Dr. Roann Barris

Assoc. Prof. of Art History and Co-Director, Radford University Museum

Borromini: Apollo and Daphne, 1622-25  Link to Art216: Survey II	Yinka Shonibare: Scramble for Africa, 2003 connect to ART427: Artists of the African Diaspora	Richard Meier: Ara Pacis museum in Rome connect to ART491: Museum Studies

Constantin Alajalov, cover for "Modern Art at the SesquiCentennial" exhib. catalogue, 1920	Daniel Libeskind, Jewish Museum, Berlin (completed in 1998)

The top three images relate to some of the classes I teach; the bottom two relate to the topics of my current research and writing. But all of them capture what I think of as the experience of art history--an invitation to look at the world with new eyes, to see the familiar as something unfamiliar, and a vision which stays with you, even when you're no longer in its presence. What's more, all of the images on this page have a story to tell. Although their particular stories are not always obvious at first sight, they are the stories we tell about the world we live in -- which is precisely why we should study these images.

A little about me:

• my c.v.
• recent publication: "Empowerment and Manipulation: The Seductive Betrayal of Art"
• other work: Architectures of Memory and Counter-Memory: Berlin and Bucuresti
• new research in progress: The American response to the Russian avant-garde