Jonathan Weinberg (born 1957) is an American artist and art historian. He is a critic at the

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Early life

Weinberg grew up in New York City and attended the

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. He studied as an undergraduate at

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with

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, and received his Ph.D. from

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's Department of Fine Arts in 1990, where he studied under T. J. Clark. He began teaching at Yale in 1991.

Teaching career

Weinberg has been professor on the faculty of Yale's Department of the History of Art (1989–2001), a

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fellow, Mills fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sterling fellow at the

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, as well as scholar and artist-in-residence at the Getty museum and research center in Los Angeles.

Paintings

His paintings have been the subject of over twenty one-person shows, and are in the permanent collections of the

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, the

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Collection, as well as other museums and private collections. Writing for the catalogue (''Amusements, Paintings and Prints by Jonathan Weinberg'') of Weinberg's 1997 show at New York's Cortland Jessup Gallery, his former co-student at Yale Vincent Scully wrote:

Published work

Weinberg has published widely.

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, writing about Weinberg's ''Ambition and Love in Modern American Art'' (Yale, 2001) in ''

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'', called it "one of the best books on American art of any period that I have ever read," "an exemplary text," and "rare that such a perfect fit between style and substance occurs in the writing of an art historian." Nochlin and others have noted that Weinberg's work is cogent while being extremely well written and researched; with none of the theory or jargon that has turned so many away from the academy.

Publications

*''Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of

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and the First American

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'' (Yale, 1993) *''Ambition and Love in Modern American Art'' (Yale, 2001) *''Male Desire: The

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in American Art'' (Abrams, 2005) *''Fantastic Tales: The Photography of

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'' (Penn State, 2005) *editor, Eugene D. Glynn, ''Desperate Necessity: Writings on Art and Psychoanalysis'', with an introduction by Jonathan Weinberg (Periscope, 2008) *co-editor, ''The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the

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'', an anthology edited with Alejandro Anreus and Diana L. Linden (Penn State, 2006). *co-editor, ''We're Here: The Gay and Lesbian Presence in Art, a special issue of the Art Journal'', co-edited with Flavia Rando, (Winter 1996) ol. 55, no. 4*''Pier Groups: Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront''. University Park, PA:

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, 2019. .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Weinberg, Jonathan 1957 births Living people American art historians Yale University faculty Yale College alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Ethical Culture Fieldston School alumni