Judy Sund

Judy Sund, professor emerita, City University of New York, is an art historian

specializing in the visual culture of Europe and the Americas. She has

published two books and several essays on Vincent van Gogh, as well as

articles on Antoine Watteau, Fernand Léger, Frida Kahlo, and 20 th -century

appropriations of Precolumbian artifacts. Her research interests include

artists’ responses to texts, the intersections of high art and popular culture

(in advertising, fashion, Hollywood films), and constructions of the exotic.

Her most recent book, Exotic (2019), is a panhistoric study of cultural

encounter, with particular attention to Europeans’ global adventurism and its

impacts on the arts.