 2013
Mellon Faculty Development Grant, 2008
Professional Organizations and Associations
- 2017-present: Chair, Learning and Engagement Committee, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
- 2013-2014: Steering Committee, Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference
- 2012-2014: Steering Committee, Monument/Anti-Monument Conference, Sculpture City St. Louis 2014
- 2012-present: Board of Directors, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
- 2010-2012: Editorial Board, Women Arts Quarterly Journal
- 2002-present: College Art Association