Alex J. Taylor

Alex J. Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an Australian-born historian of modern art and visual culture. His research seeks to locate works of American painting and sculpture within the histories of global capitalism, consumer culture, and everyday life. His interests include transnational modernisms, studio practice, artistic self-fashioning, patrons and patronage, advertising, mass media, and the intersections between artistic, political, and economic enterprise.