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Ken Allan

Associate Professor, Art History
Fine Arts

Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

Phone

(206) 296-5369

Email

allank@seattleu.edu

Office

Fine Arts 216

Biography

Ken D. Allan, Assistant Professor of Art History

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2005
M.A., University of Chicago, 1998
A.B., Washington University in St. Louis, 1994

FIELD:
Modern & Contemporary Art History

RECENT COURSES:
ART 460 Space & Site in Contemporary Art
ART 391 Trauma, Image, Text: History & Representation after WWII
ART 310 Art since 1945: Foundations of Contemporary Art & Criticism
ART 212 Survey of Western Art II: The Status of the Renaissance Artist and the Rise of the Avant-garde

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Journal Articles:
“City of Degenerate Angels: Wallace Berman, Jazz and Semina in Postwar Los Angeles,” Art Journal, Spring 2011.
“Ed Ruscha, Pop Art and Spectatorship in 1960s Los Angeles,” Art Bulletin, September 2010.

Book Chapter and Short Essays:
“For People Who Know the Difference: Defining the Pop Art Sixties,” co-authored with Lucy Bradnock & Lisa Turvey, Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945–1980, Getty Publications, 2011.

“Brittin by Baza,” “Duchamp in Pasadena,” “The Artists’ Protest Committee,” Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945–1980, Getty Publications, 2011.

CURRENT RESEARCH AND RECENT ACTIVITIES:
Allan is currently working on a book project entitled Object Lessons: Experiencing Pop Art in 1960s Los Angeles. It addresses the relationships between artistic practice, social space and spectatorship in the art of Wallace Berman, Edward Kienholz, Billy Al Bengston and Ed Ruscha.

He has presented his work at conferences in the UK, Canada and the US and was a member of the advisory committee for Getty Museum exhibition “Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970.” He has been invited to speak on art in 1960s Los Angeles at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Getty Center and The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. 

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