Dr Deborah Schultz

Adjunct Assistant Professor - Art History

Dr Deborah Schultz received her PhD in Art History from the University of Oxford. Her undergraduate studies were in Fine Art (Sculpture) at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and she was a postgraduate scholar at the Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland.

Dr Schultz specialises in 20th century and contemporary art with particular reference to issues of memory, and word-image works. She has taught for a number of years, most recently at Central St Martins College of Art and Design, the University of Sussex and the University of Georgia at Oxford. During 2000 she held a Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. From 2001–4 she was a Research Fellow funded by The Leverhulme Trust at the University of Sussex, working on a project on ‘Politics and Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period: Displacement and Memory in the Art of Arnold Daghani, Felix Nussbaum and Charlotte Salomon’. She co-curated an exhibition of the work of Arnold Daghani which opened in Zurich, Switzerland, in August 2004 before touring to a number of venues in Germany. She is currently working on a book on art and memory.

Courses Taught

• ARH 526 Art History Theories and Methods
• ARH 352 Art in Context
• ADM 438 Contemporary Visual Culture

Recent Publications, Books

• Arnold Daghani's Memories of Mikhailowka: The Illustrated Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor, co-edited with Edward Timms (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2009)
• Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period: Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, co-authored with Edward Timms (Oxford: Routledge, 2009), first published as a special issue of Word & Image journal, vol. 24, no. 3 (July–September 2008)
• Marcel Broodthaers: Strategy and Dialogue (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007)
• Verfolgt-Gezeichnet: Der Maler Arnold Daghani [Persecuted-Marked: The Artist Arnold Daghani], co-edited with Helmut Braun (Springe: zu Klampen Verlag, 2006)
• ‘The Conquest of Space’: On the Prevalence of Maps in Contemporary Art (Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2001), Essays on Sculpture, No. 35

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• ‘Crossing Borders: Migration, Memory and the Artist’s Book’, in Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Migrant Art, Artefacts and Emotional Agency, Maruška Svašek (ed.) (Oxford: Berghahn), forthcoming
• ‘Three-dimensional learning: exploring emotional responses to learning and interacting with artefacts’, co-authored with Chana Moshenska, in The emotional dimensions of learning and researching lives: a neglected species? (Canterbury, 2008); available as an eBook at http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/education/cisdp/conferences/esrea/abstracts-and-papers.aspx
• ‘Pictorial Narrative, History and Memory in the Work of Arnold Daghani’, in Show/Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image, Grace Lees-Maffei (ed.), Working Papers on Design vol. 2 (University of Hertfordshire, 2007) available as an e-journal at www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/papers/wpdesign/index.html
• ‘Methodological Issues: Researching Socialist Realist Romania’, in Local Strategies, International Ambitions. Modern Art and Central Europe 1918-1968, Vojtech Lahoda (ed.) (Prague: Artefactum, 2007), 223–8
• ‘Der Künstler Arnold Daghani’, in “Verfolgt-Gezeichnet”: Der Maler Arnold Daghani, (Springe: zu Klampen Verlag, 2006), co-edited with Helmut Braun, 9–24
• ‘The Possibilities of Pictorial Narrative: Word – Image – History in the Work of Arnold Daghani’, in History in Words and Images, Hannu Salmi (ed.) (Turku: University of Turku, 2005), 149–56; available as an eBook at http://www.hum.utu.fi/projects/historia/konferenssit/HistoryInWordsAndImages.htm
• ‘Forced Migration and Involuntary Memory: The Work of Arnold Daghani’, in Cultures of Exile: Visual Dimensions of Displacement, Peter Wagstaff and Wendy Everett (eds.) (Oxford: Berghahn, 2004), 67–86
• ‘Religion and Identity in the Work of Arnold Daghani’, in Art-Ritual-Religion, Francis Ames-Lewis, Peter Martyn & Piotr Paszkiewicz (eds.) (Warsaw: Instytut Sztuki PAN, 2004), 109–19
• ‘Uncovering the Optical Unconscious: The Photography of Chrystel Lebas’, in Chrystel Lebas: L’espace temps - Time in Space (London: Azure Publishing, 2003), 5–12; awarded British Book Design & Production Award, 2004
• ‘Arnold Daghani: Der Künstler als zeitzeuge’, in Lasst mich leben! Stationen im Leben des Künstlers Arnold Daghani, Felix Rieper and Mollie Brandl-Bowen (eds.) (Springe: zuKlampen Verlag, 2002), 306–18
• ‘Us and them, this and that, here and there, now and then: collecting, classifying, creating’, co-authored with Martin Kemp, in Strange and Charmed. Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts, Siân Ede (ed.) (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2000), 84–103

