Svetlana alpers biography
Svetlana alpers biography
Svetlana Alpers: ‘I am suspicious about words and images.’!
Svetlana Alpers
American art historian
Svetlana Leontief Alpers (néeLeontief; born February 10, 1936[1]) is an American art historian, also a professor, writer and critic.[2] Her specialty is Dutch Golden Age painting, a field she revolutionized with her 1984 book The Art of Describing.[3] She has also written on Tiepolo, Rubens, Bruegel, and Velázquez, among others.[4]
Education and career
Svetlana Alpers received her B.A.
from Radcliffe College in 1957 and a Ph.D.from Harvard in 1965.[1] She was a professor of art history at the University of California, Berkeley from 1962 to 1998, and by 1994 she was named Professor Emerita.[1]
In 1983, Alpers co-founded the interdisciplinary journalRepresentations with American literary critic Stephen Greenblatt.[5]
In 2007, she collaborated with artists James Hyde and Barney Kulok on a project entitled Painting Then for Now.
The project consists of 19 phot