Jonathan Gilmore

Assistant Professor
106 CT Hall
203.432.6942
jonathan.gilmore@yale.edu

Areas of Interests

Jonathan Gilmore writes in the philosophy of art, philosophy of law, and the history of nineteenth– and twentieth–century European philosophy. His research interests also include nineteenth–century French art and contemporary art. He has a longstanding practice as an art critic for such publications as Art in America, Artforum, and the Italian magazine Temaceleste.

Current or Recent Courses Taught

• Directed Studies
• Freedom of Expression
• Nineteenth–Century Philosophy: Idealism and its Critics

Selected Publications

Book

• The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art (Cornell University Press, 2000)

Articles

• “Merleau–Ponty: Between Philosophy and Art,” in T. Carmen, ed., Cambridge Companion to Merleau–Ponty Cambridge University Press, 2004)
• “Internal Beauty,” Inquiry (December, 2004)
• “The Philosophy of Art History,” Introduction to revised edition of Arthur Danto’s Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (Columbia University Press, 2004)
• “William Kentridge/Monteverdi, Il ritorno d’Ulisse, Artforum (June, 2004)
• Review of Art History After Modernism by Hans Belting, Artforum (October, 2003)
• “Censorship, Autonomy, and Artistic Form,” in Holly and Moxey, eds., Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies (Yale University Press, 2002)
• Review essay on Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger by Jean–Marie Schaeffer and Hegel’s Art History and the Critique of Modernity by Beat Wyss, The Art Bulletin (v. LXXIV, no. 3, September, 2002)
• “Pictorial Realism,” in Kelly, ed., The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 1998)
• “David Carrier’s Art History,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (winter, 1995)

Works in Progress

• “Expression as Realization: a Theory of Free Speech”
• “Public Curiosity: Autonomy and Self–Representation”
• “Formalism in Art and Law”
• “Gricault’s Medusa and the Uncertainties of Form”
• “William Kentridge: Projection and Performance”
• “Warhol’s Minimalism”