Recent Journal Articles

• ‘Chrystel Lebas: The Wait: Culture and nature: The immensity and imagination of the forest’, Portfolio, November 2008, 34–5
• ‘Marcel Broodthaers’, Milton Keynes Gallery, Art Monthly, March 2008, 27–8
• ‘Displacement and Identity: Arnold Daghani in Socialist Realist Romania’, Centropa (New York), Volume 3.2 (May 2003), 116–31
• ‘“Podb?j przestzeni”: O mapach w sztuce wsp?lczesnej’, Czas Kultury (Poznan), nr. 2 (107) (2002), 47–58
• ‘In Absentia’, Czas Kultury (Poznan), nr. 1 (106) (2002), 118–20
• ‘Displacement and Identity: Arnold Daghani in Socialist Realist Romania’, www.artmargins.com, June 2002
• ‘In Absentia: Reviewing the Retrospective’, Art Monthly, September 2001, 7–9
• ‘Telling Tales – Profile of Emma Kay’, Art Monthly, March 2001, 22–3
• ‘Flights of Fancy – Panamarenko’, Art Monthly, March 2001, 13–16

Conference / Seminar Convenor

• Session chair of ‘Writing as Art’ at Artists’ Writings 1850 – Present, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2009
• Co-convenor with Edward Timms, Conflict, Document, Representation: From the Habsburg Empire to the Holocaust, Austrian Cultural Forum London, March 2009
• Co-convenor with Chana Moshenska, Artists in Exile: Representations of Migration and Loss, University of Sussex, June 2007, with a paper by Griselda Pollock, chaired by Monica Bohm-Duchen
• Co-convenor with David Crowley, session on ‘Art, History and Memory in post-war Eastern and Central Europe’ at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Nottingham, April 2004
• Convenor of ‘The Role of Photography: Recovery of Memory, Resistance to Forgetting’ at the University of Sussex, February 2002, with speakers Simon Norfolk, Ori Gersht and Julia Winckler

Recent Conference Papers

• ‘Textual Evidence: Intention and Insincerity in the Writings of Marcel Broodthaers’, at Artists’ Writings 1850 – Present, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2009
• ‘Word, image, memory: The artistic testimony of Arnold Daghani’, at Conflict, Document, Representation: From the Habsburg Empire to the Holocaust, Austrian Cultural Forum London
• ‘Art and Place: Crossing Borders in the Work of Perejaume’ in session on Dis-Locations: Movements and Migrations at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, London, 2008
• ‘Three-Dimensional Learning: Exploring emotional responses to learning and interacting with artefacts’ at Researching and theorising the emotional dimensions of learning and researching lives: a neglected species? 2008 Conference of the ESREA Life History and Biographical Research Network, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2008
• ‘Art or document? The problematic post-war reception of words and images’ at Arts and Scholarship: Production and Reception, UCL, London, 2007
• ‘Crossing Borders: Migration, Myths and Sites of Memory’ at Migrant art, artefacts and emotional agency, Queens University Belfast, 2007
• ‘Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period’ at Show/Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image, University of Hertfordshire, 2005
• ‘The Destiny of Monuments on Post-war Romania’ at Politics of Cultural Memory, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2004
• ‘Artistic Dreams: The Temptation of the Free World and Other Modernist Myths’ in session on The Central European Diaspora at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, 2004
• ‘Figures of Repressed and Resonant Speech’, in session on Dislocution at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, London, 2003