School of Art Newsletter Fall 07 vol. 2 issue 1

NOW: Professor Julie-Anne Plax

Julie-Anne Plax, Professor of Art History and recognized scholar on 17th and 18th-century French art and culture, is the keynote speaker for the Denver Art Museum exhibition, Artisans & Kings: Selected Treasures from the Louvre. Plax has lectured on topics such as the military paintings of Louis XIV, art dealers in the 18th-century, art and the theater, and painter Elisabeth-Vigée Lebrun. As an expert on 18th-century French painters, she has published widely on this subject, including her book Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France (2000, Cambridge University Press).

Plax has taught at the School of Art since 1991. Before coming to Arizona, she taught at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She received both her Master’s degree and PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia.