Mona Hadler

Education:

Ph.D., Columbia University - 1977 (Art History)

Books and Publications

"Lee Bontecou and Drawing: From the Real to the Strange." Woman's Art Journal 35.1, Spring/Summer: 23-32. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2014

"Baziotes, Surrealism, and Boxing: 'Life in a Squared Ring.'" The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 9.1: 119-38. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013

"Pontiac Hood Ornaments: Marketing the Chief." Visual Merchandising: The Image of Selling. Ed. Louisa Iarocci. Vermont: Ashgate. 77-93. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2013

"Demolition Derby: A Study in Destruction." Journal for the Society of Commercial Archeology 30.2, Fall: 8-15. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012

"David Hare, Surrealism, and the Comics." The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 VII.1, December: 93-108. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011

"Lee Bontecou." The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Volume 1 Ed. Joan Marter. New York and Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. 309-11. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011

"Pontiac Hood Ornaments: Chief of the Sixes." Journal for the Society of Commercial Archeology XXVIII.1, Spring: 6-15. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

"Ellen K. Levy: Evolution, Technology and the Database." Ellen K. Levy: Decoding Metaphors for the 21st Century. Lawrenceville, N.J.: Rider University Art Gallery. 12-18. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009

"Lee Bontecou: Plastic Fish and Grinning Saw Blades." Woman's Art Journal XXVIII.1, Spring/Summer: 12-18. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

"Jennifer and Kevin McCoy: From Duchampian Databases to Fantasy Projections." Jennifer and Kevin McCoy: Stop Motion, Exhibition Catalogue. Oldenburg, Germany: Edith Russ Site for Media Art. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006

"Lee Bontecou's Worldscapes." Lee Bontecou, A Retrospective, Exhibition Catalogue. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art; New York: Abrams; republished by Yale University Press. 200-11. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003

"Art in the Atomic Age: From the Sublime to Red Hot Candies." Source: Notes in the History of Art XXI.1, Fall: 38-43. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001

"Lee Bontecou." Akron Art Museum: Art Since l950, An Introduction to the Collection. Eds. Barbara Tannenbaum and Mitchell D. Kahan. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 142-43. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2001

"Lois Dodd, An American Abstract Realist Reconsidered." Lois Dodd: Twenty-Five Years of Painting, Exhibition Catalogue. Rockland, Maine: Farnsworth Museum of Art. 5-9. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1996

"Jazz and the New York School." Representing Jazz. Ed. Krin Gabbard. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 247-59. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1995

"Lee Bontecou's 'Warnings.'" Art Journal LIII.4, Winter: 56-61. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1994

"Sculpture in Postwar Europe and America: l945-59" editor's statement. Art Journal LIII.4, Winter: 17-19. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1994

Hadler, Mona and Joan Marter. "World War II: Reverberations" artists pages. Art Journal LIII.4, Winter: 6-14. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1994

"Lee Bontecou: Heart of a Conquering Darkness." Source: Notes in the History of Art XII.1, Fall: 38-44. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1992

"David Hare: A Magician's Game in Context." Art Journal XLVII.3, Fall: 196-201. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1988

"Ethel Schwabacher: The Paradise of the Real." Ethel Schwabacher: A Retrospective Exhibition, Exhibition Catalogue. New Brunswick, N.J.: Zimmerli Art Museum. 1-11. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1987

"Jazz and the Visual Arts." Arts Magazine LVII.10, June: 91-101. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1983

"David Hare's Cronus Series." Arts Magazine LIII.8, April: 140-45. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1979

"William Baziotes: Four Sources of Inspiration." William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition, Exhibition Catalogue. Newport Beach, Calif.: Newport Harbor Art Museum. 77-100. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1978

"William Baziotes: A Contemporary Poet-Painter." Arts Magazine LI.10: 102-10. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1977

"Manet's Woman With a Parrot of l866." Metropolitan Museum Journal VII: 115-22. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1973

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

Honorary Phi Beta Kappa. (Awards and Honors) 2012

Wolfe Institute Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

Session chair, "Mad 'Men' and the Visual Culture of the Long Sixties," College Art Association. New York, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013

"Baziotes: An Artist for the Fifties and Today." National Academy. New York, Dec. 11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Lee Bontecou: Animals, Bodies, Machines." College Art Association. Los Angeles, Feb. 24. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

Co-chairperson, "Kitsch in the Sixties: Modernism's Subversive Other." College Art Association. Los Angeles, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Pontiac Hood Ornaments: Chief of the Sixes." College Art Association. Dallas, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

"Pontiac's Indian/Pilot Hood Ornaments of the 1950s." National Popular/American Culture Association. San Francisco, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

"Mass Culture Before Pop" introduction on Lee Bontecou and Revell Model Airplanes. College Art Association. Atlanta, Feb. 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

Session chair, "Mass Culture Before Pop," College Art Association. Atlanta, Feb. 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

"A Conversation Between Lee Bontecou and Mona Hadler." CUNY Graduate Center, co-sponsored by Museum of Modern Art. New York, Sept. 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"Out of the Woods and Into the Market: The Value of Lee Bontecou." Bontecou Panel, co-sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Research Institute, UCLA Hammer Museum. Nov. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

Moderator, panel on Lee Bontecou in conjunction with the Lee Bontecou Retrospective. Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, Feb. 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004

"Jazz and the Visual Arts," Whitney Museum of American Art, March 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2001

Co-chairperson, "Art in the Nuclear Age, Fertile or Subversive Model." College Art Association. New York, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000

"Lee Bontecou: The Role of Black." The Role of Prints in American Art: A Symposium. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Dec. 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1992

"Modern Art and Jazz." Stuart Davis Symposium. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, Jan. 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1992

"The Life and Art of Ethel Schwabacher." Schwabacher Symposium. Mills College. Oakland, Calif., February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1988

"Origins and Development of Abstract Expressionism." Seibu Museum of Art. Tokyo, May 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1980

"Courbet: A Revolutionary Artist." Metropolitan Museum of Art Lecture. Pfizer Corporation. New York, May 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1978

"Matisse and the Joy of Life." Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, June 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1978

Other Professional Activities

"John Crawford: From Forging to Fractals." Exhibition catalogue essay. 2014

The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson, Constructing a Legend book review. Woman's Art Journal XXIX.1, Spring/Summer: 57-60. 2008