Mona Hadler
Professor and Department Chairperson
Art
Location: 5306 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5181
Fax: 718.951.4728
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Mona Hadler writes on postwar art and visual culture including essays on artists Lee Bontecou, William Baziotes and David Hare and articles on jazz in the visual arts, Pontiac hood ornaments and demolition derbies. The latter inspired her 2017 book, Destruction Rites: Ephemerality and Demolition in Postwar Visual Culture. Her current book is a co-edited anthology on gender, race and class in Pop Art.
Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University - 1977 (Art History)
Areas of Expertise:
postwar and contemporary art and visual culture
Books and Publications
Pop Art and Beyond: Gender Race and Class in the Global Sixties, forthcoming Bloomsbury Press, 2021 co edited with Kalliopi Minioudaki (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2021
Interview with William T Williams, Bomb Magazine, oral History project, March 2018 (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018
Interview with Mona Hadler and Gail Levin, "Teruo Fujieda Collected
Writings" Tokyo Shoseki Co., Ltd, 2017 (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
Rites of Destruction: Ephemerality and Demolition in Postwar Visual Culture, I B Tauris, 2017 (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2017
"Lee Bontecou and Drawing: From the Real to the Strange." Woman's Art Journal 35.1, Spring/Summer: 23-32. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
"Pontiac Hood Ornaments: Marketing the Chief." Visual Merchandising: The Image of Selling. Ed. Louisa Iarocci. Vermont: Ashgate. 77-93. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2013
"Demolition Derby: A Study in Destruction." Journal for the Society of Commercial Archeology 30.2, Fall: 8-15. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
"David Hare, Surrealism, and the Comics." The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 VII.1, December: 93-108. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Book Chapter) 2011
"Pontiac Hood Ornaments: Chief of the Sixes." Journal for the Society of Commercial Archeology XXVIII.1, Spring: 6-15. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Book Chapter) 2009
"Lee Bontecou: Plastic Fish and Grinning Saw Blades." Woman's Art Journal XXVIII.1, Spring/Summer: 12-18. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Book 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: Book 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: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Book 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: Book Chapter) 1996
"Jazz and the New York School." Representing Jazz. Ed. Krin Gabbard. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 247-59. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 1995
"Lee Bontecou's 'Warnings.'" Art Journal LIII.4, Winter: 56-61. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1994
"Sculpture in Postwar Europe and America: l945-59" editor's statement. Art Journal LIII.4, Winter: 17-19. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1994
Hadler, Mona and Joan Marter. "World War II: Reverberations" artists pages. Art Journal LIII.4, Winter: 6-14. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1994
"Lee Bontecou: Heart of a Conquering Darkness." Source: Notes in the History of Art XII.1, Fall: 38-44. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1992
"David Hare: A Magician's Game in Context." Art Journal XLVII.3, Fall: 196-201. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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: Book Chapter) 1987
"Jazz and the Visual Arts." Arts Magazine LVII.10, June: 91-101. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 1983
"Inside and Outside: On Abstract Expressionism", Discussion with Mona Hadler, Gail Levin and Teru Fujieda," Bijustsu Techo, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha Ltd. Japan (July, 1981): 154-177. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 1981
"David Hare's Cronus Series." Arts Magazine LIII.8, April: 140-45. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 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: Book Chapter) 1978
"William Baziotes: A Contemporary Poet-Painter." Arts Magazine LI.10: 102-10. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 1977
"Manet's Woman With a Parrot of l866." Metropolitan Museum Journal VII: 115-22. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 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
"Deborah Kass and Comedy: From Belle Barth to Barbra", presentation, College Art Association, Chicago, February 14, 2020 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
Session Chair, Women and Stand-Up Comedy: Rosalyn Drexler Meets Mrs. Maisel, College Art Association, 2020 Chicago (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
Session co-chair, Pop Art and Class, College Art Association, February, 2018 Los Angeles (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"The Demolition Derby and Games of Destruction in the Postwar Era," College Art Association, New York, February 2015 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"Lee Bontecou: Nature, Wonder, Horror and Play," Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, April 1, 2014. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
, "Mad Men: Nostalgia and Criticality." The Juilliard School, New York, April 2, 2013, (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
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
